Pseudopod

Author : Richard E. Dansky Narrator : Trendane Sparks Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Artist : Frances Thrasher PseudoPod 1042: Jerry Got Bit – Part 1 is a PseudoPod original. C/W: implied child abuse, guns From the author: “One of the questions I’d always left for myself in previous stories in […]

Author : Daniel Roop Narrator : MN Wiggins Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 1041: Graves Basin is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “I’ve heard many times, from people wiser than me, that a horror writer fares best when they don’t waste their time trying to figure out what scares […]

Authors : Jordan Shiveley, Divya Kernan, Thea Liu and Jeanna Cammarano Narrators : Scott Campbell, Shweta Adhyam, Rebecca Wei Hsieh and Premee Mohamed Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop PseudoPod 1040: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIX (79): Ubi amor, ibi dolor is a PseudoPod original. For CWs, please see show notes below […]

Author : Tonja K. Johnson Narrator : Cherrae L. Stuart Host : Graeme Dunlop Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop “The Song of the Living” was originally published in 2025 in an anthology Tonja edited titled, “If Fists Could Speak: A Black Speculative Fiction Anthology” CW: harm to animals Please see the host commentary below for […]

Author : Gordon Grice Narrator : Tony Sarrecchia Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop PseudoPod 1038: Red Ripper is a PseudoPod original. C/W reference to alcohol and drug abuse Red Ripper By Gordon Grice Listen, I could still stretch half you pups if I felt like it. Sit down and learn something […]

Author : Angela Sylvaine Narrator : Laura Pearlman Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop “Playing Tricks” was first published in It Was All A Dream: An Anthology Of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right, edited by Brandon Applegate, and later in Angela Sylvaine’s collection, The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls C/W: mental […]

Author : M. Ian Bell Narrator : Kat Day Host : Graeme Dunlop Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop PseudoPod 1036: A Greater Dark is a PseudoPod original. C/W: Xenophobia, gun violence, harm to animals A Greater Dark by M. Ian Bell Gray sheets of rain as the door bangs in, Willard and his men materializing […]

Author : M. L. Krishnan Narrator : Suna Dasi Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Interstate Mohinis” was originally published in Diabolical Plots (June 2023) C/W: sexual violence, cannibalism, reference to drug abuse Interstate Mohinis by M. L. Krishnan In the way of Death runs the Vaitarani river. We are flayed open […]

Author : Elizabeth Winfield Narrator : Katherine Inskip Host : Richard E. Dansky Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 1034: Only In The Dark is a PseudoPod original. Only In The Dark by Elizabeth Winfield The crackling sound of static fills the room as the screen lights up. We see a simple landscape with some […]

Author : Michael Bettendorf Narrator : Norm Sherman Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Devil Is Fine” was first published in Cosmic Horror Monthly, in January 2025  C/W: strong body horror, gun violence, animal harm Author notes: “I was still pretty drunk on the experience of playing Red Dead Redemption 2 when […]

Authors : L. Marie Wood, Rio Lombana, Rajiv Moté and Rich Larson Narrators : Alexis Goble, Rae Lundberg, Pine Gonzalez and Kyle Akers Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Jacob Street” was first published in the Fall 2024 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction “Everyone Drinks At Sunrise” was […]

Author : Maegan Langer Narrator : Jonathan Danz Host : Graeme Dunlop Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop “Her Skin” first appeared in the anthology, They Walk Among Us: A Collection of Utah Horror (42 Books, April 2020). C/W: intimate partner abuse/control Notes contain possible spoilers: see Host Commentary below Her Skin By Maegan Langer He […]

Author : Jess Whitecroft Narrator : Louise Hewitt Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop PseudoPod 1030: Keeping Up With the Conan Doyles is a PseudoPod original. C/W: disordered eating, fat-shaming May 22nd is Conan Doyle’s birthday and Sherlock Holmes Day Jess Whitecroft’s Patreon Cautionary Tales: Photographing Fairies Keeping Up with the Conan […]

Author : R.J. Gerard Narrator : Bob Eccles Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop PseudoPod 1029: Feeding the Choke-Tree is a PseudoPod original. Okja   Feeding the Choke-Tree by R.J. Gerard “Straws,” I said. “Why straws?” “Because they’re cute, obviously,” said Foreman. “Don’t you think?” I squinted at them. Nearly a dozen […]

Author : Alan Baxter Narrator : Graeme Dunlop Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop “All The Eyes That See” was originally published in Cosmic Horror Monthly issue #42 (ed. Charles Tyra, December 2023); it also won the 2023 Australian Shadows Award for Short Fiction. C/W: child abuse, domestic abuse From the author: […]

Author : Nissa Harlow Narrator : Tina Connolly Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop PseudoPod 1027: This Thing of Darkness is a PseudoPod original. C/W: grief, approaching death Nissa Harlow: nissaharlow.com  Tina Connolly: tinaconnolly.com ‘Don’t Put a Rug on a Polished Floor’ public information film  Scarred for Life on Bluesky: @scarredforlife.bsky.social   Writers […]

Author : Meg Elison Narrator : Sofia Quintero Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop PseudoPod 1026: Thoughts and Prayers is a PseudoPod original. C/W: Gun violence, school shooting https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5317647/school-shooting-industry https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/school-shootings-database/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craft_(film) https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/do-the-police-have-an-obligation-to-protect-you/ Thoughts and Prayers by Meg Elison he’s over by the gym Maddie’s phone buzzed once and she glanced down […]

Author : Gregory Marlow Narrator : Brian Lieberman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop PseudoPod 1025: Impostor Syndrome is a PseudoPod original. The Mighty Boosh-Back to the Crunch Impostor Syndrome By Gregory Marlow Looking back, the first red flag was during the job interview, when Chad said their target demographic was males, […]

Authors : Arthur Machen, D. Matthew Urban, Courtney Farr and Chelsea Davis Narrators : Kaitlyn Zivanovich, Elie Hirschman, Kat Day and Rae Lundberg Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop “Witchcraft” was first printed in Ornaments in Jade, 1924 “How I Turned My Little Brother Human” was first published in Shaky Pictures of […]

Author : Elliott Gish Narrator : Kitty Sarkozy Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop C/W: Emotional control, intimate partner abuse ‘Grandifolia’ is a PseudoPod original Grandifolia By Elliott Gish The first time I do everything the way I’m supposed to. I wait for the new moon and walk into the woods at […]