Talking Scared

05 – Jeremy Robert Johnson and Where Did That Octopus Come From?


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This week we get visceral – with the extreme body horror of Robert Jeremy Johnson and his new novel THE LOOP. 

Jeremy speaks to us from Portland, Oregon, where he’s busy watching the forest fires and working on ways to weaponise his words for good. THE LOOP is a novel all about conspiracy theory, medical mishap, and a class war raging through a small town. Think your favourite 80s teen comedy (with its guts spilling out) mixed with a little bit of 50s pulp Americana and smeared with 2020s political frenzy. That’s THE LOOP and man, it’s a trip!!

Oh, and we hear some VERY alarming claims about the octopus!

The books we discuss in this episode include:

  •  The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton (1967) 
  • Survivor Song, by Paul Tremblay (2020)
  • IT, by Stephen King (1986)
  • Boy’s Life, by Robert McCammon (1991)
  • Summer of Night, by Dan Simmons (1991)
  • A Collapse of Horses, by Brian Evenson (2016)

    Come talk books with us on Twitter @talkscaredpod or email direct to [email protected].

    Thanks To Terry Smith Audio for sound editing.

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