KJ Brantley

Uncanny Women

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Uncanny Women is a horror podcast featuring honest, year-round conversations with women and gender-diverse authors and filmmakers shaping the genre today. Hosted by horror writer and SoCo Women in Horror Festival founder KJ Brantley, each episode explores an author's lived experiences behind the work and how personal, cultural, and emotional truths take shape through horror. Thoughtful and intimate these conversations center the voices that continue to redefine what horror can be. Subscribe, Like, & Follow for all of the latest women in horror! Follow Uncanny Women: Instagram: @uncannywomenpod...

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KJ Brantley

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EP. 5 | Hailey Piper — Destroying What We Love, Emotional Horror, and Reading More Women 09.07.2026 39:26

In this episode of Uncanny Women Podcast, KJ Brantley sits down with Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth , Teenage Girls Can Be Demons , No Gods for Drowning , This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want , and She Isn’t Herself Tonight, among many more. Hailey discusses her two upcoming releases, including the cursed-film horror of This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want and...

EP. 4 | CJ Leede — From Maeve Fly to Headlights: Grief and the American Landscape 23.06.2026 44:54

In this episode of Uncanny Women Podcast, KJ Brantley sits down with CJ Leede, author of Maeve Fly , American Rapture , and Headlights . CJ reflects on the acclaim that followed the release of Maeve Fly and what it's been like navigating the expectations that come with a breakout debut. Together, they discuss how religion and grief have each shaped her work, the emotional power of body horror, and...

EP. 3 | V.S. Lawrence — Female Friendships, Religious Horror, and '90s Nostalgia 30.05.2026 31:11

In this episode of Uncanny Women Podcast , KJ Brantley sits down with V.S. Lawrence, prolific indie horror author of 80s Ghosts , With Friends Like These , and the upcoming Just Us Here . Together, they discuss women's friendships in horror, growing up as '90s kids, religious upbringing and religious horror, cults, nostalgia, and the ways our childhood and life experiences shape the stories they t...

EP. 1 | Sara van Os — Survival Skills, Opera Drag, and Why Women Are Better 17.05.2026 34:41

In the debut episode of Uncanny Women Podcast , KJ Brantley sits down with author Sara van Os to discuss horror, wilderness survival, queer identity, and the strange confidence that comes from watching far too much Naked and Afraid . Together, they dive into van Os’s debut novel Decomposition Book , writing deeply flawed characters, survival narratives, and women in horror fiction. The conversatio...

EP. 2 | R.J. Joseph — Literary Splatterpunk and Being the Monster 15.05.2026 41:15

In this episode of Uncanny Women Podcast, KJ Brantley sits down with Shirley Jackson and Stoker Award-nominated author, editor, and scholar R.J. Joseph to discuss horror through the lens of history, identity, monstrosity, and the Black lived experience. Together, they explore Joseph’s acclaimed collection Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted, her upcoming collection My Monsters Ain't Like Your...