Robb Olson

Chicago

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Todd Keisling - THE SUNDOWNER'S DANCE

2 weeks ago | thearcparty.com | Robb Olson

Preorder signed copies here!When I heard Todd Keisling — an author I knew as a writer of Appalachian horror/cosmic horror — was writing a book about a widower moving to a retirement home… I couldn’t resist. There was no way this was going to be anything but awesome. And I was right, but Todd also plunged his hand into my chest and ripped my still-beating heart out. Which is to say that even though I knew what I was in for, I didn’t know what was coming.
Michael David Wilson - DADDY'S BOY

3 weeks ago | thearcparty.com | Robb Olson

Preorder directly from This Is HorrorMichael David Wilson has established himself as a horror institution over the last decade and a half, and so naturally when there’s a new novel out with his name on it, it’s gonna be horror right? Nah. But don’t let that deter you, horror heads, because this is a dame fine read even if it’s lacking in vampires or werewolves.
Nick Kolakowski - WHERE THE BONES LIE

1 month ago | thearcparty.com | Robb Olson

Buy this book and support the podcast!Nick Kolakowski has been in the writing business for a long time, and his come up has been sort of split between horror and crime. He’s got impressive credentials in horror and crime anthologies and magazines, as well as his own published works. The book of the hour, however, is solidly, fantastically a crime book. Detective, to be more specific.
Chris Panatier - DEATH ON THE SWAYBACK

1 month ago | thearcparty.com | Robb Olson

Get your copy of Death on the Swayback (hopefully)Shop for Chris’ other books on my Bookshop pageI want to tell you a story about a boy and a boy. It all started one afternoon in the most romantic of locations, the Renaissance St. Louis Airport Hotel. I was attending Authorcon 4, my first Authorcon. And there, across the sea of tables filled with horror books, was a dreamy man in a plaid shirt looking a little too much like Chuck Palahniuk or a “cool” teacher… Chris Panatier.
PUNK GOES HORROR! Anthology with William Sterling and Brian McAuley

2 months ago | thearcparty.com | Robb Olson

Preorder Special Backstage Package from TrubornPreorder the regular edition from TrubornThough there seems to be a particular empathy between punk music and horror, the concern could be, if you were to collect a bunch of horror stories themed to punk rock songs, wouldn’t they all just be the same thing - more or less?
Chuck Wendig - THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS

2 months ago | thearcparty.com | Robb Olson

Preorder THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODSI’ve been reading Chuck Wendig books since the early 2010s, when he had back to back releases of BLACKBIRDS and MOCKINGBIRD, the first two books in the Miriam Black series of (six) books. Since then, I’ve read piles of his stories adding up to thousands of pages. Psychics, AI, Jedis, Pandemics, Serial Killers… he’s covered a lot of ground. But there’s something about this story. Something more than it appears. Something beneath the surface.
Crossover: Ryan McRae Interviewing TJ Klune

2 months ago | thearcparty.com | Robb Olson

My good friend Ryan McRae is an avid reader like myself, but he goes in for a different type of story. While I’m mucking around in horror and crime, Ryan is traveling to other worlds and universes and realities in the pages of Sci-Fi and Fantasy books. Recently, Ryan had an opportunity to get an early look at the new book by TJ Klune, called THE BONES BENEATH MY SKIN and chat with Mr Klune about it. It was Ryan’s first time conducting an author interview, and if you ask me he killed it.
Sadie Hartmann's Horror Preview 2025

2 months ago | thearcparty.com | Robb Olson

In the looming orange-tinged shadows of the current political situation, six lovers-of-story got together to have a chat about books. Why? Because first of all: they love books. Second of all: Because books shine light on darkness, give voices to those silenced, record history for those erased, recognize those unseen, and punch fucking nazis. So, six people, ten books each, two hours and fifteen minutes.
Craig Clevenger - THE CONTORTIONIST'S HANDBOOK

Jan 21, 2025 | thearcparty.com | Robb Olson

Craig Clevenger is a hell of a writer. But don’t take my word for it. Chuck Palahniuk has praised The Contortionist’s Handbook. Irvine Welsh has. Jordan Harper has, Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly has, Stephen Graham Jones has, Paul Tremblay has… many people have. And for good reason. It’s a fucking great book. And what follows, in my humblest, is a fucking great conversation. We talk about the book, we talk about life, we talk about struggles, we talk about families, we talk about the Waffle House.
Eric LaRocca - AT DARK I BECOME LOATHSOME

Jan 10, 2025 | thearcparty.com | Robb Olson

It may seem like a contradiction that someone who can write such brutal things is such a lovely and sweet human being, but I think that in this episode, we tapped into a possible reason that it’s not a contradiction at all that Eric Larocca will destroy you with the most stark and frightful words, and smother you with happy thoughts when you talk to him. The truth is, we all have these dark, extreme thoughts in our minds.