# Vigilante Crime and Pulp A podcast by Gutter Books LLC. Righteous Independent Fiction and More vigilantemag.substack.com Feed: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/4019984.rss ## Latest episodes - [Host Bribed to Read Freida McFadden!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/98fabaefda68) (2026-10-19, 53 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/221186184/7025b9f62b5b817c9ea3e4fc957ad9ca.mp3 - [How I Stole My Favorite Book: A Random Ramble](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/4b1c79047b02) (2026-10-19, 25 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/221077226/3abeeca12d10af3cc52de18b3b9e5c36.mp3 - [How Ed McBain Rehabilitated the Heroin Junkie](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/fb8cbabdc5d4) (2026-09-28, 50 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/217888515/96c2bc2bc231472f9618051e5cc3adb2.mp3 - [Writing Advice From the Unknown Master of Short Crime Fiction](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/d2e0cf6b6bd1) (2026-09-14, 43 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/215689829/6fb82325f069eda6e7c070ab9c9eb014.mp3 - [‘90s Grunge Almost Made Me A Pussy!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/eda0dbf56616) (2026-09-08, 41 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/214766018/3b81a9f9ae0d6060282adf1fc177369c.mp3 - [Book Club Moms Don’t Get Megan Abbott](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/6b58f67c5a6e) (2026-08-31, 48 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/213502900/10abbba19b1e6d194e5bb799243a79db.mp3 - [Vigilante Between the Lines: Literary Stories That Entertain... Plus a Confession!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/adba90981c29) (2026-08-26, 34 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/212795802/997921a00760cacaeb6090c614b32ac8.mp3 - [Keeping It Real With Raymond Chandler: The Simple Art of Murder (1944)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/eae21a15782a) (2026-08-17, 42 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211501714/335a94e2e049cbb7849f17db57a51ef3.mp3 - [Vigilante Between the Lines: Cutesy Cozy Animal Mysteries Are the Condoms of Crime Fiction... Plus Autographs Are Dumb](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/d154644cefe7) (2026-08-10, 33 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210639329/67526bbcf294af692b06197cca5d629a.mp3 - [Prison Farm Violence to Debutantes: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye by Horace McCoy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/21d96b955451) (2026-08-03, 36 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209578411/a64c0584ca257d2fb16b10164dc76260.mp3 - [Hitchcock's Fetish for Dead Blondes: Vertigo (1958)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/cf16cdad8e25) (2026-07-20, 41 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207702432/b72b96155b7f08452079de7f0ff2eef1.mp3 - [The Secret Writers Behind Hitchcock](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/964ed3d62ebc) (2026-07-06, 42 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/205436832/cfc5ce3a1e1e6048f77bc002e7b00579.mp3 - [Reviewing Alfred Hitchcock's Favorite Film: Shadow of a Doubt (1943)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/a46b87f55c16) (2026-06-22, 36 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203028494/cdbce3adb543d8b251fc64173d332254.mp3 - [Psychopathia Sexualis: A Hell of A Woman by Jim Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/db125667bed3) (2026-06-15, 50 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202074244/c97a204623415e7eba77c7b36d47a1e2.mp3 - [Pulp Master Robert Bloch: Lovecraft's Favorite Jew](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/7f3769ad0ab3) (2025-12-01, 44 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/180427523/3a29fe6dbecdbe6ebc59466af29f4582.mp3 - [Vigilante Anthology Special! Plus Joe R. Lansdale Is Brilliant](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/893548f553fd) (2025-11-15, 49 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/178995569/eb55fc0ce95f04258c3c4bbd753e2c66.mp3 - [Stephen King's Most Gruesome Body Horror Story](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/09f4d70a40fc) (2025-10-25, 42 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/177105847/6d4ecb5362c937a689f051e7154d7be0.mp3 - [Philip K. Dick Predicted the Dystopian Future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/f2e9931d54a0) (2025-10-17, 40 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/176389097/8925bda997386df2501ae8f97fa9909a.mp3 - [Thomas Ligotti's Horror Fiction Should Be Banned](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/94f2ef624493) (2025-10-11, 38 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/175904620/de9dda1fdd229683381fe38dcb92ec1f.mp3 - [Richard Matheson: the Author Stephen King Wishes He Was](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/1790090d4ed5) (2025-10-03, 37 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/175213136/f45a166f816005aebf3827a02386bed3.mp3 - [David Goodis: The East Coast Jim Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/302e36da35b0) (2025-09-26, 46 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/174631470/966a24d2585613563ba46dcab6610a08.mp3 - [Explaining David Lynch's Noir Fever Dream (Lost Highway)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/5c597d4976b9) (2025-09-21, 41 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/174177526/63c70a00de00e6bd57d4e03d0037d28f.mp3 - [Scott Wolven: The Best Noir Author You Never Heard Of](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/b03fec8c114f) (2025-09-12, 33 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/173455910/0b1aea0cb5671980be134f0f600da635.mp3 - [The War Against Readers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/2621a9e8d350) (2025-09-04, 32 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/172735082/0142913ac2fa474b3bb401e32b535041.mp3 - [Jurassic World: Rebirth is All Adventure and No Messaging](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/e8bc91a8772a) (2025-08-29, 29 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/172226056/2acc882c414f284e4fc3d4a2cc4d09a0.mp3 - [Book Review and Analysis: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (Minor Spoilers)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/c5ee16f6b1bb) (2025-08-08, 28 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/170475131/104de6158ca5c7e5774a98ffd6a5e759.mp3 - [What Is Weird Fiction?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/1022c557ab04) (2025-08-01, 27 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/169860268/8e4ad8e4b68b8cf75a8b03f206e1321d.mp3 - [My Gateway Drugs to Pulp Westerns and Western Fiction](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/31d44a6bfa6e) (2025-07-17, 35 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/168571560/456744a7946c13dbaffa16ed5f6eebcb.mp3 - [Book Review: She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper (Spoiler Free)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/07870068fa68) (2025-07-10, 32 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/167960418/a591855529b29045d66d8d78d5b2db8f.mp3 - [Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Its Promotion of Pulp Crime Fiction](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/16118de96df6) (2025-06-26, 40 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/166830156/c2d1bdec0908a71bee95ef0fa91757b9.mp3 - [James Scott Bell and His Mike Romeo Thrillers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/bdd06b09ffb8) (2025-06-19, 31 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/166122158/0ab223bc1f310f4c515f48b24bba0c47.mp3 - [Blockbuster Screenwriter and TV Auteur Taylor Sheridan: Episode 2 of 2 (The Yellowstone Universe--1883, 1923, and 6666 the Four Sixes)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/1b06d47be2c7) (2025-06-12, 32 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/165741342/c8a45daf9be21f23fc28e5e7c48fef11.mp3 - [Blockbuster Screenwriter and TV Auteur Taylor Sheridan: Episode 1 of 2 (Sicario and Hell Or High Water)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/d71aebaa5ce6) (2025-06-07, 25 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/165423899/2e629517b259cca1d007631811faf6f1.mp3 - [An analysis of the feminist thriller Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/9a7f0cae5b84) (2025-05-06, 38 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/162913503/12373d180c098b5d2d022ef6fe4445c6.mp3 - [Bonus Episode: A further analysis of The Bitch by Les Edgerton with spoilers galore](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/5639138c59d6) (2025-04-28, 25 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/162338673/761c5a37d1c2063a1ea0444f39977c1a.mp3 - [Book Review: The B***h by Les Edgerton (Edgy Noir Crime - No Spoilers)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/5bda90ad1a7e) (2025-04-24, 42 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/162043932/595945e99f283d26e625e48c08be9be8.mp3 - [5 Must-Read Macho Crime Classics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1809034672/f6c14099ee04) (2025-04-17, 43 min): audio https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/161504623/5d3a345bf39b7fc9c1aab56ca3f14465.mp3 Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. 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