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Creator: Escape Artists Foundation
Horror Single-voiced Anthology Audio Book
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The Sound of Horror
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Continuity: Anthology
Voices: Single
Genres: Horror
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PseudoPod 919: Grinning on the Way to See Mom Die
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:47:14 +0000
Author : Brian D. Hinson Narrator : Eric Luke Hosts : Scott Campbell and Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 919: Grinning on the Way to See Mom Die is a PseudoPod original. Grinning on the Way to See Mom Die by Brian D. Hinson Aunt Sara doesn’t like phone calls, so I […]
PseudoPod 918: The Dreadful and Specific Monster of Starosibirsk
Fri, 03 May 2024 20:58:18 +0000
Author : Kristina Ten Narrator : Yaroslav Barsukov Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Dreadful and Specific Monster of Starosibirsk” originally appeared in Weird Horror in May 2021 Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher The Dreadful and Specific Monster of Starosibirsk by Kristina Ten I know what you will say. You will […]
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:01:21 +0000
Author : Phyllis Bottome Narrator : Simon Meddings Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Henry” was originally published in the collection Strange Fruit in 1928 Henry by Phyllis Bottome For four hours every morning and for twenty minutes before a large audience at night Fletcher was locked up with murder. It glared […]
PseudoPod 916: Flash on the Borderlands LXX: Through a Glass Darkly
Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:58:28 +0000
Authors : Kat Day, Sam Lesek, Marjorie Bowen and Harriet Beecher Stowe Narrators : Kat Day, Kara Grace, Lisa Blackwell-Dickinson and Dave Liloia Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Three Awakenings: Hello, World” is a PseudoPod original “Mirrors at Night” is a PseudoPod original “A Persistent Woman” was originally published in the […]
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:01:27 +0000
Author : TJ Price Narrator : Scott Campbell Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Heavy Rain” originally appeared in the 2023 anthology Howls from the Wreckage CW: Suicide, bloody body parts Samaritans 988 Lifeline List of suicide crisis lines on Wikipedia Heavy Rain by TJ Price I’m standing in the doorway where […]
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 04:01:19 +0000
Author : Uchechukwu Nwaka Narrator : Opie Ogundiran Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 914: Spirit Husband is a PseudoPod original. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Spirit Husband By Uchechukwu Nwaka Don’t collect gifts from strangers. Don’t pick up money on the streets. Don’t take food in […]
PseudoPod 913: The Vengeance Of Nitocris
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:01:10 +0000
Author : Tennessee Williams Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Lisa Yaszek Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Vengeance Of Nitocris” was first published in Weird Tales, August 1928 The Vengeance Of Nitocris by Tennessee Williams Hushed were the streets of many-peopled Thebes. Those few who passed through them moved with the shadowy fleetness of […]
PseudoPod 912: The Eidolonpterist
Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:01:31 +0000
Author : Elizabeth Guilt Narrator : Leon Clarance Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 912: The Eidolonpterist is a PseudoPod original. The Eidolonpterist by Elizabeth Guilt I was climbing through the window of a ruined castle the only time the police ever caught me. I turned out my bag to show […]
PseudoPod 911: Flash on the Borderlands LXIX: Children of Melpomene
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:01:41 +0000
Authors : Orrin Grey , Jacob Steven Mohr and Joule K. Zelman Narrators : Robert C. Eccles, Halloween Bloodfrost and Leanna Renee Hieber Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Masks” originally appeared in Forbidden Futures and was reprinted in the 2022 collection How to See Ghosts & Other Figments “The Machete at the […]
PseudoPod 910: Lidless Eyes That See
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:46:52 +0000
Author : Geneve Flynn Narrator : Dzintra Sullivan Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Lidless Eyes That See” was first released by PS Publishing in From the Waste Land, an anthology inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land.” The story was a finalist for the 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Horror […]
PseudoPod 909: The Witch in the Whale Bone Hut
Fri, 01 Mar 2024 05:01:36 +0000
Author : B.C. Kelsey Narrator : Dennis Robinson Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 909: The Witch in the Whale Bone Hut is a PseudoPod original. The Witch in the Whale Bone Hut by B.C. Kelsey Four massive ribs held the hut together, two forming a thick arch near the front […]
PseudoPod 908: Bring Them All Into the Light
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:01:20 +0000
Author : Dan Coxon Narrator : Tiernan Douieb Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Bring Them All Into the Light” originally appeared in the Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana representing the card The High Priestess. Bring Them All Into the Light by Dan Coxon Heathen They’re on holiday when he sees […]
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:05:59 +0000
Author : Ariel Marken Jack Narrator : Kitty Sarkozy Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producers : Kitty Sarkozy and Chelsea Davis “Rare Providers” originally appeared in Fusion Fragment in November 2022 Rare Providers by Ariel Marken Jack I like to hunt in the campground that sprouted from the outskirts of our town before we lived […]
PseudoPod 906: The Cask of Amontillado
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:01:00 +0000
Author : Edgar Allan Poe Narrator : Alasdair Stuart Host : Shawn Garrett Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Cask of Amontillado” originally appeared in Godey’s Magazine and Lady’s Book, November 1846 The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he […]
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 05:01:24 +0000
Author : Lee Murray Narrator : Amanda Ching Host : M. M. Schill Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Phoenix Claws” was originally published in Black Cranes Phoenix Claws Lee Murray A block from the Jade Garden restaurant, I reached out and grasped Fin’s arm. “Hang on.” So many boyfriends had failed; I wasn’t going to […]
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 05:01:40 +0000
Author : Carlie St. George Narrator : Alethea Kontis Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 904: Jinx is a PseudoPod original. CW: domestic violence/intimate partner violence. UK: Refuge, https://refuge.org.uk UK: Hestia, Life Beyond Crisis: https://www.hestia.org Australia: Women and Girls’ Emergency Centre, https://www.wagec.org.au Montreal, Canada: Chez Doris, https://www.chezdoris.org New Brunswick, Canada: https://halfwayhouses.ca/en/region/ahha/facility/coverdale_centre USA: RAINN, https://www.rainn.org NYC, USA: Women […]
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:09:58 +0000
Author : John Buchan Narrator : Tiernan Douieb Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Skule Skerry” was originally published in the 1928 collection The Runagates Club The Excavation of Hobs Barrow The Stone Tape The Woman in Black Skule Skerry by John Buchan It happened a good many years ago, when I […]
PseudoPod 902: The Ghost and Half-Past Two
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 05:01:20 +0000
Authors : Catherine Wells and Marjorie Bowen Narrators : Louise Hewitt and Tol Host : Gemma Amor Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Ghost” was first published in The Windsor Magazine, May 1928. “Half-Past Two” was first published in the August 15, 1928 edition of The Daily Mail. The Ghost by Catherine Wells She was […]
PseudoPod 901: The Shadowy Escort
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 06:38:41 +0000
Author : Alfred McLelland Burrage Narrator : Paul S. Jenkins Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Shadowy Escort” was first published in The London Magazine, May 1928 Seigfried Sassoon Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon The Shadowy Escort by A. M. Burrage Almost everybody has at one time or another wanted to […]
Sat, 06 Jan 2024 04:52:28 +0000
Author : H. Russell Wakefield Narrator : Ant Bacon Host : Shawn Garrett Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Red Lodge” originally published in the 1928 collection They Return at Evening. The Red Lodge by H.R. Wakefield I am writing this from an imperative sense of duty, for I consider The Red Lodge is a […]
PseudoPod 899: Arcanum Miskatonica
Fri, 29 Dec 2023 05:01:40 +0000
Author : Mike Adamson Narrator : Josh Roseman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Arcanum Miskatonica” was originally published in Lovecraftiana Vol.3, No.1, April 2018 and reprinted in the 2023 anthology The Nameless Songs of Zadok Allen & Other Things that Should Not Be edited by Jessica Augustsson From the editors: The […]
PseudoPod 898: It Takes Slow Sips
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 05:01:15 +0000
Author : Michael Wehunt Narrator : Jonathan Danz Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “It Takes Slow Sips” first appeared in the anthology Lost Contact and was reprinted in the 2023 collection The Inconsolables CW: Stalking, allusion to date rape From the author: “The word incel, which means “involuntary celibate,” is never […]
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 05:01:57 +0000
Author : Mob Narrator : J.S. Arquin Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Red Lady” was originally published in the 2023 anthology Collage Macabre presented by the Future Dead Collective SHOW NOTES The Whoniverse The Full Lid ‘Art is never finished, only abandoned.’ – This week’s closing quote has a fascinating, […]
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 01:54:11 +0000
Author : Suzan Palumbo Narrator : Mercerdes Modeste Host : Amanda Weiss Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Douen” was originally published in The Dark Magazine and reprinted in the 2023 collection Skin Thief. From the author: “This story is set at my Grandmother’s house in Trinidad. The story itself is written in dialect the way […]
Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:01:28 +0000
Author : Liz Zimmers Narrator : Diane Severson Host : Joshua Tuttle Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Belsnickel” has previously appeared on the online platforms Vocal and Patreon. From the author: ”I loved the stories my German great-grandmother shared about belsnickels – friends and neighbors who dressed in big fur coats and frightful masks […]
PseudoPod 894: Thirteen Ways of Not Looking at a Blackbird
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 05:01:52 +0000
Author : Gordon B. White Narrator : Elie Hirschman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Thirteen Ways of Not Looking at a Blackbird” was originally published in the 2023 anthology No Trouble at All edited by Alexis Dubon and Eric Raglin Hugh Dancy: Will Graham Thirteen Ways of Not Looking at a […]
PseudoPod 893: The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 05:07:23 +0000
Author : Eden Royce Narrator : Tonia Ransom Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm” was originally published in Vastarien and was reprinted in the 2023 collection Who Lost, I Found Dark Harvest novel Dark Harvest The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm by Eden Royce Daddy called tobacco a […]
PseudoPod 892: The Body Remembers
Fri, 10 Nov 2023 05:01:53 +0000
Author : P.A. Cornell Narrator : Tad Callin Host : Aquila Brennan Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Body Remembers” was originally written for, and published in, the anthology Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures in April 2023. CW: War, death, graphic descriptions of injuries, self-harm, suicidal ideation From the author: “The idea for this story […]
Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:02:51 +0000
Author : Premee Mohamed Narrator : Wilson Fowlie Host : Meghan Ball Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Evaluator” was originally published in “A Breath from the Sky” in 2017 and is included in the 2023 collection “No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories.” It is the first of Premee’s stories to […]
PseudoPod 890: The Halloween Parade and Twin Xolotls of Sorrow and Salt
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 04:01:06 +0000
Authors : Alasdair Stuart and Russell Hemmell Narrators : Alasdair Stuart and Leila Al-Jeboury Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 890: The Halloween Parade and Twin Xolotls of Sorrow and Salt is a PseudoPod original. The 2023 Halloween Parade by Alasdair Stuart This year you pass through a stone arch to […]
PseudoPod 889: Darke’s Last Show
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 04:01:01 +0000
Author : Jonathan Louis Duckworth Narrator : Jon Padgett Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Darke’s Last Show” opens the 2023 collection Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors Darke’s Last Show by Jonathan Louis Duckworth I’m still smiling when the rideshare car pulls up. Silver Honda Accord. Driver: Raul. […]
PseudoPod 888: Flash on the Borderlands LXVIII: Actualization
Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:01:29 +0000
Authors : Nick Petrou, Ai Jiang, Alyson Tait and Sam Rebelein Narrators : Eliza Chan, Jordan Shiveley, Dani Daly and Sam Rebelein Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Made of You” is a PseudoPod Original “Dancing With Etta” appeared first in Maudlin House (October, 2020) “A Well Polished Puppet” is a PseudoPod […]
PseudoPod 887: Midnight in the Southland
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 04:01:10 +0000
Author : Todd Keisling Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Samantha Arthurs Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Midnight in the Southland” was previously published in Liminal Spaces: An Anthology of Dark Speculative Fiction by Cemetery Gates Media in 2021. Midnight In The Southland By Todd Keisling “From the grim Ohio Valley to the mists of […]
PseudoPod 886: A Wonder of Nature, In Need of Killing
Sat, 07 Oct 2023 01:17:17 +0000
Author : VG Campen Narrator : Sevatividam Host : Marie Lestrange Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 886: A Wonder of Nature, In Need of Killing is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “This story was inspired by the snapping turtle who lives in a neighbor’s pond. Each spring she crawls from the water to […]
PseudoPod 885: The Grave of Angels
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 04:01:25 +0000
Author : Erica Ruppert Narrator : Rhianna Pratchett Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Grave of Angels” first appeared in Vastarien Volume 4 Issue 1, June 2021. CW: intimate partner death From the author: “This story incorporates many of my recurrent themes–rituals, religion, the end of the world, and did not […]
PseudoPod 884: Report on the Flanking Action
Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:13:46 +0000
Author : Larry Blamire Narrator : Larry Blamire Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Report on the Flanking Action” was originally published in the braided collection, Tales of the Callamo Mountains. CW: racial slurs M.R. James Shadows at the Door Mark Nixon The Thing Search & Rescue A Podcast to the Curious […]
Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:01:23 +0000
Author : Brenda Tolian Narrator : Victoria Marklew Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Ba’alat Ov” originally appeared in The Jewish Book of Horror Ba’alat Ov by Brenda Tolian In the night, the spirits spoke with hisses and gurgles like serpents wrapped around my head. I awoke covered in sweat, barely able […]
PseudoPod 882: See That My Grave is Kept Clean
Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:56:58 +0000
Author : Josh Rountree Narrator : Kyle Akers Host : Chelsea Davis Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 882: See That My Grave is Kept Clean is a PseudoPod original. CW for suicide See That My Grave Is Kept Clean by Josh Rountree Dig a hole, climb in, cover yourself in grave dirt. Not your […]
PseudoPod 881: How to Win a Dance Contest During an Apocalypse (In Nine Easy Steps!)
Fri, 01 Sep 2023 04:01:10 +0000
Author : Gwendolyn Kiste Narrator : Ibba Armancas Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 881: How to Win a Dance Contest During an Apocalypse (In Nine Easy Steps!) is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “While I’m a horror fan first and foremost, I’m also a big aficionado […]
PseudoPod 880: The King in Yella
Fri, 25 Aug 2023 04:01:09 +0000
Author : Kaaron Warren Narrator : Petra Elliott Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The King in Yella” was originally published in Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign edited by James Chambers. It won the Ditmar award in 2022 for Best Short Story. The King in […]
Sat, 19 Aug 2023 00:39:19 +0000
Author : Christi Nogle Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Chelsea Davis Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Resilience” was originally release in episode 704 of PseudoPod. Resilience by Christi Nogle Jason gets home while I’m at the sink. He comes up behind me, holds me around the waist, and tickles the side […]
PseudoPod 878: The Son (El Hijo) and The Feather Pillow (El almohadón de plumas)
Sun, 13 Aug 2023 04:01:06 +0000
Authors : Horacio Quiroga and Shawn Garrett Narrator : Diogo Ramos Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 878: The Son (El Hijo) and The Feather Pillow (El almohadón de plumas) is a PseudoPod original. “El Hijo” was first published under the title “El padre” in La Nación, 15 January 1928. “El […]
Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:45:43 +0000
Author : Richard E. Dansky Narrator : Brian Lieberman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 877: Billy’s Garage is a PseudoPod original. CW: Animal cruelty From the author: “This is my contribution to the “kids on bikes” subgenre of horror. It’s set back when I was a teen, and […]
PseudoPod 876: The Lodger – Part 2
Thu, 03 Aug 2023 23:37:02 +0000
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes Narrator : Siobhan Gallichan Host : Tiernan Douieb Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums This text was extracted from McClure’s Jan 1911, illustrated by Henry Raleigh. The short story was adapted by herself into a novel in 1913; and again adapted into an opera and numerous films (including […]
PseudoPod 875: The Lodger – Part 1
Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:56:08 +0000
Author : Marie Belloc Lowndes Narrator : Siobhan Gallichan Host : Tiernan Douieb Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums This text was extracted from McClure’s Jan 1911, illustrated by Henry Raleigh. The short story was adapted by herself into a novel in 1913; and again adapted into an opera and numerous films (including […]
PseudoPod 874: Flash on the Borderlands LXVII: Ichthyic
Fri, 14 Jul 2023 04:01:25 +0000
Authors : Michelle Muenzler, Anna Madden and Antoinette Rydyr Narrators : Tina Connolly, L. Marie Wood and Dominick Rabrun Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Bitter is the Sea, and Bright” was first published in Daily Science Fiction, November 2018 “Fishing Season” is a PseudoPod original — Fishing Season: I went fishing at […]
PseudoPod 873: A Box of Hair and Nail
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 04:01:18 +0000
Author : Geneve Flynn Narrator : J.Y. Tan Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 873: A Box of Hair and Nail is a PseudoPod original. “This story was inspired by an urban myth that terrified my mum when she was a teenager in Malaysia. The legend went that […]
PseudoPod 872: The Strange Island of Dr. Nork
Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:18:14 +0000
Author : Robert Bloch Narrator : John Bell Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Strange Island of Dr. Nork” was first published in Weird Tales, March 1949 CW: racist language. Please note this story was first published in 1949 and contains language which would not be acceptable today, […]
PseudoPod 871: Nymph of Darkness
Sat, 24 Jun 2023 06:06:56 +0000
Authors : C.L. Moore and Forrest J Ackerman Narrator : Rish Outfield Host : Wilson Fowlie Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Nymph of Darkness” was originally published in Fantasy Magazine, April 1935 Afflicted Season Two Fundraiser Nymph Of Darkness By C.L. Moore & Forrest J. Ackerman The thick Venusian dark of the […]
PseudoPod 870: The Dancing Partner
Mon, 19 Jun 2023 03:02:21 +0000
Author : Jerome K. Jerome Narrator : Alasdair Stuart Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Dancing Partner” is excerpted from Jerome’s non-genre novel Novel Notes where it is the second half of Chapter 11. The serialization of that chapter first appeared in the March 1893 issue of The […]
Fri, 09 Jun 2023 04:00:35 +0000
Authors : Cassandra Khaw and Matt Dovey Narrator : Autumn Ivy Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Audio Recording Left by the CEO of the Ranvannian Colony to Her Daughter, on the Survival Imperative of Maximising Market Profits” was originally published in Diabolical Plots, October 2021 “We didn’t set […]
PseudoPod 868: The Coward Who Stole God’s Name
Fri, 02 Jun 2023 04:01:49 +0000
Author : John Wiswell Narrator : Trendane Sparks Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Coward Who Stole God’s Name” originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine in their May issue in 2022. “If I named any of the inspirations for this story, then I’d get into terrible trouble, wouldn’t I? […]
PseudoPod 867: Chainsaw: As Is
Fri, 26 May 2023 04:01:26 +0000
Author : Gillian King-Cargile Narrator : Melissa Hofelich Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 867: Chainsaw: As Is is a PseudoPod original. Gillian King-Cargile grew up in the land-locked, corn country of Illinois, but every summer she’d visit her grandparents on the Jersey Shore. She swam in the […]
PseudoPod 866: Flash on the Borderlands LXVI: Quod Nomen Mihi Est?
Sat, 20 May 2023 20:33:46 +0000
Authors : Sarah Pauling, T.M Morgan and Guan Un Narrators : Tatiana Grey, David Powell and Dave Robison Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Litany In The Heart Of Exorcism” originally appeared in Flash Fiction Online, and is due to appear in Dutch translation in Speculatief “He’s Just Like […]
PseudoPod 865: Wanted: Bone-White Skull-Patterned Lace Trim
Sun, 14 May 2023 17:40:55 +0000
Author : Kelsea Yu Narrator : Rebecca Wei Hsieh Host : M. M. Schill Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 865: Wanted: Bone-White Skull-Patterned Lace Trim is a PseudoPod original. Wanted: Bone-White Skull-Patterned Lace Trim by Kelsea Yu The stroller on the side of the road caught Nina Wong’s eye as her […]
PseudoPod 864: All the Ways to Hollow Out a Girl
Fri, 05 May 2023 20:04:42 +0000
Author : Gwendolyn Kiste Narrator : Rose Hofelich Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “All the Ways to Hollow Out a Girl” was originally published in Horror for RAICES from Nightscape Press and reprinted in the charity anthology Shattered and Splintered. All the Ways to Hollow Out a Girl […]
PseudoPod 863: Coincidence & The Dream
Fri, 28 Apr 2023 04:01:58 +0000
Author : A. J. Alan Narrators : Matt Dovey and Phil Lunt Host : Shawn Garrett Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums Both “Coincidence” and “The Dream” originally appeared in The London Magazine, April 1927 and June 1927 respectively Coincidence By A.J. Alan This is the story of a coincidence. At any rate […]
PseudoPod 862: The Curious Story of Susan Styles
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 04:01:02 +0000
Author : Catherine Lord Narrator : Samuel Poots Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Curious Story of Susan Styles” was originally published in 1893 The Society for Psychical Research was formed in 1882, 11 years before this story was written The Curious Case Of Susan Styles Catherine Lord […]
PseudoPod 861: Swing Batter Batter
Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:10 +0000
Author : Richard E. Dansky Narrator : Eric Luke Host : Dave Robison Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 861: Swing Batter Batter is a PseudoPod original. Swing Batter Batter by Richard Dansky A baseball clubhouse is a weird place. You’ve got California prep school kids rubbing elbows with good old boys […]
PseudoPod 860: Time Enough at Last
Fri, 07 Apr 2023 04:01:33 +0000
Author : Lyn Venable Narrator : Andrew Leman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Time Enough at Last” originally appeared in IF Worlds of Science Fiction January 1953. Time Enough At Last by Lynn Venable For a long time, Henry Bemis had had an ambition. To read a book. […]
PseudoPod 859: We, the Ones Who Raised Sam Gowers from the Dead
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:01:15 +0000
Author : Cynthia Zhang Narrator : Serah Eley Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 859: We, the Ones Who Raised Sam Gowers from the Dead is a PseudoPod original. CW: Homophobic/transphobic violence We, the Ones Who Raised Sam Gowers from the Dead by Cynthia Zhang Yes, to answer […]
PseudoPod 858: Flash on the Borderlands LXV: Fecundity
Fri, 24 Mar 2023 04:01:06 +0000
Authors : Sophie Sparrow, Gretchen Tessmer and Wen-yi Lee Narrators : Kara Grace, Summer Brooks and Wilson Fowlie Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “On the Getting of Husbands and the Spawning of Children” previously appeared in Arsenika in April 2021 “The Chairmaker’s Daughter” is a PseudoPod original “Concerning […]
PseudoPod 857: Of Dark That Bites
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:01:12 +0000
Author : Jess Whitecroft Narrator : Kat Day Host : Lindz McLeod Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 857: Of Dark That Bites is a PseudoPod original. CW: Traumatic birth Of Dark That Bites Jess Whitecroft “Where do we go when we die?” asked Bea. She was in her car seat, a […]
PseudoPod 856: Them Doghead Boys
Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:07:38 +0000
Author : Alex Jennings Narrator : Dominick Rabrun Host : Tonia Ransom Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Them Doghead Boys” originally appeared in Current Affairs Magazine in their Jan/Feb 2021 issue Them Doghead Boys By Alex Jennings Things got bad bad once the Ravels was gone. Five-Oh swooped down and arrested damnear […]
PseudoPod 855: And The Water Said Kneel
Sat, 04 Mar 2023 03:14:53 +0000
Author : V. Astor Solomon Narrator : Kitty Sarkozy Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 855: And The Water Said Kneel is a PseudoPod original. Content Warning: Rape Revenge And The Water Said Kneel by V. Astor Solomon The river claims her like a lover, like someone who […]
Sat, 25 Feb 2023 01:57:50 +0000
Author : Kristina Ten Narrator : Kaitlyn Zivanovich Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Bones in It” was originally published in Lightspeed in May 2021 Good Bones by Maggie Smith Bones in It by Kristina Ten Besides the vedma who lived behind the stove in steam room three, the […]
Sun, 19 Feb 2023 16:49:33 +0000
Author : M. M. Schill Narrator : James Kaku Pierson Hosts : Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn Audio Producer : Dave Robison Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 853: Oni in the Box is a PseudoPod original. Oni in the Box by M.M. Schill Now, Sobo was our late father’s mother. By our mother’s accounts she was […]
PseudoPod 852: Every Body Depicted Is Exploited
Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:01:32 +0000
Author : Elise LeSage Narrator : Kitty Sarkozy Host : Adrian Howard Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Every Body Depicted Is Exploited” was first published in PopCult’s Gruesome Love anthology as “Crit.” Every Body Depicted Is Exploited By Elise LeSage Everyone knew that Pamela was the only real artist there. The rest […]
PseudoPod 851: Flash on the Borderlands LXIV: Purification
Fri, 03 Feb 2023 05:01:54 +0000
Authors : Don Mark Baldridge, Bitter Karella and Rachel Unger Narrators : Halloween Bloodfrost, L. Marie Wood and Kelley M. Frank Host : Ben McKenzie Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 851: Flash on the Borderlands LXIV: Purification is a PseudoPod original. Candlemas: “February 2, 2023 is Candlemas. I’ve always had a […]
Tue, 31 Jan 2023 22:38:03 +0000
Presenters: Marguerite Kenner and Alasdair Stuart Hey folks, welcome to an Escape Artists metacast. I’m Marguerite Kenner. And I’m Alasdair Stuart. For those of you who have never heard a metacast before, think of this like a mini State of the Union address, a way for us to update you about what’s been happening at EA. The […]
PseudoPod 850: A Short Trip Home
Fri, 27 Jan 2023 05:01:35 +0000
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator : Shawn Garrett Host : Shawn Garrett Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “A Short Trip Home” was published in 1927 and is in the public domain F. SCOTT FITZGERALD – “The Diamond As Big As The Ritz” (1922) BLACKWATER 2: MORE TALES OF THE FANTASTIC by […]
PseudoPod 849: Two Black Bottles
Fri, 20 Jan 2023 05:01:36 +0000
Authors : H.P. Lovecraft and Wilfred B. Talman Narrator : Ron Jon Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Two Black Bottles” originally appeared in Weird Tales, August 1927 Two Black Bottles by Wilfred B. Talman & H.P. Lovecraft Not all of the few remaining inhabitants of Daalbergen, that dismal […]
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 05:01:34 +0000
Author : Alfred McLelland Burrage Narrator : W.J. Walton Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Browdean Farm” originally appeared in the 1927 collection Some Ghost Stories Check out ll the amazing things W.J. Walton is working on at AWKWARD LABS (http://www.awkward-labs.com) ? Browdean Farm by A.M. Burrage Most people […]
PseudoPod 847: On the Isle of Blue Men
Fri, 06 Jan 2023 05:01:05 +0000
Author : Robert W. Sneddon Narrator : Hugo Jackson Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums The original version was first published in “Ghost Stories Magazine” April, 1927, “On the Isle of Blue Men” was an atmospheric, Lovecraftian thriller -almost certainly inspired by the real world 1900 Flannan Isles lighthouse […]
PseudoPod 846: Ye Goode Olde Ghoste Storie
Sun, 01 Jan 2023 17:00:10 +0000
Author : Anthony Boucher Narrator : Rish Outfield Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Ye Goode Olde Ghoste Storie” originally appeared in Weird Tales, January 1927 under the pen name William A. P. White Derek Delgaudio Excellent and IMMENSELY spoiler-y piece about In & Of Itself Ye Goode Olde […]
PseudoPod 845: 15 Eulogies Scribbled Inside a Hello Kitty Notebook
Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:14:56 +0000
Author : Carlie St. George Narrators : Rose Hofelich and Battie Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “15 Eulogies Scribbled Inside a Hello Kitty Notebook” originally appeared in Carlie’s debut collection, You Fed Us to the Roses, published by Robot Dinosaur Press in October 2022. 15 Eulogies Scribbled Inside […]
PseudoPod 844: Gothic Duo: The Oval Portrait & Not More Lovely than Full of Glee
Fri, 23 Dec 2022 05:01:59 +0000
Authors : Edgar Allan Poe and Leanna Renee Hieber Narrators : Wayne Johnson and Steve Anderson Host : Shawn Garrett Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Oval Portrait” was published in the April 26, 1845 edition of the Broadway Journal. “Not More Lovely than Full of Glee” originally appeared in A Winter’s […]
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:01:11 +0000
Author : Wailana Kalama Narrator : Jen Zink Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Mother Trucker” originally appeared in Mother: Tales Of Love And Terror by Weird Little Worlds in Fall 2022 Mother Trucker by Wailana Kalama My mother hits the moose in the pitch black of 4:32 a.m. […]
Sat, 10 Dec 2022 01:07:06 +0000
Author : Jenny Kiefer Narrator : Kat Day Host : M. M. Schill Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Palette” originally appeared in the anthology Howls From the Dark Ages: An Anthology of Medieval Horror. All of the ingredients for the woman’s makeup recipes are accurate for medieval Austria. Palette By J.L. Kiefer […]
Sat, 03 Dec 2022 04:52:30 +0000
Author : Tyler Jones Narrator : Scott Campbell Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Corporation” opened the collection Burn the Plans released by Cemetery Gates Media in February 2022 Corporation by Tyler Jones Sunlight blooms in the sky, rising up from behind all those glass and steel buildings. It […]
PseudoPod 821 Special Anniversary Episode: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT!
Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:01:35 +0000
Authors : Sarah Day and Tim Pratt Narrators : Alasdair Stuart and Marguerite Kenner Hosts : Kat Day, Dave Robison and Ben Phillips Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 821 Special Anniversary Episode: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT! is a PseudoPod original. Featuring the story Celestial Shores by Sarah Day and Tim Pratt Towards […]
PseudoPod 840: No Hungry Generations
Sat, 26 Nov 2022 15:22:34 +0000
Author : Johnny Compton Narrator : Amy Kelly Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “No Hungry Generations” was published originally in the October 2022 Anthology, Death In The Mouth. No Hungry Generations By Johnny Compton The bird looked like the last descendent of a prehistoric mishap. Fatter than a […]
PseudoPod 839: The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body
Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:01:20 +0000
Author : J.A.W. McCarthy Narrator : Julia Rios Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body” originally appeared in the anthology A Woman Built By Man published by Cemetery Gates Media The Only Thing Different Will Be The Body by J.A.W. McCarthy My […]
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 20:24:53 +0000
Author : Orrin Grey Narrator : Robert C. Eccles Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Old Haunts” originally appeared in the 2022 collection How to See Ghosts & Other Figments Old Haunts By Orrin Grey Kim Parks considered himself something of a connoisseur of the haunted attractions that sprang […]
Mon, 07 Nov 2022 14:18:25 +0000
Author : Joe Koch Narrator : Christiana Ellis Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Offerings “was first published in Doorbells At Dusk from Corpus Press, 2018 and reprinted in the 2022 collection “Convulsive” Offerings By Joe Koch Blaine’s head hurts at the sight of Amelia shuffling up the block. […]
PseudoPod 836: The Halloween Parade
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:01:07 +0000
Author : Alasdair Stuart Narrator : Alasdair Stuart Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 836: The Halloween Parade is a PseudoPod original. The 2022 Halloween Parade by Alasdair Stuart The parade this year feels brittle. At least at first. It reminds you of that first step into a […]
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 04:01:48 +0000
Author : Nicole Givens Kurtz Narrator : Devante‘ Johnson Host : Tonia Ransom Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 835: Trickin’ is a PseudoPod original. Trickin’ by Nicole Givens Kurtz It’s time. Nestled beneath the rolling peaks from the mountain ranges, honeycombs of caves spread out in their like swollen slugs providing […]
Tue, 25 Oct 2022 04:49:33 +0000
Author : Amy Nagopaleen Narrator : Bryce Dahle Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 834: To the Tooth is a PseudoPod original. To The Tooth by Amy Nagopaleen I just wanted breakfast. Coffee, maybe an egg with spinach. But before I even stumbled over to the coffeemaker, a sprawling net of […]
Fri, 21 Oct 2022 04:00:33 +0000
Author : Tod Robbins Narrator : Wilson Fowlie Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Cockcrow Inn” was first published in the collection Who Wants a Green Bottle? and Other Uneasy Tales in 1926 Cockcrow Inn By Tod Robbins Cockcrow Inn stands defiantly facing the sea. For countless years it […]
PseudoPod 832: Flash on the Borderlands LXIII: Respect Your Elders
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 04:01:00 +0000
Authors : Kat Day, H.B. Diaz and Taylor Rae Narrators : Kat Day, Gemma Amor and Siobhan Gallichan Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Proverbs 16:31 – Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life. When I Was Young, I Did Not Need Magic by Kat […]
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 04:01:21 +0000
Author : Eris Young Narrator : Steph P. Bianchini Hosts : Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 831: Idomeneja is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “The speculative elements from this story are based on the death masks found in the grave circles at the site […]
PseudoPod 830: The Honey Witch
Fri, 30 Sep 2022 04:01:33 +0000
Author : Kathryn McMahon Narrator : Rhianna Pratchett Host : Alasdair Stuart Artist : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Honey Witch” originally appeared in SHARP AND SUGARTOOTH: WOMEN UP TO NO GOOD edited by Octavia Cade (Upper Rubber Boot Books 2019) The Honey Witch By Kathryn McMahon My hood and gloves are on the […]
PseudoPod 829: We’ve All Gone to the Magic Show
Sun, 25 Sep 2022 16:07:26 +0000
Author : Todd Keisling Narrator : Jon Padgett Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “We’ve All Gone to the Magic Show” was previously published in Vastarien: Vol.3, Issue 1 by Grimscribe Press. We’ve All Gone To The Magic Show By Todd Keisling Earlier this summer, word spread around our […]
Fri, 16 Sep 2022 04:01:13 +0000
Author : Shannyn Campbell Narrators : Halloween Bloodfrost, Scott Campbell, Kat Day, Graeme Dunlop, Jamie Grimes, Alex Hofelich, Kitty Sarkozy, Melissa Hofelich, M. M. Schill, Dave Robison and Joshua Tuttle Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 828: Taxiptómy is a PseudoPod original. Mulholland Drive trailer Mulholland Drive ‘No […]
PseudoPod 827: She Works in the Office Where They Died
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 18:00:41 +0000
Author : Alex Singer Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 827: She Works in the Office Where They Died is a PseudoPod original. She Works in the Office Where They Died By Alex T. Singer Dezra works in an office where 1000 people died. […]
Fri, 02 Sep 2022 04:01:32 +0000
Author : C. O. Davidson Narrator : Amy H. Sturgis Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Dream House” originally appeared in the anthology Georgia Gothic Dream House By C. O. Davidson Alice and Rick turned off the highway onto the twisting gravel road. Oaks arched overhead, a tunnel of […]
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:01:15 +0000
Author : Margaret St. Clair Narrator : Alethea Kontis Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Flowering Evil” first appeared in Planet Stories, Summer 1950 Flowering Evil By Margaret St. Clair Captain Bjornson shook a grizzled head. “I never saw a plant I liked the looks of less,” he said. […]
Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:46:04 +0000
Author : Pauline Yates Narrator : Kat Day Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Renascent” was first published by Aurealis in 2019. From the author: Renascent means ‘rising again into being or vigor’, an apt title for my story. The origin of this story came from my personal questioning […]
PseudoPod 823: Little Freedoms
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 04:04:25 +0000
Author : Ephiny Gale Narrator : Ibba Armancas Host : M. M. Schill Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Little Freedoms” was first published in ‘Shoreline of Infinity’ in December 2017. Little Freedoms By Ephiny Gale The room is cylindrical, metal, no doors or windows. Nine of us stand in a circle, not […]
PseudoPod 822: The Experiment of Erich Weigert
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 04:01:56 +0000
Author : Sewell Peaslee Wright Narrator : Tony Sarrecchia Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Experiment of Erich Weigert” was originally published in Weird Tales in 1926 The Experiment Of Erich Weigert By Sewell Peaslee Wright The moment I gazed out over the audience I saw him. He […]
PseudoPod 821: Celestial Shores
Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:23:07 +0000
Authors : Sarah Day and Tim Pratt Narrators : Alasdair Stuart and Marguerite Kenner Host : Ben Phillips Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 821: Celestial Shores is a PseudoPod original. Celestial Shores by Sarah Day and Tim Pratt Britt drove silently while Ray gazed past her at the beauty of the […]
Fri, 22 Jul 2022 04:01:00 +0000
Author : Matt Ellis Narrator : Kara Grace Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Off the Road” was originally published in the Spring 2021 issue of Sein und Werden This story is dedicated to my daughter Kaetlyn Nicole–one of the strongest women I know. Thank you for always listening […]
Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:42:48 +0000
Author : Thomas Ha Narrator : Scott Campbell Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Balloon Season” has previously been featured in Fusion Fragment and Dark Matter Magazine. Balloon Season by Thomas Ha I’ve never gotten used to the sense of urgency of summer afternoons, that feeling of being drenched […]
PseudoPod 818: Flash on the Borderlands LXII: Flash Fiction Contest 7 Winners
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:46:31 +0000
Authors : Frank Oreto, Hannah Whiteoak and Karlo Yeager Rodriguez Narrators : Dennis Robinson, Sevatividam and Karlo Yeager Rodriguez Host : Brian Lieberman Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 818: Flash on the Borderlands LXII: Flash Fiction Contest 7 Winners is a PseudoPod original. Overnight Home Companion by Frank J. Oreto Position: […]
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 04:02:31 +0000
Author : Nathan McCullough Narrator : Hollis Monroe Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Tommy’s Field” was originally published in the anthology Georgia Gothic – The final line is a nod to the superstition against whistling in a graveyard lest ye summon the devil. From the author: “This story […]
PseudoPod 816: The Goatkeeper’s Harvest
Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:11:25 +0000
Author : Tobi Ogundiran Narrator : Opie Ogundiran Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Goatkeeper’s Harvest” was originally published in The Dark. Special thanks to the author for helping us find a reader. From the author: “When I was seven, I spent the summer on my aunt’s goat […]
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:01:42 +0000
Author : Liam Hogan Narrator : Ant Bacon Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 815: Stinkpit is a PseudoPod original. Ben Wheatley interview A Field in England trailer Under the Earth trailer Stinkpit by Liam Hogan John Arnold’s traps were full; too many rabbits for one man’s needs. […]
PseudoPod 814: The Green Scarf
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 01:22:35 +0000
Author : Alfred McLelland Burrage Narrator : Marc Burrows Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Green Scarf” originally appeared in The London Magazine, August 1926 The Green Scarf By A.M. Burrage When the Wellingford family became extinct the days of Wellingford Hall as one of the great country […]
PseudoPod 813: A Belly Full of Spiders
Fri, 03 Jun 2022 13:01:27 +0000
Author : Mário Coelho Narrator : Bryce Dahle Host : M. M. Schill Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 813: A Belly Full of Spiders is a PseudoPod original. A Belly Full of Spiders by Mário Coelho Alone in a dark basement, Davey’s learned to do much without his eyes. He can […]
PseudoPod 812: The Old Switcheroo
Fri, 27 May 2022 04:01:56 +0000
Author : Christi Nogle Narrator : Sheila Regan Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Old Switcheroo” first appeared in the anthology What One Wouldn’t Do from Scott J. Moses in autumn 2021. The Old Switcheroo By Christi Nogle Calvin and I have been happy here, all told. With […]
PseudoPod 811: No One Really Lives Alone
Fri, 20 May 2022 04:01:59 +0000
Author : Lesley Hart Gunn Narrator : Autumn Ivy Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 811: No One Really Lives Alone is a PseudoPod original. No One Really Lives Alone by Lesley Hart Gunn When the priest comes to your house to vanquish your demons, draped in ancient […]
PseudoPod 810: Her Face All Teeth
Fri, 13 May 2022 04:01:33 +0000
Author : Greg Stolze Narrators : Dave Robison and Poppy Beaujolais Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 810: Her Face All Teeth is a PseudoPod original. Her Face, All Teeth by Greg Stolze Denny did not want to spy on the confessional, but at the same time, he […]
PseudoPod 809 : A Pearl as Red as Sin
Sat, 07 May 2022 16:07:54 +0000
Author : R.A. Busby Narrator : Lois Tate Host : Kaitlyn Zivanovich Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “A Pearl as Red as Sin” originally appeared as “Baby” to open the anthology Good Southern Witches A Pearl as Red as Sin by R. A. Busby The baby bit hard into my flesh and […]
Fri, 29 Apr 2022 04:01:28 +0000
Author : Lisa Tuttle Narrator : Kat Day Host : M. M. Schill Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Food Man” was originally published in Crank! and was nominated for an Otherwise Award, known at the time as the Tiptree Award. Food Man by Lisa Tuttle Dinner was the real problem. Mornings, it […]
PseudoPod 807: The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things
Fri, 22 Apr 2022 04:01:53 +0000
Author : Ariel Marken Jack Narrator : Kitty Sarkozy Host : Premee Mohamed Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 807: The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things is a PseudoPod original. The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things by M. A. Blanchard I accept the house in lieu of a settlement. I don’t want […]
Fri, 15 Apr 2022 04:01:53 +0000
Author : Christopher Matson Narrator : Dan Rabarts Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 806 : Garden Empire is a PseudoPod original. Insects, lots of insects Garden Empire by Chris Matson I’d bought the house only the week before, when I was still in possession both of my […]
PseudoPod 805: The Fifteenth Green
Fri, 08 Apr 2022 04:01:02 +0000
Author : Margery Lawrence Narrator : Barry J. Northern Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Fifteenth Green” was first published in Nights of the Round Table, 1926. Yard Act-Land of the Blind If You Build It, They Will Move: The Los Angeles Freeway System and the Displacement of […]
PseudoPod 804: Flash on the Borderlands LXI: Dead Man’s Party (April Fools’ Version)
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 23:22:45 +0000
Authors : John Wiswell, Owen Duffy and Clayton Hackett Narrators : Kaz, The Word Whore and Marguerite Kenner Host : Samuel Poots Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 804: Flash on the Borderlands LXI: Dead Man’s Party (April Fools’ Version) is a PseudoPod original. “The Tentacle and You” was originally published in […]
CatsCast 1: The Cat Lady and the Petitioner
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:00:08 +0000
Author : Jennifer Hudak Narrator : Alethea Kontis Host : Laura Pearlman Audio Producer : Wilson Fowlie The Cat Lady and the Petitioner by Jennifer Hudak Laurie stands in front of a door. It’s old but solid, as many old things are. Whatever paint once covered it has long since worn away, and the wood […]
PseudoPod 804: Flash on the Borderlands LXI: Dead Man’s Party
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:01:36 +0000
Authors : John Wiswell, Owen Duffy and Clayton Hackett Narrators : Kaz, The Word Whore and Marguerite Kenner Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Tentacle and You” was originally published in Nature Futures back in 2019. “Backers” is a PseudoPod Original “Your Honor, My Undead Client Opposes the […]
PseudoPod 803: Them At Number Seventy-Four
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:14:43 +0000
Author : Lindz McLeod Narrator : Katherine Inskip Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 803: Them At Number Seventy-Four is a PseudoPod original. Them At Number Seventy-Four by Lindz McLeod When body number four is discovered, Mrs Patterson thinks that surely now she and her husband will be […]
PseudoPod 802: Laughter Among the Trees
Fri, 18 Mar 2022 04:01:56 +0000
Author : Suzan Palumbo Narrator : Premee Mohamed Host : Karissa Sluss Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Laughter Among the Trees” was previously published by The Dark Magazine on February 1st 2021. Laughter Among the Trees By Suzan Palumbo The highway to the campground cuts through the granite Laurentian Plateau like a […]
PseudoPod 801: The Bear Across the Way
Fri, 11 Mar 2022 05:01:54 +0000
Author : Emily Rigole Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 801: The Bear Across the Way is a PseudoPod original. The Bear Across the Way by Emily Rigole I paid no more attention to the bear than I would have any new neighbors. Despite […]
PseudoPod 800: The Parricide’s Tale
Fri, 04 Mar 2022 22:21:43 +0000
Author : Charles Robert Maturin Narrator : Kurt Kuersteiner Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Parricide’s Tale” is an excerpt from a larger work, the notorious Gothic Novel Melmoth The Wanderer (1820) Wikipedia article on Melmoth The Wanderer This week’s quote The Parricide’s Tale by Charles Robert Maturin It […]
Fri, 25 Feb 2022 05:01:03 +0000
Author : Josh Rountree Narrator : Diane Severson Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “February Moon” originally appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies in May, 2020, and was the first in a series of monster stories I’m writing that take place in old Texas. February Moon by Josh Rountree Something […]
PseudoPod 798: Flash on the Borderlands LX: Words Like Violence
Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:30:09 +0000
Authors : Donyae Coles, Mary Berman and Kat Day Narrators : Cherrae L. Stuart, Suna Dasi and Katherine Inskip Host : M. M. Schill Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Sometimes Boys Don’t Know” was originally published in the July 2021 issue of Nightmare Magazine. “Human Body as Compendium” is a PseudoPod original. […]
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 05:01:35 +0000
Author : Seán Padraic Birnie Narrator : J.S. Arquin Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “New to It All” first appeared in the collection I Would Haunt You If I Could published in March of 2021 by Undertow. New To It All by Seán Padraic Birnie My first girlfriend, […]
PseudoPod 796: The Horse Leech Has Two Maws
Fri, 04 Feb 2022 05:01:37 +0000
Author : Michael Picco Narrator : Ben Gideon Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Horse Leech Has Two Maws” was originally published in The Jewish Book of Horror This story deals with the Holocaust. This story has an academic frame and that the text on the website has […]
PseudoPod 795: The Last Seance
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 05:01:41 +0000
Author : Agatha Christie Narrator : Kat Day Host : Gemma Amor Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums ‘The Last Seance’ was first published in Ghost Stories, November 1926 The Last Séance by Agatha Christie Raoul Daubreuil crossed the Seine humming a little tune to himself. He was a good-looking young Frenchman of […]
PseudoPod 794: The Man Who Was Saved
Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:44:51 +0000
Author : B.W. Sliney Narrator : John Bell Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums ‘The Man Who Was Saved’ was first published in Weird Tales, May 1926 The Man Who Was Saved By B. W. Sliney ‘Only I escaped.’ The man whom they had found adrift in the dory […]
PseudoPod 793: And No Bird Sings
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 05:01:41 +0000
Author : E.F. Benson Narrator : Marc Burrows Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producers : Chelsea Davis and Shawn Garrett Discuss on Forums “And No Bird Sings” was first published in the magazine Woman, December 1926. “Birdsong & Elemental Slug” soundbed by Shawn M. Garrett, dedicated to Adi Newton & The Anti-Group (TAGC) And No […]
PseudoPod 792: The Rocking-Horse Winner
Sat, 08 Jan 2022 02:10:03 +0000
Author : D. H. Lawrence Narrator : Alasdair Stuart Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Rocking-Horse Winner” was first published in Harper’s Bazaar, July 1926. The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no […]
PseudoPod 791: Flash on the Borderlands LIX: Down in the Park
Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:01:03 +0000
Authors : Eric J. Guignard, Can Wiggins, Hailey Piper and Anthony Oliveira Narrators : Victoria Winnick, Kitty Sarkozy, Brian Lieberman and Dave Robison Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Feast for Small Pieces” was originally published in The Bronzeville Bee in 2019 and reprinted in the collection Unfortunate Elements […]
Fri, 24 Dec 2021 05:01:26 +0000
Author : Orrin Grey Narrator : Nicola Burke Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Artist : Kitty Sarkozy Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 790: The Humbug is a PseudoPod original. The Humbug By Orrin Grey Joshua caught it in a glass jar with holes poked in the lid. He came running up to […]
PseudoPod 789: NIGHTLIGHT Podcast Takeover: I Will Not Walk in Darkness + High Water Slack
Sat, 18 Dec 2021 05:01:58 +0000
Author : Jamie Grimes Narrator : Devante Johnson Host : Tonia Ransom Audio Producers : Marty Perrett and Jen Zink Discuss on Forums “I Will Not Walk in Darkness” originally appeared in the anthology Georgia Gothic and “High Water Slack” was first published by the IGNYTE Award Winning publication NightLight The song in “I Will […]
PseudoPod 788: The Stories We Tell About Ghosts
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 13:13:07 +0000
Author : A.C. Wise Narrator : Alethea Kontis Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Stories We Tell About Ghosts” was originally published in Looming Low: Volume I and reprinted this year in A.C. Wise’s new collection, The Ghost Sequences. The Stories We Tell About Ghosts by A.C. Wise […]
PseudoPod 787: On Seas of Blood and Salt
Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:38:11 +0000
Author : Richard E. Dansky Narrator : Elie Hirschman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “On Seas of Blood and Salt” originally appeared in The Jewish Book of Horror On Seas Of Blood And Salt Richard Dansky This is what Reb Palache does when he finds a ship crewed […]
PseudoPod 786: Licking Roadkill
Fri, 26 Nov 2021 05:01:20 +0000
Author : Richard E. Dansky Narrator : Trendane Sparks Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 786: Licking Roadkill is a PseudoPod original. Licking Roadkill by Richard Dansky Cole was licking the highway when the cops picked him up the night before Thanksgiving. Reckless endangerment, they said, and obstructing […]
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 05:01:33 +0000
Author : Lisa Tuttle Narrator : Julie Hoverson Host : Kitty Sarkozy Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Closet Dreams” was originally published in PostScripts and was a finalist for the Stoker Award. Content Warnings Child Abuse, Stalking, Abduction, Confinement, Sexual Assault [collapse] Closet Dreams by Lisa Tuttle Something terrible happened to me […]
PseudoPod 784: American Remake of a Japanese Ghost Story
Sat, 13 Nov 2021 23:49:08 +0000
Author : Laird Barron Narrator : Kaitlyn Zivanovich Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “American Remake of a Japanese Ghost Story” was originally released by Crystal Lake Publishing in the anthology There Is No Death, There Are No Dead American Remake Of A Japanese Ghost Story Laird Barron There’s […]
Sat, 06 Nov 2021 01:08:20 +0000
Author : Gemma Files Narrator : Tatiana Grey Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Sleep Hygiene” was first published in Nightmare’s Realm: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic and reprinted this year in the collection In That Endlessness, Our End Audio Production & DreamBed, assembled from various field […]
PseudoPod 782: The Halloween Parade
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:00:24 +0000
Author : Alasdair Stuart Narrator : Alasdair Stuart Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 782: The Halloween Parade is a PseudoPod original. THE 2021 HALLOWEEN PARADE by Alasdair Stuart The Parade is back this year. Socially distanced, with masks and vaccinations mandatory, of course. But as you settle […]
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 23:51:36 +0000
Authors : Ash Beker, Alasdair Stuart and Summer Fletcher Narrators : Imogen Harris, Marty Perrett, Wilson Fowlie, Peter Adrian Behravesh, Kaitlyn Zivanovich, Mur Lafferty, M. M. Schill, Alex Hofelich, Shawn Garrett, Scott Campbell, Kat Day, Graeme Dunlop and Alasdair Stuart Audio Producers : Marguerite Kenner, Ciaran ‘Zalia’ Roberts, Lillian Boyd and Peter Wood Artist : […]
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:40:53 +0000
Author : Orrin Grey Narrator : Lalana Dara Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Screen Haunt” was first published in It Came from the Multiplex, published by Hex Publishers in September 2020 Screen Haunt by Orrin Grey “What are you afraid of?” Jeanne asks, kicking her feet on the […]
PseudoPod 780: Flickering Dusk Of The Video God
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 04:01:14 +0000
Author : Luciano Marano Narrator : Robert C. Eccles Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Flickering Dusk Of The Video God” was originally published in the 2020 anthology Monsters, Movies & Mayhem Flickering Dusk Of The Video God by Luciano Marano A fresh burst of white noise roars through […]
PseudoPod 779: Trowel, Brush, Bones
Fri, 15 Oct 2021 04:01:19 +0000
Author : Audrey R. Hollis Narrator : Ibba Armancas Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Trowel, Brush, Bones” was originally published in the Iron Horse Literary Review in January 2021 Sites that help with and advocate for the safety for women: Reclaim These Streets Safeline Women’s Aid Trowel, Brush, Bones […]
PseudoPod 778: Live From The End Of The World
Fri, 08 Oct 2021 04:01:01 +0000
Author : Frank Oreto Narrator : Katie Gill Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 778: Live From The End Of The World is a PseudoPod original. Live from the End of the World by Frank Oreto Highway 28 vanished and reappeared as the windshield wipers fought a losing […]
PseudoPod 777: Flash on the Borderlands LVIII: Graveyard Smash
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:51:01 +0000
Authors : Margaret St. Clair, G.G. Pendarves and Michael Kelly Narrators : Simon Meddings, David Darke and Jimmy Horrors Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Family” was first Published in Weird Tales in January 1950 This is an abridged version of “The Devil’s Graveyard” which first appeared in […]
PseudoPod 776: Papa’s Wrench and the Wind Chime
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 04:01:47 +0000
Author : Marianne Halbert Narrator : Kitty Sarkozy Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Papa’s Wrench and the Wind Chime” was originally published by Mocha Memoirs Press in The Grotesquerie (2014) and reprinted in her collection, Cold Comforts (Crossroad Press, 2019). Papa’s Wrench and the Wind Chime By Marianne […]
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 18:59:15 +0000
Author : Michael McDowell Narrator : Jessica Nettles Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Miss Mack” was first published in the 1986 anthology Halloween Horrors Miss Mack by Michael McDowell When Miss Mack showed up in Babylon in the late summer of 1957, nobody knew what to think of […]
Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:40:16 +0000
Author : Dan Fields Narrator : Graeme Dunlop Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 774: Vanity, Vanity is a PseudoPod original. The author had this to share about this piece: “Gothic rural horror and the amorphous disposition of evil have long preoccupied me. Moral and spiritual diffidence have […]
PseudoPod 773: The Floor Above
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:41:32 +0000
Author : M.L. Humphreys Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Floor Above” was originally published in the May 1923 issue of Weird Tales The Floor Above by M. L. Humphreys SEPTEMBER 17, 1922. — I sat down to breakfast this morning with a good […]
PseudoPod 772: Flash on the Borderlands LVII: The Loving Gaze of the Abyss
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 04:01:55 +0000
Authors : Chelsea Davis, Evan J. Peterson and Sarah Turi Boshear Narrators : Halloween Bloodfrost, Kitty Sarkozy and Kara Grace Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 772: Flash on the Borderlands LVII: The Loving Gaze of the Abyss is a PseudoPod original. “Five Films Reviewed by Dr. Frankenstein’s […]
PseudoPod 771: The Human Chair
Sat, 21 Aug 2021 23:37:08 +0000
Authors : Allen Zhang and Edogawa Ranpo Narrator : Ron Jon Hosts : Kat Day and Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 771: The Human Chair is a PseudoPod original. “The Human Chair” was originally published in Kuraku, October 1925, as “Ningen Isu.” As this story is in the public […]
PseudoPod 770: The Garden of Adompha
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:44:49 +0000
Author : Clark Ashton-Smith Narrator : Dr. Hal Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Garden of Adompha” originally appeared in Weird Tales, April 1938 The Garden of Adompha Clark Ashton Smith Lord of the sultry, red parterres And orchards sunned by hell’s unsetting flame! Amid thy garden blooms […]
PseudoPod 769: Songs in a Lesser Known Key
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 04:01:14 +0000
Author : Mjke Wood Narrator : Wilson Fowlie Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 769: Songs in a Lesser Known Key is a PseudoPod original. From the author, “I’ve played saxophone and clarinet in big bands for more years than I care to admit to. And while I […]
PseudoPod 768: Perfidious Beauty
Fri, 30 Jul 2021 22:55:59 +0000
Author : Eugie Foster Narrator : Jasmine Blake Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Perfidious Beauty” was originally published in the anthology Embark to Madness Perfidious Beauty by Eugie Foster Beauty knelt over the cooling body of her husband, the prince. The elegant clock in the foyer, carved from […]
PseudoPod 767: Death Has Red Hair
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 04:01:46 +0000
Author : Greye La Spina Narrator : Dennis Robinson Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Death Has Red Hair” was originally published in Weird Tales in September of 1942. This story is surprising in being an early entry that is unabashedly feminist with multiple shades of “street harassment” on […]
PseudoPod 766: Knock, Knock, Wolf
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 23:22:20 +0000
Author : P.G. Galalis Narrator : Rish Outfield Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Knock, Knock, Wolf” was originally published in Flame Tree’s Gothic Fantasy anthology, Footsteps in the Dark, in October 2020 Knock, Knock, Wolf by P.G. Galalis It was time to kill the sparrows. Every autumn, after […]
PseudoPod 765: The Child Feast of Harridan Sack
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 04:01:00 +0000
Author : Kaitlyn Zivanovich Narrator : Jasmine Blake Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 765: The Child Feast of Harridan Sack is a PseudoPod original. The Child-Feast of Harridan Sack By Kaitlyn Zivanovich I plant a whisper in my daughter’s hair when her shoulders shake and hunch up […]
PseudoPod 764: The Hollow Tree
Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:42:31 +0000
Author : Jordan Kurella Narrator : Sevatividam Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Hollow Tree” was previously published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies in November 8, 2018 (Issue #264) Sevatividam would let to give a shoutout to Dan of Groundcrew Studios in Charlotte NC. She recorded “The Hollow Tree” […]
Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:11:46 +0000
Author : Leanna Renee Hieber Narrator : Joe Williams Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Charged” was first published in Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells (Tor Books, 2011) The reader, Joe Williams, would like to dedicate the reading to their Father who recently passed away: “Allan Williams was Joe’s […]
PseudoPod 762: The Thought Monster
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:50:06 +0000
Author : Amelia Reynolds Long Narrator : Spencer Disparti Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Thought Monster” originally appeared in Weird Tales in March 1930 Fiend Without A Face resources: Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLRyLnqCH4 Wikipedia Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiend_Without_a_Face Fiend without a Face and it’s surprising controversy https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/fiend-without-a-face-and-its-surprising-controversy/ Fiend Without A Face […]
PseudoPod 761: The Black Stone Statue
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 04:01:37 +0000
Author : Mary Elizabeth Counselman Narrator : George Cleveland Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Black Stone Statue” was first published in Weird Tales, December 1937 We can’t help but wonder what Counselman would think of Annihilation. The Black Stone Statue by Mary Elizabeth Counselman Directors, Museum of […]
Fri, 04 Jun 2021 04:01:04 +0000
Author : Eugie Foster Narrator : Kara Grace Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 760: Akiko’s Legacy is a PseudoPod original. Akiko’s Legacy by Eugie Foster narrated by Kara Grace “Mother, why are Grandma and Gramps ashamed of Father?” Akiko smoothed back the unruly curls from her son’s […]
PseudoPod 759: The Withered Heart
Fri, 28 May 2021 04:01:26 +0000
Author : G.G. Pendarves Narrator : Ben Meredith Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Withered Heart” was originally published in the November 1939 issue of Weird Tales As this was originally published as a novelette and a bit long for an episode of PseudoPod, staff turned this into […]
Fri, 21 May 2021 04:01:13 +0000
Author : Geneve Flynn Narrator : E. R. Zhang Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Little Worm” was originally published in the anthology Black Cranes Little Worm by Geneve Flynn Ping-ping-ping-ping. The incessant chiming underscored the cabbie’s music and the occasional blare of a horn. Theresa wondered what the […]
PseudoPod 757: Flash on the Borderlands LVI: The Heart’s Filthy Lesson
Fri, 14 May 2021 04:01:27 +0000
Authors : Couri Johnson, Dorothy Quick, Trace Conger and Peter Adam Salomon Narrators : Eliza Chan, Dave Thompson, Amanda Ching and Lisa Hicks Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Woman the Spiders Loved” first appeared in Penultimate Peanut and was reprinted in her 2020 collection I’ll Tell You […]
Fri, 07 May 2021 23:45:17 +0000
Author : Luciano Marano Narrator : Julian Bane Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 756: To Witness is a PseudoPod original. Though the author is a professional photojournalist and has covered many car crashes, all characters, events, and organizations depicted in this story are fictional. Bad Samaritan (YouTube […]
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 04:01:41 +0000
Author : Alan Baxter Narrator : Dan Rabarts Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Exquisite” first appeared in the 2019 collection Served Cold. “On the Eyeball Floor” by Tina Connolly Scarfolk Hookland Exquisite by Alan Baxter Tim Rinneman had never met a lock he couldn’t pick. It was his […]
PseudoPod 754: Flash on the Borderlands LV: The Easily Digested Hurt
Fri, 23 Apr 2021 04:01:04 +0000
Authors : Matt Thompson, Glynn R. Forsythe and Alexandra Duncan Narrators : Kat Day, Karlo Yeager Rodriguez and Tina Connolly Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 754: Flash on the Borderlands LV: The Easily Digested Hurt is a PseudoPod original. “Step Down, Step Down” is a PseudoPod original […]
PseudoPod 753: The Boulevardier
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 04:01:48 +0000
Author : David Stevens Narrator : Halloween Bloodfrost Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Boulevardier” originally appeared in the anthology Love Hurts, from Meerkat Press. Each of the neighbours the boulevardier refers to in this story have appeared in their own published tales, as have others who live […]
PseudoPod 752: It Rises From Between My Bones
Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:13:25 +0000
Author : Donna J. W. Munro Narrator : Sandra Espinoza Host : Karen Bovenmyer Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 752: It Rises From Between My Bones is a PseudoPod original. Cancer, Chemotherapy It Rises from Between My Bones By Donna J. W. Munro Sitting on the toilet for the first sleepy […]
PseudoPod 751: As Well as the Infirm
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 13:17:35 +0000
Author : Scott Beggs Narrator : Premee Mohamed Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “As Well as the Infirm” was originally published in Dark Moon Digest, April 2020 From the author: “The title comes from a section in the Hippocratic Oath: ‘I will remember that I remain a member […]
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 04:01:02 +0000
Author : Sarah Gailey Narrator : Trendane Sparks Host : Laura Pearlman Audio Producer : Peter Adrian Behravesh Discuss on Forums “Bargain” first appeared in Mothership Zeta (Dec 2015) Bargain by Sarah Gailey Malachai loved his work. He loved wandering among the trappings of enormous wealth and influence, seeing the baubles that humans excreted to […]
PseudoPod 750: The Artist and the Door
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:01:02 +0000
Author : Dorothy Quick Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Artist and the Door” was first published in Weird Tales in November 1952 The Artist and the Door by Dorothy Quick The advent of the artist and the door was almost simultaneous. I have […]
PseudoPod 749: Notes on a Resurrection
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:24:23 +0000
Author : Natalia Theodoridou Narrators : Scott Campbell, Graeme Dunlop, Kitty Sarkozy, Kat Day, Alex Hofelich, Jamie Grimes, Shawn Garrett, Karen Bovenmyer, Adrian Howard, Timothy Menzel, Christiana Ellis, Nika Harper and Marguerite Kenner Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Notes on a Resurrection” was originally published in Strange Horizons […]
PseudoPod 748: The Infinite Error
Fri, 12 Mar 2021 05:01:11 +0000
Authors : Jon Padgett and Matthew M. Bartlett Narrator : Jon Padgett Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producers : Chelsea Davis and Shawn Garrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 748: The Infinite Error is a PseudoPod original. This is this story’s first time appearing to the public. It will be included in the forthcoming collaborative collection […]
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 05:01:58 +0000
Author : Sarah Day Narrator : Kat Day Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 747: Keeping House is a PseudoPod original. Keeping House by Sarah Day “Isn’t it cute?” Keishya, the realtor, spread her arms in the center of the kitchen like a starlet in center stage. “It’s […]
PseudoPod 746: Rattlesnake Song
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 05:01:49 +0000
Author : Josh Rountree Narrator : Jarius Durnett Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Rattlesnake Song” originally appeared in July 2019 in the the anthology Triangulation: Dark Skies. Rattlesnake Song by Josh Rountree The Last Picture Show came to the movie house on the square in the fall of […]
PseudoPod 745: Cleaver, Meat, and Block
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 05:01:36 +0000
Author : Maria Haskins Narrator : Larissa Thompson Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Cleaver, Meat, and Block” was originally published in Black Static #73 in January 2020. Cleaver, Meat, and Block by Maria Haskins The first thing Hannah learned when she came to live with her grandparents after […]
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:01:51 +0000
Author : Marisca Pichette Narrator : Autumn Ivy Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 744: This Wet Red is a PseudoPod original. This Wet Red by Marisca Pichette I lie listening to a mouse in the wall. Its tiny feet scrabbling across worn boards; its tiny heart beating […]
PseudoPod 743: Flash on the Borderlands LIV: Stage Three: The Bargain
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:04:02 +0000
Authors : Gordon B. White, Donyae Coles and William Faulkner Narrators : Dave Robison, Graeme Dunlop and Tonia Ransom Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 743: Flash on the Borderlands LIV: Stage Three: The Bargain is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler Racial slurs, systemic racism [collapse] “The […]
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:08:54 +0000
Author : Frank Belknap Long Narrator : Andrew Leman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums This story was first published in Weird Tales, December 1925. The Sea Thing by Frank Belknap Long JULY 16—We are caught in one of the great calms. There is water in the well, and […]
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 05:16:39 +0000
Author : Edward Lucas White Narrator : Phil Lunt Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Lukundoo” was first published in Weird Tales, November 1925 Content warning: Spoiler Racial slurs, systemic racism, colonialism [collapse] Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White “It stands to reason,” said Twombly, “that a man must accept […]
Fri, 15 Jan 2021 06:16:44 +0000
Author : Marjorie Bowen Narrator : Paul S. Jenkins Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Kecksies” was first published in Regent Magazine, January 25, 1925 Kecksies by Marjorie Bowen Two young esquires were riding from Canterbury, jolly and drunk, they shouted and trolled and rolled in their saddles as […]
PseudoPod 739: Morag-of-the-Cave
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 05:01:00 +0000
Author : Margery Lawrence Narrators : Lucy McCloughlin and Dave Robison Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums First published in Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine, July 1925. – “Morag-of-the-Cave” is an evocative tale of lovers from the sea that predates that fateful visit to Innsmouth by over a decade. But […]
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 03:51:43 +0000
Author : Edith Wharton Narrators : Christiana Ellis and Dave Robison Host : Shawn Garrett Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Bewitched” was first published in Pictorial Review, March 1925 The pre-episode warning excerpt is from the beginning of “The Electronic Plague” by Edward Hades and it first appeared in Weird Tales, April […]
Fri, 25 Dec 2020 05:01:01 +0000
Author : Kurt Fawver Narrators : Scott Campbell, Karen Bovenmyer, Chelsea Davis, Graeme Dunlop, Alex Hofelich, Brian Lieberman, S. Kay Nash, Kitty Sarkozy, Kaz and Timothy Menzel Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Workday” first appeared in Shadows and Tall Trees 8 which was published by Undertow in March […]
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 05:01:59 +0000
Author : Lee Murray Narrator : Heath Miller Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Lifeblood” was first published in Grimdark Magazine, edited by Adrian Collins and was republished in Lee Murray’s first collection Grotesque: Monster Stories. From the afterword: “‘Lifeblood’, with its mean-spirited prejudice towards immigrants, pits one marginalised […]
Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:01:16 +0000
Author : Tim Major Narrator : Simon Meddings Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Slow King” originally appeared in the 2020 Anthology The Fiends in the Furrows 2: More Tales of Folk Horror. Reviews by Christi Nogle and read by Kat Day for The Fiends in the Furrows […]
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 03:49:21 +0000
Author : Couri Johnson Narrators : Graeme Dunlop and Kitty Sarkozy Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Anatomist” first appeared in Orba/Artifact and was reprinted in her 2020 collection I’ll Tell You a Love Story. Review by Kitty Sarkozy for I’ll Tell You a Love Story the 2020 collection […]
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:01:56 +0000
Author : Steve Rasnic Tem Narrator : David Powell Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Late Sleepers” was first published in It Came from the Multiplex, published by Hex Publishers in September 2020 Reviews of It Came from the Multiplex edited by Josh Viola and Echoes of a Natural […]
PseudoPod 732: Devil Gonna Catch You in the Corners
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 05:01:00 +0000
Author : Christopher Slatsky Narrator : Christiana Ellis Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Devil Gonna Catch You in the Corners” first appeared in Strange Aeons Magazine #20 (2016) Reviews at the end by co-Editor Alex Hofelich, read by Associate Editor Scott Campbell. The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature is […]
PseudoPod 731: The Genetic Alchemist’s Daughter
Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:01:08 +0000
Author : Elaine Cuyegkeng Narrator : Rebecca Wei Hsieh Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums This story was originally published in Black Cranes edited by Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn. (2020) Reviews at the end by Associate Editor M.M. Schill, read by Assistant Editor Karen Bovenmyer. Black Cranes is […]
PseudoPod 730: The Smell of Night in the Basement
Sat, 07 Nov 2020 00:55:08 +0000
Author : Wendy N. Wagner Narrator : Kara Grace Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 730: The Smell of Night in the Basement is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler Gutter vampires, exploitation [collapse] The Smell of Night in the Basement by Wendy N. Wagner I looked up […]
PseudoPod 729: What We Talk About When We Talk About Cooking Country & The Halloween Parade
Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:02:47 +0000
Authors : Kitty Sarkozy, Jessi Ann York, Jamie Grimes and Alasdair Stuart Narrators : Kaz, Jennie Agerton, Alex Hofelich and Alasdair Stuart Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 729: What We Talk About When We Talk About Cooking Country & The Halloween Parade is a PseudoPod original. Please […]
PseudoPod 728: Teeth Long and Sharp as Blades
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 04:01:30 +0000
Author : A.C. Wise Narrator : Tonia Ransom Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 728: Teeth Long and Sharp as Blades is a PseudoPod original. Teeth Long and Sharp as Blades by A.C. Wise Have you ever thought about how fairy tale heroines are like final girls? We […]
PseudoPod 727: The Uninvited Grave
Fri, 23 Oct 2020 23:20:23 +0000
Author : Jeffrey Thomas Narrator : Scott Campbell Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Uninvited Grave” originally appeared in the braided story collection The Unnamed Country published by Word Horde in 2019. Roadkill by Mercedes Lackey Heavenly Creatures trailer The Uninvited Grave by Jeffrey Thomas “Fuck my mother!” […]
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 04:01:37 +0000
Author : John Waterfall Narrator : Kaz Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Artist : Deena Salzman Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 726: The Sneakaboo is a PseudoPod original. The Sneakaboo by John Waterfall I bought the walrus at the carnival off I-95. The one that sets up in the lot next to […]
PseudoPod 725: The Lonesome Place
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 04:01:28 +0000
Author : August Derleth Narrator : Andrew Leman Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Lonesome Place” was first published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (February 1948) and collected in Lonesome Places (1962). Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals: https://gumroad.com/l/UEPhV The Lonesome Place by August Derleth You who […]
PseudoPod 724: Flash on the Borderlands LIII: What Dreams May Come
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:01:37 +0000
Authors : Lyndsie Manusos, Eugenia Triantafyllou and Sarah Read Narrators : Omega Francis, Carly Bergey and Madeline Ruth Somerville Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 724: Flash on the Borderlands LIII: What Dreams May Come is a PseudoPod original. “The Funeral Coat” is a PseudoPod original. “Cherry Wood […]
PseudoPod 723: Silver as the Devil’s Necklace
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 04:01:54 +0000
Author : Isabel Cañas Narrator : Sandra Espinoza Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 723: Silver as the Devil’s Necklace is a PseudoPod original. La Llorona Wiki Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Llorona Old Gods of Appalachia https://www.oldgodsofappalachia.com/ La Llorona Folk Song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Llorona_(song) Silver as the Devil’s Necklace by Isabel Cañas A […]
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 02:18:19 +0000
Author : Matt Cardin Narrator : Jon Padgett Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Teeth” was the first story published at “Thomas Ligotti Online” in 1998. It was later reprinted in The Children of Cthulhu in 2002, in Dark Awakenings in 2010, and in the excellent 2019 collection “To […]
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 01:17:30 +0000
Author : Matt Cardin Narrator : Jon Padgett Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Teeth” was the first story published at “Thomas Ligotti Online” in 1998. It was later reprinted in The Children of Cthulhu in 2002, in Dark Awakenings in 2010, and in the excellent 2019 collection “To […]
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 04:01:33 +0000
Author : Donyae Coles Narrator : Laurice White Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 720: Seance is a PseudoPod original. Séance by Donyae Coles I have not performed since that evening, and even now I do not know if it is merely psychological or if there is some […]
PseudoPod 719: Cordona’s Skull
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 04:01:16 +0000
Author : Mary Elizabeth Counselman Narrator : Robert C. Eccles Hosts : Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Cordona’s Skull” was first published in Weird Tales, July 1950 Cordona’s Skull by Mary Elizabeth Counselman Joe “Fresno” Talley dropped his cigarette butt on the sidewalk and ground it […]
PseudoPod 718: Tara’s Mother’s Skin
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 04:01:59 +0000
Author : Suzan Palumbo Narrator : Arielle John Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Artist : Brandon Kawashima Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 718: Tara’s Mother’s Skin is a PseudoPod original. Spoiler “Being from Trinidad, Caribbean folklore was a large part of my childhood. I grew up with stories about jumbies and La […]
PseudoPod 717: The Mad Eyes of the Heron King
Fri, 14 Aug 2020 04:01:14 +0000
Author : Richard E. Dansky Narrator : Kris Straub Host : Soren Narnia Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Mad Eyes of the Heron King” originally appeared in the anthology Dark Faith, Apex Publishing, 2010 The Mad Eyes of the Heron King by Richard Dansky There was a lake or something like […]
Sat, 08 Aug 2020 02:12:02 +0000
Author : Evan Marcroft Narrator : Rish Outfield Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 716: Big Brother is a PseudoPod original. “Although I have a younger sister, I’ve always felt more like a single child, since we were never very close. Ever since I was little I wondered […]
Fri, 31 Jul 2020 04:01:09 +0000
Authors : Selena Chambers and Jesse Bullington Narrator : Alethea Kontis Host : Jordan Shiveley Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Dive In Me” first appeared in The New Gothic, edited by Beth Lewis and published by Stone Skin Press in 2013. Caring into the Void: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caring-into-the-void/id1348004415 Hot Singles in Your Area — […]
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 23:15:30 +0000
Author : Hal Ellson Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Blackout” was originally published in Mantrap, October 1956 Dave Robison’s new domain: https://butterymanvoice.com/ Frankee White: https://twitter.com/frankee_white 20 Fists: https://gumroad.com/fdwhite#FVqmz Blackout by Hal Ellson It’s a hot night. I got that uneasy feeling again and I […]
PseudoPod 713: You Can Stay All Day
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:34:56 +0000
Author : Mira Grant Narrator : Kitty Sarkozy Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “You Can Stay All Day” was originally published in 2017 in Nights of the Living Dead and reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror. You Can Stay All Day by Mira Grant The merry-go-round was still […]
PseudoPod 712: Flash on the Borderlands LII: You Know What You Are
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:22:29 +0000
Authors : Drew Czernik, Jennifer Gardner and Desmond Warzel Narrators : Karlo Yeager Rodriguez, Autumn Ivy and Summer Fletcher Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 712: Flash on the Borderlands LII: You Know What You Are is a PseudoPod original. https://junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/The_Enigma_of_Amigara_Fault The Boy in the Mirror by Drew […]
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 04:01:18 +0000
Author : Jonathan Louis Duckworth Narrator : Larissa Thompson Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 711: Les Lutins is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler miscarriage, animal harm [collapse] EA YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtLeMuTcFDtF2C3MiF6GPfQ EA Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/eapodcasts/videos Spoiler Search & Rescue Creepypasta https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/I%27m_a_Search_and_Rescue_Officer_for_the_US_Forest_Service,_I_Have_Some_Stories_to_Tell CreepyPod https://www.creepypod.com/ The Hole in the Ground […]
PseudoPod 710: Sandy the Tinker
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 04:01:13 +0000
Author : Charlotte Riddell Narrator : Cian Mac Mahon Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Sandy the Tinker” originally appeared in the collection Weird Stories in 1882 Sandy the Tinker by Charlotte Riddell “Before commencing my story, I wish to state it is perfectly true in every particular.” “We […]
PseudoPod 709: Unhaunted House
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 04:01:15 +0000
Author : Richard E. Dansky Narrator : Trendane Sparks Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Unhaunted House” originally appeared at Storytellers Unplugged, 2006 Unhaunted House by Richard Dansky They huddled in the bathroom on the second floor, a family of three, afraid. Tap. Tap tap. Tap. The sounds came […]
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:01:17 +0000
Author : Stephen Graham Jones Narrator : Eric Luke Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Tenderizer” was first published in the movie themed anthology The Cutting Room where it shared a Table of Contents with “Final Girl Theory” by A.C. Wise. Content warning: Spoiler death of a child, school […]
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 04:01:05 +0000
Author : P.R. Dean Narrator : Scott Campbell Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 707: Crybaby is a PseudoPod original. Per the author, “I watched several Michael Haneke films, back to back, one evening. A brilliant director, but not exactly light entertainment. The bleak, disturbing world of the […]
PseudoPod 706: The Giant Wistaria
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 04:01:52 +0000
Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman Narrators : Leeman Kessler and John Meagher Host : Gwendolyn Kiste Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Giant Wistaria” was first published in the New England Magazine, June 1891 with the byline “Charlotte P. Stetson.” The Giant Wistaria by Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Meddle not with my new […]
Fri, 29 May 2020 04:01:11 +0000
Author : D.P. Watt Narrator : Elie Hirschman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Vertep” was first published in The First Book of Classical Horror Stories, ed. D.F. Lewis, with Megazanthus Press in 2012 and then reprinted in Watt’s collection The Phantasmagorical Imperative, Egaeus Press, 2014. Interview with Colin […]
Fri, 22 May 2020 04:01:40 +0000
Author : Christi Nogle Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 704: Resilience is a PseudoPod original. Escape Pod turns 15! Preorder the anthology! Check out the other news here: https://mailchi.mp/e7810b939179/escape-pod-turns-15 Resilience by Christi Nogle Jason gets home while I’m at the sink. He […]
Fri, 15 May 2020 04:01:07 +0000
Author : Orrin Grey Narrator : Orrin Grey Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Dream House” was first published in Gothic Lovecraft in 2016 Escape Pod turns 15! Preorder the anthology! Check out the other news here: https://mailchi.mp/e7810b939179/escape-pod-turns-15 Creepy Podcast https://www.creepypod.com/ Channel Zero: Candle Cove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_Cove Kris Straub https://twitter.com/krisstraub […]
PseudoPod 702: At the Farmhouse
Fri, 08 May 2020 04:01:52 +0000
Author : E.F. Benson Narrator : Matt Dovey Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “At the Farmhouse” first appeared in Hutchinson’s Magazine, March 1923 At the Farmhouse by E.F. Benson The dusk of a November day was falling fast when John Aylsford came out of his lodging in the […]
Sat, 02 May 2020 15:37:15 +0000
Author : John Langan Narrator : George Hrab Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Technicolor” was first published in Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy and Horror in 2009 The inspiration, “The Masque of the Red Death”, was read on PodCastle and can be found here The […]
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:28:49 +0000
Author : Edgar Allan Poe Narrator : John Bell Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Hop Frog” was first published in the March 7, 1849 Flag of Our Union. Twitch eapodcasts Hop Frog Animated Version Content warning: Spoiler Ableism, fatphobia, sharpening the guillotines [collapse] Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe […]
PseudoPod 699: Flash on the Borderlands LI: Quaint and Curious Forgotten Lore
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 04:01:38 +0000
Authors : Bradley H. Sinor, Selena Chambers and Edgar Allan Poe Narrators : Matt Franklin, Tatiana Grey and Wayne Johnson Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “A Dark Bird” was first published in Flush Fiction II, by Yard Dog Press in 2016 “Dr. Lambshead’s Dark Room” was first published […]
PseudoPod 698: Of Marrow and Abomination – Narration Only
Sun, 12 Apr 2020 07:00:05 +0000
Author : Morgan Sylvia Narrator : Justine Eyre Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 698: Of Marrow and Abomination – Narration Only is a PseudoPod original. Spoiler Montauk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project USS Eldridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Eldridge#Philadelphia_Experiment Gideon Falls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Falls Tanis: http://tanispodcast.com/ [collapse] Of Marrow and Abomination by Morgan Sylvia I am very […]
PseudoPod 698: Of Marrow and Abomination
Sun, 12 Apr 2020 04:01:26 +0000
Author : Morgan Sylvia Narrator : Justine Eyre Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 698: Of Marrow and Abomination is a PseudoPod original. Spoiler Montauk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project USS Eldridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Eldridge#Philadelphia_Experiment Gideon Falls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Falls Tanis: http://tanispodcast.com/ [collapse] Of Marrow and Abomination by Morgan Sylvia I am very young when I […]
PseudoPod 697: Five Fridays During Lent
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 04:01:52 +0000
Author : Christine Lucas Narrator : Danielle Imara Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 697: Five Fridays During Lent is a PseudoPod original. Spoiler “The Greek countryside crawls with legends of undead. They are a blend of what we today call vampires, ghouls and zombies, and they almost […]
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 04:01:01 +0000
Author : Morley Roberts Narrator : Ant Bacon Host : Graeme Dunlop Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Fog” first appeared in The Strand Magazine in October 1908 and was collected in MIDSUMMER MADNESS in 1909. The Fog by Morley Roberts The fog had been thickening for many weeks, but now, moving […]
CatsCast 289: The Thing in the Basement
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 07:00:37 +0000
Discuss on Forums All cat stories start with this statement: “My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…” It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the […]
Sat, 28 Mar 2020 18:55:16 +0000
Transcript (Alasdair) Hi everyone, Alasdair here. We’re not going to ask how you are right now, because we have a pretty good idea. You’re fine. You’re FINE. You’re the same version of fine as everyone right now, the one Aerosmith sang about. The one where you’re alternately anxious, terrified, furious and calm. We empathise. We’re […]
Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:54:27 +0000
Author : Sarah Gribble Narrator : S. Kay Nash Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Muse” first appeared in Tales of Blood and Squalor in 2017 Muse by Sarah Gribble I noticed him on a Saturday morning. He was fingering tomato plants across the square, nodding every so often […]
Fri, 20 Mar 2020 04:01:47 +0000
Author : Margery Lawrence Narrator : Lewis Davies Host : Graeme Dunlop Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Robin’s Rath” first appeared in Hutchinson’s Story Magazine, Nov 1923 Robin’s Rath by Margery Lawrence ‘So ye’re goin’ to buy Robin’s Rath, young lady?’ Ellen Vandermyl raised her arched brows with a touch of hauteur […]
PseudoPod 693: Flash on the Borderlands L: Flash Fiction Contest 6 Winners
Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:00:28 +0000
Authors : Avery Kit Malone, Lauren Ring and Chantal Beaulne Narrators : Hugo Jackson, Kitty Sarkozy and Alexis Goble Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 693: Flash on the Borderlands L: Flash Fiction Contest 6 Winners is a PseudoPod original. Third Place: The Animals Are Becoming by Chantal […]
Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:01:56 +0000
Author : Johnny Compton Narrator : Cherrae L. Stuart Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 692: FFUNS is a PseudoPod original. FFUNS by Johnny Compton Holding the unlabeled black video cassette somehow reassured her of the legitimacy of its contents. With that reassurance came effervescent nausea, an ugly, […]
PseudoPod 691: Half-Men of the Night Marie
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:52:09 +0000
Author : Robin Husen Narrator : Halloween Bloodfrost Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Half-Men of the Night Marie” first appeared in Phobos magazine issue 4, published in 2017 From the Author: Spoiler “Moby Dick is one of my favourite novels, and this story is inspired by the same […]
PseudoPod 690: The Aetherised Chamber
Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:54:11 +0000
Author : Stewart Moore Narrator : Alasdair Stuart Host : Graeme Dunlop Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 690: The Aetherised Chamber is a PseudoPod original. In its inspiration this is sort of a science fiction story: I was reading about 17th century scientists and wondered, “What if they were right?” The […]
Sat, 15 Feb 2020 02:38:37 +0000
Author : Alexis Ames Narrator : Kitty Sarkozy Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Ages of Man” was previously published with Underbelly ‘Zine, Issue 3 Spoiler “We’ve often heard of science fiction stories where humans construct the perfect mate for themselves–in this one, I wanted to explore an android […]
PseudoPod 688: The Tunnel Ahead
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 23:49:48 +0000
Author : Alice Glaser Narrator : Alethea Kontis Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Tunnel Ahead” first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1961 The Tunnel Ahead by Alice Glaser The floor of the topolino was full of sand. There was sand in Toni’s […]
Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:01:21 +0000
Author : Michael Joseph Narrator : Phil Lunt Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Yellow Cat” originally published in Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine, June 1924 Trophy RPG: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gauntlet/trophy-rpg?ref=discovery&term=trophy Duggan Hill Podcast: https://dugganhill.com/ The Walken Puss In Boots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEjKmsMkPKQ The Yellow Cat by Michael Joseph It all began when Grey was followed […]
PseudoPod 686: The Phantom Rider
Sat, 25 Jan 2020 21:11:42 +0000
Author : Otis Adelbert Kline Narrator : Sean D. Sorrentino Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Phantom Rider” originally appeared in Weird Tales, November 1924 The Phantom Rider by Otis Adelbert Kline Big Bill Hawkins laid the trap with admirable precision. Every little detail had been worked out […]
Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:28:03 +0000
Authors : C.M. Eddy, Jr. and H.P. Lovecraft Narrator : Andrew Leman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Loved Dead” originally published in Weird Tales, May-June-July 1924 The Loved Dead by C.M. Eddy Jr. & H.P. Lovecraft It is midnight. Before dawn they will find me and take […]
PseudoPod 684: The Most Dangerous Game
Fri, 10 Jan 2020 23:53:35 +0000
Author : Richard Connell Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums ‘The Most Dangerous Game” was originally published in the January 19, 1924 issue of Collier’s The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell “Off there to the right—somewhere—is a large island,” said Whitney. “It’s rather a […]
PseudoPod 683: The Mystery of the Blue Jar
Fri, 03 Jan 2020 12:01:09 +0000
Author : Agatha Christie Narrator : B.J. Harrison Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums ‘The Mystery of the Blue Jar’ was first published in the UK in issue 233 of The Grand Magazine in July 1924 and in the US in Metropolitan Magazine the same year. Reprinted in The […]
PseudoPod 682: Pomegranate Pomegranate
Fri, 27 Dec 2019 05:01:09 +0000
Author : Jack Westlake Narrator : Pippa Alice Stephens Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums ‘Pomegranate Pomegranate” was originally published in Black Static #69 in May of 2019. It was reprinted in the August 2019 issue of The Dark. Pomegranate Pomegranate by Jack Westlake This is what she knows: […]
PseudoPod 681: A Night of Many Months
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 05:01:07 +0000
Author : C.L. Holland Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “A Night of Many Months” was first published in Every Day Fiction 25th Dec 2017 A Night of Many Months by C.L. Holland He’d wondered, when he started the job, why he needed a belt […]
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 23:21:37 +0000
Author : Mildred Clingerman Narrator : Karen Bovenmyer Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Wild Wood” was originally published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1957 Content Warning: Spoiler Sexual Assault, Abuse, Captivity [collapse] Do you find most perfumes reek of banality and bad French […]
PseudoPod 679: The Woman Out of the Attic
Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:11:13 +0000
Author : Gwendolyn Kiste Narrator : Rachel Lackey Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Woman Out of the Attic” was originally published in Flame Tree’s Haunted House anthology Out this week is The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters. This coming-of-age horror novel focuses on a group […]
PseudoPod 678: The Boy Who Killed His Mother
Sat, 07 Dec 2019 01:43:51 +0000
Author : Rosemary Hayes Narrator : Heath Miller Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 678: The Boy Who Killed His Mother is a PseudoPod original. Content Warning: Spoiler gun violence [collapse] The Boy Who Killed His Mother by Rosemary Hayes Nobody wanted to play with the boy who […]
PseudoPod 677: When a Beast Looks Up at the Stars
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:58:31 +0000
Author : Orrin Grey Narrator : Jon Padgett Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “When a Beast Looks Up at the Stars” was first published in Orrin’s third collection Guignol and Other Sardonic Tales Werewolf Ambulance Podcast: http://werewolfambulance.libsyn.com/ Pure Cinema Podcast: http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/purecinema Do you find most perfumes reek of […]
PseudoPod 676: Things My Father Taught Me
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 05:01:45 +0000
Author : Rhoads Brazos Narrator : Hollis Monroe Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 676: Things My Father Taught Me is a PseudoPod original. Spoiler Bigotry, genocide [collapse] Spoiler This story is based upon Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart,” though it’s set in modern-day Nigeria rather than colonial […]
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 05:01:19 +0000
Author : Lucy Clifford Narrator : Eliza Chan Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis The New Mother was first published in Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise, Macmillan and Co., 1882. Audio used in this episode: Spoiler https://archive.org/details/joel_pulham_0307/03_joel_260307_knitting_skylarks.mp3 https://freesound.org/people/viznoman/sounds/267306/ https://freesound.org/people/ross_sinc/sounds/444793/ [collapse] The New Mother by Lucy Clifford 1 The children were always called […]
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:01:39 +0000
Author : Rebecca Lloyd Narrator : Katherine Inskip Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums Dust was first published in Mercy and Other Stories Dust by Rebecca Lloyd Much has developed since the day in April I stumbled out of the Quiet Garden with blood running freely down my cheek. […]
Tue, 05 Nov 2019 01:44:44 +0000
Author : Gemma Files Narrator : Nika Harper Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Venio” was originally published in Vastarien, Spring 2019 Venio by Gemma Files Watch out. I’m going to tell you about something, and then . . . you’ll know. You won’t be able to un-know or […]
PseudoPod 672: In Regards to Your Concerns About Your ScareBnB Experience and The Halloween Parade
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 04:01:07 +0000
Authors : Effie Seiberg and Alasdair Stuart Narrators : Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 672: In Regards to Your Concerns About Your ScareBnB Experience and The Halloween Parade is a PseudoPod original. Effie Seiberg: “As a card-carrying wuss, this is the first […]
PseudoPod 671: Only Unity Saves the Damned
Sun, 27 Oct 2019 01:32:27 +0000
Author : Nadia Bulkin Narrator : Karen Bovenmyer Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Only Unity Saves the Damned” first appeared in Letter to Lovecraft in 2014. We discovered this in the collection She Said Destroy released by the excellent Word Horde. Click the link to pick up the […]
PseudoPod 670: The Devil Came to Mamie’s on Hallowe’en
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 22:09:38 +0000
Author : Lisa Morton Narrator : Laurice White Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Devil Came to Mamie’s on Hallowe’en” was first published in Cemetery Dance Magazine #60 Content Warning: Spoiler Animal cruelty [collapse] The Devil Came to Mamie’s on Hallowe’en by Lisa Morton It was Hallowe’en night, […]
PseudoPod 669: Zanders the Magnificent
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 04:01:52 +0000
Author : Annie Neugebauer Narrator : Jon Padgett Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Zanders the Magnificent” was first published in Fireside Magazine Issue 21 in March 2015. Zanders the Magnificent by Annie Neugebauer “My handsome, darling boys,” Mrs. Zander said, placing a hand on each of their shoulders. […]
PseudoPod 668: Flash on the Borderlands XLIX: Dirty Deeds
Sat, 05 Oct 2019 02:45:20 +0000
Authors : Pierce Skinner, Lora Gray and Maria Haskins Narrators : Austin Malone, The Word Whore and Summer Fletcher Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 668: Flash on the Borderlands XLIX: Dirty Deeds is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler assault, confinement, sexual violence [collapse] “Baby Fingers” is […]
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 04:01:54 +0000
Author : Livia Llewellyn Narrator : Christiana Ellis Hosts : Matt Saye, Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Allochton” was first published in Letters to Lovecraft: Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness Hey PseudoPod family, is your TO READ pile getting shorter? We have a solution for you. […]
PseudoPod 666: Breaking the Waters & The Second Coming
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 04:01:44 +0000
Authors : Donyae Coles and W.B. Yeats Narrators : Cherrae L. Stuart and Wayne Johnson Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Artist : Tonia Ransom Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 666: Breaking the Waters & The Second Coming is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler Sexual assault [collapse] “The Second Coming” by W.B. […]
PseudoPod 665: The Thames Valley Catastrophe
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:42:02 +0000
Author : Grant Allen Narrator : Alasdair Stuart Hosts : Shawn Garrett and Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums The Thames Valley Catastrophe originally appeared in The Strand Magazine, December 1897 Hey PseudoPod family, is your TO READ pile getting shorter? We have a solution for you. Coming out this week […]
PseudoPod 664: My Boy Builds Coffins
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 04:01:44 +0000
Author : Gary McMahon Narrator : Danielle Imara Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “My Boy Builds Coffins” first appeared in Black Static, May-June 2015 My Boy Builds Coffins by Gary McMahon I Susan found the first one when she was tidying his room. Chris was at school, […]
PseudoPod 663: Birds of Passage
Mon, 02 Sep 2019 02:44:22 +0000
Author : Gordon B. White Narrator : Steve Anderson Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Birds of Passage” first appeared in Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles (ed. C.M. Muller) Spoiler From the Author: “This story draws a lot from my relationship with my late father, as well as an […]
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:32:07 +0000
Author : Ray Cluley Narrator : Jonathan Danz Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums ‘Indian Giver’ first appeared in the collection, Probably Monsters, in 2015. It was reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year (Volume 8). Content warnings: Spoiler Racial violence, genocide [collapse] Subscribe to the […]
PseudoPod 661: The Happiest Place
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 04:01:06 +0000
Author : Kevin Wabaunsee Narrator : John Bell Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 661: The Happiest Place is a PseudoPod original. Spoiler A certain mouse-themed theme park has always been an object of fascination for me, and the more I read about it, the more strange an […]
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 04:01:04 +0000
Author : Sarah Hans Narrator : Ibba Armancas Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 660: Tiny Teeth is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “This story was inspired by and is dedicated to all the people around the world who have been forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy […]
PseudoPod 659: Lord Beden’s Motor
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 04:01:19 +0000
Author : J.B. Harris-Burland Narrator : Matt Dovey Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Lord Beden’s Motor” first appeared in The Strand Magazine in December 1901. Preorder Monster She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson. Then listen to them […]
PseudoPod 658: I Hate All That Is Mine
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:18:07 +0000
Author : Leigh Harlen Narrator : Heather N. Thomas Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “I Hate All That Is Mine” originally appeared in the anthology, Lost Films, published by Perpetual Motion Machine Spoiler Self harm, strong sexual themes [collapse] Title card music is “Coagula” by permission of Zeal […]
Sat, 20 Jul 2019 02:08:08 +0000
Author : W.L. George Narrator : Simon Meddings Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Waxworks” originally appeared in The Strand Magazine in 1922 under the title “Waxworks: A Mystery” Sound attribution: Spoiler Drip: https://freesound.org/people/tack00/sounds/399257/ Rain: https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/346642/ Door slam: https://freesound.org/people/DBproductions/sounds/60031/ [collapse] Waxworks by W.L. George Henry Badger rapidly paced the City churchyard; his […]
PseudoPod 656: House Party Blues
Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:01:27 +0000
Author : Suzanne Palmer Narrator : Halloween Bloodfrost Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “House Party Blues” originally appeared in Black Static #39 (TTAPress) 2014 “I used to live next door to a house rented out to college students, and while they were actually mostly very nice, the near-nightly, […]
Fri, 05 Jul 2019 04:01:28 +0000
Author : Vivian Shaw Narrator : Robert C. Eccles Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 655: Black Matter is a PseudoPod original. “I’m an aviation nerd with trainwreck syndrome, so air crash investigation is a subject dear to my heart. Having watched documentaries on (and read NTSB reports […]
PseudoPod 654: Flash on the Borderlands XLVIII: Parts & Maintenance
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 04:01:03 +0000
Authors : Kurt Hunt, Bo Balder and Michael Uhall Narrators : Graeme Dunlop, Dan Rabarts and Kris Straub Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 654: Flash on the Borderlands XLVIII: Parts & Maintenance is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler body horror, sexual abuse, predation, exploitation [collapse] “A […]
Fri, 21 Jun 2019 04:01:12 +0000
Author : Tod Robbins Narrator : J.S. Arquin Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Spurs” was first published in Munsey’s Magazine in February 1923. Content warning: Spoiler Bigotry, ableism, cruelty [collapse] Spurs by Tod Robbins 1 Jacques Courbé was a romanticist. He measured only twenty-eight inches from the soles […]
PseudoPod 652: He Dies Where I Die
Fri, 14 Jun 2019 04:01:25 +0000
Author : Michael Harris Cohen Narrator : Phil Lunt Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums ‘He Dies Where I Die’ was first published in The Dark in 2018. Content warning: Spoiler Racism, body horror [collapse] He Dies Where I Die by Michael Harris Cohen Dion spun back to the […]
PseudoPod 651: The Coven of Dead Girls
Sat, 08 Jun 2019 01:16:17 +0000
Author : L’Erin Ogle Narrator : Nika Harper Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 651: The Coven of Dead Girls is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler Kidnapping, confinement, predation [collapse] Spoiler I was an invisible teenage girl once. I was lucky to survive the situations I put […]
PseudoPod 650: The Detweiler Boy
Sat, 01 Jun 2019 12:34:00 +0000
Author : Tom Reamy Narrator : Andrew Leman Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Detweiler Boy” was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1977. Thank you to Vaughne Hansen of the Virginia Kidd Agency for helping us secure the rights to this story. […]
PseudoPod 649: Whatever Comes After Calcutta
Sat, 25 May 2019 00:05:03 +0000
Author : David Erik Nelson Narrator : Rish Outfield Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Whatever Comes After Calcutta” first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in November 2017, and was included in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten. Content warning: Spoiler lynching, […]
Fri, 17 May 2019 04:01:19 +0000
Author : Everil Worrell Narrator : Scott Campbell Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Canal” was first published in Weird Tales, December 1927 and was later made into a TV episode on Rod Serling’s popular series, Night Gallery. A surprisingly in depth look at the origin of the […]
PseudoPod 647: The Algorithms for Love
Fri, 10 May 2019 04:01:54 +0000
Author : Ken Liu Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Algorithms for Love” was originally published by Strange Horizons in 2004. Content warning: Spoiler self harm, grief, loss of a child [collapse] The Algorithms for Love by Ken Liu So long as the nurse […]
PseudoPod 646: Home and Hearth
Tue, 07 May 2019 01:48:36 +0000
Author : Angela Slatter Narrator : Robin McLeavy Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Home and Hearth” was originally published in the Spectral Press Chapbook Series, March 2014 and the story won the Aurealis Award for Best Short Horror Story 2014. Content Warning: Spoiler Violence against children, race-based violence, […]
PseudoPod 645: HORROR COMEDY SHOWCASE: The Undertakers
Sat, 27 Apr 2019 02:56:51 +0000
Author : Rudyard Kipling Narrator : Wilson Fowlie Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The Undertakers” was first published in The Second Jungle Book in 1895 Dream Foundry Dream Foundry is a new organization helping all professionals, especially beginners, working in the speculative arts. Back their Kickstarter to make […]
PseudoPod 644: Flash on the Borderlands XLVII: Horror Comedy Showcase
Fri, 19 Apr 2019 04:01:18 +0000
Authors : Chris Sumberg and Buzz Dixon Narrators : Dave Robison, Scott Campbell, Karen Bovenmyer, John Bell, Graeme Dunlop, Alasdair Stuart, Brian Lieberman, Alex Hofelich, Kate Kastelein, Tad Callin, Dani Daly, Kitty Sarkozy and Shawn Garrett Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producers : Marty Perrett and Shawn Garrett Discuss on Forums “The Gerunding” was first […]
PseudoPod 643: HORROR COMEDY SHOWCASE: The City of the Gone Away
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:57:41 +0000
Author : Ambrose Bierce Narrator : B.J. Harrison Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “The City of the Gone Away” was first published as “The Gone Away: A Tale of Medical Science and Commercial Thrift” in the San Francisco Examiner, December 2, 1888. The City of the Gone Away by […]
PseudoPod 642: HORROR COMEDY SHOWCASE: The House that Dripped Character
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 23:40:57 +0000
Author : B.G. Hilton Narrator : Ron Jon Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 642: HORROR COMEDY SHOWCASE: The House that Dripped Character is a PseudoPod original. From the endcap: https://radiopublic.com/decoder-ring-85nNdm/ep/s1!45562 The author’s thoughts on the story: “The central idea was a joke I made to my wife […]
PseudoPod 641: ARTEMIS RISING 5: A Song for Wounded Mouths
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:44:54 +0000
Author : Kristi Demeester Narrator : Ibba Armancas Host : Gwendolyn Kiste Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Artist : Yuumei Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 641: ARTEMIS RISING 5: A Song for Wounded Mouths is a PseudoPod original. “I wanted to write a story about body glitter, and instead wrote something about teeth.” A Song for […]
PseudoPod 640: ARTEMIS RISING 5: What Throat
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 11:25:39 +0000
Author : Annie Neugebauer Narrators : Dagny Paul and Stephanie Malia Morris Host : Tonia Ransom Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Artist : Yuumei Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 640: ARTEMIS RISING 5: What Throat is a PseudoPod original. What Throat by Annie Neugebauer It was embarrassingly easy to get lost. Even for someone like Jo, […]
PseudoPod 639: ARTEMIS RISING 5: Of All the Things the Girls Had Ever Said
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 04:01:29 +0000
Author : Melody Wolfe Narrator : Ben Phillips Hosts : Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Artist : Yuumei Discuss on Forums “Of All the Things the Girls Had Ever Said” was previously available on Amazon Content warning: Spoiler Kidnapping, confinement, predation [collapse] “This is one of the rare stories I […]
PseudoPod 638: ARTEMIS RISING 5: A Strange Heart, Set in Feldspar
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:01:27 +0000
Author : Maria Haskins Narrator : Jen R. Albert Hosts : Matt Saye, Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Artist : Yuumei Discuss on Forums “A Strange Heart, Set In Feldspar” was first published in the anthology Abandoned Places (Shohola Press), published in March 2018 “I go back to visit Sweden […]
PseudoPod 637: ARTEMIS RISING 5: White Noise
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 02:06:55 +0000
Author : Kai Hudson Narrator : Chris Tang Host : Xander M. Odell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Artist : Yuumei Discuss on Forums “White Noise” was previously published in the April 2018 issue of Anathema: Spec from the Margins “Despite its speculative content, I wrote this story to illustrate the complexities of the immigrant […]
Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:31:10 +0000
Author : Eden Royce Narrator : Rasheedah Prioleau Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Hag Ride” was originally published in Steamy Screams from Blood Bound Books (2011), then in the author’s collection Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror (2015) Content warning: Spoiler Body horror, sexual violence [collapse] Hag Ride by […]
PseudoPod 635: Last Week I Was Esther
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:08:30 +0000
Author : Deborah L. Davitt Narrator : John Bell Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 635: Last Week I Was Esther is a PseudoPod original. Last Week I was Esther by Deborah L. Davitt Last week, I was Esther. I remember her plump face, pearl earrings, and huge […]
PseudoPod 634: Flash On The Borderlands XLVI: The Accursed and the Monstrous
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 05:01:36 +0000
Authors : Kurt Hunt, Lisa Baldinelli and Paul Alex Gray Narrators : Hollis Monroe, Larissa Thompson and Trendane Sparks Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums PseudoPod 634: Flash On The Borderlands XLVI: The Accursed and the Monstrous is a PseudoPod original. “Ecdysis” was previously published at Kaleidotrope (Spring 2016) […]
Sat, 02 Feb 2019 02:12:55 +0000
Author : Adam L.G. Nevill Narrator : Peter Bishop Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Marty Perrett Discuss on Forums “Hippocampus” was first published in Terror Tales of the Sea, edited by Paul Finch Narration is by Peter Bishop, courtesy of Christopher C. Payne at Journalstone. JournalStone is a small press publishing company focusing […]
PseudoPod 632: The Harbour Master
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 05:01:37 +0000
Author : Robert W. Chambers Narrator : B.J. Harrison Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Harbour Master” first appeared in Ainslee’s Magazine, August 1899 and was included in the fix-up novel In Search of the Unknown, which is available for free download through Gutenberg. Content warning: Use of insensitive […]
PseudoPod 631: The Last Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)
Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:17:29 +0000
Author : A.C. Wise Narrator : Alasdair Stuart Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “The Last Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)”, originally appeared at The Dark, and won the 2017 Sunburst Award for short fiction. Sign up for Alasdair’s weekly newsletter The […]
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:58:57 +0000
Author : Trisha J. Wooldridge Narrators : Alethea Kontis, Kyle Akers and Alex Hofelich Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums Originally published under the title “Steadfast in the Face of Zombies” in Once Upon an Apocalypse anthology that went out of print shortly after publication due to publisher buyout. […]
PseudoPod 629: Slipping Petals from Their Skins
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 12:14:28 +0000
Author : Kristi Demeester Narrator : Nika Harper Host : Summer Fletcher Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Slipping Petals from Their Skins” was originally published in Gamut Magazine. This story was inspired by my childhood obsession with Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies books and imagining that if I ate flowers, I could […]