The Bleeding Margin

We sat down with Paul Tremblay at the 2025 Miami Book Fair to discuss his novel  Horror Movie , working in Hollywood and the horror of the unknown.

In an aggressively air-conditioned office on the campus of Miami Dade College last December, the editors of  The Bleeding Margin  had an unexpected conversation with superstar horror author Stephen Graham Jones, during which they discussed his latest novel,  The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,  his love of 80s horror films and, most interestingly, why  Terminator 2  and  Die   Hard  hold special places in...

Acclaimed author Romina Garber joins  The Bleeding Margin  to discuss her new novel,  The Last Vampire , and the expansive world-building that drives her fiction. We explore her long path through rejection, the immigrant identities woven through her work, the evolution of vampire mythology, and why she begins every story by constructing the universe first. Garber also reflects on craft, influence,...

In this episode of  The Bleeding Margin Podcast  recorded at the 2025 Miami Book Fair, Vivian and John Mark sit down with DC author  Lacey Dunham  to talk about her debut Gothic novel,  The Belles . We get into her journey from early childhood teacher and bookseller to novelist, the failed “serious” book that came before this one, and how she finally leaned into ghosts, dark academia, and Southern...

In this episode of  The Bleeding Margin , host John Mark King explores a defining but often overlooked trend in 1950s horror and science fiction: the detached narrator. From John Wyndham’s  Day of the Triffids  to Richard Matheson’s  I Am Legend  and Jack Finney’s  Invasion of the Body Snatchers , the era’s storytellers often placed their narrators at a distance, watching catastrophe unfold rather...

In this first episode of  The Bleeding Margin , from  The Capitol Horror , host John Mark King dives into the work of one of his all-time favorite horror authors, Richard Laymon. A writer both beloved and maligned, Laymon’s pulp-infused tales are as unique as they are divisive. John Mark explores what makes Laymon’s voice so distinctive, why he stirs such strong reactions among horror fans, and wh...