What's so scary about the world today? How do childhood memories turn into the stuff of horror and dark fiction? Why does H.P. Lovecraft become more controversial year after year? What is cosmic horror and can it transcend the way Lovecraft wrote about it?

Three of today's most acclaimed writers in horror and weird fiction -- Laird Barron, Victor LaValle and Paul Tremblay -- stopped by the WSJ Speakeasy podcast to tackle these questions and more.

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