This Is Horror Podcast
Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella
4.8from 227 ratings
- 695
- Episodes
- 123
- Transcribed
- 227
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 63K
- YouTube views
About This Is Horror Podcast
The This Is Horror Podcast is a show for readers, writers, and creators hosted by Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella. We interview writers, artists, publishers, editors, and creatives every week. Over 600 episodes, we have interviewed creatives including Chuck Palahniuk, Dean Koontz, Joe Hill, David Dastmalchian, Joe R. Lansdale, Charlaine Harris, Ellen Datlow, David Moody, Jennifer Lynch, Gemma Files, and Josh Malerman.
- Publisher
- Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella
- Category
- arts · arts · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 4 Feb 2013
- Latest episode
- 11 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
123 of 695 episodes have a transcript.
11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
TIH 681: Marcus Kliewer on The Caretaker, We Used to Live Here, and The Old House Archive
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TIH 680: Marcus Kliewer on Writing Horror Stories for Reddit, Stop Motion Animation, and the Story Behind We Used to Live Here
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TIH 679: Max Doty on The House That Eats the Dead, Reddit Horror Stories, and Writing Lessons from Video Games
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TIH 681: Marcus Kliewer on The Caretaker, We Used to Live Here, and The Old House Archive
Published 11 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that's the thing with Reddit and the thing with the online world is there is that element of discovery and there is that element of not having to do a traditional route to publishing. And the great thing about Reddit was I was still building up an audience without having to query for agents and the more traditional routes to getting into the publishing world. Yeah. Yeah, I think the more people that I talk to, the more I find that even though you do have the traditional route, there are so many other avenues to making it, to getting into the film world, to getting into the publishing world. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on This Is Horror Podcast
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- Marcus Kliewer
- Max Doty
- Ryan Lowell
- Michael David Wilson
- Dan Howarth
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 63,142
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 172 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 55 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 85 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 96
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