Interviews

Alexandrine Ogundimu: Actively Courting Destruction

April 21st, 2022

Born in Indiana, now thriving in Chicago, Nigerian transgressive author Alexandrine Ogundimu is having a bit of a moment. Agitation (Amphetamine Sulfate) released last month, and she just electronically self-published Zeke (a sharp, fatal revenge story that could be the most harrowing of her oeuvre). Her story “Fascism is Imperialism Applied at Home” is included in Amphetamine Sulfate's Human Rights sci-fi anthology, alongside Thomas Moore, Blake Butler, and Christopher Zeischegg.

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Dark Horrorsong: An Interview with Joe Koch

April 18th, 2022

Thanks to Joe for agreeing to this interview. I've been seeing so much buzz surrounding his new collection, Convulsive (releasing on April 19th from Apocalypse Party), that I was compelled to sit down with him for some questions. So let’s get right into it!

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"Collective Creative Work Is The Way" — An Interview with Interactive Literary Site Los Suelos, CA

April 7th, 2022

Header image courtesy of Los Suelos America is riddled with countless strange small towns, but one of the weirdest — Los Suelos, CA — can only be found on the Internet. Within its city limits you'll find a sprawling, multi-media, interactive anthology that fuses fiction writing, music, art, and a goddamned video game running through it all. Los Suelos goes far beyond any one-dimensional self-serving literary journal, with proceeds benefiting underfunded California agricultural workers.

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Catriona Ward: Learning to Fail

April 4th, 2022

Photo via author's Facebook This last year has been an impressive one for horror author Catriona Ward. The Last House on Needless Street swept through the book world, garnering impressive reviews and stirring rumors that it might be headed to Hollywood sometime soon. In early March, her newest book, Sundial, was released to similar acclaim. I was delighted to spend some time talking to Ward about why she loves horror, the importance of a writing schedule, and why failure is a necessary skill for every writer to learn.

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“Yeah, I Think It’s Starting to Work”: A Conversation with Debut Author Deborah Greenhut

March 28th, 2022

Photo courtesy of the author I recently had the opportunity to talk to author Deborah Greenhut about her debut novel, The Hoarder’s Wife. Drawn from her real life experiences, Greenhut weaves a tale that is at times a psychological autopsy and at others a horror novel, but is at all times a moving and lyrical exploration of resilience and survival in a uniquely complex family system. This is our conversation. Please tell me who you are and what we need to know about your book. 

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A Conversation with Alex Segura, author of "Secret Identity"

March 15th, 2022

Insight into comic books? Check. Page-turning mystery? Check. Twists and turns that are emotionally-rooted? Check. A Hell-of-a-fun read? Yep, it’s a new novel by Alex Segura.

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D'urban Moffer "Tap Into Those Liminal Spaces To Pull Forth The Universal"

March 11th, 2022

Photo courtesy of the author American Kashayas (Expat Press) is the long-awaited debut by D'urban Moffer, the deadpan Rust Belt Court Jester who's given us a zeitgeist-swallowing tome, an electrified brick of a book that doesn't just have its finger on a pulse — the work itself feels alive beyond its words, beyond my words...

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Interview: Max Collins of Eve 6

March 9th, 2022

Normally, my LitReactor editor asks me to write an intro for my interviews, but this isn't some C-List author, this is a C-List musician, which equals an A-List author in pop culture terms. But this C-List musician is well on his way to being an A-list author with his new memoir, Heart in a Blender. So here is my interview with Max Collins of Eve 6.  When you were 15 and writing the heart in a blender song did, you think that one day the lyric would be the title of your memoir?

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Beverley Lee & Nicole Eigener: A Collision of Fictional Worlds in Gothic Horror

March 2nd, 2022

Photos courtesy of the authors There are few writers today I would personally consider masters in the art of gothic fiction. Beverley Lee and Nicole Eigener are amongst those few.

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Valancourt Books on Horror Stories from Around the World

February 16th, 2022

After reading The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories Vol. I, I was in awe of the scope and size of the project. Learning that there would be a Volume II releasing this year, I felt the need to ask Valancourt Books owners James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle some questions about their vision for global horror. *For this interview, the questions were posed to both James and Ryan in an email. James and Ryan then discussed them together and James composed the responses.

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