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A couple... their son... a terrible accident... and then another... and then...
it's John Grant

3 short short stories of still lives and exhibitions: a tired hunter in a room full of paintings, a famous autopsy victim who's in complete control, and the real secret behind those "Little Miss Tiara" competitions...
It's featuring stories by Kirsty Logan, David Steffen and Caroline Yoachim.
(at least one story is specifically "supernatural"...)

The tender story of a professor and his fungus...
It's by Evelyn Wang

A song that holds the world together, those that try to silence it, and a man in between...
It's by Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Two roadside shrines of very different types in "In Memoriam" by Matthew Chrulew, Matthew Funk warns about the slippery slope of abuse in "Pieces", and "Home Is Where The Heart Is" by Bint Arab literalizes an old saw.
(the second and third stories are specifically "supernatural")
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Pseudopod - last week's episode:
A tourist discovers the value of tradition when it comes to trolls....
It's by Heather McDougal.

Pseudopod - last Friday's episode:
Step on a crack, break your mother's back, but don't EVER cross...
by Grady J. Gratt

The worst (and most gratifying) job in the world...
It's by Mandana Faridani

Love means always having to make sure the dead stay buried....
It's by Caspian Gray.


A young man down on his luck and the old gent that lives next door - and a trapdoor in the ceiling that connects their two rooms...
It's by Jonathan Lowe

Grandma has a story to tell you, about her daughter and wolves and terrible people...
It's by Gemma Files

A man receives a tempting offer in a bar
It's "The Stink of Animosity" by Rob E. Boley

Two sisters share memories of "He who knows when parents have been bad or good..."
It's by Larry C. Kay
ALSO: please check out the promo while you're at it! Three new stories by Jim Bihyeh (Jim Kristofic), Grady Hendrix & Tim W. Burke!

Be good for goodness sake... or Krampus will find you!
It's by D.K. Thompson

The Winter Solstice brings change....
It's by Robert Mammone.
ALSO - a special bonus flash for X-mas:
Dealing with family relations during the holidays is murder...
It's by Maria Alexander

That sticky black mass underground may *not* be oil...
It's by Orrin Grey!
And that's the year in Pseudopod - please join us next year for more, more more...


Navigating modern Tokyo can be very dangerous for a teenage girl, even one with a secret...
It's by Eugie Foster.

This week on Pseudopod....
Cosmic Daddy's back... and he's hyper-hungry!
It's by Mike Allen, read by Christiana Ellis.

Learn a dark secret about the Civil War...
It's "The Burning Servant" by Steven Saus

3 flash stories about the dark spirits all around us...
It's with stories by Stephen Hodgkinson, Brady Golden & Peadar Ó GuilÃn / readings by Eve Upton, David Michel & Cian MacMahon.

A ghostly story from the Australian outback, where campers hear a strange voice in the darkness...
It's by Rick Kennett, read by our own Graeme Dunlop

Episode #275 - and so we bring you a story by an undisputed master of the genre...
Some young scouts scoff at the stories about a desolate field with a well, and 3 strange figures...
It's by M.R. James, read for you by David Thomas Moore.

Another cool April morning in Hell...
It's by Nicole Cushing, read by Jonathan Sullivan

An aging Hansel is worried about his sister....
It's by Jaelithe Ingold, read by Pete Milan

They just will not stop....
It's a previously untranslated story by renowned Belgian dark fantasist Thomas Owen (read more about him ), presented to us in English by Edward Gauvin and read by Pete Milan.

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It's "Kill Screen" by Chris Lewis Carter, read by Josh Roseman (and some extra special guests)!

From the 1890's, it's a tale of people and animals, often in the same skin...
It's by famed Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub, read by Tanja Milojevic.

An ancient god and a long, long bus ride in Australia...
It's by Vincent Pendergast, read by Daniel Foley.

A bar in Naples, and powerful drink....
It's "" by Charles M. Saplak, read by Dominick Rabrun. "Skål!"

Life is short and filled with stuff but can these punks find some teenage kicks in a pretty vacant old building or is there no future for the blank generation?
It's by Sean Logan, read for you by James Trimarco

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A damaged girl and her nightmares...
It's by Nathaniel Lee, read for you by David Moore!

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A very bad man can't shake the feeling that some...one? is following him...
It's by E.F. Benson, read for you by Frank Key!

A little Appalachian ghost story... maybe?
It's by Jamieson Ridenhour, read for you by Nathan Lowell!

Three flash pieces about those who have to decided to do something, or do nothing....
It's ! Stories by Tres Crow, David Glen Larson & Nathaniel Matthews Lee, read for your enjoyment by Malcolm Charles, Patrick Bazille & Rikki LaCoste!

A traveling game and an inheritance unlike any expected....
It's "The Last Reel" by Lynda E. Rucker, read for you by Mark E. Phair.

The Golden Gate Bridge, the man who dredges the water below, and a lost love...
It's by Ray Cluley, read for you by Eric Luke.

This week on PSEUDOPOD...
A bit of the old shag cut, tasting of dark leaf and the salt sea...
It's by Robert MacAnthony, read for you by our own Alasdair Stuart!
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