FEARMONGERS

Host Clay McLeod Chapman moderates a maxi-panel focussing on the fresh terrain found in gothic and folk horror, featuring authors Amy Jane Stewart (HEX HOUSE), Jen Julian (THE WINTER FOLK), Jennifer Givhan (THE SLEEPING SISTERS), C.N. Vair (THE DEVIL KNOWS HER NAME), and Deena Helm (OUR CUT OF SALT).

Host Clay McLeod Chapman dines with Eric LaRocca (WRETCH) and Luke Dumas (NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD) for a four course meal of grief, obsession, cannibalism and ghosts.

Host Clay McLeod Chapman chats with authors Lindy Ryan (DOLLFACE), V. Castro (MARIA THE WANTED), Saratoga Schaefer (TRAD WIFE) and Chris Panatier (DAYTIDE) about the ins and outs of the publishing industry, finding your fellow horror people, and the need for a horror author dating app. 

Host Clay McLeod Chapman digs down deep with authors Bethany C. Morrow (THE BODY) and Gemma Amor (ITCH!) into the terrors of 2026 and how horror just might save us all. Authors: Gemma Amor & Bethany C. Morrow

Kissing cousins crime and horror fiction snuggle up for our final Fearmongers of 2025, as author S.A. Cosby spins a few true spooky yarns with host Clay McLeod Chapman

Host and amatuer realtor Clay McLeod Chapman gets to the heart of what makes a haunted house if there are no ghosts, alongside guests Marcus Kliewer (WE USED TO LIVE HERE) and Christina Henry (THE PLACE WHERE THEY BURIED YOUR HEART). Come explore the terrifying dimensions of these horrifying homes! 

Hear from the luminaries of horror at this year's StoryFest, as host Clay McLeod Chapman chats up Ellen Datlow, Brian Evenson, Rachel Harrison, Cassandra Khaw, Lorien Lawrence, Hailey Piper, Dan Poblocki and Caldwell Turnbull.

Host Clay McLeod Chapman chats with Kosoko Jackson (THE MACABRE) and Sam Rebelein (GALLOWAY'S GOSPEL) about blending horror with all kinds of other genres... and which bookshelf to find them on.

Host Clay McLeod Chapman gets freaky with two of the freakiest novels coming out this year: Sarah Gailey's SPREAD ME and Andrew Joseph White's YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN.   Authors: Sarah Gailey (SPREAD ME) and Andrew Joseph White (YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN)

Lights! Camera! Sporror! Cursed films! Amazing horror novels! Host Clay McLeod Chapman chats with Gretchen Felker-Martin (Black Flame) and Wendy N. Wagner (Girl in the Creek) about their haunting new novels.

Host Clay McLeod Chapman and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus (Whalefall) dive deep into the trenches of his new novel ANGEL DOWN, a World War I epic of biblical proportions.

Time to sweat with gothic shockers Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedesen and Ten Sleep by Nicholas Belardes. Bonus: We get Kailee to sing opera live on air.

Let's talk about love and heartbreak amongst killer plants and shapeshifting fathers with Nat Cassidy (WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME) and Sarah Maria Griffin (EAT THE ONES YOU LOVE).

Host Clay McLeod Chapman plumbs the depths of depravity with two of the darkest novels for 2025: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker and rekt by Alex Gonzalez.  Deep fakes, AI, COVID, racism, crime scene cleaners and the dark web are all covered. Trigger warnings galore in this gory and grotesque episode!

Four horror authors. Four indie bookstores. Four snowy New England towns. Join Eric LaRocca (At Dark, I Become Loathsome), Dennis Mahoney (Our Winter Monster), E.K. Sathue (youthjuice) and host Clay McLeod Chapman as they regale you with tales of their recent horror author panel tour.

Horror "den mother" Brian Keene looks back at his decades' long writing career and how it all comes full circle with his zombie apocalypse series The Rising, as well as taking a stand as co-editor of the new Stephen King-inspired anthology The Stand: It's The End of the World as We Know It.

Clay McLeod Chapman is joined by Emily C. Hughes (Horror For Weenies) and Neil McRobert (Talking Scared Podcast) to look back the the terror and trends within horror lit, along with looking ahead to what horrors await us in the New Year.

Horror heavyweights Stephen Graham Jones (I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER), Josh Winning (HEADS WILL ROLL), Brian McAuley (CANDY CAIN KILLS AGAIN) and Angela Sylvaine (CHOPPING SPREE) weigh in on the heaviest slashers around in this slasher symposium to end all slasher symposiums... until there's a slasher symposium sequel. 

For this Fearmongers we discuss the soul-crunching sojourns of Sofia Ajram's COUPE DE GRACE and Delilah S. Dawson's IT WILL ONLY HURT FOR A MOMENT and how these stories offer a wee bit of catharsis for the reader.

We celebrate the release of the new anthology FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR with editor Ellen Datlow, along with contributing authors Josh Malerman, Hailey Piper, Dale Bailey and Annie Neugebauer.

Featuring P. Djèlí Clark (RING SHOUT) and Rachel Harrison (SO THIRSTY) Special guest appearances by Bracken MacLeod, Christopher Golden, Ellen Datlow and Joe R. Lansdale

Host and best-selling horror author Clay McLeod Chapman welcomes acclaimed authors: - Chuck Tingle (BURY YOUR GAYS) - E.K. Sathue (YOUTHJUICE) for August's spine-tingling episode of FEARMONGERS!

Host and best-selling horror author Clay McLeod Chapman welcomes acclaimed authors: - Grady Hendrix (WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS) - Ananda Lima (CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL) - Chris Panatier (THE REDEMPTION OF MORGAN BRIGHT)  for July's spine-tingling episode of FEARMONGERS!

Holy haunted cats! It's a SUPERSIZED episode of FEARMONGERS! Host and bestselling author Clay McLeod Chapman welcomes acclaimed authors Gabino Iglesias (HOUSE OF BONE AND RAIN), CJ Leede (AMERICAN RAPTURE), Keith Rosson (THE DEVIL BY NAME), and Matthew Lyons (A MASK OF FLIES)!