Let The Cat In

The Cat gets temporal (via a dingey side-alley packed full of flashers) with special guest Alan Baxter , award-winning author of Sallow Bend and The Gulp , and bona fide kung fu master. While Kaaron remembers a story from primary school and Aaron remembers his first kiss, Joseph blows the lights in the bus station. Al chases a flasher through the streets of London. Time is discussed, as is nostalg...

The Cat makes like Funes and gets memorious with special guest T. R. Napper , author of modern cyber-punk classics 36 Streets and Neon Leviathan . Joseph remembers a childhood event in third person, Kaaron steals her classmate's stranger-danger story, and Aaron steals somebody's homework. Intersubjective memory is discussed, alongside evolutionary theories of pain avoidance and what it means to be...

The Cat is back! Kicking off Season 2 with some little-known pub trivia, some Australian TV kitsch, and special guest, er... J. Ashley-Smith ? Kaaron warns against the dangers of cigar-shaped UFOs, and Aaron researches insects that kill other insects to wear their corpses. Joseph delves into his ancestry to discover unknown family members, moustaches, and the mystery of the missing Rodin. Also dis...

Join the Cat and crew for an epic wrap-up, recap, clip-show avoidance season finale, with special guest star... drum roll ... our very own Aaron Dries . In this, our last episode of Season 1, Aaron has celebrity thrust upon him, Kaaron steals the celery (maybe), and Joseph sleeps in a hammock made from Aaron's toenails. Milk is discussed (whether on toast, or in a tall glass), as is creative obses...

In the penultimate episode of the season, the Cat gets magical with special guest, the illustrious queen of fantasy (and all the animals), Isobelle Carmody , bestselling author of The Obernewtyn Chronicles , among many other beloved titles. Also, Crow. While Joseph returns to the attic of his childhood, Kaaron digs in her treasure box for 1820s brooch porn, and Aaron wards off magpies with dangero...

The Cat grapples with life's big questions in a super extended go-go mix episode with special guest the sensational Sean Williams , bestselling author of many books and stories , composer and musician (as theadelaidean ), all-round Renaissance man, and entertaining meal companion. While Aaron thwacks mandarines at passing trains, Kaaron takes a trip back to the Bishop's widow's snowglobe, and Jose...

The Cat gets technical as unparalleled horror editor Ellen Datlow joins the show from NYC, bringing behind-the-scenes insights into the conceptualising, compiling, editing and introduction of her (then) latest anthology, Screams From The Dark . While Joseph gets lost in a Borgesian labyrinth of shoes, Kaaron discovers the smells of the past, and Aaron takes a drubbing for his failure to correctly...

The Cat gets shonky in this bumper episode with a right-royal guest: the monstrously majestic Garth Nix , New York Times bestselling author of the Old Kingdom and Keys to the Kingdom series, and The Left-Handed Booksellers of London . While Aaron risks drowning to save his favourite books, Joseph fixates on random blinking lights, and Kaaron collects children's teeth in a jar – other people's chil...

The cat gets sartorial in our latest episode, starring this week's special guest, the unputdownable Kathe Koja , author of The Cipher and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning Velocities . While Kaaron pines for clothes she's given away, Joseph has a clothing crisis, and Aaron makes a startling confession. Kathe brings the FUN – literally – and outlines the basis of her religion. We learn about clothe...

The cat is back! Ring in the new year with an episode of numinous dimensions, starring this week's special guest, the illimitable Lynda E. Rucker , author of The Moon Will Look Strange and You'll Know When You Get There . Kaaron gets inspired on a long car trip, while Aaron populates the butchers paper of childhood with nightmares. Joseph curses everybody by misnaming the Buddha. Lynda reveals the...

In which the cats go deep and get Pavlovian with the singular and extraordinary Brian Evenson , author of The Glassy, Burning Floor Of Hell and Song For The Unravelling Of The World. Kaaron is transported by a box of treasures, Aaron gets lost in Seattle, and Joseph invents the bogus concept of 'Projectionism.' Brian escorts visitors to the grave of H.P. Lovecraft and shows off his Edgar Allen Poe...

Welcome, welcome! Step right up! Come feast your ears on the most delectable, the most memorious, the most professional podcast we've aired to date. In this show we hang with the wonderful JS Breukelaar , author of The Bridge, Collision, and American Monster, and mull on lost and forgotten things. Kaaron is transported by a smell, Aaron behaves inappropriately with a latex mask, and Masonic bling...

In which a podcast muddles through lockdown with the incontrovertible Paul Tremblay . In this week's show, Kaaron revisits a macabre swimming hole, Joseph gets down with the kids, and Aaron sobs into his keyboard. Paul shares his first art love, his passion for first-person assholes, and the inspiration for his new novel, The Pallbearers' Club . We learn about Meatloaf's broken leg, crowd-surfing...

In which we get the snake vibe with special guest – our first from overseas, and the recent past – the unparallelable John Langan . In this week's show, Aaron compares his writing process to a movie about Sarah Palin, Kaaron focuses on the details, while Joseph imagines everyone naked – with disastrous results for his powers of public speaking. John tries his damnedest not to overuse 'that' and ge...

In which we welcome the sensational Melinda Smith to our most sensuous, saucy and salacious episode to date! Joseph shares his toilet books and Kaaron shrieks in a bar, while Aaron flogs the pants he's wearing for a mere 50c. Everyone holds sexists to account for their misogyny, and rails against knee-jerk retribution in fiction. Melinda's lei triggers discussion of curses, spurning and Sharon's s...

Over polenta chips and tepid threats of robotic erasure, a podcast welcomes its first guest – the eloquent, charming Daniel O'Malley. We learn about Aaron's lovely handwriting and Kaaron's teenage exploits in Delhi. Battle lines are drawn and fisticuffs waggled over which Avengers did it better (I think we all know the winner of that particular contest - hem hem , Diana Rigg). The lost art of lett...

In which our hosts commit to a name for their podcast after debating the complicated genders of cats. We learn of Kaaron's passion for minor characters, and Aaron's bleak and bloody 'comfort' reads. While Joseph struggles to remember the word 'raconteur', everyone agrees on the dark cosiness of Daphne DuMaurier. Kaaron shares the story of a mirror, with a personal history that spans generations, l...

In which—through a mishap with a closed door and a cat outside—a podcast gets a name. And an origin story. Kaaron is transported by smells and shows off her pot of Thar's Ointment. A discussion of the exoticism and inappropriate uses of tiger balm leads our humble presenters to conclude that their show is NOT for a PG audience. We learn of Aaron's passion for ugly jumpers and that the  real  Grief...

In which Kaaron, Aaron and Joseph wax lyrical on the nature of ideas and their containment in divers objects. Aaron shares his unusual relationship with The Maxx. Joseph unveils the history of his family's cursed knife. And Kaaron tells the story of her trauma radio – an object of beauty for some, and horror for others. Check out the episode page for pics and bits.