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An award-winning weekly horror fiction podcast. 🗓️Periodically open to horror subs <10k. (Check website.) 💀Always open to horror flash <2k. 🧟Reprints allowed. 🧕👩🏾👨🏽🦽➡️🏳️🌈Diverse voices encouraged. www.talestoterrify.com #HorrorCommunity
Welcome to episode 733. We have two tales for you this week. About the dangerous seduction of procrastination and a voyeur who sees more than she bargained for (read by @annemarielewis.bsky.social).
talestoterrify.com/episodes/733-arasibo-campeche-david-stephen-powell
I have a new weird/horror flash piece out today in episode #733 @talestoterrify.bsky.social and read by LJ Segura.
The story is in inspired by the song "Panteón de Amor" by Orquesta Zodiac.
talestoterrify.com/episodes/733...
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An exoplanet with bite.
A virus that makes everyone agreeable.
A robot older than humanity.
Send us your most horrifying sci-fi until February 28.
1,000 words MAX.
$50 prize.
Go on. We dare you.
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My flash fiction story, Marionette, released today as part of episode 732 of the @talestoterrify.bsky.social podcast!
Available to listen wherever you get your podcasts, or through the 🔗 in my bio and on my website :)
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06.02.2026 17:41 — 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
Welcome to episode 732. We four tales for you this week, about a deadly fairy tale, a father who thinks he knows best, a woman who doesn’t quite feel herself, and a repairman struggling to remain relevant.
talestoterrify.com/episodes/732-j-s-apsley-frank-oreto-elle-zi-dong-derek-alan-jones
Story drop!!
@talestoterrify.bsky.social will be presenting my short,very dark, very bleak, quite mean story "Zero Tolerance." On Friday.
Not joking about the bleak-dark-meanness.
If that's your wheelhouse, tune in tomorrow at talestoterrify.com (you've been warned) #horror #writing #podcast
The pre-order is up for THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT 🤩
In 1994, 3 girls went to the movies to see an obscure film. Only 1 came out. 30 years later, she finds the movie isn't done with her yet.
Tickets are available now:
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-movie...
Cover reveal is TOMORROW 📽️
By going through the TALES TO TERRIFY @talestoterrify.bsky.social archives, I’ve discovered my new favorite horror poet: Robert Payne Cabeen.
“Doctor Volmer” remains my personal fave.
“Clowns” was quite gruesome.
“Krampus Comes to Town” for the holiday scream season.
And the list continues…
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2025 Recommended Reading List locusmag.com/2026/02...
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Is it déjà vu?
Or are you stuck in a time loop?
...or does someone keep erasing your memories?
Tell us about it in 1,000 words or less.
You could win U.S.$50.
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Don't go outside into the frigid cold this weekend. It'll only make you sad.
Instead, write a scary sci-fi story about the mad scientist who is making it cold and why he would do that to us.
Contest opens Feb 1
Prize = U.S.$50
Word limit = 1,000
Welcome to episode 731. We have one tale for you this week, about a woman trapped in a time loop, in an endless fight for her freedom (and the truth).
talestoterrify.com/episodes/731-corinne-engber
Here’s my list of the best stories presented on TALES TO TERRIFY @talestoterrify.bsky.social for year 1 (2012).
Episode
Story Title, Author, Publication Year
Narrator, Publication Year
A still from "The Hunger Games," in which Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket announces, "May the odds be ever in your favor."
A hale and hearty CONGRATULATIONS to the tributes who made the Stoker preliminary ballots! 👏🎉🥳🥂
27.01.2026 23:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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That plant by the window...it wasn't there before. Was it? And is that...a human face growing out of it?
Set your phasers to horror and don't trust anyone: it's time for Tales to Terrify's annual flash contest!
Winner will receive $50.
Maximum length = 1,000 words.
Welcome to episode 730. We have two tales for you this week, about a boy desperate to protect his newfound friendship, and a harrowing trip down a forbidden road (by @blackcattales.bsky.social).
talestoterrify.com/episodes/730-emma-johnson-rivard-chris-l-robinson
As a heads up, my werewolf story “The Dog Road” will be in episode 730 of Tales to Terrify coming out on Friday!
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Welcome to episode 729 We have two tales for you this week. First, we share a handy instructional guide to culinary subterfuge. Then, a group of Roman soldiers descend deep into the earth in search of a lost family.
talestoterrify.com/episodes/729-meagan-regina-thomas-alfie-court
Just a friendly reminder that today is the last day to recommend works for the Stoker Awards!
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So after sneaking past security and breaking into the haunted recording studio @talestoterrify.bsky.social built on the rubble of an old burnt-down bowling alley, I found a copy of The Red Men sitting on the soundboard…
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Horror Writers. Join us for four questions, chat, and a promo opportunity on Bluesky. Wednesday 14th January. 7 pm GMT (UK) / 2 pm ET (USA) Questions will be posted by Co-Host Mary @marywyrd.bsky.social - Background composite image of abandoned interior rooms with a purple filter. On either side of the opening to the next room, a pair of shadowy hands presses against the walls. Or are they pressing against your screen?
This week, #HorrorWritersChat will be all about the kind of #horror we write and our influences.
Join us!
Wednesday 14 January
2 pm ET (USA) / 7 pm GMT (UK)
How? Answer four questions, chat in the comments, share posts, then promote your work in the outro.
🩸📚 Discover new horrors
#AmWriting
If you missed it over the weekend, here’s my 2025 eligibility. If you can only read one, I most hope you’ll read “Through the Machine”. Thank you for reading. 🙂
13.01.2026 17:16 — 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0A bittersweet story about two sisters trying to bring their dead mother peace and closure after she returns to them as a hungry ghost - Magie Vol, Ogies Toe by @clhellisen.bsky.social
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So excited to share my horror flash fiction piece, "Salamander Season," featured in this week's episode of Tales to Terrify! I hope you enjoy listening. 🦎
09.01.2026 20:58 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Current Media: January 2026
Audiobook Podcasts: @pseudopod.org (2006-Present) | @talestoterrify.bsky.social (2012-Present) | @nightmare-magazine.com (2012-Present)
In lieu of audiobooks (for now), I’ve been listening to what I call audiobook podcasts since the first of the new year.
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My story "The Head in the Pantry" is featured on today's episode of the Tales to Terrify podcast! Fiction editor @mlmorgenstern.bsky.social , reader Stephen Kilpatrick, and the Tales team did terrific work adapting the story to audio. Please give it a listen.
09.01.2026 16:58 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
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Let's focus on supporting each other this year. Indie authors, publishers, magazines & editors need to stay connected! Keep yourself integrated into the SFFH world by reading Locus! Support our nonprofit and help us create the network we all deserve... https://locusmag.com/
09.01.2026 12:35 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
An image place holder for the story, The Death of Demons, by Brandon Case, which is now free to read at the Trollbreath Magazine website: https://magazine.trollbreath.com/the-death-of-demons/ . The image shows an old medieval style helmet resting on chain mail, with a sword in front of it. There are hints of fur in the image as well.
Welcome to this week's Free Fiction Friday!
This week we have Brandon Case with a love letter to the sword and sorcery genre, one that comes with a fizzing heart of honor and love that drew us in and held us close. All good stories begin at an inn....
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Welcome to episode 728. We have two tales for you this week, about an unsettling exchange between man and nature, and a widower who struggles not to lose his head.
talestoterrify.com/episodes/728-t-r-steele-rex-burrows
