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Also this week on Pseudopod, after a slight delayOld answers to new forms of exploitation...
It's "The Toyol" by Joel Arnold, read for you by Misty Dawn!
Last Friday on Pseudopod....Come into my parlor...
It's "Stabilimentum" by Livia Llewellyn, read for you by Tatiana Gomberg!
Last week on Pseudopod...Why can't they be like we were...
It's Flash On The Borderlands XXVII: What’s The Matter With Kids Today?, featuring stories by Lynette Mejía, Rachel Verkade & Kenneth Schneyer and readings by Setsu Uzume, Andrea Subissati & Big Anklevich!
This week on Pseudopod...Feed the Tree!
It's "Great Oak" by Jason Rush, read for you by Cheyenne Wright!
This week on Pseudopod - our unofficial flash festival continues with an offering of new British writers in Flash On The Borderlands XXVIII: Britshock II! Stories by Severity Chase, Richard Kellum, Laura Lam, Andrew Reid, Taran Matharu, & Edward Cox!
Last week on Pseudopod.....“But the problem is to make the soul into a monster” – Arthur Rimbaud
It was monsters-a-plenty for our Halloween episode! Stories by Julia Watson, Mike Allen & Nina Kiriki Hoffman, read for you by Kaitie Radel, Ben Kohanski & Brian Rollins!
This week on Pseudopod...Secrets from the past never fade away..
It's "Favors From Hell" by Zachary T. Owen, read for you by Misty Dawn!
This week on Pseudopod....Childhood fears to last a lifetime....
It's "Fear" by Sandra Odell, read by Patrick "The Voice" Bazile!
This week on Pseudopod....The mind breaks down as the world ends... slowly...
It's "Saturday" by Evan Dicken, read for you by Mikael Naramore!
This week on Pseudopod....A missive has arrived from the Colonies....
It's "Bad Newes From New England" by Moaner Lawrence, read for you by the amazing Dave Robison!
The artwork below is by Brandon Leach)!
This week on PseudoPod...The hardest of jobs.....
It's "Doc" by V N Winnick, read for you by Wilson Fowlie!
Last Friday on Pseudopod....A troubled mind with a troubling plan....
It's "The Angel In The Marble" by B.T. Joy, read for you by Simon Meddings!
Last week on Pseudopod.....Something lurks in the snowy wastes....
It's "Hunger" by Caitlin Marceau, read by Brian Rollins!
This week on Pseudopod....Better watch out...?
It's "The Santa Claus Parade" by Helen Marshall, Read for you by The Word Whore!
Last week on Pseudopod!To ring in the new year, the winners of our Flash contest on the forums - because nobody knows horror as well as our forum members! Join Lena Coakley, Nathaniel Nathaniel Matthews Lee & Jon Padgett in a new years celebration of all things horror!
Last Friday on Pseudopod...Inspiration, motivation, mutilation......
It's "Self Portrait With Embellishments" by Ryan Dull, expertly read for you by Joe Calarco!
Last Friday on Pseudopod.....Training for the last run.....
It's "Sack Race To The River" by Chris Kuriata , read for you by Spencer Disparti!
Last week on Pseudopod....Tragic fate.... (this image is not a mistake)
It's "Mr. Hill’s Death" by S.L. Gilbow, read for you by Mat Weller!
Last week on PSEUDOPOD....The Crone - and expected cultural resonances....
It's "The Toad Witch" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, read for you by Sandra Espinoza, with guest host Kat Rocha!
Last week on Pseudopod!We begin our celebration of Women In Horror Month, ARTEMIS RISING II, with guest host Wendy N. Wagner (associate editor of NIGHTMARE magazine) and guest audio production by Chelsea Davis!
This week - a dark fantasy tale of sibling coercion.
It's "Black Hearts" by Shannon Peavey, read for you by Tina Connolly!
Last Friday on Pseudopod...We continue our celebration of February's WOMEN IN HORROR month - ARTEMIS RISING II!
A web of treachery....
It's "Bug House" by Lisa Tuttle, read for you by Heather Welliver, with guests hosts Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West of the FACULTY OF HORROR podcast and audio production by Chelsea Davis!
Last Friday on Pseudopod...We continued our celebration of February's WOMEN IN HORROR month - ARTEMIS RISING II!
A house in the woods and a history of violence...
It's "Jay's Place" by E. Lee McVicar, read for you by Joe Scalora, with guests host Julie Hoverson of the 19 Nocturne Boulevard podcast and audio production by Chelsea Davis!
"The force that through the green fuse drives the flowerDrives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer"
Pseudopod's Spring Season for 2016 will soon light the Green Fuse and shower listeners with stories!
Sibling rivalry of an evil bent, forbidden books & timepieces and various aquatic fey are thrown into conflict against a rather unprecedented April showcase of cold science-fiction horror in its myriad forms!
And as a SPECIAL NOTE to listeners - if you have held off on subscribing, please know that only subscribers will be receiving some extra-special episodes this season!
Come celebrate the cruelest months with us, because Pseudopod knows:
"And I am dumb to tell the lover’s tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm."
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Last Friday on Pseudopod...We continued our celebration of February's WOMEN IN HORROR month - ARTEMIS RISING II!
The grave where love is buried?
It's "Like Dolls" by J Lily Corbie, read for you by Kim Lakin-Smith, with guests host Marguerite Kenner of the Cast Of Wonders podcast and audio production by Chelsea Davis!
Last week on Pseudopod...Who serves ancient evil?
It's "Servant Of The Aswang" by Samuel Marzioli, read for you by Mae Heaney!
Last week on Pseudopod...Dark Fantasy on the Dark Continent
It's "Unheil" by Kathryn Allen, read for you by Elie Hirschman!
Last week on Pseudopod....A surreal tale of power, mechanization and sex....
(not for the kiddies... not that many of them are....)
It's "The Box Wife" by Emma Osborne, read for you by Eve Upton!
Last week on Pseudopod....For Spring, the travails of outdated aquatic boogeymonsters in our modern world....
It's "Jenny (A Fairytale)" by Michael Byrne, read for you by Donna Scott!
Today on Pseudopod, boils and ghouls, for April Fool's Day...It's FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XXXI - WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR! As we kick off a month of horror-science fiction stories with a tongue-through-cheek tribute to a moment in time when genres crossed! Enjoy "The Masters" by Theodore R. Cogswell, read for you by John Bell; "The Stainless Steel Leech" by Roger Zelazny, read for you by Norm Sherman; and finally "And Not Quite Human" by Joe L. Hensley, read for you by Spencer DiSparti!
And KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES...hee...hee...hee...!!!!
This week on Pseudopod...WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR month continues with a lonely battle in space!
It's "Softly into the Morning" by Liz Colter, read for you by Devin McLaughlin!
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This week on Pseudopod....WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR month continues!
It's "Hinterlands" by William Gibson\, read for you by George Hrab!
This week on Pseudopod....WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR!!! Month continues...Post Singularity, it's all just wacca-wacca-wacca-wacca...
It's "Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Nyarlathotep" by Nick Mamatas, read for you by Cheyenne Wright!
Last week on Pseudopod...WEIRD SCIENCE HORROR!!! Month concludes The Apocalypse as aesthetic experience....
It's "A Thing Of Terrible Beauty" by Roger Zelazny, read for you by Ben Kohanski!
Last week on Pseudopod....Better the Devil you know....
It's "The Devil In Rutledge County" by Victoria Hoke, read for you by Laura Hobbs!
Last week on Pseudopod....Sibling rivalry or something more?
It's "Murmurs of a Voice Foreknown" by Jon Padgett, read for you by Paul Cram!
Last week on Pseudopod...A warning: to continue reading courts madness...
It's "The Second Act" by Nicolas Escobar, read for you by John Meagher!
Last week on Pseudopod...Down in the wine-dark sea...
It's "The Fisher Queen" by Alyssa Wong read for you by Mae Heaney! With guest host Dagny Paul!
last week on Pseudopod...A stopped clock is doom twice a day...
It's "The Last Escapement" by James Smythe, read for you by Paul S. Jenkins!
THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY J.R. HAMANTASCHEN) and his new story collection With a Voice that is Often Still Confused But is Becoming Ever Louder and Clearer (which can be ordered from AMAZON
The follow-up to his critically acclaimed collection, You Shall Never Know Security, J.R. Hamantaschen returns with another collection of his inimitable brand of weird, dark fiction. At turns despairing, resonant, macabre and insightful, these nine stories intend to stay with you.
9 out of 10 – “there are nine tales in this collection, each of satisfying length and immediately striking, from first page to last . . . stories that will grip you for their humanity and soul.” – Starburst Magazine
“eclectic, poignant, thought provoking .. . too awesome to pass up” – HorrorTalk
“Perturbing, anomalous stories that will bore into readers’ minds.” – Kirkus
Unequivocal Recommendation – ShockTotem
“True, great horror. I love this book.” – Chris Lackey, HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast
“Those who an artistic approach, psychological depth and small details are going to read through this collection and remember it for days to come.” — HorrorPalace
“Resonating, delectably weird and spooky collection, thoroughly enjoyable” – IndieReader (received Official IndieReader Stamp of Approval)
4 out of 5 – Scream Magazine
4 out of 5 – Hungry Monster Review
Last time on PseudopodA final trip on a death ship...
It's the return of the Guru Keresh narrative in "The Voyage and the Ship" by Tim W. Burke, read for you by Paul S. Jenkins!
THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY J.R. HAMANTASCHEN) and his new story collection With a Voice that is Often Still Confused But is Becoming Ever Louder and Clearer (which can be ordered from AMAZON
The follow-up to his critically acclaimed collection, You Shall Never Know Security, J.R. Hamantaschen returns with another collection of his inimitable brand of weird, dark fiction. At turns despairing, resonant, macabre and insightful, these nine stories intend to stay with you.
9 out of 10 – “there are nine tales in this collection, each of satisfying length and immediately striking, from first page to last . . . stories that will grip you for their humanity and soul.” – Starburst Magazine
“eclectic, poignant, thought provoking .. . too awesome to pass up” – HorrorTalk
“Perturbing, anomalous stories that will bore into readers’ minds.” – Kirkus
Unequivocal Recommendation – ShockTotem
“True, great horror. I love this book.” – Chris Lackey, HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast
“Those who an artistic approach, psychological depth and small details are going to read through this collection and remember it for days to come.” — HorrorPalace
“Resonating, delectably weird and spooky collection, thoroughly enjoyable” – IndieReader (received Official IndieReader Stamp of Approval)
4 out of 5 – Scream Magazine
4 out of 5 – Hungry Monster Review
PSEUDOPOD SUMMER 2016 - THE DREADFUL PART!Ahoy, Summer hoves into view and we here at the Towers have quite a line-up planned for you, dear listeners! We've got punishments (existential & real), Mexican Vampires, teen terrors and a 3 week showcase on the mad killer in 3 different forms. Oh, and a bit of cosmic horror for our 500th episode - speaking of which, those wanting to take full advantage of the PSEUDOPOD feed, and who are not subscribers, are directed to consider subscribing soon - as all EA subscribers will be receiving extra episode links in the mail!
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“Out through that window, three years ago to a day, her husband and her two young brothers went off for their day's shooting. They never came back. In crossing the moor to their favourite snipe-shooting ground they were all three engulfed in a treacherous piece of bog. It had been that dreadful wet summer, you know, and places that were safe in other years gave way suddenly without warning. Their bodies were never recovered. That was the dreadful part of it." - Saki
Two weeks ago on PSEUDOPOD....House taken over? Remember....
"Nothing Is Truly Yours" by Sam J. Miller! Read by Karen Bovenmyer!
This week on PSEUDOPOD..."You're all DOOMED!!"
It's "Killer" by Sean Ganus, read for you by Jennifer R. Albert!
This week on PseudoPod....We ALL go a little mad sometimes....
It's "The Only Ending We Have" by Kim Newman, read for you by Christiana Ellis!
Last Friday on Pseudopod....Take pride in your work and your place in the world...
Our three-week spotlight on mad killers ends with "The Tooth Fairy" by Russel D. McLean, read for you by Jon Padgett!
This week on PSEUDOPOD....PSEUDOPOD EPISODE #500!!!!!The darkness and how we deal with it...
We are proud to present (at a bit longer than usual length) "A Bit Of The Dark World" by Fritz Leiber, read for you by Norm Sherman!
This week on Pseudopod....Three stories wherein Justice(?) prevails - Flash on The Borderlands XXXII: Punishments!
Tales by Lia Swope Mitchell, David Murphy & Christopher Fowler, read for you by Rish Outfield, Siobhan Gallichan & Jon Grilz!
Last week on Pseudopod...Tomb raiding in the desert....and the restless dead...
It's "The Horror From The Mound" by Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard, read for you by the star of AMC's HELL ON WHEELS - Anson Mount!
Yesterday on Pseudopod!Freemasons, Jesuits, Communists and the undead....
It's the second half of our mini-tribute to Mexican vampires, "Cuernavaca" by John Mile Deisinger, read for you by Luis Moreno!
This week on Pseudopod....Industrial accidents, hideous mutations and adolescence...
It's "There Is No Road through the Woods" by Dagny Paul, read for you by Tatiana Gomberg!
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How to escape a man-made hell....
It's "Escape From Kroo Bay" by Byron Barton, read for you by Elan Ressel