Castle of Horror Podcast

Tonight we’re chatting with Laszlo Tamasfi, publisher of a new translation of Dracula’s Death, a 1924 book with a very strange history.

The first motion picture to ever feature the character of Dracula was Dracula's Death, a Hungarian silent film made in 1921. It was not based on Bram Stoker's novel, but rather it was an original story about a young woman, who encounters the famous vampire during her stay at a mental asylum.
The movie, just like so many others from the silent film era, is considered lost. Luckily, a prose adaptation was published in 1924, which has survived in its entirety. We present an English translation of this novelization, with stunning new illustrations by Jozsef Svab. This publication also features The Devil Flew Away, a comprehensive essay on the history of Dracula's Death."

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This week we have a very special Castle Talk, a panel of middle grade adventure writers talking about the challenges of making your book exciting while juggling content issues like violence. It's a wild, wide-ranging conversation featuring:
- Ben Gartner, author of the middle grade time travel adventure series The Eye of Ra. His second book, Sol Invictus, just released in February.
- Adam Perry, the author of The Magicians of Elephant County and The Thieving Collectors of Fine Children’s Books
- Sam Subity, whose debut middle grade fantasy The Last Shadow Warrior releases in May from Scholastic
- Jason Henderson, whose next book in the Young Captain Nemo series, The Serpent's Nest, releases in March

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This week we have a very special crossover episode with the monster movie happy hour with the 1983 film the House of long Shadows. This is Castle of Horror Episode 329.
On the show are Ringo-nominated writer and creator of indy comic Halloween Man Drew Edwards, tech director at Rooster Teeth, Deserts of Mars front man Tony Salvaggio, and as always, we have color commentary from attorney Julia Guzman. Joining us from the Monster Movie Happy Hour are historical book illustrator David Geister, historian and self-proclaimed farm mama Mary Challman, and historian/raconteur/cocktail wizard Scott Chesebrouugh. Hosted by your humble usher Jason Henderson.

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This week we have a very special conversation, a look at plans for the Young Captain Nemo animated trilogy from the team of professionals working on the project!
Chatting are:
- Saahil Bhargava of Rainshine Entertainment- https://www.linkedin.com/in/saahil-bhargava/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1462144376
- Marlene Sharp, Head of IP Strategy and Acquisitions, Kinsane - https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlenesharp/
- Jeffrey Reddick, Screenwriter/Producer - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-reddick-moviemaker/
Twitter & Insta: @JeffreyaReddick
- AhLoong, COO, Animasia Studio - https://animasia-studio.com/
- Jason Henderson, Writer, Castle Bridge Media - http://castlebridgemedia.com

Thanks to Rainshine Entertainment
Website - www.Rainshine.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RainshineEntertainment/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/35556

Read Variety's coverage on Young Captain Nemo: https://variety.com/2021/film/asia/rainshine-animasia-young-captain-nemo-movie-trio-jeffrey-reddick-1234900373/

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Tonight we’re chatting with Mike P Nelson, director of Wrong Turn, which comes out on VOD/Digital/DVD/Blu-ray on February 23. WRONG TURN stars the ensemble cast of Charlotte Vega (The Lodgers), Adain Bradley (“Riverdale”), Bill Sage (American Psycho), Emma Dumont (“The Gifted”), Dylan McTee (“Rosewell, New Mexico”) and Matthew Modine (“Stranger Things”). The film is directed by Mike P. Nelson (The Domestics) and written by Alan B. McElroy (Wrong Turn).

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Tonight we’re chatting with Rio Youers, author of the new book Lola on Fire, which releases 2/16 from William Morrow. People have called the book a mix of Killing Eve, John Wick and Kill Bill.

About the book:
Brody Ellis is short on luck and even shorter on cash to buy the medication his sister Molly needs.

Desperate, he robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps into a young woman and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops to arrive, the phone rings. It’s Blair Mayo—the woman he bumped into—and she’s got the missing billfold.

Brody will get it back, but only if he does her a favor: steal her late mother’s diamonds from her wicked stepmom. But when he gets to the house, he finds a gruesome crime scene—and a security camera. Brody knows he’s been framed.

Back home, the terrified young man gets another call. The police won’t get the incriminating video footage, Blair says. Instead, her daddy, the notorious mobster Jimmy Latzo, will exact his own kind of revenge.

Brody and Molly realize that they’ve become pawns in a mysterious game—one that involves a notorious enforcer named Lola Bear who brutally crossed paths with Jimmy Latzo twenty-six years before. . . a ghost from the past who is intimately connected to their lives.

About the author:
Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award–nominated author of Westlake Soul and Halcyon. His 2017 thriller, The Forgotten Girl, was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. He is the writer of Sleeping Beauties, a comic book series based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King and Owen King. Rio lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife and their two children.

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Tonight we’re chatting with Barbara Howe, author of The Wordsmith, which releases worldwide on February 15, 2021 from IFWG.
The publishers at IFWG would like you to know that if you would like to enter a drawing for a free print (or mobi/epub) copy tonight’s book, all you need to do is subscribe to the IFWG newsletter and fill out details for the drawing – just go to ifwgaustralia.com/treasures.
THE WORDSMITH by Barbara Howe
Irene van Gelder’s drudge job is killing her, but how can she earn a living as an air witch when her own guild calls her a fraud?
The Fire Warlock doesn’t ask for her credentials, but with tensions rising between the Fire and Air Guilds, proving her value to him is not a safe move. With the White Duchess and her son intent on revenge, what defenses can a failure as an air witch muster? All she has is words. Will that be enough to save herself, and Frankland?
For more, see https://ifwgaustralia.com/title-the-wordsmith/.
About Barbara Howe:
Her bio:
Barbara Howe lives on the third rock from the sun, while her imagination travels the universe and beyond.
Born in the US (North Carolina), she spent most of her adult life in New Jersey, working in the software industry, on projects ranging from low-level kernel ports to multi-million-dollar financial applications. She moved to New Zealand in 2009, gained dual citizenship, and now works as a software developer in the movie industry. She lives in Wellington, in a house overflowing with books and jigsaw puzzles, and wishes she had more time to spend universe hopping.

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This week we continue a retrospective on the Alien films with the 1958 film It! The Terror from Beyond Space. This is Episode 328.
It! The Terror from Beyond Space is an independently made 1958 American science fiction horror film, produced by Robert Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn, that stars Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith (Shirley Patterson), and Kim Spalding.[1] The film was distributed by United Artists as a double feature with Curse of the Faceless Man.[2]
The story involves Earth's second mission to Mars to discover the fate of the Challenge 141 and its crew. Only a single survivor is found still alive from that crashed spaceship. The survivor, the expedition's former commander, claims that his crew were killed by a hostile Martian life form. No one from the rescue ship believes him until the creature, now a stowaway, begins hunting the crew on their return trip to Earth.
The film's premise has been cited as an inspiration for screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's screenplay for Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien.[2]

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Tonight we’re chatting with Kaaron Warren, author of the book Slights, which is a re-release from IFWG coming out now.
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When Stevie Searle almost dies in the accident that kills her mother, she doesn’t see a shining path or a golden light.
Instead, she sees everyone she’s ever slighted, waiting to take a piece of her in a cold, dark room. The person whose place she took in the queue, the schoolmate she cheated off, the bus driver she didn’t pay? All waiting. All wanting to take their revenge when she finally crosses over.
Stevie is fascinated by the dark room so she sends herself there again.
And again.
And Again.

About Kaaron Warren
Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren published her first short story in 1993 and has had fiction in print every year since. She was recently given the Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award and was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy 2018, Stokercon 2019 and Geysercon 2019. Kaaron was a Fellow at the Museum for Australian Democracy, where she researched prime ministers, artists and serial killers. She’s judged the World Fantasy Awards and the Shirley Jackson Awards.
She has published five multi-award winning novels (Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole and Tide of Stone) and seven short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls. She has won the ACT Writers and Publishers Award four times and twice been awarded the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novella, Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Press), was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award, winning the Aurealis Award.

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Tonight we’re talking to Jordan Graham, director of SATOR, which comes out from 1091 Pictures on February 9. It's a haunting and atmospheric indie horror shockingly inspired by true events, and compellingly dives into the relationship of fact and fiction, and you can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e_Ij0S-sBw&feature=youtu.be

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