Hellnotes Interview – Emily Cataneo – “Speaking to Skull Kings and Other Stories” HELLNOTES: Congratulations on your first collection! When did the idea for this collection start coming together? What was the process like of narrowing down your work in order to...
Today’s Deep Cuts is “20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism” (at Pseudopod) by Jon Padgett. As a special treat, this is also our first audio production of a story! Not only that, but it is narrated by the author himself (truly, Padgett is a man of many talents). The first...
HELLNOTES: First of all, congratulations on your first collection! While having a collection (your first of many, we’re sure) is a new experience, you’ve written and published a lot of short fiction over the years. When did the idea for this collection start coming...
Today’s Deep Cuts is “All the Red Apples Have Withered to Gray” (via Shimmer) by Gwendolyn Kiste. Kiste is a prolific and highly esteemed author of all flavors of dark speculative fiction, and this story is a real treat. Although “All the Red Apples” is tale of an...
The surname, Matheson, was one immediately familiar to me through the extensive, boundary-pushing works of the legendary Richard Matheson. I had only discovered his eldest son, Richard Christian’s, work through my review of Stephen King’s “Battleground,”...
Welcome to the re-launch of Deep Cuts! In this column, we take a close look at free-to-read stories by some of the best authors working in horror, the Weird, and other dark realms of speculative fiction. We then talk directly with those authors, picking their brains...
