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Stories – PseudoPod
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PseudoPod 1037: Playing Tricks
4d agoTap to summarize“Playing Tricks” was first published in It Was All A Dream: An Anthology Of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right, edited by Brandon Applegate, and later in Angela Sylvaine’s collection, The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls C/W: mental illness, gaslighting, child abuse Dina had never seen her dad cry until the day he left. His face was puffy and wet with tears when he… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1036: A Greater Dark
2w agoTap to summarizePseudoPod 1036: A Greater Dark is a PseudoPod original. C/W: Xenophobia, gun violence, harm to animals Gray sheets of rain as the door bangs in, Willard and his men materializing in that opaque haze and shaking the wet from their long coats. They assess the room with eyes accustomed to staring. Move across the floor and toward a table in the back… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1035: Interstate Mohinis
3w agoTap to summarize“Interstate Mohinis” was originally published in Diabolical Plots (June 2023) C/W: sexual violence, cannibalism, reference to drug abuse In the way of Death runs the Vaitarani river. We are flayed open to its woe. We are always aware of its currents in gurgling lungfuls of unease. Time spun in recursive loops since I died in a scream of metal and flame and… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1034: Only In The Dark
4w agoTap to summarizePseudoPod 1034: Only In The Dark is a PseudoPod original. The crackling sound of static fills the room as the screen lights up. We see a simple landscape with some rocks and trees. The outline of a bird appears, its wings flapping softly. The bird takes flight and the scene shifts to a small room. It looks cozy. It has big soft armchairs, shelves full of toys, a desk… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1033: Devil is Fine
Jun 12Tap to summarize“Devil Is Fine” was first published in Cosmic Horror Monthly, in January 2025 C/W: strong body horror, gun violence, animal harm Author notes: “I was still pretty drunk on the experience of playing Red Dead Redemption 2 when I wrote this story and wanted to write a Weird western that took place in the plains where I’m from – and of course, add my touch of Weird/ Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1032: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVIII (78): Terraeque urbesque recedant
Jun 5Tap to summarize“Jacob Street” was first published in the Fall 2024 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction “Everyone Drinks At Sunrise” was previously published as ‘Depredadora’ in the anthology Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond from Dark Holme Publishing “Othertongue” is a PseudoPod Original “Six Best Things to Do in Dim (and/or Lost) Carcosa” is a PseudoPod original C/ Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1031: Her Skin
May 29Tap to summarize“Her Skin” first appeared in the anthology, They Walk Among Us: A Collection of Utah Horror (42 Books, April 2020). C/W: intimate partner abuse/control Notes contain possible spoilers: see Host Commentary below He found her in Hells Canyon. After that, my friend Oss liked to brag about how he’d gone fishing in the Snake River and caught a wife instead… Source
Transcribe →PseudoPod 1030: Keeping Up With the Conan Doyles
May 22Tap 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 15Tap 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 8Tap 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
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