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The Outer Dark
by Scott Nicolay
Weird fiction author and podcast host Scott Nicolay interviews writers, filmmakers, editors, publishers and other creatives from the weird renaissance. The show includes news from the weird presented by editor, Justin Steele.
Episodes
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TOD 126 Tanith Lee Storyteller Roundtable
The Outer Dark and Essential Dreams Press present the Tanith Lee Storyteller Roundtable featuring Craig Laurance Gidney, Melanie R. Anderson, Lisa Kroger, Terri Windling, moderated by Julie C. Day, with special guest C.S.E. Cooney . The roundtable aired on January 21, 2024 via Zoom, and the…
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TOD 125 Weird Bites: The Outer Dark Community Day 2023
The Outer Dark presents Weird Bites, flash readings and panel from our The Outer Dark Weird/SpecLit Community Day 2023 featuring Sara Amis, Gerald L Coleman, Nancy A Collins, Melanie Crew, Edward Austin Hall, Alex Hofelich, Jess Lewis, Kyoko M, Violette L. Meier, Kitty Sarkozy, Eric Schaller…
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TOD 124 Back 2 Omnipark: World’s Weirdest Theme Park
The Outer Dark presents an exclusive preview of the Back 2 OmniPark anthology with Jesse Bullington, Brent Winter, Kristi DeMeester, Hailey Piper, Brian Evenson, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Maxwell I Gold. This podcast’s content was recorded between June 21-23, 2023. Show Notes The Outer Dark…
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TOD 123 World Fantasy 2022: Keeping It Weird
The Outer Dark presents Keeping It Weird, a panel from World Fantasy Con 2022 featuring David Boop, Michael Kelly, Anya Martin, Jon Padgett, Zin E. Rocklyn, and Jason A. Wyckoff. This podcast’s content was recorded in New Orleans, LA, on November 5, 2022. Show Notes The Outer Dark presents…
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TOD 122 Usman T. Malik: Horror with a Sense of Wonder
The Outer Dark presents “Usman T. Malik: Horror with a Sense of Wonder,” a conversation with the author about his World Fantasy Award-winning debut collection, Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan (KITAB Ltd, 2021) and more. This podcast’s content was recorded on March 20, 2023. Show Notes The...
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TOD 121 Deterministic Landscapes: The Role of Psychogeography in Weird Fiction
The Outer Dark presents “Deterministic Landscapes: The Role of Psychogeography in Weird Fiction” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by F. Brett Cox and featuring Julie C. Day, Craig Laurance Gidney, Jess Lewis, Henry Ward, and Heinrich Wilke. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence…
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TOD 120 Publisher Spotlight: NO Press and “Mooncalves”
The Outer Dark presents an ALL-NEW Publisher Spotlight of NO Press, featuring an exclusive interview with John W. M. Thompson and six readings from its debut anthology Mooncalves: Strange Stories, including Jaime Corbacho, Adam Golaski, Janlyn Guo, Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí, Briar Ripley Page, and Lisa...
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TOD 119 From Ambergris to Yuggoth: The Fungus Among Us Panel from NecronomiCon 2022
The Outer Dark presents “From Ambergris to Yuggoth: The Fungus Among Us” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by Eric Schaller and featuring Rick Claypool, Nicholas Kaufmann, Jess Lewis, and Douglas Wynne. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 20, 2022. Show Notes The...
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TOD 118 The Weird Has Always Been Female: The Women’s Canon of Weird Fiction Panel from NecronomiCon 2022
The Outer Dark presents “The Weird Has Always Been Female: The Women’s Canon of Weird Fiction” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by Ann VanderMeer and featuring Christa Carmen, Leslie S. Klinger, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Zin E. Rocklyn, and Elena Tchougounova-Paulson. This podcast’s content was...
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TOD 117 It Was Made for Me: The Dark Worlds of Junji Ito from NecronomiCon 2022
The Outer Dark presents the” It Was Made for Me: The Dark Worlds of Junji Ito,” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by Nadia Bulkin and featuring Cassandra Khaw, K.H. Vaughan, and Sean Moreland. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 21, 2022. Show Notes The Outer Dark...
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TOD 116 World Fantasy 2022: Weird Readings Cluster
The Outer Dark presents the Weird Fiction Readings Cluster from World Fantasy Con 2022 featuring Matthew M. Bartlett, Julie C. Day, Anya Martin, Sarah Read, Zin E. Rocklyn, and A.C. Wise. This podcast’s content was recorded in New Orleans, LA, on November 4, 2022. Show Notes The Outer Dark…
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TOD 115 The Horizon Is Still Way Beyond You: Zora Neale Hurston’s Life and Legacy
The Outer Dark presents ‘The Horizon is Still Way Beyond You: Zora Neale Hurston’s Life and Legacy’ panel at NecronomiCon 2022 featuring Edward M. Erdelac (moderator), Nicole Givens Kurtz, and Adam Golaski plus a bonus interview with Nicole Givens Kurtz about Blackened Roots: An Anthology of the...
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TOD 114 The Jewish Tradition in Weird Fiction Panel at NecronomiCon 2022
The Outer Dark presents ‘The Jewish Tradition in Weird Fiction’ panel at NecronomiCon 2022 featuring Daniel Braum (moderator), Edward M. Erdelac, Richard Gerlach, Maxwell I. Gold, Nicholas Kaufmann, and Ann VanderMeer. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, Rhode Island, on August 20,...
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TOD 113: State of The Weird Roundtable 2022
The Outer Dark presents State of The Weird Roundtable 2022 featuring Steve Berman, Nadia Bulkin, Gemma Files, Fiona Maeve Geist, Craig Laurance Gidney, and Nicole Givens Kurtz. This podcast’s content was moderated by Anya Martin and recorded at NecronomiCon in Providence, Rhode Island, on August...
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TOD 112 Dark Factory: Kathe Koja and John Skipp in Conversation
The Outer Dark presents Dark Factory: Kathe Koja and John Skipp in Conversation. This podcast’s content was recorded in early August 2022. Show Notes This mind-blowing conversation between two of our favorite people from the horror and Weird community features John Skipp in his The Outer Dark...
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TOD 111 NecronomiCon Returns: 2022 Preview Special
The Outer Dark presents an exclusive preview of NecronomiCon Providence 2022, featuring Programming Chair K.H. Vaughan, Film Programming Co-Chair Gwen Callahan, Justin Steele, and Sam Cowan of Dim Shores Press. This podcast’s content was recorded on July 31, August 2, and August 3, 2022. Show…
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TOD 110: The [SF] Future Is Female!: The 1970s
The Outer Dark presents an exclusive preview panel on The Future Is Female, Vol. 2: The 1970s, a canon-reshaping Library of America anthology celebrating feminist women science fiction writers, featuring editor Lisa Yaszek, moderating a discussion with editorial assistants Edeliz Zuleta, Jessica...
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TOD 109 Quarantine Readings: Natania Barron and David Bowles
The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Natania Barron and David Bowles. This podcast was recorded on January 25 and 26, 2022. Show Notes The first The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series installment of 2022 features two award-winning spec-lit authors and exclusive sneak preview readings...
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TOD 108 M. Rickert: Ships and Stories Built Out of Bones and Memories
The Outer Dark podcast presents a conversation with M. Rickert, author of The Shipbuilder of Bellfaire (Undertow, 2021) and many, many stories. The main audio was recorded on January 5, 2022. Show Notes In this podcast, Anya Martin interviews M. Rickert about her second novel The Shipbuilder of...
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TOD 107 The Outer Dark Holiday Special
The Outer Dark podcast presents our holiday gift to listeners featuring flash fiction, poetry, music, and gift ideas from nine Weird horror writers, as well as gift-guide mini-interviews spotlighting three writer-owned supernatural-themed candle-making, jam, and soap companies. Audio segments…
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TOD 106 Quarantine Readings: Jeffrey Ford and Zin E. Rocklyn
The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Jeffrey Ford and Zin E. Rocklyn, plus an exclusive preview of the New York Ghost Story Festival 2021 with founder Daniel Braum. This episode’s content was recorded on November 21, 22, and 23, 2021. Show Notes The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series...
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TOD 105 Adam McOmber: Mirror Worlds and Other Unreliable Settings
In this podcast Anya Martin interviews Adam McOmber about his most recent Weird novels The Ghost Finders (Journalstone) and Jesus and John (Lethe Press) and more. This episode was recorded on Wed. Nov. 10, 2021 Show Notes In this podcast, Anya Martin interviews Adam McOmber about his most recent...
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TOD 104 Once We Were Monster Kids Panel at HP Lovecraft Film Festival 2021
This podcast presents the panel We Once Were Monster Kids from the HP Lovecraft Film Festival 2021, moderated by Anya Martin and featuring Gwendolyn Kiste, Craig Laurance Gidney, Ian McDowell, and Eden Royce. This episode was recorded on October 10, 2021. Show Notes In this podcast taped during…
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TOD 103 Publisher Spotlight: Ross E. Lockhart of Word Horde
This podcast features a Publisher Spotlight interview with Ross E. Lockhart of Word Horde and his exciting new retail venture, the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird and Fantastic, in Petaluma, California. This episode was recorded on October 11, 2021. Show Notes In this Publisher Spotlight…
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TOD 102 Charting New Maps of Dream
This podcast features an interview with editor Cody Goodfellow, and Readings by Kaaron Warren, Mehitobel Wilson, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, and Rios de la Luz from New Maps of Dream (PS Publishing, Fall 2021) . This episode was recorded between September 14-22, 2021. Show Notes Anya Martin…
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TOD 101 Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror Featuring Ellen Datlow, Cody Goodfellow, Cassandra Khaw, Brian Evenson, Gemma Files
This podcast features an interview with editor Ellen Datlow and readings by Cody Goodfellow, Cassandra Khaw, Brian Evenson, and Gemma Files from Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror (Tachyon Publications, October 2021) . This episode was recorded between August 25-30, 2021. Show Notes In our...
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TOD 100 Steve Toase: The Archaeology of Rot and Snails
In this podcast Anya Martin interviews Steve Toase, whose debut collection, To Drown in Dark Water came out in April 2021 from Undertow Publications. This episode was recorded on Tuesday May 18, 2021 Show Notes In our 100th episode on This Is Horror, Anya Martin interviews Steve Toase, whose…
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TOD 099 Quarantine Readings: WC Dunlap and Craig Laurance Gidney
The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by WC Dunlap and Craig Laurance Gidney. This episode’s content was recorded on Tues. May 5 and Wed. May 6, 2021. Show Notes The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series continues with WC Dunlap and Craig Laurance Gidney (0:36:25). WC Dunlap reads from her...
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TOD 098 Quarantine Readings: J.S. Breukelaar and Nathan Carson
The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by J.S. Breukelaar and Nathan Carson. This episode’s content was recorded on Sat. April 10 and Sun. April 11, 2021. Show Notes The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series continues with J.S. Breukelaar and Nathan Carson (0:45:15). J.S. Breukelaar reads an...
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TOD 097 Publisher Spotlight: Rose O’Keefe of Eraserhead Press
In this podcast Anya Martin interviews Rose O’Keefe, publisher at Eraserhead Press, a leading publishing house for bizarro side of Weird fiction and cutting-edge horror. This episode was recorded on Tuesday April 6, 2021 Show Notes In our first full-episode publisher spotlight , Anya Martin...
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TOD 096 Quarantine Readings: Josh Malerman and Kristi DeMeester
The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Josh Malerman and Kristi DeMeester. This episode’s content was recorded on Tues. March 16 and Thurs. March 25, 2021. Show Notes The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series continues with Kristi DeMeester and Josh Malerman (0:48:23). Kristi reads the...
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TOD 095 Clint Smith: Maybe It’s About Just Trying to Make a Friend?
In this podcast, guest host Gordon B. White interviews Clint Smith, author of The Skeleton Melodies (Hippocampus, 2020). Plus Archival Episode A21 Clint Smith: A Care for Dark Cookery. The new interview was recorded on Feb. 27, 2021, and the archival interview first aired on Nov. 24, 2015. Show...
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TOD 094 Weirder Side of the Fantastic Panel at World Fantasy Con 2020
The Outer Dark presents The Weirder Side of the Fantastic panel at Virtual World Fantasy Convention 2020, featuring Brian Evenson, Craig Laurance Gidney, teri.zin, Michael Kelly, and Lesley Wheeler, and moderated by Anya Martin. PLUS Justin Steele returns with a News from The Weird round-up of…
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TOD 093 Quarantine Readings: Nadia Bulkin and Eric Schaller
The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Nadia Bulkin and Eric Schaller. This episode’s content was recorded on Sat. Feb. 13 and Tues. Feb. 16, 2021. Show Notes The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series continues with Nadia Bulkin and Eric Schaller (0:42:09). Nadia reads the beginning of her...
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TOD 092 Sarah Read: Weaving Broken Bones Back Together Again
In this podcast Anya Martin interviews Sarah Read, author of the novel The Bone Weaver’s Orchard and collection Out of Water (Trepidatio, 2019), plus Sarah reads ‘The Hope Chest’ (Best Horror of the Year, 2020). The episode was recorded on Sunday Feb. 7, 2021 Show Notes In this podcast during…
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TOD 091 Quarantine Readings: Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Orrin Grey, as well as an all-new Reviews from the Weird with Gordon B. White’s highlights of 2020 and most anticipated 2021 reads. This episode’s content was recorded on Feb. 1, 2, and 3, 2021. Show Notes The Outer Dark...
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TOD 090 Quarantine Readings: Linda Addison and Marc Laidlaw
In our first podcast of 2021 The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Linda D. Addison and Marc Laidlaw. The interviews were recorded on Wed. Jan. 6 and Thurs, Jan. 7, 2021. Show Notes The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series kicks off 2021 with Linda D. Addison and Marc Laidlaw. (0:42:52)....
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TOD 089 Quarantine Readings: Gwendolyn Kiste and Daniel Braum
In our final podcast of 2020 The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Gwendolyn Kiste and Daniel Braum. The interviews were recorded on Monday December 7, 2020. Show Notes The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series returns with Gwendolyn Kiste and Daniel Braum (0:32:13). Gwendoiyn reads an...
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TOD 088 Deep Down: The Weird in Conversation with Southern Gothic, Black Gothic Revival, and Other Regional Strange Tales
In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 presents the panel Deep Down: The Weird in Conversation with Southern Gothic, Black Gothic Revival, and Other Regional Strange Tales, moderated by Nicole Givens Kurtz with Ian McDowell, Valjeanne Jeffers, Carrie Laben, and Sara Amis. PLUS...
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TOD 087 The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020: Holiday Readings Special
In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 presents a Holiday Readings Special featuring authors Natania Barron, Eric Schaller, Julie C. Day, Milton J. Davis, Jess Lewis, and Michael David Wilson. This programming was recorded on Saturday August 15 and Sunday August 16, 2020. Show…
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TOD 086 The Outer Dark Symposium 2020: From Yellow Wallpaper to Spectral Hues: Color in Weird Fiction Panel
In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 presents the panel From Yellow Wallpaper to Spectral Hues: Color in Weird Fiction moderated by Brian Hauser with Daniel Braum, Craig Laurance Gidney, Gwendolyn Kiste, Hysop Mulero, and Liv Rainey-Smith. PLUS Scott Nicolay reads “The Marlyweck...
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TOD 085 The Outer Dark Symposium 2020: Art of The Weird Panel
In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 presents the panel Art of The Weird: How Do You Illustrate Something that Defies Description? moderated by Eric Schaller and featuring Chris Gavaler, Jeanne D’Angelo, Michael Bukowski, Lynne Hansen, and Matthew Jaffe. PLUS Readings by Laura...
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TOD 084 The Outer Dark Symposium 2020: Weird World-Building Panel
In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 presents the panel Weird World-Building: Strange Cities, “Other” Countries, and Cobbly Universes, featuring Natania Barron, Jesse Bullington, Jeffrey Ford, Seb Doubinsky, L.M. Davis, and Sarah Read. PLUS Readings by Valjeanne Jeffers, Jeff...
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TOD 083 The Outer Dark Symposium 2020: Beyond Good and Evil Panel
In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 presents the panel Beyond Good and Evil featuring Kortney Y. Watkins, Gabriela Damián Miravete, Kristi DeMeester, Violette L. Meier, Kyoko M., and Gordon B. White. PLUS Readings by Seb Doubinsky, Sara Amis, Gabriela Damián Miravete, Edward...
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TOD 082 State of The Weird Roundtable 2020
In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 presents State of The Weird 2020 Roundtable featuring J.S. Breukelaar, Chesya Burke, Julie C. Day, Larissa Glasser, Orrin Grey, and Tonya Liburd. PLUS Readings by Larissa Glasser and J.S. Breukelaar. This programming was recorded on Saturday...
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TOD 081 Weird Metamorphosis or Life Change: Where the Body Becomes the Setting
In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 continues with Weird Metamorphosis or Life Change: Where the Body Becomes the Setting, the weekend’s first panel moderated by Lesley Wheeler and featuring Mike Allen, Benjamin Capps, Fiona Maeve Geist, Edward Austin Hall, Brooke Warra, and...
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TOD 080 The Outer Dark Symposium 2020, Part 1: Nightscape Press Readings: Carrie Laben, Fiona Maeve Geist, Zin E. Rocklyn, Brooke Warra
In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 kicks off with the Nightscape Press Readings Block featuring authors Carrie Laben, Fiona Maeve Geist, teri.zin, and Brooke Warra, and hosted by Robert S. Wilson and Jennifer Wilson, who also introduce this episode. The readings took place on...
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TOD 079 Lesley Wheeler: All the Smart Women Are Practicing Magic
In this podcast Anya Martin interviews Lesley Wheeler about her debut Weird novel Unbecoming (Aqueduct Press), and Edward Austin Hall interviews her about her new poetry collection. The State She’s In (Tinderbox Editions). Plus Gordon B. White reviews Unbecoming. The interview segments were...
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TOD 078 Quarantine Readings: Inna Effress, Matthew M. Bartlett, Jon Padgett
In this podcast The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Inna Effress, Matthew M. Bartlett, and Jon Padgett. The interviews were recorded on Sunday July 19 and Monday July 20, 2020. Show Notes The eighth installment of The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series features Inna Effress, a Weird...
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TOD 077 Quarantine Readings: John Langan and Brooke Warra
In this podcast The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by John Langan and Brooke Warra, plus Gordon B White reviews Children of the Fang by John Langan. The interviews were recorded on Tuesday July 14, and Reviews from The Weird was recorded on Thursday July 16, 2020. Show Notes The seventh...
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Weird fiction author and podcast host Scott Nicolay interviews writers, filmmakers, editors, publishers and other creatives from the weird renaissance. The show includes news from the weird presented by editor, Justin Steele.
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Weird fiction author and podcast host Scott Nicolay interviews writers, filmmakers, editors, publishers and other creatives from the weird renaissance. The show includes news from the weird presented by editor, Justin Steele.
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