The Outer Dark
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Author 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.
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NEXT WEEK’S GUEST: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Signal to Noise
This 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
Join author S.P. Miskowski for a discussion covering her enigmatic first collection Red Poppies; the transition from playwriting to writing fiction; the challenges of engaging the reader with characters who are unlikable, unreliable, unraveling, and/or descending into madness; the little lies that make a story true; the Southern Gothic tradition in the Pacific Northwest; the evolution of Knock, Knock into the Skillute Cycle ; keeping a story interesting while keeping it claustrophobic; good mothers, destructive mothers, and the dark secrets of motherhood; her love for the small press; her forthcoming projects; and her picks for writers you should read next.
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://dunhamsmanor.com/2016-hardcover-series/
https://www.amazon.com/S.P.-Miskowski/e/B002GG88ZA/
NEXT WEEK’S GUEST: John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
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.
Additional Links
Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1
Lila Garrott’s review of Engines of Desire in Strange Horizons
An interview with Peter Dubé in the Montreal Gazette
Show credits
Host/Executive Producer: Scott Nicolay
Co-Host, News From the Weird: Justin Steele
Associate Producer/Show Notes: Anya Martin
Logo Design: Nick “The Hat” Gucker
Music: Michael Griffin
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