The Horror Genre, Thomas Ligotti, and the Perils of the Publishing World with Author Zak McGaha. (2019)
William Ramsey Investigates
William Ramsey Investigates
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McGaha Youtube Channel Hatchet Mouth: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEJROf8yYrqvt38l0dcS2OA/videos
Recent Book by Zak McGaha--Trauma Mines:
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“Zakary McGaha wishes to make it clear that he has converted to Eastern Orthodoxy and renounced Lutheranism.”
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| 0:00.0 | All right, 321. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on tonight |
| 0:05.9 | show. I have a very special guest and author of fictional horror and other novels, but I was on his |
| 0:12.3 | podcast, The Quiet Place, and his name is Zach McGaha. He's published on Amazon, and he has a book |
| 0:18.8 | coming up that he's going to publish in July. |
| 0:25.5 | But I was very curious kind of about the environment that he was in. I know that he had mentioned a name that I was familiar with through my research into true detective, a name by an author |
| 0:31.7 | who writes horror. His name is Thomas Legati. And I bought his book. It was conspiracy against |
| 0:36.5 | the human race, which I read, a very grim book. But I was interested in Legati and I bought his book. It was conspiracy against the human race, which I read, a very |
| 0:38.6 | grim book. But I was interested in LaGotti's influence on true detective, but also kind of his |
| 0:43.8 | worldview. And Zach's familiar with that as well. He's had some arguments with people online, |
| 0:49.4 | so we're going to talk about that in detail. But Zach, are you there? Yeah, I'm here. Awesome. Well, thanks for agreeing |
| 0:55.7 | to the interview. You're the Quiet Place is on a YouTube stream, so people can check that out |
| 1:00.6 | on YouTube. He does kind of long form interviews, and we talked about the West Memphis 3 when I was |
| 1:06.0 | on his show. But for people who don't know about the podcast or the YouTube stream, |
| 1:11.4 | can you talk a little bit about yourself and how you became a writer of horror fiction |
| 1:15.5 | and just talk a little bit about your influences as well? |
| 1:19.3 | Yeah, I've been writing ever since I was, I want to say, a sophomore in high school, |
| 1:25.7 | and I also started getting published then too because the first story I ever sent out actually sold to an anthology that's put out by permuted press back when the whole, I guess, the survival apocalypse zombie thing was going strong. |
| 1:43.0 | But getting into fiction was mainly |
| 1:46.4 | the result of first being in the movies |
| 1:49.2 | and then realizing that the people who made the movies |
| 1:52.4 | I wanted to make kind of started off |
| 1:54.4 | with writing as they're like |
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