Host: R. B. Wood Mike Allen wears many creative hats, at least one of them tailor-made by his wife and partner-in-crime Anita. An author, editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy and horror, Mike has written, edited, or co-edited thirty-nine books, among them his sidearms, sorcery, and zombies sequence The Black Fire Concerto and The Ghoulmaker’s Aria , his forthcoming dark fantasy novel Trail of Shadows , and his newest horror collection, Slow Burn . Unseaming and Aftermath of an Indust...
Jan 04, 2025•9 min•Season 3Ep. 92
Host: R. B. Wood Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low speed limits. His preferred drinks are strong tea and single malt whiskey. Apart from Sudden Fictions, Karl's work has appeared in such places as Fireside Fiction, Metaphorosis, DreamForge, Little Blue Marble, Speculative North, an...
Dec 27, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 91
Host: R. B. Wood Bill Kirton was born in Plymouth, England a long time ago but has lived most of his life in Scotland. He has written stage and radio plays, songs and sketches for revues, flash fiction, short stories, novels, stories for children and books aimed at helping students to write effective academic essays and dissertations and get the most out of university and work. Dr. Kirton has been a university lecturer, actor, director, TV presenter, visiting professor and artist at the Universi...
Dec 20, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 90
Host: R. B. Wood Susan E. Rogers lives in sunny St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA transplanted from Massachusetts. Her move was the catalyst to focus on her life-long ambition to write. Her other interests include genealogy and psychic spirituality, often twisting these themes into her writing. She self-published her first book in 2018 about her own psychic experiences, published an occult thriller with an indie press in Sept. 2023, and self-published a second paranormal non-fiction book in 2024. A s...
Dec 14, 2024•10 min•Season 2Ep. 89
Host: R. B. Wood Scotty Sarafian is a Florida-born writer who grew up in Dublin, Ireland and Wilmington, Delaware. His work has been published by Coffin Bell , Pulp Modern Flash , Ghost Orchid Press ( A Very Ghostly Christmas ), Neon Hemlock ( Opulent Syntax: Irish Speculative Fiction ), Skywatcher Press ( The Depths Unleashed: Book 1 ), Black Hare Press, and Trembling with Fear . He was longlisted for Pulp Literature’s 2023 Raven Short Story Contest. He lives in Dublin with his mischievous pug....
Dec 06, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 88
Host: R. B. Wood Kristin Kirby is a Southwest writer and screenwriter whose short stories have appeared in the anthology Negative Space 2: A Return to Survival Horror, MYTHIC magazine, The Overcast podcast, the Sudden Fictions podcast, 365tomorrows, SERIAL magazine, and other publications. I’m also honored that my short story “Meat” was on the preliminary finalist ballot for the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards. My first collection of short stories will be published by Unnerving Books in January 2025....
Nov 27, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Host: R. B. Wood Lucretia Stanhope , a neurodiverse, relentlessly optimistic chronic illness warrior with less grace than determination, navigates her crone stage in a quaint Midwest town surrounded by cornfields. Amidst enduring medical trials that could rival horror stories, her pen never rests. When not lost in the wonderful lands of her imagination, she finds solace in doting on her three chihuahuas and her endlessly patient husband....
Nov 22, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Host: R. B. Wood Bill Kirton was born in Plymouth, England a long time ago but has lived most of his life in Scotland. He has written stage and radio plays, songs and sketches for revues, flash fiction, short stories, novels, stories for children and books aimed at helping students to write effective academic essays and dissertations and get the most out of university and work. Dr. Kirton has been a university lecturer, actor, director, TV presenter, visiting professor and artist at the Universi...
Nov 15, 2024•7 min•Season 2Ep. 85
Host: R. B. Wood Wicker Stone is an avid reader and writer of everything horror. He's been in several anthologies, magazines, and this Podcast. He's currently trying to find a home for his first novel. In the mean time, he's plugging away on two other novels and a short story collection. He lives in central Maine.
Nov 08, 2024•7 min•Season 2Ep. 84
Host: R. B. Wood EM Otero is a Puerto Rican author and lover of all things weird. When he isn’t writing, he is busy being a husband and father. While working outside or hiking, he loves to take pictures of plants, insects, and anything else he finds interesting or strange. He loves showing his daughter and wife the curious things in nature. His writing is inspired by our weird world, robot anime, horror stories, and science....
Nov 01, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Host: R. B. Wood Lori D'Angelo is a grant recipient from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a fellow at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, and an alumna of the Community of Writers. She holds an MA from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and an MFA from West Virginia University. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including BULL, Gargoyle, Drunken Boat, Moon City Review, and Rejection Letters. Her first book, a collection called The Monsters Are Here, is forthcoming from ELJ Editio...
Oct 25, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 82
Host: R. B. Wood Mia Dalia is an internationally published, CWA-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Her short stories of horror, noir, science fiction, mystery, crime, humor, and more have been featured in a variety of anthologies, magazines, literary journals, online, and adapted for narrative podcasts. Her stories have been voted top ten of Tales to Terrify 2023 and shortlisted for the CWA's Daggers Awards 2024. She is the author of the novels Estate Sale a...
Oct 18, 2024•9 min•Season 2Ep. 81
Host: R. B. Wood Susan E. Rogers , a writer of speculative fiction and non-fiction, lives in sunny St. Pete Beach, Florida, transplanted from Massachusetts. Her interests include genealogy and psychic spirituality, which often twist through her prose. She's published three books with a fourth due out in late 2024, and her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Links to her books and short stories are on her website: susanerogers.com...
Oct 11, 2024•9 min•Season 2Ep. 80
Host: R. B. Wood Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low speed limits. Karl has published over 50 works of short fiction (and the odd poem) in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Follow his occasional posts @karldandenell.bsky.social and read more about of his fiction at www.fi...
Oct 04, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Host: R. B. Wood Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She lives just outside Vancouver with a husband, two children, several noisy birds, a snake, and a very large black dog. Maria’s work Her short fiction has appeared in Best Horror of the Year Volume 13, Nightmare, Lightspeed, The Deadlands, Sunday Morning Transport, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and elsewhere. Her fiction can also be found in her short story collections WOLVES AND GIRLS and SIX DREAMS ABO...
Sep 27, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 78
Host: R. B. Wood Eric Marcellino (EM) Otero is a Puerto Rican writer of horror and science fiction who writes under the pen name EM Otero. He loves to mix genres, seeing horrifying monsters, next to giant robots and spaceships. When Eric isn’t writing, he is a blue collar worker and spends his days mowing lawns, plowing snow, and still finding time to be a father and husband....
Sep 20, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Host: R. B. Wood Cheryl Cantafio is a poetry and children's book writer from Norristown, Pennsylvania. When she's not writing, she works in information technology, co-hosts a podcast (You Only Go Once), reads gothic horror or thriller novels, or binge-watches movies and television series. Her book My Stay with the Sisters: Poems was her debut as an author and poet in May 2023. Her gothic poetic tale, A Place No Flowers Grow, will arrive on September 24, 2024. Barry and the Big Jump will be her d...
Sep 13, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 76
Host: R. B. Wood Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 2014 to 2021, author and playwright Patricia Gomes is published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Gomes is the author of four poetry chapbooks. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee (2008, 2018, and2021) as well as a 5-time Rhysling Science Fiction Award nominee. Recent publications include Poem Alone , Horror Writers Poetry Showcase X, Potter’s Field 8 , and the soon to be published anthology The Lycanthropicon....
Sep 12, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 75
Host: R. B. Wood L. Marie Wood is a Golden Stake Award and two-time Bookfest Award-winning, Ignyte Award and two-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated author. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, a Rhysling nominated poet, and accomplished essayist. Wood is the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association, founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English/Creative Writing professor, and a horror scholar. Learn more at www.lmariewood.com ....
Aug 30, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 74
Host: R. B. Wood A bookworm since childhood, Belinda Brady is passionate about stories and after years of procrastinating, has finally turned her hand to writing them, with a preference for supernatural and dark themes; her love of both often competing for her attention. She has had several stories published in a variety of publications, both online and in anthologies. Belinda lives in Australia with her family, one very grumpy cat and two super spoiled and super cute dachshunds. Belinda enjoys ...
Aug 23, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Host: R. B. Wood Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low speed limits. His preferred drinks are strong black tea with milk and single malt whiskey. Karl’s fiction and poetry have appeared in publications and podcasts in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. You can follow his occ...
Aug 16, 2024•6 min•Season 2Ep. 72
Host: R. B. Wood Lucretia Stanhope , a neurodiverse, relentlessly optimistic chronic illness warrior with less grace than determination, navigates her crone stage in a quaint Midwest town surrounded by cornfields. Amidst enduring medical trials that could rival horror stories, her pen never rests. When not lost in the wonderful lands of her imagination, she finds solace in doting on her three chihuahuas and her endlessly patient husband....
Aug 09, 2024•7 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Host: R. B. Wood Kristin Kirby is a Southwest writer and screenwriter whose short stories have appeared in the anthology Negative Space 2: A Return to Survival Horror, MYTHIC magazine, The Overcast podcast, the Sudden Fictions podcast, 365tomorrows, SERIAL magazine, and other publications. I’m also honored that my short story “Meat” was on the preliminary finalist ballot for the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards. My first collection of short stories will be published by Unnerving Books in January 2025....
Aug 02, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Host: R. B. Wood Journalism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Western, and Humor are five of Charles Barouch 's passions. His stories are in a cultural time capsule on the Moon. Read his work in anthologies published by Shebat Legion, Daniel Arthur Smith, Fantastic Books, Celestial Echo Press, Dusty Saddle, and others. Start with a novella like Tiago and the Masterless or perhaps the novel Adjacent Fields....
Jul 26, 2024•5 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Host: R. B. Wood Alex S. Johnson is a retired English professor, human rights activist, journalist, editor, author and publisher. He is the author of Weird, Bizarro, dark erotica, horror and unclassified dark satire tales and poems. His work has been praised by such luminaries as John Shirley, Ray Garton, Robert Devereaux and Ellyn Maybe. In a 2017 column, Brian Keene listed him in a short list of Bizarro authors including Garrett Cook: "Alex S. Johnson is Bizarro." His upcoming books include Th...
Jul 19, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Host: R. B. Wood Lucretia Stanhope , a neurodiverse, relentlessly optimistic chronic illness warrior with less grace than determination, navigates her crone stage in a quaint Midwest town surrounded by cornfields. Amidst enduring medical trials that could rival horror stories, her pen never rests. When not lost in the wonderful lands of her imagination, she finds solace in doting on her three chihuahuas and her endlessly patient husband, a fellow scribe who shares her love for storytelling, boun...
Jul 12, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 67
Host: R. B. Wood Gary Robbe is an educator and writer currently living in Colorado. He has had numerous stories published in e-zines, magazines, anthologies, and podcasts. His debut collection of short stories, Not Buried Deep Enough, was published in October 2023. Gary is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and a founding member of the Denver Horror Collective. He is also an associate editor with Bewildering Stories....
Jul 05, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 66
Host: R. B. Wood Nora B. Peevy is a cat trapped in a human’s body. Please send help or tuna. She toils away for JournalStone and Trepidatio Publishing as a submission reader, is a co-founder and editor for Alien Sun Press, a reviewer for Hellnotes, co-editor and art/writing contributor for Weird Fiction Quarterly, and has been published by Eighth Tower Press, The Wicked Library Podcast, Sudden Fictions Podcast and other places. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Concentration in Creati...
Jun 28, 2024•7 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Host: R. B. Wood Melissa Burkart currently lives in downeast Maine with her family and writes in the pauses of parenting two young kids. Her short stories have appeared in The Word Count podcast and the anthologies Fight Like a Girl and What Follows under M. J. King. You can occasionally find her at melissaburkart.com or Instagram @writinginterrupted....
Jun 21, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Host: R. B. Wood Michael Ehart has been at various times all the expected things: laborer, seminary student, musician, shoe salesman, political consultant, teacher, diaper truck driver, stand-up comedian, and the least important guy with an office at a movie studio. He made his first sale to a magazine at age 15, which means he has been writing for over 50 years, with the aforementioned occasional breaks for gainful employment. He lives in the upper left hand corner of the United States with his...
Jun 14, 2024•7 min•Season 2Ep. 28
