Talking Scared Podcast
1) 263 – Kristi DeMeester & The Purity of Anger
The year may have started with more real-world horrors from old white dudes, but here on Talking Scared they get their comeuppance – in the form of Kristi DeMeester’s Dark Sisters. Kristi returns ...Show More
2) 262 – The Best Horror Books of 2025
No need for a big intro this week. You know what this is about. The year is over, and it’s time to offer my thoughts on the best books that made it bearable. Here’s my top-10 favourite horror nove...Show More
3) Let Us Palaver #6 – Wizard & Glass Debrief
In our sixth Let Us Palaver, Nat and I try to clean things up a bit after the dirty deep dive into Wizard & Glass. We get spoilery, so this is for Tower Junkie’s only. It will make no sense to any...Show More
4) The Dark Tower Deep Dive #6 – Wizard & Glass
After a summer of diversion and detour, we’re back with the main Ka-Tet for Christmas. What better time for a tale of heartbreak, lost love, and cabin-bound masturbation. Yes, we’re covering Wiza...Show More
5) Off Book #13 – Welcome to Derry, with Andy & Barbara Muschietti
It: Welcome to Derry has just reached its Season One conclusion and the theories are flying as to where the show will go next. I have something like an answer for you. Maybe. Perhaps. Cos the crea...Show More
6) 261 — The State of the Horror Nation 2025, with Emily Hughes, Anna Dupre & George Dunn
Welcome to the now sixth annual State of the Horror Nation. This is the mega-episode, in which I gather a darkly-inclined supergroup of horror fans and commentators—a horror cabinet, if you will—...Show More
261 — The State of the Horror Nation 2025, with Emily Hughes, Anna Dupre & George Dunn
2:48:48 | Dec 9th, 2025
7) [From the Vault] Carmen Maria Machado & Passing Literary Kidney Stones
It’s all about memory this week. Remember that time literary superstar Carmen Maria Machado came on the show? No? Well here’s your chance to catch up on what you missed. Carmen spoke to me a...Show More
8) [From the Vault] Jeff VanderMeer and Our First On-Air Murder
Jeff VanderMeer and I did not fall out!! This is a myth that has arisen since Jeff came on the show back in 2021, to discuss his eco-espionage crisis thriller, Hummingbird Salamander. Well, t...Show More
9) [From the Vault] Will Dean & The Two Faces of Off-Grid Living
Revisiting a true highlight this week! Will Dean’s The Last Thing to Burn is one of very few 10/10 books i've ever featured on this podcast. It’s a flawless study of isolation, survival, exploitat...Show More
10) [From the Vault] Courtney Summers and The Master of the Bitch
This flashback episode takes us to early 2021, when I was joined by Courtney Summers – the boundary-pushing author of dark YA fictions for a corrective lesson. Courtney came on the show to discus...Show More