🩸 Episode Description
On this episode of The Night Crew Podcast, Brad Ricks sits down with Viggy Parr Hampton—author, podcaster, and epidemiologist—to explore the dark science and creative sparks behind her chilling fiction and hit horror shows.
Viggy shares how she:
- 🧬 Writes Science-Driven Horror – From her debut A Cold Night for Alligators (a rogue epidemiologist chasing a mysterious outbreak into a haunted theme park) to Much Too Vulgar and The Rotting Room, she blends disease, biology, and supernatural suspense.
- 🩸 Finds Beauty in the Macabre – Why body horror fascinates her and how real-life research on neurobiology, lobotomies, and contagion shapes her stories.
- ✍️ Builds Worlds Fast – With six completed novels, she reveals how writing during lunch breaks and nap times built her career, why she prefers “pantsing” over strict outlines, and how she found her authentic voice.
- 🎧 Hosts Hit Podcasts – Horror, Humor, Hunger and Tag Team Tales of Terror, where she interviews horror authors, exorcists, and mediums while cooking up recipes inspired by books.
- 👻 Chooses Her Favorite Monster – A shapeshifter in the spirit of John Carpenter’s The Thing and Pennywise—an alien, cosmic, contagion-like terror that embodies fear itself.
Along the way, Viggy talks about:
- Childhood horror obsessions like Night of the Living Dead and Tales from the Crypt.
- Why the unknown is scarier than any visible monster.
- Literary influences from Stephen King to her high-school English teacher turned award-winning author Garth Greenwell.
- Building resilience through rejection and finding readers who make every story worth writing.
đź”— Connect with Viggy Parr Hampton
- Website: viggyhampton.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555649969988 Â
- Instagram, Threads, & TikTok: @viggyparrhampton
- Podcast: Horror, Humor, Hunger (all major podcast platforms)
Whether you love body horror, cosmic monsters, or insider tips on writing and podcasting, this conversation is packed with inspiration, craft secrets, and nightmare fuel.
🧛‍♂️ Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and check out The Night Crew novel series wherever you get your monster-hunting fiction. Stay creepy, friends.
Viggy's Bio:
Viggy Parr Hampton, MPH is an epidemiologist, content marketing strategist, host of the podcast “Horror Humor Hunger,” and the author of A Cold Night for Alligators, Much Too Vulgar, and The Rotting Room. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
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