The Diabolical Index
By Korey Dawson
The Diabolical IndexMay 21, 2018
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Eighteen - Kiernan and Kuttner: Mushrooms of Yggdrasil
Sometimes, things suddenly seem like they've become off-kilter, and other times...you realize that they've finally righted themselves...in a completely different direction. Does it ever feel like you are in the wrong place? Body? BRAIN? In this episode, we discuss what happens when the tables are turned on reality, the world is FAR more strange than you would imagine, and it may not even be yours...at all. Two master spinners of the fantastic peel back the curtain, to my everlasting confusion and delight!
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Seventeen - Those Across The River: Character as Misdirection
In this episode, two disgraced academics defy the warning against an inheritance, and move into a town plagued by its own legacy. Come with me to Whitbrow, and you may find out why no one crosses the river, and why anything that crosses the edge of the forest goes away...forever.
The Diabolical Index - Special Confess Your Sins Episode
Dirty secrets. Lies. Guilty pleasures...IN LITERATURE! It's all here! (Or, at least, it was supposed to be heh heh.)
The Diabolical Index - Special Interview Episode - Horror Author Betty Rocksteady
In my sophomore interview, New Bizarro Author Series and Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing alum Betty Rocksteady unfurls a whole new world of fear, absurdist horror, and sex with spiders. (Hey...who knows, right?)
The Diabolical Index - Episode Zero Plus One - Weird-Fiction/Horror Writer Brooke Warra Interview
It was a total honor to have Shirley Jackson Award nominee and Weird Fiction/Horror Writer Brooke Warra in to talk about her trials and tribulations and what it takes to navigate the tentacle-filled waters of contemporary Horror!
The Diabolical Index - Episode Zero, or, A Book Mom Read Me and A Book Dad Should Have, aka The Graphic Episode
A small tribute, in my way. (I left the audio problems in at the beginning, because it had brought a much needed peal of laughter to me when I had needed it most.)
The Diabolical Index - Books Versus Movies
The printed page is, and has always been, fertile ground for movie adaptation. Sometimes it works...and sometimes it doesn't.
The Diabolical Index - Special Q&A Episode
You asked, I answered!
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Sixteen - Disch and Laymon
As with all things you discover, some are slow and methodical, and others...raise a hammer. Never has that been more true than in the case of the two books I discuss in this episode!
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Fifteen - The Chrysalis: Themes in Echo
I agonize over Brendan Daneen's story of obsession and the parasitic nature of a kinship beyond human understanding.
The Diabolical Index-Entry Number Fourteen-Introduction to Silver John
Silver John is one of the finest characters ever to come out of the Weird Tales era of fantasy and horror, and I'm tackling as much of the canon as you can stand!
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Thirteen - Little Heaven and the Return of Action in Horror
In this episode, I present Nick Cutter's horrific tale of contract killing and dark gods that walk the face of the Earth...while commenting on the state of Action within the confines of contemporary Horror literature.
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Twelve - Meddling Kids and the Ghost Story Trip
The Scooby gang (or some youngsters that look and act like them anyway) deals with the regret and horror from the finest case of their career, and I finally descend into the depths of the Black Books club and the wonders of Fairborn, Ohio and escape unscathed!
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Eleven - Barker's Lament
Check out the Preface episode for more about this topic!
Live - Choose Your Own Adventure: An Improvised Story
Join Korey as he narrates the first ever, crowd driven, live performance of Choose Your Own Adventure: An Improvised Story by The Magic Squirrel Network. He is joined on stage by the hosts of Pointless Discussion, Paul Shroyer and Mark Reynolds as well as host of Juice in the Morning, Justin Kelly. Preformed live and recored on June 26th 2019 at the Kettle Top Brewhouse in Anderson Indiana.
Preface to TDI Entry Number Eleven
Cyclopean House trailer
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Ten - Fagan and Gregory
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Nine - Morrell and Pashley
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Eight - Crouch and Ellis
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Seven - Levin and Hynes
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Six - McCammon and Bill
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Five - Cutter and Eggers
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Four - Paull and Toutonghi
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Three - Donohue and Jacobs
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number Two - Tremblay and Koontz
The Diabolical Index - Entry Number One - Bradbury and Southard
Beware your human heart! Monday nights around 10 pm, marvel at every arcane entry of The Diabolical Index! Join Korey Dawson as he travels across the dark literary spectrum, decoding unseen themes, wading the fog of metaphor, and stripping characters to the bone! Venture where the pages of the uncanny reside, and persevere...or perish.