Behind Your Face There is a Place

This episode's guest is ERIN E. ADAMS, critically acclaimed author of Jackal, and the upcoming 2025 release, One of You.

In this episode, we get into the terrifying paranoia, gaslighting, and more in Ira Levin's classic, Rosemary's Baby. Shirley Jackson Award winner R.A. Busby (Words Made of Flesh) joins me for this convo, where we also dive into some of her short fiction as well, and and see how Levin's perils of pregnancy--especially when people around you are trying to make decisions for you about your own body--are still painfully relevent.

Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters and What Kind of Mother, joins the podcast for an Author's Commentary episode!

The bestselling author of House of Salt & Sorrows, the upcoming The Thirteenth Child and much more joins me for an Author's Commentary episode that is, surprisingly, largely free of spoilers for a change. We talk about alterations she's had to make to her books, as well as other parts of the art and craft of novel writing.

Jamie Mason (The Hidden Things, Monday's Lie, Three Graves Full) jumps on to talk about the scares last act of The Exorcist, and to teach me a turn of phrase or two.

This week I'm joined by Peter Rosch, author and radio show host, for "Studying the Scares," where we talk about why we think certain stories and moments are so effective at scaring us. We kick this topic off with Poltergeist (1982), a movie laden with so many scares to analyze that we had to talk about practically the whole thing.