Let The Cat In

By: Kaaron Warren Aaron Dries J. Ashley-Smith
  • Summary

  • Three horror writers and their guests riff on objects, inspiration, and those ideas that scratch at the door, miaowing to be let in. Guests to date include Nathan Ballingrud, Alan Baxter, JS Breukelaar, Isobelle Carmody, Brian Evenson, Kathe Koja, John Langan, Paul Mannering, Lee Murray, TR Napper, Dan O'Malley, Garth Nix, Sarah Read, Lynda E. Rucker, Melinda Smith, Cat Sparks, Paul Tremblay, Sean Williams and more!
    Kaaron Warren, Aaron Dries, J. Ashley-Smith 2021
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Episodes
  • Episode 41 – Slip
    Oct 26 2024

    The Cat gets permissive in this latest episode with special guest, author and artist Nik Vincent-Abnett. While Joseph has an on-air fashion meltdown and Aaron DIYs his bootcuts into flares, Kaaron forgets her own name. Clothing is discussed, as an expression of character, as shorthand for a time, as a face to show the world, as skin. The cyclic nature of fashion. Each generation’s possessiveness over the style of their time. Also Hussars, apportation, and the many people who died in Nik’s house. Ghosts as camera obscura. Ugg boots as the great leveller. Selling books with boobies. Aaron wants to be buried in a clown jacket. Nik takes a terminal photograph.

    Buttons and bow-ties in this episode include:

    • Schitt’s Creek
    • Kaaron’s The Underhistory
    • Nik’s The Wipe and Savant

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Episode 40 – Chorus
    Sep 22 2024

    The Cat goes positively bonkers over an audience with the best-dressed man in speculative fiction, game designer, teacher and writer, the incontrovertible Rik Lagarto. While Joseph gets all the ups and Aaron clobbers a Hobbit, Kaaron is haunted by a butterfly cake. The ghosts at Bethnal Green are discussed, as is ham (again), Nazis (fuck ‘em), and Russell Crowe’s piss. Also scar trees, scars in time, and the awareness of historical time as a new angle from which to perceive or experience the present. The importance of The Ugly Duckling. David Hasselhoff’s frozen poo. Aaron gives Rik some sensible advice.

    Scats and scent trails sniffed over in this episode include:

    • Joseph’s collection The Measure of Sorrow
    • Michael McDowell’s Blackwater
    • Iain Banks’ The Crow Road
    • John Waters’ A Dirty Shame
    • Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year Of Rest And Relaxation

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Episode 39 – Wand
    Aug 16 2024

    The Cat gets ‘poetic and foul-mouthed’ in a bewitching episode with award-winning author and academic, the incantatory Lisa L. Hannett. While Kaaron gets a Lacroix and Joseph gets lost in the nineties, Aaron dodges the post-con blues by calling from the toilet. William Hope Hodgson is discussed, as is the gathering of disasters. An extended riff on the mixtape follows: the mixtape as a labour of love; the mixtape as a time capsule; the emotional beats of a mixtape. Also, the secret language of couples, the execution of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, and the cultural etiquette of burial mounds. The emotional safety net of a selfie and the magical thinking of everyday life. Aaron makes a mixtape confession. Lisa is careful not to say völva.

    Runestones and philtres conjured in this episode include:

    • Lisa’s Viking Women
    • Aaron’s Dirty Heads
    • M John Harrison’s The Course of the Heart

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    1 hr and 10 mins

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