Psychoactive is a collection of extreme horror novellas that collectively explore the themes of Transformation, all three novellas have different takes on horror tone . As a good anthology does, it highlights the strengths and skills of the authors represented. Featuring works by Ryan C. Thomas author of the Summer I Died, writing with Anthony Trevino my co-author on Nightmare City, Cody Goodfellow author of Perfect Union, and Ed Kurtz author of Bleed.

In this episode Cody, Ryan and Anthony the San Diego authors - join me to talk about their novellas. It is a fun conversation about writing and storytelling.

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In 1970 Avon Books published a landmark anthology “Science Fiction Hall of Fame” featuring 16 classic short stories that represent landmark tales of the genre. The stories were voted on by the members of the new (at the time in the late 60s) organization Science Fiction Writers of America. In this series, I will be joined by a panel of different guests to break down these stories and talk about the authors in the book.

In this episode, I am joined by two experts on Philip K Dick. Wait a second I thought this episode was about AE Van Vogt. It is.. but the Canadian Golden Age author was a massive influence on PKD, so I was interested in introducing two Dickheads to Van Vogt. So joining me is the Total Dickhead blogger – Professor David Gill and author/publisher/editor Keith Giles of Quior Books.

The story we are covering is the 1942 classic “The Weapons Shop” by AE Van Vogt. This story appeared in the December 1942 issue of Astounding…

Read it here:

https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v30n04_1942-12_dtsg0318/page/n7/mode/2up

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James Chambers is one of the bright examples of why I love the horror community. We first hung out at Borderlands Writers Boot Camp in 2011. It was way longer ago than I want to think about. Halloween people have kinship, and SF people have kinship, and I share both with Chambers. An active force in the HWA if you are a horror writer it is likely that James has impacted your work.

In this episode, we discuss how James got into science fiction, horror, and writing. Then we go deep on Jim’s new cosmic horror collection “A Bright and Beautiful Eternal World.” We talk for about 45 minutes before I give a spoiler warning. James Chambers is one of the best short story writers I know so pick up the collection and get into the whole thing.

Hey folks – special audio-only episode. This is a live recording of the release party for my novel People’s Park. It was Recorded before 55 folks at the Monroe County History Center on April 5th 2024, part of solar eclipse weekend in Bloomington. Hosted by my Dickheads podcast Partner D. Harlan Wilson who interviews me about the book, we talk a little Philip K. Dick and I do a short reading from the novel People’s Park, which you can buy from Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble or Amazon.

I saved this recording so it could be episode 150, I consider 50 episodes to be a season, thus this is the Season 3 finale. Season 4 will kick off next week with James Chambers.

Buy People’s Park:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/people-s-park-david-agranoff/21037932?ean=9781957007946

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/peoples-park-david-agranoff/1144889136?ean=9781957007946

In this episode, I welcome a local author, co-chair, and founder of our Horror Writers Association chapter and I got to work closely with Kristina on the Stokercon we hosted here in San Diego. It was at Stokercon when a copy of this book ended up in my bag of books.

we talk about Kristina’s origins in writing, horror, and how she ended up a part of the flagship con in the genre. The main focus however is her exciting new collection Shrouded Horror: Tales of Uncanny.

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Hey folks at the recent international gathering of horror writers Stokercon, I was a part of a panel on eco-horror and Climate Change moderated by Carol Gyzander. I think this wide ranging conversation will be fun for my listeners. You know me so let's introduce the other writers.

Victoria Nations is a biologist with over 20 years working with Florida ecosystems and environmental regulations, and a horror writer whose weird stories often feature monsters and wild, liminal places."

Bram Stoker Award finalist Carol Gyzander writes and edits horror and science fiction—and is certified as one of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leader

Gillian King-Cargile is the author of several stories for adults and children. communications coordinator at Argonne National Laboratory, Gillian specializes in sharing information about supercomputing, environmental science, and bioscience.

Danger Slater is the Wonderland Award-winning writer of I Will Rot Without You, Moonfellows, He Digs a Hole, and other dark weird horror.

Chris Panatier has been a trial lawyer in environmental cases for two decades and is also the author of The Phlebotomist and several others from Angy Robot Books.

After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the fifth season of Star Trek Discovery. Returning for our 10th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek.

Joining me as always are my bridge crew vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, and Musician/ filmmaker Issa Diao.

In this episode, we will break down the ins and out of the final Star Trek Discovery Season. Sara with a bird on her dead, Issa doesn’t know who the Breen are, the future of Star Trek, the improvement of the writing in Discovery.

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Joining me on this episode of PFDW is author, writer and film director Izzy Lee who joined me on episode 121 to promote her Kickstarter campaign to film her first feature-length film House of Ashes. We talk about that film as it is now in post-production. This time Izzy is here is talk about her first novel I Can See Your Lies from Dark Hart Books, an imprint of Dark Matter Ink. Most of the conversation is spoiler-free, at the end I give warning.

Izzy Lee was named as one of A.V. Club's 10 female filmmakers to hire, Izzy Lee is a director on the rise. Her award-winning tales have screened at major international genre festivals such as Fantasia, Overlook, Morbido, FrightFest, Fantaspoa, Brooklyn Horror, Boston Sci-Fi, Boston Underground, Chattanooga, and more. She's directed nearly two dozen shorts. From 2022-2023, Lee earned five Certificates of Completion from a variety of Sundance Collab’s Directing and Producing courses. Additionally, Lee shadowed director Adam Egypt Mortimer on the SpectreVision feature Archenemy.

Her production company can be found here:

https://www.nihilnoctem.com/

Returning for his fourth appearance on the podcast Bird Box author Josh Malerman is back! This time we talk about Josh’s five-novella collection Spin a Black Yarn. To me, there is no more consistent voice in horror. An outside observer who doesn’t actually read his work and judges by the mainstream -meme culture of Bird Box might not have any idea just how creative, and experimental he is. I was a huge fan of Malerman’s last novella collection Goblin, which we talked about in a previous episode.

Like that episode, this one is a nuts-and-bolts discussion about the narrative construction behind these stories. We also have a little non-spoiler discussion about Josh’s forthcoming novel Incidents Around the House. This is a must-listen for Malermaniacs and anyone interested in writing weird or horror fiction. We mostly avoid spoilers but an hour in I give a full spoiler warning.

•You can find my books here:

Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW

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Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/