The Outer Dark

The Outer Dark and Essential Dreams Press present the Tanith Lee Storyteller Roundtable featuring Craig Laurance Gidney, Melanie R. Anderson, Lisa Kroger, Terri Windling, moderated by Julie C. Day, with special guest C.S.E. Cooney . The roundtable aired on January 21, 2024 via Zoom, and the episode also features an interview with Julie C. Day, … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents Weird Bites, flash readings and panel from our The Outer Dark  Weird/SpecLit Community Day 2023 featuring Sara Amis, Gerald L Coleman, Nancy A Collins, Melanie Crew, Edward Austin Hall, Alex Hofelich, Jess Lewis, Kyoko M, Violette L. Meier, Kitty Sarkozy, Eric Schaller, Polly Schattel, Michael Wehunt, Kortney Y. Watkins, Can Wiggins, … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents an exclusive preview of the Back 2 OmniPark anthology with Jesse Bullington, Brent Winter, Kristi DeMeester, Hailey Piper, Brian Evenson, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Maxwell I Gold. This podcast’s content was recorded between June 21-23, 2023.  Show Notes The Outer Dark presents presents an exclusive preview of the Back 2 OmniPark, edited … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents Keeping It Weird, a panel from World Fantasy Con 2022 featuring David Boop, Michael Kelly, Anya Martin, Jon Padgett, Zin E. Rocklyn, and Jason A. Wyckoff. This podcast’s content was recorded in New Orleans, LA, on November 5, 2022.  Show Notes The Outer Dark presents Keeping It Weird, a panel from … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents “Usman T. Malik: Horror with a Sense of Wonder,” a conversation with the author about his World Fantasy Award-winning debut collection, Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan (KITAB Ltd, 2021) and more. This podcast’s content was recorded on March 20, 2023. Show Notes The Outer Dark presents ‘Usman T. Malik: Horror with … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents “Deterministic Landscapes: The Role of Psychogeography in Weird Fiction” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by  F.  Brett Cox and featuring  Julie C. Day, Craig Laurance Gidney, Jess Lewis, Henry Ward, and Heinrich Wilke. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 20, 2022. Show Notes The Outer Dark presents … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents an ALL-NEW Publisher Spotlight of NO Press, featuring an exclusive interview with John W. M. Thompson and six readings from its debut anthology Mooncalves: Strange Stories, including Jaime Corbacho, Adam Golaski, Janlyn Guo, Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí, Briar Ripley Page, and Lisa Tuttle. This podcast’s content was recorded on various dates in February … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents “From Ambergris to Yuggoth: The Fungus Among Us” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by  Eric Schaller and featuring Rick Claypool, Nicholas Kaufmann, Jess Lewis, and Douglas Wynne. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 20, 2022. Show Notes The Outer Dark presents “From Ambergris to Yuggoth: The Fungus … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents “The Weird Has Always Been Female: The Women’s Canon of Weird Fiction” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by Ann VanderMeer and featuring Christa Carmen, Leslie S. Klinger, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Zin E. Rocklyn,  and Elena Tchougounova-Paulson. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 21, 2022. Show Notes The … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents the” It Was Made for Me: The Dark Worlds of Junji Ito,” a NecronomiCon 2022 panel moderated by Nadia Bulkin and featuring Cassandra Khaw, K.H. Vaughan, and Sean Moreland. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, RI, on August 21, 2022. Show Notes The Outer Dark presents “It Was Made for … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents the Weird Fiction Readings Cluster from World Fantasy Con 2022 featuring Matthew M. Bartlett, Julie C. Day, Anya Martin,  Sarah Read, Zin E. Rocklyn, and A.C. Wise. This podcast’s content was recorded in New Orleans, LA, on November 4, 2022.  Show Notes The Outer Dark presents the Weird Fiction Readings Cluster … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents ‘The Horizon is Still Way Beyond You: Zora Neale Hurston’s Life and Legacy’ panel at NecronomiCon 2022 featuring Edward M. Erdelac (moderator),  Nicole Givens Kurtz, and Adam Golaski plus a bonus interview with  Nicole Givens Kurtz about Blackened Roots: An Anthology of the Undead (February 2023, Mocha Memoirs Press). This podcast’s … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents ‘The Jewish Tradition in Weird Fiction’ panel at NecronomiCon 2022 featuring Daniel Braum (moderator), Edward M. Erdelac, Richard Gerlach, Maxwell I. Gold, Nicholas Kaufmann, and Ann VanderMeer. This podcast’s content was recorded in Providence, Rhode Island, on August 20, 2022.  Show Notes The Outer Dark presents ‘The Jewish Tradition in Weird … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents State of The Weird Roundtable 2022 featuring Steve Berman, Nadia Bulkin, Gemma Files, Fiona Maeve Geist, Craig Laurance Gidney, and Nicole Givens Kurtz. This podcast’s content was moderated by Anya Martin and recorded at NecronomiCon in Providence, Rhode Island, on August 20, 2022.  Show Notes The Outer Dark presents State of … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents Dark Factory: Kathe Koja and John Skipp in Conversation. This podcast’s content was recorded in early August 2022.  Show Notes This mind-blowing conversation between two of our favorite people from the horror and Weird community features John Skipp in his The Outer Dark podcast debut in conversation with Kathe Koja about … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents an exclusive preview of NecronomiCon Providence 2022, featuring Programming Chair K.H. Vaughan, Film Programming Co-Chair Gwen Callahan, Justin Steele, and Sam Cowan of Dim Shores Press. This podcast’s content was recorded on July 31, August 2, and August 3, 2022.  Show Notes The Outer Dark presents an exclusive preview of NecronomiCon … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents an exclusive preview panel on The Future Is Female, Vol. 2: The 1970s, a canon-reshaping Library of America anthology celebrating feminist women science fiction writers, featuring editor Lisa Yaszek,  moderating a discussion with editorial assistants Edeliz Zuleta, Jessica Taetle, Olivia Kiklica, and Josie Benner. The book is scheduled for publication in … Continue reading

The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Natania Barron and David Bowles. This podcast was recorded on January 25 and 26, 2022.  Show Notes The first The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series installment of 2022 features two award-winning spec-lit authors and exclusive sneak preview readings from their exciting 2022 releases. David Bowles  treats us to … Continue reading

The Outer Dark podcast presents a conversation with M. Rickert, author of The Shipbuilder of Bellfaire (Undertow, 2021) and many, many stories. The main audio was recorded on January 5, 2022. Show Notes In this podcast, Anya Martin interviews M. Rickert about her second novel The Shipbuilder of Bellfaire (Undertow Publications, 2021) including its long … Continue reading

The Outer Dark podcast presents our holiday gift to listeners featuring flash fiction, poetry, music, and gift ideas from nine Weird horror writers, as well as gift-guide mini-interviews spotlighting three writer-owned supernatural-themed candle-making, jam, and soap companies. Audio segments were recorded between Dec. 1–8, 2021. Show Notes The Outer Dark Holiday Special is our seasonal … Continue...

The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Jeffrey Ford and Zin E. Rocklyn, plus an exclusive preview of the New York Ghost Story Festival 2021 with founder Daniel Braum. This episode’s content was recorded on November 21, 22, and 23, 2021.  Show Notes The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series returns, beginning with an exclusive preview … Continue reading

In this podcast Anya Martin interviews Adam McOmber about his most recent Weird novels The Ghost Finders (Journalstone) and Jesus and John (Lethe Press) and more. This episode was recorded on Wed. Nov. 10, 2021 Show Notes In this podcast, Anya Martin interviews Adam McOmber about his most recent Weird novels The Ghost Finders (Journalstone) and … Continue reading

This podcast presents the panel We Once Were Monster Kids from the HP Lovecraft Film Festival 2021, moderated by Anya Martin and featuring Gwendolyn Kiste, Craig Laurance Gidney, Ian McDowell, and Eden Royce. This episode was recorded on October 10, 2021. Show Notes In this podcast taped during the virtual segment of the HP Lovecraft … Continue reading

This podcast features a Publisher Spotlight interview  with Ross E. Lockhart of Word Horde and his exciting new retail venture, the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird and Fantastic, in Petaluma, California. This episode was recorded on October 11, 2021. Show Notes In this Publisher Spotlight podcast, Anya Martin interviews Ross E. Lockhart about his … Continue reading

This podcast features an interview with editor Cody Goodfellow, and Readings by Kaaron Warren, Mehitobel Wilson, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, and Rios de la Luz from New Maps of Dream (PS Publishing, Fall 2021) . This episode was recorded between September 14-22, 2021. Show Notes Anya Martin interviews editor Cody Goodfellow, about New Maps of Dream (PS … Continue reading