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 “Every Part of You” was first published in OOZE: Little Bursts of Body Horror, edited by Ruth Anna Evans, in March 2023 and was also included in Hexagon […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Author : Kristina Ten Narrator : Yaroslav Barsukov Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Dreadful and Specific Monster of Starosibirsk” originally appeared in Weird Horror in May 2021 Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher The Dreadful and Specific Monster of Starosibirsk by Kristina Ten I know what you will say. You will […]