This Is Horror is a podcast that interviews creatives and writers weekly including Chuck Palahniuk, Dean Koontz, Josh Malerman, Jennifer Lynch, Tananarive Due, Charlaine Harris, and Joe R. Lansdale. Michael David Wilson is the author of books such as The Girl in the Video and House of Bad Memories and the host of This Is Horror Podcast. Every week we bring you horror fiction news and writing tips.
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I often like to take stock of what I’m doing with my life and career to make sure I’m utilising my time effectively and achieving what I want with my life. As a number of you know, there are four big areas of focus right now:
At different times in my life, different areas have taken centre stage. There’s a fire in me right now that desperately wants to take This Is Horror Podcast to the next level. The dream would be for me to run This Is Horror Podcast as my main day (and night) job. To make that happen, it needs to be more financially lucrative without compromising the values or reasons I run This Is Horror or derive so much joy from it. Here’s the vision to take This Is Horror Podcast to the next level.
This is the vision, this is my focus, this is the This Is Horror mission statement! I won’t be able to do all of these things overnight, but I want This Is Horror Podcast to be ‘the people’s podcast’. We say we’re ‘the voice of horror’ and we want to amplify ALL voices. How can you help?
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So, that’s the future of This Is Horror Podcast, folks. I’m hoping I can take the podcast to the next level and whatever happens—whether I succeed, whether I fail, whether I fall somewhere in between—I’m going to make a bloody big effort to make things happen. Jason Pargin Returns to This Is Horror Podcast Before I go, I'd be remiss not to give a shoutout to the latest This Is Horror Podcast episode. We talk to Jason Pargin about writing pop culture references in film and fiction. You can check out the audio wherever you get your podcasts or right here on the This Is Horror website. You can check out the video here on the This Is Horror Podcast YouTube channel. Lots of other good articles below, so please check them out before you go. Thanks for reading, thanks for listening, and as always … Have a great, great day. Michael David Wilson P.S. If you like this newsletter and want to support my work and This Is Horror, please become a This Is Horror Podcast patron. It would make me happy but only do it if it will make you happy, too. (Hey, I always include this but appreciate this post is mostly about just that.) P.P.S. If you’re ready to take your writing to the next level with some professional editing or a writing consultation, you can find out about my rates here and reply to this email. P.P.P.S. There are a limited amount of This Is Horror Podcast advertising slots available for July and August. Please reply to query. Look Out For … Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner“Combining true-crime with gruesome eco-horror, Wagner’s latest is destined to be one of the must-read horror novels of summer.” Missing for five years, Erin’s brother Bryan simply disappeared while walking in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Now Erin is determined to find Bryan. She heads out to the foothills of Mt. Hood, the place …
5 Must Read Horror Articles 16 June 2025Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: The Lineup provide ten fascinating facts to commemorate fifty years of the film Jaws The Horror Tree explain why you can’t write about fear without feeling it first The Ginger …
News Round-up Week Ending 13 June 2025Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Released today from editor James G. Carlson and Gloom House Publishing, We’ll Always Be Here: An Anthology of LBTQ+ Horror Horror is among the most diverse genres in fiction. That, in part, is why representation is so …
Look Out For … The Unkillable Frank Lightning by Josh Rountree“With his latest, Rountree puts his own unique spin on the legend of Frankenstein, channeling classic westerns mixed with Universal Monsters.” Doctor, occultist, and—briefly—a widow, Catherine Coldbridge is one complicated woman. During a Sioux attack in 1879, Private Frank Humble, Catherine’s husband, is killed. Grief consumes her to the point she uses her formidable occult …
TIH 619: Jason Pargin on Writing Pop Culture References in Film and FictionIn this podcast, Jason Pargin talks about writing pop culture references in film and fiction, and much more. About Jason Pargin Jason Pargin is the New York Times bestselling author of John Dies at the End and the Zoey Ashe series. He is the former editor of Cracked.com. He’s just released his new book I’m Starting …
5 Must Read Horror Articles 9 June 2025Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: SPOILERS: Fangoria explain how Ryan Coogler resurrected the history of the modern vampire in Sinners The Ginger Nuts of Horror feature eleven unmissable queer horror books for pride month …
News Round-up Week Ending 6 June 2025Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Out today from Steve Stred and Auryn Stred and Black Void Publishing, Not for This World: Poems Where do we fit? It’s a question individuals have sought to answer since the beginning of time. In ‘Not For This …
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This Is Horror is a podcast that interviews creatives and writers weekly including Chuck Palahniuk, Dean Koontz, Josh Malerman, Jennifer Lynch, Tananarive Due, Charlaine Harris, and Joe R. Lansdale. Michael David Wilson is the author of books such as The Girl in the Video and House of Bad Memories and the host of This Is Horror Podcast. Every week we bring you horror fiction news and writing tips.
You can do anything you want but you can’t do everything you want. This was something I must have said almost every week, circa 2016–2020, when talking about writing and ensuring you’re prioritising your time effectively. It’s something I stand by to this day and it governs a lot of my decisions when it comes to writing and life in general. Each day we have a finite amount of time and must use it wisely. That’s why I also advocate deciding on the most important task for the day and doing it...
Hello, friends. I hope you are having a great day. Thank you to those of you who have bought, read, reviewed, rated, or engaged with my brand-new dark comedy, Daddy's Boy. If you have yet to do so and you have a Kindle Unlimted subscription, you can actually read Daddy's Boy for free as part of that subscription. Here are the links for Daddy's Boy below for your ease. Buy Daddy’s Boy on Amazon UK Buy Daddy’s Boy on Amazon US Buy Daddy’s Boy from This Is Horror Speaking of Daddy's Boy, I have...
The great Jack Ketchum spoke about ‘writing from the wound’. Something similar but distinct that may be helpful is ‘writing to heal the wound’. Writing as therapy and as catharsis. It’s something I certainly did with my last two books, House of Bad Memories and Daddy’s Boy, and it’s something I’ve done to some degree for a long time now, but only recently have I become aware of just how much I do it and of its potential benefits. There are various ways you can ‘write to heal the wound’ and I...