What Are You Afraid of Podcast

06/09/2021

This is Phil Thomas, co-host of What Are You Afraid Of? I wanted to let you all know that the Kindle version of my book, The Poe Predicament, is up for pre-order on Amazon!! Paperback pre-order coming soon! It is being released on October 4, 2021, from Foundations Books. I would appreciate anyone's support. Here is a brief summary and link to the Amazon page:
Stuck in another time, Richard Langley just wants to find his way back home.
Richard is a former college professor, wandering a local neighborhood bookstore, where he stumbles upon the find of a lifetime: a signed copy of Tamerlane and other poems.
He is soon swept to another era where he is alone and lost.
While struggling to adapt to his nineteenth-century environment, Richard meets a man he must help exonerate from false accusations in order to restore history's original timeline and, ultimately, find his way back to modern-day New York City.
What Richard did not count on, was that man being the owner of the signature—Edgar Allan Poe.

The Poe Predicament

02/07/2021

To celebrate Women in Horror Month, we interview Lydia Kang, author of O***m & Absinthe.

To celebrate Women in Horror Month, hosts T. Fox Dunham and Phil Thomas chat with author, physician, baker and researcher Dr. Lydia Kang. Lydia is the author of the O***m and Absinthe, a novel that tells the story of a wealthy young New York heiress who investigates a series of vampire-like killings after the first publication of Dracula. English folksinger David Walton narrates an excerpt from the book, then she shares her insights into writing characters, researching historic settings and even a strange experience she had in a cemetery. To finish the show, Lydia talks about the strange history of medicine, a topic she writes about in her book Quackery. People really did grind up mummies for medicinal powder and believed mercury was a magical elixir.

What Are You Afraid Of? returns after a winter sabbatical, and we’ve got some great episodes planned.

EPISODE 154: O***M, ABSINTHE & LYDIA KANG To celebrate Women in Horror Month, hosts T. Fox Dunham and Phil Thomas chat with author, physician, baker and researcher Dr. Lydia Kang. Lydia is the author of the O***m and Absinthe, a novel that tells the story of a wealthy young New York heiress who....

01/11/2021

On the 6th of January you'll see huge bonfires all over Iceland. But did you know they're associated with fairies and elves?

12/24/2020

New holiday episode of What Are You Afraid Of?

EPISODE 154: BELSNICKING WITH FOX, PHIL & DANIEL BRAUM

Authors T. Fox Dunham and Phil Thomas return to bring you their new holiday special to celebrate the winter solstice 2020. New York author, Daniel Braum, joins them to chat about his new collection of short stories, Underworld Dreams, his new event, The New York Ghost Story Festival and chat about odd holiday traditions. David Walton narrates an excerpt from one of the Daniel’s stories, Tommy’s Shadow, from Underworld Dreams. Then Fox shares several unusual holiday traditions from around the world including the lucky spiders of the Ukraine and the Tió de Nadal, or the pooping log, a tradition celebrated in parts of Spain. We also replay What Are You Afraid Of?’s new and original holiday carol about the Jólakötturinn—the monstrous holiday cat feared in Iceland who eats you if you aren’t wearing new clothes on Christmas Day. We want to put the monsters back into Christmas! And remember, we’re halfway out of the dark.

EPISODE 154: BELSNICKING WITH FOX, PHIL & DANIEL BRAUM Authors T. Fox Dunham and Phil Thomas return to bring you their new holiday special to celebrate the winter solstice 2020. New York author, Daniel Braum, joins them to chat about his new collection of short stories, Underworld Dreams, his ne...

12/10/2020

TONIGHT IT STARTS: The New York Ghost Story Festival

Please join 20 authors of the strange and uncanny for the first annual New York Ghost Story Festival.

This event is free. And online only. Just follow the link we will be posting to (which takes you to) You Tube to join us live. Or come back to the same link and watch the archive at your leisure.
Our incredible line up of guests are John LanganJohn Foster Nicholas Kaufmann Gwendolyn Kiste Rudi Dornemann Hysop Loreal Mulero Douglas Wynne Farah Rose Smith Sarah Langan Lee Thomas Michelle Garza Jo Kaplan Pat Wehl David Surface Brian Evenson Jeffrey Ford CC Adams Liliana Cârstea and James Everington

The Festival Dates are:
December 10th , 12th, 14th 19th and 24th at 7pm EST.
December 20th at 4pm EST.

Thank you to all the incredible authors. We will be hearing them read, talking about our favorite ghost stories, and directing you to our favorite small and local book shops as we can.
Thank you to the multi-talented David Surface, one of our guests, for this wonderful video announcing the event.

Go to this link to watch on Youtube tonight!

Welcome to The New York Ghost Story Festival. An annual event of ghost story readings and discussion hosted by Daniel Braum. Featuring authors of the uncanny...

11/05/2020

We have original fiction from KT Bryski (“Tiger's Feast”) and Kurt Fawver (“Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1”), along with reprints by P. Djèlí Clark (“Night Doctors”) and Thana Niveau (“White Mare”). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word...

11/03/2020

A little history about the Boyd house. Interviews with paranormal investigators and their evidence.