The Dark Mind Podcast

Erin Louis joins The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss her grounded horror thriller There's No Grave Like Home. The novel follows Georgia, a former exotic dancer in her mid-forties forced to return to the rural hometown she fled decades ago after inheriting her estranged father's house. Erin opens up about how growing up as an outsider in a small town shaped the antagonists and the atmosphere of the bo...

Andrew Adams returns to The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss his new Cemetery Dance Publications novel, Crossroads, Inc. The book is set in the dying backwoods town of Glanton, where the air is toxic, the water is undrinkable, and the people have been forgotten. When a life insurance company called Crossroads, Inc. rolls into town offering cash advances on policies repaid in severed body parts, what b...

In this episode of The Dark Mind Podcast, Vincent Midgard sits down with author Daniel Grace. They discuss Grace’s debut novel, In the Wake of Golgotha, a dark literary thriller that reimagines Judas Iscariot and Pontius Pilate in modern New York. The conversation explores guilt, reincarnation, capital punishment, faith, betrayal, and the psychological weight of history. Grace also talks about the...

In this episode of The Dark Mind Podcast, Vincent Midgard sits down with filmmaker Erich Cannon to discuss his feature film His Monster. They explore the film’s roots in Japanese folklore, its addiction allegory, and the emotional terrain of grief, denial, and spiritual drowning that drives the story. Erich also talks about practical creature effects, the influence of The X-Files, writing from per...

In this episode, I’m joined by author Lee Stackhouse to discuss Diary of a Damsel Dame, a dark psychological horror novel about obsession, projection, love, and violence. We talk about Delilah Vale as both predator and wounded inner child, and why readers can feel repulsed by her while still wanting to protect her. Lee opens up about writing from trauma, using the diary format to capture a secret...

Andrew Najberg returns to The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss his new novel, Eat the Light. The book follows two young sisters, Alyssa and Tabitha, who are locked in a fallout shelter by their father and left to survive alone when they emerge into a world that no longer exists. The streets are empty, the rain corrodes everything it touches, and glowing figures known as the Shimmer People stalk the ru...

In this episode of The Dark Mind Podcast, Vincent Midgard sits down with filmmaker Jethro Waters to discuss his surreal southern gothic feature Gunfighter Paradise.​They explore the film’s collision of religion, grief, guns, greed, and dark humor, and how Waters sees it as an expression of the American psychosis.​Waters breaks down how his upbringing in the rural South, his father’s background as...

Tamika Thompson returns to The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss her debut novel The Curse of Hester Gardens, a Black Gothic horror story rooted in grief, motherhood, faith, and survival. ​ In this episode, we explore how haunted public housing transforms the classic haunted house framework into something inescapable, where economics, danger, and the supernatural are all bound together. ​ Tamika talks...

Death metal guitarist, horror novelist, and accidental publisher Jeremy Wagner joins The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss his savage new novel Wretch. Set in Chicago during the hottest summer on record, Wretch follows three men on a collision course: a hard-boiled detective tracking a killer who should not exist, a mob boss running on grief and vengeance, and Derek Hoffman, a steroid-abusing sociopath...

N.J. Gallegos returns to The Dark Mind Podcast. She is an Emergency Medicine physician, horror author, and co-host of the Scream Kings Horror Podcast. Her new novella, Eat Your Heart Out, is published by Black Hare Press and releases March 14, 2026. The book follows Jules, a first-year medical student with an exceptional mind for anatomy and a carefully controlled emotional life. That control shat...

In 1990, two men disguised as Boston police officers stole 13 priceless works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in what became the largest art heist in history, valued at over $1 billion. FBI Special Agent Geoffrey Kelly spent 28 years as one of the founding members of the FBI Art Crime Team, and in 2002 inherited this cold case. Rather than working it as a standard property crime, K...

In this episode, author Blaine Daigle returns to discuss his latest novel, Porcelain Lullaby. The book follows two estranged brothers, Jake and Nate Shepherd, whose childhood ended in violence when they woke to find their parents dead. Twenty years later, they receive a message from their long-dead mother calling them to Meadowland, an abandoned orphanage in rural Pennsylvania. We explore how the...

In this episode, filmmaker Alex Domenici joins us to discuss his horror short Never Let You Go. The film follows a woman whose abusive ex-boyfriend reaches from beyond the grave to bind them together through an occult ritual. Alex shares how he invested most of his life savings into the production, building elaborate sets and shooting in real caves outside Los Angeles. We explore the film's themes...

Jon Cohn returns to The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss his latest novel, The Creed Falls Massacres, a genre-bending collision of 80s slasher horror and cosmic body horror. Seventeen years after the Camp Creed massacre, final girl Jamie Campbell faces a town divided over whether she is a hero or a murderer. When a meteor crashes on the anniversary of the killings and the Silver Fox killer returns, Ja...

Radar DeBoard joins The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss his visceral novella Everything But the Skin, published by Uncomfortably Dark. Set in the cursed town of Shallow Root, the story follows a young girl named Sophia who finds herself psychically connected to an ancient evil hunting children. We explore how Radar blends body horror with supernatural elements to create what he calls comfort horror s...

P.M. Raymond joins The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss her debut collection Things Are As They Should Be and Other Words To Die For. This New Orleans-inspired noir-horror exploration examines revenge, consequence, and the violence that seeps into the soil of communities. Raymond discusses blending crime noir's moral agency with psychological horror's supernatural consequences. We explore the...

Aron Beauregard returns to The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss his latest book Homewreckers, a devastating family horror story about the Huxley family and their possessed 14-year-old son Dustin. Aaron breaks down the suffocating atmosphere of the novel, exploring how he crafted a story about a marriage crumbling under the weight of an impossible burden. We dive into the cult element of the book, The...

Rebecca Rowland returns to The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss her new novel Eminence Front, releasing January 20th from CLASH Books. Set on a single New England street during a brutal snowstorm, the novel follows neighbors as an ancient entity preys on their secrets, sins, and regrets. We explore why snow creates such effective psychological horror, from its sound-muffling properties to the sensatio...

A haunted house on Virginia’s Eastern Shore becomes a conduit between two women separated by 400 years. Author and screenwriter Jacquie Walters joins The Dark Mind Podcast to talk about her new novel Turn Off The Light. We dig into dual timelines, women of knowledge, and how small communities can be more terrifying than any ghost. Jacquie unpacks how sleep deprivation, grief, and family secrets fr...

In this episode, horror filmmaker A.K. Espada joins me to discuss her deeply personal short film I Could Just Die and That Would Be All Right. The film follows a woman struggling with suicidal depression who offers herself to a cryptid called the Bonecat in the forests of Southern Gothic suburbia, only to wake up undead and denied the escape she sought. Kate opens up about writing the script durin...

Guest: Kathe Koja Kathe Koja is an award-winning author known for her groundbreaking Dark Factory trilogy, including the newly released Dark Matter. Her work explores immersive fiction, the collapse of consensus reality, and the psychological impact of living in a world where augmented experience and celebrity culture collide. Koja is a pioneer of narrative experimentation, blending genres and inv...

Alex Gonzalez joins The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss his debut novel rekt. He talks about the dark web’s role in shaping grief and obsession. Gonzalez shares his experience with early 2000s gore sites. The conversation explores how algorithms exploit emotional vulnerabilities. He examines the difference between the dark web and surface internet horror. Gonzalez considers whether the internet is a...

Lesley Camphouse returns to The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss her latest novel A Hollow Dream , a devastating work of erotic horror that explores the dark underbelly of influencer culture. Dubbed "extreme misery porn," this slow-burn psychological nightmare follows Georgia, a desperate college student who enters the world of social media stardom only to find herself trapped in a system of exploitat...

Join us as we talk with PD Alleva about The Sleepy Hollow Incident. This episode explores the blend of vampire lore, gothic romance, and psychological horror that defines his newest series. We discuss how paying homage to Washington Irving shaped the story and how classic horror influences weave through every chapter. PD Alleva shares insights into crafting villains inspired by Hannibal Lecter, Le...

J. Paul Roe joins us to discuss his literary journey and creative process. We explore the themes of simulation theory and techno-capitalist futures found in his novel “The Game State.” Roe explains how the concept of reality as a game influences his writing and characters. We talk about AI religion, faith, and the philosophical questions driving his work. Roe shares how his military experience sha...