Hello again Creature Cast fans! Here’s the second interview I did at StokerCon 2016. This time, we sat down with poet, professor, editor and three time Stoker Award nominee (and my MFA classmate) Stephanie Wytovich! This week on the Creature Cast We geek out over the madness of Poe and the erotic danger of Clive Barker. How Wytovich’s Catholic upbr…

Hello again, Creature Cast fans! We are recording at StokerCon 2016 and we have an interview with this year’s Stoker Mentor Award winner Tim Waggoner! I had a chance to sit down with my former academic advisor and current hotel roommate to talk about monsters, madmen, and murder! On this episode of The Creature Cast: The role of empathy in horror f…

Time to gas up those chainsaws you groovy ghoulies! We’re joined once again by Becky to discuss the Stars channel’s runaway splatter action comedy Ash Vs. Evil Dead! This week on the Creature Cast: Heavy Metal Horror! The blue collar work ethic behind the Evil Dead series. Is Ash a tragic hero? Gender, sleaze, and heroism. Gore! Gore! Gore! And mor…

Happy Holidays, fellow vampires! The CreatureCast is joined once again by horror writer David X. Wiggin as we discuss the horror work of seminal comic book writer Alan Moore. This week on the Creature Cast: Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Watchmen, and the Iron Age of comics. Swamp Thing, the reimagining of a monster, and Splatterpunk-era horror. From He…

Hello, my collection of bookish gothically inclined girls and boys! This week I’m joined my Becky and Robin as we discuss Guillermo Del Toro’s macabre masterpiece Crimson Peak! This week on the Creature Cast: Joe provokes ire by discussing his ambivalence with Del Toro’s work. How Crimson Peak is a “dark gothic chick flick.” We do a pretty imperson…