Dead Languages

Halloween's over and it's time to get back to work, spooky co-eds! This week, the goblins discuss the ins and outs of tabling at events.

This week, the goblin professors kick up their feet and read some spooky Halloween stories from their 7 stories in 7 days challenge! Sit back, relax, and enjoy the season!

The spooky professors received your entries into our drabble contest and we have selected the winners! Join us for a fun-filled episode where we read the entries, chat about them, and announce a lot of exciting Dead Languages Podcast news!

Part 2 of the space adventure of the CCS Dead Languages. Our crew: Dank Stank (Carson Winter), BB Dange (Danger Slater), and RFJ (Patrick Winter) continue in their quest to protect their precious spooky coeds. If you missed it, be sure to listen to Part 1. Thanks PLM for Dungeon Daddying. If you want to see all this with the video -- consider subscribing to the DLP Patreon! Check out the character...

Today, spooky coeds, you find yourself in cryosleep. In the future. In space. The goblin gang is on its way to colonize Planet Goblin, travelling light years from Earth on the CCS Dead Languages. You're in capable hands. The crew consists of Captain Plembo, Professor CarCar, Dank Stank (played by co-host Carson Winter) RFJ (played by Patrick Barb), and BB Dange (played by Danger Slater). So strap...

The goblins decided that they were tired of dressing up for company, so this week, we're just chatting about our plans for spooky season, going-ons in the writer community, and making way too many writing goals.

Is normal horror not enough for you? You need it jumping off a dirt ramp or something? Well, that's not what this is about. But Crushing Snails author Emma E. Murray does come along to tell the goblins all about what Extreme Horror is really about. Wanna know more about Emma? Check out here website here: https://emmaemurray.com/

Let's get weird with formatting. This week on the Dead Languages podcast, we welcome TRUE CVLT author Michael Bettendorf to talk about the ins and outs of experimental formats in horror fiction! Check out his website here: https://www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com/ And if you wanna pick up a copy of TRUE CVLT: https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/trve-cvlt-a-tenebrous-gamebook-by-michael-be...

Horror? History? Can these ingredients be combined in a delicious prose sandwich? Our guest Jessica Peter says they can! Listen in on a lively conversation with ZERO tangents about writing historical horror. And then, check out Jessica Peter's work here: https://www.jessicapeter.ca/

This week, we have a special surprise for the spooky pre-meds—Dr. Nina Miller joins us to talk about medical horror! Dr. Nina is a physician who gets weird with us to answer your medical-related (and fucking gross) horror questions. Check out Dr. Nina's work here: https://ninamillerwrites.com/

PLM and I join up for a reality-bending conversation of weaponized cringe about virtual launch parties, where PLM discusses what goes into making these crazy events happen!

This week, the goblins get sentimental, reminding viewers that if they don't pay attention, they might just miss the whole damn thing. We're talking about writing milestones—including the secret, hidden ones that lay the foundation for you to be a successful writer (even if you don't feel that way)! Celebrate yourself, nerds!

The Goblins decide that it's time to talk about ending things... stories, that is. We dive into what makes a great ending, what makes a bad one, and some personal favorites of our own. Many, many, many spoilers.

We all love em to death don't we? This week's episode has the goblins talking about the wonderful world of witches in the horror genre! Tropes, history, examples, and more. Listen in and get bewitched! Carson's book launch event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-spectre-is-haunting-greentree-book-launch-party-tickets-965422132587?aff=oddtdtcreator

Listen, you wanna get better. You wanna write. You wanna habit. You wanna better yourself. This week on the Dead Languages Podcast, P.L. McMillan and Carson Winter are chatting about weekly writing habits that could and maybe will improve your writing journey! Also, if you haven't, check out this upcoming book launch event for CarCar's newest book A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING GREENTREE: https://w...

Carson is back from his long journey and the spooky co-eds are rubbing their lil bellies and hungrily begging for CarCar's treats. Uh, besides that—Carson and PLM catch up, ease into the Dead Languages routine, and answer more writing questions from Reddit!

Today on the Dead Languages Podcast, we are talking about worldbuilding. What does it mean to build a mythos/lore for your fiction? Joining us is none other than Sam Rebelein, author of EDENVILLE, and stealer of coffee. Together, we are taking our spooky co-eds on a magic carpet riiii-iiide. https://www.srebelein.com/

Is wilderness horror even a thing? Did PLM make it up? Is this what happens when Carson Winter is gone too long and PLM goes fully feral? Can guest Jenny Kiefer (author of This Wretched Valley) save us all? Today on DLP, PLM and Jenny are talking about wilderness horror and what it means. Meanwhile, where in the world is Carson Winter? (ep 69 ayooooo) https://jennykiefer.com/ https://www.horrorboo...

In space, no one can hear you scream. But that's where we're going. Engage your FTL drives, spooky co-eds. Captain PLM and her guest XO David Wellington (author of The Last Astronaut and Paradise-1) are here to guide you on your interstellar journey. https://davidwellington.net/

PLM is alone and scared. Surrounded by unformatted books. Carson Winter is AWOL. Luckily Molly Halstead has appeared to format all those naughty, naughty manuscripts. Formatting books into paperback/ebook files is never fun and can often seem daunting. Molly dives into the methodology and we rant about how Garamond is the best font in this episode of the Dead Languages Podcast. https://www.mhalste...

oOoh, the goblins are reading and they want YOU to know their top 5 of the year so far. Which books have survived the gauntlet? Mmmm, we are having a good time out here, spooky co-eds, it's such a novel experience

PLM and Carson went to StokerCon! And you know what that means... weird interactions, inappropriate outbursts, and lots of sweet, sweet, disgusting networking! We interviewed folks at the con and rallied back in the virtual prison we call Zoom to talk a little about the experience.

Professor Car-Car takes the lead on this one and talks about how he approaches structuring short stories—with some useful (and stupid!) exercises to help get you there!

We went to the bowels of Reddit to find the deepest, darkest writing questions and decided to bring them into our deep, dark spooky co-ed cave to answer them in a, uh, deep, dark tone. Whatever. We're putting on our galoshes and wading through the filth that is r/writing. Also, listener mail!

We sit down with Matt and Alex from Tenebrous Press to talk about their Best of New Weird anthology, Brave New Weird. We discuss the place Best Of Anthos have in the horror community and ways we can make them better! Find Brave New Weird Volume 2 here: https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/copy-of-limited-to-50-copies-brave-new-weird-vol-two-hardcover-w-signed-bookplate-includes-ebook