Novel Meets Evil, is the true-crime podcast for fiction readers, where we explore themes common to real-world evil and modern fiction. What makes us seek out the very stories that keep the normals up at night–and how can creeps, real and imaginary, teach us about ourselves? Welcome to Novel Meets Evil!
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Novel Meets Evil - BONUS EPISODE - Author Interview - Liz Nugent
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Ever since publishing Unravelling Oliver in 2014, Liz Nugent has been gifting us with deep character-driven novels full of twisted family drama, allowing us to reevaluate how we look at intergenerational trauma. It’s never just for shock–Liz actually has something to say. Her five novels - Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cr…
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Novel Meets Evil - Season 01 Episode 07 - MINISODE - "The Lonely Ones" Ray Bradbury meets Orville Weyant
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The stories that scare often have a thread of truth in them. Sometimes there's much more than a thread, like when a story is based on a real person or series of crime. You'd never expect truth from Ray Bradbury one of the greats of American speculative-fiction. But in 'Dandelion Wine', Bradbury's debut novel, there's very little sci-fi or spec-fic …
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Novel Meets Evil - Season 01 Episode 06 - "Lady Liars: Cindy James Meets Gone Girl"
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Novel Meets Evil - Season 01 Episode 06 - "Lady Liars: Cindy James Meets Gone Girl" Like a good thriller, the case of Canadian nurse Cindy James will have you scratching your head, questioning your own assumptions about who, if anyone, is telling the truth. She suffered for 7 years, was not believed by authorities, and ended up drugged, strangled a…
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Season 01 Episode 05 - Scent of a Murderer: Patrick Süskind's 'Perfume' meets Jeffrey Dahmer
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Episode Notes:By Casey Danielson
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Trailer - Season 01 Episode 05 - Scent of a Murderer: 'Perfume' meets Jeffrey Dahmer
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Smell the Evil! Smell the Novel! Patrick Suskind's accidental villain in his novel 'Perfume' goes toe-to-toe with Jeffrey Dahmer for the title of loneliest man of all time. Enjoy may not be the right word, but I hope you enjoy -- it's a weird one!By Casey Danielson
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Season 01 Episode 04 - Kidnapper's Delight: Ariel Castro meets Liz Nugent's 'Strange Sally Diamond'
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Episode Notes: Kidnappers are as evil as full-blown murderers, as today’s episode will demonstrate. We compare the real-life case of Ariel Castro, a kidnapping creep who made his mark on Cleveland to the no-less-warped horror story encased in the thriller Strange Sally Diamond, by Irish author Liz Nugent. Monstrous men who just can’t help themselve…
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Season 01 Episode 03 - Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘The Dwarf’ meets Bernard Goetz, aka. The Subway Vigilante
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Guns a' blazin' on this episode of Novel Meets Evil. In this episode's NOVEL segment Ray Bradbury is at it again with another short story called 'The Dwarf', in which a small-minded carnival worker bothers a small-bodied man he calls Mr. Big, to bad effect. In our EVIL segment we delve into a creep named Bernie Goetz, who New York City called the S…
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Trailer - Season 01 Episode 04 - Kidnapper's Delight: Ariel Castro Meets Liz Nugent’s 'Strange Sally Diamond'
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On Novel Meets Evil Season 01 Episode 04 - Kidnapper's Delight: Ariel Castro Meets Liz Nugen'ts 'Strange Sally Diamond'.By Casey Danielson
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Trailer - Season 1 Episode 3 - Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘The Dwarf’ meets Bernard Goetz, aka. The Subway Vigilante
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On Novel Meets Evil Season 1 Episode 3, Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘The Dwarf’ meets Bernard Goetz, aka. The Subway Vigilante, and we compare two loose cannonsBy Casey Danielson
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Trailer - Season 1 Episode 2 - Doppelganger Fever: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘William Wilson’ meets Marie Hilley”
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We're always excited to bring you two spine-tingling tales, one true evil and one fiction. S01 E02 brings you Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story 'William Wilson' juxtaposed to the hard-to-believe true story of Marie Hilley, a woman with no soul who almost got what she deserved. Almost... Suggest new topics at our Facebook page! Keep it creepy...…
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Trailer - Season 1 Episode 1 - Lovecraft's 'Pickman's Model' meets Dahmer's Parlor
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In Novel Meets Evil Season 1 Episode 1, Jeffrey Dahmer meets 'Pickman's Model', an H.P. Lovecraft short story about an artist with a preternatural ability to depict the horrors lingering in the backstreets and tunnels under Boston. Two very weird but compelling stories come to life in this collision of fiction and non-fiction.…
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Season 01 Episode 01 - Lovecraft's 'Pickman's Model' meets Dahmer's Parlor
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What’s in a picture? In HP Lovecraft’s short story ‘Pickman’s Model’ we enter Lovecraft’s imagination via a traumatized narrator who struggles to describe his horrific experiences until a photograph is discovered. Similarly, but non-fictionally, a photo was the undoing of one of our favorite creeps to analyze–The Milwaukee Cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer.…
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Season 01 Episode 02 - Doppelganger Fever - Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘William Wilson’ meets Marie Hilley”
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Episode Notes: Main Intro - [0:00-0:44] Thoughts on Edgar Allan Poe [0:44-3:35] NOVEL - Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘William Wilson’ [3:35-24:44] Interlude about 1999 Films [24:44-27:08] EVIL- Marie Hilley [27:08-42:08] Conclusion [42:08-49:59] *** If you're looking for more info on this Marie Hilley creep, this book is extensive: https://www.amazon.com/Pois…
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Welcome to Novel Meets Evil. Season 1 Episode 1 is a brief introduction to why I created a podcast exploring the overlap of fiction and true-crime stories, what scares me and why I forced myself to turn fear into creativity. I want to spread the fear, but not just to scare you–it’s a bit deeper. Episode Notes Main Intro [0:00-0:40] Podcast Origin S…
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