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PseudoPod 651: The Coven of Dead Girls is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler Kidnapping, confinement, predation [collapse] Spoiler I was an invisible teenage girl once. I was lucky to survive the situations I put myself in. I saw a story about teenage girls held captive for years, who escaped. And I wondered about those who didn’t live, but died…

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“The Detweiler Boy” was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1977. Thank you to Vaughne Hansen of the Virginia Kidd Agency for helping us secure the rights to this story. This episode is dedicated to horror hosts in general, and Sinister Seymour in particular. The room had been cleaned with pine oil disinfectant and smelled like a public toilet.

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“Whatever Comes After Calcutta” first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in November 2017, and was included in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten. Content warning: Spoiler lynching, politics [collapse] Exerpt from interview of David Erik Nelson about “Whatever Comes After Calcutta”. Full interview can be found here.

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“The Canal” was first published in Weird Tales, December 1927 and was later made into a TV episode on Rod Serling’s popular series, Night Gallery. A surprisingly in depth look at the origin of the Campbell quote Alasdair uses: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/05/23/campbell-treasure/ Past the sleeping city the river sweeps; along its left bank the old canal creeps.

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“The Algorithms for Love” was originally published by Strange Horizons in 2004. Content warning: Spoiler self harm, grief, loss of a child [collapse] So long as the nurse is in the room to keep an eye on me, I am allowed to dress myself and get ready for Brad. I slip on an old pair of jeans and a scarlet turtleneck sweater. I’ve lost so much weight that the…

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“The Undertakers” was first published in The Second Jungle Book in 1895 Dream Foundry is a new organization helping all professionals, especially beginners, working in the speculative arts. Back their Kickstarter to make sure they last and grow, and to get yourself some nifty rewards. Website: www.dreamfoundry.org Twitter: @dream_foundry Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/

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“The Gerunding” was first published in the October 1987 issue of National Lampoon “’Mama!’ Is a Four-Letter Word” was published in IMPACT Press (1999) and Chronogram (2002) This episode of PseudoPod is brought to you by AMC Shudder. Check out Shudder’s great content at shudder.com and use promo code pseudopod for a free 30-day trial. What’s waiting for you in this trial?

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“The City of the Gone Away” was first published as “The Gone Away: A Tale of Medical Science and Commercial Thrift” in the San Francisco Examiner, December 2, 1888. I was born of poor because honest parents, and until I was twenty-three years old never knew the possibilities of happiness latent in another person’s coin. At that time Providence threw me into a deep sleep and revealed to…

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PseudoPod 642: HORROR COMEDY SHOWCASE: The House that Dripped Character is a PseudoPod original. From the endcap: https://radiopublic.com/decoder-ring-85nNdm/ep/s1!45562 The author’s thoughts on the story: “The central idea was a joke I made to my wife while we were watching reality TV. I owe it to her for convincing me to expand the idea behind that joke into a complete story.”…

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