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This week on Pseudopod...A dirty swimming pool hides something in its depths...
It's "The End-Of-The-World Pool" by Scott M. Roberts, read by Mark E. Phair
This week on Pseudopod!A town makes a deal to end crime...
It's "Neighbourhood Watch" by Greg Egan, read for you by Ron Jon Newton!
This week on Pseudopod....Los Angeles - city of sunshine, and bloodsuckers...
It's "Immortal LA" by Eric Czuleger, read for you by Joe Calarco!
This week on Pseudopod...The new kick that's blowing the kid's minds! All it takes is some surgical tubing, two mattresses and an expanded consciousness...
It's "Riding Atlas" by Ferrett Steinmetz, read for you by Christopher Reynaga!
and now, THIS week on Pseudopod...Is it *just* the pangs of an awful, deviant appetite or something more?
It's 2013 STOKER AWARD winning story "Magdala Amygdala" by Lucy A. Snyder, read by Eugie Foster!
This week on Pseudopod....A fight for your life is a fight to the death...
It's "The Pit" by famed writer Joe R. Lansdale, read for you by John Bell!
This week on Pseudopod...What if you could wipe your memory of every failure?
It's "Boxed" by Donald McCarthy, read for you by Alex Rudy!
This week on PSEUDOPOD...This has happened before...
It's "Prisoner Of Peace" by David Tallerman, read by Caith Donovan!
It's Flash On The Borderlands XVI: Trial & Discipline with "Passing Grade” by Paul DesCombaz, “The Killing Machine” by Karen Runge and “Awaiting Redemption” by Maurice Broaddus, read for you by Kyle Akers, Eve Upton and Laurice White, respectively!
This week on Pseudopod....A group home with an odd leader suffers from depletion...
It's "The Easily Forgotten" by Philip M. Roberts, read for you by Laura Hobbs!
This week on Pseudopod...The boys believe something terrible has happened... they're right and wrong!
It's "Apotropaics" by Norman Partridge, read for you by Matt Franklin!
This week on PSEUDOPOD - it's our 350th EPISODE and we are extremely proud to feature... In a dingy, backstreet art-gallery a man discovers an audio tape recording of a dark monologue...It's "The Bungalow House" by esteemed horror fiction master and dark philosopher Thomas Ligotti! Read for you by Ralph Walters!
Pay close attention...
It's free! It's audio! What do you have to lose?!?
Shawn wrote: "This week on PSEUDOPOD - it's our 350th EPISODE and we are extremely proud to feature... In a dingy, backstreet art-gallery a man discovers an audio tape recording of a dark monologue...It's "Th..."
Shawn, thanks for this. I loved your commentaries and the story was great. Oh and happy 350th too!
Thank you, Phil! I hope you will continue to check us out.
This week on Pseudopod (last week's episode has been delayed)...A man has persistent visions of a horrible alternate reality....
It's "Enough With The Crazy" by Emile Dayne, read for you by Joe Scalora!
Supposed to be last week... but NOW on Pseudopod....The world has ended and it's autumn. How do you feel about that?
It's "The Blues" by Cameron Suey, read in extremis (and with grateful thanks) to Gabriel Diani!
This week on Pseudopod....Things are not always as they seem! It's FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XVII: Keeping Up Appearances!
Visit the beach with Joe R. Lansdale in "Down By The Sea Near The Great Big Rock", read for you by Corson Bremer! Keith McCleary teaches you about self control in "The Demon Fields", read for you by Kevin Hayes! And in "Pawn" by Jaki Idler, read by Julia Rios, you'll learn how to infiltrate the hive!
This week on PSEUDOPOD...You'd better pay your respects to the dead....
It's "The Eulogy of Darien Meek" by Niccolo Skill, read for you by Rich Girardi!
This week on Pseudopod....Life and love lived in pieces....
It's "The Chair" by Leah Thomas, read by Justin Riestra!
If you look forward to Pseudopod on a weekly basis (or even a semi-weekly basis) you should probably give a listen to the Escape Artists metacast that just went up: you'll get to hear me broadcasting from the dripping dungeons of Pseudopod towers with all kinds of news about upcoming plans... aaaaaand, you'll find out why those plans may never happen...EA Metacast 2013
This week on PSEUDOPOD....Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. Stop. Dispatch arriving. Stop. Important news from somewhere out there. Stop. Please relay to all subsequent press associates. Stop. This is an emergency....
It's H.F. Arnold's "The Night Wire" from 1926, as impeccably read for you by Eric Luke!
AUTUMN touches us with it's cold, dead hand...In point of fact, autumn has ALREADY started and we've got lots planned for the season! What you've had already: a soft apocalypse and things that don't look like they should, a bad funeral and even worse parenting choices. Coming? Little boys with big problems, the ultimate personality enhancement, a Steampunk monster tale and a futuristic noir world of loose skin... and a very special visit from another form of Santa. And for the classics? A desperate call over a late-night telegraph, a hungry future, a man pursued across the world by something unseen and a painter who likes hid model but not his view! And, as per the Metacast, if you subscribe you'll get an extra bonus story, not available anywhere else, about the lengths a man will go to to impress a tribal chief!
PSEUDOPOD in Autumn - the sunlight is leaving us....
Mod
The House by the Churchyard
the black wedding by Isaac bashevis singer
when the clock strikes by tanith lee.
that tanith lee one may not be public domain.i have those stories in a collection called masterpieces of terror & supernatural. selected by marvin kaye
Latasha - thanks for the suggestions! We've done a Le Fanu story just about a year ago - Pseudopod 313: The Dead Sexton - and I can tell you it was a doozy of a time finding something that would fit into our word count/time constraints (I'm usually very strict about our stories running about 30 minutes - a commute time - and 40-50 minutes top.).Haven't looked at Singer yet ("Hanka" would be another possibility from him) but I have a feeling his rights are owned - which wouldn't make it impossible, just time consuming).
Tanith Lee is on my radar but I haven't pulled the trigger yet. Thanks for the suggestions!
Mod
This week on PSEUDOPOD....Your mail-order abomination has arrived!
It's "Growth Spurt" by Paul Lorello, read for you by Steve Anderson!
This week on Pseudopod....For All Saints Day, a little lesson in empathy...
It's "Apathetic Flesh" by Darren O. Godfrey, read for you by Bill Ruhsam!
This week on PSEUDOPOD...Change Your Life! Change Your Face! Now...
It's "Face Change" by Jeff Hewitt, read for you by Anson Mount of AMC series HELL ON WHEELS! (yes, really!)
This week on PSEUDOPOD....A hard-boiled, futuristic tale of a world where the skin you're in isn't your own...
It's "Anasazi Skin" by Matt Wallace, read for you by Lance Axt!
This week on PSEUDOPOD.....A Steampunk / Monster story, as the war over the fossil record gets ugly...
It's "The Murmurous Paleoscope" by Dixon Chance (aka David Ellis Dickerson), read for you by Christiana Ellis
This week on Pseudopod...Run for dinner....
It's "Go, Go, Go, Said The Bird" by Sonya Dorman, read for you by the redoubtable Heather Welliver, from Harlan Ellison's seminal anthology DANGEROUS VISIONS (1967 - the year Ye Olde Editor was born) - now go and eat hearty!
LAST week on Pseudopod (sorry, I lost track!)...A plodding Fate pads through the rainy streets of 1940's Manhattan, on the track of one man...
It's "Footsteps Invisible" by famed pulp writer Robert Arthur, read for you by Kevin Hayes!
THIS week on Pseudopod..An artist, his model, the disturbing man across the street and... a rather notorious, sanity-challenging play...
It's "The Yellow Sign" by Robert W. Chambers, from 1895, read for you by the amazing B.J. Harrison!
This week on Pseudopod....The world has ended (again!) but this time you can't get a good look at why...
It's "Whispers In The Dark" by Andrew Marinus, read by our own Graeme Dunlop!
A special PSEUDOPOD flash present for the holidays...A visit from a familiar figure!
It's "Helpers" by David Steffen, read for you by Rikki Bardsong LaCoste!
This week on PSEUDOPOD....The simplest task between you and death....
It's "To Build A Fire" by Jack London, read for you by Wilson Fowlie!
This week on PSEUDOPOD...It's Flash On The Borderlands XVIII: Pseudopod Forum 2013 Flash Contest Winners!
Three bite sized tales of terror just for you!
This week on PSEUDOPOD...Work backwards through time to discover the roots of an inexplicable curse...
It's "Four Views Of The Big Cigar In Winter" by Charlie Bookout, read for you by Emily Smith, Matt Franklin & Laura Hobbs!
LAST week on Pseudopod....Old, bad blood get's let...
It's "Short & Nasty" by Darrell Schweitzer, read for you by George Hrab!
This week on Pseudopod...There's something about....
"Mary" by Krista Soli Foster, read for you by Joe Calarco!
This week on Pseudopod...When you buy an old house, you should think twice about opening that sealed room...
It's "The Unfinished Room" by Joshua Rex, read for you by Bob Eccles!
This week on Pseudopod ....A coin, a curse, a hunger...
It's "Silver And Copper, Iron And Ash" by Nathaniel Lee, read for you by Dominick Rabrun!
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This week on Pseudopod....Previously: In Fin de siècle Boston, The Guru Keresh - whose pursuit of arcane knowledge had led to his death and resurrection into a dwarfish, homunculus form - has joined with lover Olivia Spaulding in a commitment to advance humanity and make the world over into their vision. But they themselves are still only human. Now, listen on, as the duo enter politics in "The Metal And Its Mold", written by Tim W. Burke and read for you by Paul S. Jenkins!
This week on Pseudopod .... ALL ABOARD! It's "FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XIX: Blood On The Tracks - Departure, Transit, Arrival" - three flash stories about trains and getting nowhere... faster!First stop - a battered old book, bound in read buckram leads to the "Midnight Express" by Alfred Noyes, read for you by Paul S. Jenkins!
Next - the journey never ends in Mark Samuels' "Destination: Nihil by Edmund Bertrand" read for you by Jorn Meyer!
All out for "The Terminus" by Kim Newman, given voice by Siobhan Gallichan!
MIND THE DOORS!
This week on PSEUDOPOD....Back to the rails with a classic for Episode 375 (and the favorite Dickens story of The Doctor from Doctor Who!), it's "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens, read for you by the redoubtable Ian Stuart!
This week on PSEUDOPOD....The horror sealed in the cathedral is awake!
It's "Quieta Non Movere" by Reggie Oliver, read for you by David Moore!
This week on PSEUDOPOD....The horror sealed in the cathedral is awake!
It's "Quieta Non Movere" by Reggie Oliver, read for you by David Moore!
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A father, a son, a mirror and... threatening nonsense...
It's "Beware The Jabberwock, My Son" by Dixon Chance (aka David Ellis Dickerson), read by Kevin Hayes!
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