Trying to cheer myself up by listening to podcasts (As I do). So thanks to @talkscaredpod.bsky.social @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social Flame Tree Myth and fiction (need a 🟦🌌account, guys) @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social @pseudopod.org @agathaandrews.bsky.social @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social

Aaaaaaaa!!!! @pseudopod.org has finallydropped the audio version of @marthawells.com's original story "Data Ghost," one of the many amazing original stories you'll find in our recently released Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...

There is still beauty in the world if you know where to look. Sunlight filtering through the bright leaves of Autumn, or the deep red gleam in the eyes of Mothman as he surprises you in the alley behind the kebab shoppe.

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"Creature" is such a good term. It's gender neutral, it rejects humanity, it implies danger or anomaly, and it's valid for any species. Shoutouts to all my creature friends

I got to narrate a story by Martha Wells!! This a tight sci-fi horror tale touching on a possible future of transhumanist technology. Come check it out!

A very good story 📖

35 days to Halloween…

“When the station stats popped up on the screen, the Interface said, Anomalous.” Data Ghost by Martha Wells Narrator: Rae Lundberg Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Chelsea Davis This story originally appeared in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...

shapes in the sky

💯 to both parts

If you're tired and need a hug today, I'd like to offer this story of mine. It's about a haunted house so lonely that it promises it'll behave if anyone will just live in it.

Should I be a kind person? Should I help my community? Should I learn dark magic from dusty books in secret libraries? Should I wear a tiara of ancient goblin bones and a raven on my shoulder to the market to buy cheese and wine? The answer is always yes.

You still have a few days to sign up for ad-free access at the lower rate. Go, go! 🦑

If you’ve been listening to the pod recently, you’ll have heard… • Ads are coming at the start and end of episodes from Oct 1st • BUT Patreon subscribers can get ad-free versions! • Sign up now to lock in ad-free access at the current $5 level • Go to pseudopod.org and click on "feed the pod"

People are doing rapture jokes like there’s no tomorrow.

A quick little mari with a toffee apple

Home is where the heart is. It's also a good place to keep ancient enchanted skulls that teach you the dark ways of the old ones and give prudent financial advice.

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

I need to inform all Tower residents: The food is catching onto the trap. Rapture Day dinner is canceled. The food is getting too smart. 😞

Friday. And we promise you. It’s true.

The Rapture is happening, according to the internet. I have to inform you, The Tower still stands and all slush readers and editors are accounted for. Meaning, the next episode is coming out soon.

It's release day for WHY I LOVE HORROR 🤩 I'm thrilled to be part of this beautiful collection of essays edited by the wonderful @raforall.bsky.social on why we love this genre and what it means to us. What's the foundation of my horror love and my essay "The Giant Footprint of Horror"? Hmmm 😆

Today Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com is in the guest chair for the This Is Horror Podcast. I'll be interviewing Bob about one of his books for the first time in ten years. Got a question for Bob? Head over to Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/139508...

It’s Rapture Day! What better way to celebrate than by listening to this unrepentantly gorgeous story by @jawmccarthy.bsky.social from @pseudopod.org? pseudopod.org/2025/03/07/p...

Sep 23rd - Seymour Krelborn learns that his strange plant, Audrey II, is actually "a Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" that intends to take over the world. 📽️📅 Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Worth re-sharing this one with the alt-text added in. 🔭 “And that's how it was for the next ten nights. A flare, spurting out from Mars – bright green, drawing a green mist behind it – a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight. Ogilvy assured me we were in no danger….”

FFer Read of the Day: "Where the Brass Band Plays" by @mckatie.bsky.social in @pseudopod.org pseudopod.org/2025/05/28/p...

… and that was how the zombie apocalypse began…

Wishing everyone a great Fall.

oh boy oh BOY these NAMES

The future is not written in stone, but the new SorrowScopes will give you a glimpse of the terrible possibilities. @sorrowscopes.bsky.social

🌼 Happy Ostara 🌸 Today is for starting over, making wishes, building a brighter future, and planting seeds to hide the bodies buried in shallow graves in your garden. Blessed be.

you open the door to see a clean cut young man in a wrinkled blue polo. he asks you if it is a good time. he asks you if you would like to hear about his Friend. he asks you if you would like to review some literature. he hands you a worn copy of moby dick. he asks you if you've ever seen the ocean.

CHARITY AUCTION UPDATE: A wonderful postcard from @sketchbuck.bsky.social arrived yesterday! Have just uploaded, so please go see! skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com

How cats celebrate the autumn equinox 🎨 Cécile Berrubé

Pisces: Death is inevitable, but with enough glitter, you can at least make the inevitable fabulous.

Virgo: Two heads are better than one, and if you defrost your freezer you might even fit three.

William Connell, California, 1935

The two of these that irritate me the most are ‘Re-Inventing the Wheel’ (“let me tell you about the mysterious hooded figures…”) and the “And Plot” which is often disguised as deeply insightful literary fiction but is really just Some Things That Happened. BUT… All this said…

on accident?

An easy trick to keep away bad dreams! Purchase a decapitated wolf's head from your local hunter, and keep it under your pillow while you sleep. Medieval peasants swore by this natural remedy! Maybe it's time to bring it back as part of our daily wellness rituals? 🐺 ❤️

I've got a horror story out today on Pseudopod! Originally published in Black Static.

How the email found me:

Consider celebrating this event by buying yourself or a friend a copy of the new tribute anthology, Storyteller: Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology - Essential Dreams Press share.google/7fp6DyZq1N62...

Born #OTD 19 September 1947, Tanith Lee was a British science fiction and fantasy writer who wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories… … and here is one of them, narrated by Scott Campbell and Sharon Moskowitz pseudopod.org/2024/05/24/p...

There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve.

As you drive south, the heat rushes up to greet you like your name is in the guestbook and it has your room prepared. The Bride, by Shaenon K. Garrity Narrator: Alethea Kontis Host: Scott Campbell Audio: Chelsea Davis Originally published in Black Static in 2020 C/W: necrophilia, assault