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“A Night of Many Months” was first published in Every Day Fiction 25th Dec 2017 He’d wondered, when he started the job, why he needed a belt with so many holes. Now he knew–it fitted around him twice and felt like it needed tightening again. It took months to visit every home in one night and he’d lived every minute, surviving on what was left for him. In some houses it was mince…

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“The Wild Wood” was originally published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1957 Content Warning: Spoiler Sexual Assault, Abuse, Captivity [collapse] Do you find most perfumes reek of banality and bad French puns? Do you want perfumes that resonate with your dark heart and blackened soul? Do you want perfume that speaks to you…

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“The Woman Out of the Attic” was originally published in Flame Tree’s Haunted House anthology Out this week is The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters. This coming-of-age horror novel focuses on a group who have named themselves the Dead Girls Club in celebration of the generally nameless victims of serial killers. They played a game when they were kids, leaving one of them dead.

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PseudoPod 678: The Boy Who Killed His Mother is a PseudoPod original. Content Warning: Spoiler gun violence [collapse] Nobody wanted to play with the boy who killed his mother. Nick Metcalf understood why in the same way he understood why the sun rose and set. Comprehension was simple for six year olds; things just were. So even though he accepted the other kids…

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“When a Beast Looks Up at the Stars” was first published in Orrin’s third collection Guignol and Other Sardonic Tales Werewolf Ambulance Podcast: http://werewolfambulance.libsyn.com/ Pure Cinema Podcast: http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/purecinema Do you find most perfumes reek of banality and bad French puns? Do you want perfume that speaks to you…

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PseudoPod 676: Things My Father Taught Me is a PseudoPod original. Spoiler Bigotry, genocide [collapse] Spoiler This story is based upon Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart,” though it’s set in modern-day Nigeria rather than colonial times. Beyond the locale, it has a few deliberate parallels. I loved how Achebe qualified the characters’ actions with wise sayings…

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The New Mother was first published in Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise, Macmillan and Co., 1882. Audio used in this episode: Spoiler https://archive.org/details/joel_pulham_0307/03_joel_260307_knitting_skylarks.mp3 https://freesound.org/people/viznoman/sounds/267306/ https://freesound.org/people/ross_sinc/sounds/444793/ [collapse] 1 The children were always…

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Dust was first published in Mercy and Other Stories Much has developed since the day in April I stumbled out of the Quiet Garden with blood running freely down my cheek. The intensity that has arisen over the months cannot be quelled, and I find myself engaged now in a monstrous negotiation, the nature of which I scarcely comprehend, and one that shifts ground continually.

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“Venio” was originally published in Vastarien, Spring 2019 Watch out. I’m going to tell you about something, and then . . . you’ll know. You won’t be able to un-know or forget why you should want to. And even if you decide you don’t believe it now, you’ll still have thought about it long enough to make that call, so it’ll still be too late. Because now it knows you know…

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PseudoPod 672: In Regards to Your Concerns About Your ScareBnB Experience and The Halloween Parade is a PseudoPod original. Effie Seiberg: “As a card-carrying wuss, this is the first horror-eque piece I’ve ever written. This story finally lets me say that my work can be found in every single Escape Artists podcast, which is very exciting because I’m a wuss when it comes to horror and never…

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