Talking Scared 97 – A Monstrous Roundtable, with Ellen Datlow, Nathan Ballingrud, Chikodili Emelumadu & Joe R. Lansdale
This week on Talking Scared it’s monsters all day, every day.
To celebrate the release of Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, we gather around the campfire with editor Ellen Datlow and three of her contributors – no less than Nathan Ballingrud, Chikodili Emelumadu and the great Joe R. Lansdale.
As a result, this is not your average Talking Scared episode. There is interruption, overlap, argument much good humour.
Amidst the chaos we still manage a fascinating conversation about the creatures that lurk in the wilds and those who walk amongst us. We talk about what makes a monster, why we love them, and where they fit in our modern hyperconnected world.
(and they have the audacity to tell me that Bigfoot isn’t real!)
Enjoy!
Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous was published on June 7th by Tor Nightfire
Other books discussed in this episode include:
- The Wilds (2014), by Julia Elliot
- Ormeshadow (2019), by Priya Sharma
- Sundial (2022), by Catriona Ward
- Road of Bones (2022), by Christopher Golden
- And Then I Woke Up (2022), by Malcolm Devlin (episode 87)
- The Last Storm (2022), by Tim Lebbon
- Eden (2020), by Tim Lebbon
- Anybody Home (2022), by Michael Siedlinger
- Cunning Women: A Feminist Tale of Forbidden Love After the Witch Trials (2021), by Elizabeth Lee
- Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway (2022), by Timothy Christian
- The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five (2021), by Tom Rosten
- African Monsters: Volume 2 (2015), edited by Margret Hellgadotir and Jo Thomas.
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