EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Author Alex Grass joins The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror, a collection held together by an intuitive cadence and a recurring uncertainty about what is real.

Grass examines the unexpected connections between vanity, hunger, greed, corporate power, bodily transformation, and monstrous behavior.

The conversation explores The Golden Mile, in which a resurrected dog drives Philadelphia toward collective madness, and Ever Shall They Feed, a story shaped by Grass’s familiarity with funeral homes and mortuary work.

Grass also discusses the polarizing use of untranslated German, the difference between flash fiction and longer stories, and the challenge of controlling surreal imagery during revision.

He explains how the collection’s illustrations were created from modified public-domain images and why he refuses to use artificial intelligence for that work.

The episode also covers independent publishing, creative control, the discomfort of revisiting older work, and the decision to leave law school for writing.

Grass concludes with a reading from A Woman of Distinction, featuring a five-hundred-year-old killer who considers good manners a matter of life and death.

GUEST LINKS

Official Infernal Tramps Website
https://www.infernaltramps.com/

Dickinson Publishing Group
https://www.dickinsonpublishinggroup.com/

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/infernaltramps/

Dickinson Publishing Group on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickinson-publishing-group-61a894425/

Amazon Author Page
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B08KPKTV9R

Goodreads Author Page
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20768021.Alex_Grass

Goodreads Book Page
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249709542-infernal-tramps

AllAuthor Profile
https://allauthor.com/author/alexgrass/

Piker Press Author Page
https://www.pikerpress.com/author/774/alex-grass

Amazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimited
https://www.amazon.com/Infernal-Tramps-Tales-Weird-Terror-ebook/dp/B0GSN4BX4Y

Amazon Paperback
https://www.amazon.com/Infernal-Tramps-Tales-Weird-Terror/dp/B0H3QQ2J9Q

Barnes and Noble Paperback
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/9781735888569

Target Paperback
https://www.target.com/p/infernal-tramps-by-alex-grass-paperback/-/A-1012836556

Stream Odd Egg on Weekly Spooky
https://www.weeklyspooky.com/alex-grass/

Stream Odd Egg on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrsdXjlnpsM

Stream Night of the Living Bedsheet on Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/night-of-the-living-bedsheet-by-alex-grass/id1581361592?i=1000766437331

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