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*also* this week on Pseudopod(creaking door) Welcome, boils & ghouls, to our gory little abattoir of the airwaves, a festering waveband of wretchedness we’ve dubbed Pseudopod! Woven into this website of witchery are some truly tormented tidbits, so pull up a casket fear-fans, adjust your drool cups and settle in for some sickening sound, as we serve up…
A Short History of Pseudopod: Part 3
(see you soon at a Senate Subcommittee hearing on Internet delinquency and the corruption of the web’s morals!)
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A very bad man can't shake the feeling that some...one? is following him...
It's "The Step" by E.F. Benson, read for you by Frank Key!
This week on Pseudopod...Post-collapse, a man tries to hold on to his humanity and still survive...
It's "The Last Man After The War" by Erich William Bergmeier, read for you by Bob Eccles!
This week on Pseudopod...A little Appalachian ghost story... maybe?
It's "Singing By The Fire" by Jamieson Ridenhour, read for you by Nathan Lowell!
This week on Pseudopod....Three flash pieces about those who have to decided to do something, or do nothing....
It's Pseudopod 303: Flash On The Borderlands XIII - Responsible Parties! Stories by Tres Crow, David Glen Larson & Nathaniel Matthews Lee, read for your enjoyment by Malcolm Charles, Patrick Bazille & Rikki LaCoste!
This week on Pseudopod...A traveling game and an inheritance unlike any expected....
It's "The Last Reel" by Lynda E. Rucker, read for you by Mark E. Phair.
This week on Pseudopod... for Halloween...Some dark fantasy for you (with apologies to L. Frank Baum), as Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz begins to have some problems with rot...
It's "Pumpkinhead" by Rajan Khanna, read by The Word Whore!
This week on Pseudopod....The Golden Gate Bridge, the man who dredges the water below, and a lost love...
It's "Night Fishing" by Ray Cluley, read for you by Eric Luke.
(what? huh? oh, it's Friday....)This week on PSEUDOPOD...
A bit of the old shag cut, tasting of dark leaf and the salt sea...
It's "That Ol' Dagon Dark" by Robert MacAnthony, read for you by our own Alasdair Stuart!
This week on PseudopodWhat lurks in the watery space beneath the kitchen floor... hmmmmm?
Find out in "The Crawlspace" by Russell Bradbury-Carlin, read for you by Rish Outfield!
This week on PseudopodA visit to an 80's era industrial club...
It's "The Strange Machinery of Desire" by Justin A. Williams, read for you by Brian Rollins
This week on Pseudopod...A mob boss under the sway of something more than natural, and his faithful right-hand man...
It's "Unfeeling" by J.D. Brink, read for you by W. Ralph Walters!
This week on Pseudopod... for Pearl Harbor Day...It's Flash On The Borderlands XIV: Resistance! - three flash stories about putting up a fight, one way or another. Includes:
an ancient tale of an implacable foe - "No Further" by Matthew Acheson, read for you by Ian Stuart...
a tale of the last century and those who chose not to fight - "The Conchie" by J. Chant, read for you by Kim Lakin-Smith...
and a story too true in the here and now - "Bitter Tea & Braided Hair" by Henry Lu, read for you by Tracy Yuen....
This week on Pseudopod...There are men who work away deep down in the ground...
It's "Feeding The Machine" by Hunter James Martin, read for you by Rich C. Girardi!
(and while you're at it - use the link on the story page to get a free audio book of your choosing from Audible!)
This week on Pseudopod...For the solstice and for x-mas, a classic tale of a small Lake District town and the mysterious visitor come to claim... "The Dead Sexton" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, read for you (including dialect) by Ian Stuart.
This week on Pseudopod...To round out the year, the most basic horror story there is and the answer you never wanted to know to the simple question "What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night".
Written by Michael Marshall Smith and read by Donna Scott. Goodbye 2012!
This week on Pseudopod...A dead pianist and his grieving widow...
It's "The Persistence Of Memory" by William Meikle, read for you by Christiana Ellis.
This week on Pseudopod...A young man (?) with a peculiar hunger...
It's "Enzymes" by Greg Stolze, read for you, in his Pseudopod debut, by Kyle Akers.
It's an audio podcast, Addy. Best horror one around. They did one of my stories last week and did a great job of it.
This weeks on Pseudopod...A noir tale set after the rise of R'lyeh - where you can always watch "Venice Burning"...
Written for you by A.C. Wise and read for you by Ben Phillips!
This week on Pseudopod...A man takes a wrong turn while driving and talking...
It's "Cell Call" by Marc Laidlaw, read for you by George Cleveland!
This week on Pseuopod...Old style pulp with Sumerian cults, occult rituals, homunculi and "The Man With The Broken Soul" by Matt Wall, read for you by Elie Hirschman.
This week on Pseudopod....A crate hangs over a busy harbor... and something inside is talking to you...
It's "I Am The Box, The Box Is Me" by Kyle S. Johnson, expertly read for you by Pete Milan!!
This weeks on Pseudopod (and brought to you in partnership with NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE!)...The perils of crying children in church...
It's Ted Kosmatka's "Cry Room", read for you by Pete Piazza!
This week on Pseudopod...In ancient Roman Britain, a promise proves hard to keep...
It's "The Trinket" by Peter Bell, read for you by John Trevillian!
This week on PSEUDOPOD...(with all apologies, again to L. Frank Baum)
Fly, my pretties! Fly!
It's "Wings" by Nathaniel Lee, read for you with much enthusiasm by the redoubtable John Bell!
I love Pseudopod and Escapepod! I haven't listened in quite awhile now though....I need to play catch up! I loved so many episodes! The Skull Faced Boy by David Barr Kirtley was excellent!
Thanks for the praise! We're really trying to bring great stories to our audience every week!
This week on Pseudopod...Two! Two! Two! stories from one of the greats, Algernon Blackwood!
So get ready for mysterious disappearances on a February evening and a terrible curse placed by a father upon his twin sons...
You get "Entrance And Exit" read for you by David Rees-Thomas and "The Terror Of The Twins", read for you by Simon Meddings, both available for you for free ON THIS WEEKS EPISODE!
Also right now on PSEUDOPOD....Our premiere episode of the year, delayed for many weeks, finally arises from the snowy wastes - wrap up tight and pay attention to that horrible old man across from you...
It's "Bad Company" by Walter de la Mare brought to you through the kindness of the Society Of Authors, and read for you by Paul Jenkins!
Shawn wrote: "Thanks for the praise! We're really trying to bring great stories to our audience every week!"Wish I had buckets of money to send you all. The talent that you guys showcase is amazing. Some of the best out there in my opinion. I need to play catch up on episodes though...real life can be so, so..intrusive to my entertainment. :(
This week on Pseudopod...A tale of Japanese puppet shows and an obsession...
It's "Bunraku" by David X. Wiggin, read for you by John Chu!
This week on Pseudopod...The center will not hold... even at an all night quick-stop...
It's "What It's Come To by Wolf Hartman, read for you by Zhames Tremarco!
This week on Pseudopod...In Imperial China, a witch gets asked a favor....
It's "The Suicide Witch" by Vylar Kaftan, read for you by Rikki LaCoste!
SPRING IS SPRANGED!!ALL Pseudopod stories for the season of Spring are picked, most are recorded and in-house and the rest are with their requested readers (and soon to be recorded) with only the last story of the season still awaiting a confirmation of my request!
What will you get this season? Chinese witches, flash fiction about service (and being served) and Post-Modernism! Mummies, skeletons and sociopaths!! A shout-out to Lewis Carroll
, a shout-out to professional wrestling and the return of Charlie Harmer (Deceased)!!!And for the classics - how About Clark Ashton Smith
, Christine Brooke-Rose 
, Leonid Andreyev
and Rudyard Kipling
?PSEUDOPOD - check us out and spread the word as we grow and grow this Spring!
http://pseudopod.org/
This week on Pseudopod...The back face of a home is before you like a map, with windows that show you scenes, including the actions of a pair of red rubber gloves....
It's post-modern genius Christine Brooke-Rose's tale of surveillance and information acquired in pieces, "Red Rubber Gloves", read for you by Kim Lakin-Smith!
This week on PSEUDOPOD....Do you feel an implicit threat in the query “How May I Help You?”
FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XV: AT YOUR SERVICE!< explores the relationship between service and being served.
"Last Waltz In Texas" by Bryce Albertson and read for you by Jacquie Duckworth - features an insistent monologue from someone who wants to get to know you better...
"Sterile" by Chris Tepedino and read for you by the Amazing John Bell - shows you what goes on at a sleazy motel and who has to clean up after it...
"Meat" by David Steffen, read for you by Josh Roseman - lets us know about servants who can't help serving...
So help yourself to three flash stories for free at PSEUDOPOD!
This week on PSEUDOPOD....Do you feel an implicit threat in the query “How May I Help You?”
FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XV: AT YOUR SERVICE!< explores the relationship between service and being served.
"Last Waltz In Texas" by Bryce Albertson and read for you by Jacquie Duckworth - features an insistent monologue from someone who wants to get to know you better...
"Sterile" by Chris Tepedino and read for you by the Amazing John Bell - shows you what goes on at a sleazy motel and who has to clean up after it...
"Meat" by David Steffen, read for you by Josh Roseman - lets us know about servants who can't help serving...
So help yourself to three flash stories for free at PSEUDOPOD!
This week on Pseudopod....A visionary piece by one of the old school masters...
It's "The Ninth Skeleton" by Clark Ashton Smith, read for you by Corson Bremer!
And this week on Pseudopod...The Government grooms a girl to be her very best...
It's "Willow Tests Well" by Nick Mamatas, read for you by the redoutable Julie Hoverson!
This week on Pseudopod...Let's get ready to RUUUUUUUMMMMMBLE!
It's "Gig Marks" by Ed Ferrara, read for you by Patrick "The Voice" Bazille!
This week on Pseudopod....A woman with no hope and an offer from an unlikely source...
It's "The Curse Of The Mummy" by Andre Harden, read for you by Emily Smith!
(not your Daddy's Mummy...)
This week on PSEUDOPOD...Charlie Harmer, dead man in Hell, gets a new boss...
It's "Charlie Harmer's Day Off" by Brendan Detzner, read for you by Eric Luke!
This week on PSEUDOPOD...A couple go for a walk in the country...
It's the scandal of 1902, "The Abyss", by Leonid Andreyev, read for you by Tanja Milojevic!
this week on PSEUDOPOD...India in the time of the British Raj, and cholera stalks the land...
It's "At The End Of The Passage" by Rudyard Kipling, read by the redoubtable Alasdair Stuart!
SUMMER IS ICUMEN IN!ALL Pseudopod stories for the season of Summer are picked, in house or out to readers
What will you get this season? Demons, vampires and childhood monsters! Psychedelic blood rites, brain eating and memory wipes!! Weird visions, vicious fights, awful discipline, cruel revenge, the end of the world and some very strange recordings!!!
PSEUDOPOD - check us out and this Summer as the blazing sun scorches us all!!
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A damaged girl and her nightmares...
It's "White As A Bedroom Door" by Nathaniel Lee, read for you by David Moore!