Our First Fears
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.
Our First Fears
Latest Episodes
27 - Satanic Panic with Aaron Starmer
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 murderous cults and the...
26 - Return to Oz with Mar Romasco-Moore
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 if you...
25 - Nuclear Nightmares with Grady Hendrix
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 certain books an...
24 - The Conjuring's Ed & Lorraine Warren with Lorien Lawrence
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’s 2013 film THE...
Bonus - A Tale to Keep You Up at Night, "Imogen's Skeleton"
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 shy gir...
