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This week author Jayaprakash Satyamurthy discusses his debut collection Weird Tales of a Bangalorean and the Bangalore Mythos he created from the mysterious city behind it, the unstable nature of our reality, his upcoming second collection A Volume of Sleep and how it differs from its predecessor, his work with animal welfare and the significance of animal consciousness (some cats and dogs contribute to the interview), the essential role of music in his writing, and several writers who deserve a wider reputation outside India.

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.

Stories Available Online:

Vyvyan’s Father (Lovecraft eZine, Dec. 2013)

The Ouroboros Apocrypha (Lovecraft eZine, April 2012)

Additional Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiyer_Masud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilas_Sarang

https://pratilipi.in/2011/11/bharath’s-toys-suresh-subramanian/

NEXT WEEK’S GUEST: S.P. Miskowski, author of Knock, Knock and the Skillute Cycle.

In The Outer Dark’s inaugural episode, Livia Llewellyn previews Furnace (0:01:00, 0:11:30), her second short story collection published by Word Horde in Feb. 2016, and revisits Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors (Lethe Press, 2011) (0:02:05). Discussion includes the dream roots of most of her stories (0:08:00), Shakespeare and the influence of her theater background/method-acting on her work (0:14:56), a female perspective on body horror and “monsterized” physicality (0:20:40), pushing boundaries and differences between writing horror and erotica (0:29:45), the possibility of her writing a literary erotic horror novel soon (0:34:50), her love/hate relationship with insects (0:42:15), her weird dark erotica short stories which she is making available monthly through her Patreon account (0:43:50), and her reading recommendation of author Peter Dubé (0:48:00).

This archival episode is available at This Is Horror here with brand-new additional material:

Special: The Making of Furnace

(0:50:15) Editor/publisher Ross E. Lockhart reveals his side of the story behind Furnace, including matching up cover artist Michael Garlington and book designer Scott R. Jones, as well other recent Word Horde books includingThe Lure of Devouring Light by Michael Griffin and some deep love to Lethe Press, Joe Pulver, and Dim Shores.