Ho! ho! ho! Santa Womble is back and this time while some seek being merry, good cheer and peace on earth sometimes we all need to read something creepy and here are some horror recommendations to gift/tempt/devour www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...

I am so excited to share my vampires in space short story A Turn at the Neck published at Sinister Soup podcast - youtu.be/GHDr0bUiFnM?... Thank you @clayvermulm.bsky.social for seeing the potential in this story and working with me to get it to this stage! Thanks to everyone at Cascade Workshop!

It’s the last full working week before Christmas, and six days to the winter solstice. In short, it’s the dark heart of the year. So, time for some horror. For today’s #DecFic, there are… Never Enough Pockets thefictionphial.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/n...

Twas a night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse… … except for the pod. The pod was stirring because it was hungry. Feed the pod. Before it goes looking for a snack. (All through December, all donations will be matched dollar for dollar.)

Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar Some Fearsome Fungi Watercolor 😈🎨🦇

Twas a night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse… … except for the pod. The pod was stirring because it was hungry. Feed the pod. Before it goes looking for a snack. (All through December, all donations will be matched dollar for dollar.)

An artifact from another era that also had many terrible struggles - but also a lot of love and wit and science fiction. :) Happy 100th Birthday, Dick Van Dyke - lover of The Twilight Zone!

A reminder that, through December, all donations will be matched dollar for dollar, thanks to some of our most generous supporters! So, if you can, please… … feed the pod. It’s always so hungry.

🐙 Sidra the Nebula Octopus 🌌✨ Hand sculpted from clay ⭐ #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #InverteFest #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡

May all our friends who celebrate The Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe have a joyful, centered, and peaceful celebration 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🇪🇨 🇬🇹 Watch out for each other. Que la bendición nos acompañe a todos bajo la luz de Nuestra Señora. ¡Celebremos con alegría! Feliz Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe.

Check out "The Children of the Event" by @carsonwinter.bsky.social, which starts as a kaiju story, then takes a surprising turn into... The Sneetches? and then settles into another, hyper-relevant story about how societies deal with change and transformation. Fascinating stuff.

The glory of storytelling is that you can write the whole thing in the voice of a gnat. You can shop in your own mind and make things out of the pile of glorious and horrible you've read yourself. You can create your own slang, your own layers of meaning. You don't have to play by the rules.

Fine, but it will never be as disturbing as our production of Chris Lewis Carter’s short story, ‘Kill Screen’ m.imdb.com/news/ni65611...

This is a terrific story from @carsonwinter.bsky.social, beautifully narrated by @fluidityaudio.bsky.social. I don’t think we’ve run a story with footnotes before. It works brilliantly, with huge thanks to @kibitzer.bsky.social for the audio wizardry! 🦑

🦑 Episode 1007… “The first person to see the wave was a fisherman.” The Children of the Event, by Carson Winter Narrator: Matt Arnold Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Graeme Dunlop pseudopod.org/2025/12/12/p... This story was first published in the collection ‘Portraits of Decay’

Friends, colleagues, chosen-family, and creatives: Guard your peace this holiday season. Despite all the unwellness around us in headlines, you still deserve a restful, loving, and recharging Holiday. Please take a break from the 24/7 news cycle if you need to. Reach out for support!

A reminder that, through December, all donations will be matched dollar for dollar, thanks to some of our most generous supporters! So, if you can, please… … feed the pod. It’s always so hungry.

It is that time of year again fam! We are in the end-of-year festive and gifting season :D (We love getting presents!!!!) Have you considered gifting a subscription to one of your loved ones? It’s the best kind of gift because it keeps on giving throughout the year XD escapeartists.net/support-ea/

Your ears need some crime fiction! Luckily, @pseudopod.org selected @paultremblay.bsky.social's "Do It" from 120 Murders to record for your listening pleasure. As Paul says, "Pizza, crime, and the Buzzcocks!" What else do you need? Listen: links.ruadanbooks.com/pseudopaul #BookSky #crimefiction

That would be a very bad idea.

Scorpio: Good things are headed your way. You can run, but you can't escape them. There's nowhere to go. They're everywhere. They've already taken most of the city, destroying the ennui of thousands. They are coming for you. THEY ARE COMING.

“A dog always remembers where he buries a bone.” 🌕 🐺 Give a Dog a Bone, by Richard E. Dansky Narrator: Trendane Sparks Host: Kat Day Artist: Graeme Dunlop pseudopod.org/2025/12/05/p... This story is a PseudoPod original

Well, if you want to listen to it, you can find it here...along with links to the first two parts, which were done around Thanksgiving the previous two years (since that's when the story takes place. bsky.app/profile/pseu...

My latest (corrected) writerly roundup for 2025 is now at mailchi.mp/f460bbcef2b9... And the latest Locus TOC with the stories I covered for December is at locusmag.com/2025/12/issu...

TIL theres an impact crater under the ice in Antarctica thats so big it's created a gravitational anomaly in the area where it hit

6 December 2025 Book of the day Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) A most potent horror story… or a record of deep depression? However you read it, it’s just great!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yel... #BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres

@mariahaskins.com is there a link to your roundup newsletter we can share? 💜

It's important to know intellectual property symbols. © stands for copyright, which is the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute a creative work. ™ stands for The Masquerade, a centuries-long undertaking by the Camarilla to ensure that mortal prey never learn of the Kindred in their midst.

And listening to Pseudopod this morning? Seeing @pookleblinky.bsky.social going on about liminal spaces… Are we all in a mood? Is it time to set this fucker off? (Audioslave)

Hey everyone. It’s a full moon… … aroooooOOOOooooo

“A dog always remembers where he buries a bone.” 🌕 🐺 Give a Dog a Bone, by Richard E. Dansky Narrator: Trendane Sparks Host: Kat Day Artist: Graeme Dunlop pseudopod.org/2025/12/05/p... This story is a PseudoPod original

Absolutely! It won’t be disturbing *at all*

Please feed the pod! It makes good stories and is constantly hungry!

Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!

Please, feed the pod (it does get hungry)

“Just think: right now the new Santa is flexing his ovipositor so he can leave eggs inside every chimney”

Not kidding when I say "Winter Savory" by D. Matthew Urban is one of my favorite Christmas Weird horror stories, right up there with "The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise" by Thomas Ligotti. You can read it and many other weird stories here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/shak...

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

The really scary part is actually when they asked me to prove, after almost seven years living in Massachusetts, that I know how to pronounce the place names

Awesome narration for this great story by @paultremblay.bsky.social from the anthology 120 MURDERS: ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...

Hey, want to hear a brilliant narrator absolutely nail a story by one of horror's modern greats? With excellent audio production and a host who grew up somewhere a lot like this?

The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor. The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.

Oh yes, great story! pseudopod.org/2022/09/16/p...

Just SOME of them.

“It’s early March 1993 and Generation X sorely needs an antihero.” Do It, by Paul Tremblay Narrator: Rosie Sentman Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Chelsea Davis pseudopod.org/2025/12/01/p... This story was first published in the anthology ‘120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era’

Calling British short science-fiction writers who have had stories published this year - window closing soon for Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Get your story in under the door!

Thank you, BCS 💜 You should, of course, support Beneath Ceaseless Skies if you can, too!

Zines in SF/F that are nonprofits AFAIK and thus worthy of your support on this Giving Tuesday. (Pls add others you know of!) BCS @strangehorizons.bsky.social @reckoningmag.bsky.social @escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org

Pleased to tell you that this month @pseudopod.org is celebrating my anthology 120 Murders and to start has produced @paultremblay.bsky.social's story "Do It" for audio! Check it out in the skeet below, then check out the book! ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...

My story “Do It” which first appeared in the excellent 120 MURDERS (ed @nmamatas.bsky.social ) lives in audio form via @pseudopod.org . Pizza, crime, and the Buzzcocks!