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Cosmic horror with clubhouse energy.
Lovecraft eZine mixes cosmic horror, weird fiction, genre movies, and book talk with the feel of a standing hangout. The conversations can swing from Buffy reboots to Lovecraftian geography, then pause for prizes, patron thanks, and a little friendly teasing.
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Lovecraft eZine is a long-running horror conversation built around camaraderie, digression, and genuine genre appetite. It does not sound like a lecture series. It sounds like people who know each other settling in, joking first, then finding their way toward books, films, craft, fandom, and the strange corners of horror history. The format shifts between guest interviews and looser panel episodes. That flexibility is part of the appeal. One week might center on Donovan Loucks and the geography behind Lovecraftian fiction, with archival research, Providence locations, demolished houses, and the pleasure of finding a real-world connection after years of looking. Another might bring in James Lovegrove to talk about Sherlock Holmes, cosmic horror, chronology, rational investigation, and why a detective built on explanation can still collide productively with the Cthulhu mythos. The show also has room for Buffy, Star Trek, Terminator Dark Fate, Ready or Not, The Evil Dead, and the uneasy business of reboots trying to serve old fans and new ones at once. The literary conversations are grounded but relaxed. Guests such as Jeremiah Dillon Cook, Haley Piper, Josh Mellerman, James Lovegrove, and Philip Gillard are folded into the table rather than treated as distant authorities. Discussions of writing often become practical: finishing work, keeping momentum, reading scripts, meeting deadlines, and turning opportunities into actual pages. Community is never far away. Prize announcements, patron thanks, live-show notes, Friday hangouts, and reminders about future conversations sit beside the main topic instead of feeling separate from it. That creates a lived-in rhythm. The show can be messy, funny, and specific. It is also attentive to why horror readers keep returning to old books, new voices, adaptations, and arguments about what makes the genre work. For listeners who enjoy horror as both art and social world, Lovecraft eZine has the feel of pulling up a chair mid-conversation.
Made for: For horror readers, weird-fiction fans, and genre-movie obsessives who like conversation that is informed but informal. It especially fits listeners who enjoy guest interviews, panel chemistry, and bookish side roads.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its community texture: interviews, recommendations, prizes, patron shoutouts, and casual panel banter all occupy the same space. It feels less like programmed criticism and more like an ongoing horror circle that happens to record itself.
⚡️ A horror podcast that feels like hanging out with friends! A few quotes from listeners:😄 "This podcast helped get me through lockdown. Love it!" - Jennifer Carstens😄 "I usually try to catch your show Sunday afternoons on YouTube. I've come to look at you, Rick, Pete, Matt and others as buddies." - Ed Kinter 😄 "Thanks for reminding me that reading is a joy." - Adam Taylor-------------🍁 Join us as we discuss cosmic horror, weird fiction, Lovecraftian horror, horror movies, books, and related topics. I mean... all KINDS of related topics. Especially horror. 🍁 Guests have included Paul Tremblay, Catriona Ward, Laird Barron, Gwendolyn Kiste, Joe Lansdale, and many others!-------------😄 P…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Horror creators and devoted enthusiasts compare the practical choices behind fiction, adaptations, comics, and literary research.
Lovecraft eZine: A Horror Podcast That Feels Like Hanging Out With Friends treats horror fiction as a living conversation among books, films, comics, and the people making them.
A demolished Providence house is your way into Mike Davis's happily winding horror conversations.
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A loose Buffy reboot conversation weighs fandom, nostalgia, and the risks of returning too closely to a beloved show.
The episode begins in loose neighborhood texture, where a leaf blower and a porn shoot next door fold into the recording before the guest-free panel settles on its real question: what a Buffy reboot owes to the people who still carry the original with them.
An archival chase that turns a Providence address into Lovecraft lore.
The episode turns Lovecraftian geography into a compact detective story, with Donovan Loucks following a house, a demolished stretch of North Main Street, and the research trail that links a Providence address back to Lovecraft's fiction.
A Cast a Deadly Spell novelization talk that keeps its attention on the process.
Lovecraft Easing Podcast keeps the focus on Jeremiah Dillon Cook and the early work of turning Cast a Deadly Spell into a novelization. He has started the document, has ideas in place, is reading the script, and expects a call with the screenwriter, so the draw is the process…
A conversational hangout that turns craft talk into a simple case for staying in motion.
Josh Mellerman's segment opens with recovery talk, a prize mention for Rachel Harrison's The Return, a Facebook check, and a few Lennon jokes before it settles into craft.
A relaxed interview about making Sherlock Holmes meet the irrational machinery of the Cthulhu mythos.
James Lovegrove's Lovecraftian Sherlock Holmes books give the episode a clean central problem: Holmes may be fiction's great rationalist, while the Cthulhu mythos runs on madness, unknowability, and forces that resist human explanation.
A loose horror chat that turns a night terror and a woods-side chill into plainspoken dread.
This episode leans into dread through memory and small details rather than big set pieces. Soren Narnia and JD Buffington talk through a tiny cemetery in Iowa called the 13 stairs, the uneasy pull of standing near the woods at night, and how Buffington's Red Clouds Anxiety grew…
A lively superhero conversation that turns comic art into a question of performance.
Mike Davis sits down with Sam Ham for a superhero conversation that quickly finds its footing in Batman and comic adaptation. The live-show energy is there from the start, with heat, a brief power flicker, and the kind of easy banter that keeps the exchange moving before it…
Two classical-education teachers slow-read novels like Jane Eyre, chapter by chapter.
Book talk with room to wander.
Mike Davis interviews Curtis M.
The Lovecraft eZine podcast hosts Soren Narnia of Knifepoint Horror and JD Buffington, author of 'In the House of In Between'.
Screenwriter Sam Hamm joins the Lovecraft eZine podcast to discuss his work on Batman 89 and Batman Returns.
Mike Davis opens with a no-guest episode of Lovecraft eZine, then brings in Pete Rollick, Mark Rainey, Ben Handelman, and Alan Hughes for a loose roundtable that also plugs Patreon Call of Cthulhu games and the podcast’s guest calendar.
Donovan Lauchs traces his path from Phoenix, Arizona, and childhood horror reading to decades of Lovecraft research, database work, and site-building.
Jeremiah Cook explains how a rejection letter sent him back to Cast a Deadly Spell, where a rewatch led to his story A Night at the Arkham Reservoir and later to a professional publishing break.
An interview with author Hailey Piper about her cosmic horror novel No Gods for Drowning on the Lovecraft Easing Podcast.
Jeffrey Ford discusses small-town life in Texas and Iowa, weather, and the Lovecraft E-Zine podcast.
Josh Mallerman describes ketamine hallucinations, a grave, and thinking he was “inside the book” he was writing.
James Lovegrove discusses the Cthulhu Casebooks of Sherlock Holmes and says the canonical Conan Doyle stories are a "smoke screen" for "nightmarish ancient godlike creatures." He also separates those books from his other Holmes pastiches, including "The Christmas Demon," "The Beast of Stapletons," and "The Three Winter Terrors." Lovegrove describes how a ferry crossing the English Channel, a post-university drift, and a fascination with mystery structure shaped "The Hope" and later Holmes plotting.
Mike Davis interviews Philip Gelatt about his First Word on Horror interview series, discussing his anniversary and the design of his background character.
A podcast host and guest Ian Rogers discuss daylight savings time and the darkness of winter before introducing an interview about his new book 'Sycamore'.
Brian Evenson discusses his new horror collection 'Good Night, Sleep Tight' and his career straddling literary and genre fiction.
The Lovecraft Easy Podcast hosts introduce themselves and discuss technical issues before an interview with Patrick Barb about his book 'Cursed Episodes for Doomed Adults'.