Staring Into the Abyss: A Podcast

We get that Friday night feeling as cosmic horror author and podcaster Mary SanGiovanni joins us in the Abyss to discuss "Crouch End," from Stephen King's short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

Before that, though, we talk a bit about David Peak's newest collection, Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories, Jonathan Maberry's latest Joe Ledger novel, Relentless, Somer Canon and Wesley Southard's Slaves to Gravity, and Tim Waggoner's Writing in the Dark Online Symposium. (Recorded March 28, 2021)

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Anoka author Shane Hawk joins us to discuss Stephen Graham Jones's Mapping the Interior. Before we get to that spoiler-filled discussion, we also talk about The SnyderCut of Justice League, the horror comedy flick Koko-Di Koko-Da, James Harren's kaiju comic Ultramega, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's debut episode! (Recorded March 21, 2021)

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This week, author Cynthia Pelayo (Children of Chicago) joins us as we revisit the Joyce Carol Oates's 1966 short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have Been," and its connection to the Pied Piper of Tuscon serial killer and Pelayo's collection of true crime poetry, Into the Forest and All the Way Through.

Our Week in Horror discussion includes James Tynion IV's comic book series The Department of Truth, Todd Keisling's A Life Transparent, Apple TV's exclusive series Servant, and the films, Saint Maud, The Vigil, and The Empty Man. (Recorded March 14, 2021)

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Author Patrick Barb, whose short story, "I Will Not Read Your Haunted Script," recently placed second in Divination Hollow Reviews Horror in Hollywood contest, joins us to discuss John Langan's story, "The Communion of Saints," from the recently released collection, Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies.

Our Week in Horror segments includes discussions of Gina Ranalli's All Men Are Trash, One Tough Bastard by Adam Howe, Brian Asman's Jailbroke, and the finale of Disney+ Marvel Studios series, WandaVision. (Recorded March 7, 2021)

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Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide as depicted in the film The Dark and the Wicked and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space.

This week, we're talking about depression, drug abuse, suicide, and poo sticks as we take a deep dive into our Story of the Week with B.R. Yeager's cosmic horror novel, Negative Space!

First, though, we explore our Week in Horror with the Shudder premiere of The Dark and the Wicked, Alex White's Alien: Into Charybdis, Pimp My Airship by Maurice Broaddus, Shūzō Oshimi's manga series Blood on the Tracks, and the penultimate episode of WandaVision. (Recorded Feb. 28, 2021)

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Comic book writer John Lees (Sink, Mountainhead, Hotell) joins us in the Abyss to discuss Emily Carroll's graphic novel of short stories, Through the Woods.

Our Week in Horror round-up includes reviews of Stephen King's Later, A24's latest horror flim, Saint Maud, Llamagedon, The Stand remake, Naoki Urasawa's manga series, Pluto, and episode seven of WandaVision! (Recorded Feb. 21, 2021)

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This week, we chat about the horror film Fingers, Cassandra Khaw's forthcoming release, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Marvel's WandaVision, Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago, and find out what Matt blames The Ghost Writers Podcast for.

Then, it's on to our spoiler-filled discussion of the week as we explore Zin E. Rocklyn's Tor.com Original story, The Night Sun!

(Recorded Feb. 14, 2021)

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This week, we're talking about Bloody Hell, Gwendolyn Kiste's Boneset & Feathers, the indie RPG video game Oromi, and John Carpenter's latest album, Lost Themes III. Then, we travel to Santa Fe to investigate a case of Killer Flies for our in-depth, spoiler-filled discussion of Mark Kendall's 1983 horror novel, recently reissued by Encyclopocalypse Publications! (Recorded Feb. 7, 2021)

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Hunky boys Richard Gerlach and Matt Brandenburg discuss the recently released horror flick, PG: Psycho Goreman, while Michael Patrick Hicks delivers his review of Rio Youers's crime caper novel, Lola on Fire. They also talk about Encyclopocalypse Publications, Shudder's The Queen of Black Magic, and the fourth episode of WandaVision. Then, they step out of the Abyss to venture into Thomas Ligotti's vermin-ridden "The Bungalow House" for this week's spoiler-filled story of the week and the possible inspirations and influences Ligotti's dark horrors have had on... Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse? (Recorded January 31, 2021)

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Author Mike Thorn (Shelter for the Damned) joins us for a spoiler-filled discussion of the 1843 short story, "The Black Cat," by Edgar Allan Poe. Before that, though, we each discuss our Week In Horror with brief reviews of John Lees's latest comic series Hotell, Sci-Fi & Scary's body horror anthology Twisted Anatomy, Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White, Joanna Koch's The Wingspan of Severed Hands, John Farris's The Axeman Cometh, and Alessandro Manzetti's collection of horror poems inspired by Jack the Ripper, Whitechapel Rhapsody. (Recorded Jan. 24, 2021)

The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

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