The Fogcast Episode 37: Terrific Tomes and Winterbeasts with Chris Moller

In this episode of the Fogcast, I sit down with writer and Mainer, Chris Moller for a conversation that drifts from the everyday to the uncanny — the way life in the Pine Tree State often does.

From childhood summers in Kennebunkport to the quiet roads of Union and the Victorian bones of Rockland, Chris has lived more versions of Maine than most. We talk about the strange alchemy this place works on artists: the long winters, the isolation, the sense of history pressing in from the treeline, and the way all of it shapes the stories we tell.

The conversation winds through the realities of living here — the cost of groceries, the strain of post‑pandemic tourism, the impossible rent, and the way small communities hold themselves together anyway. Chris shares the balancing act of working multiple jobs, running a community auction, and carving out time to write Superlative, a Southern Gothic novel braided with Maine folklore and the ghosts of real experiences. Chris also recounts a chilling encounter on Clary Hill Road: a towering, intelligent creature with yellow eyes and a smell of rot that no known animal carries.

This is an episode about Maine as it truly is: beautiful, brutal, creative, haunted, and alive with stories waiting to be told.

You can find Chris here: https://www.threads.com/@terrifictomesofmaine

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