Dark Minds : Horror & Dark Fantasy Writers
by Alan Warren
For the best in Horror listen to our newest podcast series 'Dark Minds' Here we talk with the creators of some of the most ingenious suspense, horror, and dark fantasy writing to find out how they get there. We will go through their process and what influenced them to get into writing and keeps them interested. From the makers of the House of Mystery radio show Alan R Warren.
Episodes
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Chris McAuley - Let the Blood Flow
Alan R Warren & Michael Hawley
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Jo Szewczyk - Scarlet Shadows (The Scarlet Mysteries Book 1)
Scarlet Jameson is a taekwondo champion with a badly injured leg, a short fuse, and absolutely no intention of becoming an amateur detective. Then her friend Michelle is attacked by three masked strangers. Before her failing sight ended Michelle's career as a pediatrician, Emily had been her…
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Nzondi - Dark Reservoir
Dark Reservoir is an exploration of what remains after unimaginable loss. Through award-winning horror fiction, haunting poetry, and deeply personal nonfiction, Bram Stoker Award-winning authors Nzondi and Cindy O’Quinn guide readers through three emotional descents—Ghosts of Heartbreak, Blind...
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Christopher Michael - Danforth: Eldritch Tales of WWII
World War II wasn't only fought with tanks and rifles. In the shadows behind every front line, another war was raging—one for knowledge no human mind was meant to hold. OSS operative Robert Danforth has already seen things that broke other men beyond the Mountains of Madness. Now the Nazis are...
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W.H. Chizmar - Them : A Novel
The solo debut from the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting, a post-apocalyptic/survival horror novel written in the bestselling traditions of Stephen King’s The Mist and Josh Malerman’s Bird Box. A top-secret government project hits upon a revolutionary…
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Richard Chizmar - Killing the Boogeyman
The terrifying horror trilogy finale to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling series that includes Chasing the Boogeyman and Becoming the Boogeyman from “one of horror’s indispensable writers” (Paste). Notorious serial killer Joshua Gallagher—dubbed “the Boogeyman” by the media—has…
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Megan Mostyn-Brown - The Need
Every family has its secrets. But in this electric, provocative, and dizzyingly fast-paced horror debut, some families have The Need. “An instant contender for horror novel of the year.”—Joe Hill “This one gets stuck between your teeth, in the best way.”—Stephen Graham Jones “You need to read The...
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Hank Schwaeble - Normal for the Spider
From Bram Stoker Award winning author Hank Schwaeble, Normal for the Spider is a spine-tingling thriller that will keep readers hooked to the very last page. Sienna Shaw is an apex predator. She kills without remorse when it suits her purposes, steals from those she judges undeserving of what…
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Bill Gauthier - The Monster in the Closet
What if the monster in your child’s closet is real? Tim Beaulieu’s daughter, Cleo, says that the monster is also her invisible friend, whom she blames for innocuous trouble. The whole thing makes Tim uneasy as he tries to remember a part of his childhood that is missing. Surely nothing can be...
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Nick Cutter - The Dorians
The all-new novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop! On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their...
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John Skipp - This is Splatterpunk
WHAT IS SPLATTERPUNK? If you want to understand what makes splatterpunk so different from the horror that came both before and after, your best bet is to read the authors who pioneered the form. It wasn’t just the visceral intensity of their literary assaults on convention. All the key writers –...
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Christopher Golden - Carry Me To My Grave
From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden comes a high concept horror novel about a man trying to protect his dead mother's body from the evil that is hunting them. Maggie Wise will take your eyes. When Malcolm was growing up, the local kids made up that chant about his mother,...
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Chris McAuley - Ink, Blood and Imagination
Chris is a writer of prose novels, magazine short stories, video and tabletop games and audio dramas. Together with Bram Stoker’s Great-Grand nephew Dacre Stoker, he has created the StokerVerse franchise. He has written the sequel to Dracula which will be released by Scar comics later this year.…
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T.J. Payne - Intercepts
The word-of-mouth BookTok hit about a supervisor at a top-secret government facility running experiments on human beings. He’s always been able to tell himself it’s for the greater good—until the day his work follows him home. “Inventive, scary, wholly entertaining, and deeply thought-provoking .…
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Joe Clifford - The Skeleton Theory
He failed to catch the killer. Now, he’ll rewrite reality to save his daughter. Jericho "Echo" Keane is a broken man. Disgraced from the SFPD and living in self-imposed exile in a shipping container, he is tortured by the memory of the Mission Street Killer who murdered his thirteen-year-old...
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Nzondi - Death Con : A Zombie Story
Love survived death—now it has to survive the apocalypse. On the second anniversary of her boyfriend's death, Cozy Coleman, a rising star in a world where necromancy is mainstream, boards DeathCon, a horror-themed convention cruise where she and her two best friends—the Scream Teens—are hired as...
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Greg Gifune - Pack Animals
Six men. One night. A ravenous evil. No way out. Lost in a remote wilderness, a group of old friends trapped in a relentless blizzard are stalked and hunted by a pack of predators like no other. In one bloody and horrific night, in a dark forest of ice and snow, beneath an unforgiving full moon,...
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Chris McAuley - When the Stars Scream
Chris McAuley writes prose novels, magazine short stories, video and tabletop games, and audio dramas. Together with Bram Stoker’s Great-Grand nephew Dacre Stoker, he has created the StokerVerse franchise. He has penned the sequel to Dracula, which will be released by Scar Comics later this year....
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Richard & W.H. Chizmar - Widow's Point
New York Times bestselling author Richard Chizmar, “one of horror’s indispensable writers” (Paste), and his son W.H. Chizmar, critically acclaimed author of Them (hailed by New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman as “one of the best debuts I’ve ever read”) present a riveting found footage...
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D. W. Gillespie - Grin
Full of chills and twists, a twelve-year-old boy is thrilled that he'll get to play endless games at his family’s arcade, but soon realizes he’s in the fight of his life when he’s forced to save himself and his possessed Uncle from a sinister video game. Danny is spending a week with his Uncle…
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Jeff Oliver - Reading 'Sunrise' from the Novel ' Voices in Your Head'
Do you hear voices in your head? I surely do. I believe that, as writers, we all experience this, with words pounding in our brains and screaming to be released. In the pages of my upcoming fully illustrated debut novel, "The Voices in Your Head," Geoff Hathaway not only hears voices, but he also...
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Jeff Oliver - The Voices in your Head
Do you hear voices in your head? I surely do. I believe that, as writers, we all experience this, with words pounding in our brains and screaming to be released. In the pages of my upcoming fully illustrated debut novel, "The Voices in Your Head," Geoff Hathaway not only hears voices, but he also...
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Philip Fracassi - The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre
Brimming with dark humor, violence, and mystery, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre is a blood-soaked slasher sure to keep readers guessing until the very last page. Rose DuBois is not your average final girl. Rose is in her late 70s, living out her golden years at the Autumn Springs...
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Jason Kristopher - The Dying of the Light Series
In a world where the dead hunger for the living, these classified tales reveal humanity's darkest hours and unexpected heroes. From remote wilderness to secret labs, follow the warriors who faced the walker threat before the world knew its name. Some stories should remain buried—but truth, like…
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Hellbound Books - James Longmore & Xtina Marie
HellBound Books are the veritable tour de force in the Independent publishing world - For eight years and counting, we have published novels, novellas, and bestselling anthologies of exemplary horror, bizarro, and all things dark - the type of tales from exciting new authors guaranteed to keep…
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C.C. Robinson - Caged Book Two
The walls are closing in on Rose. But when powerful enemies move her from house arrest to a literal prison, Rose finds herself alone. Caged. And without help. Isolated from her friends and allies, yet stumbling on the truth of her captors’ schemes, Rose must free herself. If she doesn’t make it…
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David North-Martino - Year of the Demon
To his martial arts students, Vance Palladian is more than just a teacher; he is the Paladin, a man of warrior virtue. Now a widower, and with his finances in disarray, Vance feels disillusioned with his once noble life. After thwarting a seemingly random robbery, and the kidnapping attempt of a...
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Michael Harbron - Return of the Devil
This Halloween, the War ends. In the eighth and final installment of the Interview with the Devil series, Armageddon, Lucifer has returned and so has the war for Earth. The parasite is spreading and The Morningstar Tribe, led by Joseph Banbury, scrambles to contain the collapse of a universe...
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Jeffrey Konvitz - The Circus of Satan
In 1878 a teenage Jew, the Hessex Kid, kills an Irish thug in a Five Point’s bar fight in front of hundreds of drugged and drunken killers, all members of the Whyo Gang, which controls all crime in Manhattan under the aegis of the corrupt Irish politicians at Tammany Hall. The boy is then grabbed...
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Keith Anthony Baird & Beverley Lee - A Light of Little Radiance
Selina Dragavei wanders the northern wastes in fear of persecution from the Holy Roman Church. In Europe's Dark Age, witchfinders scour the lands and traveller folk such as she are put to flame and suffering. On the ruthless steppes, she evades them but something far sinister will lay claim to…
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Brian D. Anderson - The Sorcerer's Song (3 book series)
The Bard's Blade is the start of the new Sorcerer's Song fantasy adventure series from Brian D. Anderson, bestselling author of The Godling Chronicles and Dragonvein. Mariyah enjoys a simple life in Vylari, a land magically sealed off from the outside world, where fear and hatred are all but...
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Arthur Slade - Dragon Assassin 1: Twin Fury
She's the only dragonrider in the world of Ellos. The empire wants her dead. But her dragon's snarky sense of humor might kill her first. Carmen is an assassin. She’d love to say she just graduated with honours, but that’s not how it worked out. First, the empire declared war on assassins. Next,...
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Zachary Hagen - Eternity's End
Either let it burn, or drown it in the waves. Taariq has continued his descent into madness, and his supporters are more devoted than ever, at least for a time. As he pursues his ultimate goal of reclaiming his dragon form and tearing Aelon and Michael from their throne, Elior, Nereza, Opal, and...
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James Bow - The Sun Runners
“Hello, people of Mercury. This is planet Earth. Are you receiving this? Please respond.” Lieutenant Adelheid Koning was only twenty-three when the Earth’s long fight against its environment ended in collapse and nuclear war. Earth’s sudden silence leaves the colonies of the inner solar system...
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Oliver Seneca - Shaded Grove
On their rainy drive home from a haunted house tour in a small Pennsylvania town, sisters Megan and Dianne Willis come across a drenched, confused old woman walking alone in the middle of the road. Concerned about her well-being, the sisters attempt to take the mysterious lady to the nearest...
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JP Behrens - Missing in Miskatonic
Step into the shadowed streets of 1928 Arkham, where Miskatonic University holds secrets darker than the night. In this supernatural thriller reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and H.P. Lovecraft, Private Detective Travis Daniels is thrust into a harrowing investigation when a young woman disappears...
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Beau Johnson - Chainsaw Noir
I have published before, usually on the darker side of town. Seeing as I'm Canadian, I will always wish you well.
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Nick Cutter - The Queen
“One of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth. On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes…
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Chris McAuley - Horror News
Chris McAuley writes prose novels, magazine short stories, video and tabletop games, and audio dramas. Together with Bram Stoker’s Great-Grand nephew Dacre Stoker, he has created the StokerVerse franchise. He has penned the sequel to Dracula, which will be released by Scar Comics later this year....
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Jenna Greene - Silencers
On the "Best Young Adult Dystopian Novels" list on Goodreads! Scona must choose. Protect her father, or embrace the darkness she's been trained to destroy... Despite warnings from family and friends, Scona Tinay enrolls in Silencers Academy. To escape a life of poverty and hardship and ensure a...
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Alethea Lyons - Reawakening
After centuries of suppression, the magic of England is Reawakening Return to the world of The Seer of York with this collection of new tales set in the aftermath of The Hiding. Harper, Grace, Saqib, Heresy, and AJ bond as a team and as a family to save innocents, supernatural and human, despite...
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Richard Chizmar - Memorials
A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the “unforgettable and scary” (Harlan Coben) Chasing the Boogeyman. 1983: Three students from a small college embark on a week-long...
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Josh & Heather Daughrity - Hospital of Haunts
For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far more sinister. In 1844, Lychhurst was built, stone by cursed stone, deep in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Originally intended as an...
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Marie Lanza - Hospital of Haunts
For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far more sinister. In 1844, Lychhurst was built, stone by cursed stone, deep in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Originally intended as an...
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Mark Rainey - Hospital of Haunts
For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far more sinister. In 1844, Lychhurst was built, stone by cursed stone, deep in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Originally intended as an...
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Rebecca Cuthbert - Hospital of Haunts
For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far more sinister. In 1844, Lychhurst was built, stone by cursed stone, deep in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Originally intended as an...
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Dawn Kurtagich - The Madness
Award-winning author Dawn Kurtagich masterfully weaves a captivating tale of suspense and horror, in which Dr. Mina Murray returns to the windswept shores of Wales to help her childhood friend fight the mysterious illness that plagues her. When the lines between reality and delusion begin to…
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Daemon Manx - The Ojanox
The year is 1979. A small New York town prepares to welcome the fall season in all the expected ways: young children bicker and boast over Halloween costumes, secret lovers meet in clandestine corners, and a tortured soul plots wicked deeds. All the while, hidden just out of view, patient and...
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Rick Poldark - Cryptid Slayer
Monster slayer Sandra Barlowe ventures to Madrugar, Mexico to investigate the brutal death of a local rancher. While the signs initially point to a vampire, the deeper she dives into her investigation, the more the murder appears to be the handiwork of something else…something much more…
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Christopher Golden - The House of Last Resort
The next high concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden. Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken...
About this show
For the best in Horror listen to our newest podcast series 'Dark Minds' Here we talk with the creators of some of the most ingenious suspense, horror, and dark fantasy writing to find out how they get there. We will go through their process and what influenced them to get into writing and keeps them interested. From the makers of the House of Mystery radio show Alan R Warren.
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