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Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastEmerald Anvil & Blair Witch at 25 with Gregg Hale and Ed SanchezWe're joined once more by filmmakers Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez, the brains behind The Blair Witch Project, V/H/S, Lovely Molly, and many more.Gregg and Hale talk to us about their new podcast-based audio drama Black Velvet Fairies. It's a tour de force meta narrative that plays with the found footage medium that gave them their big break, but also features real-world interviews with paranormal experts, dissections of EVP phenomena, and a descent into family history that reveals dark creatures and ancient secrets waiting to be let into the light. We also d...
2024-05-2359 min
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastUnder The Skin with Gregg Hale & Eduardo SanchezYou might be forgiven for thinking that us saying we had two of the horror genre's most distinguished filmmakers on the show would be an April Fool's joke, but you should know by now we never, ever joke about our guests (except for RJ Barker, who will forever be known as the Goth King of Leeds). Today we're joined by Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez, who burst onto the moviemaking scene in 1999 with one of the most audacious, innovative and greatest horror movies of all time, The Blair Witch Project.Gregg and Ed have chosen to talk...
2024-04-0250 min
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastOn Short Stories with John LanganChristopher and Dan are joined by horror writer John Langan, whose great horror novel The Fisherman finally is out now in the UK, an inexplicable seven years after being first published in most other territories.John talks to us about the health and wellbeing of Laird Barron, one of the other members of the modern horror brat pack, who suffered recent well-publicised ill-health. We also talk about the methods and madness of writing short stories, touch upon a few of John's acclaimed short fiction, and the relationship between geography and horror.Elsewhere Lieutenant Bu...
2024-02-281h 26
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastGone Fishin' With John LanganAhoy ahoy! When the Beanstalker and I were drawing up our wish list for guests on the podcast, there was one name that @Phyrebrat was adamant that we try and get. That was the American author John Langan, who joins us for this episode. John is one of the masters of modern horror and whose seminal book The Fisherman, an exploration of guilt, diaspora history, and weird cosmic horror, won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award.So we finally got hold of John and he joins us this month to celebrate the UK launch of The Fisherman (a...
2023-11-021h 31
Irish Science FictionThe Brian Sexton & Jay Starliper Podcast (Episode 1438 and 3/16)Some more messing to tide things over to Nancy Goodaim Ep.24, which'll be out in a day or two. Thanks to comedian Jay Starliper for his work as Bungalow. Part of a series for the excellent SFF Chronscast podcast.
2023-10-0705 min
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastPublishing in 2023 with Anne PerryPeat and Dan are joined by Anne Perry, publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books. Anne talks with us about the state of the publishing market in 2023, and what authors ought to consider when positioning their book in the market. We talk about the rising prices of books, the price differential between different regions, subscription-based business models, printing-on-demand, and how the high street retail mode, has changed in the face of internet growth.Elsewhere, Lieutenant returns from the Corridors of Time (time, time, time etc) and brings back disturbing news about the future of humanity. T...
2023-09-1952 min
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastUprooted with Anne Perry Part 1We're back after the summer break, and are joined by Anne Perry, the publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books, to talk about Naomi Novik's 2015 fantasy bestseller, Uprooted. Based upon aspects of rural Polish folklore, Uprooted follows Agnieszka, a plain village girl who is shocked to learn that she is to be taken away to live with The Dragon, a powerful and distant wizard who lives in a tower at the edge of the valley, and protects them from a malevolent and expanding forest. Anne, Peat and Dan discuss the feminine voice and perspectives the book offers, from fr...
2023-09-051h 15
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastWatership Down with RJ BarkerSo! After a few technical hitches and delays our bumper new episode is finally up. The Big Peat and I are joined by the award-winning fantasy author RJ Barker, whose novel The Bone Ships won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2020. Together we rabbit on about Richard Adams's 1978 classic piece of children's fantasy literature, Watership Down.Watership Down follows a group of rabbits who, led by the reluctant but resourceful leader Hazel, leave the safety of their warren after Hazel's younger brother Fiver, has a Cassandra-like premonition of a catastrophe befalling their home. So, joined...
2023-06-082h 17
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastCoronation Special! Titus Groan with Toby FrostIt's Coronation Day! Well, not quite. But in the UK we are steadily approaching the moment when the king, Charles III, formally takes the Oath and is crowned. This month we're tackling Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, the first book in the seminal Gormenghast series. Titus follows the birth of the titular character and the first eighteen months of his life, which culminates in a very strange, ersatz coronation of its own. Joining Pete and me as we clamber across the rooftops and sneak through the dungeons of Gormenghast is the author Toby Frost, best known for his t...
2023-05-022h 00
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastEpisode 16 - Excalibur with Bryan WigmoreMerlin's Beard! What better topic to talk about as we enter the springtime and the regeneration of the land than Excalibur and the legend of Arthur, King of the Britons, who is prophesied to restore the land to verdance and glory and who knows much about the average velocity of unladen swallows. But we'll not be focusing on that particular cinematic incarnation of the once and future king. We'll be talking about the operatic 1981 John Boorman film Excalibur, which boldly attempts to condense a significant amount of Thomas Malory's 15th century manuscript, Le Morte d'Arthur, into two and-a-half hours...
2023-03-302h 02
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastIntroducing Peat LongWhen Chronscast was originally set up I wanted different co-host folks for different co-host strokes. I wanted my guest today, the blogger Peat Long, to contribute to the podcast particularly in the area of fantasy fiction, in all its guises and possibilities. For various reasons he couldn't commit at the start of the venture, but I'm pleased to say that Peat has agreed to be an occasional co-host with me in the future.Today Peat and I are having a short conversation to introduce him, his thoughts on genre fiction, his prolific blog, and his own writing...
2023-02-2028 min
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastSandman with Tade ThompsonWe're joined today by Tade Thompson, the multi award-winning author of such books as Rosewater, Making Wolf, Far From the Light of Heaven, and the Molly Southbourne novellas. He is also a self-confessed comics junkie, which he proved when he joined us last year to delve into the great WATCHMEN. This year Tade talks with us about Sandman, arguably Neil Gaiman's greatest piece of work, and another example of the comic book medium bursting free from its pulpy roots and demonstrating that it can stand up as art and literature. Sandman's mantelpiece, groaning under the weight of a World...
2023-02-072h 03
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastJohn Carpenter's The Thing with Chad Fifer and Chris LackeyWe see in 2023 with Chad Fifer and Chris Lackey, the hosts of the Strange Studies of Strange Stories podcast covering genre fiction. As well podcasting, they are quite the polymath duo; Chad is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician, and Chris is a writer of books for tabletop RPGs and co-host of other podcasts such as Rachel Watches Star Trek.Chad and Chris's bread and butter is H.P Lovecraft - they cut their teeth on HP Podcraft, a podcast dedicated to the master of cosmic horror - and they join us today to talk about a movie...
2023-01-191h 33
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastGhost Stories For Christmas with Alison LittlewoodAs the nights draw in and we approach the midwinter, what better way to celebrate the season than dipping into that most macabre of festive traditions, the Christmas ghost story? While we're all familiar with Dickens's A Christmas Carol, more modern traditions include the BBC's A Ghost Story For Christmas, adaptations of typically M.R James stories, and which themselves are continuations of ancient storytelling customs that stretches back several centuries, when midwinter and the winter solstice, rather than Hallowe'en, was the time of year where the veil between the lands of the living and the dead was at...
2022-12-071h 35
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastThe Left Hand Of Darkness with Emily InkpenThis month we're talking about one of the all-time classics of science-fiction literature, and arguably the book that demonstrated science-fiction could be literature: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand Of Darkness, a million-selling Hugo and Nebula winner. We talk about the book's enduring legacy, its approach to worldbuilding, character, and loose(ish) plot, and how the book plays with ideas of light, darkness, a balance of the two, and ultimately, love. We also dig into the book's sexual politics, the extent to which the book is feminist with respect to its portrayals of sex and gender, and the...
2022-11-082h 08
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastLud In The Mist with Juliet E. McKennaThis month we're joined by the author fantasy author Juliet E. McKenna, creator of several epic series including The Tales of Einarinn, The Aldabreshin Compass sequence, The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, and The Hadrumal Crisis trilogy. Juliet talks to us about one of the very first examples of what we might term "modern fantasy" - Hope Mirrlees' 192 novel Lud In The Mist. Juliet and I talk about where Lud sits in the canon of fantasy - we compare it to Tolkien, for example, and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books, as well as other modernist literature from the post-WW1 years...
2022-09-051h 51
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastInish Carraig with Naomi FoyleThis month we're joined by the award-winning British-Canadian author, poet and essayist Naomi Foyle, to talk about Inish Carraig, the alien-invasion-cum-prison break thriller by our very own @Jo Zebedee.Among the topics we cover is the quintessential "Norn Irishness" of the book, conveyed without ever lapsing into cliché, but yet acknowledging the unique history and culture of the place in a subtle and different manner. We also talk about the physiology of alien species, robots, the gothic setting, and the different identities and representations the book plays with.Elsewhere we also discuss the possibilities and p...
2022-08-082h 02
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastMythago Wood with John JarroldWe're joined by one of the kings of UK science-fiction and fantasy, the literary agent John Jarrold, to talk about Rob Holdstock's majestic 1984 novel Mythago Wood, winner of the World Fantasy Award.Over a career spanning almost fifty years John has become one of the leading lights and champions for British genre fiction, and a household name within that community. In the publishing industry he has run three SFF imprints: Legend at Random House; Earthlight at Simon & Schuster, and Orbit books, where one of his authors was none other than Rob Holdstock. These days he runs the...
2022-07-042h 04
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastHouse Of Leaves with Ed WilsonThis episode we finally open that door of the Chronscast household we'd not dared to open before and plunge into the abyssal labyrinth that is Mark Danielewski's maddeningly epic debut novel, House Of Leaves. A book that defies conventional categorisation, it's been described as a horror, a literary piece, a puzzle, and even a love story. We're joined on this subterranean literary odyssey by renowned literary agent Ed Wilson. Ed is the director of the Johnson & Alcock literary agency, representing a vibrant and developing list of fiction and non-fiction, from new and debut writers to established, bestselling and award-winning...
2022-06-062h 09
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastWATCHMEN with Tade ThompsonOn this episode of Chronscast we're joined by award-winning SF author Tade Thompson to talk about WATCHMEN, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's comic-book masterpiece that skewers the superhero genre using its own architecture. Tade is the author of numerous novels, including the critically acclaimed sci-fi novel Rosewater, the first in his award winning WORMWOOD TRILOGY, Making Wolf, and most recently Far From the Heaven, and the Molly Southbourne series. He has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nommo Award, the Kitschies Golden Tentacle award, and the Julia Verlange award, and been shortlisted for the Hugo Award, the Philip...
2022-05-092h 07
The Constant Reader Podcast - The Canon of Stephen KingEpisode Twenty-Three - Duma Key w/Christopher Bean (Co-host of the Chronscast Podcast, Writer of A Sour Ground)Duma Key, an epic of recovery, talent, murderous secrets and the Florida Keys gets a deep dive today. I was recently a guest on the SFF Chrons podcast hosted by fan of the show Dan Jones and co-hosted by today's guest, Christopher Bean. Duma Key hits hard for Christopher, in ways that we discuss in depth on this episode. Thanks to Christopher for coming on and talking about this slice of what he has dubbed 'beach-horror', and please check out his podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chronscast/ and the message board at https://www.sffchronicles.com...
2022-05-011h 12
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastSwords And Deviltry with Stephen CoxToday we're joined by Stephen Cox, the author of the science-fiction drama Our Child Of The Stars, and the newly-published sequel, Our Child Of Two Worlds, both published by Jo Fletcher Books. Stephen dives with us into Fritz Leiber's swords-and-sorcery classic, Swords And Deviltry, which introduces two of fantasy's greatest heroes, the barbarian Fafhrd, and the sly swordsman Gray Mouser. We talk about the origin stories of the two heroes, and the psychodramas contained therein, paying attention to how the young protagonists must each escape the very different types of parental stranglehold to make their own way in the...
2022-04-041h 55
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastAn American Werewolf In London with Richard SheppardFor this episode we're joined by Richard Sheppard, host of The Constant Reader Podcast, which takes a deep dive into all things Stephen King, from his numerous novels to the equally numerous movie and TV adaptations of his work.Richard talks with us about John Landis's seminal 1981 film An American Werewolf in London, a horror comedy that is funny and scary in equal measure, and remains the high watermark for werewolf movies everywhere, and especially so for a curious period in the early 1980s when werewolf fever seems to have had America in its lycanthropic claw. We...
2022-03-071h 40
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastKlara And The Sun with Jo ZebedeeWe're joined on this episode by Jo Zebedee, author of several novels, including the Abendau space opera trilogy, the dystopian Inish Carraig and the Irish fantasy Waters And The Wild. Jo talks to us about Klara And The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro's 2020 novel about a sickly young girl who purchases a robotic "Artificial Friend" called Klara. Klara sets about trying to heal her human owner by using some very strange logic. Jo talks with us about how the book, despite being told from a robot's POV, shows us how to live the most human of lives. We also touch on...
2022-02-071h 38
The Constant Reader Podcast - The Canon of Stephen KingEpisode Twenty - Needful Things w/Dan Jones (Writer of Man o' War and Host of the Chronscast Podcast)Buyer beware in Castle Rock, as Leland Gaunt only wants a little of your money, and all of your soul. Stephen King's 1994 novel Needful Things gets a dismantling with returning guest Dan Jones. One of our mutual favourites, and one of the stories that signposted the interesting development King's work would take in the 1990s, as he starts to leave Maine behind (in explosive fashion) and branches out to weirder climes....
Dan Jones is the author of Man o' War, published by Snowbooks which can be purchased from amazon, forbidden planet.......and he has his own website...
2022-01-311h 00
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastNorthern Lights with Stephen PalmerWe were joined on this episode by Stephen Palmer, author of several genre novels including Memory Seed, Tommy Catkins, The Girl With Two Souls, and many more. His latest novel, Monique Orphan, was published in November 2021 by Infinite Press.Stephen spoke with us about Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. We discussed the novel's call to action on the part of the protagonist, its rich and complex themes, whether it really succeeds in laying down its atheist credentials, and how Pullman drew the narrative out of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. Stephen talks about his own l...
2022-01-101h 49
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastS1 E1 - Northern Lights with Stephen PalmerWe were joined on this episode by Stephen Palmer, author of several genre novels including Memory Seed, Tommy Catkins, The Girl With Two Souls, and many more. His latest novel, Monique Orphan, was published in November 2021 by Infinite Press.
Stephen spoke with us about Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. We discussed the novel's call to action on the part of the protagonist, its rich and complex themes, whether it really succeeds in laying down its atheist credentials, and how Pullman drew the narrative out of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.
Stephen talks about his...
2022-01-101h 49
Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror PodcastWelcome to ChronscastDan Jones and Chris Bean introduce Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science fiction & fantasy (and horror!) community, with over 20,000 members and growing.In episode 0, we give an overview of season 1, outlining what people can expect from Chronscast, why we're doing it, and how it links back to SFF Chronicles. As SFF Chronicles (or "Chrons" as we call it) has a large writing community embedded in it, we'll be taking a look at some of the great genre books (and the occasional film) from the perspective of writers, trying to figure out why...
2022-01-0621 min
CrohnsCastmy OSTOMY STRIPPER experience | Living with IBD | ChronsCastGetting naked in private for some ostomates can be a struggle; Justan tells us how he faced his fear and took the stage to bare all to his female audience.
Getting diagnosed with IBD can be a relief in many cases and in some still be a huge shock. Living with IBD can require massive lifestyle adjustment. Though there are actually many things we have in common whilst living our lives with IBD, there are still so many lessons we can learn from each other’s journey's be that living with Crohn's, Colitis or with an ostomy. Our...
2020-09-171h 22
CrohnsCastIBD IS THE SOURCE OF MY CREATIVITY | Living with IBD | Amber | ChronsCast Ep 7I almost died, my JPouch has gave me my life back In this episode I talk to Amber, the creative mind behind Colitis Ninja. Amber tells me about her struggles with IBD and how this was framed to become ‘Colitis Ninja’ so join us for ‘My IBD is the source of my creativity’
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I’m a 36 yr old dad, who happens to be a fitness professional with Crohn’s disease, with a little help from my friends a...
2020-02-221h 03