Talking Scared
Neil McRobert
Conversations with the biggest names in horror fiction. A podcast for horror readers who want to know where their favourite stories came from . . . and what frightens the people who wrote them.
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Sep 1, 2020 • 59min
01 - Paul Tremblay and Why It's Not the End of the World
Send us a textIn the first ever episode of Talking Scared we speak to horror megastar Paul Tremblay, author of the modern classic, A Head Full of Ghosts and this year's virus-shocker Survivor Song. There are musings on pandemics real and imaginary, the terror of sharks, and the terrible truth at the heart of horror fiction.Books mentioned in our conversation include:
The Stand – Stephen King
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus – Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy
Things We Lost in the Fire – Mariana Enriquez
2666 – Roberto Bolano
“The Colonel’s Son” – in The Secret of Evil by Robert Bolano
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