The Self-Isolating Abyss: Social Distancing with Matt Corley and Sara Tantlinger
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04/10/20 • 95 min
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Hosts Scott Kemper, Matt Brandenburg, and author Michael Patrick Hicks discuss Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola's comic book series, Joe Golem: Occult Detective, and Scott R. Jones's latest release, Stonefish. They are joined this week by special guests Saturday Morning Scenarios publisher Matt Corley and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Sara Tantlinger (The Devil's Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes) to talk about their forthcoming table-top RPG, Horror in the Windy City, and its companion novella, The Devil's City, which is currently seeking funding via Kickstarter. Find out how Sadie Hartmann (aka Mother Horror) and the Night Worms are responsible for this game's existence, learn more about Sara's upcoming poetry book about The Black Death, and creating art in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, we have huge news on what's next for John F.D. Taff's The Fearing, as well as an exclusive on Matt's next big horror project!
Support The Devil's City and Horror in the Windy City on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/37222410/the-devils-city-for-5e
The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring
Hosts Scott Kemper, Matt Brandenburg, and author Michael Patrick Hicks discuss Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola's comic book series, Joe Golem: Occult Detective, and Scott R. Jones's latest release, Stonefish. They are joined this week by special guests Saturday Morning Scenarios publisher Matt Corley and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Sara Tantlinger (The Devil's Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes) to talk about their forthcoming table-top RPG, Horror in the Windy City, and its companion novella, The Devil's City, which is currently seeking funding via Kickstarter. Find out how Sadie Hartmann (aka Mother Horror) and the Night Worms are responsible for this game's existence, learn more about Sara's upcoming poetry book about The Black Death, and creating art in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, we have huge news on what's next for John F.D. Taff's The Fearing, as well as an exclusive on Matt's next big horror project!
Support The Devil's City and Horror in the Windy City on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/37222410/the-devils-city-for-5e
The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring
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1 RecommendationsThis week, hosts Scott Kemper, Michael Patrick Hicks, and Matt Brandenburg review the 2020 edition of The Grudge, Mark Matthews's latest anthology of addiction horror, Lullabies for Suffering, Laird Barron's Black Mountain, the 2011 film Kill List, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Then, they have a spoiler-filled, heart touching discussion about John Langan's novella, Sefira, the betrayal of marital infidelity, and confronting a succubus.
The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring
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The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Follow Staring Into The Abyss on Twitter: @intostaring
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