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280 – Neena Viel & Go Heinous or Go Home
Disgust, despair and belly laughs on the show this week – with Neena Viel and her new novel, I’ll Watch Your Baby.
It’s a dense, troubling tale of child theft, social horror and demons, with plenty of putrid feet to give you a summertime ick! But if the book is a sickener, the author is a delight. Neena makes me do a proper full-on guffaw (has anyone EVER guffawed?), whilst we talk about urban-vs-rural horror,
reprehensible acts and problematic protagonists, and the abiding lie of the Welfare Queen trope.
Enjoy. Laugh. Even learn (up to you!)
Other books mentioned:
Listen to Your Sister (2025), by Neena Viel
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth (2019), by Josh Levin
On Sundays She Picked Flowers (2026), by Yah Yah Schofield
The Night Pool (2026), by Lauren Lee Smith
Support Talking Scared on Patreon
Check out the Talking Scared Merch line – at VoidMerch
Come talk books on Threads, Bluesky, and Instagram, or email direct to [email protected]
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Disgust, despair and belly laughs on the show this week – with Neena Viel and her new novel, I’ll Watch Your Baby.
It’s a dense, troubling tale of child theft, social horror and demons, with plenty of putrid feet to give you a summertime ick! But if the book is a sickener, the author is a delight. Neena makes me do a proper full-on guffaw (has anyone EVER guffawed?), whilst we talk about urban-vs-rural horror,
reprehensible acts and problematic protagonists, and the abiding lie of the Welfare Queen trope.
Enjoy. Laugh. Even learn (up to you!)
Other books mentioned:
Listen to Your Sister (2025), by Neena Viel
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth (2019), by Josh Levin
On Sundays She Picked Flowers (2026), by Yah Yah Schofield
The Night Pool (2026), by Lauren Lee Smith
Support Talking Scared on Patreon
Check out the Talking Scared Merch line – at VoidMerch
Come talk books on Threads, Bluesky, and Instagram, or email direct to [email protected]
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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