Novel Meets Evil
Novel Meets Evil, is the true-crime podcast for fiction readers, where we explore themes common to real-world evil and modern fiction. What makes us seek out the very stories that keep the normals up at night–and how can creeps, real and imaginary, teach us about ourselves? Welcome to Novel Meets Evil!
Episodes
14 episodes
Novel Meets Evil - BONUS EPISODE - Author Interview - Liz Nugent
Ever since publishing Unravelling Oliver in 2014, Liz Nugent has been gifting us with deep character-driven novels full of twisted family drama, allowing us to reevaluate how we look at intergenerational trauma. It’s never just for shock–Liz...
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Novel Meets Evil - Season 01 Episode 07 - MINISODE - "The Lonely Ones" Ray Bradbury meets Orville Weyant
The stories that scare often have a thread of truth in them. Sometimes there's much more than a thread, like when a story is based on a real person or series of crime. You'd never expect truth from Ray Bradbury one of the greats of American spe...
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Novel Meets Evil - Season 01 Episode 06 - "Lady Liars: Cindy James Meets Gone Girl"
Novel Meets Evil - Season 01 Episode 06 - "Lady Liars: Cindy James Meets Gone Girl"Like a good thriller, the case of Canadian nurse Cindy James will have you scratching your head, questioning your own assumptions about who, if anyone, i...
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Season 01 Episode 05 - Scent of a Murderer: Patrick Süskind's 'Perfume' meets Jeffrey Dahmer
Novel Meets Evil PodcastThe True-Crime Podcast For Fiction ReadersDon't be scared, subscribe for free in your podcast app. Then be scared...Related topics: True crime, Unsolved mysteries, Criminal investigations, Serial killers,...
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Trailer - Season 01 Episode 05 - Scent of a Murderer: 'Perfume' meets Jeffrey Dahmer
Smell the Evil! Smell the Novel!Patrick Suskind's accidental villain in his novel 'Perfume' goes toe-to-toe with Jeffrey Dahmer for the title of loneliest man of all time. Enjoy may not be the right word, but I hope you enjo...
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Season 01 Episode 04 - Kidnapper's Delight: Ariel Castro meets Liz Nugent's 'Strange Sally Diamond'
Episode Notes:Kidnappers are as evil as full-blown murderers, as today’s episode will demonstrate. We compare the real-life case of Ariel Castro, a kidnapping creep who made his mark on Cleveland to the no-less-warped horror story encase...
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Season 01 Episode 03 - Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘The Dwarf’ meets Bernard Goetz, aka. The Subway Vigilante
Guns a' blazin' on this episode of Novel Meets Evil. In this episode's NOVEL segment Ray Bradbury is at it again with another short story called 'The Dwarf', in which a small-minded carnival worker bothers a small-bodied man he calls Mr. Big, t...
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Trailer - Season 01 Episode 04 - Kidnapper's Delight: Ariel Castro Meets Liz Nugent’s 'Strange Sally Diamond'
On Novel Meets Evil Season 01 Episode 04 - Kidnapper's Delight: Ariel Castro Meets Liz Nugen'ts 'Strange Sally Diamond'. Novel Meets Evil PodcastThe True-Crime Podcast For Fiction ReadersDon't be scared, subscribe fo...
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Trailer - Season 1 Episode 3 - Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘The Dwarf’ meets Bernard Goetz, aka. The Subway Vigilante
On Novel Meets Evil Season 1 Episode 3, Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘The Dwarf’ meets Bernard Goetz, aka. The Subway Vigilante, and we compare two loose cannonsNovel Meets Evil PodcastThe True-Crime Podcast For Fiction Rea...
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Trailer - Season 1 Episode 2 - Doppelganger Fever: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘William Wilson’ meets Marie Hilley”
We're always excited to bring you two spine-tingling tales, one true evil and one fiction. S01 E02 brings you Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story 'William Wilson' juxtaposed to the hard-to-believe true story of Marie Hilley, a woman with no soul...
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Trailer - Season 1 Episode 1 - Lovecraft's 'Pickman's Model' meets Dahmer's Parlor
In Novel Meets Evil Season 1 Episode 1, Jeffrey Dahmer meets 'Pickman's Model', an H.P. Lovecraft short story about an artist with a preternatural ability to depict the horrors lingering in the backstreets and tunnels under Boston. Two ve...
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Season 01 Episode 02 - Doppelganger Fever - Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘William Wilson’ meets Marie Hilley”
Episode Notes:Main Intro - [0:00-0:44]Thoughts on Edgar Allan Poe [0:44-3:35]NOVEL - Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘William Wilson’ [3:35-24:44]Interlude about 1999 Films [24:44-27:08]...
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Season 01 Episode 01 - Lovecraft's 'Pickman's Model' meets Dahmer's Parlor
What’s in a picture? In HP Lovecraft’s short story ‘Pickman’s Model’ we enter Lovecraft’s imagination via a traumatized narrator who struggles to describe his horrific experiences until a photograph is discovered. Similarly, but non-fictionally...
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Season 1 Episode 0 - Our Origin Story
Welcome to Novel Meets Evil. Season 1 Episode 1 is a brief introduction to why I created a podcast exploring the overlap of fiction and true-crime stories, what scares me and why I forced myself to turn fear into creativity. I want to spread th...
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