No Darkness But Ours

Lynda E. Rucker is one of the finest practitioners of weird fiction in contemporary horror, and the latest collection of her strange and subtle fiction, Now It’s Dark, is out now from Swan River Press. In the third of this four-part interview, she talks to Gemma and Simon about the creative process, the idea of fiction as dreaming with your eyes open and the importance of grounding the weird in the mundane. We’ll also be discussing Lynda’s love of experimental film and her thoughts on the short story versus the novel as a vehicle for strange fiction. You can buy Now It’s Dark here: https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/now-its-dark/ Lynda’s second collection, You’ll Know When You Get There, is now available in paperback here: https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/now-its-dark/ And you can order her first collection, The Moon Will Look Strange, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-Will-Look-Strange/dp/1492314641 Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Lynda E. Rucker is one of the finest practitioners of weird fiction in contemporary horror, and the latest collection of her strange and subtle fiction, Now It’s Dark, is out now from Swan River Press. In the second of this four-part interview, she talks to Gemma and Simon about the double-edged nature of being part of a group, the hazards of social media and some of the fears that populate her work. You can buy Now It’s Dark here: https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/now-its-dark/ Lynda’s second collection, You’ll Know When You Get There, is now available in paperback here: https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/now-its-dark/ And you can order her first collection, The Moon Will Look Strange, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-Will-Look-Strange/dp/1492314641 Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Lynda E. Rucker is one of the finest practitioners of weird fiction in contemporary horror, and the latest collection of her strange and subtle fiction, Now It’s Dark, is out now from Swan River Press. In the first of this four-part interview, she talks to Gemma and Simon about the influence of Robert Aickman, the role of horror fiction, the folk horror film Ynys Men, and the power of the ambiguous endings that we find in so many of her stories. You can buy Now It’s Dark here: https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/now-its-dark/ Lynda’s second collection, You’ll Know When You Get There, is now available in paperback here: https://swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/now-its-dark/ And you can order her first collection, The Moon Will Look Strange, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-Will-Look-Strange/dp/1492314641 Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

We couldn’t talk about lesbian horror without discussing the work of Shirley Jackson, so this week Gemma and Simon turn their attention to her along with the stories of Hailey Piper and Caitlin R. Kiernan, in the final instalment of this discussion. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In the third instalment of this podcast, Gemma and Simon look at the queer horror fiction of Vernon Lee, Marjorie Bowen and Louisa May Alcott, and the bleak fictional portrayals of female queerness and sexuality in a world which denied those women any possibility of a happy ending. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In the second part of their exploration of Lesbian Horror, Gemma and Simon conclude their study of Le Fanu’s Carmilla and look at its various film adaptations, especially Emily Harris’ 2019 version starring Jessica Raine and Hannah Rae. Also up for discussion are the stories of Vernon Lee, the real-life horrors of Erszebet Bathory and much else besides. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

A sample of some of our subscriber-only content - a deep-dive review of Ben Wheatley's 'In The Earth.' To hear the whole thing, subscribe via one of the links below:   Anchor: (audio only) https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours/subscribe Patreon (for video) https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours  Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Stories about, by or for queer women have been a part of the horror genre from the beginning, not least in one of the classic vampire stories, J. Sheridan le Fanu’s Carmilla, which Gemma and Simon take as their starting point in the first of four episodes exploring the topic of Lesbian Horror. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Following on from their episodes on Queer Horror, in the third and final instalment of this special edition of the podcast Gemma and Simon interview Hailey Piper, author of The Worm And His Kings, The Possession of Natalie Glasgow, No Gods For Drowning and the forthcoming A Light Most Hateful about her own original and compelling brand of weird fiction. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Gemma and Simon respond to some queries from a viewer: hit play to hear where the podcast came from and what Gemma has coming out next, along with more information than you probably wanted about pears of anguish and some of the less conventional uses for a high explosive shell. And more besides. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Following on from their episodes on Queer Horror, in the second instalment of this special edition of the podcast Gemma and Simon interview Hailey Piper, author of The Worm And His Kings, The Possession of Natalie Glasgow, No Gods For Drowning and the forthcoming A Light Most Hateful about her own original and compelling brand of weird fiction. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

A quick message from Simon about the shape of things to come here at No Darkness But Ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours/subscribe https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours

Weird fiction author Laird Barron is currently ill in the US, and has no health insurance. John Langan joins Simon to bring us up to date on Laird's progress, and on the GoFundMe set up to fund his medical care. Link to the GoFundMe here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/laird-barron-hospital-costs-medication-costs/donate (Apologies for my gormless face taking up half the screen - I thought I'd minimised it!)

Following on from their episodes on Queer Horror, in this special edition of the podcast Gemma and Simon interview Hailey Piper, author of The Worm And His Kings, The Possession of Natalie Glasgow, No Gods For Drowning and the forthcoming A Light Most Hateful about her own original and compelling brand of weird fiction. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In the first of three podcasts on Queer Horror, Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick discuss the proposition that all horror is queer, as it concerns by its nature life outside the default, their own relationship to that default and how that's shaped their own work. Ti West's X, the morality of slasher films and fatphobia all come under scrutiny, along with where the line between representation and appropriation lies. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In the final part of their overview of Queer Horror, Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick turn their attention to more recent creators of Queer Horror such as David Rudkin, Joel Lane, Clive Barker and Michael McDowell, and discuss the power of sexuality as a force of both liberation and destruction. Come and join us in the shadows... Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In the second part of their Queer Horror podcast, Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick discuss the work of new and emerging contemporary horror authors like Paula Ashe, Hailey Piper and Eric LaRocca, along with queerness in classic horror texts such as Dracula and the works of Lovecraft. And much, much more. Do please join us.... Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In this special Christmas edition of the podcast, Gemma and Simon each read a ghost story. YOL by Gemma and JARMAN'S GHOST by Simon are two very different, but equally haunting, tales of terror to listen to on Christmas Eve. Happy Holidays to all our listeners! Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join Gemma and Simon as they talk to George Popov and Dan Oldroyd, the director and star of the superb folk-horror films HEX and THE DROVING, about the movies and the SIDEWORLD series of documentaries. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join Gemma and Simon as they talk to the director and star of the superb folk-horror films HEX and THE DROVING about the movies and the SIDEWORLD series of documentaries. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 

In the final part of their exploration of folk horror, Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick discuss vampires and werewolves as serial killers, the case for Straw Dogs as a folk-horror movie, the 'colonial horror' of 'The Gorge of the Churels,' the genius of Saki in 'Sredni Vashtar' and of David Rudkin in Penda's Fen, and much much more besides. Coming soon, the duo will be delving into the world of Queer Horror - but before that, stay tuned for a special edition of the podcast where Gemma and Simon talk to George Popov and Daniel Oldroyd, the director and star of the folk-horror movie The Droving. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Celtic mythology, Alan Garner, Martin Cruz Smith lesser-known folk-horror classics, colonial horror and George Popov's The Droving all come under the scrutiny of Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick in their ongoing discussion of folk horror. Come pull up a chair and listen in. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

As Halloween approaches, join Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick in the first of a three-part investigation of folk horror. In the first episode, they grope towards a definition of folk horror, looking at the 'unholy trinity' of The Wicker Man, Blood On Satan's Claw and Witchfinder General and then further afield...  Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick as they continue to explore the world of found footage horror on the printed page, and discuss Simon's foray into the subgenre, Black Mountain. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ever since The Blair Witch Project first terrified its audiences we've known how immersive and frightening a way to tell a story the 'found footage' film can be. Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick trace the found narrative story's literary roots in classic horror fiction such as Dracula, Poe and M.R. James and how it's come full circle with authors seeking to transfer found footage to the printed page. Join them as they discuss the blurred lines between fact and fiction, the weird world of the Canadian film industry and their own experiments in the subgenre, starting with Gemma's novel Experimental Film and her novella each thing i show you is a piece of my death.

Ever since The Blair Witch Project first terrified its audiences we've known how immersive and frightening a way to tell a story the 'found footage' film can be. Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick trace the found narrative story's literary roots in classic horror fiction such as Dracula, Poe and M.R. James and how it's come full circle with authors seeking to transfer found footage to the printed page. Join them as they discuss the blurred lines between fact and fiction, the weird world of the Canadian film industry and their own experiments in the subgenre, starting with Gemma's novel Experimental Film and her novella each thing i show you is a piece of my death.  Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join your hosts, Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick, as they look at the how the work of M.R. James continues to shape stories of the supernatural in print and on screen right up to the present day, to awesome effect. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Having discussed M.R. James' body of work, Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick now set out to trace how the author's influence permeates the horror genre i every medium, right through to the present day. A teaser: the full episode will be here soon... 

Join Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick as they sink their teeth into M.R. James' body... of work, that is! Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was one of the foremost practitioners of the classic ghost story, and continues to influence artists in the horror genre to this day. In this first of two podcasts on all things Jamesian, we look at James' work, and explore just what it is that gives it its unique and spine-chilling power. Want to support our podcast? Make a one-off donation via our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/nodarknessbutourspodcast For sneak previews of future episodes and exclusive bonus content, subscribe to: Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nodarknessbutours Or our Anchor feed: https://anchor.fm/no-darkness-but-ours Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

A teaser for our imminent second episode, in which Gemma and Simon sink their teeth into M.R. James. Well, his fiction, anyway...

Join Gemma Files and Simon Bestwick as they discuss the beauty and terror of snowbound horror in fiction and film, from Ally Wiles' debut novel All The White Spaces to Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness, and much else in between. Music: Come Play with Me Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

No Darkness But Ours is a new podcast in which Canadian author Gemma Files and British author Simon Bestwick talk about all things horror. Here's a teaser for our first episode, All The White Spaces: Terror In The Snow, in which we'll be talking about such classics of snowbound horror as The Terror, Cold Prey, At The Mountains Of Madness, Dark Matter, The Thing and many more...