It’s a week of sadness and hilarity on Talking Scared.
The happy stuff comes courtesy of Sarah Pinborough, author of Weird domestic gothics, like Behind Her Eyes and the brand new ghost story (or is it?) We Live Here Now.
We talk about confounding expectations, about the rules of the psychological thriller, about the British horror scene then and now, and about the dark truth that we all lie to each other.
The sadness... well you’ll hear that in the outro if you want to stick around for it. If not, no worries at all.
Enjoy!
Other books mentioned:
The Reckoning (2005), by Sarah Pinborough
Breeding Ground (2006), by Sarah Pinborough
Behind Her Eyes (2016), by Sarah Pinborough
Every Dead Thing (1999), by John Connolly
The Sleepwalkers (2024), by Scarlett Thomas
The Woman in Black (1983), by Susan Hill
The Shining (1977), by Stephen King
The Haunting of Hill House (1959), by Shirley Jackson
No One Gets Out Alive (2014),
by Adam Nevill
The Hamlet (2025), by Joanna Corrance
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