You might be forgiven for thinking that us saying we had two of the horror genre's most distinguished filmmakers on the show would be an April Fool's joke, but you should know by now we never, ever joke about our guests (except for RJ Barker, w

On Short Stories with John Langan

Feb 28th, 2024 1h 26m

Christopher and Dan are joined by horror writer John Langan, whose great horror novel The Fisherman finally is out now in the UK, an inexplicable seven years after being first published in most other territories.John talks to us about the healt

Gone Fishin' With John Langan

Nov 2nd, 2023 1h 31m

Ahoy ahoy! When the Beanstalker and I were drawing up our wish list for guests on the podcast, there was one name that @Phyrebrat was adamant that we try and get. That was the American author John Langan, who joins us for this episode. John is

Publishing in 2023 with Anne Perry

Sep 19th, 2023 52m 6s

Peat and Dan are joined by Anne Perry, publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books. Anne talks with us about the state of the publishing market in 2023, and what authors ought to consider when positioning their book in the market. We talk about t

Uprooted with Anne Perry Part 1

Sep 5th, 2023 1h 15m

We're back after the summer break, and are joined by Anne Perry, the publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books, to talk about Naomi Novik's 2015 fantasy bestseller, Uprooted. Based upon aspects of rural Polish folklore, Uprooted follows Agnieszk

Watership Down with RJ Barker

Jun 8th, 2023 2h 17m

So! After a few technical hitches and delays our bumper new episode is finally up. The Big Peat and I are joined by the award-winning fantasy author RJ Barker, whose novel The Bone Ships won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2020. Tog

Coronation Special! Titus Groan with Toby Frost

May 2nd, 2023 2h

It's Coronation Day! Well, not quite. But in the UK we are steadily approaching the moment when the king, Charles III, formally takes the Oath and is crowned. This month we're tackling Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, the first book in the seminal G

Episode 16 - Excalibur with Bryan Wigmore

Mar 30th, 2023 2h 2m

Merlin's Beard! What better topic to talk about as we enter the springtime and the regeneration of the land than Excalibur and the legend of Arthur, King of the Britons, who is prophesied to restore the land to verdance and glory and who knows

Introducing Peat Long

Feb 20th, 2023 28m 25s

When Chronscast was originally set up I wanted different co-host folks for different co-host strokes. I wanted my guest today, the blogger Peat Long, to contribute to the podcast particularly in the area of fantasy fiction, in all its guises an

Sandman with Tade Thompson

Feb 7th, 2023 2h 3m

We're joined today by Tade Thompson, the multi award-winning author of such books as Rosewater, Making Wolf, Far From the Light of Heaven, and the Molly Southbourne novellas. He is also a self-confessed comics junkie, which he proved when he jo

John Carpenter's The Thing with Chad Fifer and Chris Lackey

Jan 19th, 2023 1h 33m

We see in 2023 with Chad Fifer and Chris Lackey, the hosts of the Strange Studies of Strange Stories podcast covering genre fiction. As well podcasting, they are quite the polymath duo; Chad is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician, and Chris

Ghost Stories For Christmas with Alison Littlewood

Dec 7th, 2022 1h 35m

As the nights draw in and we approach the midwinter, what better way to celebrate the season than dipping into that most macabre of festive traditions, the Christmas ghost story? While we're all familiar with Dickens's A Christmas Carol, more m

The Left Hand Of Darkness with Emily Inkpen

Nov 8th, 2022 2h 8m

This month we're talking about one of the all-time classics of science-fiction literature, and arguably the book that demonstrated science-fiction could be literature: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand Of Darkness, a million-selling Hugo and Ne

Lud In The Mist with Juliet E. McKenna

Sep 5th, 2022 1h 51m

This month we're joined by the author fantasy author Juliet E. McKenna, creator of several epic series including The Tales of Einarinn, The Aldabreshin Compass sequence, The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, and The Hadrumal Crisis trilogy.

Inish Carraig with Naomi Foyle

Aug 8th, 2022 2h 2m

This month we're joined by the award-winning British-Canadian author, poet and essayist Naomi Foyle, to talk about Inish Carraig, the alien-invasion-cum-prison break thriller by our very own @Jo Zebedee.Among the topics we cover is the quintess

Mythago Wood with John Jarrold

Jul 4th, 2022 2h 4m

We're joined by one of the kings of UK science-fiction and fantasy, the literary agent John Jarrold, to talk about Rob Holdstock's majestic 1984 novel Mythago Wood, winner of the World Fantasy Award.Over a career spanning almost fifty years Joh

House Of Leaves with Ed Wilson

Jun 6th, 2022 2h 9m

This episode we finally open that door of the Chronscast household we'd not dared to open before and plunge into the abyssal labyrinth that is Mark Danielewski's maddeningly epic debut novel, House Of Leaves. A book that defies conventional cat

WATCHMEN with Tade Thompson

May 9th, 2022 2h 7m

On this episode of Chronscast we're joined by award-winning SF author Tade Thompson to talk about WATCHMEN, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's comic-book masterpiece that skewers the superhero genre using its own architecture. Tade is the author of

Swords And Deviltry with Stephen Cox

Apr 4th, 2022 1h 55m

Today we're joined by Stephen Cox, the author of the science-fiction drama Our Child Of The Stars, and the newly-published sequel, Our Child Of Two Worlds, both published by Jo Fletcher Books. Stephen dives with us into Fritz Leiber's swords-an

An American Werewolf In London with Richard Sheppard

Mar 7th, 2022 1h 40m

For this episode we're joined by Richard Sheppard, host of The Constant Reader Podcast, which takes a deep dive into all things Stephen King, from his numerous novels to the equally numerous movie and TV adaptations of his work.Richard talks wi

Klara And The Sun with Jo Zebedee

Feb 7th, 2022 1h 38m

We're joined on this episode by Jo Zebedee, author of several novels, including the Abendau space opera trilogy, the dystopian Inish Carraig and the Irish fantasy Waters And The Wild. Jo talks to us about Klara And The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro's 202

E1 - Northern Lights with Stephen Palmer

Jan 10th, 2022 1h 49m

We were joined on this episode by Stephen Palmer, author of several genre novels including Memory Seed, Tommy Catkins, The Girl With Two Souls, and many more. His latest novel, Monique Orphan, was published in November 2021 by Infinite Press.S

Northern Lights with Stephen Palmer

Jan 10th, 2022 1h 49m

Welcome to Chronscast

Jan 6th, 2022 21m 6s

Dan Jones and Chris Bean introduce Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science fiction & fantasy (and horror!) community, with over 20,000 members and growing.In episode 0, we give an overview of season 1, ou

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