Dark Natter

In this week's episode, Liam and Jon plumb previously un-sunk-to depths of depravity as they accompany Preacher on his quest to confront God himself!!  Avoid if you're easily offended, as Jesse Custe…

In this episode, Jon discusses the wealth of brilliant children's dark fiction that's lurking out there (both nostalgic favourites and some more contemporary stuff) with special guest and extremely t…

Jon and Liam's love of the Dark Souls games has led them to explore some of the franchise's biggest influences... thus they embarked down the blood-smeared, corpse-strewn path towards Berserk.  Havin…

In this episode, Jon welcomes the immensely talented, genre-hopping, award-winning writer Isobel Blackthorn to talk about her own dark fiction, as well as her love of the celebrated and sadly-missed …

Jon and Liam rekindle their love affair with From Software's 'Souls' games, this time celebrating Bluepoint's inspired remake of the game that started it all, Demon's Souls.  Join the lads for a ligh…

In our first show of 2021, Jon is joined by awesome and intimidatingly cool cyberpunk author Anna Mocikat to discuss the anime masterpiece Ghost In The Shell, as well as its sequel (but not so much t…

Liam's back for this year's festive, err, festivities, joining Jon for a special episode about one of our favourite Christmas movies: Gremlins!!  Tune in to hear us discuss this comedy horror classic…

With Liam's stint in vampire rehab showing no sign of ending, Jon has roped in another guest for this show!  Dark Natter is honoured to welcome returning visitor Ryan Hamann for another in-depth diss…

Liam's taking a well-earned break to recover from his addiction to human blood, so in this episode Jon is joined by unreasonably talented fellow dark fiction writer Jacob Steven Mohr to talk about Jo…

A year on from the show's 2019 Halloween extravaganza, where Jon and Liam sat through all eleven movies featuring the hulking, invincible slasher Michael Myers, they thought this time they'd go one b…

The Hall Of Pain has lain (lay?  Lied?  Layeth?)  dormant for months... its denizens have been quietly plotting their escape and subsequent world domination while Jon and Liam have been in hibernatio…

After a foray into Silent Hill in the podcast's early days, Jon and Liam return to the town with a renewed thirst to unearth its secrets... and a less knackered microphone.

Trying this new fangled Fan…

In this season finale extravaganza, Jon and Liam return to the world of classic horror literature to examine the works (and controversy) of H.P. Lovecraft.

Trying this new fangled Fan Mail feature: us…

Bonus upload!  Jon's got another book out (he promises it's the last one for a while) so here's an audio extract, featuring the voice talents of Briohny Williams.  Give it a listen and then grab yers…

Jon and Liam enter the town of Twin Peaks to try to figure out who killed Laura Palmer... oh no, wait, they already did that; we're visiting to see if it deserves a place in the Hall Of Pain!  And be…

Liam and Jon journey to Royston Vasey to establish whether this sinister British sitcom is worthy of a place in the Hall Of Pain... but did they survive the cannibals, gun-toting lunatics, evil child…

Jon and Liam venture to a submerged city in the depths of the darkest ocean... but is the famed Bioshock series worthy of a place in the Hall Of Pain, or is it looking a little rusty?

Trying this new …

In today's episode Liam and Jon are subjecting the soulless husks they call bodies to the Voigt-Kampff test - find out which one is a replicant as they talk cyberpunk and dissect the Blade Runner mov…

Join Liam and Jon as they examine this deeply disturbing 'children's' movie from the 80s, and find out how a talking chicken and the severed head of a moose helped Dorothy to survive a slightly less …

A bonus upload this week!  Jon's new cyberpunk thriller, London 2039: Auxiliary, is released on 1st May 2020, so here's a short extract from the novel read by the sinister storysmith himself... is th…