FEARMONGERS
FEARMONGERS
Podcast Description
Bestselling author Clay McLeod Chapman hosts FEARMONGERS, featuring interviews with and readings by horror fiction’s biggest stars. Produced in cooperation with Verso Studios at the Westport Library.
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The podcast covers a broad spectrum of horror literature, focusing on themes such as psychological horror, slasher tropes, and the cathartic function of horror storytelling. Noteworthy episodes explore topics like the zombie apocalypse genre with Brian Keene, trends in horror literature from 2024 to 2025, and the personal journeys of authors confronting everyday terrors, emphasizing how horror provides a reflection of societal fears.
Bestselling author Clay McLeod Chapman hosts FEARMONGERS, featuring interviews with and readings by horror fiction’s biggest stars. Produced in cooperation with Verso Studios at the Westport Library.
Host Clay McLeod Chapman plumbs the depths of depravity with two of the darkest novels for 2025: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker and rekt by Alex Gonzalez. Deep fakes, AI, COVID, racism, crime scene cleaners and the dark web are all covered. Trigger warnings galore in this gory and grotesque episode!
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