- 356
- Episodes
- 108
- Transcribed
- 873
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Talking Scared
Conversations with the biggest names in horror fiction. A podcast for horror readers who want to know where their favourite stories came from . . . and what frightens the people who wrote them.
- Publisher
- Neil McRobert
- Category
- arts · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
108 of 356 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
296 – Deena Helm & Horror Says Free Palestine
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
295 – Chris Panatier & If These Walls Could Talk
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
294 – China Miéville & A Million Dreaming Words for Ghost
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296 – Deena Helm & Horror Says Free Palestine
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I haven't really had a chance to visit. Yeah. It's been a time, right? Yeah. Do you consider, um, a really important, crucial part of your, of your own identity? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. It was weird because I grew up sort of like in the Midwest, in Midwest America. And on top of that, we were Christian Palestinians. So there obviously wasn't a community at like the mosque for us to go find. So it was like very lonely in that way. And so I think that loneliness like made it that much more important. where it felt like this was something to hold on to. And it was something to bring up to other people. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Talking Scared
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Deena Helm
- Chris Panatier
- China Miéville
- James Tynion IV
- Chuck Wendig
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 347 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 526 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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How often do new episodes come out?
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Does Talking Scared take guests?
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