In this episode Jeff and Brian welcome award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon to discuss his new book, Come Sing for the Harrowing (Clash Books, April 2026), and how it interrogates and reshapes folk horror’s rigid archetypes through humor, modernity, class, and hybridity.

They also talk through the connections between horror and joy, emphasizing the genre’s supportive community and his preference for weird, uncanny, atmospheric horror that makes the world feel stranger and more exciting.

Coxon explores how genre functions as a bookselling and marketing tool that can limit readers and publishers.

They analyze liminality, ecstatic tonal shifts, and the writing process variability.

Dan recommends Will Maclean’s Solace House and Lucy McKnight Hardy’s Night Babies, and the video game, Disco Elysium.

Check out Dan's work at https://www.dancoxon.com/