Stories – PseudoPod

Authors : Holly Hefner, Sam Woodcock, Mar Vincent and Arthur H. Manners Narrators : Alethea Kontis, Dani Daly, Preston Buttons and Thomas Busby Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Wishing Angel of Suffolk County” is a PseudoPod original “John Must Die” was first published in Flash Fiction Magazine on 9th February […]

Author : Orrin Grey  Narrator : Tol Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 1051: A Ghost of a Flea is a PseudoPod original. C/W: explicit sexual content The Ghost of a Flea (miniature painting by William Blake) Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright   Quote Investigator: There Are Things Known, and Things Unknown, and […]

Author : Cynthia Zhang Narrator : Kitty Sarkozy Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 1050: This House of Hopes, This House of Bones is a PseudoPod original. C/W: domestic violence, murder This House of Hopes, This House of Bones By Cynthia Zhang My husband is home again. I cannot hear him […]

Author : Ayida Shonibar Narrator : Shweta Adhyam Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop “An Inordinate Amount of Interest” was originally published in the Wilted Pages anthology in 2023 and reprinted in The Skull & Laurel in 2025 C/W: exploitation, violence, reference to misgendering, 2nd person PoV An Inordinate Amount of Interest […]

Author : P.C. Verrone Narrator : Laurie McDougall Host : Dani Daly Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop PseudoPod 1048: The Work of Smith House is a PseudoPod original.  C/W: Spoiler Warning cultural appropriation, reference to suicide, male on female violence [collapse] “The Work of Smith House” is a PseudoPod original The Work of Smith House […]

Author : Annie ZH Sun Narrator : Chang Yiun Yee Host : Graeme Dunlop Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop PseudoPod 1047: Growing Life is a PseudoPod original. C/W: strong body horror, death of a parent Growing Life By Annie ZH Sun  Lucy didn’t immediately notice her dead Mama in the middle of the playground. She […]

Author : Todd Keisling Narrator : Dave Robison Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Graeme Dunlop “Annie’s Heart is a Haunted House” was first published in THE HIDEOUS BOOK OF HIDDEN HORRORS, edited by Doug Murano, and was later published in Todd Keisling’s Stoker-nominated collection, COLD, BLACK & INFINITE C/W: bullying, harm to children […]

Author : Nicole Givens Kurtz Narrator : Stephanie Malia Morris Host : Scott Campbell Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Turquoise Waters” was first published in Women of the Weird West, edited by KC Grifant, in 2026 C/W: guns, misogyny, strong violence Author’s note: “I lived in New Mexico for six years where I taught Navajo, […]

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman Narrator : Leanna Renee Hieber Host : Kat Day Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Yellow Wall Paper” was first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. C/W:emotional abuse/control, medical gaslighting Why I Wrote The Yellow Wall Paper, by by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Wikisource: The Yellow Wall Paper  […]

Author : Richard E. Dansky Narrator : Trendane Sparks Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Artist : Frances Thrasher PseudoPod 1043: Jerry Got Bit – Part 2 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 : 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: […]