Staring Into the Abyss: A Podcast

This week: Scott talks about watching Color Out of Space at a micro-theater cafe and visiting the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences, and the gang offers up their thoughts on Alan Baxter's killer kangaroo novella, The Roo, Adam Cesare's Young Adult horror novel, Clown in a Cornfield, and the film Gretel and Hansel. Then, it's on to our spoiler-filled deep-dive into Adam Nevill's latest folk horror novel, The Reddening!

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Scott Kemper, Michael Patrick Hicks, and Matt Brandenburg discuss some recent horror releases, like Gary Bastianelli's Snowball, The Lantern Man by Jon Bassoff, and To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin. Then they dig deep into Livia Llewellyn's short story, "It Feels Better Biting Down," for this week's spoiler-filled discussion, where they ponder biting off fingers and whether or not your toes can spontaneously fall off. You can read "It Feels Better Biting Down" in Llewellyn's short story collection, Furnace.

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In this episode, host Scott Kemper, Michael Patrick Hicks, and Matt Brandenburg discuss HBO's The Outsider, the novella Riot Baby, by Tochi Onyebuchi, and the films Parasite and Tammy and the T-Rex. Then, they launch into a spoiler-filled study of Karl Edward Wagner's seminal short story, "Sticks."

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The boys discuss the films Ready or Not and Train to Busan, Samantha Kolesnik's True Crime, Matt Cardin's To Rouse Leviathan, S.L. Edwards's debut fiction collection, Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts, and Image Comics's Ice Cream Man. Then, they take a deep dive into Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Possibility of Evil," and discuss its relationship to Stephen King's novel, Needful Things.

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Hosts Scott Kemper, Matt Brandenburg, and author Michael Patrick Hicks discuss Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola's comic book series, Joe Golem: Occult Detective, and Scott R. Jones's latest release, Stonefish. They are joined this week by special guests Saturday Morning Scenarios publisher Matt Corley and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Sara Tantlinger (The Devil's Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes) to talk about their forthcoming table-top RPG, Horror in the Windy City, and its companion novella, The Devil's City, which is currently seeking funding via Kickstarter. Find out how Sadie Hartmann (aka Mother Horror) and the Night Worms are responsible for this game's existence, learn more about Sara's upcoming poetry book about The Black Death, and creating art in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, we have huge news on what's next for John F.D. Taff's The Fearing, as well as an exclusive on Matt's next big horror project!

Support The Devil's City and Horror in the Windy City on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/37222410/the-devils-city-for-5e

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This week, hosts Scott Kemper, Michael Patrick Hicks, and Matt Brandenburg review the 2020 edition of The Grudge, Mark Matthews's latest anthology of addiction horror, Lullabies for Suffering, Laird Barron's Black Mountain, the 2011 film Kill List, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Then, they have a spoiler-filled, heart touching discussion about John Langan's novella, Sefira, the betrayal of marital infidelity, and confronting a succubus.

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Bloodshot Books publisher and author Pete Kahle joins us to discuss the short story, "The Quiet Boy," by Nick Antosca, just in time for the release of its adaptation as the Guillermo del Toro-produced, Scott Cooper-directed horror film, Antlers, starring Keri Russell. We also discuss Antosca's other popular creation, the horror anthology television series, Channel Zero. Other topics include the Shudder-exclusive film, The Head Hunter, Netflix's V Wars, the comic book Something Is Killing The Children, Scott R. Jones' novel, Shout Kill Revel Repeat, and Easter Horror recommendations!

Read "The Quiet Boy" online at Guernica Magazine.

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Authors Matthew M. Bartlett and Jon Padgett join us in the abyss to discuss their collaboration on The Latham-Fielding Liaison, as well Jon's audiobook narration of Matthew's Gateways to Abomination, and their mutual appreciation of one another's works. We also discuss what we've been reading and watching, including the BBC's horror anthology series Inside Number 9, the film Ready or Not, HBO's Watchmen, the works of Thomas Ligotti and much, much more.

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Author, publisher, and podcaster Max Booth III joins us in the the abyss for a spoiler-filled discussion of his favorite Halloween novella, Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge. We also chat about the film Knives Out, DC Comics's zombie-superhero mashup, DCeased, Laird Barron's Black Mountain, Patrick Lacey's A Voice So Soft, and Max's upcoming book from Cemetery Dance, Touch the Night.

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Scott, Matt, and Michael discuss the final book in John F.D. Taff's serial novel, The Fearing! Other topics of discussion include alien birth defects, funky Goldeneye controls, Michael Wehunt's charitable chapbook from Nightscape Press, Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen Here, Joe Hill's comic book, A Basketful of Heads, and much much more.

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