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PseudoPod
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The Sound of Horror
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PseudoPod 1030: Keeping Up With the Conan Doyles
May 2200:44:34Tap to summarizePseudoPod 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 From the Journals of the Society for Psychical Research. Interview with Angela Patterson, housekeeper of Latham Hall… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1029: Feeding the Choke-Tree
May 1500:27:00Tap to summarizePseudoPod 1029: Feeding the Choke-Tree is a PseudoPod original. Okja “Straws,” I said. “Why straws?” “Because they’re cute, obviously,” said Foreman. “Don’t you think?” I squinted at them. Nearly a dozen were inching around his feet. As I watched, one flopped onto his boot, looking like a second shoelace. I guessed you could have called them cute—if you happened to be… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1028: All The Eyes That See
May 800:50:21Tap to summarize“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: “This story is me once again exploring the absolute weirdness of rural Australia, like I continue to do in my Tales From The Gulp books… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1027: This Thing of Darkness
May 100:41:52Tap to summarizePseudoPod 1027: This Thing of Darkness is a PseudoPod original. C/W: grief, approaching death Nissa Harlow: nissaharlow.com Tina Connolly: tinaconnolly.com ‘Don’t Put a Rug on a Polished Floor’ public information film Scarred for Life on Bluesky: @scarredforlife.bsky.social Writers from the Antarctic call Anthologies and Collections 2026 call 7… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1026: Thoughts and Prayers
Apr 2400:35:26Tap to summarizePseudoPod 1026: Thoughts and Prayers is a PseudoPod original. C/W: Gun violence, school shooting https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5317647/school-shooting-industry https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/school-shootings-database/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craft_(film) https://www.findlaw.com/ Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1025: Impostor Syndrome
Apr 1700:45:07Tap to summarizePseudoPod 1025: Impostor Syndrome is a PseudoPod original. The Mighty Boosh-Back to the Crunch Looking back, the first red flag was during the job interview, when Chad said their target demographic was males, ages thirteen to seventeen. “That’s pretty specific,” I said. He shrugged. “Market research.” If I had been using the critical thinking skills I obtained from five… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1024: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVII (77): The Only Enemy You Can’t Live Without
Apr 1000:37:41Tap to summarize“Witchcraft” was first printed in Ornaments in Jade, 1924 “How I Turned My Little Brother Human” was first published in Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, edited by Eric Raglin, in September 2025 “Visit Seahaven” was first published in Factor Four magazine in 2024 “Get Nourished” is a PseudoPod original C/W: pregnancy and pregnancy loss, death in the family, child death… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1023: Grandifolia
Apr 3Tap to summarizeW: Emotional control, intimate partner abuse ‘Grandifolia’ is a PseudoPod original The first time I do everything the way I’m supposed to. I wait for the new moon and walk into the woods at midnight. I carry a jar of pig’s blood and wear a wreath of nettles, ignoring as best I can the stinging on my scalp. I tread silently, carefully, one bare foot settling deep into the dirt… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1019: Superstition
Mar 6Tap to summarize‘Superstition’ was first published in the anthology 120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era Remote Viewing Clerks 1 Donnie Darko The Destructors Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand by Primitive Radio Gods The strangest gig I ever had was fetish destruction. In July of 1995 I answered an ad in a newspaper asking for… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 999: Barghest
Oct 24Tap to summarize‘Barghest’ was first published Modern Folklore: A Comma Press Course Anthology, in August 2025 C/W: bullying From the author: “The idea for Barghest came from reading legends surrounding the existence of mythical ‘black dogs.’ These were supernatural, ghostlike, or demonic hellhounds. When I discovered that the legend of one of these creatures, the Barghest… Source
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