Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod

Words fail me

YouTube video by Bill McClintock AC/LeeC - "Dirty Deeds Around the Christmas Tree"

Merry Dirty Deeds

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This is a terrific story from @carsonwinter.bsky.social, beautifully narrated by @fluidityaudio.bsky.social.

I don’t think we’ve run a story with footnotes before. It works brilliantly, with huge thanks to @kibitzer.bsky.social for the audio wizardry! 🦑

This tribute anthology to Tanith Lee is chock full of bangers from the genres Tanith played in.

Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology - Essential Dreams Press share.google/XEntSG8May7P...

Do it

Sometimes only a couple of things work for you in an entire novel, and those couple things are enough to make you cherish it.

Short story that's a movie review that's more than it seems? Yeah, this experimental little piece is a real treat.

I like physical media, too. The kids are all right. We can all own the things we buy.

Trending: Libraries Are Refocusing on Physical Media

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I'm back at The Lineup with my biggest list yet: the Best Horror Books of 2025!

So many fantastic horror books this year! 🖤☠️😱

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Tonight! Join us!

Traciesearing: If weird Al is on stage screaming a serious version of "killing in the name" we're officially in the 'even the nice guy snapped' era of American politics. His entire career is built on parody and joy, not rage. So when weird Al breaks character , that's not a performance that's a warning. Pinnaclesups: I will follow Serious Alfreds into hell.

H/T @brackenmacleod.bsky.social

A black and white illustration - two men are silhouetted looking out over the countryside from a hill. One looks through a pair of binoculars, and the other points ahead with a walking stick. Above them we can see what the man sees through his binoculars - on the left in the background, an abbey surrounded by trees, and on the right, nearer to us, a corpse swinging from a gibbet surrounded by crows

Spooky Advent day 9: Binoculars behaving badly - A View from a Hill by M R James, adapted for television by Peter Harness, and directed by Luke Watson, broadcast first on 23rd December 2005.

GenAI is a theft/plagiarism machine.

ChatGPT tries to access my websites 1000s of times per week, though I have things in place to block scraping. Nevertheless, it keeps trying to get in, from hundreds of different IPs, across hundreds of global regions.

What do we, the creators, get in return?

Silk & Sinew on The Lineup's best horror list for 2025! I am blown away and so dang proud of all the authors and their stories. 💪💪💪❤️
Big thanks to @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social !!!

Hey everyone. It’s a full moon…
… aroooooOOOOooooo

Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces paperback | Cursed Morsels Press Budget cuts drive a burned-out humanities professor to master the art of annihilation. A girl on the verge of a transformation seeks out a new member for her isolated, inhuman family. A glitching brai...

Not kidding when I say "Winter Savory" by D. Matthew Urban is one of my favorite Christmas Weird horror stories, right up there with "The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise" by Thomas Ligotti. You can read it and many other weird stories here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/shak...

Hey there. Back in Drabblecast w/ an audio version of "Window Boy" originally published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. (And the opening story to recent collection Uncertain Sons and Other Stories at @undertow.bsky.social). Check it out!

A truly excellent collection, as always. Congratulations!

The 10 best books of 2025: Censorship, crime and compassion From “Clam Down” to “Murderland,” these are the 10 books out of my tall stack of best books of the year that I couldn’t get out of my mind. How do you pick yours?

Chicago Tribune Top 10 books of 2025 list includes @johnlangan.bsky.social!

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PseudoPod 495: Shut The Final Door | PseudoPod The night was gentle and so Willie sat out on the combination fire escape and screened play area that hung in zigzags from the north side of the government-built, low-rent apartment building.

Got this one by Joe L. Hensley "Shut the Final Door"

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Such good lids

I've made another round of updates and additions to the eligibility and recommendations link post. Please do keep sending your links my way!

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Hey, want to hear a brilliant narrator absolutely nail a story by one of horror's modern greats? With excellent audio production and a host who grew up somewhere a lot like this?

These guys are great! I donate every year and may I suggest that some of the crafts they sell on behalf of the elders make great Christmas presents?

done and resolved up some gifts, thank you for sharing this charity

Ancients approve

a photograph of a lined piece of paper with a black marker pen and words "Mavka, PseudoPod 963 available in audio. Link below" written in terrible handwriting. typed text reads: eligible for most things. this is the most Ukrainian thing I've written and it is not a happy story. heed the content warnings.

it's that time of the year again!

this award season, i want to highlight a story that was very difficult for me to write, but i am glad is out there. you can read or listen to Mavka by following the link below. thank you @yelenacrane.bsky.social for the narration!

You guys! Jonathan has written some of my favorite short stories!
(This is at the top of my list.)
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Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions For younger writers, ages 15-21

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...