In this episode, hosts Zoey Michaels and Seth Voorhees dive deep into the mind behind some of today’s most unsettling and thoughtful dark fiction. Seth draws on his background in sociology, psychology, and his time working as a social worker to shape stories that dig into the human psyche — trauma, morality, survival, and the struggle for redemption.

Their conversation zeroes in on Seth’s novel Immune: Rise of the Inflicted, a dystopian narrative about a world forever changed by a deadly illness — a world split between those untouched and those afflicted — and the enormous social and psychological upheaval that follows. ...