Talking Scared 246 – Wendy Wagner & Scooby Doo On Mushrooms
Back on the trails for a mind-melting trip this week.
Wendy Wagner is in the hot-seat, playing shaman as we discuss The Girl in the Creek – her brand new novel of fungoid-terror, eco-thrills and psychedelic strangeness. It’s a beautiful, bewildering hallucination of a book.
Wendy’s inspirationsrange from cutting edge science to the antics of Scooby Doo and the gang, along with a sprinkle of Lovecraft, and a hint of self-hypnosis. We cover it all, along with a discussion of eco-grief, higher states of consciousness, weird non-fiction obsessions and a little bit of trail running chat – which I promise we make macabre.
Enjoy!
Other books mentioned:
- “An Infestation of Blue” (2023), by Wendy Wagner
- The Deer Kings (2021), by Wendy Wagner
- Entangled Lives (2023), by Merlin Sheldrake
- Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? (2016), by Frans de Waal
- The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens – and Ourselves (2020), by Arik Kershenbaum
- “The Colour Out of Space,” (1927), by H.P. Lovecraft
- Lost in the Dark, and Other Excursions (2025), by John Langan
- The October Film Haunt (2025), by Michael Wehunt
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