97 – A Monstrous Roundtable, with Ellen Datlow, Nathan Ballingrud, Chikodili Emelumadu & Joe R. Lansdale

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This week on Talking Scared it’s monsters all day, every day. 

To celebrate the release of Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, we gather around the campfire with editor Ellen Datlow and three of her contributors – no less than Nathan Ballingrud, Chikodili Emelumadu and the great Joe R. Lansdale.

As a result, this is not your average Talking Scared episode. There is interruption, overlap, argument much good humour. 

Amidst the chaos we still manage a fascinating conversation about the creatures that lurk in the wilds and those who walk amongst us. We talk about what makes a monster, why we love them, and where they fit in our modern hyperconnected world.

(and they have the audacity to tell me that Bigfoot isn’t real!)

Enjoy!

Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous was published on June 7th by Tor Nightfire

Other books discussed in this episode include:

• The Wilds (2014), by Julia Elliot
• Ormeshadow (2019), by Priya Sharma
• Sundial (2022), by Catriona Ward
• Road of Bones (2022), by Christopher Golden
• And Then I Woke Up (2022), by Malcolm Devlin (episode 87)
• The Last Storm (2022), by Tim Lebbon
• Eden (2020), by Tim Lebbon
• Anybody Home (2022), by Michael Siedlinger
• Cunning Women: A Feminist Tale of Forbidden Love After the Witch Trials (2021), by Elizabeth Lee
• Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway (2022), by Timothy Christian
• The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five (2021), by Tom Rosten
• African Monsters: Volume 2 (2015), edited by Margret Hellgadotir and Jo Thomas. 

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