Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Podcast

This episode we finally open that door of the Chronscast household we'd not dared to open before and plunge into the abyssal labyrinth that is Mark Danielewski's maddeningly epic debut novel, House Of Leaves. A book that defies conventional categorisation, it's been described as a horror, a literary piece, a puzzle, and even a love story. We're joined on this subterranean literary odyssey by renow...

On this episode of Chronscast we're joined by award-winning SF author Tade Thompson to talk about WATCHMEN , Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's comic-book masterpiece that skewers the superhero genre using its own architecture. Tade is the author of numerous novels, including the critically acclaimed sci-fi novel Rosewater , the first in his award winning WORMWOOD TRILOGY , Making Wolf , and most recen...

Today we're joined by Stephen Cox, the author of the science-fiction drama Our Child Of The Stars, and the newly-published sequel, Our Child Of Two Worlds, both published by Jo Fletcher Books. Stephen dives with us into Fritz Leiber's swords-and-sorcery classic, Swords And Deviltry, which introduces two of fantasy's greatest heroes, the barbarian Fafhrd, and the sly swordsman Gray Mouser. We talk...

For this episode we're joined by Richard Sheppard, host of The Constant Reader Podcast , which takes a deep dive into all things Stephen King, from his numerous novels to the equally numerous movie and TV adaptations of his work. Richard talks with us about John Landis's seminal 1981 film An American Werewolf in London , a horror comedy that is funny and scary in equal measure, and remains the hig...

We're joined on this episode by Jo Zebedee, author of several novels, including the Abendau space opera trilogy, the dystopian Inish Carraig and the Irish fantasy Waters And The Wild . Jo talks to us about Klara And The Sun , Kazuo Ishiguro's 2020 novel about a sickly young girl who purchases a robotic "Artificial Friend" called Klara. Klara sets about trying to heal her human owner by using some...

We were joined on this episode by Stephen Palmer , author of several genre novels including Memory Seed , Tommy Catkins , The Girl With Two Souls , and many more. His latest novel, Monique Orphan , was published in November 2021 by Infinite Press. Stephen spoke with us about Philip Pullman's Northern Lights . We discussed the novel's call to action on the part of the protagonist, its rich and comp...

Dan Jones and Chris Bean introduce Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science fiction & fantasy (and horror!) community, with over 20,000 members and growing. In episode 0, we give an overview of season 1, outlining what people can expect from Chronscast, why we're doing it, and how it links back to SFF Chronicles. As SFF Chronicles (or "Chrons" as we call...