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Dead Languages — 152 episodes

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Episode 151: "How Far is Too Far?" Ask the Dorks on Reddit

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Episode 150: Conspiracy Theory Horror

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Episode 149: Publishing a Book - Start to Finish

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Episode 148: Horror at Home

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Episode 147: Updates and Reddit Questions

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Episode 146: Dealing with Professional Envy

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Episode 145: Demon Horror

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Episode 144: Apocalypse Horror

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Episode 143: Regional Horror

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Episode 142: Why Mainstream Horror Sucks

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Episode 141: Bug Horror

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Episode 140: Fairy Tales (with Ivy Grimes)

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Episode 139: Our 2026 Writing Resolutions

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Episode 138: The Winners of the Second Annual Cummies

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Episode 137: Favorite Reads of 2025 (Part II)

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Episode 136: Ho-Ho-Holiday Horror

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Episode 135: Final Girls

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Episode 134: The Big, The Bigger, The Biggest - Kaiju in Horror

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Episode 133: The Annual Dead Languages DnD Extravaganza (Part 2)

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Episode 132: The Annual Dead Languages DnD Extravaganza (Part 1)

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Episode 131: Situational and Speculative Hooks

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Episode 130: Drabble Contest 2025!

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Episode 129: Live Editing! (with Kai Delmas)

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Episode 128: Editorial Services

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Episode 127: Reality Breakdown in Horror (D. Matthew Urban)

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Episode 126: Do You Need Talent To Write?

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Episode 125: More Reddit Questions and SO MANY UPDATES!

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Episode 124: Writing for Submission II (with Sam Logan and Arwyn Sherman)

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Episode 123: Literally All About Literary Agents

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Episode 122: How to Help Your Favorite Author

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Episode 121: WTF is Psychological Horror?

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Episode 120: Story Time

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Episode 119: Love? In Horror? (with Christopher O'Halloran)

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Episode 118: The Professor's Flight to Byzantium (with Erik McHatton)

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Episode 117: Where New Writers Should Start

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Episode 116: Top 5 for 2025 (so far...)

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Episode 115: Live from StokerCon 2025 Part 2

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Episode 114: Live from StokerCon 2025 Part 1

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Episode 113: When Animals Attack (in Horror)

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Episode 112: Authors Behaving Badly

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Episode 111 - Do Writers Even Read, Bro?

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Episode 110 - Learning to Check In and Assess

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Episode 109: DLP Challenge - Writing for Submission

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Episode 108: Webnovels (with Viktor Athelstan)

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Episode 107: Using Trauma to Write Horror

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Episode 106: Managing the Waiting Game

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Episode 105: The Horrors of Naming Your Collection

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Episode 104: Mentorship (with Timaeus Bloom)

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Episode 103: Writing Hot Takes (with Patrick Barb)

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Episode 102: I Have No Mouth and I Must Niemandswasser (with Erik McHatton)

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Episode 101: Live from Ghoulish!

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Episode 100: Dead Languages Jeopardy

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Episode 99: Monster Mash

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Episode 98: Nature Horror (with Clay Vermulm)

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Episode 97: Fleshing Out Characters

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Episode 96: WTF is Comedy Horror? (with Ria Hill and Cassandra Daucus)

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Episode 95: How Much Did Writers Make in 2024?

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Episode 94: Answering MORE questions from Reddit

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Episode 93: Writing Fast

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Episode 92: WTF is Liminal Horror (with TJ Price)

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Episode 91: The Winners of the First Annual Cummies

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Episode 90: New Year, New Rear

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Episode 89: DLP Redux -- Looking Back, Looking Forward

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Episode 88: Muddle through Middles

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Episode 87: Live at Bizarrocon

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Episode 86: Tabling

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Episode 85: Happy Halloween!

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Episode 84: Drabble Contest Results!

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Episode 83: The Conclusion. The Horror. The Dicks.

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Episode 82: Welcome Aboard the CCS Dead Languages

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Episode 81: Spooky Season is Upon Us

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Episode 80: WTF is Extreme Horror (with Emma E. Murray)

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Episode 79: Experimental Formats (with Michael Bettendorf)

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Episode 78: Historical Horror (with Jessica Peter)

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Episode 77: Medical Horror (with Dr. Nina Miller)

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Episode 76: Virtual Launch Parties

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Episode 75: Milestones

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Episode 74: Endings (SPOILERS)

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Episode 73: Which Witch?

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Episode 72: Weekly Writing Habits

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Episode 71: The Return of CarCar (and Reddit Questions II)

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Episode 70: World Building and Lore

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Episode 69: WTF is Wilderness Horror?

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Episode 68: WTF is Space Horror!?

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Episode 67: The Horror of Book Formatting

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Episode 66: Best Books of 2024 (so far)

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Episode 65: Live from StokerCon 2024!

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Episode 64: Short Story Structure

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Episode 63: We Answer Writing Questions from Reddit!

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Episode 62: Best Of Anthologies with Matt Blairstone and Alex Woodroe

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Episode 61: Cryptids

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Episode 60: Dealing with Competition

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Episode 59: WTF is Cosmic Horror?

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Episode 58: Formatting Your Submission

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Episode 57: Writing for Games

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Episode 56: Reader Mail EXTRAVAGANZA

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Episode 55: Live Readings

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Episode 54: Prompts

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Episode 53: Influences (with Erik McHatton)

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Episode 52: Creepypasta

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Episode 51: Interior Illustrations

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Episode 50: Authorial Voice

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Episode 49: Haunted Houses with Christi Nogle

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Episode 48: Writing Communities

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Episode 47: Marketing I

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Episode 46: Psychological Thrillers with Caleb Stephens

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Episode 45: Dabbling Drabbles Ain't Drab

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Episode 44: Should These Stories Be Put To Pasture?

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Episode 43: WTF is Erotic Horror

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Episode 42: The Cum Back

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Episode 41: Bizarrocon & Listener Questions

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Episode 40: DLP Cosmopolitan

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Episode 39: Vanity Presses

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Episode 38: How to be Scary

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Episode 37: NaNoWriMo

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Episode 36: Goblin Halloween

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Episode 35: Zombies

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Episode 34: Cover Art (with Matt Blairstone)

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Episode 33: Writer's Block

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Episode 32: BLURBS!

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Episode 31: Short Story Collections (with Patrick Barb)

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Episode 30: Titles

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Episode 29: Where Do Our Ideas Come From?

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Episode 28: Book to Film Adaptations with the Gravely Serious Podcast

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Episode 27: WTF is Weird Horror?

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Episode 26: AI

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Episode 25: Indie Horror and the Press Machine with JustJames!

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Episode 24: Narrative Perspective

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Episode 23: Bizarro Fiction with Danger Slater

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Episode 22: Unlikable Characters

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Episode 21: Writing for Submission Calls

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Episode 20: WTF is Cozy Horror

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Episode 19: Top 5 Books of the First Half of 2023

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Episode 18: Crying About Editing/Revision

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Episode 17: Novelettes

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Episode 16: Conventions and Awards

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Episode 15: Vampires

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Episode 14: Reviews

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Episode 13: Depression

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Episode 12: Self-Publishing

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Episode 11: Editing with Christopher O'Halloran

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Episode 10: WTF is Literary Horror?

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Episode 9: Pitches 101 with Tenebrous Press

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Episode 8: Story Swap

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Episode 7: Indie Magazines with Charles Tyra of CHM

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Episode 6: Top Tens

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Episode 5: Path to Success

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Episode 4: Critiques

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Episode 3: Werewolves

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Episode 2: Writing Habits

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Episode 1: Why Horror?

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