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A monthly speculative fiction reading series in New York City and now live on YouTube
Edited by bestselling, award-winning anthologist John Joseph Adams, NIGHTMARE is a digital magazine of horror and dark fantasy. In its pages, you will find all kinds of horror and dark fantasy, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Every month NIGHTMARE will bring you a mix of original fiction and reprints, and featuring a variety of authors: from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven't heard of yet. When ...
Science fiction author David Barr Kirtley talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman (#253), George R. R. Martin (#22), Richard Dawkins (#46), Wil Wheaton (#398), Bill Nye (#273), Margaret Atwood (#94), Neil deGrasse Tyson (#32), and Ursula K. Le Guin (#65). Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy has appeared on recommended podcast lists from NPR, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, BBC America, CBC Radio, WVXU, io9, Omni, The Strand, Library Journal, and Popular Mechanics. CBC Radio writes, "You may n ...
Writers Rajan Khanna and Devin Poore host a biweekly podcast where geeks talk over drinks.
“For how long must we keep doing this?” the first lich asked the second. His dreadlocks were dry and had faded near to white, a smell not of fragrant oils, but of something long past due permeating the air around him. His eyes were tired and sucked back into his skull. “As long as it takes,” the second answered. Bent forth on his crooked staff, he …
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Audio and Video from Feb 17th, with Kathleen Jennings & Shveta Thakrar
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Here’s the audio and video from last month’s Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading with Kathleen Jennings and Shveta Thakrar.By Matthew Kressel
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455. Blood of Zeus Season 1 Review (with Erin Lindsey, Douglas Cohen, Zach Chapman)
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Stephen Graham Jones | Hairy Legs and All
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Like the time you put the shoes on you hadn’t worn for maybe two years but you just saw there in the corner of the closet and you wondered why you’d stopped wearing them since you kind of liked who you were that summer or at least you remember that summer favorably, and these shoes were definitely part of it, so, trying to maybe live a little bit o…
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453. His Dark Materials Season 2 Review (with Erin Lindsey, Sara Lynn Michener, Sam J. Miller)
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452. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 (with John Joseph Adams, Tobias S. Buckell, Elizabeth Bear)
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E.A. Petricone | We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It
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We are not where we are buried. We are where they kept us. We float now, and see the low building in the woods from above, the long plates of rusted metal, the desiccated grass bundling against the sides like a pyre, the orb spider poised over a corroded edge. But when we were alive, we only knew the inside of the basement, where we had all the usu…
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Audio and Video from Jan 20th, with Lauren Beukes & Usman T. Malik
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Here’s the audio and video of the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading and Q&A, with Lauren Beukes & Usman T. Malik, broadcast live on YouTube on Jan 20, 2021.By Matthew Kressel
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451. Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 Review (with Sara Lynn Michener, Rafael Jordan, Christopher M. Cevasco)
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I watch the closet door. I watch around them as they pray above me, their eyes closed and their hands clasped in ecstasy. Their voices drown out all other sounds---like, for instance, the creak of a slowly opening door. So I can’t close my eyes, though my head is aching. I have to watch the door. Their prayers rise and fall and bleed into one other…
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450. Apple II Games (with David L. Craddock, Mark Lemmert)
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449. Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Review (with Anthony Ha, Sara Lynn Michener, Christopher M. Cevasco)
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448. The Mandalorian Season 2 Review (with Erin Lindsey, Rajan Khanna, Matthew Kressel)
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Stephen Graham Jones | How to Break into a Hotel Room
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Javi is short for Javier. Javier is short for Has the Perfect Scam. He hasn’t told anybody about it yet. Especially not the hotels. It’s not the kind of thing you get rich with---one fancy watch or a pair of earrings doesn’t exactly pay the rent---but it is the kind of thing that’s good enough for a smile at three in the morning. | Copyright 2021 b…
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447. Tenet Movie Review (with Erin Lindsey, Anthony Ha, Andrea Kail)
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446. Jon Peterson, author of The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity
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“The problem is,” she says as she spears a piece of crispy bacon skilfully enough that it doesn’t shatter, “you’ve got a revolving door for a heart.” He doesn’t like hearing things like this, mostly because she’s generally right. Ilsa’s clear-eyed about him. and that makes their friendship remarkably unfraught (apart from these moments). Unlike his…
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Audio and Video from Dec 16th, with Priya Sharma & Justin C. Key
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Here’s the audio and video from the December 16th, 2020 YouTube livestream with guests Priya Sharma & Justin C. Key.By Matthew Kressel
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445. Brian Keating, host of Into the Impossible
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444. Owen Egerton, author of Hollow
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Caspian Gray | The Book of Drowned Sisters
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They lived on the last street that had been constructed before investor money ran out, and behind their row of seven houses was a long unfenced field marked KEEP OUT, within it a little hill and little retaining pond, and a row of three streetlights along an unpaved road that stopped abruptly at the foot of the hill. Trees rimmed the field, and the…
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443. Erin Lindsey, author of The Silver Shooter
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Audio and Video from Nov 18th, with William Gibson & Cat Rambo
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Here’s the audio and video from the November 18th Fantastic Fiction at KGB YouTube livestream with William Gibson and Cat Rambo.By Matthew Kressel
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442. Janna Levin, author of Black Hole Survival Guide
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441. Dreams in Science Fiction (with Anthony Ha, Sara Lynn Michener, Lisa Yaszek)
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Inception, The Cell, Coma, The Lathe of Heaven, The Dream MasterBy David Barr Kirtley and John Joseph Adams
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Kurt Fawver | Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1
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Welcome to Introduction to the Horror Story. This is an upper level course with extensive reading and writing assignments as well as a practical component. It has no prerequisites other than existence and consciousness, which I believe all of you possess, though I may be wrong. | Copyright 2020 by Kurt Fawver. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.…
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440. Terry Gilliam Movies (with Matthew Kressel, Tom Gerencer, Chandler Klang Smith)
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Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Man Who Killed Don QuixoteBy David Barr Kirtley and John Joseph Adams
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439. Neal Pollack, author of Repeat and Keep Mars Weird
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Every day after school, Emmy feeds the tiger with her sin. Deep in the park’s brush, past poison ivy and a rotting lawn chair and dented beer cans, the tiger dens under a dead tree. No matter what time Emmy arrives at the park, it’s always late afternoon in the tiger’s grove, tired light decaying to dusk. Under the tree gapes a great black mouth ri…
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Audio and Video from Oct 21st with Joe Hill & Laird Barron
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Here’s the audio and video from the October 21st, 2020 Fantastic Fiction reading with Joe Hill & Laird Barron, streamed live on YouTube.By Matthew Kressel
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438. C. Robert Cargill, author of We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories
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437. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, directors of The Endless and Synchronic
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Amber needed a book. It was The Estates of Sarah Holliday, a delicate comedy of manners following a young woman’s trials and tribulations in 1870s New England, and it was the most obscure novel by one Charlotte Winsborough, a fussy and now almost completely forgotten nineteenth-century author Amber had chosen for her dissertation. Winsborough had e…
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436. The Making of Games of Thrones (with James Hibberd)
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435. Time Loop Movies (with Blake J. Harris, Erin Lindsey, Zach Chapman)
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Groundhog Day, Palm Springs, Happy Death Day, Source Code, Edge of TomorrowBy David Barr Kirtley and John Joseph Adams
When he comes home that evening, he wants to talk. He tells her about his day, about an argument with his boss, about the new contract. He relates a funny story narrated by a colleague. He wants her to react. She has difficulty feigning the correct demeanour, or even recalling what it should be. What does sympathetic annoyance look like on her face…
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434. Foundation by Isaac Asimov Book Club (with Anthony Ha, John Kessel, Abby Goldsmith)
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433. Bill and Ted Trilogy Review (with Erin Lindsey, Tom Gerencer, Rafael Jordan)
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Audio and Video from Sept 16th, with Livia Llewellyn & Craig Laurance Gidney
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Here’s the audio and video from the September 16th, 2020 Fantastic Fiction reading with Livia Llewellyn and Craig Laurance Gidney, streamed live on YouTube.By Matthew Kressel
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Sonya Taaffe | Tea with the Earl of Twilight
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For the first week, she thought he belonged to the power plant; after that she knew better. She had read the obituaries. She saw him first as a silhouette, one more line of the industrial geometries overhanging the boardwalk of Broad Canal. It had been a wet, dispiriting winter full of gusts and mists, but with January the water had finally hardene…
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432. Lynch's Dune and Jodorowsky's Dune (with Andrea Kail, Rajan Khanna, Matthew Kressel)
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431. Fantasy BookTuber Daniel Greene
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You would have hated your funeral reception. Potato-nosed husbands clomping around our parlor in their cheap suits, stinking of naphtha and condolences. Wives with sweat-streaked powder caked in the creases of their necks, like flour-sacks brought to life by a pair of magic dentures. That’s what I kept staring at: dentures, bridges loose over gray …
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Audio and Video from Aug 19th, with Elizabeth Hand & Michael Libling
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The following audio and video was recorded live on August 19, 2020 with guests Elizabeth Hand and Michael Libling and broadcast on YouTube.By Matthew Kressel
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430. Katie Mack, author of The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
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429. Bad Video Game Movies (with Blake J. Harris, Erin Lindsey, Zach Chapman)
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Doom, Wing Commander, Double Dragon, Hitman, Max PayneBy David Barr Kirtley and John Joseph Adams
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428. Suburban Horror (with Grady Hendrix, Anthony Ha, Lisa Yaszek)
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Vivarium, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Stepford Wives, Get OutBy David Barr Kirtley and John Joseph Adams
I chew the leaf and spit out my red days. They splatter. You chew the leaf and spit out your hours of mad redder. They splatter. They chew the leaf and spit out the reddest moments they have ever seen. They splatter. This is a scene of crime, chalk me, morn me, eve me. My red life drying on my chin. Your red history a bitter powder crust. Their thi…
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427. Tolkien and Bluth Cartoons (with Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, Tom Gerencer)
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The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, The Sword in the Stone, The Secret of NIMH, Titan A.E.By David Barr Kirtley and John Joseph Adams
