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The oldest short-fiction horror podcast. We have always lived in the tower. We/they/them 🦑 Co-Editors: Kat Day & Alex Hofelich | Host: Alasdair Stuart | Asst Eds: Scott Campbell & Joshua Tuttle | Audio: Chelsea Davis & Graeme Dunlop 🎙️ PseudoPod.org
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A joyous Epiphany to our friends who observe !!!
Artistic interpretation of the three kings of the Epiphany. One holding a king's dagger (gold), one of smoking cup (frankincense), a skull (Myrrh, a traditional embalming agent)
January 6, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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And honourable mention to…

If You Don’t Want a Cat, Don’t Get a Kitten, by Sonora Taylor (first published in the 2024 collection ‘Recreational Panic)
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January 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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What He Woke, by Jess Whitecroft
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January 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Jinx, by Carlie St. George
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January 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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The Things That Wash Up on Marble Beach, by M.O. Pirson
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January 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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The Yearning of the All-Devouring Earth, by Marianne Kirby
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January 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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The Sound of a Jackknife, by K. Bosgra
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January 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Mr Harmon’s Girls, by Elliott Gish
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January 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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People with access to BBC programmes will be able to watch this Mark Gatiss adaptation of EF Benson’s ‘The Room in the Tower’ on Christmas Eve.

PseudoPod has run three EF Benson stories! Find them here: pseudopod.org/people/e-f-b...
Radio Times (TV and radio listings magazine) page for The Room in the Tower. Text reads: Tower of terror What lies at the top of the stairs? This chiller will be your recurring nightmare, says Mark Gatiss MOUNTING DREAD Mrs Stone (Joanna Lumley) has a shock in store for Roger Winstanley (Tobias Menzies) ILLUSTRATION BY LORENZO CONTI
December 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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You want to mess with an entity who can travel around the entire world in one night and enter any dwelling at will? Eh. Humans. No sense.
via @atrophicbtrfly girl i'm bored let's go drink the liquid that's been leaking from the bones of Santa for 1,700 years Trad West @trad_west_ The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years. The tomb of St. Nicholas is in Bari, Italy. For nearly 17 centuries, a clear, water-like liquid has secreted from his bones (an oil, known as St. Nicholas Manna). The Church collects it once a year on his feast day
December 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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🎶 🎵 here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, HERE COMES SANTA CLAUSE!!! HERE! COMES! SANTA! CLAUS!!!! RUN!!!! 🎶 🎵
Creepy usage of Santa with glowing eyes, in a suburban living room, with a Christmas tree.
December 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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“Just think: right now the new Santa is flexing his ovipositor so he can leave eggs inside every chimney”
Pippa Timothy Dec 23, 2017 fun science fact, the North Pole elves are actually a eusocial gestalt (like ants, bees, etc). Santa is the Queen, not in the sense of power or authority but in that he is the sole reproducer. Each Santa lives about a year, and then they feed a pupal elf royal jelly so that it matures into a Claus. His belly jiggles like a bowl full of jelly on Christmas because generally they hatch a new Claus the day before Christmas Eve. Just think: right now the new Santa is flexing his ovipositor so he can leave eggs inside every chimney, drying out his wings for his first flight.
December 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Tentacles will take over the wor—
*cough*
Good news!
No flinching: horror sales are climbing towards a record year OCT 31, 2025 BY ALEX CALL In 2024, NielsenIQ BookData's Horror subcategory recorded its best year to date, delivering just over £8m - so far in 2025, just over £6.8m has been spent on the category. [photo of Stephen King] In 2024, NielsenIQ BookData's Horror sub-category recorded its best year to date, delivering just over £8m - so far in 2025, just over £6.8m has been spent on the category. That is a rise of 22.2% on the same period last year, putting it on course for another record year, though it will fall just short of the £10m mark.
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Hehe.
Cartoon from @skullpizza.bsky.social
Cartoon panels showing a female-coded scientist in a white coat and goggles, a monster made of eyeballs, and a pumpkin-head creature on the final panel: [scientist] I LOVE YOU, JEREMY, BUT WE CAN'T DO THIS! [eyeballs] BE HONEST, PROFESSOR. IS IT BECAUSE YOU MADE ME OUT OF EYEBALLS? [scientist] NO, NO... IT'S UNETHICAL FOR ME TO DATE PUPILS [pumpkinhead] NOPE. THAT’S IT. COMICTOBER'S CANCELED. SORRY FOLKS
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Lemon for your drink, anyone?
A photo of yellow C’thul— sorry, “Buddha’s Hand Citron”.
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Our US listeners need a hug... for real. Someone hug me 🐙

...one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. ...[A]nd Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
October 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Thank you, @reactorsff.bsky.social!
"The Hermit Crab God" by ego_bot Even though this story came out at the tail end of August, it has a real Halloween horror feel. Koji, a marine biology student, sees the worst in the world and in humanity. He seems to enjoy being cruel, yet that cruelty also haunts him. He goes out of his way to take his anger and guilt out on hermit crabs. I don't typically read stories involving animal abuse, but the point the author was making, about nihilism and environmentalism and not giving up, made it worth diving into. (PseudoPod-August 29, 2025; #991)
October 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I finally watched Vicious (2025) on Paramount+ this weekend.

I love small, high concept, sandbox horrors.
It is worth a watch.

No, they aren't paying me...it was just cool AF.
Promo poster for Vicious. Text reads: give it something you hate. Something you need. Something you hate
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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moodsandtenses There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?" ••• moodsandtenses I'm really enjoying the growing consensus in the notes that there's an Eternal Rivalry Between Vampires and Werewolves now, entirely because the werewolves, sick of Dracula's bullshit, have unionized.
October 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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We have been made aware that tentacles have been spotted in the wild. There is nothing to be concerned about. They’re perfectly safe. Approach with incaution.
Large metallic tentacled creature spotted at Burning Man. Its sides appear to made of discarded baking implements (bundt trays, cupcake pans, etc.) but who can say. Who can say…
September 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Important PSA👇
Screenshot: ofools not gonna say it again!!!! a BOG is a wetland that is acidic a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline vampireapologist FINALLY someone said it!!!!!!! flight-freedom a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees
September 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I never knew this was an option!

**glares at The Tower's koi pond**
August 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Nice to see @deadinkbooks.bsky.social featured:
Harriet Hirshman, publishing manager at Dead Ink Books, also references anthology-style TV as a way of thinking about short stories: “With a collection, there’s the opportunity to get people excited about the genre, themes and style rather than trying to sell a single narrative that they might not necessarily engage with. Audiences can easily understand what they may get out of an anthology TV series like Black Mirror or Inside No. 9, as opposed to a feature film, and I think that we should consider marketing short story collections in this way. There’s never been a better time for ’vibes’ to be taken seriously as a major selling point.”
August 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Thought for the Day, from PseudoPod Towers
Screenshot showing tall, mirrored, cylindrical pods, standing upright in a room lit with blueish lighting. Text reads: r/creepy u/RealJoshUniverse • 8h 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics
August 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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#OTD 44 years ago: August 21, 1981

Beware the moon, lads.

🐺 🌕
An American Werewolf in London movie poster, showing the two main characters looking up and slightly to their right, where a full moon is visible
August 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM