This week on the Creature Cast

• We geek out over the madness of Poe and the erotic danger of Clive Barker.
• How Wytovich’s Catholic upbringing influenced her work.
• The role of sexuality and body horror in her work.
• Life at Seton Hill’s Writing Popular Fiction MFA program.

And more! Plus we also get a reading of her poem “Brothel” and, thanks to surprise guest Jennifer Barnes, we hear the story behind the name of her publisher, Raw Dog Screaming press.

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On this episode of The Creature Cast:

• The role of empathy in horror fiction.
• Cultivating your original creative voice.
• Writing both original novels and tie-in work, especially with Supernatural and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
• Tim discusses his teaching philosophy and giving people permission to pursue their creative projects.
• We discuss StokerCon, the workshops, and the horror community!

And more! Check us out on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. Email is CreatureCastSF at gmail.com. Check out Tim’s site at http://timwaggoner.com/

This week on the Creature Cast:

• Heavy Metal Horror!
• The blue collar work ethic behind the Evil Dead series.
• Is Ash a tragic hero?
• Gender, sleaze, and heroism.
• Gore! Gore! Gore!

And more! Email us at CreatureCastSF@gmail.com, find us on the various social media outlets, and give us reviews on iTunes! Enjoy the show!

This week on the Creature Cast:

• Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Watchmen, and the Iron Age of comics.
• Swamp Thing, the reimagining of a monster, and Splatterpunk-era horror.
• From Hell, violent British history, and how Jack the Ripper ushered in the 20th century
• Providence, NeoNomicon, The Courtyard, and why Alan Moore is both the ideal torchbearer and critic of Lovecraft’s mythology
• Magick, Aleister Crowley, Harry Potter, and Moore’s occult philosophy.
• And, yes, we discuss the often thorny issue of sexual assault in Moore’s work.

And more! Email us at CreatureCastSF@gmail.com, find us on all the usual social media outlets, and check out David’s phenomenal analysis of Providence at http://davidxwiggin.livejournal.com/

This week on the Creature Cast:

• Joe provokes ire by discussing his ambivalence with Del Toro’s work.
• How Crimson Peak is a “dark gothic chick flick.”
• We do a pretty impersonation of Azrael Abyss from SNL’s old Goth Talk sketch.
• The term “dildo tennis ball” is used, as is the phrase “the most melancholy [SEX ACT] ever witness.”
• How the film compares to the similarly-themed House of Yes

And more! Email at CreatureCastSF@gmail.com, find us on Facebook and all those social media portals. And the Toast article we mentioned in the show is “Movie Yelling With Nicole and Mallory”,  which can be found here.