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 A Relationship in Four Haircuts By Ai Jiang Narrated by [Your Name] You met him on Etsy. That’s right. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 season. Some might consider that excessive, […]

Author : Henry Herz Narrator : Tanja Milojevic Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Cheating Death by Henry Herz I didn’t join in as my surviving family members conversed over dinner. Usually, the aroma of hearty pork and cabbage bigos stirred my appetite, but today it reminded me of the past, knotting […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]