My guest in this episode is Tracy Fahey.
Tracy Fahey is an award-winning Irish author of six books. Her collection, I Spit Myself Out, won the 2025 Rubery International Book Award and her novella What Happens At The End, was awarded the 2024 Paul Cave Prize for Literature. Fahey has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024, and in 2024 she was also shortlisted for the London Independent Story Prize. In 2023 she received a Saari Fellowship from the Kone Foundation.
Sample her short story 'I Look Like You, I Speak Like You, I Walk Like You' here.
The Host:
Newton Webb is a British horror author with fourteen published books. His collected works, Tales of the Macabre Volumes 1–3, contain tales of temptation, dread, and the hidden evils lurking beneath everyday life.
Inspired by splatterpunk and classic gothic themes, his fiction frequently blends visceral horror with psychological tension, reflecting influences ranging from heavy metal to ancient mythology.
Outside his writing career, Newton co-chairs the UK Chapter of the Horror Writers Association.
The Guest:
Tracy Fahey's work principally deals with reimagined folklore and female Gothic. Fahey's short fiction has appeared in fifty Irish, UK, US and Australian anthologies and been reprinted in the British Library Tales of the Weird series and Stephen Jones Best New Horror.
She has been Guest of Honour at the UK Ghost Story Festival and Fantasticon, Denmark. Fahey's writing is supported by residencies in Ireland, Scotland, Greece, and Finland, and funded by Irish Grants Under The Arts and an Individual Arts Bursary. Her most recent book, They Shut Me Up (2023, PS Publishing) was shortlisted for Best Novella at the British Fantasy Awards.
Fahey holds a PhD in the Gothic and lectures in creative writing, contemporary Gothic, and folk horror at the Limerick School of Art and Design.
