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Chesya Burke: Strange Crimes and Dangerous Women | The Outer Dark: Episode 8 — AUGUST 17, 2015

August 17, 2015 / / 1 Comment

 Strange-Case-or-Little-Africa-187x300Chesya Burke delves deeply into the stories from her first collection Let’s Play White and her new novel The Strange Crimes of Little Africa, forthcoming from Rothco Press this fall (a mystery set in the dynamic cultural milieu of Harlem Renaissance which features Zora Neale Hurston as a character), intersectional feminism in the African-American context with strong female protagonists and supernatural powers as a force of empowerment, growing up with ghost stories in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and reclaiming cultural traditions, open endings and returning characters, why she still loves zombies, reading and enjoying H.P. Lovecraft’s works but not flinching from the critical context of his racism, her doctorate studies in English, diversity and the future of speculative fiction, and her reading recommendations including Kiese Laymon and N.K. Jemisin.

This archival episode will be available again at This Is Horror soon. In the meantime, subscribe at iTunes  or Blubrry to make sure you don’t miss an episode.

NEXT WEEK’S GUEST:  Kate Jonez, author of Ceremony of Flies.

Damien Angelica Walters: Beneath the Skin of Redhead Fiction | The Outer Dark: Episode 7 — AUGUST 6, 2015

August 6, 2015 / / 0 Comments

singDamien Angelica Walters reveals secrets about assembling her first short story collection Sing Me Your Scars from stubborn resilience to the value of spreadsheets; motifs of scars, singing, knives, and sewing; crossing genres; body identity via Frankenstein’s monster; toxic masculinity, why she likes characters who give up, and how weakness can be strength; a robot Henry VIII; Lithuanian folklore and family; the art of titles; how character is at the center of her stories; Redhead Fiction; narrative styles and breaking rules; “her latest story “Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant’s Tale” (Apex Magazine) and what’s next, including her novelette, co-written by E. Catherine Tobler, in the upcoming Cassilda’s Song anthology edited by Joseph S. Pulver Sr. and a possible novel which might be titled Walls of Bones and Lies; why she is thrilled by so much great work by her “sister [writers] in the dark”; and her reading recommendations including Sunny Moraine, Kristi DeMeester and Priya Sharma.

This archival episode will be available again at This Is Horror soon. In the meantime, subscribe at iTunes  or Blubrry to make sure you don’t miss an episode.

NEXT WEEK’S GUEST:  Chesya Burke, author of Let’s Play White and The Strange Crimes of Little Africa (upcoming from Rothco Press)

Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Never Touch the Record | The Outer Dark: Episode 6 — JULY 28, 2015

July 28, 2015 / / 0 Comments

signaltonoiseSilvia Moreno-Garcia discusses her transition from short fiction to her novel Signal to Noise, the appeal of the short standalone novel, how growing up in Mexico City has influenced her writing and the importance of place, setting and neighborhood in developing her narrative, her next novel tentatively titled Young Blood, an urban fantasy about Mexican drug-dealing narco vampires (an expansion of her short story “Puddle of Blood”) which she characterizes as “the least romantic vampire romance” and a love letter to the Novela Negra, a form of crime noir in Spanish speaking countries, how spec-lit is different in Spanish-speaking countries and its social power as a literary mode to take on political issues (similar to Russian SF&F, Orwell, or Huxley), optimistic vs pessimistic/realist spec-lit and the disturbing futures of Mexico and Canada, why you should never touch the record that she’s playing, growing up in radio stations, the importance of the name Vincent, her master’s thesis on eugenics in H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction, Erskine Caldwell and The Dunwich Horror, C.L. Moore and her mastery of the weird tale, female protagonists, her other future projects including She Walks in Shadows, the first all-women Lovecraft anthology, and work as editor/publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, the importance of the spec-lit small press and why people should read more women writers including Livia Llewellyn. Angela Slatter, Molly Tanzer and Carmen Maria Machado, and what she’ll be up to as a guest of honor at NecronomiCon August 20-23, 2015 in Providence, RI.

This archival episode will be available again at This Is Horror soon. In the meantime, subscribe at iTunes  or Blubrry to make sure you don’t miss an episode.

Additional Links:

https://www.silviamoreno-garcia.com/blog/

https://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/

NEXT WEEK’S GUEST:  Damien Angelica Walters, author of Sing Me Your Scars

 

Nicole Cushing: Outdreaming the Nightmare | The Outer Dark: Episode 5 — JULY 21, 2015

July 21, 2015 / / 0 Comments

MrSuicide_Cover_small-259x400Author Nicole Cushing visits The Outer Dark to talk about her brand new debut novel Mr. Suicide (Word Horde Press) and her immanent (sic) short story collection The Mirrors (Cycatrix Press). Along the way we touch on the cosmological implications of her rare early works, the struggle between sadism and nihilism, anti-natalist just-so stories, the inevitability of oblivion and its manifestation in the Great Dark Mouth, why we all love Ross Lockhart, doing right by mentally ill characters, why her writing has a richness to its foulness, how the battle of Weird Horror is being won on the playing fields of Bizarro, and why you should read Garrett Cook, Cameron Pierce, Brian Evenson, and Glen Hirshberg.

This archival episode will be available again at This Is Horror soon. In the meantime, subscribe at iTunes  or Blubrry to make sure you don’t miss an episode.

Additional Links:

Mr. Suicide

The Mirrors

NEXT WEEK’S GUEST:  Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Signal to Noise

John Langan: Aspiring to Restlessness | The Outer Dark: Episode 4 — JULY 14, 2015

July 14, 2015 / / 0 Comments

wcskyThis week John Langan discusses Readercon, the creation of the Shirley Jackson Awards and that award’s intimate connection to the Weird Renaissance, his upcoming third collection Sefira and Other Betrayals and second novel The Fisherman, rewriting classic monsters for the 21st century–from vampires to Frankenstein to Godzilla, the importance of Jeffrey and Scott Thomas to The Weird, approaches to narrative and the tricks of his trade, literary models from Henry James to William Faulkner, why character is key to keeping the cosmic horror worldview interesting, the importance of reading widely, who to read, and why the current Weird Lit movement is more exciting than ever.

This archival episode will be available again at This Is Horror soon. In the meantime, subscribe at iTunes  or Blubrry to make sure you don’t miss an episode.

Additional Links:

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, Deluxe Special Edition

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

NEXT WEEK’S GUEST: Nicole Cushing, author of Mr. Suicide 

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