This week in the Storytellers Club we are talking with Philip Fracassi! He’s the author of the novels Don’t Let Them Get You Down, A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, and Boys in the Valley. We are discussing two of his stories from his collection No One Is Safe! (amazing cover art by Jim & Ruth Keegan).

Sign up to his newsletter to stay up to date on his latest news, and be sure to check out his upcoming releases Serafina (available November 2024) and The Third Rule of Time Travel (available March 2025).

If there’s an author you’d like to hear from, or if you’re an author who would like to chat about your work, drop me an email at [email protected]

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Back again with another amazing storyteller, this week it’s Nebula and Locus award winning author, John Wiswell!

Today we discussed two of his stories: Five Answers to Questions You Probably Have (via Uncanny Magazine) and I’ll Miss Myself (via ReacTOR). We also touch on a third story I highly recommend called Open House on Haunted Hill (via Diabolical Plots) — I can’t sing enough praises for this heartwarming story about a haunted house in search of a family to love.

Be sure to check out John’s debut novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, which is available now.

For more information on John’s latest work and releases, you can visit his website, Substack and/or follow him on the socials: Instagram, X, Goodreads)

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Episode 4 is here!

This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Natalia Theodoridou, an award winning author with an impressive collection of short stories that I’ve enjoyed digging into after finding their story The Jukebox Man in Apex Magazine.

Visit Natalia’s website for a complete list of their publications including their interactive fiction and video games, and be sure to check out their debut novel Sour Cherry when it releases in April of 2025 and is available for pre-order now!

If there’s an author you’d like to hear from, or if you’re an author who’d like to chat, drop me an email at [email protected]!

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Episode 3! Who knew we’d make it this far?

Today’s guest in the Storytellers Club is Travis Brown. Travis, who goes by the handle Grand_Theft_Motto on Reddit’s NoSleep, has built up an impressive following on the NoSleep subreddit, creating some of the site’s most read and most loved stories.

The story we discuss today is his award winning short, Something walks whistling past my house every night at 3:03, which was voted Scariest Story of the Year & Most Immersive Story of the Year in 2019 by members of the NoSleep community.

The story is featured in Travis’s collection House with 100 Doors from Velox Books, and will appear in the first season of Tales from the Void, a horror anthology releasing this October on Screambox. The episode, entitled Whistle in the Woods, drops on Sunday October 27th, just in time for Halloween!

You can follow Travis on Reddit to stay up to date on his latest work.

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Episode 2!

My guest this week in The Storytellers Club is Gemma Amor, a Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award nominated author. We talk today about two of her stories: Zoo, which appears in Volume Fifteen of The Best Horror of the Year, and Eggshell, which appears in the Human Monsters Anthology from Dark Matters Press.

Her latest short story collection All Who Wander Are Lost is available now, and the paperback reissue of her book The Folly releases this November and is available for pre-order now.

For more information on Gemma’s work and latest releases, you can visit her website gemmaamorauthor.com or follow her on Instagram and the website formerly known as Twitter.

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Welcome to the first episode!

Today we are talking with horror author Ian Rogers about his work, his influences, and his teenage years hunting down UFOs. We will also be discussing two of his short stories: The House on Ashley Avenue (available in his short story collection Every House is Haunted) and You Have What I Need (available in the anthology Screams From The Dark).

For more information on Ian’s work including his upcoming releases, visit his website or his Substack. His debut novel Family is available for pre-order now, and his novel Sycamore, the first novel in his Blacklands series will be available this fall from Cemetery Dance.

If there’s an author you’d like to hear from, or if you’re an author who’d like to chat, drop me an email at [email protected]!

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Welcome to The Storytellers Club! A weekly podcast where we chat with the creators of some of your favorite (or soon to be favorite) stories and discuss their approach to storytelling while digging into a few examples of their work.

New episodes drop every Tuesday. See you then!

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