Jonathan Janz on the Marla TV Series, the Veil Screenplay, and Letting Adaptations Break His Books

Jonathan Janz returns to talk about Marla, the horror novel that sold out in a 500-copy run and took four years to reach everyone else. Adaptation news, the Moonflowers prequel, and a horror town staffing game.
Jonathan Janz on the Marla TV series, the Veil screenplay, Moonflowers, and why he lets adaptations rip his books apart.

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Daniel Barnett: Inside The Nightmareland Chronicles Omnibus Explicit

Daniel Barnett joins us to talk about his new book, Nightmareland Chronicles, the horror epic he pitches as The Dark Tower meets The Last of Us. Eternal night, a father crossing a darkened America, and six volumes in one enormous illustrated omnibus. Twelve are planned. He is halfway there.
Horror author Daniel Barnett talks The Nightmareland Chronicles, the illustrated omnibus, and how he plots a 12-volume epic.

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Alex Grass on Infernal Tramps, Weird Horror, and the Terror Hiding in Boring Places Explicit

Alex Grass joins Grave Tone pod to talk about Infernal Tramps, his collection of weird terror out today. Body horror, David Cronenberg, Clive Barker, and why the scariest stories start somewhere boring. Plus, where to start reading it, and the underrated horror authors he cannot stop recommending.
Horror author Alex Grass talks Infernal Tramps, what weird really means, and the terror hiding in mundane places on the Grave Tone podcast.

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Annie Neugebauer on Wilderness Horror, Short Fiction, and the Stories That Get Under Your Skin

Annie Neugebauer (The Extra, The Outsiders Sequence) joins Grave Tone: Horror Podcast to talk wilderness horror, literary dread vs. popcorn scares, the force field problem in modern horror, and her upcoming novella The Other. Plus two mystery announcements she can't reveal yet.
Horror author Annie Neugebauer talks wilderness dread, short fiction, The Outsiders Sequence, the books that haunt her, and two mystery announcements she can't reveal yet.

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Horror Screenwriter Eric Miller on Ice Spiders, Bram Stoker Awards, and What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Horror Explicit

Horror screenwriter and author Eric Miller joins Grave Tone for a midweek bonus episode that covers a lot of ground. He's the writer behind the SyFy cult classic Ice Spiders, screenplays for Night Skies, Swamp Shark, and Mask Maker, Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthology editor, and author of the 2025 debut novel Whatever Happened to Uncle Ed?
Eric Miller wrote Ice Spiders, edited a Bram Stoker-nominated anthology, and has thoughts on why Hollywood keeps getting horror wrong.

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Horror Author Jonathan Janz on Why Horror’s Having a 2025 Moment

Horror author Jonathan Janz joins Grave Tone to talk his new sci-fi horror novel Veil, his story “Leonora” in The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand, and why horror is the most “limitless” genre. Plus: childhood trauma movies, haunted-house preferences, and rapid-fire horror takes. Tags
From streaming scares to King-backed anthologies, Jonathan Janz breaks down the trends and cultural shifts making horror 2025’s most unstoppable genre.

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