Horror from the High Desert Podcast
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Horror from the High Desert Podcast
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Horror podcast with author Scotty Milder talking to some of the genre’s most exciting voices.

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Coming Friday! @danielbraum.bsky.social returns to talk author Lucius ashepard’s classic “The Jaguar Hunter,” as well as his own upcoming collection from @jackanapespress.bsky.social, “Creatures of Liminal Space.”
March 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Happy book birthday to my two most recent Horror from the High Desert Podcast guests! “The Eris Ridge Trail” by @thatscarylarry.bsky.social and “The Divine Flesh” by @drewhuff.bsky.social are available today.

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March 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Coming Friday! I talk to author @drewhuff.bsky.social about her sci-fi novella “Landlocked in Foreign Skin” and her horror novel “The Divine Flesh” (both 2025). We discuss early influences, trauma and horror, writing processes, splatterpunk, the many contradictions in H.P. Lovecraft, and more.
March 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Coming Friday on Horror from the High Desert Podcast! Author @thatscarylarry.bsky.social is back to talk about his upcoming novella “The Eris Ridge Trail” (March 4).

#horrorfiction #cosmichorror #lovecraftianhorror #weirdfiction #roadtrip #dogs #horrorwriters #horrorfromthehighdesertpodcast
February 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
@rebelsam94.bsky.social returns to @hfthdpodcast.bsky.social to talk about his upcoming collection of interlinked stories, “The Poorly Made and Other Things” set in the same fictional upstate New York county as his novel “Edenville.”

They also talk about the 2019 film “”The Mortuary Collection.”
February 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christa Carmen returns to talk with Scotty about Tracy Sierra’s thiller “Nightwatching.” They discuss the novel’s unique horror elements, its use of “unreality,” Sierra’s command of subtle details to create suspense, and more.

WARNING: Spoilers begin at 20:25.
January 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Christa Carmen returns for our very first Horror From the High Desert “Book Club” episode to talk about Tracy Sierra’s thriller “Nightwatching” (2024, Pamela Dorman Books).

Thanks for your love and support after the devastating loss in my family last year. I’m excited to be back.
January 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Announcement about the future of the podcast. Thank you all for your support.
December 21, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Coming Friday! Time for another The Weirdest Thing Podcast crossover wiqith my cohost Amelia Ampuero! This week we dive into AMC’s reimagining of Anne Rice’s “Interview With the Vampire.” Join us for all the bloodsucking, undead, Southern Gothic goodness!

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December 10, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Author Belicia Rhea talks about some of her earliest influences, from inside the genre and out.

#writing #influences #inspiration #thefly #starshiptroopers #houseofleaves #russellhoban #brunoshulz #horrorwriters #horrorfromthehighdesertpodcast
November 30, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Belicia Rhea talks to Scotty about early influences, terrible teachers, amazing professors, and establishing her own voice. And they discuss her short fiction, as well as her debut novella “Voracious” (2024).

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November 30, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Coming Friday! I talk to Belicia Rhea about growing up in Tucson, finding her voice through horror and the surreal, going from writing short fiction to longer works like her debut novella “Voracious” (2024, Dark Matter Ink), the strange borderline between genre and literary fiction, and more.
November 26, 2024 at 8:28 AM