Season 2
Episode 29 – Measure
The Cat gets intangible, discussing liminal spaces with special guest Sarah Read, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Bone Weaver’s Orchard and Out of Water.
Episode 28 – Bowl
The Cat gets definitively morbid with special guest, multi-award-winning author and editor, the ever-unquiet Lee Murray.
Episode 27 – Mirror 2
The Cat wrestles with long projects and what it means to be an artist with special guest, award-winning author, photographer, graphic designer and activist, Cat Sparks.
Episode 26 – Book
The Cat goes deep, DEEP into the illimitable expanses of negative space with special guest Nathan Ballingrud, incomparable author of The Strange, Wounds, and North American Lake Monsters.
Episode 25 – AsylumFest
The Cat gets unhinged at the second live recording from AsylumFest 2022, with special guests AJ Spedding, Kat Clay, and David Schembri.
Episode 24 – Nog
The Cat gets festive with an off-the-rails Season’s Greetings special, with laconic superstar guest, Kaaron’s Christmas tree!
Episode 23 – Asylum
The Cat goes on a road trip and sets a record with special guest, author, publisher, and haunted asylum owner, Geoff Brown. Live from AsylumFest 2022!
Episode 22 – Bride
The Cat makes like The Wicker Man and gets ritualistic with special guest Kirstyn McDermott, award-winning author of Hard Places and the Never Afters novella series.
Episode 21 – Conflux
The Cat goes on stage for our very first live show at this year’s NatCon – Conflux 16 – with special guests drawn from the Hat of Mystery (a hotel conference glass with some hastily scribbled names folded up inside).
Episode 20 – Slide rule
The Cat reconnects with its purpose, turning trash into treasure with co-owner of Canberra’s legendary Green Shed, Sandie Parkes.
Episode 19 – Plane
The Cat gets temporal (via a dingey side-alley packed full of flashers) with special guest Alan Baxter, award-winning author and bona fide kung fu master.
Episode 18 – He-Man
The Cat makes like Funes and gets memorious with special guest T. R. Napper, author of modern cyber-punk classics 36 Streets and Neon Leviathan.
Episode 17 – Albums
The Cat is back! Kicking off Season 2 with some little-known pub trivia, some Australian TV kitsch, and special guest, er… J. Ashley-Smith?
Season 1
Episode 16 – Dolls
Join the Cat and crew for an epic wrap-up, recap, clip-show avoidance season finale, with special guest star… drum roll… our very own Aaron Dries.
Episode 15 – Crow
In the penultimate episode of the season, the Cat gets magical with special guest, the illustrious queen of fantasy (and all the animals), Isobelle Carmody.
Episode 14 – Journal
The Cat grapples with life’s big questions in a super extended go-go mix episode with special guest the sensational Sean Williams.
Episode 13 – Herman
The Cat gets technical as unparalleled horror editor Ellen Datlow joins the show from NYC.
Episode 12 – Canon
The Cat gets shonky in this bumper episode with a right-royal guest: the monstrously majestic Garth Nix.
Episode 11 – Fun
The cat gets sartorial in our latest episode, starring this week’s special guest, the unputdownable Kathe Koja.
Episode 10 – Buddha
The cat is back! Ring in the new year with an episode of numinous dimensions, starring this week’s special guest, the illimitable Lynda E. Rucker.
Episode 9 – Bust
In which the cats go deep and get Pavlovian with the singular and extraordinary Brian Evenson.
Episode 8 – Clock
In our most professional podcast to date, we hang with the luminous JS Breukelaar and mull on lost and forgotten things.
Episode 7 – Mould
In which a podcast muddles through lockdown with the incontrovertible Paul Tremblay.
Episode 6 – Scarab
Let The Cat In gets the snake vibe with special guest – our first from overseas, and the recent past – the unparallelable John Langan.
Episode 5 – Lei
In which we welcome the sensational Melinda Smith to our most sensuous, saucy and salacious episode to date!
Episode 4 – Ptolemy
Over polenta chips and tepid threats of robotic erasure, a podcast welcomes its first guest – the eloquent, charming Daniel O’Malley.
Episode 3 – Mirror
In which our hosts commit to a name for their podcast after debating the complicated genders of cats. We learn of Kaaron’s passion for minor characters, and Aaron’s bleak and bloody ‘comfort’ reads…
Episode 2 – Scrabble
In which—through a mishap with a closed door and a cat outside—a podcast gets a name. And an origin story…
Episode 1 – StokerCon
In which Kaaron, Aaron and Joseph wax lyrical on the nature of ideas and their containment in divers objects.