Author: Carrie Lee South

An Interview With Cody Goodfellow

An Interview With Cody Goodfellow

By: Carrie Lee South

If you’re a fan of horror anthologies, you should already be reading Crystal Lake’s Dark Tide series. Each edition collects three novellas on a particular theme written by some of the genre’s most original voices. Their June release PsychoActive features Ryan C. Thomas, Ed Kurtz, Cody Goodfellow, and Anthony Trevino on the theme of “transformation.” The stories in this 16th volume explore the twisted corners of the human mind. 

 

I found myself particularly drawn to the cosmic terror in Cody Goodfellow’s tale “The Secret Eater” which follows a family reaping the destructive benefits of their farm’s unique product: a strong and hallucinogenic moonshine. 

 

Cody Goodfellow has been a fixture in the “weird” community for decades. Whether you know him from his vast catalog of novels and short fiction or his film and TV appearances, there’s no question that he knows what gets under your skin. I sat down with Cody to talk about his Lovecraftian influences, psychedelic experiences, and pulp existentialism.

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An Interview With Chase Dearinger On His Debut Novel

 

In the desolate hills of Eastern Oklahoma, the residents of Seven Suns are haunted by more than their own personal dramas. Bones crawl from the earth, shape-shifting entities slip into different skins, and a theoretically impossible black cougar roams the countryside. Chase Dearinger intertwines the complicated lives of a pseudo-step-father, a troubled teen, and a reluctant sheriff as their stories come together to face This New Dark.

 

Chase Dearinger is an Oklahoma native who now lives in Kansas with his wife and two daughters. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in magazines around the country, including BayouThe Southampton ReviewShort Story America, and Heavy Feather Review. He currently serves as the Chief Editor of Emerald City, a quarterly online fiction magazine, and directs the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize, an annual poetry chapbook contest. He is a professor of creative writing and literature at Pittsburg State University. This New Dark is his first novel.

 

I sat down with Chase to talk about his writing process, reconciling literary and genre fiction, and the inherent horror of liminal spaces. 

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