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After much recent politickin’ and metaphor – we’re back with a good old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness ghost story.
And from a friend, no less.
V. L. Valentine came on the show last year (ep.31) to talk about her debut medical horror whodunnit, The Plague Letters. Now she’s back with her sophomore novel, a ripe Gothic treat called Begars Abbey.
It plays with the tropes beautifully. There are secret rooms, sinister histories, mad old relatives, torture, crypts, sinister servants and lots of ghosts. Why the shift, from surgeons to spooks, you may ask.
Well, Vikki and I talk about that. As well as what she learned between book 1 and 2, the elements of pacing, writing problematic women in the age of twitter, the macabre history of old dungeons and the perilous evils of Downton Abbey (ok – that last one is more my soapbox).
Also, Vikki takes me to task about not yet finishing my own novel. Consider me chastened and now writing!
Enjoy!
Begars Abbey is published on April 26th, by Viper.
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Send us a text
After much recent politickin’ and metaphor – we’re back with a good old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness ghost story.
And from a friend, no less.
V. L. Valentine came on the show last year (ep.31) to talk about her debut medical horror whodunnit, The Plague Letters. Now she’s back with her sophomore novel, a ripe Gothic treat called Begars Abbey.
It plays with the tropes beautifully. There are secret rooms, sinister histories, mad old relatives, torture, crypts, sinister servants and lots of ghosts. Why the shift, from surgeons to spooks, you may ask.
Well, Vikki and I talk about that. As well as what she learned between book 1 and 2, the elements of pacing, writing problematic women in the age of twitter, the macabre history of old dungeons and the perilous evils of Downton Abbey (ok – that last one is more my soapbox).
Also, Vikki takes me to task about not yet finishing my own novel. Consider me chastened and now writing!
Enjoy!
Begars Abbey is published on April 26th, by Viper.
Support Talking Scared on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPod
Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, and TikTok or email direct to [email protected]
Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.
Support the show
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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