Staring Into the Abyss: A Podcast

The big 1-0-0 for the Abyss! Celebrate 100 episodes with the crew as they dig deep into the archive to cover for the second time Gregory A. Douglas' The Nest. Get ready for some cockroach goodness as they discuss this Paperback from Hell. Plus they talk about Peacemaker, literary journal The Deadlands, Netflix series Stay Close, and Sloth by Joanne Askew. (Recorded Jan. 16, 2022)

The Abyss returns for 2022! Join us for our first new episode of the year as we talk about Dexter: New Blood, Eric Raglin's ANTIFA SPLATTERPUNK anthology, and the latest volume of Vasterian.

Then, we take a look back at our favorite books and films of 2021, including Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley, Zack Snyder's Justice League and The Suicide Squad, Psycho Goreman, The Last House on Needless Street, Razorblade Tears, The Book of Accidents, and Stephen Mack Jones' August Snow series.

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Author and YouTube personality Edward Lorn (writing as Ward Nerdlo) joins us in the Abyss alongside his The Wicked Rex of the West co-author, Daron Kappauff, for our last episode of 2021! In this spoiler-free episode, we discuss their approach to co-writing Wicked Rex, their future collaborations (as well as Lorn/Nerdlo's work with author T.C. Parker and their recently released Maiden), sensitivity readers, and Ernest Cline. Plus, we take a quick look at Amazon's Wheel of Time adaptation and the return of Tiger King. (Recorded Nov. 21, 2021)

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This week in the Abyss, we're talking about the Dash Cam movie confusion, The Bad Book anthology edited by John F.D. Taff, Almost Ruth by Tyler Jones, more thoughts on Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street and Marvel's Shang-Chi, and Sisters of Manchester by Selene Kapsaski and Jeff O'Brien.

Then, all hell breaks loose as we discuss Damascus Mincemeyer's historical horror story, "Ad Majorem Satanae Gloriam," from his collection, Where the Last Light Dies. (Recorded Nov. 14, 2021)

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Author and Nictitating Books publisher Sean M. Thompson joins us in the Abyss to discuss fast food, tie-in fiction, Twitter tagging etiquette, and Kathe Koja's short story, "Velocity," from her collection, Velocities.

We also talk about the animated dark fantasy film The Spine of Night, Bryan Asman's Man, F--- This House, B.R. Yeager's Negative Space, and Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. (Recorded Nov. 6, 2021)

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Author Mike Thorn returns to the Abyss for a wide-ranging discussion about depression, the perils of social media, and "Havoc," the opening story from his latest collection, Peel Back and See.

Before we sink into Mike's story, we talk a bit about Netflix's Squid Game, parenting tips, online petitions to alter art, Alastair Reynolds, Dune (2021), final thoughts on Hunter Shea's Faithless, You Season 3, Hostel, and more! (Recorded Oct. 24, 2021)

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This week in the Abyss, we're discussing the much-vaunted and supposedly classic 80s horror tome, The Ceremonies, by T.E.D. Klein.

We also review Shudder's Thai horror mockumentary, The Medium, Hunter Shea's Faithless, Edgar Allan Poe's "Diddling," The Secret Goatman Spookshow and Other Psychological Warfare Operations by Jonathan Raab, Midnight Mass spoilers, Netflix's House of Secrets, and Nicolas Cage's Willy's Wonderland. (Recorded Oct. 17, 2021)

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This week in the Abyss, we're discussing Greater Ventriloquist Jon Padgett's recently published short story, "Flight 389," from Nightmare Magazine Issue 109, and its larger connections to Padgett's work, particularly "20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism."

Before we get into all, though, we talk a bit about Catriona Ward's Last House on Needless Street, The Ghosts of Who You Were by Christopher Golden, Joseph Fink's middle grade horror book, The Halloween Moon, Dune, the Shudder Exclusive V/H/S/94, and the debut issue of the ComiXology Original We Have Demons by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. (Recorded Oct. 10, 2021)

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Read or listen to "Flight 389" online at Nightmare Magazine: https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/flight-389/

Author and podcaster Matt Wildasin returns to the Abyss for some trick-or-treating as we discuss Bentley Little's lost Nightmare on Elm Street novelette, "Miles To Go Before I Sleep," from the 1991 anthology, Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams.

Before we carve our way through Little's story, though, we talk about our week in horror with Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass and Squid Games, Dennis Etchison's The Dark Country, Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare, Hunter Shea's The Waiting, and bad horror movies! (Recorded Oct. 3, 2021)

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Nightmare Yearnings author Eric Raglin joins us to discuss Tananarive Due's classic plague story, "Patient Zero," which revolves around a little boy in hospital quarantine.

Before we get to that, though, we talk a bit about Malignant, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Donnie Goodman's short story collection, The Razorblades in My Head, Take the Corvus by Luke Kondor, Eric LaRocca's The Strange Things We Become and Other Dark Tales, and the British horror parody, Garth Morenghi's Darkplace. (Recorded Sept. 12, 2021)

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