Are you hungry?
If so we have a chewy, salty, deeply flavoured feast for you this week. Ally Wilkes returns to Talking Scared to discuss the icebound horrors of her new novel, Where the Dead Wait. It’s a tale of Arctic exploration gone very wrong, complete with haunting, human suffering and the morbid fascination of cannibalism!
Don’t pretend that hasn’t whet your appetite.
Ally and I get into the raw details of consuming human meat, we talk about queerness in historical horror fiction, we discuss the nature of haunting and how a historical horror novel can have links to a sci-fi horror classic, and we talk reminisce about the time Ally nearly died on a Himalaya in an appalling coat.
Jolly good fun wot wot!
Enjoy!
Other books mentioned:
All the White Spaces (2022), by Ally Wilke
The Shining (1977), by Stephen King
What Cares the Sea (1960), by Kenneth Cooke
The Secret Sharer (1910), by Joseph Conrad
Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley
Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition (2000), by Scott Cookman
Sundial (2022), by Catriona Ward
Dead Silence (2022), by S.A. Barnes
Ghost Station (2024), by S.A. Barnes
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Greatest Naval Disaster in US History (2018), by Lynn Vincent and Sarah Vladic
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