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Talking Scared — 326 episodes

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279 – Sarah Langan & The Mask Eats the Face

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Off Book #19 – Dark Documentaries, with Kaelyn from Heart Starts Pounding
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278 – Daisy Pearce & Bog Witches of the World Unite!

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Off Book #18 – Hokum, with Damian McCarthy

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277 – Marcus Kliewer & Rules Help Control the Fun

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276 – Kylie Lee Baker & Swords Make Everything Worse

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275 – Caroline Bicks & The Stuff Too Dark for Even Stephen King
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Off Book #17 – Undertone, with Ian Tuason and Nina Kiri
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274 – Carter Keane & Working Ourselves to Death!!

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Let Us Palaver #8 – The Black House Debrief

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The Dark Tower Deep Dive #8 – Black House

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Off Book #16 – Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, with Haley Z. Boston

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Episode 273 – Tamika Thompson & The Shadow of the Gun
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272 – Annie Neugebauer & The Colour of a Terrible Thought
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271 – Avery Curran & The Naughtiest Ghosts in School

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Off Book #15 – Dolly, with Rod Blackhurst

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270 – Christopher Buehlman & One Seriously Epic Road Trip

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269 – Catriona Ward & Where Children Fear to Tread

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268 – Brennan LaFaro & The Darkness on the Edge of Town

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267 – Wuthering Heights, with Agatha Andrews (from She Wore Black)

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Off Book #14 – Mama Came Callin, with Ezra Claytan Daniels & Camilla Sucre
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266 – Justin C. Key & Don’t Scroll Before Bed
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Let Us Palaver #7 – The Talisman Debrief

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The Dark Tower Deep Dive #7 – The Talisman

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265 – Yah Yah Schofield & Pretty Words for Ugly Things
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264 – Courtney Summers & Dead Is Not Better

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263 – Kristi DeMeester & The Purity of Anger

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262 – The Best Horror Books of 2025

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Let Us Palaver #6 – Wizard & Glass Debrief

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The Dark Tower Deep Dive #6 – Wizard & Glass

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Off Book #13 – Welcome to Derry, with Andy & Barbara Muschietti
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261 — The State of the Horror Nation 2025, with Emily Hughes, Anna Dupre & George Dunn

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[From the Vault] Carmen Maria Machado & Passing Literary Kidney Stones
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[From the Vault] Jeff VanderMeer and Our First On-Air Murder
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[From the Vault] Will Dean & The Two Faces of Off-Grid Living
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[From the Vault] Courtney Summers & The Master of the Bitch

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[From the Vault] Tananarive Due & Black Girls Doing Magical Things
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260 – Joe Hill & The One About the Dragon

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Let Us Palaver #5 – ‘Salem’s Lot Debrief

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The Dark Tower Deep Dive #5 – ‘Salem’s Lot

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259 – Joe Lansdale & Our Desperate Need to Be Less Dumb

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Off Book #12 – Ben Leonberg and Good Boy

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258 – Neil McRobert & My Four-Legged Ode to Bravery & Joy

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257 – Northern Weird (Part Two), with Matt Wesolowski, Jodie Robins & Stephen Howard

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256 – Northern Weird (Part One), with Gemma Fairclough, Katherine Clements & Ariell Cacciola
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255 – Michael Wehunt & What If A Horror Film Broke Into Your House?

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254 – Philip Fracassi & The Fresh Young Heart of Old-School Horror

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253 – Keith Rosson & The Real V-Word

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Off Book #11 – JT Mollner & The Long Walk

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252 – John Langan & Water, Water Everywhere

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251 – Kailee Pedersen and The Silence of the Foxes
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250 – The End of the World As We Know It: Further Tales of The Stand (Part Two)

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Off Book #10 – Mick Garris and Adapting The Stand (1994)

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249 – The End of the World As We Know It: Further Tales of The Stand (Part One)

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Let Us Palaver #4 – The Stand Debrief

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The Dark Tower Deep Dive #4 – The Stand (Part Two)

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The Dark Tower Deep Dive #4 – The Stand (Part One)

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248 – Scott Carson & The Anticipation of the Bang!!

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247 – Daniel Kraus and Sentenced to Death
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246 – Wendy Wagner & Scooby Doo On Mushrooms

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245 – Giano Cromley & Our Friends in the Forest

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244 – Rose Keating & Rotting As We Go

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243 – S.A. Cosby & The Gospel of the Dispossessed

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242 – Caroline Fraser & Masculinity Most Toxic

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241 – V.E. Schwab & Women Just Taste Better

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Let Us Palaver #3 – The Waste Lands Debrief

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The Dark Tower Deep Dive #3 – The Waste Lands

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240 – John Connolly & Detective Gothic: The Charlie Parker Deep Dive

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239 – Sarah Pinborough & What Are Ghosts But Lies Persevering?

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238 – The Frozen Frontier: Ally Wilkes and Michelle Paver, Live at the Oxford Literary Festival
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Off Book #9 – Eli Craig & Clown in a Cornfield

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237 – Joe Abercrombie & The International Brotherhood of the Blade

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236 – Brian Keene & Living in the Splatter

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235 – Nat Cassidy & Emotional Doomsday Prepping

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Off Book #8 – Kyle McConaghy & Dead Mail

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234 – Katherine Arden & The Devil’s Train Timetable

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233 – Tariq Ashkanani & Bloodstained Hands Across the Ocean

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232 – Punk Goes Horror, with William Sterling, Wendy Dalrymple & Brian McAauley

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Let Us Palaver #2 — The Drawing of the Three Debrief

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The Dark Tower Deep Dive #2 – The Drawing of the Three

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231 – Stephen Graham Jones & Rewilding the Vampire

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230 – Alex Grecian & Weirdos in the West

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229 – Agustina Bazterrica & The Wicked Nuns of Oz

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Off Book #7 – Scott Derrickson

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228 – Sophie White & An Island of Formless Dread

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227 – Kirsty Logan & Queer as in F**K You

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226 – Virginia Feito & A Good Old-Fashioned Bad Girl

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225 – Lucy Rose & The Cumbrian Chainsaw Massacre

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Let Us Palaver #1 – The Gunslinger Debrief

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The Dark Tower Deep Dive #1 – The Gunslinger

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Off Book #6 – Dutch Marich & Horror in the High Desert

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224 – Susan Barker & The Denial of Death
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223 – Kate van der Borgh & A Different Class of Magic
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222 – Clay McLeod Chapman & Oh My God, What Have I Done?

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221 – The Best Scary Books of 2024

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220 – Grief and Monsters: The From a Buick 8 Deep Dive

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219 – State of the Horror Nation 2024, with Emily Hughes, Stephanie Gagnon & Anna Dupre

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[From the Vault] Catriona Ward & The All-Consuming Spoiler Warning

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[From the Vault] Zakiya Dalila Harris & The Fear of Not Being Black Enough
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[From the Vault] Laura Purcell & The Art of Darkness
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[From the Vault] Gemma Amor & The Start of a Horrific Friendship AKA The Mental Health in Horror Episode

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[From the Vault] T. Kingfisher & A Bit of Laughter in the Dark

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[From the Vault] – Michael Marshall Smith & Goodbye to a Bad Year
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Off Book #5 – Halloween Special – Kaelyn Moore & Heart Starts Pounding

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218 – Rachel Harrison & Vampirism is What You Make It

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217 – Del Sandeen & Giving Southern Gothic Ick!
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216 – CJ Leede & The Shame of the Human Animal

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215 – Sofia Ajram & The Architecture of Despair

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Off Book #4 – Kate Siegel
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214 – Lora Senf & The Infinite, Child-Friendly Void

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213 – Johnny Compton & Angels, Demons & Xenomorphs

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212 – Keith Rosson & Punk Rock Death Songs

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211 – Laird Barron & Cosmic Background Radiation
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210 – Emily Hughes & The Lover’s Guide to Better Horror
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209 – Anna Bogutskaya & A Deep Fear of Things Sincere

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208 – Adam Cesare & Making Scary Clowns Great Again

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207 – Lena Valencia & What Can Lurk Where There Are No Shadows?
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Off Book #3 – Trevor Henderson

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206 – Gabino Iglesias & Doing Really Bad Things for All the Right Reasons

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205 – Jonathan Janz & The Bittersweet Magic of Sixteen

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204 – Adam Nevill & Watch For the Freak Wave
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203 – Constant Readers & Celebrating Stephen King’s Short Stories (Part Two)

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202 – Constant Readers & Celebrating Stephen King’s Short Stories (Part One)

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201 – Stephen King & Touching Other Worlds

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200 – Every-Damn-One and Their Scariest Story

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199 – Josh Malerman & The Most Frightening Love Story

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Off Book #2 – National Park After Dark

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198 – Paul Tremblay & The Book is Better

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197 – Elle Nash & Insects in the Ozarks

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196 – Todd Keisling & The Eras Tour: Horror Version

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195 – Emil Ferris & The Patron Saints of our Imperfection

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Off Book #1 – Phil Nobile Jr. & Fangoria

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194 – Alan Baxter & The Flavour of Vintage Blood

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193 – L.P. Hernandez & Kudos On the Cruelty

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192 – Robert Ottone & Raising Kids in Langan Country

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191 – Chris Panatier & The Goo of Human Nature

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190 – Kaaron Warren & The Un-Cosy House

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189 – The Black Girl Survives in This One, with Saraciea J. Fennell, Desiree S. Evans, Monica Brashears & Eden Royce
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188 – Scarlett Thomas & Hot Gothic

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187 – The Carrie 50th Anniversary Deep Dive, with Nat Cassidy & Ally Malinenko

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186 – Stephen Graham Jones & The Last Stand of the Final Girls

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185 – Cynthia Pelayo & A Mermaid in the Windy City
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184 – Joshua Hull & It’s a Whole Hole Thing

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183 – Gwendolyn Kiste & Working Through Your Ghosts

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182 – Tim Lebbon & Running Towards What Scares You

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181 – Haunting Hill House, with Catriona Ward, Johnny Compton & Paul Tremblay

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180 – Chuck Palahniuk & What Kind of Sex Do You Want?

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179 – Ally Wilkes & The Ethics of Eating Your Friends

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178 – Jenny Kiefer & A Solid Foothold in Horror

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177 – John Langan & Fishing For Mythologies

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176 – The Best Horror Novels of 2023

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175 – The Ghost Story Deep Dive, with Alan Baxter, Lauren Bolger & John Langan

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174 – State of the Horror Nation 2023, with Emily Hughes, Victor Lavalle & C.J. Leede

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173 – Michelle Paver & Long Nights of the Body & Soul
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172 – Gemma Amor & The Haunted Penis-Replacement Structure

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171 – C.S. Humble & Come For the Horror, Stay for the Horses

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170 – Luke Dumas & The Ghosts That Time Forgot

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169 – Tyler Jones & Journeys Without Maps

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168 – Tananarive Due & Locked in With the Monsters

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167 – Nat Cassidy & A New York State of Death

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166 – Sam Rebelein & You Had Me At “Tongue-Monster!”

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165 – Josh Malerman & Ronald Malfi & The Rock N Roll Rhythm of the Novella

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164 – Out There Screaming Roundtable, with Nnedi Okorafor, Lesley Nneka Arimah & Maurice Broaddus

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163 – Liz Hand & Visiting the Thing That Walks Alone

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162 – Chuck Wendig & American as Evil Apple Pie

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161 – Clay McLeod Chapman & The Chesapeake Softshell Shuffle

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160 – Isabel Cañas & Many Types of Bloodsucker
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159 – Alexander James & An Encounter in the Woods

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158 – Catriona Ward & Rewriting the American Gothic (Like, Literally)

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157 – Josh Winning & The World Through Blood-Tinted Glasses

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156 – Sadie Hartmann & The Books of Our Horrid Hearts

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155 – Stephen King & Writing From the Nerve Endings

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154 – Alex Woodroe & The Sweet Science of Folk Horror

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153 – Chuck Tingle & Riding the Lonesome Train

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152 – Andrew Michael Hurley & Our Green, Unpleasant Land

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151 – Verity Holloway & The Onion Skin of Trauma

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150 – Danielle Trussoni & Puzzling All Over the World
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149 – Clowns at Midnight – The Big IT Deep-Dive (Part Two), with Ally Malinenko & Nat Cassidy

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148 – Feral Childhoods – The Big IT Deep-Dive (Part One), with Ally Malinenko & Nat Cassidy

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147 – Mike Flanagan & Lighting Up the Darkness
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146 – Paula. D. Ashe & A Bizarre & Bitter Reprieve

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145 – Sarah Gailey & The Scariest Place in the House

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144 – Nicholas Binge & the Spookiest of Entanglements

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143 – Alice Slater & Bookish Murder Vibes

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142 – Katrina Monroe & Birthing the Ultimate Body Horror

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141 – Justin Cronin & Telling the Goat Joke
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140 – Andrew F. Sullivan & The Cutest Mould in Fungus City

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139 – Ai Jiang & Home is Where the Haunt Is
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138 – Rachel Eve Moulton & The Bellybutton of the Beast

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137 – Kelly Link & Once Upon a Time in a Ghost Story
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136 – Max Booth III & Stories With Teeth
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135 – Victor LaValle & The Weird, Weird West

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134 – Margaret Atwood & Hope in the Dystopia
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133 – Jacqueline Holland & At Last! Vampires!
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132 – Matt Ruff & A Hostile Universe Here on Earth
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131 – Johnny Compton & A Pyroclastic Flow of Negative Energy
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130 – Mariana Enriquez & This Cruelty is Justified

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129 – Stephen Graham Jones & Slashers Can Save the World

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128 – C.J. Tudor & Locked Rooms at the End of the World

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127 – Grady Hendrix and the Radical Puppet Collective
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126 – Stephen Markley & A Guided Tour To Our Future Hell

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125 – The Best Horror Books of 2022
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124 – State of the Horror Nation 2022, with Emily Hughes & Janelle Janson

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123 – Rachel Harrison, Josh Malerman & A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Self-Indulgence

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122 – A History of Gothic Horror, with Professor Roger Luckhurst
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121 – Craig Engler & What Makes a Shudder Movie?
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120 – Philip Fracassi & A Screaming Inferno of Chaos and Emotion
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119 – Charlotte Northedge & Houses Full of Haunted People
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118 – Fiona Barnett & If You Go Down to the Woods Today
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117 – Erika T. Wurth & Bigfoot in Your Dreams

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116 – Brian McAuley & The Delights of Human Evisceration

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115 – Andy Davidson & Ornate Maps of Hell

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114 – Erin E. Adams & Monsters in the Rust Belt
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113 – Rachel Harrison & Teeth, Needles & Gnomes
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112 – Jamie Flanagan & Stories as Companions for Loneliness
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111 – Alexis Henderson and Hot Marxist Bloodletting
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110 – Clay McLeod Chapman and Unhealthy Obsession with Clear Plastic Tarps

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109 – Gemma Amor and The Big Mental Health in Horror Bonanza

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108 – Hailey Piper and Ambulatory Brain Monsters
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107 – Zin E. Rocklyn and the Commonality of Pain

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106 – Gwendolyn Kiste and the Madwomen Bite Back
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105 – Agatha Andrews and Danger-Bangs in Haunted Houses
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104 – Michael J. Seidlinger and Strange Footsteps at Midnight

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103 – Giving Kids Swords: A Middle Grade Special w/ with Ally Malinenko, Dan Poblocki & Lora Senf
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102 – Nina Nesseth and How the Gross-Out Can Save Your Life
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101 – Nat Cassidy and Who Asked for a Body Anyway?
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100 – Paul Tremblay and the First-Person Asshole Narrator
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99 – T. Kingfisher and the Fungus-Punk Epidemic
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98 – Tim McGregor and Blaming the Danish
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97 – A Monstrous Roundtable, with Ellen Datlow, Nathan Ballingrud, Chikodili Emelumadu & Joe R. Lansdale
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96 – Stephen Lloyd and Cutting the Treacle
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95 – J.M. Miro and Throwing Your Arms Around the Monsters
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94 – Scott Hawkins and a Dog-Eat-Lion World
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93 – Kiersten White and Freedom from the Hope of Youth
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92 – Anne Heltzel and a Big Pile of Dead Baby Dolls
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91 – Jason Rekulak and Pencil Crayon Jump Scares
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90 – Isabel Cañas and Running Barefoot Through Books

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89 – Alma Katsu and the Hatred that Never Seems to Die
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88 – V. L. Valentine and The Difficult Second Ghost Story
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87 – Malcolm Devlin and the Brexit Zombie Story
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86 – Alan Baxter and a Stranger in a Strange Town
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85 – Emma Stonex and the Light That Never Goes Out
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84 – Dark Stars Roundtable, with John F.D. Taff, Livia Llewellyn & Josh Malerman

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83 – Simone St. James and Good Time, True Crime
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82 – Mike Meginnis and Things You Should Do Before You Die
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81 – Tyler Jones and Old Eyes in Young Faces
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80 – Gretchen Felker-Martin and Bustin’ Everyone’s Balls

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79 – Leon Craig and the Queerness at the Bottom of the Well
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78 – Thomas Olde Heuvelt and the Mountains of (My) Madness
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77 – S.A. Barnes and Every Direction is Down
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76 – Ally Wilkes and Good Reasons to be Afraid of the Dark
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75 – Kristi DeMeester and Misogynistic Little Paper Cuts
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74 – John Connolly and the Many Faces of Metaphysical Mystery
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73 – The Best Horror-ish Books of 2021
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72 – State of the Horror Nation II, with Emily Hughes and Sadie Hartmann
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71 – A.J. West and Paranormal Foreplay
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70 – Ross Jeffery and Disturbing the Comfortable
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69 – Wendy N. Wagner and Nasty Shenanigans
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68 – Josh Malerman and Putting the Awe in Awful Things
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67 – Richard Maclean Smith and the Ledge of Reason
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66 – Ellen Datlow and What Does ‘Scared’ Mean Anyhow?
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65 – Mark Stay and Cosy Pagan Dread
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64 – Kim Newman and Truly Universal Monsters
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63 – Mark Kermode and Angels, Demons and White Eyed Kids (AKA, the Hallowe’en Special)

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62 – Catherynne M. Valente and the Homeowners Association from Hell
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61 – Cassandra Khaw and Stories to Tell Death
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60 – Caitlin Starling and Emotional Torture Porn
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59 – James Han Mattson and the Fear Fetish Facepalm
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58 – Lee Mandelo & Playing Out with the Boys
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57 – Tina Baker and the Working-Class Chips on Our Shoulders
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56 – Aliya Whiteley and Strange Growths
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55 – Daniel Kraus and a Bag of Squishy Organs in an Elastic Hide
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54 – Stephen Graham Jones and Dancing with the Slasher
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53 – Zoje Stage and What if You're Not a Good Person?
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52 – Richard Chizmar and the Truth Inside the Lie
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51 – Brian Evenson and Little Potted Nightmares
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50 - Sara Flannery Murphy and the Witches They Couldn't Burn
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49 – Ronald Malfi and Can Death Do Us Part?
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48 – Chuck Wendig and the Comforting Embrace of Horror

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47 – Grady Hendrix and Final Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
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46 – The State of the Horror Nation, with Sadie Hartmann and Emily Hughes

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45 – Carmen Maria Machado and Literary Kidney Stones

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44 – Eric LaRocca and Abominable Things You Probably Shouldn’t Be Reading
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43 – Joe R. Lansdale and Writing Like Everyone You Know is Dead

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42 - V. Castro and F**K Your Box

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41 – Max Brooks and Harry Eats the Hendersons
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40 – Zakiya Dalila Harris and the Fear of Not Being Black Enough
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39 – Josh Malerman and a Local Town for Local People
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38 – Tananarive Due and Black Girls Doing Magical Things
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37 – A.J. Gnuse and the People Under Your Sink

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36 - Jeff VanderMeer and Our First On-Air Murder
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35 – Christina Henry and the Monsters of the Subconscious
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34 - Danielle Trussoni and the Spectrum of Human Difference
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33 - Jennifer McMahon and the Green Mountain State of Fear
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32 - Clay McLeod Chapman and the Clenching Fist of Satan!
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31 – V.L. Valentine and Graphic Descriptions of Medical Maladies
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30 – Catriona Ward and the All-Consuming Spoiler Warning
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29 – Angela Slatter and Kelpies not Selkies!!
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28 – Bethany Clift and Judging an Apocalypse by its Cover

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27 - Julia Fine and the Postmodern Postpartum
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26 - Sarah Pearse and the Hills are Alive with the Sound of Murder
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25 - Gemma Files and the Witch in Her True Ornaments
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24 - Courtney Summers and Writing for Spite
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23 - Laura Purcell and the Art of Darkness
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22 – C.J. Tudor and the Lure of the Oddball Loners
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21 - Will Dean & The Horror of the Fens
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20 - The Big 2021 Horror Preview AKA Another Annus Horribilis
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19 - Michael Marshall Smith and Goodbye to 2020
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18 - Gabriel Bergmoser and It's Only a Joke Mate!
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17 - Rachel Harrison and Knowing Who Your Friends Are
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16 – Christopher Golden and Extreme Social Distancing
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15 - Sam J. Miller and a Hometown Hot Mess
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14 - Jonathan Sims and the Haunted High-Rise
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13 - Craig DiLouie and the Cult of the Shredder
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12 - Rumaan Alam and the Apocalyptic Rorschach Test
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11 - Andrew Pyper and the Demon in the White House
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10 - Colin Dickey and the Obligatory Halloween Special AKA Why We Believe in Monsters
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09 - T. Kingfisher and Does the Dog Die in This One?
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08 – Emily Danforth and “The Blair Witch X Lesbians”
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07 - Kate Summerscale and the Shoplifting Poltergeist
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06 - Stuart Turton and How To Plot a Very Clever Murder

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05 – Jeremy Robert Johnson and Where Did That Octopus Come From?
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04 - Jo Kaplan and What Makes a Great Haunted House?
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03 - Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Mexican Gothic, NOT Romance
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02 - John Langan and Writing Under "The Influence"
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01 - Paul Tremblay and Why It's Not the End of the World