Welcome to the island of escapism! In this week's episode the Abyss gang travels to The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe. Before their trip they take a look at Men , debrief Stokercon 2022, get Lovesickness with Junji Ito, explore Love, Death & Robots , and check out Elfquest . Listen to The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories...
Excelsior!! The Abyss gang gets all Marvelous this week as they explore the Spector aslyum and discuss Disney+'s Moon Knight . Before talking Mooncopters they take a look at The Sadness , David Peak's The World Below , Spiderman No Way Home , Netflix's Circle and The Pentaverate , Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , Kathy Koja's Bad Brains , and Ronald Malfi's Come With Me . Enjoy True Belivers!
Oooeeee this is a good one! The Abyss gang tries to figure out what's going on in the world of Nick Antosca's Migrations with Sean M. Thompson. Before that we discuss Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Anaconda , Gertrude Barrow's The Citadel of Fear , Hailey Piper's Queen of Teeth , and Adam Nevill's Cunning Folk . Be ready for some fun! Pick up The Girlfriend Game by Nick Antosca...
Awww yeah, join the Abyss gang at our favorite rest stop as we discuss Orrin Grey's No Exit ! Before we dig into cults and bathroom ettitqute we dive into some Shudder and Netflix movies checking out The Cellar , Cursed Films , and Choose or Die . Then it's on to Eric LaRocca's We Can Never Leave This Place , The Domination trilogy from S.M. Stirling, Immortelle by Catherine McCarthy, Siphon by A.A. Medina, Thomas Ligotti's My Work Is Not Yet Done , and The Citadel of Fear by Gertrude Barrows. D...
Welcome to our little garden! Tiptoe through the tulips with the Abyss gang and special guest Elford Alley as they discuss Joe R Lansdale's Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back . Before that they check out Wesley Southard's Try Again and Cruel Summer , Manly Wade Wellman's The Old Gods Waken , Moon Knight, V Castro's Queen of Cicadas , and Glendon Swarthout's The Shootist . Read Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back...
Are you ready kids? The Abyss gang is all back and this week they have special guest Laurel Hightower to fly high with the Mothman and discuss her newest Below . Before that they check out Moon Knight , The Hills Have Eyes , Krakow Monsters , Drive My Car , Alan Baxter's The Fall , James Kestrel's Five Decembers , and Margaret Oliphant's A Beleaguered City: and Other Tales of the Seen and Unseen . Pick up Below here ....
Hey hey hey! Join most of the gang on this week's Abyss as they discuss Low Kill Shelter by Porpentine Charity Heartscape with Eve Harms. Before that they take a look at the great Starship Troopers , The God's Eye View by Barry Eisler, C.V. Hunt and Andersen Prunty's Meat Photo , The Legend of Vox Machina , and Raised By Wolves . Buy Low Kill Shelter...
Hey ya the gang is back! This week they are joined by S.H. Cooper to deep dive into the excellent anthology A Woman Built by Man . Before that they discuss the popular Elden Ring , check out Scream 2022, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022, Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant, Crossroad by Laurel Hightower, and Kijo: Japan's Most Notorious Female Criminals by Tara A. Devlin. A Woman Built by Man - Cemetery Gates Media...
Welcome back to the Abyss! This week we hang out in a bookstore to find thin places with Mary SanGiovanni's For Emmy . Before that we have a little weather talk, D&D talk, a spoiler free discussion on The Batman , Catriona Ward's Sundial , R.A. Salvatore's Legend of Drizzt , Aliens Vs. Predators Ultimate Prey , Netflix's Someone Inside Your House , and the Final Destination movies. Pick up For Emmy...
Ahoy-hoy Abyss listners! Join the gang as they learn the secrets of basket weaving and poetry when discussing Eden Royce's Sweetgrass Blood , which can be found in Nightmare Magazine. Before that, they dive into the Brian Keene universe with Terminal and The Seven , check out Steve Stred's Incarnate , The Night Trade by Barry Eisler, finish up Nightmare Alley from William Lindsay Gresham, and Impact Winter by Travis Beacham. https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/sweetgrass-blood/...
Oh dang the Abyss gang is checking out Red Hook and things are getting crazy! Join them as they discuss Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom . They also take a look at Six Four from Hideo Yokoyama, And in Her Smile, the World by Rebecca J. Allred and Gordon B. White, Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham, and Beverly Lee's The House of Little Bones .
Yo yo yo! This week the Abyss gang tackles P. Djèlí Clark's Ring Shout . They also take a detour to discuss Ozark , Nightmare Alley , and the Futurama revival. In between all of that they look at Adam Neville's Last Days , White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson, and The Final Girls Support Group by Grady Hendrix.
Is that title correct? Hell yes it is! Get ready to toss your mind into the gutter with the Abyss gang as they celebrate Valentine's Day early with Christine Morgan's Spermjackers From Hell . Things get sticky as they discuss extreme horror, what words you shouldn't say(looking at you moist), Netflix's Murderville , Ghostbusters: Afterlife , V.E. Schwab's A Darker Shade of Magic , and Laura Hightower's Below .
Yo, what up! Join the abyss as they take a bike ride into addiction with Tyler Jones' Criterium . They also explore Archive 81 , laugh at John Cena and Peacemaker , fall in love with Christi Nogle's Beulah , and question Hit-Monkey .
Yo! On this week's dive into the Abyss author Chad Lutzke joins us to discuss his Italian Cannibal explotation novel Cannibal Creator . We take a look at Netflix's Archive 81 , explore the woods in Steve Stred's Mastodon , talk about Michael Cisco's Member , check out Brian Keene's With Teeth , and go classic with Bram Stoker's Dracula .
The big 1-0-0 for the Abyss! Celebrate 100 episodes with the crew as they dig deep into the archive to cover for the second time Gregory A. Douglas' The Nest . Get ready for some cockroach goodness as they discuss this Paperback from Hell. Plus they talk about Peacemaker , literary journal The Deadlands , Netflix series Stay Close , and Sloth by Joanne Askew. (Recorded Jan. 16, 2022)
The Abyss returns for 2022! Join us for our first new episode of the year as we talk about Dexter: New Blood , Eric Raglin's ANTIFA SPLATTERPUNK anthology, and the latest volume of Vasterian . Then, we take a look back at our favorite books and films of 2021, including Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley , Zack Snyder's Justice League and The Suicide Squad , Psycho Goreman , The Last House on Needless Street , Razorblade Tears , The Book of Accidents , and Stephen Mack Jones' August Snow series...
Author and YouTube personality Edward Lorn (writing as Ward Nerdlo) joins us in the Abyss alongside his The Wicked Rex of the West co-author, Daron Kappauff, for our last episode of 2021! In this spoiler-free episode, we discuss their approach to co-writing Wicked Rex , their future collaborations (as well as Lorn/Nerdlo's work with author T.C. Parker and their recently released Maiden ), sensitivity readers, and Ernest Cline. Plus, we take a quick look at Amazon's Wheel of Time adaptation and t...
This week in the Abyss, we're talking about the Dash Cam movie confusion, The Bad Book anthology edited by John F.D. Taff, Almost Ruth by Tyler Jones, more thoughts on Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street and Marvel's Shang-Chi , and Sisters of Manchester by Selene Kapsaski and Jeff O'Brien. Then, all hell breaks loose as we discuss Damascus Mincemeyer's historical horror story, "Ad Majorem Satanae Gloriam," from his collection, Where the Last Light Dies . ( Recorded Nov. 14, 2021 )...
Author and Nictitating Books publisher Sean M. Thompson joins us in the Abyss to discuss fast food, tie-in fiction, Twitter tagging etiquette, and Kathe Koja's short story, "Velocity," from her collection, Velocities . We also talk about the animated dark fantasy film The Spine of Night , Bryan Asman's Man, F--- This House , B.R. Yeager's Negative Space , and Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. ( Recorded Nov. 6, 2021 ) Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring Follow Sean M. Tho...
Author Mike Thorn returns to the Abyss for a wide-ranging discussion about depression, the perils of social media, and "Havoc," the opening story from his latest collection, Peel Back and See . Before we sink into Mike's story, we talk a bit about Netflix's Squid Game , parenting tips, online petitions to alter art, Alastair Reynolds, Dune (2021), final thoughts on Hunter Shea's Faithless , You Season 3, Hostel , and more! (Recorded Oct. 24, 2021) Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intos...
This week in the Abyss, we're discussing the much-vaunted and supposedly classic 80s horror tome, The Ceremonies , by T.E.D. Klein. We also review Shudder's Thai horror mockumentary, The Medium , Hunter Shea's Faithless , Edgar Allan Poe's "Diddling," The Secret Goatman Spookshow and Other Psychological Warfare Operations by Jonathan Raab, Midnight Mass spoilers, Netflix's House of Secrets , and Nicolas Cage's Willy's Wonderland . ( Recorded Oct. 17, 2021 ) Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitt...
This week in the Abyss, we're discussing Greater Ventriloquist Jon Padgett's recently published short story, " Flight 389 ," from Nightmare Magazine Issue 109, and its larger connections to Padgett's work, particularly "20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism." Before we get into all, though, we talk a bit about Catriona Ward's Last House on Needless Street , The Ghosts of Who You Were by Christopher Golden, Joseph Fink's middle grade horror book, The Halloween Moon , Dune , the Shudder Exclusive V/H/S...
Author and podcaster Matt Wildasin returns to the Abyss for some trick-or-treating as we discuss Bentley Little's lost Nightmare on Elm Street novelette, "Miles To Go Before I Sleep," from the 1991 anthology, Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams . Before we carve our way through Little's story, though, we talk about our week in horror with Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass and Squid Games , Dennis Etchison's The Dark Country , Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare, Hunter S...
Nightmare Yearnings author Eric Raglin joins us to discuss Tananarive Due's classic plague story, "Patient Zero," which revolves around a little boy in hospital quarantine. Before we get to that, though, we talk a bit about Malignant , Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , Donnie Goodman's short story collection, The Razorblades in My Head , Take the Corvus by Luke Kondor, Eric LaRocca's The Strange Things We Become and Other Dark Tales , and the British horror parody, Garth Morenghi's Dar...
Beau Johnson, author of the Bishop Rider series, joins us in the Abyss to discuss Stephen King's short story, "The Raft," from the collection Skeleton Crew . Along the way, we also talk about Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney's True Faith and Allegiance , T.E.D. Klein's The Ceremonies , reading multiple books at once, and the joys of baling machines and wood chippers. ( Recorded Sept. 5, 2021 ) Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring Follow Beau Johnson on Twitter: @beaujohnson44...
This week in the Abyss, we offer some quick thoughts on Joe R. Lansdale's Moon Lake , Ali Seay's To Offer Her Pleasure , Gordon B. White's short story collection, As Summer's Mask Slips and Other Disruptions , Matthew M. Bartlett's Music of the Moldering/If It Bleeds , bad hygeine, reading fatigue, and Star Trek . Then, it's on to our full-spoilers discussion of our story of the week, "Birds of Passage," by Gordon B. White, and the perils of camping! ( Recorded Aug. 29, 2021 ) Follow Staring Int...
Jon Padgett, author and Editor-in-Chief of Grimscribe Press, joins us for a trip to Ohio to discuss Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz's unproduced 1998 "Crampton" screenplay for The X-Files . We also talk about Ali Seay's newest release, To Offer Her Pleasure , The Wheel of Time, additional thoughts on Beau Johnson's A Better Kind of Hate and S.H. Cooper's The Corpse Garden , Iseult Murphy's Zoo of the Dead and Other Horrific Tales , A24's The Green Knight , and Netflix's Brand New Cherry Flavor ...
This week in the Abyss, we take a trek through time, deep in the woods, as we explore Sean M. Thompson's novelette, Astrum , science class dissections, and trigger warnings. Up first, though, is our week in horror, featuring reviews of Netflix's Brand New Cherry Flavor , Beau Johnson's A Better Kind of Hate , The Corpse Garden by S.H. Cooper, and additional thoughts on James Gunn's The Suicide Squad and Suburban Gothic by Brian Keene and Bryan Smith. ( Recorded Aug. 15, 2021 ) Follow Staring Int...
Today in the Abyss, we're gathering around the dinner table for a spoiler-filled discussion of Hailey Piper's cosmic horror short story, "Recitation of the First Feeding," from her collection, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy . We also talk about James Gunn's The Suicide Squad , Stephen King's Billy Summers , Star Wars: Light of the Jedi , Clarkson's Farm , Ed Piskor's Red Room from Fantagraphics, and Suburban Gothic by Brian Keene and Bryan Smith. ( Recorded Aug. 8, 2021 ). Follow Staring Int...
