The Know Fear Cast

In this episode we talk with up-and-coming author Andy Davidson about his upcoming novel In the Valley of the Sun.

Andy Davidson holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Mississippi. His work has appeared in Drunken Boat, Carve magazine, the Santa Clara Review, and other journals. He lives in Georgia with his wife.

ADVANCE PRAISE:

"In this bold, confident debut, Davidson takes the vampire myth to 1980s West Texas, perfectly capturing the feel of the era and place . . . Davidson successfully makes the lines between genre and literary fiction bleed together in a complex novel of horror, human nature, and the American South."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"In the Valley of the Sun is a flint-hard, gorgeously written nightmare." ―Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"Turns out there's a middle space between Tender Mercies and Preacher and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. It's called In the Valley of the Sun. And if I didn't know Andy Davidson had written it, I'd swear this was some long-lost William Gay. I burned through this. It's got teeth on every page." —Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

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In our latest Master of Horror episode, we discuss Ira Levin. While his name may not be as familiar as someone like Stephen King or Clive Barker, we're sure you've heard of some of his works like Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, or Death Trap.

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

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Now that the apocalypse is over, we turn to a discussion of someone we think is a master of horror: writer, director, and artist Clive Barker

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

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For our last episode on the apocalypse, we go out with a bang by interviewing author MF Wahl about the apocalypse and horror in general.

Reach out to M.F. Wahl via:

Website: http://mfwahl.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FansOfMFWahl/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealMonsterHaus

Here is a trailer for her book Disease

If you'd like to read the blog post she referenced you can find it here

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

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Get your HazMat suit ready, because in our third episode on the apocalypse, we talk about how the world might die because of germs and plagues.

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

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In our second episode on the apocalypse, we discuss the fears that the world would end in a nuclear war and what the world might be like afterwards. We also discuss how these nuclear and other Cold War fears influenced culture from the 1950s onward.

Books we discussed:

• John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes
• Pat Frank's Alas Babylon
• Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

If you're interested in watching The Day After you can find it here on YouTube

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

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In this first episode in our new series on the apocalypse, Matt and Mel give a historical overview of different kinds of end of the world myths. They also discuss the origins of modern apocalyptic fiction.

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

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In our last episode in the series on the occult, Matt and Lisa talk about modern day ghost hunting, from the inspirations for the Conjuring movies to the slew of reality tv shows.

How to Sell a Haunted House

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

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In this episode, Mel and Lisa discuss people who did psychic research, such as the Society for Psychical Research and the Duke Parapsychology Lab. They also talk about Psychic Detectives

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

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In our second episode devoted to the occult, we talk about the lore and history behind one of its most famous and enigmatic figures: Aleister Crowley. We also talk about some of the other secret occult societies influenced by him.

The Know Fear Cast is hosted by Mel, Lisa, and Matt.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @knowfearcast or visit us on the web at www.knowfearcast.com. You can contact us via email at [email protected]

If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/knowfearcast. As a thank you, our donors can get early access to episodes and exclusive mini episodes. Even a little bit makes a huge difference.

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