In this podcast Anya Martin interviews Steve Toase, whose debut collection, To Drown in Dark Water came out in April 2021 from Undertow Publications. This episode was recorded on Tuesday May 18, 2021
Show Notes
In our 100th episode on This Is Horror, Anya Martin interviews Steve Toase, whose debut collection, To Drown in Dark Water came out in April 2021 from Undertow Publications. The conversation starts with the rewards of being a member of the Post Apocalyptic Writers Society (PAWS) and writing post-apocalyptic fiction in pandemic times and flows into his road to writing and storytelling via landscape archaeology, as well as how his passion for the Blue Rider artists and rockabilly inspired a move from North Yorkshire to Munich. Discussion then turns to the genesis of the collection, building writing skills with flash fiction, visionary editors and publishers, and themes running through his work including folk horror, green horror, body horror, rot and decay, smells, snails, scarecrows, the recurring character Papa Yaga, dance theatre in the Weimar Republic, and more. Steve reads the complete story ‘Dirt Upon my Skin’ (0:53:49) and concludes with a bit more publishing news, the coolness of writing for Fortean Times, and his reading recommendations including Julie C.Day, Sarah Read, Jordan Kurella, Chip Houser, Jeff Noon, Michael Marshall Smith, Tracy Fahey, Alfred Kubin, and Sarah Gordon. This episode was recorded on Tuesday May 18, 2021. Be sure to scroll down to Additional Links to find out more,
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Additional Links
Steve Toase Sends Flash Fiction Straight to Your Inbox via TinyLetter
Steve Toase Facebook Writer Page
TOD 071 Quarantine Readings: Weird Dream Society
TOD 092 Sarah Read: Weaving Broken Bones Back Together Again
Old Fashioned in Lackington’s #21
Call Out in Innsmouth Free Press
Weird Horror magazine (Undertow)
Not One of Us (ed. John Benson)
The Long Good Friday (1980) trailer
‘A Compendium of Abandoned Greenhouses’ (Messy Nessy Chic)
‘Grief in Horror and Weird Fiction’ by Steve Toase (blog post)
‘From Timelord to Scarecrow: Worzel Gummidge’ (BritishClassicComedy.com)
‘The Silent Brush of Wings’ (Three Lobed Burning Eye #30)
‘Dendrochromatic Data Recovery Report 45-274’ (Analog Science Fiction and Fact)
‘The Ghostly Paris Nightclubs of the Belle Epoque’ (Messy Nessy Chic)
The Detectorists Season 1 (2015) trailer
Story Hour (hosted by Daniel Marcus & Laura Blackwell)
Steve Toase on Tales from the Trunk podcast
Kickstarter for Vicious Creatures by Sarah Gordon
Show Credits
Hosts/Producers: Scott Nicolay and Anya Martin
Co-Host, News from The Weird: Justin Steele
Co-Host, Reviews from The Weird: Gordon B. White
Symposium Assistant Director: Melanie Crew
Symposium Programming Coordinator: Jess Lewis
Symposium Logistics: Melissa Eisner
Logo Design: Nick “The Hat” Gucker
Music: Michael Griffin
