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LOTF 62: Alma Katsu on Writing Historical Horror Oct 29, 2020

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We are delighted to bring you this special conversation with author Alma Katsu about her most recent historical horror novel, The Deep (2020). One of Ms. Katsu's many specialties is writing novels that combine historical fiction with supernatural and horror elements. The Hunger (2018), a reimagining of the story of the Donner Party, was named one of NPR's 100 favorite horror stories, was on numerous Best Books of the Year lists, and continues to be honored as a new classic in horror. Her first book, The Taker (2011), was named one of the top ten debut novels of 2011 by Booklist.

In this episode, we talk to Alma about her childhood years as a voracious reader and her early writing life. She also shares stories about growing up in a spooky (maybe haunted?) old home and how that sparked her infatuation with darker tales. We loved hearing about her fascinating career in intelligence as well as why she decided to follow her writing passion. We learned so much in this conversation with Alma, and we think you will, too.

Find Alma: Website | Twitter

LOTF 61: Daniel Kraus on Posthumously Collaborating with George A. Romero Oct 22, 2020

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We are delighted to bring you this special conversation with Daniel Kraus. This is our second time bringing him onto the show, so if you'd like to get a peek into his early writing life, discover how writing without the intent to publish helped him cultivate joy in his craft, explore his trademark style of using gorgeous language to describe the grotesque, and learn about his collaborations with Guillermo del Toro, you can hear all that and more in LOTF 42 when you've finished this episode!

In this episode, we do something a bit more special. Daniel walks us through what it was like to collaborate posthumously with the late great George A. Romero to write The Living Dead. It is a breathtaking story, with many surprising twists and turns. Did Romero reach across time and space to help Daniel write this book? We don't have the answer to that, and neither does Daniel. Listen to the episode. Hear Daniel share his story.

You decide.

Find Daniel: Website | Twitter

Other books by Daniel Krauss that we love:

Rotters

The Shape of Water

Blood Sugar (EXCELLENT Halloween season reading!)

LOTF 60: Jessica Guess on 90s Horror, Cirque Berserk, & Pursuing Dreams Oct 14, 2020

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We are delighted to bring you this conversation with Jessica Guess, a writer and English teacher who hails from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She earned her Creative Writing MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2018 and is the founder of the website Black Girl's Guide to Horror where she examines horror movies in terms of quality and intersectionality. Her creative work has been featured in Luna Station Quarterly and Mused Bella Online Literary Review. Her debut novella, Cirque Berserk, is available for purchase on Amazon.

In this episode, we spoke with Jessica about her early writing life and experiences growing up with horror movies. She shares how horrible professor tried to crush her writing dreams and why it's important to her now to uplift her own college students. Jessica also talks about her meandering path to writing and how she tried so hard to pursue a "stable career"—hear her story about how she decided pursuing her dreams was more important. She talks about creating A Black Girl's Guide to Horror, intersectionality in horror, writing Cirque Berserk, and the importance of flipping (often racist) genre tropes.

Find Jessica: Website | Twitter

Check out A Black Girl's Guide to Horror: Twitter

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LOTF 59: Tropisode 6 | Camping with Sadie Hartmann aka "Mother Horror" Sep 28, 2020

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This episode of Ladies of the Fright is brought to you by Boneyard Soup Magazine. Boneyard Soup is a horror and dark fantasy magazine, specializing in the Weird, the Morbid, and the Macabre. It publishes original short stories and features terrifying artwork. Boneyard Soup's mission is to represent the horror genre's diversity by curating many kinds of ghoulish and horrifying stories and by supporting new and talented writers. Boneyard Soup is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund its first year of issues and to connect with new readers. Backers who pledge at least $12 will receive a year's subscription. This Kickstarter runs until September 23rd. Follow this link to support Boneyard Soup Magazine.

We want to remind you that we have a Patreon! We would like to give a special shoutout to our higher tier patrons SM Fedor, Eli Ryder, and Kerry Cox at the Satanic Panic level, and Kenesha, Nathan Blixt, and Nina Nahvi, Bjorn Svartalfson, Jocelyn Codner, and S. Velos at the Demon Possession level.

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For our sixth tropisode, we're talking CAMPING with Sadie Hartmann, aka "Mother Horror."

Sadie Hartmann aka Mother Horror reviews horror for Cemetery Dance and SCREAM Magazine. She is the co-owner of the horror fiction subscription company, Night Worms. She lives in Tacoma, WA with her husband of 20+ years, where they enjoy perfect weather, street tacos and hanging out with their 3 kids. They have a Frenchie named Owen.

When we gave Sadie a choice of tropisode topics, she was quick to hop on this one. We had a great time chatting with her about the camping trope in horror!

Camping Group Read

"The Troop" by Nick Cutter

Camping Book Recommendations

Kill Hill Carnage by Tim Meyer
Fat Camp by James Sabata
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
The Ritual and The Reddening by Adam Neville
The Ruins by Scott Smith
Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez
Kill River by Cameron Rubique

Camping Movie Recommendation

Find Sadie: Website | Twitter | Instagram

Find Nightworms: Website | Twitter | Instagram

LOTF 58: 2020 Summer Scares 3 | Ronald L. Smith and J. Scott Savage Aug 31, 2020

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We are so excited to return as the official podcast for 2020 Summer Scares! This episode is our third installment of a series covering the 2020 Summer Scares library summer reading program. The Horror Writers' Association has partnered with Book Riot and Library Journal to curate the Summer Scares reading list, which includes three books each in the Adult, YA, and Middle Grade categories. Last year we chatted with the liaisons from each category in LOTF 32, LOTF 34, and LOTF 36.

This year we decided to do something a little different! We are thrilled to bring you this round-table style conversation with each of the authors from the young adult category: Ronald L. Smith and J. Scott Savage.

The young adult picks for the 2020 Summer Scares program are:

Case Files 13: Zombie Kid by J. Scott Savage (HarperCollins, 2012)

Hoodoo by Ronald L. Smith (Clarion Books, 2015)

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Find Ronald: Twitter

Find J. Scott: Twitter

To discover more regarding the Summer Scares program, check out the Summer Scares information website.

LOTF 57: 2020 Summer Scares 2 | Zoraida Cordóva, Amy Lukavics, & Cherie Priest Aug 06, 2020

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We are so excited to return as the official podcast for 2020 Summer Scares! This episode is our second installment of a series covering the 2020 Summer Scares library summer reading program. The Horror Writers' Association has partnered with Book Riot and Library Journal to curate the Summer Scares reading list, which includes three books each in the Adult, YA, and Middle Grade categories. Last year we chatted with the liaisons from each category in LOTF 32, LOTF 34, and LOTF 36.

This year we decided to do something a little different! We are thrilled to bring you this round-table style conversation with each of the authors from the young adult category: Zoraida Cordóva, Amy Lukavics, and Cherie Priest.

The young adult picks for the 2020 Summer Scares program are:

Labyrinth Lost by Zoradia Cordóva (Sourcebooks Fire 2017)

Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics (Harlequinn Teen 2015)

The Agony House by Cherie Priest, illustrated by Tara O'Connor (Scholastic 2018)

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Find Zoraida: Twitter

Find Amy: Twitter

Find Cherie: Twitter

To discover more regarding the Summer Scares program, check out the Summer Scares information website.

LOTF 56: 2020 Summer Scares 1 with Nadia Bulkin, Victor LaValle, and Andy Davidson Jun 30, 2020

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We are so excited to return as the official podcast for 2020 Summer Scares! This episode is our first installment of a series covering the 2020 Summer Scares library summer reading program. The Horror Writers' Association has partnered with Book Riot and Library Journal to curate the Summer Scares reading list, which includes three books each in the Adult, YA, and Middle Grade categories. Last year we chatted with the liaisons from each category in LOTF 32, LOTF 34, and LOTF 36.

This year we decided to do something a little different! We are thrilled to bring you this round-table style conversation with each of the authors from the adult category: Nadia Bulkin, Victor LaValle, and Andy Davidson.

The adult picks for the 2020 Summer Scares program are:

In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson (Skyhorse, 2017) The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (Tor.Com, 2016) She Said Destroy: Stories by Nadia Bulkin (Word Horde, 2017)

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Find Nadia: Twitter

Find Victor:

Find Andy:

To discover more regarding the Summer Scares program, check out the Summer Scares information website.

LOTF 55: Michael David Wilson | Tell Me What You Like May 16, 2020

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We are delighted to bring you this conversation with Michael David Wilson. This is our second time bringing MDW onto the show, so if you'd like to get more of a peek into his early writing life (we're talking ALL the deets on "James and the Chocolate Tree"), his religious upbringing, and founding This Is Horror, then head back to LOTF 22 where we get into all that.

In this episode, we launch right into the present timeline with a discussion on technology in parenting, social media privacy breaches as the new home invasion, possessed children's toys and so much more. We were thrilled to have Michael back onto the show to celebrate his INCREDIBLE novella The Girl in the Video, out now from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing.

Find Michael: Find Michael: Website | Twitter

LOTF 54: Hailey Piper on the Dangers of Nostalgia Apr 24, 2020

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We are delighted to bring you this conversation with Hailey Piper. In this episode, we talk about everything from reading horror from a young age to the dangers of nostalgia. We loved getting up close & personal with this emerging horror author who's been blowing up the scene—in the best way possible.

Please note: we spoil her novella The Possession of Natalie Glasgow from 46:00 to 58:00.

Hailey Piper is the author of horror novellas The Possession of Natalie Glasgow and Benny Rose, the Cannibal King, and her short fiction appears in publications such as Daily Science Fiction, The Arcanist, The Bronzeville Bee, Tales to Terrify, PlanetScumm, Blood Bath Literary Zine, and many more. Her debut dark fantasy novel, The Verses of Aeg, will be published by Bronzeville Books in late 2020. Having grown up in the creepy woods of New York, she now lives with her wife in Maryland, where she haunts their apartment making spooky noises.

Find Hailey Piper: Website | Twitter

LOTF 53: Brian Keene on Doing the Work Mar 24, 2020

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We are so excited to bring to you our conversation with Brian Keene. As our listeners will be well aware, Brian writes novels, comic books, stories, journalism, and other words for money. He is the author of over fifty books, mostly in the horror, crime, and fantasy genres. His 2003 novel, The Rising, is credited (along with Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic and Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later film) with inspiring pop culture's recurrent interest in zombies. He has written for Marvel, DC, and several other media properties. In addition to several other impressive career accomplishments, Keene also hosts the popular podcasts The Horror Show with Brian Keene and Defenders Dialogue, both of which air weekly on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, YouTube, and elsewhere.

In this down-to-earth conversation with one of horror's greatest living legends, we discuss the persistence of imposter syndrome, the ever-changing horror landscape, and why it's important to write a bunch of terrible shit. There are plenty of laughs (and maybe a couple dirty jokes) and you're in for a real treat.

Find Brian: Website | Twitter

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