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LOVE your show! Creepy, disturbing and a little shocking...in all the best ways possible.
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A week ago on PSEUDOPOD, ARTEMIS RISING's celebration of Women in Horror continued...
A missing child and a troubled brother. It all happens "In The Country" by Christi Nogle, read for you by Dagny Paul with special guest hosts Alexandra and Andrea from THE FACULTY OF HORROR!
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A lamp on the beach, and a beautiful woman....
It's "The Lady With The Light" by Mel Kassel, read for you by Jon Padgett with guest hosting by Setsu Uzume!
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Flesh and Fertility in an alternate (?) world....
It's "Meat" by Sandra Odell, read for you by...wait for it....Linda Hamilton! Yes, TERMINATOR's Linda Hamilton!
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FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS returns with 4 (count 'em) 4 stories! John Purfield, Amelia Gorman, Benjamin Blattberg & A. W. Baader are your authors; Brian Jay Lieberman, Laura Hobbs, John Chu & Christopher Reynaga your readers! As we learn again that HIGHER BEINGS COMMAND....their powers to the ground...
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A lost horror film and its ongoing influence....
It's "The Fear" by Richard Harland, expertly read by our own Graeme Dunlop!
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A scholar, a young gang leader, and a mine with an ancient secret...
It's "The Dog Pit" by Jason Fischer, read for you by Barry Haworth!
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photo: Old Gladsome Mine, Comet Vale, Western Australia (in - public domain)
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Babysitting a boy with an aggressive imaginary friend....
It's "Tessa Told Me" by Rob Kotecki, read for you by Makenzi Newman!
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the point where modern warfare and motherly love clash....
It's "That Only A Mother" by Judith Merril, read for you by Dagny Paul!
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(photo - The Cascara from Babycotpod - http://www.ifitshipitshere.com/the-ca...)
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When titans walk....
It's "Under The Rubble" by John Wiswell, read for you by Marguerite Kenner! Special soundbed production by yours truly, Shawn M. Garrett, especially dedicated to Akira Ifukube & Einstürzende Neubauten!
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An abandoned neighborhood, a missing husband....
It's "Indiscretions" by Hillary Dodge, read for you by Christiana Ellis!
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It all started with penchant for sniffing hair...
It's "Monsters Exist" by Ian McHugh, read for you by The Spectre Collector himself, Ron Jon!
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"Crooked trees and reedy light, / Thin stone fingers obscure sight, / Through mazy brush’s skeleton, / Creeps the dwarf who shows you in."
It's "Escape to Thin Mountain" by Jon Padgett, read and sung for you by Dagny Paul!
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How do you solve a problem like Messiah?
It's "Lord Randy, My Son" by Joe L. Hensley!
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"When you let go, you are truly free"
It's "Flash On The Borderlands XXXVIII: Letting Go", with stories by Ruth Booth, Richard Farren Barber & Samuel Marzioli, read for you by Andrew Reid, Moaner Lawrence & Spencer Disparti!
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An overgrown house, a strange old lady, some disturbing magazines and something in the back room. It's "Again!" by Ramsey Campbell, read for you by Ant Bacon!
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Broken mirrors, broken minds...
It's "Alison" by Seras Nikita, read for you by Dagny Keith Paul!
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Context is everything...
It's "The All Or Nothing Days" by Gus Moreno, read for you by Maui Threv!
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Tragic monsters
It's "Fade To Gold" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew, read for you by Jen Zink!
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A doll is not an imitation of life....
It's "A Doll Full Of Nails" by Ville Meriläinen, read for you by Riku Kanninen!
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Eternal cycles, death and revolution...
It's "Four Hours of a Revolution" by Premee Mohamed, read for you by Ian Stuart!
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Life in the tree-tops, after the end of it all...but man is always hungry....
It's "Evitative" by B.C. Edwards, read for you by Dani Daly, with a specially crafted soundbed by your humble servant.
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The open road, love, money, freedom...and a death-cult in the way...
It's "‘Till the Road Runs Out" by Luciano Marano, read for you by the redoubtable Dave Robison!
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The lives of artists and aesthetes, in service to a yellow king...
It's "Toward the Banner of the King" by T.R. North, read for you by Justine Eyre!
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The costs of service, to you and yours...
It's "Granite Requires" by T.J. Berry, read for you by Laura Hobbs!
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Diogenes had it easy....
It's "Better to Curse the Darkness than Light a Candle" by Joseph Cusumano, read by Cheyenne Wright!
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Kudzu, and the secrets it conceals...
I am very proud to present "Where The Summer Ends" by Karl Edward Wagner, read (and audio produced!) for you by the indomitable Anson Mount!
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Social media assemblagé...
It's "A Howling Dog" by Nick Mamatas, read by "divers voyce"
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“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
It's FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XXXIX: TERATOLOGY featuring stories by Cassandra Khaw, Getty Hesse & Chris Kuriata, read for you by Mae Zarris-Heaney, Maui Threv &John Bell!
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"Bad luck isn't brought by broken mirrors. But by broken minds..."
It's "Hello, Handsome" by Garrett Cook, read for you by The Word Whore! Music by Terrortron!
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The old shell game...
It's "Cuckoo" by Angela Slatter, read for you by Victoria Winnick!
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A Visit to Halloween Street, and a parade...
It's Flash On The Borderlands XL: Halloween Street by Steve Rasnic Tem and read to you by Alasdair Stuart, Brian Lieberman, Setsu Uzume and Daniel Braum!
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The horrors of the German camps birth further horrors...
It's "Passover" by Caspian Gray, read for you by Elie Hirschman!
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A drive in the country, a strange house, and strange doorways...
It's "The Room in the Other House" by Kristi DeMeester, read by Jacquie Duckworth!
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Archaic evidence of past debaucheries...
Pseudopod is very proud to present "The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard, read for you by Andrew Leman!
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It's "The Jamcoi", cooked up by J.M. McDermott, and carefully prepared by Setsu Uzume!
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The story of a haunted house, told from the only one left to say...
It's "Haunted" by Sarah Gailey, read for you by Dani Daly!
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The story of a tragedy, collage style...
It's "Deconstructing Hillsdale" by D. Morgan Ballmer, read by (of NoSleep) & divers voyce...
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Cool air for a long life.
It's "Bitter Perfume" by Laura Blackwell, read for you by Emily Smith.
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Pain, the arts & The King In Yellow...
It's "While the Black Stars Burn" by Lucy A. Snyder, read for you by Tatiana Grey!
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I co-edit Pseudopod - the short horror fiction podcast, where you can download - for free - a weekly reading of a piece of short horror fiction: classic, modern & contemporary! We run the wide gamut of horror fiction, pay for the stories we run and have recently had episodes featuring names such as Joe R. Lansdale, Thomas Ligotti and a host of others! I normally post the new story announcement in the SHORT STORIES folder but figured I'd drop a quick note here for those interested. Below is the posting for this week's episode:
Last Friday on Pseudopod...
Inspiration, motivation, mutilation......
It's "Self Portrait With Embellishments" by Ryan Dull, expertly read for you by Joe Calarco!