{"id":23257,"date":"2017-04-14T08:33:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=23257"},"modified":"2017-06-06T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T13:18:09","slug":"dig-into-bbq-with-best-selling-horror-writer-brian-keene-in-episode-34-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/14\/dig-into-bbq-with-best-selling-horror-writer-brian-keene-in-episode-34-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig into BBQ with best-selling horror writer Brian Keene in Episode 34 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now for something completely different—the first (and likely only) episode of Eating the Fantastic<\/em> to be recorded during a live-streamed fundraising telethon.<\/p>\n

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I’d been trying for quite a while to schedule the recording of an episode with Brian Keene—on whose podcast The Horror Show I appeared<\/a> nearly two years ago, inspiring me to create this<\/em> podcast. Unfortunately, our schedules never synced. <\/p>\n

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But when it came time for Brian to record the 100th episode of The Horror Show<\/em> as a live 24-hour-long telethon to raise funds for the Scares That Care<\/a> charity, he had a brainstorm—that I invade his event with a meal of some sort, and record my own show as part of his livestream.<\/p>\n

So that’s what I did—show up at a conference room of a Hunt Valley hotel with a ton of takeout from Andy Nelson\u2019s Barbecue<\/a>, which has repeatedly been voted best BBQ by Baltimore Magazine<\/em>—bringing enough to feed Brian, his co-hosts, and some of the live studio audience you’ll hear in this episode, too.<\/p>\n

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Brian’s published more than 40 novels, including the best-selling The Rising<\/em>, and he’s the winner of the 2014 World Horror Grand Master Award. He’s also written comics, including the adventures of the Doom Patrol<\/em>. <\/p>\n

We discussed why the ending to The Rising<\/em> isn’t as bewildering as some seem to think it is, whether new horror writers should try to replicate his career path, how Marvel Comics creator Steve Gerber is responsible for him becoming a writer, the shady way Brian amassed the largest comics collection in the sixth grade, if he’s a Scully who changed into a Mulder as he got older or if he’s been a Mulder all along, and more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can share the BBQ with us—<\/p>\n

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1) Subscribe to the show at the iTunes store<\/a>, where you’ll be able to also browse all 33 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Download the episode to a device of your choosing via the show’s RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3) Or listen to the episode right here via the embed below.<\/p>\n