183 – Gwendolyn Kiste & Working Through Your Ghosts

Time to get liminal and haunted. 

Gwendolyn Kiste comes back to Talking Scared for another high-concept twist on the Gothic. In The Haunting of Velkwood, and entire street turns ghostly overnight. Yeah, I can’t explain that any more clearly, we’ll leave it to Gwendolyn.

Despite this being a book centered on trauma and angst, we do a whole lot of laughing. Amongst the chuckles we also sneak in conversation about the many meanings of the word haunted, child-free horror fiction televisual references, and just what makes the American suburbs so damn creepy!

Enjoy!

The Haunting of Velkwood was published on March 5th by Saga Press

Other books mentioned:

• Reluctant Immortals (2022), by Gwendolyn Kiste
• Suburbia (1973), by Bill Owens
• Twilight: Photographs (2002), by Gregory Crewdson
• The Daughters of Block Island (2023), by Christa Carmen

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