ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Authors P.L. McMillan and Carson Winter have joined forces to have lively, irreverent, and hopefully helpful conversations on the craft of writing horror fiction. Expect weird tangents, frank industry discussions, interviews, and more!
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
80 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
180 episodes
since Feb. 15, 2023
episodic
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Carson and PLM catch-up on post-Halloween shenanigans and delve into writing questions from Reddit!
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You wrote in with your hard-hitting writer questions! Are you going to get an agent? Finally write that novel? Collapse into a ball of tears and failure?
PLM and Carson pull out their decks to reveal the truth through playful mysticism.
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This is it spooky co-eds—the winners of the 2026 Dead Languages Drabble Contest! We read the top stories for this spooky Halloween episode. Stay safe and have a spooky holiday!
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You're in an abandoned house, you're shotgun only has two shells, and something's moaning in the blackness of the corridor... WTF do you do?
This week the Goblin Professors discuss the ins and outs of survival horror, it's history, and what we love about the subgenre.
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It's time for all of you black-clad ghouls to blossom into your final form! This week, we bring a chill hang out episode to the spooky co-eds, where we list our top 5 2026 Halloween-season vibe flicks.
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Pink horror? Mantasy? Guy-fi? Weird Girl Lit? We talk with author CJ Subko about gendered genres and how they kinda suck.
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This week, we pay tribute to the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest and their celebration of terrible opening lines. We reached out to the spooky coeds for them to submit their own terrible openers and even came up with a couple of our own!
https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
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We continue our look into the HWA's many varied recent tragedies!
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has been in a constant state of disaster recently, much of it surrounding (now, former) executive director Maxwell I. Gold. In this two-parter, we go over the many recent controversies of the HWA.
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The spooky professors try out a new format this week!
Raise your hand if you've been rejected by THE DARK.
We read the August 2026 issue of famed horror magazine THE DARK to analyze what they publish and if it matches their submission guidelines!
Discord: https://discord.gg/97EtArJQnP
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