ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Our First Fears is a podcast hosted by Dan Poblocki featuring discussions about Gateway Horror, past and present, with artists working in the genre today.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 51 days
Average audio length:
62 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
29 episodes
since Aug. 2, 2023
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Episode 27 of Our First Fears is a chat with author, Aaron Starmer, about the Satanic Panic of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. We get into our own memories of the cultural paranoia surrounding the supposed existence of murderous cults and the myriad ways talk show hosts and news reports assured us that th…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In Episode 26, author Mar Romasco-Moore talks about their love for the cult classic Disney film, Return to Oz and how it influenced their latest young adult novel, Deadstream. This is one of our favorite films EVER, and if you haven’t seen it, you absolutely must. It’s got Dorothy Gale escaping a p…
Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, joins Our First Fears for Episode 25 to talk about growing up as a cold-war kid, terrorized by constant reports in the 1980s of threats of a nuclear strike. He found strange solace in certain books and movies at that time, specifically Warday, The Steel, the Mist,…
Episode 24 of Our First Fears has creepy middle-grade author, Lorien Lawrence chatting with Dan about Ed and Lorraine Warren, the real life “ghost hunters” who were played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in James Wan’s 2013 film THE CONJURING and its many sequels and offshoots. Lorien’s childhoo…
In this bonus episode, your host, Dan Poblocki, reads another creepy story, this time from his recent novel MORE Tales to Keep You Up at Night, and talks again about the story’s origins. “Imogen’s Skeleton,” is about a shy girl named Imogen who realizes that she may have a few things in common with…
In Episode 23, author Jeramey Kraatz joins Our First Fears to chat about urban legends. If you’re intrigued by tales of killers lurking at lover’s lanes, weirdos hiding under beds who like licking your hand in the middle of the night, creepy calls that come from inside the house, as well as creepyp…
In this bonus episode, Dan reads a chilling and chilly story from his novel Tales to Keep You Up at Night, and talks a bit about the story's origins. “The Psychopath’s Tarot,” is about a trio of teenage friends who trek to a wintery cabin in the middle of nowhere for a weekend of fun and relax…
Episode 22 of Our First Fears brings you author Sam Rebelein, whose fear of Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride runs through his veins, deeper than he even knows. We talk about the creepiness of the Hudson Valley in New York State, where we both live, and how our hometowns have influenced both of us, as …
In Episode 21, celebrated author, Adrianna Cuevas, joins Our First Fears to chat about “The Raft” segment from the 1987 anthology film, Creepshow 2. If you’re intrigued by body horror, questions of morality in scary stories, the science of decomposition, and badly behaved teenage boys getting what …
Episode 20 of Our First Fears brings to you horror-author and all-around super-star, Clay McLeod Chapman, as we chat about how he discovered Jason Vorhees as a kid.
YES, we’re finally tackling the 1980 slasher classic, Friday the 13th!
Together, Clay and I wonder if Camp Crystal Lake is a kind of…
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