Ghoulish

J David Osborne joined me on today's episode of GHOULISH for a lengthy conversation about conspiracies. Topics include: The Cheeto Man, QAnon, cults, pizzagate, 4chan, the CIA, internet irony, Hitler memes, is Jimmy Fallon a deepfake?, who is THEY?, What Would Alex Jones Do? (WWAJD?), medical jizz, Disney's  Frozen , Jeff Bezos simps, Nazis, Pepe the Frog, groypers, election predictions, the UFC c...

Jay Wilburn is the two-time winner of KillerCon's Annual Grossout Contest. In tonight's episode of GHOULISH, he forced his way onto the podcast to read both of his winning entries and provide a little education on what exactly constitutes a grossout contest. Warning: this episode is extremely gross. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Browse the books on our webstore. Support us on Patreon. Check out...

Caitlin Starling knows a lot about poison. Her new novella,  Yellow Jessamine,  is about poison. This episode of GHOULISH, coincidentally, is also about poison. This is the poison episode. You have been warned. Order Caitlin Starling's  Yellow Jessamine. Check out Starling's book party on September 5th! Pre-order Paul Michael Anderson's slasher novella,  Standalone. Buy my new novella,  We Need to...

Alexis Henderson joined me on tonight's episode of GHOULISH to discuss witches,  The VVitch , religions, cults, blood, the woods, and how to pronounce "tome". Her debut novel,  The Year of the Witching , is truly excellent and available wherever books are sold. Buy  The Year of the Witching . Pre-order Paul Michael Anderson's slasher novella,  Standalone. Buy my new novella,  We Need to Do Somethi...

Andrew Hilbert and I once tried launching a podcast called THE TACO SUMMIT back in 2018, which would involve us eating tacos with special guests around Austin, TX and talking about writing. We managed to record exactly one episode before throwing in the towel (with special guest Trey Hudson!). Since I'm yearning to eat tacos with my pals again, I thought it would be refreshing to upload our failed...

Paul Tremblay recently wrote an incredible novel about rabies called Survivor Song , so naturally he joined me on tonight's GHOULISH to talk about bats, diseases, pandemics, anti-vaxxers, and math. CONTEST: If you can solve Paul's impossible math question at the end of the episode, tag us on Twitter @Ghoulishpod, @GiveMeYourTeeth, and @PaulGTremblay (and, heck, give us a follow while you're at it!...

Miguel Villa is the most dedicated  Halloween  fan I've ever met, and in tonight's massively long episode of GHOULISH, we talked through the entire franchise, covering topics like the multiple timelines that exist for the movies, the fact that Michael Myers only eats dogs, and whether or not John Carpenter would be good at sex (the answer is yes). Also, at the very end, I read some extremely graph...

Daniel Kraus is the co-writer of  The Living Dead  (with George A. Romero!), out now through Tor Books. On tonight's episode of GHOULISH, Daniel discussed collaborating with a legend after he passed away, the correct order to watch Romero's living dead films, and what exactly makes up a corpse club. Order  The Living Dead  through Bookshop.org. Buy my new novella: We Need to Do Something. Check ou...

To celebrate the 50th episode of GHOULISH, I answered audience questions and read true spooky stories, both from our mailbag and also Reddit. Feel free to email your own true spooky stories to ghoulishpod@gmail.com for future mailbag episodes. Buy  We Need to Do Something. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Browse the books on our webstore. Support us on Patreon. Check out our merch.

Sam Richard and Brendan Vidito recently published an literary tribute anthology to David Cronenberg appropriately titled  The New Flesh. On tonight's episode of  Ghoulish,  they were kind enough to hop on and talk about the master of body horror and what makes his work so dang awesome. Support Weirdpunk Books. Buy  We Need to Do Something. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Browse the books on our w...

Andrew Hilbert forced his way back on the podcast to tell me about his firsthand experience with sleep paralysis. Along the way, we also talked about the scariest unexplainable things to ever happen in our personal lives, as well as bizarre disappearances found on Reddit. Warning: this episode of Ghoulish  is legit terrifying. Support Andrew by visiting http://5gkilledgod.com/ Buy  We Need to Do S...

Josh Malerman returned to  Ghoulish  to discuss the horror community, the significance of original ideas, Iain Reid, Charlie Kaufman, and how Twitter is maybe rotting our brains. Buy Josh Malerman's  Malorie. Pre-order  Standalone  by Paul Michael Anderson. Buy  We Need to Do Something. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Browse the books on our webstore. Support us on Patreon. Check out our merch.

Zach Chapman once edited a time travel anthology, which is  news to me.  He also has several chickens, but refuses to give me one of them. Listen, our friendship is complicated, but we can all agree on one thing: nobody actually wanted to go to Stephen Hawking's birthday party, anyway. Buy  Time Travel Tales. Pre-order  Standalone  by Paul Michael Anderson. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Browse...

Jay Wilburn has dipped his toes into an alternate reality and returned to tell us all about the Stephen King books published on The Other Side, where  I Jason  turned out to be a little more than just a tweet that went viral. Buy  Dark Moon Digest Issue #40. Listen to  Castle Rock Radio. Pre-order  Standalone  by Paul Michael Anderson. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Browse the books on our webst...

Uh oh! Ghoulish goes full-Australian in a special episode about koalas, drop bears, reality TV shows, vegemite, crocodiles, and gun-totin' cowboys. Zachary Ashford is the guest, Glenn Parker is the special co-host, and I'm mostly puzzled by the mysterious wasteland that makes up Australia. Is that what koalas really  sound like? Jesus Christ! Buy Zachary Ashford's  Sole Survivor. Check out Glenn P...

Glenn Parker, host of the  Does the Dog Die in This?  podcast, joins me this week on  Ghoulish  to discuss dogs in horror, along with a variety of other topics, such as goatse, space docking, rotten dot com, Faces of Death, Australian jousting, and unexpected  Stranger Things  fame. Listen to  Does the Dog Die in This?  here. Watch a dog get microwaved in The Willies (not  Urban Legend  like I ori...

Jessica McHugh returns to  Ghoulish to discuss blackout poetry and her new collection,  A Complex Accident of Life.   Buy Jessica's blackout poetry collection. Support Jessica on Patreon. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Browse the books on our webstore. Support us on Patreon. Check out our merch.

John Baltisberger returns to  Ghoulish  to discuss radical Jewish mythology, golems, mud wrestling, and terrible bands nobody listens to anymore. Buy  Blood & Mud. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Browse the books on our webstore. Support us on Patreon. Check out our merch.

Joe R. Lansdale is probably the greatest writer who has ever lived. Okay, strike that "probably" from the last sentence. His fiction is often difficult to describe, as he tends to say, "Screw you," to genre expectations and write whatever the hell he pleases. Recently he released his cult-favorite  Drive-In  trilogy as a single omnibus, so I invited him on the podcast to discuss its origins. I als...

Trevor Henderson (@slimyswampghost) might very well be the GOAT when it comes to spooktacular found footage horror. This week on the podcast he hopped on to discuss new internet fame, the joys of cosmic horror, and why daylight horror is superior to night. ALSO: Why is nobody talking about the fact that aliens apparently exist??? Follow Trevor on Twitter @slimyswampghost. Check out his TV Tropes p...

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this an interview with Bitter Karella—creator of the incredibly entertaining Midnight Pals! Topics discussed in this week's episode: how the Midnight Pals originated, Lovecraft's racism, a fantasy series about wizards not  written by a TERF, sumptuous Italian feasts, and many other things. Follow @Midnight_Pals on Twitter. Buy the Midnight...

Betty Rocksteady returned to the podcast to talk about Eddie "Child Slayer" G, aka Edward Gorey, the GOAT of surreal cartoons about children dying horrific deaths. We also talked at length about what the hell poutine is. Gorey books mentioned during the podcast:  The Hapless Child, The West Wing, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Insect God, and The Doubtful Guest. Buy  The Writhing Skies. Check out our...

Andrew Hilbert grew up in a cult. He is also one of my best friends. In this week's episode of Ghoulish , we finally got together and talked at great length about his bizarre childhood. Purchase Andrew Hilbert's  Invasion of the Weirdos . Check out our Bookshop.org page. Browse the books on our webstore. Support us on Patreon. Check out our merch.

Lisa Quigley (author of  Hell's Bells ) hopped on the podcast to discuss why the devil is actually cool and good. We also talked a lot about Queen. Buy  Hell's Bells  by Lisa Quigley. Listen to the  Hell's Bells  soundtrack on Spotify . Check out our Bookshop.org page. Browse the books on our webstore. Support us on Patreon. Check out our merch.

Scott Beggs has a new short story out in the latest issue of Dark Moon Digest (#39!) about black market organ harvesting. In this week's episode of Ghoulish , he was kind enough to talk for a half hour about the weird research route he went on while writing the story, including how the system tends to screw over med students. We also discuss what we would like to happen to our bodies when we final...