The Dark Word Podcast
1) Dark Word #024: Ramsey Campbell
Season Two of The Dark Word takes the ferry cross the Mersey to conclude in style.Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still lives Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English Literature d...Show More
2) Dark Word #023: Polymath Josh Ruben
Josh Ruben is an award-winning actor, writer, and director whose feature film SCARE ME—which he wrote, directed and starred in alongside Aya Cash and Chris Redd—debuted at the 2020 Sundance Film Festi...Show More
3) Dark Word #022: Catriona Ward
Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. Her fourth novel, the gothic thriller Sundial was Observer Thriller of the Month and a...Show More
4) Dark Word #021: Brian Keene
What's changed? Everything. Brian Keene says the thing that’s changed the most in the years since he sold his first story in 1997 is the rise of the indie press. “The Big Five weren’t publishing horro...Show More
5) Dark Word #020: Chuck Wendig
Chuck Wendig is the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers, The Book of Accidents, Star Wars: Aftermath (plus tons of other Star Wars stuff), and more than two dozen other books for adults and...Show More
6) Dark Word #019: Sadie Hartmann, Sadie Hartmann
As the operator of her own small press, Dark Hart Books, Sadie Hartmann has developed deep expertise in the marketing of this genre. Here she chats with Philip Fracassi about building a "bookstagram" ...Show More
7) Dark Word #019: Sadie Hartmann
Hartmann also operates the Nightworms book club, which curates packages of horror related books and merch. She reviews horror for SCREAM magazine and Cemetery Dance Online and is a voting member of th...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) Dark Word #018: Jeremy Robert Johnson
It's different with friends. Listen in as Jeremy Robert Johnson reveals to his host Philip Fracassi—his good friend—how it's done for anyone who aspires to write horror stories that thrill and chill.B...Show More
9) Dark Word #017: Thomas Olde Heuvelt
In the grandest tradition of "very special episodes," this week's edition of The Dark Word features an in-person interview before a live audience at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles. Philip Fracassi ...Show More
10) The Dark Word Podcast #16: Eric LaRocca
Eric LaRocca (he/they) is the author of several works of horror and dark fiction, including the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and the intriguingly titled You’ve Lost a L...Show More