Lawrence Rosales, friend, writer, and host of the New Worlds Podcast, joins us on our 3rd annual Halloween show to talk about Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan, Lawrence's stories and inspirations ("The Ice Pick Cure," "Gumdrop," "The Boys," the Goosebumps books by R.L. Stine, Stephen King), The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All" by pirate Laird Barron, John Langan, the Dracula fan edit, 31 Days of Horror, Theodore Sturgeon (Some of Your Blood, "The Professor's Teddy Bear"), Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, the relationship of personal history and the media to fiction, horror and otherwise, and more! Beware the crackling death.

OUTRO: "The Stars Align" by Nox Arcana

The New Worlds podcast can be found on iTunes, and here: http://earth2network.podbean.com/category/lawrence-rosales/

You can find Lawrence's "The Boys" here: http://monstaville.storenvy.com/products/1978305-the-guys

Happy Halloween!