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 […]

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 […]

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 […]