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 […]

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 “Three Awakenings: Hello, World” is a PseudoPod original “Mirrors at Night” is a PseudoPod original “A Persistent Woman” was originally published in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Author : Brian 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Author : Carlie St. George Narrator : Alethea Kontis Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 904: Jinx is a PseudoPod original. CW: domestic violence/intimate partner violence. UK: Refuge, https://refuge.org.uk UK: Hestia, Life Beyond Crisis: https://www.hestia.org Australia: Women and Girls’ Emergency Centre, https://www.wagec.org.au Montreal, Canada: Chez Doris, https://www.chezdoris.org New Brunswick, Canada: https://halfwayhouses.ca/en/region/ahha/facility/coverdale_centre USA: RAINN, https://www.rainn.org NYC, USA: Women […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]