179 – Ally Wilkes & The Ethics of Eating Your Friends

Send us a textAre you hungry?  If so we have a chewy, salty, deeply flavoured feast for you this week. Ally Wilkes returns to Talking Scared to discuss the icebound horrors of her new novel, Where the Dead Wait. It’s a tale of Arctic exploration gone very wrong, complete with haunting, human suffering and the morbid fascination of cannibalism! Don’t pretend that hasn’t whet your appetite. Ally and I get into the raw details of consuming human meat, we talk about queerness in historical horror fiction, we discuss the nature of haunting and how a historical horror novel can have links to a sci-fi horror classic, and we talk reminisce about the time Ally nearly died on a Himalaya in an appalling coat. Jolly good fun wot wot! Enjoy! Other books mentioned: All the White Spaces (2022), by Ally Wilke The Shining (1977), by Stephen KingWhat Cares the Sea (1960), by Kenneth CookeThe Secret Sharer (1910), by Joseph ConradFrankenstein (1818), by Mary ShelleyIce Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition (2000), by Scott CookmanSundial (2022), by Catriona WardDead Silence (2022), by S.A. BarnesGhost Station (2024), by S.A. BarnesIndianapolis: The True Story of the Greatest Naval Disaster in US History (2018), by Lynn Vincent and Sarah Vladic Support Talking Scared on Patreon Visit the Talking Scared site Come talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com Support the show