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LOVED this one

Loved this at first sight. Psychic grunt work, cursed objects, and a two second cameo from one of the most famous cursed objects in all horror.

I adore the weirdness of this story. It stands on its own perfectly, but it’s also one of those rare cases where I thought that I would really love to read a novel set in this world. Or perhaps a whole series of short stories…

And @alasdairstuart.com’s hosting track is, as always, marvellous

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PseudoPod 1019: Superstition The strangest gig I ever had was fetish destruction. In July of 1995 I answered an ad in a newspaper asking for a reliable messenger and administrative assistant. My interview took place in a…

“The strangest gig I ever had was fetish destruction.”

Superstition, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrator: Rae Lundberg
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis

‘Superstition’ was first published in the anthology 120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era

Maggie Gyllenhaal: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the bride!
Gyllenhaal: the exclamation point denotes excitement
Gyllenhaal: please clap

I’m looking for speakers for a London event on the science of Star Trek. I’d really appreciate suggestions from underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially PoC/global majority.
(10 min, central London, Sept, currently unpaid but I’m trying to fix that)
Feel free to message

The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that's not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night

Happy Friday! 👻

PseudoPod 343: Magdala Amygdala | PseudoPod I have excellent health insurance. There’s no bliss for me. What I and every other upstanding, gainfully-employed, fully-covered Type Three citizen gets is an allotment of refrigerated capsules…

We were recently asked about this old episode, prompting a re-listen. If you haven’t heard ‘Magdala Amygdala’, by Lucy Snyder, you should check it out 🧠 🩸

And a reminder that Patreon supporters can get our back catalogue in their podcatcher to listen to at leisure!

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When we talk about what it means to be a writer it’s easy to think about how we support other writers, bookstores, journals, literary organizations, or libraries. But I think general literacy is a huge issue we don’t think about enough.All writers should have a vested interest in this.

It is Women in Horror Month!

Drop names, men:

What woman in horror do you admire the most?

Let me know what you're reading for Women in Horror Month. I'm currently reading Charlene Elsby, and Rebecca Campbell.

A banner shows the little ghosts logo and says “Little Ghosts Book Club Presents GREEN FUSE BURNING by Tiffany Morris Friday March 20 6-8pm”

The back cover description of the book… The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars. After the death of her estranged father, artist Rita struggles with grief and regret. There was so much she wanted to ask him-about his childhood, their family, and the Mi'kmaq language and culture from which Rita feels disconnected. But when Rita's girlfriend Molly forges an artist's residency application on her behalf, winning Rita a week to paint at an isolated cabin, Rita is both furious and intrigued. The residency is located where her father grew up. On the first night at the cabin, Rita wakes to strange sounds. Was that a body being dragged through the woods? When she questions the locals about the cabin's history, they are suspicious and unhelpful. Ignoring her unease, Rita gives in to dark visions that emanate from the forest's lake and the surrounding swamp. She feels its pull, channelling that energy into art like she's never painted before. But the uncanny visions become more insistent, more intrusive, and Rita discovers that in the swamp's decay the end of one life is sometimes the beginning of another.

Little Ghosts Book Club is reading GREEN FUSE BURNING @tiffmorris.bsky.social

After the death of her father, Rita’s artist residency in a cabin near where he grew up becomes more haunting than she could have imagined.

Join us Friday March 20th 6-8pm for snacks and chats about this great novella.👻

Ignyte finalist medal, showing the metal medal and the full colour postcard with the artwork. Artwork shows a figure holding a sword surrounded by flames, art by Nilah Magruder

It’s so beautiful 😍
Thank you, @theignyteawards.bsky.social! 🔥
I’m so proud of the work we do @pseudopod.org 🦑

A light grey notebook with text reading COSMIC LOUNGE above a side image of red, white and grey transformer Prowl sticking his tongue out in profile and above a green vortex of tape with an audio cassette at its denture. Next to it is a dark blue notebook with a red and blue Starfleet Academy pendant on it next to a green bird in dungarees excitedly reading under the title ZINES FOREVER. Below that is a mass of yellow tentacles holding weapons surrounding the words The Cult of the Superfluous Tentacle’

Notebook swap! Outgoing on the left with stickers from the amazing @jarofloosescrews.bsky.social and @cloudyappleart.bsky.social .

Incoming on the right with a zines forever from Starfleet Academy, @cloudyappleart.bsky.social again and @kbaczynski.bsky.social

Aw, thanks, Alan! It was a pleasure and an honour to chat to Michael!

Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence Amazon.com: Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence: 9781960721587: Powers-Schaub, Ariel, Smith, Zoë Rose: Books

For #WomenInHorrorMonth, treat yourself to a book written and edited by women, and the incredible cover art was by a woman. The 2000s are in again, look back at the influential horror of that decade. Paperback, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook available.

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because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!

a cartoon drawing of three dogs with a moon in the background and the letters rdb on the bottom Alt: a cartoon drawing of three wolves dancing in front of a full moon in the background

Did somebody say something about a full moon?

PseudoPod 844: Gothic Duo: The Oval Portrait & Not More Lovely than Full of Glee | PseudoPod The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of…

I have historical horror shorts free online! I'd love if new readers found my work this #WiHM via @pseudopod.org!
1 A sequel to Poe pseudopod.org/2022/12/23/p...
2 "Charged" a man struck by lightning then wields it pseudopod.org/2021/06/25/p...
3 My take on Lovecraft
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Lovely adaption! At times the wording felt so close to Poe's original that I saw the same remembered images in my mind's eye. A nod to the guy who read it as well, you both did a great job in keeping an old master alive!

If you're a Woman in Horror, be it artist, illustrator, author, writer, reviewer, director, WHATEVER-

Say hi and link to your work here!

Let's make a thread of Horror from Women that people can peruse & discover some cool, new stuff

I'll start, in the comments/replies :)
♀️🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚🎨 ✍️ 📽️🩸 #wihm

Hm. Given there are two aquarians at PseudoPod Towers, has anyone checked the moat…

Pisces: Today you will doom your people when you mistake the arrival of strangers from across the sea for the prophesied return of an old god.

Not in this direction (it’s worth a shot with an anthology/collection story into general subs, as for this call we’re thinking about the book as a whole as well as individual pieces)

*PseudoPod
dammit

oh well, at least you know a flawed human wrote this, eh? 🦑

The guidelines are very clear. It has to be 2026 (no, December 2025 isn’t “close enough”) and it has to be in an anthology/collection book.

If you’re still not sure, please reach out.

We’ll talk more about this call at a later date, but now, we cannot stress this enough: there is nothing, really, absolutely NOTHING to be gained by trying to dodge around subs guidelines.

The only possible outcome is slightly aggrieved editors. Do not try it.

PeeudoPod is currently open to submissions for ANTHOLOGY or COLLECTION (not magazines or other periodicals) reprints PUBLISHED OR DUE TO BE PUBLISHED in 2026

We’ve just rejected multiple subs that don’t meet these guidelines.

Please read submissions guidelines!