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Inside the Mind of Horror Author M. Boudreaux | The Grief Counselor & The Listener
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What happens when grief, memory, and the people we trust become the things we should fear most?
In this episode of Looks Creepy Cool Podcast: Horror Stories & the Creators Behind the Fear, independent horror author M. Boudreaux steps into the Mirror Room to explore the fears, memories, and human experiences behind her psychological and supernatural horror.
M. Boudreaux is the author of The Listener and The Grief Counselor. Her fiction begins with deeply human fears and relationships before pushing them into darker territory—where memory can't always be trusted and the people offering comfort may be the ones you should fear most.
📖 The Grief Counselor
Dr. Elias Shepherd has built his life around helping people survive devastating loss. But his relationship with mourning goes far beyond helping people through it.
The psychological horror novel explores grief, obsession, control, dangerous trust, and an unsettling question: What happens when the person who understands your pain better than anyone may also be the person you should fear most?
📖 The Listener
In 1998, seven children entered the tunnels beneath Seattle. Six came home.
Twenty-two years later, the past begins calling them back—sometimes in the voices of the people they miss most.
Blending psychological and supernatural horror, The Listener explores childhood trauma, unreliable memory, and six adults forced to confront something they survived as children.
🪞 Inside the Mirror Room
Renee talks with M. Boudreaux about the stories behind both novels, why grief and memory repeatedly find their way into her fiction, writing unreliable and morally complicated characters, the intersection of psychological and supernatural horror, and the personal experiences and emotions that sometimes make their way onto the page.
And, of course, we find out what frightens the person who creates these worlds—and what looks back when M. Boudreaux steps into the Mirror Room.
Find M. Boudreaux
🌐 M. Boudreaux at The Unsettled Shelf
📖 The Grief Counselor on Amazon
Facebook/Instagram: M. BoudreauxBooks
TikTok: @mkbpublishing
Bluesky: @mboudreauxbooks.bsky.social
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