...in which I venture into deepest Transylvania to speak with Alison Littlewood and Thomas Fletcher. Topics include: nature, fear, death, standing stones, the Moors and plumbing.

... in which I find myself back in Finsbury Park, London to meet Adam Marek in a busy (and noisy) Turkish café. We talk short stories, body horror and the pleasures of copywriting. I enthuse about Robert Aickman and confess to finding readings a bit boring; Adam about Karen Russell and confesses he finds them wonderful.

Alex Preston, author of The Revelations and This Bleeding City, talks to a woefully hungover Viv about religious beliefs, working for an investment bank, and writing fiction about the national crises.

In which I find myself in Chorlton, the keffiyah capital of Manchester, speaking with Socrates Adams about working in recruitment, living in the wild, and his first book Everything's Fine.

In which I talk to Greg Stekelman, perhaps better known as @themanwhofell, about writing stories for the internet, being on the cul-de-sac of near fame, and that cruelest of mistresses, sweetest of poisons: Twitter. For more information head over to bookishpodcast.com

Chapter One: in which I find myself in Preston with Jenn Ashworth, novelist, childhood friend, and ex-Mormon. We discuss lost novels, lost teenagers, what it's like to be from the North, the terrifying things Latter-Day-Saint-folk get up to.