Chthonica: a podcast on fictional horror

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September 18, 2025 Chthonica #12: Alma Katsu's FIEND!
Greg Greene interviews horror & espionage author (and 35-year intelligence community veteran) Alma Katsu on her new horror novel FIEND, dropping September 23, 2025 from Putnam!
Alma's one of the most fascinating writers working today. We discuss FIEND along with the current political environment, AI, being a woman leader in a historically male-dominated work environment, and the paranormal.
00:00 - Welcome horror & espionage author Alma Katsu!
01:00 - Alma gives us the pitch for her new book FIEND
02:14 - Is writing fiction different from writing historical fiction? (Spoiler: YES)
03:42 - The fictitious Berisha family and the real Katsu family
05:54 - Family Dynamics of the Rich & Famous (Of the richest man in the world, Alma says, "He's a special case 'cause he's so darn weird, right? He sort of *breeds* children.")
11:21 - The Berisha dynasty: family, business, and clan. And why make them Albanian?
15:42 - Maris, the middle daughter: gender, favor, and patriarchy
19:30 - Living with a lineage of secrets
22:22 - "We're in an age now, kind of like the 90s, the old Gordon Gecko thing, where greed is good, right? That all people care about is wealth."
26:16 - Monsters and the nature of evil
28:29 - Maris Berisha
32:02 - Maris faces the frequent challenge of women in leadership roles: "Be in control, but not controlling."
35:49 - American oligarchy
39:00 - Truthiness: "What we're going through is historic to the Untied States. We're seeing information being used as propaganda really, at levels that we used to see in Russia."
42:03 - Alma on AI-based propaganda: "It's hard not to be super-pessimistic."
45:25 - What the supernatural does for this story.
49:47 - The paranormal burden of proof
54:34 - Film and TV options!
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1h 6min
August 07, 2025 CHTHONICA #11: Lost in the Dark with John Langan
Greg Greene interviews legendary horror author John Langan in this spoiler-free conversation about his collection LOST IN THE DARK, available August 5, 2025 from Word Horde!
Chthonica is also available on Youtube.
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2h 6min
March 05, 2025 CHTHONICA #10: Stephen Graham Jones on monsters, ghosts & turning twelve
Greg Greene interviews horror great Stephen Graham Jones about his slate of spring & summer '25 releases, including reissues of The Ones Who Got Away and The Least of My Scars (March 4), his new novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (March 18), a reissue of his novella Mapping the Interior (April 29), and a double novel debut of The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road (July 15)!
We talk monsters, ghosts, turning twelve years old, and so much more!
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1h 3min
December 28, 2024 Laird Barron, Trevor Henderson, and Doug Murano on NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT
Author Laird Barron is joined by legendary horror illustrator Trevor Henderson and Bad Hand Books publisher Doug Murano to talk about Laird's latest horror collection Not a Speck of Light! Hosted by Greg Greene and Edward Meehan of the Laird Barron subreddit.
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1h 34min
September 16, 2024 Laird Barron on SWIFT TO CHASE
Laird Barron discusses the stories in his collection Swift to Chase. Hosted by Greg Greene and Edward Meehan of the Laird Barron subreddit community - part of the 2024 read-along of Laird's horror fiction.
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2h 9min
September 13, 2024 Laird Barron & John Langan on THE BEAUTIFUL THING THAT AWAITS US ALL and THE CRONING
Laird Barron discusses his collection THE BEAUTIFUL THING THAT AWAITS US ALL and his novel THE CRONING, with special guest John Langan! Hosted by Greg Greene and Edward Meehan of the Laird Barron subreddit community - part of the 2024 read-along of Laird's horror fiction.
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2h 37min
September 13, 2024 Laird Barron & Philip Gelatt on OCCULTATION and the film THEY REMAIN
Laird Barron takes questions about his stories in OCCULTATION, with filmmaker Philip Gelatt taking questions about THEY REMAIN, his adaptation is Laird's novella "--30--". Hosted by Greg Greene and Edward Meehan of the LairdBarron subreddit community for the 2024 read-along of Laird's horror fiction.
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2h 21min
September 13, 2024 Laird Barron on THE IMAGO SEQUENCE AND OTHER STORIES
Horror great Laird Barron takes questions about his stories in THE IMAGO SEQUENCE. Hosted by Greg Greene and Edward Meehan of the LairdBarron subreddit community for the 2024 read-along of Laird's horror fiction.
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2h 17min
September 12, 2024 IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD! with Laird Barron & Brian Evenson
We're celebrating the cosmic coinciding of new horror collections from Laird Barron and Brian Evenson - NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT (Bad Hand Books) and GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT (Coffee House Press), respectively - in stores September 10, 2024! Laird and Brian joined hosts Greg Greene and Edward Meehan for this live webcast on September 8, where we discussed their ground-breaking horror oeuvres and the new releases.
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1h 57min
May 25, 2024Chthonica #9: The Transgressive & the Sublime - Kelly Link on Horror
Greg Greene interviews Pulitzer Prize finalist and MacArthur Fellow Kelly Link about a handful of her favorite horror stories as well as the horror thread running through her own fiction. We enjoy a spoiler-filled deep dive on the following tales, and recommend reading them before listening to this episode.
"My Father's Mask" by Joe Hill
"The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres
"The Low, Dark Edge of Life," "Furnace," and "The Last, Clean, Bright Summer" by Livia Llewellyn
"The Specialist's Hat" and "The White Road" by Kelly Link
Content warning: "The Last, Clean, Bright Summer" addresses some especially difficult subject matter.
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2h 21min

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