SMASHED!

An episode of the Staring Into the Abyss: A Podcast podcast, hosted by Scott Kemper, titled "SMASHED!" was published on August 13, 2020 and runs 86 minutes.

August 13, 2020 ·86m · Staring Into the Abyss: A Podcast

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Episode Description

This week, hosts Scott Kemper, author Michael Patrick Hicks, and Matt Brandenburg are joined by Kyle Rader, author of My BFF Satan, to discuss the work of Junji Ito, Ito's short story "Smashed," and how it relates to '80s PSAs and Gallagher. We also review the Kristen Stewart horror flick Underwater, Wile E. Young's splatterpunk western Magpie Coffin, Victor LaValle's The Devil in Silver, and the films Sea Fever and The Blind Dead.

The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

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