Hosted by Dan Poblocki · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 29 episodes
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Our First Fears is a podcast hosted by Dan Poblocki featuring discussions about Gateway Horror, past and present, with artists working in the genre today.
Dan Poblocki hosts Our First Fears, a arts show with 29 episodes published.
Episode 27 of Our First Fears is a chat with author, Aaron Starmer, about the Satanic Panic of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. We get into our own memories of the cultural paranoia surrounding the supposed existence of murderou
In Episode 26, author Mar Romasco-Moore talks about their love for the cult classic Disney film, Return to Oz and how it influenced their latest young adult novel, Deadstream . This is one of our favorite films EVER, and
Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, joins Our First Fears for Episode 25 to talk about growing up as a cold-war kid, terrorized by constant reports in the 1980s of threats of a nuclear strike. He found strange solace in c
Episode 24 of Our First Fears has creepy middle-grade author, Lorien Lawrence chatting with Dan about Ed and Lorraine Warren, the real life “ghost hunters” who were played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in James Wan’
In this bonus episode, your host, Dan Poblocki, reads another creepy story, this time from his recent novel MORE Tales to Keep You Up at Night , and talks again about the story’s origins. “Imogen’s Skeleton,” is about a
In Episode 23, author Jeramey Kraatz joins Our First Fears to chat about urban legends. If you’re intrigued by tales of killers lurking at lover’s lanes, weirdos hiding under beds who like licking your hand in the middle
In this bonus episode, Dan reads a chilling and chilly story from his novel Tales to Keep You Up at Night , and talks a bit about the story's origins. “The Psychopath’s Tarot,” is about a trio of teenage friends who trek
Episode 22 of Our First Fears brings you author Sam Rebelein, whose fear of Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride runs through his veins, deeper than he even knows. We talk about the creepiness of the Hudson Valley in New York S
In Episode 21 , celebrated author, Adrianna Cuevas, joins Our First Fears to chat about “The Raft” segment from the 1987 anthology film, Creepshow 2 . If you’re intrigued by body horror, questions of morality in scary st
Episode 20 of Our First Fears brings to you horror-author and all-around super-star, Clay McLeod Chapman, as we chat about how he discovered Jason Vorhees as a kid. YES, we’re finally tackling the 1980 slasher classic, F
Episode 19 – Author Eliot Schrefer joins us to talk about James Cameron’s 1986 action/ horror classic, Aliens , which is the sequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien from 1979. We get into themes of motherhood, survival, isolation
On episode 18 of Our First Fears , NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, Daniel Kraus joins me in a conversation about Fangoria Magazine – the tentpole horror movie publication that debuted in the late 1970s and qui
On episode 17, WE ARE BACK . . . this time, chatting with writer and horror podcast-rock-star, Neil McRobert about a movie that made him cry when he was just a wee lad - James Cameron’s 1984 science-fiction classic, The
On episode 16 of Our First Fears , NY Times bestseller, Tracey Baptiste reveals the map of her childhood village where her friends and family banded together to protect themselves from jumbies, the creepy creatures that
On today’s episode, author Sara Farizan chats with me about the 1982 cult film Halloween III: Season of the Witch. We also tie the film’s themes pretty tightly to her recent YA horror novel, Dead Flip, which is set in th
On episode 14 of Our First Fears , author and illustrator, Derrick Chow joins me in appreciation of the genius and creativity of beloved actress Shelley Duvall’s possibly-accidentally-terrifying television show from the
We’ve reached lucky episode 13 of Our First Fears , and today, I get to talk with author Russell Ginns, or R. U. Ginns, about the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Together, we dig into how artists use elem
Episode 12 of Our First Fears is a conversation with Bram Stoker Award finalist Ally Malinenko about Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and several other classic terrors. We talk about unreliable narra
On episode 11 of Our First Fears , Pushcart Award nominee, Joe Vallese shows me the path beyond Stephen King's Pet Sematary and up into the haunted hills where the buried-dead have a tendency to rise and wreak havoc on t
On episode 10 of Our First Fears , debut novelist and creator of monsters, Trevor Henderson and I head to the rear section of the video rental stores of our youths to paw through some of our favorite, and freakiest, VHS
Clay McLeod Chapman
Author of Whisper Down the Lane
1 appearance on this show
Eliot Schrefer
1 appearance on this show
Daniel Kraus
2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
1 appearance on this show
Neil McRobert
host of the Talking Scared Podcast
1 appearance on this show
Ally Malinenko
1 appearance on this show
Lamar Giles
William & Mary
1 appearance on this show
Jay Cooper
1 appearance on this show
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