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“The Flowers I Grew for Her” by Avra Margariti Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra's work haunts publications such as Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F&SF, Podcastle, Asimov’s, Vastarien, and Reckoning. You can find Avra on twitter @avramargariti.

“Wives at the End of the World” by Avra Margariti Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra's work haunts publications such as Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F&SF, Podcastle, Asimov’s, Vastarien, and Reckoning. You can find Avra on twitter @avramargariti.

This week on the Drabblecast- a melancholy story about loss, abandonment, and the perils of old magic. Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra's work haunts publications such as Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F&SF, Podcastle, Asimov's, Vastarien, and Reckoning. You […]

In this episode, we are discussing Christa Carmen's meta Gothic novel The Daughters of Block Island with special guest Crystal O'Leary-Davidson. Crystal O'Leary-Davidson, writing as C. O. Davidson has published fiction in PseudoPod, Cemetery Gates, and in anthologies, most recently Hard to Find: An Anthology of New Southern Gothic. Her story, “The Mark,” in Vastarien, was recognized by editor Ellen Datlow in her anthology of The Best of Horror of the Year, Vol. 15 as one of the works of “notable dark fiction in 2022.” An English professor at Middle Georgia State University, she teaches classes in the Gothic, the Weird, and slasher horror films, and she co-edited a book of critical essays, Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable. Currently she is writing on the American mall in teen horror. Davidson serves on the board of Broadleaf Writers, and is one of the founding members of the Atlanta Chapter of the Horror Writers Association.She makes her home in Georgia amongst the pine trees with her husband, the novelist Andy Davidson, and their clowder of beloved cats.   NEWS: We have a Bookshop.org shop now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses.  Recommended in this episode: B.R. Myers's A Dreadful Splendor and I Saw the TV Glow  UP NEXT: a very special Halloween episode! Buy our books here, including our newest Toil and Trouble.  

“The Capes We Wear” by Avra Margariti Manawaker’s Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker books: https://payhip.com/Manawaker More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws Author Bio: Avra Margariti is a queer author and poet from Greece. Avra's work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Baffling Magazine, Lackington's, Daily Science Fiction, The Future Fire, Best Microfiction, and elsewhere. You can find Avra on twitter (@avramargariti)

“A Taste of Ocean” by Avra Margariti Manawaker’s Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker books: https://payhip.com/Manawaker More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws Author Bio: Avra Margariti is a queer author and poet from Greece. Avra's work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Baffling Magazine, Lackington's, Daily Science Fiction, The Future Fire, Best Microfiction, and elsewhere. You can find Avra on twitter (@avramargariti)

Timothy G. Huguenin is a hillbilly writer of the strange and spooky, living in the dark Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. He is the author of the books Little One, When the Watcher Shakes, and Unknowing, I Sink. His short stories have appeared in various publications including Vastarien, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and The Saturday Evening Post.

Weekly Shoutout: cruzfolio.com/now! -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling writer and editor C.M. Crockford! (www.cmcrockford.net) About our guest: C.M. Crockford is the author of the full-length collection Birdsongs (Alien Buddha Press, 2024) as well as two chapbooks, Mark The Place (Thirty West Publishing, 2020) and Adore (Iron Lung Press, 2018). His essays, poetry, and fiction have been featured in The Cleveland Review of Books, Abducted Cow Magazine, CineSPEAK Journal, Vastarien, Serotonin Poetry, and Vast Chasm Magazine among many others. He also co-hosted The Barn: A Podcast About The Shield alongside Mason Maguire. Otherwise, Crockford reads crime fiction, collects punk badges and stim toys, and lives in Philadelphia with his cat Wally. Socials: https://www.instagram.com/cm_crockford/ https://twitter.com/cm_crockford BIRDSONGS, now available from Alien Buddha Press: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CV5X9RCB/ ABOUT BIRDSONGS: "Birdsongs: Poems 2020-2023" by C.M. Crockford is a mesmerizing collection that transcends the boundaries of language to immerse readers in a kaleidoscope of emotions. Crockford's evocative verses paint vibrant landscapes where desire, resilience, and nostalgia take flight like free-spirited birds. From the raw intensity of "Animal" to the reflective echoes of "Winter's Visit," this book invites you on a poetic journey through the intricate melodies of life. With each poem, Crockford unveils a world where nature, love, and societal reflections blend seamlessly, creating a symphony of words that resonate long after the final verse. "Birdsongs" is an enchanting testament to the power of poetry, capturing the essence of existence with a grace that is both timeless and profoundly relevant. In Birdsongs, C.M. Crockford gives us poems that take flight—but expect turbulence. This collection soars through sweaty basements, punk bars, and the harsh realities of contemporary life. With accessible language and animalistic passion, readers will find that these poems “hum hungry energy” and trill with biting candor. —Adam Gianforcaro, author of Every Living Day (Thirty West Publishing House, 2023) Thanks for this wonderful conversation, C.M.! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j

Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster and Rhysling-nominated poet with the fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra's work haunts publications such as Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F &SF, Podcastle, Asimov's, Vastarien and Reckoning. You can find Avra on Twitter @AvraMargariti. Together we discussed Avra's early publishing experience and the inspiration she found in Greek authors writing in English. Avra also expressed her concern about the retelling of Greek mythology in Anglo -Saxon literature and the commodification of Greek myths for branding purposes. Finally, Avra highlighted the importance of preserving the Greek vibe and folklore in writing, and she offered advice for writers starting to write in a second language.

Hey kids! You have your moss ready? Good, because you'll need it when the Abyss gang chat with Kyle Winkler and Laurel Hightower about Winkler's Grasshands! Before they dive into libraries and nature, they discuss the last issue of Vastarien, Hailey Piper's Even the Worm Will Turn, From the Belly by Emmett Nahil, Richard Mirabella's Brother & Sister Enter the Forest, Michael Cisco's Pest, and Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk. Now, start eating that moss and listen in!!

Main fiction: "Side Effects May Vary" by Avra MargaritiAvra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra's work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Asimov's, Strange Horizons, and F&SF. You can find Avra on twitter (@avramargariti).This story originally appeared in Fusion Fragment #8, 2021.Narrated by: Jen AlbertJen Albert is an editor, writer, narrator, and former entomologist. She is an acquiring editor at ECW Press in Toronto, where she specializes in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction. Jen was co-editor of PodCastle, a fantasy-fiction podcast and magazine, for five years and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Ignyte Award, the Aurora Award, the World Fantasy Award, and has won the British Fantasy Award for her editorial work.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Low-budget movie mogul Roger Corman sets out to produce a papier maché blockbuster adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of psychological suspense. Loosely following the plot of the original, Poe is tasked with taking care of a Scottish castle belonging to a certain formerly popular children's author. But uh oh! His wacky pal Stephen King arrives... with his all-amateur band, the Rock Bottom Remainders, in tow! When an electrical blackout results in the Pals smashing a priceless collection of literary awards, it's a race to get the castle presentable again before the gender-critical reptilian returns!Content notes: swearing, raised voices, sexual references, loud noises, discussion of transphobia, death including drowning.CAST: Edgar Allan Poe —  RODRIGO BORGES Mary Shelley — REBECCA D'SOUZA Clive Barker — SISTER INDICA Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON HP Lovecraft — ROBIN JOHNSON with Roger Corman — BITTER KARELLA Neil Gaiman/Dario Argento — DEXTER HOWARD David DeCoteau — BRAD BARNES Patricia Highsmith — KATE DAVOLI Lord Byron — JOEL A.S. BUTLER Percy Shelley — LOU SUTCLIFFE Secretary — MARNIE WARNER and special guest star HAILEY PIPER as She Who Must Not Be Named Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, The Worm and His Kings series, and other books of dark fiction. She is also the author of over one hundred short stories appearing in Pseudopod, Vastarien, Cast of Wonders, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and various other publications. She lives with her wife in Maryland, where their occult rituals are secret. Find Hailey at haileypiper.com. Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart is available in Volume 2 of his collected works on Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2148/pg2148-images.htmlA transcript of this episode can be found at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/s01e08-the-tale-of-the-tell-tale-heart/transcriptThe Midnight Pals is the creation of Bitter Karella ©Subscribe to Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Cast, Goodpods or wherever you find podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please consider leaving us a rating or review. For more information, see https://midnightpals.com

UFO Undercover Hosted By Joe Montaldo Tonight's guest SEAN PATRICK HAZLETT Author Tonight Where Talking Aliens and UFOs The Authors Quill normal air time is 3 to 5 pm cst running late to day dto storms SEAN PATRICK HAZLETT Sean Patrick Hazlett is a technologist, finance professional, and science fiction, fantasy, horror, and non-fiction author and editor working in Silicon Valley. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, and over forty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Terraform, Galaxy's Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others. He is also the editor of the Weird World War III and Weird World War IV anthologies. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association. In graduate school, Sean assisted future Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter at the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project where he developed strategic options for confronting Iran's nuclear program. For this analysis, he won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Sean also worked as an intelligence analyst focusing on strategic war games and simulations for the Pentagon, where he drew on his experience training the US military as a cavalry officer in the US Army during the Iraq and Afghan wars. Sean holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and bachelor's degrees in History and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Enter your email Join my email list By clicking submit, you agree to share your email address with the site owner and Mailchimp to receive marketing, updates, and other emails from the site owner. Use the unsubscribe link in those emails to opt out at any time. SHARE THIS: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SEARCH Search for: Search … AUTHORS Sean Patrick Hazlett Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: December 11th 2022 Update Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: October 19th 2022 Update Win 5 Free Books in September 2022 and Other General Updates! Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: August 5th 2022 Update Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: June 9th 2022 Update WEIRD WORLD WAR: CHINA Launch Date January 2, 2024 31 days to go. December 2023 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 « Dec FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER BLOG STATS 11,311 hits What You Can Do to Save the UAP Amendment with Steve Bassett This One Thing Made Them Ban Red Night Vision Goggles in Vietnam (with Mark Anthony) Clearing Out Negative Energies with a Little Help from the Stars with Jeffrey Seelman The Afterlife Frequency with Mark Anthony MH370 and the Curious Case of Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin with Ashton Forbes CATEGORIES Analysis Delaware Editing Hiking Pleasant Hill Promotion Reviews Sasquan Uncategorized Weird World War III Weird World War III Authors Weird World War IV Writing Writing Statistics and Revenue What You Can Do to Save the UAP Amendment with Steve Bassett This One Thing Made Them Ban Red Night Vision Goggles in Vietnam (with Mark Anthony) Clearing Out Negative Energies with a Little Help from the Stars with Jeffrey Seelman The Afterlife Frequency with Mark Anthony MH370 and the Curious Case of Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin with Ashton Forbes

UFO Undercover Hosted By Joe Montaldo Tonight's guest SEAN PATRICK HAZLETT Author Tonight Where Talking Aliens and UFOs The Authors Quill normal air time is 3 to 5 pm cst running late to day dto storms SEAN PATRICK HAZLETT Sean Patrick Hazlett is a technologist, finance professional, and science fiction, fantasy, horror, and non-fiction author and editor working in Silicon Valley. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, and over forty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Terraform, Galaxy's Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others. He is also the editor of the Weird World War III and Weird World War IV anthologies. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association. In graduate school, Sean assisted future Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter at the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project where he developed strategic options for confronting Iran's nuclear program. For this analysis, he won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Sean also worked as an intelligence analyst focusing on strategic war games and simulations for the Pentagon, where he drew on his experience training the US military as a cavalry officer in the US Army during the Iraq and Afghan wars. Sean holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and bachelor's degrees in History and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Enter your email Join my email list By clicking submit, you agree to share your email address with the site owner and Mailchimp to receive marketing, updates, and other emails from the site owner. Use the unsubscribe link in those emails to opt out at any time. SHARE THIS: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SEARCH Search for: Search … AUTHORS Sean Patrick Hazlett Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: December 11th 2022 Update Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: October 19th 2022 Update Win 5 Free Books in September 2022 and Other General Updates! Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: August 5th 2022 Update Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: June 9th 2022 Update WEIRD WORLD WAR: CHINA Launch Date January 2, 2024 31 days to go. December 2023 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 « Dec FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER BLOG STATS 11,311 hits What You Can Do to Save the UAP Amendment with Steve Bassett This One Thing Made Them Ban Red Night Vision Goggles in Vietnam (with Mark Anthony) Clearing Out Negative Energies with a Little Help from the Stars with Jeffrey Seelman The Afterlife Frequency with Mark Anthony MH370 and the Curious Case of Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin with Ashton Forbes CATEGORIES Analysis Delaware Editing Hiking Pleasant Hill Promotion Reviews Sasquan Uncategorized Weird World War III Weird World War III Authors Weird World War IV Writing Writing Statistics and Revenue What You Can Do to Save the UAP Amendment with Steve Bassett This One Thing Made Them Ban Red Night Vision Goggles in Vietnam (with Mark Anthony) Clearing Out Negative Energies with a Little Help from the Stars with Jeffrey Seelman The Afterlife Frequency with Mark Anthony MH370 and the Curious Case of Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin with Ashton Forbes

The Authors Quill normal air time is 3 to 5 pm cst running late to day dto storms SEAN PATRICK HAZLETT Sean Patrick Hazlett is a technologist, finance professional, and science fiction, fantasy, horror, and non-fiction author and editor working in Silicon Valley. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, and over forty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Terraform, Galaxy's Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others. He is also the editor of the Weird World War III and Weird World War IV anthologies. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association. In graduate school, Sean assisted future Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter at the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project where he developed strategic options for confronting Iran's nuclear program. For this analysis, he won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Sean also worked as an intelligence analyst focusing on strategic war games and simulations for the Pentagon, where he drew on his experience training the US military as a cavalry officer in the US Army during the Iraq and Afghan wars. Sean holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and bachelor's degrees in History and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Enter your email Join my email list By clicking submit, you agree to share your email address with the site owner and Mailchimp to receive marketing, updates, and other emails from the site owner. Use the unsubscribe link in those emails to opt out at any time. SHARE THIS: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SEARCH Search for: Search … AUTHORS Sean Patrick Hazlett Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: December 11th 2022 Update Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: October 19th 2022 Update Win 5 Free Books in September 2022 and Other General Updates! Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: August 5th 2022 Update Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: June 9th 2022 Update WEIRD WORLD WAR: CHINA Launch Date January 2, 2024 31 days to go. December 2023 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 « Dec FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER BLOG STATS 11,311 hits What You Can Do to Save the UAP Amendment with Steve Bassett This One Thing Made Them Ban Red Night Vision Goggles in Vietnam (with Mark Anthony) Clearing Out Negative Energies with a Little Help from the Stars with Jeffrey Seelman The Afterlife Frequency with Mark Anthony MH370 and the Curious Case of Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin with Ashton Forbes CATEGORIES Analysis Delaware Editing Hiking Pleasant Hill Promotion Reviews Sasquan Uncategorized Weird World War III Weird World War III Authors Weird World War IV Writing Writing Statistics and Revenue What You Can Do to Save the UAP Amendment with Steve Bassett This One Thing Made Them Ban Red Night Vision Goggles in Vietnam (with Mark Anthony) Clearing Out Negative Energies with a Little Help from the Stars with Jeffrey Seelman The Afterlife Frequency with Mark Anthony MH370 and the Curious Case of Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin with Ashton Forbes

The Authors Quill normal air time is 3 to 5 pm cst running late to day dto storms SEAN PATRICK HAZLETT Sean Patrick Hazlett is a technologist, finance professional, and science fiction, fantasy, horror, and non-fiction author and editor working in Silicon Valley. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, and over forty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Terraform, Galaxy's Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others. He is also the editor of the Weird World War III and Weird World War IV anthologies. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association. In graduate school, Sean assisted future Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter at the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project where he developed strategic options for confronting Iran's nuclear program. For this analysis, he won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Sean also worked as an intelligence analyst focusing on strategic war games and simulations for the Pentagon, where he drew on his experience training the US military as a cavalry officer in the US Army during the Iraq and Afghan wars. Sean holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and bachelor's degrees in History and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Enter your email Join my email list By clicking submit, you agree to share your email address with the site owner and Mailchimp to receive marketing, updates, and other emails from the site owner. Use the unsubscribe link in those emails to opt out at any time. SHARE THIS: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SEARCH Search for: Search … AUTHORS Sean Patrick Hazlett Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: December 11th 2022 Update Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: October 19th 2022 Update Win 5 Free Books in September 2022 and Other General Updates! Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: August 5th 2022 Update Weird World War III & IV: To-Date Promotional Summary: June 9th 2022 Update WEIRD WORLD WAR: CHINA Launch Date January 2, 2024 31 days to go. December 2023 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 « Dec FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER BLOG STATS 11,311 hits What You Can Do to Save the UAP Amendment with Steve Bassett This One Thing Made Them Ban Red Night Vision Goggles in Vietnam (with Mark Anthony) Clearing Out Negative Energies with a Little Help from the Stars with Jeffrey Seelman The Afterlife Frequency with Mark Anthony MH370 and the Curious Case of Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin with Ashton Forbes CATEGORIES Analysis Delaware Editing Hiking Pleasant Hill Promotion Reviews Sasquan Uncategorized Weird World War III Weird World War III Authors Weird World War IV Writing Writing Statistics and Revenue What You Can Do to Save the UAP Amendment with Steve Bassett This One Thing Made Them Ban Red Night Vision Goggles in Vietnam (with Mark Anthony) Clearing Out Negative Energies with a Little Help from the Stars with Jeffrey Seelman The Afterlife Frequency with Mark Anthony MH370 and the Curious Case of Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin with Ashton Forbes

Author : Eden Royce Narrator : Tonia Ransom Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm” was originally published in Vastarien and was reprinted in the 2023 collection Who Lost, I Found Dark Harvest novel Dark Harvest  The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm by Eden Royce Daddy called tobacco a […]

Author, narrator, editor and ventriloquist, Jon Padgett joins us this week. I had the pleasure of watching him work a few months ago at Nightlands Fest, the inaugural weird fiction , spoken word event curated by Cadabra Records.  Jon is the editor-in-chief of Grimscribe Press which publishes Vastarien, a literary journal focusing on weird fiction, in addition to works by Gemma Files, Christopher Slatsky, Michael Cisco and others.    Intro:     “All the Dark Things” – Mike Hill Outro:   “6116” - Leviathan

Hey, we're podcasting over here! The Abyss gang is hanging out in the Jersey swamps to chat about Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor. Before the lizards appear they discuss This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal E-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Daniel Braum's The Night Marchers, Vastarien vol 6 issue 1, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley. Now get in the car and listen in! Read Pretty Good Neighbor

ASMR soft spoken reading of the short story, Vastarien, from the Dreams for the Dead collection by Thomas Ligotti as featured in his anthology, Songs of a Dead Dreamer. Ligotti's work has been acknowledged as one of the seminal collections of modern weird horror by critics and peers. A light thunderstorm has been added in as background ambience to aid with symptoms of insomnia, ptsd, and depression. Listen with headphones for the best experience. Dedicated to @pheestringer who requested this...many months ago. Support me: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://paypal.me/TomeByTome ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Best way to keep in touch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://twitter.com/TomeByTomeASMR ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://youtube.com/TomebyTomeASMR⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.patreon.com/TomeByTomeASMR ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Also on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and wherever you listen to podcasts #hplovecraft #sleepstories #softspokenasmr --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lovecraft-asmr/message

In this very haunting Eerie Extra, co-host Katherine Troyer talks with horror writer Carson Winter. We discuss Carson's 2023 novella "Soft Targets" (through Tenebrous Press), the power and potential of weird horror, and what we would want to taste if we could taste any intangible thing. This interview is relatively spoiler free, so you should be able to enjoy it before or after reading "Soft Targets"!   Check out the novella at the Tenebrous Press site.   This interview occurred on February 27, 2023; the episode first aired on April 26, 2023.   CARSON WINTER is a minimalist weirdo, a conversational absurdist, and a vehemently bleak-minded artist making his home in the Pacific Northwest. His fiction has appeared in Vastarien, Apex, and Dread Stone Press' Split Scream series. You can find him on Twitter @CarsonWinter3 or at carsonwinter.com.   Twitter/Instagram: @NightmarePod1; YouTube: Such a Nightmare channel; Email: suchanightmare.pod@gmail.com; ALL LINKS

In this podcast, Carson Winter talks about society's obsession with violence, the Tide, his fear of dying, and much more. About Carson Winter Carson Winter is an author, punker, and raw nerve. His fiction has been featured in Apex, Vastarien, and Tales to Terrify, among others. His new novella, Soft Targets, is out now. Show … Continue reading

In this podcast, Carson Winter talks about Soft Targets, discovering stories,  Zero Boundaries Podcast: Episode 182, and much more. About Carson Winter Carson Winter is an author, punker, and raw nerve. His fiction has been featured in Apex, Vastarien, and Tales to Terrify, among others. His new novella, Soft Targets, is out now. Show notes … Continue reading

Happy holidays ya filthy animals!!!! The gang eats all the cheese pizza and chugs a bunch of Pepsi before they take a look at the year of 2022. Get ready for some surprises and some obvious love when they tell you what they loved. Of course it wouldn't be the Abyss if they didn't discuss their week and talk about Silver Surfer Parable by Stan Lee, Barry, David Moody's Autumn, Irredeemable by Mark Waid, Stephen Graham Jones' Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth, Vastarien, Murderville: Who Killed Santa?, Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin, and Don't Pick Up the Phone. Now, settle back with a Yule Log video and let us sooth you for the rest of the year.

Ep: 148 Hailey Piper and Brad discuss the horror genre and some similarities to mysteries. Podcast Website:   www.queerwritersofcrime.comCheck out Queer Writers of Crime Guest's blog.To cover the cost of producing Queer Writers of Crime, some of the links below are affiliate links. At zero cost to you, Brad will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.Get a Kindle Paperwhite:https://amzn.to/3KCfUuOSee Hailey's recent blog post on the Queer Writer's of Crime Websitehttps://www.queerwritersofcrime.com/blog/writing-is-chaos-are-you-by-hailey-piper/No God's for Drowning by Hailey Piperhttps://amzn.to/3eosQtXHailey's websitehaileypiper.comHailey on Twitter @HaileyPiperSaysHailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, No Gods for Drowning, The Worm and His Kings, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, and other books. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, with dozens of short stories appearing in Pseudopod, Vastarien, Dark Matter Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife in Maryland, where their monstrous rituals are secret. Brad's Website: bradshreve.comSupport Requeered Tales  re-publishing award-winning, post-Stonewall gay and lesbian fiction — with a focus on mystery, literary and horror/sci-fi genres.requeeredtales.comKindly give to The Trevor Project, a much-needed charity focusing not only suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth, but also helps to get answers and information to support them and connect with an international community of LGBTQ youth aged 13 - 24.https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and The Invention of Ghosts. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vastarien, Tor's Nightfire, Black Static, The Dark, Daily Science Fiction, Interzone, and LampLight, among others. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, two cats, and not nearly enough ghosts. Find her online at gwendolynkiste.com.  BUY Reluctant Immortals (OUT NOW!) Link to "The Eight People Who Murdered Me" by Gwendolyn Kiste at Nightmare Magazine Recommended in this episode: Le Femme Grotesque Up Next: A special episode dedicated to Nichelle Nichols    Please rate and review us, or better yet, tell a friend.    Our social media is @MonsterWrote on Twitter and Instagram. Our email is monsterwrote@gmail.com. This episode was produced and researched by Lisa and Mel. Theme music is “Misconception” by Nicolas Gasparini, used with permission.

Sean Patrick Hazlett is an Army veteran and former captain, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, but trekked across the country to pursue an AB in history and BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University on an ROTC scholarship. He earned a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award for his work on policy solutions to Iran's nuclear weapons program under the guidance of future secretary of defense Ashton B. Carter. While at the Harvard Kennedy School, he worked on the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project. He also holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Second Year Honors.As a cavalry officer in the elite 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Seam trained various units for war in Iraq and Afghanistan. While at the National Training Center in the Mojave Desert, he became an expert in Soviet doctrine and tactics, leading a Motorized Rifle Battalion. He has also published a Harvard Business School case study on the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and how it exemplified a learning organization.Sean has worked in various roles in finance. He was an investment banker, an equity analyst covering industries ranging from cleantech to semiconductors to enterprise software. His seminal equity research report on the smart grid was cited in The Economist magazine. He has also worked in various corporate finance roles in Silicon Valley companies ranging from cybersecurity to hardware to enterprise software.Sean is a 2017 winner of the Writers of the Future Contest. Nearly fifty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Robosoldiers, Worlds Long Lost, Terraform, Galaxy's Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others. He is the editor of the Weird World War III and Weird World War IV anthologies. Sean also teaches strategy, finance, and communications as a course facilitator at the Stanford Graduate School of Business's Executive Education Program. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and Codex Writers' Group.He has an active YouTube channel called Through A Glass Darkly, where the paranormal meets military science fiction and fact, and he interviews national security professionals, writers, and other content creators on everything within the current cultural zeitgeist and beyond.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning author and Writers of the Future winner, Sean Patrick Hazlett!  What if there were a war after Armageddon? How would the survivors emerging from World War III's radioactive slag heaps fight in this conflict? Would they wage it with sticks and stones . . . and sorcery? Or would they use more refined weapons, elevating lawfare to an art and unleashing bureaucratic nightmares worse than death? Would they struggle against themselves or inter-dimensional invaders? What horrors from the desolate darkness might slither into the light? Wipe away the ashes of civilization and peer into a pit of atomic glass to witness the haunting visions of World War IV from today's greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Sean Patrick Hazlett is an US Army veteran, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area. He holds an AB in history and BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a master's degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. As a cavalry officer serving in the elite 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, he trained various Army and Marine Corps units for war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sean is a 2017 winner of the Writers of the Future Contest. More than forty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Terraform, Galaxy's Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others.

Dr. Spence Shipwrecks And Sunken Treasures Dr. Spence is an internationally known expert on shipwrecks and sunken treasures. His bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies was perhaps the first accredited academic degree ever awarded in the United States for any program in marine archaeology. He also received one of the first five doctorates (Doctor of Marine Histories, College of Marine Arts, 1972) ever awarded for marine archaeology anywhere in the world and he has long been considered one of the founding fathers of marine archaeology. His work has been funded by such institutions as the Savannah Ships of the Sea Museum, CRIL (the Caribbean Research Institute Ltd., Colombia, South America), the College of Charleston, the South Carolina Committee for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In the early 1990s he served as Chief of Underwater Archaeology for Providencia Y San Andres, a 40,000 square mile archipelago in the Western Caribbean. He has authored more than two dozen books, and has served as an editor for a number of nationally distributed magazines. He is also an award winning cartographer and has published a number of maps and charts dealing with shipwrecks and treasure. Always an adventurer, Spence has traveled to a wide range of exotic places in the Far East, Europe, Central and South America. He has explored castles, palaces, shipwrecks, ancient ruins, secret tunnels, and subterranean and underwater caves. He has dived in the Great Lakes, the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean. He has been shot at, buried in cave-ins, tangled in fishing nets, pinned under wreckage, run out of air, lost inside a wreck, and bitten by fish while pursuing his quests. Although Dr. Spence has discovered numerous historically significant shipwrecks, including the Civil War blockade runner Georgiana and the Confederate submarine Hunley, he hasn't only made discoveries underwater. He considers his identification of Charleston born banking and shipping magnate George Trenholm as the “Real Rhett Butler” to have been his most interesting non-shipwreck discovery. Trenholm's fleet of fast steamers earned today's equivalent of over one billion dollars running munitions, medicines, and merchandise through the Federal blockade. By the end of the Civil War, Trenholm was a major figure in the Confederate government. The United States actually charged Trenholm with treason and claimed he had made off with and concealed hundreds of millions in Confederate assets. Trenholm died without revealing his secrets. Spence is currently trying to uncover them. The State of South Carolina's claim of ownership to the Civil War submarine Hunley was based on Spence's 1970 discovery of that vessel and his subsequent gift of his salvage rights to it to the State. Spence's gift of his rights was made in September of 1995 at the official request of the Attorney General of South Carolina and the South Carolina Hunley Commission. In 2013, Dr. Spence announced his discoveries at Cape Romain of the 1894 wreck of the SS Ozama and the 1881 wreck of the SS United States. As an historian, Spence believes the biggest key to success on any expedition is the archival research that precedes it. Spence calls historical research “his drug of choice” and says, “In today's world, time is the most expensive part of a salvage expedition. Man-hours spent in the archives can cut hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of time from the field phase of most projects.”5/12/22 Sean Patrick Hazlett World War 3 Aftermath Sean Patrick Hazlett is an Army veteran and former captain, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, but trekked across the country to pursue an AB in history and BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University on an ROTC scholarship. He earned a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award for his work on policy solutions to Iran's nuclear weapons program under the guidance of future secretary of defense Ashton B. Carter. While at the Harvard Kennedy School, he worked on the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project. He also holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Second Year Honors.As a cavalry officer in the elite 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Seam trained various units for war in Iraq and Afghanistan. While at the National Training Center in the Mojave Desert, he became an expert in Soviet doctrine and tactics, leading a Motorized Rifle Battalion. He has also published a Harvard Business School case study on the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and how it exemplified a learning organization.Sean has worked in various roles in finance. He was an investment banker, an equity analyst covering industries ranging from cleantech to semiconductors to enterprise software. His seminal equity research report on the smart grid was cited in The Economist magazine. He has also worked in various corporate finance roles in Silicon Valley companies ranging from cybersecurity to hardware to enterprise software.Sean is a 2017 winner of the Writers of the Future Contest. Nearly fifty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Robosoldiers, Worlds Long Lost, Terraform, Galaxy's Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others. He is the editor of the Weird World War III and Weird World War.

Paul Paranormal In Green County Pennsylvania Born and raised in the corner of the Keystone State, Kevin Paul is no stranger to the lifestyle andspiritual beliefs of the Appalachian hills and hollows. His ancestors were among the first from Europe toset foot in what is now Greene County PA, and he was fortunate enough to hear not only their historybut folklore as well. The traditional and distinctive spiritual beliefs of Appalachia are an excellent lensthrough which to observe and focus upon the spirit world surrounding us.A lifetime of paranormal experiences led Kevin to examine the unexplored corners of his community andhas yielded unexpected rewards. He believes we live on and are part of an Interdimensional Earth thatincreasingly reveals itself to those who are sensitive to it or have opportunity and take time to look.Relying upon low tech methods, intuitive work, and research in place of electronics has revealed a rich,uncharted spirit world within Greene County--and no doubt your community as well--densely populatedby cryptids, apparitions, and unusual entities.Decades of farming and related agricultural pursuits have not only helped Kevin appreciate theconnection between paranormal events, people, and the land, but have kept him grounded as well.Sean Patrick Hazlett World War 3 Aftermath Sean Patrick Hazlett is an Army veteran and former captain, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, but trekked across the country to pursue an AB in history and BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University on an ROTC scholarship. He earned a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award for his work on policy solutions to Iran's nuclear weapons program under the guidance of future secretary of defense Ashton B. Carter. While at the Harvard Kennedy School, he worked on the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project. He also holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Second Year Honors.As a cavalry officer in the elite 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Seam trained various units for war in Iraq and Afghanistan. While at the National Training Center in the Mojave Desert, he became an expert in Soviet doctrine and tactics, leading a Motorized Rifle Battalion. He has also published a Harvard Business School case study on the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and how it exemplified a learning organization.Sean has worked in various roles in finance. He was an investment banker, an equity analyst covering industries ranging from cleantech to semiconductors to enterprise software. His seminal equity research report on the smart grid was cited in The Economist magazine. He has also worked in various corporate finance roles in Silicon Valley companies ranging from cybersecurity to hardware to enterprise software.Sean is a 2017 winner of the Writers of the Future Contest. Nearly fifty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Robosoldiers, Worlds Long Lost, Terraform, Galaxy's Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others. He is the editor of the Weird World War III

On this episode we are thrilled to have author Jo Kaplan aka Joanna Parypinski. Jo is the author of more than twenty short stories and several novels, co-chair of the LA chapter of the Horror Writers Association, and an English professor. She also writes under the name Joanna Parypinski. Her fiction has appeared in Fireside Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, Vastarien, Nightscript, Haunted Nights (ed. Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton), and Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthology Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors. She lives with her husband and cats in Los Angeles.We ask Jo the reason for the two names and chat about the general use of pseudonyms by women in the horror genre. This moves us on to the topic of the exciting rise of diverse prospectives in horror.We talk about the writing and enjoyment of Horror Poetry; how it creates an excellent venue to plumb the darkness in ways different and maybe more effective than a short story or novel. Particularly, the power of imagery and symbolism to create pieces that literally haunt the reader.We talk about her short story, In Dark Corner and Neglected Places which appears in Three Crows Year Two: Anthology of Weird Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the broader topic of folklore and diverse cultural viewpoints in horror.Jo tells us about the reoccurring theme that has prevalent in most of her writing and gives us some deep things to consider. In discussing her soon-to-be-released novel, When the Night Bells Ring, we explore the responsibility of the horror genre to address existential horrors such as climate change and deadly pandemics.Jo reads to us from her short story, Her. House. that can be found in Horror Library 7.Jo Kaplan can be found at: https://jo-kaplan.com/When the Night Bells Ring can be preordered here. https://jo-kaplan.com/2021/11/20/when-the-night-bells-ring/Her. House. can be found here: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Horror_Library_7.htmlBrenda is here: https://brendatolian.com/Brenda's new book Blood Mountain is available here: https://rawdogscreaming.com/cover-reveal-blood-mountain/Joy is here: https://www.joyyehle.com/Other Links:Thirteen Nocturnes by Oliver Sheppard  https://amzn.to/3GQn7XSUnicorn: the poetry of Angela Carter https://amzn.to/3zeCPdHExposed Nerves by Lucy A Snyder https://amzn.to/3MoujLP**When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission that will be used to continue to bring our audience great horror content. *Disclaimer: Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Podcasters. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the podcast does not imply an **When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.*Disclaimer: Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Podcasters. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the podcast does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the podcasters.

A steampunk'd fairy tale retold for troubled times. Jasmine Arch reads. #Steampunk #Fairytale Gwen C. Katz is an author, artist, and game designer who lives in Pasadena, California with her husband and a revolving door of transient animals. Her first novel, Among the Red Stars, tells the story of Russia's all-female bomber regiment known as the Night Witches. Her short fiction has appeared in venues like Glittership, Vastarien, and We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020. Jasmine Arch is a narrator, writer, and poet whose brain thrives on chaos and caffeine. She lives in a rural corner of Belgium with four dogs, two elderly horses and a husband who knows better than to distract her when she's writing. Find out more about her and her work at JasmineArch.com. Leopold: Michael Allen Rose Did you know? You can find all our anthologies together here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09PFD2PCQ

In this very exciting Eerie Extra, co-hosts Katherine Troyer and Toni Tresca talk with horror writers Christopher O'Halloran, Antony Frost, Carson Winter, and Alex Wolfgang. Their 2021 collaborative collection of novellas—Bloodlines: Four Tales of Familial Fear—reminds us that home is where the heart…that bleeding and broken heart…lies. We sit down with these authors and discuss the things that scare them in real life, the complexity (and simplicity) that is the horror genre, and why the four stories in Bloodlines perfectly complement one another.   CHRISTOPHER O‘HALLORAN is a milk-slinging, Canadian actor-turned-author with work published or forthcoming from HellBound Books, Tales to Terrify, and The Dread Machine. Fans of stories about vein-removal and Phoenix-women against the patriarchy can visit COauthor.ca for stories, reviews, and updates on his upcoming novel, Pushing Daisy. Twitter: @burgleinfernal   ANTONY FROST is a factory worker, podcaster, and writer from Cambridgeshire, England. He lives with his wife and innumerable spiders. When not writing or reading, he can be found hosting Terrify Me!, a podcast about scary things in fact, fiction, and folklore, or—failing that—he'll be out in the fens, poking things with sticks. His website is antonyfrost.com and you can follow him on Twitter and Instagram @antonyrfrost or @terrifymepod for his podcast. CARSON WINTER is an author, punker, and raw nerve. His work has appeared in Apex, Vastarien, and the No Sleep Podcast. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Twitter: @CarsonWinter3 ALEX WOLFGANG is a horror writer from Oklahoma. His debut short story collection, Splinter and Other Stories, is available now. You can also find his work in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Nocturnal Transmissions Podcast, and the anthology Howls From Hell. When not reading and writing horror, you can find him hiking and camping, playing tennis, and watching movies. You can follow him on twitter @alexwolfgang92 or visit his website: www.alexwolfgang.com.   This interview occurred on February 27, 2022; the episode first aired on February 28, 2022.   Twitter/Instagram: @NightmarePod1; YouTube: Such a Nightmare channel; Email: suchanightmare.pod@gmail.com; ALL LINKS

Horror audio theater for the spooky seasonHost: Sean DillonSupport the artists of Dead North at: https://www.patreon.com/deadnorthPOTENTIAL TRIGGERS TOPICS: Implied harm to animals, Cannibalism-----POSSIBLE BURGER (from part one - description accidentally excluded)Produced by: Special When LitWritten by: Nissa Nordland MorganFeatures: Zach Morgan as Henry MartinLauren Anderson as Possible Burger Vendor, Teen Cook, and Barn IntercomNissa Nordland Morgan as Narrator and 4-H KidSam Landman as Slicker ManKayla Dvorak Feld as The Sacred Pig and Little Girland the voices of pigs from the MN State Fair.Sound Design, Mixing and Music by Nissa Nordland MorganSpecial When Lit unapologetically pushes the boundaries of storytelling, finding a universal humanity in the weird, the extraordinary and the supernatural. We particularly enjoy using spectacle, blood and emboldened sexuality to create a visceral experience for the audience. Founder, Nissa Nordland Morgan, wrote plays The Fae and Incarnate, both performed at the Twin Cities Horror Festival. Nordland also wrote the audio horror Nisse-Natten, which was a part of Blight Christmas and received praise from the judges of the Atlanta Fringe Audio Festival. She was awarded the TC Arts Reader Critic's Choice Award and won the Theatre in the Round Venue Pick for her play Xena and Gabrielle Smash the Patriarchy. Nordland is an alum of the Brave New Workshop Comedy Theatre, a member of the Playwright Cabal, company member of Theatre Pro Rata, and the Artistic Director of the Twin Cities Horror Festival. This presentation explores gluttony, and the revenge of the consumed. Special When Lit asks- Do you know what (or who) you are eating? Possible Burger features the voices of pigs and sounds of the swine barn from the 2021 MN State Fair, recorded by Nordland herself.Follow Special When Lit Theatre on Facebook for updates on future projects-------WALKIESby Paper Soulwritten by J. Merrill Motzperformed by Logan Rodgersoutro music by Cherly KaCherly from the Free Music ArchiveWalkies was inspired by many many many summer afternoons spent taking two particular dogs around a particular neighborhood and noticing their particular various quirks and...warning signs.Paper Soul was founded by Motz (rhymes with boats, he/him/his) for the 2013 MN Fringe and has created several experiments in the solo performance style ever since. Motz tours these shows both in person and digitally to Fringe Festivals locally and (hopefully) across the country.If you're listening to this episode in October 2021, you have until midnight on the 31st to catch Paper Soul's latest production BRIG, a Ghost Story for Film, available as a Video-On-Demand performance, only at www.papersoul.org Special thanks to Katie Shay & Mike Heckman for letting me spend so much time with their awesome pups, Helen & Freyja.-------BEAR SAUSAGEBy Oncoming ProductionsWritten and produced by Sean DillonPerformed by Jay Kistler and Justin BetancourtOncoming Productions was founded by Sean Dillon, and has produced original dark and horror theater in the Twin Cities since 2013. Past projects have included The Deep Dark, The Last Bombardment, Geminae, holiday anthology shows Oncoming Productions Ruins Christmas, Dread the Halls, Blight Christmas, and this podcast!Keep an eye on OncomingProductions.com and/or our Facebook page for future projects.-----CALLIMARWritten and performed by Alice PaigeAudio production by Sean DillonAlice Paige is a trans woman, poet, and storyteller living in St. Paul, Mn. Her writing focuses on topics like mythology and the transformative power of queer love. Her work can be found at FreezeRay Poetry, Crabfat Magazine, Coffin Bell, VASTARIEN, Button Poetry, Write About Now, Luna Station Quarterly and Take A Stand, Art Against Hate: A Raven Chronicles Anthology. She is a Digital Pedagogical Lab Fellow and has her MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. ------Dead North is a production of Oncoming Productions and Hot Chocolate Media.www.oncomingproductions.comhttps://www.hotchocolatemedia.netProducers: Sean and Mallory Dillon for Oncoming Productions, Kyle Dekker and Jacob Gulliver for Hot Chocolate Media Intro/Outro/Interstitial Music: Erik OstromThe rights to individual pieces are retained by their creators, all rights reserved.Our intro/outro/interstitial music samples “Ice Breaking 01” by dheming, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. https://freesound.org/people/dheming/sounds/268023/Dead North is supported by listener donations, and the donations we receive are shared with our artist contributors. Please consider donating at oncomingproductions.com.Please subscribe and rate Dead North wherever you get your podcasts, to help us spread the word.We've got something special coming up for the holidays, so be sure to subscribe! Our next episodes are scheduled for release in early/mid-December. Thank you for listening.

EPISODE #471 WEIRD WORLD WAR 3 An army veteran and award winning author and futurist discusses some of the strange and paranormal methods that may be employed in a future global war. Guest: Sean Patrick Hazlett is an Army veteran, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area. He holds an AB in history and BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award for his work on policy solutions to Iran’s nuclear weapons program under the guidance of future secretary of defense Ashton B. Carter. He also holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Second Year Honors. As a cavalry officer serving in the elite 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, he trained various Army and Marine Corps units for war in Iraq and Afghanistan. While at the Army’s National Training Center, he became an expert in Soviet doctrine and tactics. He has also published a Harvard Business School case study on the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and how it exemplified a learning organization. Sean is a 2017 winner of the Writers of the Future Contest. Over forty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Terraform, Galaxy’s Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and Codex Writers’ Group.  He's the editor of the anthology Weird World War lll: Tales of the War that Might Have Been. BECOME A PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER FOR LESS THAN $2 PER MONTH If you're a fan of this podcast, I hope you'll consider becoming a Premium Subscriber.  For just $1.99 per month, subscribers to my Conspiracy Unlimited Plus gain access to two exclusive, commercial-free episodes per month. They also gain access to my back catalog of episodes. The most recent 30 episodes of Conspiracy Unlimited will remain available for free.  Stream all episodes and Premium content on your mobile device by getting the FREE Conspiracy Unlimited APP for both IOS and Android devices... Available at the App Store and Google Play. To become a subscriber CLICK HERE or go to www.conspiracyunlimitedpodcast.com and click on GET ACCESS TO PREMIUM EPISODES. SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! C60EVO.COM The Secret is out about this powerful anti-oxidant. The Purest C60 available is ESS60.  Buy Direct from the SourceUse the Code RS1SPEC for special discount. Life Change and Formula 13 Teas All Organic, No Caffeine, Non GMO!  More Energy!  Order now, use the code 'unlimited' and ALL your purchases ships for free! Strange Planet's Fullscript Dispensary- an online service offering hundreds of professional supplement brands, personal care items, essential oils, pet care products and much more. Nature Grade, Science Made! 

Author : Gemma Files Narrator : Nika Harper Host : Alex Hofelich Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis Discuss on Forums “Venio” was originally published in Vastarien, Spring 2019 Venio by Gemma Files Watch out. I’m going to tell you about something, and then . . . you’ll know. You won’t be able to un-know or […] The post PseudoPod 673: Venio appeared first on PseudoPod.

Bienvenidos un día más, Salvajes. En este jueves veraniego, os traemos la píldora de fantasía oscura de la semana, de la mano de thomas ligotti, con su "Vastarien", un relato donde nos muestra el horror de una forma sutil y existencialista, dibujando la imposibilidad de la realización onírica del ser humano, dejandonos en un mundo vacío y carente de metas, donde los sueños están en una esfera inalcanzable. Unas gracias enormes a Angie y a su colaboración con este increíble relato. Te echamos de menos Angie! Muchos abrazos de parte de todo el equipo! Disfruten y tengan una feliz semana salvaje! Por cierto! Este Domingo, la segunda parte de Los Reyes de la Arena! No os lo perdáis!

Bienvenidos un día más, Salvajes. En este jueves veraniego, os traemos la píldora de fantasía oscura de la semana, de la mano de thomas ligotti, con su "Vastarien", un relato donde nos muestra el horror de una forma sutil y existencialista, dibujando la imposibilidad de la realización onírica del ser humano, dejandonos en un mundo vacío y carente de metas, donde los sueños están en una esfera inalcanzable. Unas gracias enormes a Angie y a su colaboración con este increíble relato. Te echamos de menos Angie! Muchos abrazos de parte de todo el equipo! Disfruten y tengan una feliz semana salvaje! Por cierto! Este Domingo, la segunda parte de Los Reyes de la Arena! No os lo perdáis!

This week, we sit down with Jon Padgett to discuss Vastarien & all things Ligotti! Music: Eyes Gone Wrong Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Show Notes: Pick up an issue or two of Vastarien here Also, grab a copy of "The Secret of Ventriloquism" from Amazon If you dig records & want to own yourself a vinyl disc of Jon's story "20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism", head on over to Cadabra Records If also you want to hear Jon reading Thomas Ligotti's story "The Bungalow House", Cadabra Records is also where you want to go And, of course, head on over to Ligotti Online for all your Thomas Ligotti needs

Class is back in session and this time we are going to try to talk smart about a dumb movie!  Truth or Dare made a whole bunch of money, but it wasn't exactly a deep film.  It did use a very interesting motif in horror called "the liminal space" and today we are going to discuss how that space works and why it made Truth or Dare an engaging movie. Show Notes: 2:20- Tyler just watched the new Blumhouse movie Unfriended: Dark Web, head on over to Signal Horizon and read his review. 3:00- If you haven't heard of author Robert Aickman he comes very highly recommended.  Tyler really liked his short story: Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale.  It has been reprinted quite a bit, most recently in The Late Breakfaster's and Other Strange Stories by Robert Aickman. 3:50- Mike really likes a Brian Evenson story you can find in Aickman's Hiers.   4:10- Mike is reading a new collection that is on Kindle Unlimited called Lost Highways, but it had to take a back burner when get got Vastarien Issue #2 in the mail.  He is always excited to talk about Ligotti and Vastarien, so check out why he thinks the Vastarien Literary Journal is the most exciting thing in horror literature right now. 5:30-  Orrin Grey is an author that both Mike and Tyler really like right now, you can check out the short story "The Granfalloon" in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 10. 6:45-  Dark Corners of the Web: Some free short fiction that goes along with Truth or Dare is the excellent episode of PseudoPod that just came out, The Fainting Game by Nino Cipri. 13:15  Jeff Wadlow was also involved in Kickass 2 and The Strain.  How did he get mixed up in Truth or Dare?  Most likely money. 17:45- The Canadian Journal of Career Development has a great article about liminal spaces entitled Constructing the Future in the Liminal Spaces Between Adolescence and Adulthood: Responsibilities, Careers, and Social Contexts by Amanda Benjamin, José Domene, and Kim Landine.   26:30- Tyler drops his "unified theory of Truth or Dare" at this point.  It is super interesting and believe it or not he did come up with it off the cuff. 35:15-  Yes, there is a periodical named Slayage that is put out by the Whedon Studies Association.  Michael Starr's excellent article about liminality and The Cabin in the Woods can be found here to prove it. 38:00-  Tyler references the Stephen King short story, "The Jaunt" which is easily one of King's greatest short works.  It was written all the way back in 1981 and it is still fresh today, you can find it in his collection Skeleton Crew which is probably on your bookshelf right now.  If it is not, buy a copy over on Amazon. 41:00-  Not going to link to anything by John Edward because he is a fraud.  Don't give him any of your money, but if you would like to support The Horror Pod Class and SignalHorizon.com that would be super cool and you can do it over on Patreon.   44:30-  Mike talks about Ligotti (of course) and Matt Cardin's excellent analysis of "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World."   55:15-  Wan't to give us a shout out?  Maybe a shout down?  You can connect with us over at the Horror Pod Class Facebook group!    

In this podcast Jon Padgett and Matt Cardin talk about Vastarien, Thomas Ligotti, The Creative Self, and much more. About Vastarien Vastarien is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. Support Vastarien on Kickstarter Show notes [03:30] Vastarien origin story [08:40] Why Vastarien … Continue reading

Jon Padgett talks about VASTARIEN, a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti and associated authors and ideas. We also discussed THE RITUAL, CLOVERFIELD PARADOX, a comic book adaptation of THE WILLOWS, and much more! Become a Patreon: get access to our bonus podcasts, become a guest panelist, and more! Help us to keep the eZine projects going. Check out the Lovecraft eZine Press books. Follow Mike on Twitter or Facebook. Email the show: lovecraftezine@gmail.com If you prefer to watch the show, go here.