Best Monica Hernandez Podcasts (2024)

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193 – L.P. Hernandez & Kudos On the Cruelty 1:08:23

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Send us a Text Message. A charming man approaches. With dark secrets to tell you. Yeah, that L.P. Hernandez. Author of the novella In the Valley of the Headless Men and the forthcoming collection, No Gods, Only Chaos. Both are great; both are entirely different. One of them will expand your horizons. One of them will shrink you in horror. I’ll let …

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192 – Robert Ottone & Raising Kids in Langan Country 1:14:28

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Send us a Text Message. Opinions are like assholes, they say. Everybody has one. The subtext of that, is that you shouldn’t show them to people. Well my guest and I don’t hold back on ours this week. Robert Ottone joins me for a conversation about his debut novel for adults, The Vile Thing We Created, which is almost exactly one year old. I loved i…

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Billy Kay chats to Pat Byrne about his new book ’Born in Kyle' a loveletter tae a Ayrshire childhood 50:42

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Welcome to Jim & Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 102. Today, Pat chats with Billy Kay – writer, broadcaster, multi-award-winning producer and promoter of the Scots language. Billy has a new book called 'Born in Kyle: A Love Letter to an Ayrshire Childhood.' I recommend it wholeheartedly; we attended a recent event at Glasgow University where …

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191 – Chris Panatier & The Goo of Human Nature 1:22:27

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Send us a Text Message. Ah the madhouse. The loony bin. The ASYLUM!! A classic horror location. One of my favourites, but problematic as hell in the wrong hands. Thankfully, I have the right author for the topic. Christ Panatier has the talent and the sensitivity to ensure that his novel, The Redemption of Morgan Bright can engage with the tropes w…

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190 – Kaaron Warren & The Un-Cosy House 1:13:46

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Send us a Text Message. We all love a good spooky house. And most of us enjoy a terrifying home-invasion ordeal (or at least, I know I do). What happens when you put them together? Kaaron Warren’s The Underhistory is the answer, but it’s nothing at all like what you’d expect. This new novel by the award-winning Australian writer is a story of memor…

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From Inclusion to AI in Business: A Conversation with Americas EY Private leader Lee Henderson 34:18

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Embracing cultural differences can help you succeed internationally, and you can also turn obstacles into opportunities to allow experiences to shape your path. But how can you do it? This episode explores the career journey of Lee Henderson, Americas EY Private Leader who has championed diversity and inclusion throughout his career. Lee shares les…

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189 – The Black Girl Survives in This One, with Saraciea J. Fennell, Desiree S. Evans, Monica Brashears & Eden Royce 1:17:05

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Send us a Text Message. I bite off a lot this week, in a five-way conversation with editors and contributors to the ever-so-of-the-moment anthology The Black Girl Survives in This One. That’s a promise right there on the title page, but as you will find out, survival is not always the same thing as living happily ever after. Saraciea J. Fennell, De…

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188 – Scarlett Thomas & Hot Gothic 1:18:02

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Send us a Text Message. I’m in literary hero territory again … at least this time it’s sunny! My guest is Scarlett Thomas, the groundbreaking writer of PopCo, Oligarchy, The Seed Collectors and the (post)modern speculative classic, The End of Mr Y. She’s one of my favourite writers, who has never seen five or six separate genres she can’t mash toge…

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187 – The Carrie 50th Anniversary Deep Dive, with Nat Cassidy & Ally Malinenko 1:46:52

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Send us a Text Message. Carrie White turns 50 years old today! April 5th, 1974 – the day King’s debut came out, and the world of horror we know live in changed forever. To celebrate such an auspicious anniversary, there are only two people I could invite to this party. Step up Nat Cassidy and Ally Malinenko – writers who understand King and that bi…

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Dr Elisa Segnini and Rodrigo Hernandez Gomez chat to Pat about the exhibition ‘Masks We Wear’ 50:09

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Jim & Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 101Dr Elisa Segnini and Rodrigo Hernandez Gomez chat to Pat about the exhibition ‘Masks We Wear’ Today Pat chats to Dr Elisa Segnini from the University of Glasgow and Rodrigo Hernandez Gomez from Hyndland Secondary School’s, Art Department. Elisa and Rodrigo talk about their exhibition ‘Masks We Wear’ - …

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186 – Stephen Graham Jones & The Last Stand of the Final Girls 1:33:44

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Send us a Text Message. Alas, we come to the end! Stephen Graham Jones’s The Angel of Indian Lake brings the most important horror trilogy of the century to its conclusion. For one last time we return to Proofrock, Idaho – to watch Jade Daniels do battle with monsters in the wood and the demons in her head. SGJ also comes back to Talking Scared to …

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185 – Cynthia Pelayo & A Mermaid in the Windy City 1:07:50

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Send us a Text Message. Chi-Town!! We’re heading to the midwestern metropolis this week, for a conversation with Cina Pelayo – all about murder, mystery, history and strange things in the water. Her new novel, Forgotten Sisters is a heady, dreamlike concoction of Chicago lore and much older horrors. It features a pair of very wyrd sisters and a hou…

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184 – Joshua Hull & It’s a Whole Hole Thing 1:02:02

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Send us a Text Message. Never mind the floor is lava. This week the ground has teeth. Joshua Hull is our guest, to talk about his obsession with dangerous, weird holes. He wrote one into his hilarious, grisly horror movie, Glorious (on Shudder) and now he’s given a hole a whole personality in his debut novella, Mouth. It’s a grindhouse, b-movie cel…

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183 – Gwendolyn Kiste & Working Through Your Ghosts 1:03:38

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Send us a Text Message. Time to get liminal and haunted. Gwendolyn Kiste comes back to Talking Scared for another high-concept twist on the Gothic. In The Haunting of Velkwood, and entire street turns ghostly overnight. Yeah, I can’t explain that any more clearly, we’ll leave it to Gwendolyn. Despite this being a book centered on trauma and angst, …

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Dr. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler: Leaves Like Islands 29:57

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We interviewed Dr. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, a professor of microbial ecology at Cal Poly Humboldt about her work on microbial community ecology on pitcher plantsBy RadioBio

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182 – Tim Lebbon & Running Towards What Scares You 1:15:35

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Send us a Text Message. Sometimes you meet someone who just gets you. Like Tim Lebbon. A man who writes riotously good adventure-horror novels, and also likes running outrageous distances up big hills. What a pleasure it was to speak to him. The main topic of conversation is his new novel eco-horror novel, Among the Living. A story of ancient burie…

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181 – Haunting Hill House, with Catriona Ward, Johnny Compton & Paul Tremblay 1:33:50

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Send us a Text Message. Back from a too-short break, but ready to delve into the greatest haunted house of them all! Shirley Jackson’s Hill House. The place where the scary things walk alone. Thankfully, I am not alone. I’m joined by my own group of creepy ghost-hunters: Paul Tremblay (A Head Full of Ghosts, Cabin at the End of the World), Johnny C…

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180 – Chuck Palahniuk & What Kind of Sex Do You Want? 1:23:24

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Send us a Text Message. Yes I put sex in the title to make you download it. Did it work? It shouldn’t be necessary, ‘cos this week’s guest is an absolute literary icon. Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, Haunted, Lullaby, Choke, and last year’s Not Forever, But For Now – a writer who helped shape the nihilism and extremity of 90s and noughties …

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179 – Ally Wilkes & The Ethics of Eating Your Friends 1:15:46

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Send us a Text Message. Are you hungry? If so we have a chewy, salty, deeply flavoured feast for you this week. Ally Wilkes returns to Talking Scared to discuss the icebound horrors of her new novel, Where the Dead Wait. It’s a tale of Arctic exploration gone very wrong, complete with haunting, human suffering and the morbid fascination of cannibal…

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Learn How NASA Materials Expert Sara Rengifo Transformed Rejection Into Success 42:32

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We all need inspiration to pursue our dreams no matter the obstacles. And this conversation will surely give you the pep talk you need to keep going. Monica’s guest this week is Sara Rengifo, a materials engineer at NASA who has come a long way from her hometown of Colombia. Sara Rengifo is making significant contributions at NASA, where she is inv…

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178 – Jenny Kiefer & A Solid Foothold in Horror 1:01:37

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Send us a Text Message. The first new book coverage of 2024 – and it starts us off on suitably horrific footing. Jenny Kiefer’s debut novel, This Wretched Valley, has been getting a huge amount of early buzz in horror circles. It’s the story of four unlucky adventurers, who head into the Kentucky woods and meet all manner of nasty sh*t. It’s a tigh…

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177 – John Langan & Fishing For Mythologies 1:46:19

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Send us a Text Message. To kick off a new year of Talking Scared, I’ve gone and hooked us a big guest, with a whopper of a story. John Langan is the author of The Fisherman. It’s one of the great works of supernatural fiction written this century, but its story doesn’t end at its back-cover. The strange mythology of The Fisherman extends beyond, sw…

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176 – The Best Horror Novels of 2023 55:51

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Send us a Text Message. Another year done. We squeaked through without another plague or a nuclear apocalypse (don’t tempt fate Neil!!) and along the way, oh the stories we read! The only thing left to do after mopping away the chalk pentagrams, is to run you through my very favourite books of the year. The so-called Best Horror Novels of 2023, as …

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Lesley Riddoch chats with Jim about her new film, Denmark - the State of Happiness 47:13

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Lesley Riddoch chats with Jim about her new film, Denmark - the State of HappinessJim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 100 Welcome to Jim & Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat. Remarkably, this is episode 100. Hurrah! Well done to us. :-) This is the second half of my chat with the esteemed broadcaster, podcaster, journalist and filmmaker Lesley Rid…

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175 – The Ghost Story Deep Dive, with Alan Baxter, Lauren Bolger & John Langan 1:42:18

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Send us a Text Message. Dickens said that Christmas Eve was a time for ghost stories, and who am I to argue? It is my show though, so I get to pick the ghost story – and I picked Peter Straub’s classic novel of the name. A tale of old men with horror in their youths, seductive evil and a town besieged by winter and… worse things. It’s a slippery be…

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174 – State of the Horror Nation 2023, with Emily Hughes, Victor Lavalle & C.J. Leede 2:00:17

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Send us a Text Message. And so we come to the end of another year in horror. Time to look back at the best that 2023 has had to offer, as determined by three of the best in the business. My trusted horror chancellor, Emily Hughes joins me – alongside C.J. Leede, the author of this year’s gloriously transgressive Maeve Fly, and the maestro of the m…

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Dr. Shannon Bennett: From the Field to the Museum 26:28

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The California academy of sciences is one of California’s oldest operating museums and research institutions. It is an invaluable repository of knowledge about the natural sciences, is home to 47 million specimens, and has hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. This week, on Radiobio, we had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Shannon Bennett, …

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Lesley Riddoch talks to Jim Byrne about, ‘Denmark - the State of Happiness’. And more. Part 1 of 2 57:47

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Lesley Riddoch talks to Jim Byrne about, ‘Denmark - the State of Happiness’. And more. Part 1 of 2Episode 99 of Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat Lesley Riddoch is a tour de force. She is a political activist, pioneering publisher, writer, podcaster, independence and land-reform campaigner and, last but not least, a role model for women in Scotland…

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173 – Michelle Paver & Long Nights of the Body & Soul 1:29:23

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Send us a Text Message. We’re going up in the world this week – longitudinally and latitudinally, with the GOAT of endurance, adventure Gothic, Michelle Paver. Michelle joins me for a big conversation about her novels Dark Matter and Thin Air – two of the most effective ghost stories of the 21st century. One takes us to the Arctic, the other to a H…

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172 – Gemma Amor & The Haunted Penis-Replacement Structure 1:18:41

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Send us a Text Message. Last time Gemma Amor came on the show we had a good ol’ chinwag about our haunted brains. This time around we get to some other ghosts, in her new novel, The Folly. It’s a sharp slice of coastal Gothic; Cornwall’s answer to The Shining if you will. The story follows Morgan and her aging father to the weird structure of the t…

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171 – C.S. Humble & Come For the Horror, Stay for the Horses 1:21:20

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Send us a Text Message. We’ve had Cowboys versus Aliens but have you ever considered a threeway fight between gunslingers, vampires and weird cosmic cultists to an Elder God? If not why not? What do you even think about when you are washing the dishes? But fear not, C.S. Humble has you covered. His weird western trilogy, That Light Sublime is packe…

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170 – Luke Dumas & The Ghosts That Time Forgot 1:12:47

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Send us a Text Message. Sometimes two words can make a jaded horror reader sit up straight. Ghost is one, Dinosaur is another. Ghost. Dinosaur. Have you ever heard a more beautiful combination, a sweeter symphony of syllables. If “Ghost Dinosaur” doesn’t make you go squeeee and shake your fists in excitement, I don’t know how to help you. Anyway, t…

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169 – Tyler Jones & Journeys Without Maps 1:06:09

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Send us a Text Message. Horror is about finding light in darkness. That’s the mission statement of this podcast, at least. And it’s never been truer than in this week’s episode. Tyler Jones re-joins us on Talking Scared to talk about his new novel, Midas. We cover its original mix of western tropes, Gothic fantasy and cult horror, but it’s family t…

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Dr. Folashade Agusto: The Math Behind Outbreaks 18:19

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We’ve all heard of COVID-19, saw its impact on society, and probably even faced the respiratory illness itself. But is there… math behind this disease? And if so, can we use math to help fight COVID and other infectious diseases? It turns out that our collective behavior during outbreaks can mathematically fuel models of public health. Join us as w…

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168 – Tananarive Due & Locked in With the Monsters 1:07:51

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Send us a Text Message. History is haunted. Ghosts are injustice persevering. So many horror stories hinge on that idea, but for Tananarive Due it’s more personal than that. Her new novel, The Reformatory, is borne from the ghosts hidden in her own family history. The story takes place in a hideously cruel juvenile correction facility, in a racist …

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Writer and writing tutor Dave Manderson Chats to Pat 1:08:34

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Writer and writing tutor Dave Manderson Chats to Pat Welcome to episode 98 of Jim and Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat. Today Pat will be chatting to writer and former creative writing tutor Dave Manderson. Dave works with literary organisations such as Scottish PEN, he organises and runs literary events and has presented illustrated talks on a range of…

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167 – Nat Cassidy & A New York State of Death 1:19:57

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Send us a Text Message. Sometimes when you’re doing something scary good company can be a blessing. Nat Cassidy is good company. And this week he talks me through the haunted hallways and avenues of his New York horror ode, Nestlings – but he also helps me tackle the very real world horror that is turning our newspapers into nightmare-fodder and th…

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166 – Sam Rebelein & You Had Me At “Tongue-Monster!” 1:07:35

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Send us a Text Message. Some stories are just too big for one podcast. Some stories should be too big for one book. Sam Rebelein’s Edenville is one such story. This 300-something page novel has more crammed into it than your average fantasy trilogy. There is backstory upon backstory, a cosmic framework, and enough different monsters to fill Guiller…

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Dr. Ruben Michael Ceballos: The Shocking Truth about Heat Shock Proteins 28:35

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Imagine you are at a hot springs. The water is boiling and bubbling, there’s the smell of sulfur and other acrid chemicals in the air, and it is unbelievably hot. Is it possible that life can exist in these unforgiving conditions? It turns out yes! There are microbes, called thermophiles, that not only just exist in these conditions, but have adapt…

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165 – Josh Malerman & Ronald Malfi & The Rock N Roll Rhythm of the Novella 1:21:46

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Send us a Text Message. Some stories are too short, some are too long, but some stories are just right. It’s the Goldilocks zone: the novella. What is the secret to crafting a longer story but not letting it run away from you? How do you sustain the terror beyond the shortest form? How do you know what to keep in and what to cut out? This is the ar…

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164 – Out There Screaming Roundtable, with Nnedi Okorafor, Lesley Nneka Arimah & Maurice Broaddus 1:18:11

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Send us a Text Message. This week is a special roundtable episode. An exciting, challenging and very very thought-provoking tour of contemporary Black horror, in the company of three writers at the bleeding edge. Nnedi Okorafor, Maurice Broaddus and Lesley Nneka Arimah are just three of the contributors to Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New B…

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Dr. Chrissy Hernandez: There are plenty of otoliths in the sea 31:38

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There are plenty of fish in the sea… this week, we take that saying to a whole new level! Fish are incredibly diverse and their life cycle is complex; this week on Radiobio we talk with Dr. Chrissy Hernandez about her research on fish population dynamics. Dr. Hernandez applies math to complicated ecosystem level questions, with fascinating results.…

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163 – Liz Hand & Visiting the Thing That Walks Alone 1:09:45

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Send us a Text Message. Come home!! We have to come home!! The House is calling us. Yep, this week we are going back to the most haunted house of all. Hill House. Shirley Jackson’s classic bad place. And we’re going in the company of three-time Shirley Jackson Award Winner, Elizabeth Hand, whose new novel is the first ever sanctioned sequel to Jack…

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Donella Campbell chatting to Pat about her book, The Girl Who Invented Dusty Springfield 51:35

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Donella Campbell chatting to Pat about her book, The Girl Who Invented Dusty SpringfieldJim & Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 97 We have another great guest. Pat will be chatting with Glasgow West End’s own, Donella Campbell. Donella is the writer of the book, ‘The Girl Who Invented Dusty Springfield’. Dusty Springfield, certainly one of my f…

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162 – Chuck Wendig & American as Evil Apple Pie 1:09:46

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Send us a Text Message. This week on Talking Scared we are joining hands with Chuck Wendig to take the fight to Big Fruit. They have been lying to us about apples all our lives. Chuck’s new novel, Black River Orchard is all about apples. Tasty, evil, corruptive. The book grows from the fertile soil of American small-town horror, and we talk about s…

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Dr. Monica Dus: You are what you eat! 23:40

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Nature versus nurture, the eternal question. We usually think of our genes as permanent, a part of our nature, something that is passed down to us and that’s it. But how much of our genes change as a results of our actions today? How much do our genes change because of what we have been eating for the past 10 years? Turns out, behaviors and the env…

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161 – Clay McLeod Chapman & The Chesapeake Softshell Shuffle 1:17:35

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Send us a Text Message. Clay McLeod Chapman returns to Talking Scared to answer some serious questions, the first being what the holy f**k Clay?! Clay has never been a writer to shy away from a high concept challenge (haunted mushrooms, anyone?) but his latest novel, What Kind of Mother goes into the uncharted regions of the mind and soul, dredging…

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160 – Isabel Cañas & Many Types of Bloodsucker 1:08:12

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Send us a Text Message. I’m back, partially rested and with some romance lingering in my soul. Good timing, cos this week’s episode focuses on the heart as well as the blood that it pumps. Isabel Cañas returns to the show to talk about her second novel, Vampires of El Norte – a sweeping historical love-story set against a backdrop of class tumult, …

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Technical Lead Ana Maria on her Transition From Petroleum to Software Engineering, Resiliency, AI and Leadership. 39:48

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What does it take for a Latina woman from Venezuela to move to Colombia and then the US to create MAS Impact in the world of tech? For Ana María Guzmán Méndez, it was the sound of programming class to become a software engineer, which was music to her ears! It also helped that her father was one of the first software engineers in Venezuela and that…

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159 – Alexander James & An Encounter in the Woods 1:05:37

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Send us a Text Message. Why do we keep heading back to the woods? WHY?? Nothing good ever happens there. Alexander James would argue otherwise, but he’s clearly made of sterner stuff than me. In his debut novel, The Woodkin, Alex parlays his love of the wild outdoors into a story that heads toward a familiar backwoods nightmares, before veering far…

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