Postcards from a Dying World

If  reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month. •You can find my books here:  https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff Twitter-https://...

In the last years, Eric Guignard and his imprint Dark Moon Books have become a  leader in high-quality short horror fiction. In part by releasing excellent anthologies but also the Exploring Dark Fiction series.   Five books into the series am always excited to see a book of this series in my mailbox. All five books are not just entertaining but the type of collection that teaches t...

In this episode of  Postcards from a Dying World we speak with  Daniel Kraus the man hired by the Romero estate to finish the novel  George A. Romero was writing at his death. The director of Night of  Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and many more created the zombie genre in  1968 and this novel The Living Dead will serve as his final statement. In this interview, we talk ab...

In this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I talk to the author of the novel American War Omar El-Akkad. This novel is a Cli-fi Dystopia about a second American civil war that stands as a political allegory for Omar to shine a light on the War on Terrorism. Omar El Akkad was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a  teenager and now lives in the United States. As a journalis...

In this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I am excited to welcome Writer, Producer, and Director Brannon Braga. His first job in Hollywood was writing for Star Trek the Next Generation before being the showrunner of Voyager and Enterprise. He also wrote two films in the Star Trek franchise. A three-time Emmy nominee Braga is currently working on The Orville and Cosmos. In this episode, howev...

If reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather  up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month. •You can find my books here:  https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff Twitter-https://...

This episode of Postcards is a special one. Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of several groundbreaking books in the bizarro sub-genre, but he was always on the more horror end of the genre. He becomes the first returning interview. So go back and listen to Episode 6 that was recorded in 2017. Jeremy Robert Johnson could be considered a part of a new wave of horror to have mainstream publishing...

Since her untimely death in 2006 the Science Fiction world has come to realize that Octavia Butler is one of its most important voices.  This year for the first time her 1995 classic made the bestseller list because the 25-year-old book sadly casts a light on our modern world far too well. In this episode, I interviewed an artist and writing duo Damian Duffy and John Jennings.  They carr...

This is one of my favorite episodes yet! Rose O'Keefe is the owner and editor of the world's most prolific cult publisher Eraserhead Press. Besides the mainline Eraserhead has Deadite Press, Fungasm and more for imprints. Over almost two decades in business, Rose has published hundreds of weird books. With a passion for planning and thinking several steps ahead, Rose has been one of the major voic...

If reading takes to long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month. •You can find my books here:  Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW     •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff   Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor &n...

In this episode of Postcards, I am joined by three nerds...uh experts in the horror genre. We count down our top ten horror novels over two hours and talk about the reasons why we picked what we did. It was a great conversation and if you like reading horror you'll be writing down titles left and right. Joining Splatterpunk award-nominated author David Agranoff for this episode... Sadie Hartman AK...

In this episode of Postcards, I talk with an old school friend. Growing up in Bloomington Indiana one of the most important bands of my youth was local hardcore legends With Authority who rocked warehouses and basements around the midwest. After releasing three classic records the band ended and vocalist David Tate a former Marine went on to become a TV journalist. From punk rocker to covering mas...

On this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I am joined by author Stephen Graham Jones author of fifteen novels and six collections. He lives and teaches in Boulder Colorado. He is the author of many horror novels and a few works of experimental fiction including the Least of my Scars, Demon Theory and werewolf coming of age masterpiece Mongrels. For the first half of the interview,, we have a...

This episode of Postcards from a  Dying World I am joined by the author of the international bestselling sensation Bird Box. Before it was the most downloaded and memed movie on Netflix it was a debut novel from my guest. It won him the Bram Stoker award and he followed it up with Black  Mad Wheel, Unbury Carol, and Inspection. He is also one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band T...

I read eight books in the month of August - here is a quick recap.  If you want the full reviews go to my blog and use your eyeballs. You can find my books here:  Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW   •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff   Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor   Blog...

Paul Tremblay is the winner of the Bram Stoker award-winning author of A  Headful of Ghosts and Cabin at the End of the World.  His new novel from William Morrow Survivor song is one of the biggest horror novels of the year.  Not every horror novel gets tweets from Stephen King and reviewed on NPR. I have already read and reviewed Survivor Song on my blog, hosted a panel discussion...

Paul Tremblay is the winner of the Bram Stoker award-winning author of A Headful of Ghosts and Cabin at the End of the World.  His new novel from William Morrow Survivor song is one of the biggest horror novels of the year.  In this episode, I am joined by two talented writers Daniel Vlasty and Kirk Jones is to discuss this novel.  Daniel Vlasty is the author of several street level...

John Shirley is a musician and the award-winning author of more than thirty books. As co-screenwriter of The Crow, he gave Eric Draven a guitar and William Gibson called him Cyberpunk Patient Zero. In my opinion, he has masterpieces in both Science Fiction (City Come-a-Walkin') and Horror (Wetbones). At the forefront of Bizarro, Cyper, and Splatterpunk it was John who actually put the punk in thos...

When Laird Barron first announced Blood Standard as his first straight crime novel   I was excited that an author known for cosmic horror and dread was giving his talents to a project like this.  He was a 2007 and 2010 Shirley Jackson Award winner for his collections The Imago Sequence and Other Stories and Occultation and Other Stories . "Mysterium Tremendum"  won a 2010 Shirl...

So, over the last few years I have released several punk rock themed horror fiction novels including, Boot Boys of the Wolf Reich and Punk Rock Ghost Story. I also have a short story collection called Amazing Punk Stories and my final punk horror novel People’s Park is on the way. In that time, I have co-written and recorded original songs to go with two of the books. The music was written and rec...

July 2020 Book Review digest Featuring  Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff,  Extrapolation 61.1-2 Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek, An Unkindness of Ghosts by River Solomon, Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan, Ken Liu (Translator), Star Trek Picard The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack, Dead To Her by Sarah Pinborough.  Great month of reading! •You can find my books here: Amazon-https:...

Jeremy Robert Johnson could be considered a part of a new wave of horror to have mainstream publishing success, but he is also the first to come out of the Bizarro scene with a major hardcover release. Stephen  Graham Jones, Laura Lee Bahr, and Brian Evenson are authors who I think  walk this line that some times touches Horror, Bizarro, and fine  Literature all in the same stories....

F.Paul Wilson is the bestselling author of science fiction and Horror. He is one of my all-time favorite writers, and since I read The Keep in the 8th grade I have been a devoted fan. This is NOT an interview. In 2017 when this was recorded I was preparing to teach a class on writing horror novels at the Horrible imaginings Film Fest here in San Diego. My part of the class was about writing outlin...

If you enjoyed this audio review of the Boy on the Bridge check out our reviews on our blogs  www. DavidAgranoff.blogspot.com and Marvin can be found at: www.thenovelpursuit.blogspot.com •You can find my books here: Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here: Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoff...

Oldie but a goodie, I interviewed Cody at the 6th annual Bizarro con and we talked about many things.   www.codygoodfellow.com •You can find my books here: Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here: Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor