Robert Ottone is no stranger to the strangeness on Long Island. An Islip native, he has been attuned to the Island’s darker hues from an early age and has worked them into his fiction writing and his podcasting.

Today we discuss his newest book: Her Infernal Name & Other Nightmares. Rob graces us with readings of two of his stories and we dive deeper into the more haunted precincts of the South Shore, including Oakdale and Sayville. We also try to tackle the question: what is scaring kids today?

Further Research

• Robert Ottone
  • @RobertOttone (Instagram)
  • @RobertOttone (Twitter)
  • Spooky House Press
  • Interview with Robert Ottone on the Radio Tower podcast
  • Voices from Gilgo (podcast)
• A Night of Spooky Fiction with Local Author Robert P. Ottone (Sayville Library)
• Galactic Terrors (YouTube)
• Her Infernal Name & Other Nightmares (Amazon)
• Selected Filmography
  • My Amityville Horror (trailer)
  • The Conjuring 2 (trailer)
  • Jaws (trailer)
• Selected Horror Authors
  • Paul Tremblay
  • John Langan
  • James Chambers
  • Linda Addison
  • Gwendolyn Kiste
• Music:
  • Moonrise (Chad Crouch). CC-BY-NC 3.0
  • Bufflehead (Chad Crouch) CC-BY-NC 3.0
  • Capering (Blue Dot Sessions) CC-BY-NC 4.0