Staring Into the Abyss: A Podcast

It's our sex and politics episode as author Kev Harrison (The Balance) joins us to discuss Nadia Bulkin's short story contribution to the Dim Shores Looming Low anthology with "Live Through This."

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This week, hosts Scott Kemper, author Michael Patrick Hicks, and Matt Brandenburg are joined by Kyle Rader, author of My BFF Satan, to discuss the work of Junji Ito, Ito's short story "Smashed," and …

In this special episode of Staring Into The Abyss, publisher Jason Sizemore and managing editor Lesley Conner join us to discuss the return of Apex Magazine and the Kickstarter campaign to fund it. W…

This week, we're diving deep into Brian Keene's Labyrinth mythos with Earthworm Gods! We also discuss haunted Hebrew schools, the Korean horror film The Wailing, Jonathan Janz's forthcoming release T…

Gwendolyn Kiste, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel  The Rust Maidens, joins us to discuss, in-depth, the Shirley Jackson short story, "Louisa, Please Come." We also talk about the documen…

Recorded in March at the start of self-isolation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, author Teri Clarke - AKA Zin E. Rocklyn - joins us to discuss being in quarantine, toilet paper shortages, and t…

Todd Keisling joins us in the abyss to discuss H.F. Arnold's classic strange fiction story, "The Night Wire." We also discuss Glenn Danzig's movie, Verotika, Jon Bassoff's latest novel, The Lantern M…

Author Red Lagoe joins us this week to discuss Sara Tantlinger's Stoker-nominated novella, To Be Devoured, while Scott rants about Amazon's original series, Hunters. We also talk about the new The In…

Author Chad Lutzke joins us this week to discuss Jack Ketchum's short story, "The Visitor," and uncover the mysteries of Scott's crackling microphone, and why Matt is a bad horror fiction fan! Plus, …

Special Guest Cullen Bunn joins us to discuss his work on Valiant Comics' forthcoming relaunch of Shadowman, which two classic horror movies have most shaped his approach to the horror genre, and Kar…

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 nov…

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.…

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. …

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…

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, …

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 …

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-produce…

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,…

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 fi…

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 chari…