PseudoPod 990: Hearts and Half-Measures
You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one. You think it’s all bull. Anyone in their right mind would. But he watches you like a hawk…| PseudoPod
Author : ego_bot Narrator : Christopher Tang Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 991: The Hermit Crab God is a PseudoPod original. C/W: harm to animals, mental illness Notes from the author: I recently spoke with a nature photographer who was very passionate about hermit crabs, and he made me want to […]| PseudoPod
Author : Jamie Grimes Narrator : Dominick Rabrun Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 975: James Courtney Goes Home is a PseudoPod original. Get Out James Courtney Goes Home By Jamie Grimes The personal effects of the late Mr. James Courtney found their way to me some months after his passing, […]| PseudoPod
You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one. You think it’s all bull. Anyone in their right mind would. But he watches you like a hawk…| PseudoPod
Author : Jessi Ann York Narrator : Marie Lestrange Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Dimorphism” first appeared in SEASONS OF SEVERANCE, an anthology-collection hybrid published by Cemetery Gates Media in 2023. “Dimorphism” was later mentioned as a standout in the Summation section of The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 16. […]| PseudoPod
College is a crucible. You go in a dumb kid, and with luck, you leave a less dumb adult, ready to take your place in the world. It took me a little longer than the standard four years. I had a job…| PseudoPod
“Maaa-reee,” my husband taunts. “Oh, Maaa-reee. Come out now, dear. We need to talk.” Wrong, I think but don’t say. My mother used to say, “A real lady knows when to keep her mouth shut.| PseudoPod
In the predawn dark, Annie found herself in a bed, holding onto another hand beneath the cool weight of the pillow. Floral case, it was the trailer—her trailer—and slowly she came back to herself…| PseudoPod
Sasha and Taylor are fucking and Sasha is thinking about me. She tries to stop, but the harder she tries to push me out of her head, the more space she makes for me there. She thinks about the way I…| PseudoPod
Authors : Joanne Harris, Archita Mittra, Kat Day and A. L. Munson Narrators : Joanne Harris, Tatiana Grey, Kat Day and Samantha Loney Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Talented Beetle” was first published on the social media platform Bluesky, on 13th April 2025 “My Heart in a Snow Globe” is […]| PseudoPod
Author : Molly Tanzer Narrators : The Word Whore and Preston Buttons Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Grave Worms” originally appeared in Cassilda’s Song: Tales Inspired by Robert W. Chambers’ King in Yellow Mythos an anthology edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. Grave-Worms By Molly Tanzer The grey flannel suit might […]| PseudoPod
Author : H.P. Lovecraft Narrator : Boocho McFly Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Haunter of the Dark” first appeared in Weird Tales, December 1936 CW: xenophobia H.P. Lovecraft The Horror of the Heights Federal Hill, Providence Voluminous: The Letters of HP Lovecraft Episode 82 Lovecraftian horror — and the racism […]| PseudoPod
Author : Robert Bloch Narrator : Jon Padgett Host : Joshua Tuttle Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Artist : Vincent Napoli “The Shambler from the Stars” first appeared in Weird Tales, September 1935 The Shambler From the Stars By Robert Bloch I have nobody but myself to blame for the whole affair. It was my […]| PseudoPod
Author : W.E.B. DuBois Narrator : Boocho McFly Host : Joshua Tuttle Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Artist : Louise R. Latimer “Jesus Christ in Georgia” was printed in The Crisis in the 1911 Christmas issue. It later appeared as “Jesus Christ in Texas” in Darkwater: Voices from the Veil. Use of the n-word 2010 […]| PseudoPod
Author : Siobhan Carrol Narrator : Leanna Renee Hieber Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Dave Robison “Nesters” originally appeared in the anthology Lovecraft’s Children CW: Animal death Nesters By Siobhan Carroll They killed the last calf that morning. Ma wanted to hold off, give the poor thing a chance, but Pa said it […]| PseudoPod
Authors : Leanna Renee Hieber and Robert Bloch Narrators : Leanna Renee Hieber, Andrew Leman and Alasdair Stuart Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Old Things are Meant to Be Found and Shared” first appeared as “Of Lovecraft and ‘He’” in The Book of Starry Wisdom. “The Secret in the Tomb” originally […]| PseudoPod
Author : Katie McIvor Narrator : Eliza Chan Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 978: Where the Brass Band Plays is a PseudoPod original. CW: environmental horror, parent loss; grief, reality vs. illusion, nostalgia, willful blindness From the author: “This story grew out of the feeling that we live in an […]| PseudoPod
Author : Chelsea Davis Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Fruits Of” originally appeared in the online Spring 2024 edition of Club Chicxulub CW: dementia, death of a family member and suicidal ideation. The Fruits of By Chelsea Davis They’d long since passed the point where road […]| PseudoPod
Author : C.J. Dotson Narrator : Jess Lewis Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 976: Every Last Gossamer Strand is a PseudoPod original. CW: narcissism, family abuse and especially spiders. C.J. Dotson’s upcoming novel, The Cut Jess Lewis’s website Brene Brown: When Narcissists Get Older Fleetwood Mac, The Chain […]| PseudoPod
Author : DuBose Heyward Narrator : Ben Phillips Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Half-Pint Flask” was first published in The Bookman, May 1927 Racism https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-is-gullah-geechee-food-and-how-do-you-make-it https://discoversouthcarolina.com/articles/theres-history-in-every-bite-of-gullah-cuisine https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/1/1960612/-The-Gullah-Geechee-have-owned-land-since-the-1800s-One-terrible-law-allows-th...| PseudoPod
Authors : David Marino, Lindz McLeod, Laura Blackwell and Cyrus Amelia Fisher Narrators : Ben Phillips, Kat Day, Eve Upton and The Word Whore Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Shallow Fangs” is a PseudoPod Original “Glean” previously appeared in a Bag of Bones micro horror anthology “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester […]| PseudoPod
Author : James Dorr Narrator : John Michnya Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis This story originally appeared in Splatterlands in 2013 under the title “The Artist” Roald Dahl, Lamb to the Slaughter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter Flash on the Borderlands XXIII: Grief (The Beachcomber, by L.R. Bonehill): https://pseudopod.org/2014/11/07/pseudopod-411-flash-on-the-borderlands-xxiii-grief Inside No. 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_No._9 Some Say […]| PseudoPod
Author : Sheree Renée Thomas Narrator : Premee Mohamed Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight” originally appeared in Sleeping Under the Tree of Life and was reprinted in Sycorax’s Daughters Hounds of Tindalos Strange Things Happen at the 1-2 Point Sarah […]| PseudoPod
Author : Shaenon K. Garrity Narrator : Scott Campbell Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 970: At the God Show is a PseudoPod original. At the God Show by Shaenon K. Garrity 6:15 A.M. “It’ll be Pternoch the Fisher,” Sheila overheard one pilgrim say to another. “Why did we bother coming?” […]| PseudoPod
Author : Zora Neale Hurston Narrator : Dominick Rabrun Host : Jamie Grimes Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis First published in Opportunity in 1925. When Hurston arrived in New York City in 1925, the Harlem Renaissance was at its zenith, and she soon became one of the writers at its center. Shortly before she entered […]| PseudoPod
Author : A. A. Rubin Narrator : Tol Host : Ian Gordon Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 968: The Vibrations, Louder is a PseudoPod original. The Vibrations, Louder By A. A. Rubin Insanity? Sure, why not. My lawyer advised me to plead insanity, and maybe it will help me. At least I’ll be able […]| PseudoPod
Author : Audrey Zhou Narrator : Pine Gonzalez Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 967: Two’s Company, Three Might Be A Sign of Demonic Possession is a PseudoPod original. CW: Intimate partner death; Second person point of view Also narrated by Pine Gonzalez: A Relationship in Four Haircuts, by Ai Jiang […]| PseudoPod
Author : H. R. Laurence Narrator : Matthew Hamblin Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Fat Betty” originally appeared in Shock Totem Issue 8 in 2014 From the author: “The story is meant to be set in a slightly dystopian near-future.” Fat Betty Listed Monuments The Watchers Ghost Stories The Woman in […]| PseudoPod
Author : J.A.W. McCarthy Narrator : Dani Daly Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 965: The Ecstasy of the Saints is a PseudoPod original. CW: body horror; self-harm From the author: I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school through the seventh grade. That meant I spent three days a […]| PseudoPod
Author : Maria Haskins Narrator : Ville Meriläinen Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Darkness Carried by the Beasts” was originally published in The Sunday Morning Transport in 2023. CW: cancer, death of a family member From the author: This story came to me, at first, with the image of a […]| PseudoPod
Author : A. D. Sui Narrator : Yelena Crane Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 963: Mavka is a PseudoPod original. CW: cannibalism, suicide, starvation, use of second person perspective Mavka By A.D. Sui You pray to forget this. You pray to forget the cold. Even under two wool blankets you’re […]| PseudoPod
Author : Cyrus Amelia Fisher Narrator : A.J. Fitzwater Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Hemorrhage” was originally published in the Book of Queer Saints Volume 2 CW: self-harm, drug abuse, addiction, physical abuse and coercive control Hemorrhage by Cyrus Amelia Fisher It’s a dumb fight to pick, but I only learn […]| PseudoPod
Author : Mirri Glasson-Darling Narrator : Lindz McLeod Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 961: Body Heat is a PseudoPod original. C/W: death of a family member, cancer From the author: ‘Body Heat’ was inspired by a reoccurring dream during a 3-week solo expedition in the mountains. Void Merch Hot Singles […]| PseudoPod
Author : Kelsey P. Kitchel Narrator : Matt Arnold Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Mummy” first appeared in Weird Tales, November 1929 The Old Lady The Shout Power of Darkness Them Jones Boys Nathan Drake Lara Croft Mummy by Kelsey Percival Kitchel I have always prided myself on being a practical […]| PseudoPod
Author : John Russell Narrator : Maui Threv Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Powers Of Darkness” was first published in Collier’s, March 30, 1929. CW: Use of racial slurs as well as sexism and misogyny Beau Geste, Russel’s best known work was adapting this for the screen. Joseph Conrad Heart of […]| PseudoPod
Author : Robert Graves Narrator : Graeme Dunlop Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Shout” was first published in a limited edition chapbook, The Woburn Books #16, 1929. Jamie Oliver’s controversial children’s book has shone a spotlight on the importance of sensitivity readers Jamie Oliver pulls ‘offensive’ children’s book from sale […]| PseudoPod
Author : Elizabeth Bowen Narrator : Leila Al-Jeboury Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Dead Mabelle” first appeared in the 1929 collection Joining Charles and Other Stories CW: Allusions to suicide Dead Mabelle By Elizabeth Bowen The sudden and horrible end of Mabelle Pacey gave her a publicity with the European press […]| PseudoPod
Author : Eleanor Scott Narrator : Kat Day Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Old Lady” first appeared in the 1929 collection of ghost stories, Randall’s Round Penda’s Fen Void Merch Hot Singles In Your Area The Old Lady By Eleanor Scott Adela Young must have come up to Oxford […]| PseudoPod
Authors : Robbie Banfitch, TJ Price, Christi Nogle and Rob Costello Narrators : Robbie Banfitch, Brent Lambert, Dani Daly and Justin Riestra Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Summer Night” was first published in the 2024 anthology Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror “Chosen” was first published in the […]| PseudoPod
Author : Michael Ford Narrator : Dave Liloia Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Be Not Afraid” originally appeared in the 2024 anthology We Mostly Come Out at Night edited by Rob Costello The Mothman The Mothman Prophecies (Book) The Mothman Prophecies (Film) Krampus Krampus (2015 movie) Be Not Afraid by Michael […]| PseudoPod
Author : Sonora Taylor Narrator : David Powell Host : Laura Pearlman Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “If You Don’t Want a Cat, Don’t Get a Kitten” originally appeared in the 2024 collection Recreational Panic From the author: “I dedicated one of my stories, ‘If You Don’t Want a Cat, Don’t Get a Kitten’, to […]| PseudoPod
Author : Somto Ihezue Narrator : Solomon Osadolo Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Onitsha Main, Ochanja, The Twins, Nkpor, and the Shadows of Shoprite” was originally published in the 2024 anthology, Escalators to Hell: Shopping Mall Horrors Onitsha Main, Ochanja, The Twins, Nkpor, and the Shadows of Shoprite By Somto Ihezue […]| PseudoPod
Author : Richard E. Dansky Narrator : Trendane Sparks Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 951: Last Supper is a PseudoPod original. CW: Thanksgiving dinner drama “Last Supper” is a follow-up to “Licking Roadkill”, which previously appeared at PseudoPod (ep 786, Nov 2021) and in the collection A Meeting In the […]| PseudoPod
Author : A.C. Wise Narrator : Wilson Fowlie Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Slow Music of Drums” was originally published in the 2024 Anthology Northern Nights edited by Michael Kelly TW: features grief, an implied apocalypse, sinister music, a family curse, cosmic horror and bees Astute readers and listeners may […]| PseudoPod
Author : Gemma Amor Narrator : Barry J. Northern Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Less Exalted Tastes” originally appeared in the 2024 collection All Who Wander Are Lost Gemma Amor https://gemmaamorauthor.com/ Total Immersion https://gemmaamorauthor.com/books-gemma-amor/full-immersion-by-gemma-amor/ Hot Singles In Your Area by Jordan Shiveley https://unbound.com/books/hotsingles Irish House Burning Mania https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/the-tale-of-irelands...| PseudoPod
Author : Ai Jiang Narrator : Pine Gonzalez Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis ‘A Relationship in Four Haircuts’ was originally published in the 2024 anthology Welcome to Your Body: Lessons in Evisceration C/W for emotional abuse Iris, by the Goo Goo Dolls A Relationship in Four Haircuts By Ai Jiang You […]| PseudoPod
Author : Cynthia Gómez Narrator : Julia Rios Host : Eleanor R. Wood Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis ‘Will They Disappear’ originally appeared in the 2024 collection The Nightmare Box from Cursed Morsels Press From the author: “This piece is based on the horrendous real-life story of Jennifer and Sarah Hart, two white women who […]| PseudoPod
Authors : Brittany Groves and Alasdair Stuart Narrators : Siobhan Gallichan and Alasdair Stuart Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 946: Toby and The Halloween Parade is a PseudoPod original. Andrew Garfield and Elmo Alasdair Stuart Previous Halloween Parades Toby By Brittany Groves It’s a long walk from Founders Cemetery, but […]| PseudoPod
Author : Alex Dal Piaz Narrator : Alex Hofelich Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 945: The Gobstomper is a PseudoPod original. The Gobstomper by Alex Dal Piaz A lot changes as you get older, thought Wilkie Saunders. For example, he’d been sure older boys like Tom Dunn—who was either in […]| PseudoPod
Author : Kyle Piper Narrator : Peter Adrian Behravesh Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 944: The House That Stands Over Your Grave is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “For as universal as it is, I find it weirdly difficult to explain grief in a way that feels satisfying. It’s […]| PseudoPod
Author : Todd Keisling Narrator : John Bell Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Oneirophobia” originally appeared in NEVER WAKE: A DREAM HORROR ANTHOLOGY, edited by Kenneth W. Cain and Tim Meyer, and published by Crystal Lake Publishing on 9/8/23 From the author: “I’ve experienced sleep paralysis a few times in my […]| PseudoPod
Author : K. Bosgra Narrator : Tony Sarrecchia Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 942: The Sound of a Jackknife is a PseudoPod original. The Dead Room Pontypool The Sound of a Jackknife by K. Bosgra I only took the Tremaine gig because of Shepherd’s recommendation. “This one won’t pay […]| PseudoPod
Author : Carson Winter Narrator : Jess Lewis Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “In Haskins” originally appeared in Apex, issue 127 In Haskins by Carson Winter Everyone, both the young and the old, went about their lives as usual on the day of the Mask Festival. The downtown streets were covered […]| PseudoPod
Author : Rachael K. Jones Narrator : Alex Hofelich Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 940: Controlling Your Weeds is a PseudoPod original. NIMBY https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/not-in-my-back-yard#:~:text=’Not%20in%20My%20Back%20Yard,development%20in%20their%20local%20area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY Get Out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Out Controlling Your Weeds By Rachael K. Jones I always mow it twice a week during peak seaso...| PseudoPod
Author : Henry Herz Narrator : Tanja Milojevic Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis CW: Ableist slur This material originally appeared in The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt & Henry L. Herz published by Blackstone Publishing (©2023) Cheating Death by Henry Herz I didn’t join in […]| PseudoPod
Author : Robert E. Howard Narrator : Tad Callin Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Sea Curse” was originally published in Weird Tales, May 1928 The Soul Cages Sea Curse By Robert E. Howard And some return by the failing light And some in the waking dream. For she hears the heels […]| PseudoPod
Author : Marianne Kirby Narrator : Sevatividam Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 937: The Yearning of the All-Devouring Earth is a PseudoPod original. The Yearning of the All-Devouring Earth by Marianne Kirby It’s always when we find a moment of peace that the universe remembers we exist—or maybe it’s less […]| PseudoPod
Authors : Lyndsey Croal, Hannah Greer and S.L. Harris Narrators : Lindz McLeod, Kitty Sarkozy and Elie Hirschman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 936: Flash on the Borderlands LXXI: A Gibbet of Flesh is a PseudoPod original. “Every Part of You”: CW terminal illness, body horror, insects “Every Part of […]| PseudoPod
Author : Dashiell Hammett Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Hollow Temple” was first published in Black Mask, December 1928. This is the second of four novelettes that were fixed up into the novel The Dain Curse. The Thin Man (Novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man The Thin Man (Movie) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man_(film) […]| PseudoPod
Author : Dashiell Hammett Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Joshua Tuttle Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Hollow Temple” was first published in Black Mask, December 1928. This is the second of four novelettes that were fixed up into the novel The Dain Curse. The Hollow Temple (Part Two of The Dain Curse) by […]| PseudoPod
Author : Dashiell Hammett Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Hollow Temple” was first published in Black Mask, December 1928. This is the second of four novelettes that were fixed up into the novel The Dain Curse. The Hollow Temple (Part Two of The Dain Curse) by […]| PseudoPod
Author : Jane Marciano Narrator : Tiernan Douieb Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Man With a Serpent in his System” originally appeared in London Mystery Magazine Selection (No. 99) November 1973. Jane reached out to us in 2023. She told us that, back in the 1970s when she was in […]| PseudoPod
Author : Jess Whitecroft Narrator : Kat Day Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 931: What He Woke is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “This story was written before the 2024 British General Election. The MP whose voting record inspired these events has since been fired by his constituents. We […]| PseudoPod
Author : W.F. Harvey Narrator : Tol Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Wilson Fowlie “The Dabblers” appeared in the 1928 collection The Beast with Five Fingers The Dabblers by W.F. Harvey It was a wet July evening. The three friends sat around the peat fire in Harborough’s den, pleasantly weary after their long […]| PseudoPod
Author : Eugenia Triantafyllou Narrator : Steph P. Bianchini Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Bonesoup” originally published in Strange Horizons, July 2022 From the author: “My initial idea was a Hansel and Gretel retelling where the Evil Witch actually has children of her own. It became a story about Greece’s intergenerational […]| PseudoPod
Author : Elliott Gish Narrator : Louise Hewitt Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 928: Mr. Harmon’s Girls is a PseudoPod original. CW: child sexual abuse, grooming https://www.elliottgishwrites.com https://www.facebook.com/elliottgishwrites Mr. Harmon’s Girls By Elliott Gish The first day of school. Bright, cold, the sky that special autumn blue. All of us […]| PseudoPod
Author : Emily Ruth Verona Narrator : Kevin M. Hayes Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Three Nights With the Angel of Death” was originally published in the anthology ALONG HARROWED TRAILS from Timber Ghost Press in July 2023 The Quick and the Dead Three Nights with the Angel of Death by […]| PseudoPod
Author : Dan LeMoal Narrator : Trendane Sparks Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Beach Head” was published in On Spec (longtime Canadian sci-fi/horror magazine) – 2008 & The Best Horror of the Year Volume 1 – 2009 CW: Drug use, problematic language Beach Head by Daniel LeMoal “Are you still alive […]| PseudoPod
Author : Robert Bloch Narrators : Leeman Kessler and Rish Outfield Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Black Bargain” was originally published in Weird Tales, May 1942 “What Every Young Ghoul Should Know” was originally published in Amateur Correspondent, September-October 1937 What Every Young Ghoul Should Know” is a little piece of […]| PseudoPod
Author : M.O. Pirson Narrators : Wilson Fowlie and Wendy N. Wagner Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 924: The Things That Wash Up on Marble Beach is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “Following the enthusiastic and repeated recommendations of a good friend of mine (looking at you BDM), I […]| PseudoPod
Author : John Wiswell Narrator : Paul Cram Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis ‘Too Little, Too Little, Too Much’ originally appeared in Cossmass Infinites in March of 2022 Fans of the urban legend of the Russian Sleep Experiment may be excited to see a recent movie release “The Soviet Sleep Experiment” […]| PseudoPod
Author : Laura Downes Narrator : Maui Threv Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 922: Something Stirring Underneath is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “At the far northwestern corner of Georgia down an unmarked path off a logging road lies the crumbling ruins of a manor that was host to […]| PseudoPod
Author : Ambrose Bierce Narrator : Brian Lieberman Host : Chelsea Davis Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis ‘Chickamauga’ first published in the San Francisco Examiner, January 20, 1889 Chickamauga By Ambrose Bierce One sunny autumn afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home in a small field and entered a forest unobserved. It was […]| PseudoPod
Author : Tanith Lee Narrators : Scott Campbell and Sharon Moskowitz Host : Julie C. Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis This special return to the vault episode is in support of Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute now live on Kickstarter. Celebrate Tanith Lee Listen to editors Julie C. Day & Carina Bissett as they […]| PseudoPod
Author : K. C. Grifant Narrator : Marguerite Kenner Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Just Another Apocalypse” originally appeared in Two Thousand Word Terrors released by Rooster Republic Press in 2023. Highway Song by Iggy Pop Just Another Apocalypse By KC Grifant We cruise up the 5, zombies staggering on either […]| PseudoPod
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
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
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 PseudoPod 916: Flash on the Borderlands LXX: Through a Glass Darkly is a PseudoPod original. “Three Awakenings: Hello, World” is a PseudoPod original […]| PseudoPod
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 […]| PseudoPod
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]| PseudoPod
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
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 […]| PseudoPod
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 […]| PseudoPod
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
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
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 […]| PseudoPod
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
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
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 […]| PseudoPod
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, […]| PseudoPod
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 […]| PseudoPod
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
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
Aunt Pearl saw the creature first, through the kitchen window. “Snapping turtle,” she said, “a big one, headed toward the cow pond.” She stripped off her rubber dishwashing gloves and shut down the…| PseudoPod
