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Dead Languages — 167 episodes
Episode 166: Promptly Delivered Prompts
Episode 165: Trendcasting Horror
Episode 164: Work, Life, Repeat
Episode 163: AI Keeps Making Everything Worse
Episode 162: We Answer Questions from R/Horrorwriters
Episode 161: Live Editing (with Kai Delmas)
Episode 160: You Should Start a Newsletter
Episode 159: Writer Insecurities
Episode 158: The Future of Horror
Episode 157: Best 5 So Far - 2026
Episode 156: Mothers in Horror
Episode 155: Why Your Story Is Getting Rejected
Episode 154: WTF is Folk Horror
Episode 153: Sizzling (Hot Off The Grill) Takes
Episode 152: What the Slash Is Up With These Killers?
Episode 151: "How Far is Too Far?" Ask the Dorks on Reddit
Episode 150: Conspiracy Theory Horror
Episode 149: Publishing a Book - Start to Finish
Episode 148: Horror at Home
Episode 147: Updates and Reddit Questions
Episode 146: Dealing with Professional Envy
Episode 145: Demon Horror
Episode 144: Apocalypse Horror
Episode 143: Regional Horror
Episode 142: Why Mainstream Horror Sucks
Episode 141: Bug Horror
Episode 140: Fairy Tales (with Ivy Grimes)
Episode 139: Our 2026 Writing Resolutions
Episode 138: The Winners of the Second Annual Cummies
Episode 137: Favorite Reads of 2025 (Part II)
Episode 136: Ho-Ho-Holiday Horror
Episode 135: Final Girls
Episode 134: The Big, The Bigger, The Biggest - Kaiju in Horror
Episode 133: The Annual Dead Languages DnD Extravaganza (Part 2)
Episode 132: The Annual Dead Languages DnD Extravaganza (Part 1)
Episode 131: Situational and Speculative Hooks
Episode 130: Drabble Contest 2025!
Episode 129: Live Editing! (with Kai Delmas)
Episode 128: Editorial Services
Episode 127: Reality Breakdown in Horror (D. Matthew Urban)
Episode 126: Do You Need Talent To Write?
Episode 125: More Reddit Questions and SO MANY UPDATES!
Episode 124: Writing for Submission II (with Sam Logan and Arwyn Sherman)
Episode 123: Literally All About Literary Agents
Episode 122: How to Help Your Favorite Author
Episode 121: WTF is Psychological Horror?
Episode 120: Story Time
Episode 119: Love? In Horror? (with Christopher O'Halloran)
Episode 118: The Professor's Flight to Byzantium (with Erik McHatton)
Episode 117: Where New Writers Should Start
Episode 116: Top 5 for 2025 (so far...)
Episode 115: Live from StokerCon 2025 Part 2
Episode 114: Live from StokerCon 2025 Part 1
Episode 113: When Animals Attack (in Horror)
Episode 112: Authors Behaving Badly
Episode 111 - Do Writers Even Read, Bro?
Episode 110 - Learning to Check In and Assess
Episode 109: DLP Challenge - Writing for Submission
Episode 108: Webnovels (with Viktor Athelstan)
Episode 107: Using Trauma to Write Horror
Episode 106: Managing the Waiting Game
Episode 105: The Horrors of Naming Your Collection
Episode 104: Mentorship (with Timaeus Bloom)
Episode 103: Writing Hot Takes (with Patrick Barb)
Episode 102: I Have No Mouth and I Must Niemandswasser (with Erik McHatton)
Episode 101: Live from Ghoulish!
Episode 100: Dead Languages Jeopardy
Episode 99: Monster Mash
Episode 98: Nature Horror (with Clay Vermulm)
Episode 97: Fleshing Out Characters
Episode 96: WTF is Comedy Horror? (with Ria Hill and Cassandra Daucus)
Episode 95: How Much Did Writers Make in 2024?
Episode 94: Answering MORE questions from Reddit
Episode 93: Writing Fast
Episode 92: WTF is Liminal Horror (with TJ Price)
Episode 91: The Winners of the First Annual Cummies
Episode 90: New Year, New Rear
Episode 89: DLP Redux -- Looking Back, Looking Forward
Episode 88: Muddle through Middles
Episode 87: Live at Bizarrocon
Episode 86: Tabling
Episode 85: Happy Halloween!
Episode 84: Drabble Contest Results!
Episode 83: The Conclusion. The Horror. The Dicks.
Episode 82: Welcome Aboard the CCS Dead Languages
Episode 81: Spooky Season is Upon Us
Episode 80: WTF is Extreme Horror (with Emma E. Murray)
Episode 79: Experimental Formats (with Michael Bettendorf)
Episode 78: Historical Horror (with Jessica Peter)
Episode 77: Medical Horror (with Dr. Nina Miller)
Episode 76: Virtual Launch Parties
Episode 75: Milestones
Episode 74: Endings (SPOILERS)
Episode 73: Which Witch?
Episode 72: Weekly Writing Habits
Episode 71: The Return of CarCar (and Reddit Questions II)
Episode 70: World Building and Lore
Episode 69: WTF is Wilderness Horror?
Episode 68: WTF is Space Horror!?
Episode 67: The Horror of Book Formatting
Episode 66: Best Books of 2024 (so far)
Episode 65: Live from StokerCon 2024!
Episode 64: Short Story Structure
Episode 63: We Answer Writing Questions from Reddit!
Episode 62: Best Of Anthologies with Matt Blairstone and Alex Woodroe
Episode 61: Cryptids
Episode 60: Dealing with Competition
Episode 59: WTF is Cosmic Horror?
Episode 58: Formatting Your Submission
Episode 57: Writing for Games
Episode 56: Reader Mail EXTRAVAGANZA
Episode 55: Live Readings
Episode 54: Prompts
Episode 53: Influences (with Erik McHatton)
Episode 52: Creepypasta
Episode 51: Interior Illustrations
Episode 50: Authorial Voice
Episode 49: Haunted Houses with Christi Nogle
Episode 48: Writing Communities
Episode 47: Marketing I
Episode 46: Psychological Thrillers with Caleb Stephens
Episode 45: Dabbling Drabbles Ain't Drab
Episode 44: Should These Stories Be Put To Pasture?
Episode 43: WTF is Erotic Horror
Episode 42: The Cum Back
Episode 41: Bizarrocon & Listener Questions
Episode 40: DLP Cosmopolitan
Episode 39: Vanity Presses
Episode 38: How to be Scary
Episode 37: NaNoWriMo
Episode 36: Goblin Halloween
Episode 35: Zombies
Episode 34: Cover Art (with Matt Blairstone)
Episode 33: Writer's Block
Episode 32: BLURBS!
Episode 31: Short Story Collections (with Patrick Barb)
Episode 30: Titles
Episode 29: Where Do Our Ideas Come From?
Episode 28: Book to Film Adaptations with the Gravely Serious Podcast
Episode 27: WTF is Weird Horror?
Episode 26: AI
Episode 25: Indie Horror and the Press Machine with JustJames!
Episode 24: Narrative Perspective
Episode 23: Bizarro Fiction with Danger Slater
Episode 22: Unlikable Characters
Episode 21: Writing for Submission Calls
Episode 20: WTF is Cozy Horror
Episode 19: Top 5 Books of the First Half of 2023
Episode 18: Crying About Editing/Revision
Episode 17: Novelettes
Episode 16: Conventions and Awards
Episode 15: Vampires
Episode 14: Reviews
Episode 13: Depression
Episode 12: Self-Publishing
Episode 11: Editing with Christopher O'Halloran
Episode 10: WTF is Literary Horror?
Episode 9: Pitches 101 with Tenebrous Press
Episode 8: Story Swap
Episode 7: Indie Magazines with Charles Tyra of CHM
Episode 6: Top Tens
Episode 5: Path to Success
Episode 4: Critiques
Episode 3: Werewolves
Episode 2: Writing Habits
Episode 1: Why Horror?
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