Episode 79: Dark Shadows with David Demchuk

Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Scares That Shaped Us, a podcast about horror writers and the stories that made them.

I'm your host, Matthew Jackson, and this week we are joined by one of the best horror writers at it right now.

You will know him from books like The Bone Mother and The Butcher's Daughter.

His landmark queer horror novel, Red X, originally published in 2021, is out now in a beautiful new edition from Hell's Hundred.

David Demchuk, welcome to the show.

Well, thank you for having me.

I'm happy to be here.

It is so great to have you here.

We have followed each other online for a while, and I've kind of been looking for a reason to get you on.

And then I found out about this reissue of Red X and was like, perfect.

OK, we got to talk to David about Red X, which congratulations on this reissue, by the way.

It is a beautiful new printing of Red X.

You have a forward in here from Gretchen Felker Martin.

You have some additional writing from Anthony Oliveira about some of the true story subject matter behind the latter parts of the book.