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description: The Sound of Horror. Pseudopod is the worl's first audio horror magazine. We deliver bone-chilling stories from toda's most talented authors straight to your computer or MP3 player.
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- Pseudopod 141: Flash on the Borderlands I released on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 04:01
Three flash fiction stories in one gut churning episode.
“Jordan, when are you going to settle down, get married and have us some children?”
By J.R.
Read by Ben Phillips
Beth, my most recent girlfriend, said I look like a hanged man when I walk because I always stare down at my feet.
Thinking About Polar Bears
By Mike Battista
Read [...]- Chicago horror theatre - Revenants released on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 07:41
For those within reach of Chicago through May 24, 2009, check out some live horror theatre:
I was able to catch Wildclaw Theatre’s production of “The Dreams in the Witch House” and was greatly entertained. I haven’t seen “Revenants” yet but I notice it is getting quite promising reviews.
-Ben Phillips
- Pseudopod 140: The Man Who Sank released on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 04:01
By Colin P. Davies
Read by Alasdair Stuart
Niall is the worst of us. He’s meaner, more vicious, more crazy. He hates everyone: Jamaicans, Asians, queers…. Chances are he hates me as well. His Dad had been a violent waste-of-DNA and Niall intends to make us all pay. He doesn’t care about anything…and yet, only last Saturday, [...]- Support Pseudopod released on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 07:36
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We rely on donations to pay our authors, as well as to cover the cost of bandwidth and other overhead. Our goal is to increase sponsorships until the day we no longer need to ask for these, but [...]- Pseudopod 139: Old Ways released on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 04:01
By Dan Dworkin
Read by Jenna Sharpe (who incidentally also voices Naija in Aquaria)
The man in the doorway was backlit by the low hanging sun, and when
he told her about Ray it didn’t seem real.
“Dead?”
“Yes ma’am, I’m afraid so.”
[...]- Pseudopod 138: Come to My Arms, My Beamish Boy released on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 04:01
By Douglas F. Warrick
Read by Phil Rossi whose novel, Crescent Station is published this June.
Most of Cotton’s memories were gone. Like the name of the ship he had served on. Like the name of his commanding officer. His daughters’ names, which husband went with which daughter, which grandchildren came from which marriage, [...]- Pseudopod 137: The Reign of the Wintergod released on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 04:01
By Eugie Foster
Read by Leann Mabry
The doctors come and ask me questions, but they always ask the wrong questions, so I’m stuck. I can give them the wrong answers or no answer at all. I try to explain, try to teach them what the right question is, but they never listen.
“How are you, [...]- Pseudopod 136: The Eyes of the Crowd released on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 04:01
By Bruce Boston
Read by Matthew Wayne Selznick
As rain began to speckle the partitioned windows of the station, an ancient engine groaned into view. Villers soon found himself squeezed into a dingy and narrow car of questionable vintage. Making his way to a window seat, he noted his fellow travelers were exclusively of the lower classes. [...]- The Pseudopod Autopsy: Eight-Legged Freaks released on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 04:01
Small towns have the worst luck. For fifty years they’ve been beseiged by martians, carniverous slugs, tunnelling prehistoric worms, vampires and most terrifying of all, B-movies. So if you live in a small town with a storied past and eccentric inhabitants beware. Because your town may be about to fall victim to…the [...]- The Pseudopod Autopsy: Sunshine released on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 04:01
A lone crew struggling to cope with the stress of an impossible mission. A bomb the size of a city and a star whose light is fading. Danny Boyle’s Sunshine is a difficult, spiky film that turns the traditions of spaceship movies on their head. Now, we take a look behind [...]- Pseudopod 135: The Duel released on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 04:01
By Michael James McFarland
Read by Kris Johnson
“A what?! What did you say? A duel?”
“You heard me, Vanderbilt. D-U-E-L. Duel.”
“You mean like with pistols… ten paces, turn and fire? That kind of duel?”
“Something like that,” John Lawrence affirmed, hands planted on his hips, the breeze blowing casually through his stylish hair, [...]- Pseudopod 134: Bait released on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 05:01
By Joel Arnold, whose first-ever short story collection was just released from Sam’s Dot Publishing: Bedtime Stories for the Apocalypse
Read by Hugo-nominated graphic artist Cheyenne Wright (for his work on Girl Genius, Volume 8)
It was a cold January when Paul Robinson parked his flatbed pick-up on the edge
of Shady Lake. The ice was ten [...]- Pseudopod 133: Grave of Ships released on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 12:31
By Richard Marsden
Read by Ian Stuart
“I know you come from the States and you see this Isle of St. Mary as nothing but quaint. Well, we is a quaint folk and content to be in our cups at the Bishop n’ work the fields and tend to tourists and pull fish from the sea. But [...]- Pseudopod 132: The Valknut released on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 04:01
By Dan Dworkin
Read by Ben Phillips
When I wake I’m craving almonds and want to die. Pretzeled in the
top sheet, fighting the light… hurts when I move, go easy… something
died in my mouth, breath could bring down a plane, and the light…
Jesus, that’s… fuck, that’s bright. Hot [...]- Pseudopod 94: The Skull-Faced Boy released on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 04:01
By David Barr Kirtley
Read by Ralph Walters
He turned his eyes back to the road, and in the light of the high beams he saw a
man stumble into the path of the car. Without thinking, Jack swerved.
The car bounced violently, and then its left front side smashed into a tree. The
steering column surged forward, like an [...]- Pseudopod 131: Tales of the White Street Society - The Corpse Army of Khartoum released on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 15:44
By Grady Hendrix
Read by Alasdair Stuart
It had been some time since we had last been called to a meeting of the White Street Society and all of us yearned to quench the thirst for the strange that these meetings had fostered in our souls, which is why the three of us – Drake, Lewis and [...]- Flash: Rosemary Lane released on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 03:00
By Kate Kelly
Read by Alasdair Stuart
I could see the fear in her eyes, and I drew back into the thickets of thorns and nettles, watching her. She was the first person I had seen in the lane for many years, one of the village children, one of the innocents. I did not wish to frighten [...]- Pseudopod 130: The Greatest Adventure of All released on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 09:21
By Ian McHugh
Read by Alasdair Stuart
By the time I cleaned myself up, Arj had scrounged me a fresh t-shirt. I stopped outside the recovery room to pull it on.
“How is he?” I asked, rather indistinctly. My top lip had blown up like a balloon. My head ached, too, where I’d hit it on the cold [...]- Pseudopod 129: Bottle Babies released on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 11:44
By Mary A. Turzillo
Read by - Submission Guidelines released on Tue, 07/11/2006 - 04:13
Pseudopod is always looking for quality fiction to feed our listeners. If you’re a writer with a short horror story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our talented performers, we’d like to see it. Probably.
What We Want
Pseudopod is a genre magazine in audio form. We’re looking for horror: dark, [...]- Pseudopod 114: The Cellar released on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 04:01
By Stephen Owen
Read by Ian Stuart
“I’m Mr. Sinclair.” The smiling old man introduced himself. “Not too early, am I?”
“Whatever you’re selling, I ain’t interested,” said the man, ignoring Sinclair’s offer of a handshake. He was taller than Sinclair by a couple of inches, probably in his mid-forties, with cropped blond-grey hair and a permanent frown [...]- Pseudopod 128: Bone Mother released on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 12:33
By Maura McHugh
Read by Cat Rambo
The house tilted. A thighbone rolled off my kitchen table and clattered
onto the floorboards. I cocked my head and waited for a warning.
Silence. It was still sulking.
I whacked its bony walls with my hawthorn stick. “Out with it!” I said.
“A man approaches, you withered old crone!” The floor trembled with
irritation.
“A [...]- Contact Us released on Fri, 08/11/2006 - 06:31
Thanks for listening to Pseudopod! We’re glad you want to get in touch with us.
If you’d like to leave us e-mail, you have your choice of options:
General comments on stories, performances, the podcast, bad dreams you’ve had, whatever can be sent to feedback@pseudopod.org. Please note that anything sent to [...]- Pseudopod 127: The Garden and the Mirror released on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 04:01
By Tim W. Burke
Read by Alasdair Stuart
She asked me, “Will you teach the secrets of the soul and flesh?”
Her eyes glowed like onyx in the gaslight. Her skin seemed translucent, but the young man fidgeting beside her on my drawing room sofa was paler still. His fine suit and shirt sagged on him; the cadaver [...]- Pseudopod 126: The Ashen Thing released on Fri, 01/23/2009 - 18:05
By Paul Mannering
Read by Ben Phillips
I dropped the half-eaten turkey on rye back on my plate and stared
darkly at the new wheel-chair ramp, a big yellow exclamation mark
visible from the sidewalk. Warning! Freak in Residence! Imagining the
whispered concerns of our new neighbors was fuel for the fire of my
self-pity. I was so lost in my [...]- Pseudopod 125: The Interview released on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 04:01
By Mike Norris
Read by Dani Cutler
“With eight years property management experience under your belt, I really see no reason to fax over your resume. Tell you what, I’m wide open this morning. I need to run an errand, pick up a few things for the interview, but why don’t you just come on [...]- Pseudopod 124: Scavenger released on Fri, 01/09/2009 - 04:01
By Jonathan Kuhn
Read by Alasdair Stuart.
Sponsored by CONTAGIOUS, by Scott Sigler.
No end in sight. He tossed aside the empty water bottle, now useless.
One bottle left. Two more liters. But in this heat, that wouldn’t
last long.
Maybe if he could pace himself. But he couldn’t. Because every
second he wasted, it was [...]- Pseudopod 123: Bone Sigh released on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 06:45
By Tim Pratt
Read by Alasdair Stuart.
Sponsored by CONTAGIOUS, by Scott Sigler.
I sit at the table and work on my bonsai scar. I press the silver head of the meat tenderizer into my left thigh, stippling the skin. I do not feel pain; I scarcely feel the pressure. My nerves are dead, there
on my left thigh, [...]- Pseudopod 122: Let Them Bleed released on Fri, 12/26/2008 - 23:36
By Lilah Wild
Read by JC Hutchins
Stosh wore his sneakers as he walked along the incoming tide, let cool water ooze over his toes. It was awkward, squishing along in the wet sand, but he didn’t want to risk stepping on a broken seashell or a needle. His shoes were already filthy, not much left for [...]- Pseudopod 121: Blood, Snow, and Sparrows released on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 16:52
By Joshua Alan Doetsch
Read by Ben Phillips
Desdemona used to trace the stars with her finger, connecting the dots, naming her own constellations.
I call upon her name.
Desdemona.
I call her name when I want to remember.
Desdemona — who gave me thirty-one birthdays when I had none. Desdemona — who laughed and made snow angels on rooftops because [...]- Pseudopod 120: Iowa Highway released on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 23:13
By Brendan Detzner
Read by Ralph Walters
The first thing they did when they took a trip like this was pick new names. This time they were Michael and Jennifer. The house was empty when they got there; it was beautiful, the summer home of very wealthy people. The interior was an open shell, rugs on a [...]- Pseudopod 119: Pran’s Confession released on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 17:38
By Joel Arnold
Read by Ben Phillips
The young men in Bangkok sometimes called him Grandpa or Uncle as he clutched
their lithe oiled bodies. His fingers grasped a bit too tight, his nails dug
into their skin and drew beads of blood. Sometimes he’d choke them, but never
enough to kill them. He had to be [...]- Pseudopod 118: Lala Salama released on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 23:26
By Gill Ainsworth
Read by Heather Welliver
“You are lucky; I have already imparted that to you. It is the life inside you that is suffering.”
“The hospital doctor looked at my baby through my tummy. It’s happy and normal. Asifiwe Bwana!”
“You may praise The Lord, but He cannot alter this, Madam. I have [...]- Pseudopod 117: Deep Red released on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 07:52
By Floris M. Kleijne
Read by Ben Phillips
Blood matting her blonde hair, blood on her face, blood covering so much of
her it takes a moment to see she is naked. The dream gives me an eternity to
see her. Eyes wide open and shining, shining. And she grins. That grin has
never stopped haunting me. In the dream, [...]- Pseudopod 116: Sick Day released on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 04:01
By Michael Chant
Read by Elie Hirschman
As she leaves for work, my wife kisses me goodbye. It is love in the machine, passion stripped away on the assembly-line known as the workweek. Her car pulls out of the driveway, leaving me with more than an hour to kill before I have to go to [...]- Pseudopod 115: Clockwork released on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 14:54
By Trent Jamieson
Read by Ben Phillips
Some places you visit in dreams again and again. Some places visit you. Fourteen and it found me.
I stood knee deep in grass, brittle, yellowing, summer grass. The citadel rose above me, its clockwork beat roaring in my head; gears and wheels rumbling, ticking, tocking, groaning under the weight of [...]- Pseudopod 113: Furnace Room Lullaby released on Fri, 10/24/2008 - 04:01
By Leah Bobet
Read by The Word Whore
Sound design and score by Lee M. Bartow (featuring music by love is nothing. and Navicon Torture Technologies). Recorded and constructed at Leechnest Breeding Facilities Summer-Autumn 2008.
The house off Weathervane Street came old, but not
haunted.
It came with bright red brick walls on the outside,
cherry-paneled floors on the inside, [...]- Pseudopod 111: Radiodemonology released on Fri, 10/10/2008 - 04:01
By John Medaille
Read by Alasdair Stuart
Okay.
I first discovered the existence of the human soul while examining the x-ray of a broken clavicle of an ugly boy named Peter Demetrios. Peter, who was the kind of kid I think of as a fly-torturing, spaghettio-bellied, dirty-fingernailed, nose-picking little crap of a little boy, had landed on a [...]- Pseudopod 112: Periods released on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 04:01
By Florence Ann Marlowe
Read by Damaris Mannering
“It’s going on three weeks, now.”
“Mmm-hmmm. And there’s no chance of you being pregnant?”
“Oh, no!” Nancy shook her head. “I haven’t even been with a guy in a long time.”
“Good.” Doctor Mason stood up, his eyes still glued to Nancy’s chart. He flashed her a quick [...]- Pseudopod 110: Spurling’s Virus released on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 04:01
By Michael Savastano
Read by Ben Phillips
A tiny slit in the yellow protective suit killed her.
Ridley Means slammed down the quarantine lever, locking the room that
would soon become Joella Henney’s tomb. Pale blue warning lights flashed.
Joella swerved toward the window and peered with panicked eyes. Her head
darted to each side, inspecting her body, arms [...]
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