“Zanders the Magnificent” was first published in Fireside Magazine Issue 21 in March 2015. “My handsome, darling boys,” Mrs. Zander said, placing a hand on each of their shoulders. “Which one of you wants to be alive today?” Robby and Bobby turned their heads inward at the same time, staring at each other with identical dark eyes. Bobby blinked, followed shortly by Robby’s blink…

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PseudoPod 668: Flash on the Borderlands XLIX: Dirty Deeds is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler assault, confinement, sexual violence [collapse] “Baby Fingers” is a PseudoPod original “Polaroid, 1979” is a PseudoPod original “Metal, Sex, Monsters” was originally published in Gamut #5 in May, 2017 Metal, Sex, Monsters: “As you might be able to tell…

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“Allochton” was first published in Letters to Lovecraft: Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness Hey PseudoPod family, is your TO READ pile getting shorter? We have a solution for you. Coming out this week is Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction. This is written by our friends Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson who host the Know Fear Cast along with Matt Saye.

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PseudoPod 666: Breaking the Waters & The Second Coming is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler Sexual assault [collapse] “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats was first printed in The Dial in November 1920. “Breaking the Waters” is a PseudoPod original released jointly with Nightlight, a horror podcast featuring creepy tales written and performed by Black creatives…

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The Thames Valley Catastrophe originally appeared in The Strand Magazine, December 1897 Hey PseudoPod family, is your TO READ pile getting shorter? We have a solution for you. Coming out this week is Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction. This is written by our friends Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson who host the Know Fear Cast along with Matt Saye.

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“My Boy Builds Coffins” first appeared in Black Static, May-June 2015 I Susan found the first one when she was tidying his room. Chris was at school, and she’d been sprucing up the house before popping off to collect him after the afternoon session. The ground floor was done; the lounge was spick-and-span (as her mother had loved to say) and the kitchen was so clean it belonged…

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‘Indian Giver’ first appeared in the collection, Probably Monsters, in 2015. It was reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year (Volume 8). Content warnings: Spoiler Racial violence, genocide [collapse] Subscribe to the British Fantasy Award nominated newsletter, The Full Lid by Alasdair Stuart. Every man carries his share of ghosts…

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PseudoPod 661: The Happiest Place is a PseudoPod original. Spoiler A certain mouse-themed theme park has always been an object of fascination for me, and the more I read about it, the more strange an imitation of reality it appears to be. The lengths that employees are required to go to create a seamless fantasy experience for their guests seems altogether dystopian, and it didn’t…

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PseudoPod 660: Tiny Teeth is a PseudoPod original. From the author: “This story was inspired by and is dedicated to all the people around the world who have been forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, especially those who didn’t survive it.” Content Warnings: Spoiler fantasies of self harm, politics (abortion) [collapse] I risk walking to the doctor’s…

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