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Reaching through gaps in altered minds....
It's a CLARK ASHTON SMITH twofer, presenting "The Plutonian Drug" and the epic poem "The Hashish-Eater: or, The Apocalypse of Evil" read for you by Dr. Hal (Harry Robins) MASTER OF SECRETS of the SubGenius Foundation, himself!


Meet the new boss....
It's "The Town Manager"" by Thomas Ligotti, read and hosted for you by Anson Mount!


Children's games with real consequences....
It's "The Fainting Game" by Nino Cipri, read for you by Larissa Thompson!


modular identity...
It's "Take A Walk In The Night, My Love" by Damien Angelica Walters, read for you by Justine Eyre!


A long, subterranean history lesson...
We are very proud to present "A Visit to the Catacombs of Via Altamonvecchi" by Joe Weintraub, read for you by Halloween Bloodfrost and with special soundbed production by yours truly, Shawn M. Garrett!
(I dare you to listen to it in a dark room with headphones!)


The masks we wear....
It's "The Gorgon" by Tanith Lee(!), read for you by Scott Campbell & Sharon Moskowitz!


Liminal spaces and their attractions....
It's "A Little Delta Of Filth" by Jon Padgett, read for you by Dagny Paul!


Ride the wild unicorns!
It's "Beneath Their Hooves" by Katharine Duckett, read for you by Larissa Thompson!


We launch the return of the WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR SHOWCASE with an exploration below the sands of the Red Planet!
It's "The Vaults Of Yoh Vombis" by Clark Ashton Smith, read for you by Dr. Hal!


We continue the return of the WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR showcase with the sad fate of a conflicted supervillain....
It's "Mofongo Knows" by Grady Hendrix, read for you by Ant Bacon!


The WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR Showcase lurches on with a cosmic round robin from the mists of time....
It's "The Challenge from Beyond" by (deep breath) C.L. Moore, Abraham Merrit, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, & Frank Belknap Long and read for you by (deeper breath) Ben Philips, Peter Piazza, Marty Perrett, Dave Robison & Elie Hirschman!


Wrapping up the WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR Showcase with some trouble with doubles....
It's "Figure 8" by E. Catherine Tobler, read for you by Jen Zink!


Grief, like a stake through through the heart, transfixes you in time...
It's "The Shrike" by Cameron Suey, read for you by Sandra Odell!


People or things....
It's Flash On The Borderlands XLIV: Objectification, with stories by Heather N. Thomas, Jen C.A. Morris & Lee Battersby, and readings by Nika Harper, Austin Malone & Chloë Yates!


Things in hiding and in plain sight...
It's "The Culvert" by Maxwell Price, read by Paul Cram!


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It's "Goblins" by Orrin Grey, read for you by Leeman Kessler AND “Little Orphant Annie” an 1885 poem written by James Whitcomb Riley, read by Phil Lunt!


The yearly celebration...
It's "The Ghost Guide’s Tale" written and read by Ian Stuart, and then a parade with your master of scaremonies, Alasdair Stuart!


What happens when you don't pay your dues....
It's "Farewell Concert at the World’s End" by R.K. Duncan, read for you by Spencer DiSparti, with musical interludes by Jefferson Dupree!


Those outside want in....
It's "Voices" by Ira Brooker, read for you by Elie Hirschman!


I paint what I see...
It's "En Plein Air" by J.T. Glover, read for you by Heather N. Thomas!


The black seeps in at the margins of the world...
It's "Greener Pastures" by Michael Wehunt, read for you by Bill Ruhsam!


Everyone has a story to tell....
It's "FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XLV: Personal Narratives" with stories by Maria Haskins, Rachel Cassidy & Alex Patterson, and narrations by Rebecca Wei-Hsieh, Ron Jon & Katherine Inskip!


For episode 625, two stories by another past master, Manly Wade Wellman...
It's "The Golgotha Dancers" and "These Doth The Lord Hate" by Manly Wade Wellman, read for you by Andrew Leman & Eve Upton, with special guest host Orrin Grey!


The bloody birth of tabloid publishing...
It's "Blue John" by D.K. Wayrd, read by Phil Lunt!


suicides get buried at the crossroads, despite best intentions...
It's "The Grave By The Handpost" by Thomas Hardy, read by Matt Dovey!


Family dysfunction through the ages...
It's "A Spider Trapped in Wax" by Matt Dovey, read by Katherine Inskip!


Bloom in the dark...
It's "Slipping Petals from Their Skins" by Kristi DeMeester, read by Nika Harper!


Love during plague time...
It's "Steadfast" by Trisha J. Wooldridge, read by Alethea Kontis, Kyle Akers & Alex Hofelich.


A bizarre interaction, frozen in images...
It's "The Last Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)" by A.C. Wise, read by Alasdair Stuart


For a change of pace, it's love, comedy and a monster!
It's "The Harbour Master" by Robert W. Chambers read by B.J. Harrison


a slow tracking shot through slaughter....
It's "Hippocampus" by Adam L.G. Nevill, read by Peter Bishop!


It's "Flash On The Borderlands XLVI: The Accursed and the Monstrous" with stories by Kurt Hunt, Lisa Baldinelli & Paul Alex Gray, with readings by Hollis Monroe, Larissa Thompson & Trendane Sparks!


Who are you this time, and WHY are you at all?
It's PseudoPod 635 "Last Week I Was Esther" by Deborah L. Davitt, read for you by the incomparable John Bell!


Old magic for an old problem....
It's "Hag Ride" by Eden Royce, read for you by Rasheedah Prioleau!


We began our annual ARTEMIS RISING showcase...
Hearing the dead...
It's "White Noise" by Kai Hudson, read for you by Chris Tang, with special guest host Sandra M. Odell!


ARTEMIS RISING continues with....
Passages below ground, options for life...
It's "A Strange Heart, Set in Feldspar" by Maria Haskins, read for you by Jen R. Albert, with special guest hosts Matt Saye, Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger!


The ARTEMIS RISING showcase continues with a tale about biting off more than you can chew...
"Of All the Things the Girls Had Ever Said" by Melody Wolfe, read by Ben Phillips and guest hosted by Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara!


The ARTEMIS RISING showcase continues with a story about voices in the wilderness...
It's "What Throat" by Annie Neugebauer, read by Dagny Paul & Stephanie Malia Morris, with guest host Tonia Thompson!


We completed the ARTEMIS RISING showcase with a story of jealousy and teeth in "A Song for Wounded Mouths" by Kristi DeMeester, read by Ibba Armancas and guest hosting by Gwendolyn Kiste!


Kicking off our Horror-Comedy Showcase with a tale of horror hosts and reality tv in...."The House that Dripped Character" by B.G. Hilton, read for you by Ron Jon!


We continue the Horror Comedy Showcase with a wry tale of getting ahead in "The City of the Gone Away" by Ambrose Bierce, read for you by B.J. Harrison with special guest host co-editor Alex Hofelich!


We continue our Horror Comedy showcase with two stories in PseudoPod 644: Flash on the Borderlands XLVII: Horror Comedy Showcase - featuring a fast-forward through the 80's horror novel "classic" "The Gerunding" by Buzz Dixon, and an audio documentary/podcast about a crime called "Mama is a Four Letter Word" by Chris Sumberg! Read for you by voices too numerous to name!




A mother's love conflicts with something awful....
It's "Home And Hearth" by Angela Slatter, read for you by Robin McLeavy!


For father's day, a future of artificial children...
It's "The Algorithms for Love" by Ken Liu, read by Dani Daly!


A slowly draining canal in the industrial section of town, a beautiful women, and a mystery...
It's "The Canal" by Everil Worrell (from WEIRD TALES, December 1927), read by Scott Campbell!


An affair, a shooting, and (maybe) the lynching of a witch...
It's "Whatever Comes After Calcutta" by David Erik Nelson, read for you by Rish Outfield!


A reporter in LA investigates some deaths, which all seem to be linked to an odd young man...
It's "The Detweiler Boy" by Tom Reamy, read for you by Andrew Leman!

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A reporter in LA investigates some deaths, which all seem to be linked to an odd young man...
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i love hearing Andrew Leman so i downloaded this one and a few others.
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"When the routine bites hard / And ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high / But emotions wont grow..."
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Alaya Dawn Johnson, read for you by Dominick Rabrun, with guest host Tonia Thompson!