** "I went back behind to use the pay phone - and then I did not come back..."

Elizabeth Hand Talks First Word On Horror. And the new anthology doc series online featuring horror writers all shortlisted for this year's Bram Stoker Awards, including Hand, discussing their work and reading from their stories.

Hand, the author of twenty novels, five collections of short fiction and essays, and the writer as well of spinoff novelizations including The X-Files, 12 Monkeys and Bride Of Frankenstein, phones in from the UK.

And in an exploration with Hand, she touches on her creative inspirations, bleak and otherwise; does she feel her life in Maine that she shares as well with Stephen King, somehow that sense of place and sensory experience inspires both of them; and how her abduction rape as a young woman may perhaps persist as a subconscious driving force in her work.

** "I have people that say to me, you're un-American, people call me names. As Malcolm said, "if the truth is un-American, don't blame me - blame the truth..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on a continuing quest into the art of figuring out the world. Touching on apples, bananas, pirate ships, Ukraine, Mike Tyson, my longshoreman dad, and 'fill in the blank dictators...'

** "The independent publishing house, once a radical stronghold of anti-capitalist, anti-fascist and avant-garde political thought - was silently and violently upended by its corporate overlords..."

UK Desk: Erasure, Retaliation, Corporate Executing - The case of Repeater Books. An Arts Express Crime Scenes Edition episode this week - uncovering an unsual case of censorship in the alternative publishing world.

** "So who was Rosa Luxemburg..."

Red Rosa: A Conversation With Kate Evans - alias Cartoon Kate. And during this March birthday commemoration of the turn of the century extraordinary German revolutionary leader and uncompromising ideological theorist, a look at Evans' graphic novel about her life, struggles - and political assassination. Gaining insight as well, into how and why Cartoon Kate lived in a tree.