It actually took me a little time to really get into this. At its core, it is a sort of coming-of-age story that reads like a mix between ‘Deliverance’, ‘The Explorers’ and ‘Dazed and Confused’, so you can probably imagine that I had a great time with the book.įirstly, let’s get the little negative out-of-the-way.

Cthulhu (Eds.Nathan Carson’s ‘Starr Creek’ has a little bit of everything. ‘The Willows’ by Algernon Blackwood (original story) Visit our Patreon page and donate to The Outer Dark and the This Is Horror Podcast today. (01:30:11) Justin Steele, Michael Griffin and Scott discuss BizarroCon 2017, the Wonderland Awards, a review of John Claude Smith‘s The Wilderness Within, and the latest publishing news including Broken Eye Books, Mythic Delirium Press, and Eraserhead Press’s New Bizarro Author Series, Please subscribe to The Outer Dark podcast RSS Feed Caligari (Fedogan & Bremer), sword and sorcery, reading and interviewing Gene Wolfe, the pleasure of working with Lazy Fascist Press, Starr Creek inspirations and its warm reception, his band Witch Mountain, drumming and prose, DJ and flow, a reading from ‘When the Evil Days Come Not’ from Tales from a Talking Board (0:54:20 to 1:00:00), more on the genesis and challenges of adapting ‘The Willows’ to a visual medium including substituting female lead characters, building dread by ‘condensing the action’, collaborating with Sam Ford, possible returns to Floating World, issue #2 coming in January, current and upcoming fiction, and his recommended writers including David Busboom, Garrett Cook, and The Outer Dark recent guest Jennifer Robin, the ‘poet laureate of Portland Weird.’ News from The Weird

Nathan Carson, author of Starr Creek (Lazy Fascist Press), joins Scott to talk about his fiction and his recent graphic novel adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Willows’ (Floating World Comics) with artist Sam Ford, including a heap of Jack Kirby love, Marvel movies, growing up with Dark Horse Comics, the secret origins of ‘The Willows’ project, transitioning from journalism and rock music/promotion to fiction, the fruits of his ‘Cinderella moment’ with Ross Lockhart/ Word Horde, back story on some short stories including ‘The Projection Booth’ in Joseph Pulver’s The Madness of Dr. In this podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Nathan Carson, author of Starr Creekand ‘The Willows’ graphic novel. Plus an all-new News from the Weird featuring co-hosts Justin Steele and Michael Griffin! Show Notes

Starr Creek by Nathan Carson