Episodes

When her adopted son disappears into the forests of Southern India, Usha defies her husband, leaves the life she was given, and goes to find him — alone. Chital Mehta shares the beautiful and moving HAVE YOU SEEN ROMIT?

Katie Rizzo shares THE TRIMESTERS OF GRIEF, a hybrid memoir and self-help guide that compares the physical and emotional experience of losing a child to opioid addiction with the stages of pregnancy.

Comics creator Matthew Dow Smith stopped by to share two beautiful series with new entries this year: the middle grade fantastical adventure AMELIA SHADOWS, and for young adults, the third volume of THE OCTOBER GIRL.

The only people who know are the people who have gone. Those people no longer have throats to tell us. Mathilda Zeller shares her propulsive Indigenous horror debut, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK, which blends Alaskan Native folklore and supernatural thrills.

During the winter of 1950 in the small Cotswold village of Great Rollright, amateur sleuth Gemma Brown starts to suspect that the town’s best baker, Ursula Beurton, is a Soviet spy, tumbling her headlong into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that ends with a decision that will lead her to THE UNDERCOVER BOOKSHOP and change her life forever. Katherine Reay returns to share her newest book!

Katie Jung brings us a perfectly sweet rom-com with a ghostly twist in YOU’RE THE ONE THAT I HAUNT.

The wolf Blacktail is faithful to his Forest God, but in these times, faith is not enough. His world is besieged by men. When his mate, a house dog, is killed, Blacktail rebels. Scott Hawkins discusses his phenomenal new novel BLACKTAIL.

As if Mackenzie Atwood’s wish to never see him again came true, Will Ashford is dead—and she plans on taking the reason she wanted him gone to her own grave. Local Syosset grad Kaitlin Reilly presents LOOK WHAT YOU DID.

For Penny Darling, love is best enjoyed between the pages of a book. After a very public failed engagement, she’d rather cozy up by the fire with a book boyfriend than a real one any day. Then Jake, her high school best friend, now a struggling author with inked forearms and wicked green eyes, returns. And he needs her help. Brittanée Nicole presents THE BONFIRE AND BLISS BOOKSTORE!

After fearing it all her life, a young woman embraces her ability to see ghosts after a murder occurs that appears dangerously linked to her past. Madison Tyler Nelson shares PORTRAIT OF A HAUNTING.

Pick a face, pick a fate. Nghi Vo returns to the show to discuss THE SCARLET BALL, an all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed set in the upper echelons of an evocative NYC fantasy setting.

The legendary Joanne Harris stopped by to talk about SLEEPERS IN THE SNOW, a hauntingly beautiful story about love, loss, and memory in which a newly divorced man moves into a house on the North York moors and comes face to face with the house’s past occupants through the diaries they left behind.

Jennifer Thorne joins us to chat about NEWBOURNE PARK, a book that leans heavily on horror tropes, but takes us on a joyride when Martha, a young 26 year old grieving her mother makes a poor choice that literally bites her back in ways she will have to adjust to – depending on the moon phase.

Jonathan Sims of the MAGNUS ARCHIVES chats about THE BURN LINE, a wild ride set during the UK’s post Covid heat wave, where five stranger witness something horrific on the London Underground and must re-connect to regain their memories of what happened and stop it from terrorizing anyone else.

Emily has made her name around home organization, and she is very good at her job. So good that when she becomes fixated on Cap, a beautiful wealthy client, Emily inserts herself seamlessly into Cap’s life, with an intense desire to stay forever. Tanya Grant stopped by to chat about how this book A BEAUTIFUL LIE came to be.

John Mutter, a journalist who covers the book world as editor-in-chief of Shelf Awareness, presents his debut novel FORTUNE AND GLASS, a philosophical spy novel and literary love story about private choices, secret resistance, and the cost of staying human inside a system determined to erase individuality.

Inspired by Agatha Christie’s real-life Detection Club, a murder among a group of golden age mystery writers meets a second chance romance. Jackie McMahon discusses THE CLOAK AND DAGGER CLUB!

A witch hired to ethically haunt a small-town B&B instead finds herself spellbound by her non-magical client in this cozy and enchanting sapphic romance. Isabel Sterling shares WITH ALL MY HAUNTED HEART!

Jennifer Sears shares WHAT MENNONITE GIRLS ARE GOOD FOR, a gorgeous debut collection of eleven connected short stories following a Mennonite minister’s daughter named Ruthie as she transitions from childhood faith to religious doubt.

Oscar Rios, founder of Golden Goblin Press joined us to chat about how he turned his love of cosmic horror into a creative body of work writing mods and scenerios for the Call of Cthulhu RPG series.

Gary Goldstein returns to the show to discuss CANINE CUSTODY, which follows Layla and Franklin as they negotiate their divorce and a bitter custody battle for their dog, Betty (who you better believe is a POV character).

E. Madison Shimoda discusses her translation of WELCOME TO THE KOKORO CAT CLINIC, the third book in the cozy hit I’LL PRESCRIBE YOU A CAT series! We discuss our love of cats and translating the textures of everyday life in Japan onto the page.

Professors Lee Kuhnle & Nathan Radke present UNCOVER UP: HOW TO THINK CLEARLY IN AN AGE OF CONSPIRACIES, an urgent exploration of how conspiratorial thinking, misinformation, and anti-intellectualism take hold and spread, with suggestions for how to see the truth through the noise.

Beauty doesn’t fade. It feeds. Alma Katsu returns to the show to discuss INCARNATE, a brilliant and disturbing remix of Oscar Wilde’s THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY for the age of internet start-ups and generative AI.