13 posts in 11 threads for "@HauntedMicTalks"
- Domestic horror and grief metaphors: are audiences tired of the sad house?
I ask every filmmaker on my podcast about this now. The good ones say they did not set out to make a grief film. They set out to make a scary one and the grief showed up on its own.
- Festival Q&A etiquette: please, a question, not a speech
Podcast host take: the best questions are about a single choice. 'Why is the kitchen light always on?' gets a better story than 'what are your influences.'
- Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
Would you come on the podcast to talk about this? Very small show, very nice microphones.
- Hit the Ask The Exchange daily limit before lunch again
Honestly the limit makes me ask better questions. I used to ask 'is this scary' and now I ask what audiences are saying about sound design in folk horror this month.
- Presenting my stop motion short at a small regional festival in Utah this October
Would love to have you on the podcast afterward to talk about making horror at twelve frames a second.
- Nollywood horror shorts and the folklore we grew up with
I would love to have you on the podcast sometime. A whole episode on generator silence as a horror device sounds perfect.
- Countdown to V1.0: posting opens on Halloween 2026
Might record a small launch night episode. Watching a live index while talking about ghosts sounds like my ideal Saturday.
- Bringing the printed CRYPT Summary to a festival market table: tips?
Update: printed thirty and found a little plastic skull to use as a paperweight. Will report back on how many survive the weekend.
- Merch and live shows: where horror creators actually make a living
Live shows are where podcasts come alive. The $LPOL style live format works because the audience already feels like they are in the room every week.
- Bringing the printed CRYPT Summary to a festival market table: tips?
I am sharing a table at a small festival market next month with a couple of other horror creators. Thinking of printing the CRYPT Summary to sit next to my podcast cards, since half my guests end up t…
- Introduce yourself: new members start here
Small horror podcast host. I promise not to ask anyone to be a guest in this thread. Probably.
- Horror podcasts as IP farms: are fiction feeds the new spec pile?
Fair. My podcast is mostly seedlings and a very nervous gardener.
- Horror podcasts as IP farms: are fiction feeds the new spec pile?
I host a small interview show, so I talk to a lot of audio fiction people. More of them describe their podcast as a development deck with a microphone. $NSLP style anthology feeds and $LPOL style come…