In Episode 21, celebrated author, Adrianna Cuevas, joins Our First Fears to chat about “The Raft” segment from the 1987 anthology film, Creepshow 2. If you’re intrigued by body horror, questions of morality in scary stories, the science of decomposition, and badly behaved teenage boys getting what they deserve, this one is for YOU.
Adrianna Cuevas is the author the middle-grade novels, The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez (an ALA Pura Belpre Honor title), The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto (which won the Edgar Award), The No-Brainer’s Guide to Decomposition (currently long-listed for the Bram Stoker Award), and the soon to be released, What Fell From the Sky, along with many more. She lives in Texas, with her family. Find all her books now at your favorite local bookshop . . .
Dan Poblocki is the bestselling author of the recent novels Tales to Keep You Up at Night and More Tales to Keep You Up at Night, along with Ghost Hunter’s Daughter, Liars’ Room, The Stone Child, The Nightmarys and others. His picture book with James Rey Sanchez, My Brother’s Butt is Haunted, is arriving July 29th, 2025 from Penguin Workshop. Pre-order your copy RIGHT THIS MINUTE!
Follow the Our First Fears podcast on Instagram @ourfirstfears & @danpoblox and Bluesky @danpoblock.bsky.social. And feel free to reach out at ourfirstfears@gmail.com.
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