@talestoterrify.bsky.social
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
Pink background. Graphic is a green and purple psychedelic closeup of the eyes and hair of the Bride of Frankenstein. Text reads: "Calling all female-identified and femme-presenting horror writers! TALES TO TERRIFY PODCAST will soon open to flash (under 2k) submissions from *previously unpublished* horror writers for Women in Horror Month 2026. STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS..."
Check back here for more submission details soon...
11.12.2025 17:18 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0If you are attending @scaresthatcare.bsky.social's AuthorCon VI as a professional, and you would like to be involved in Programming, please fill out this brief questionnaire. Deadline is December 16. forms.office.com/r/ctEjc4cF8c
08.12.2025 12:09 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
Received the final (original bonus) story for the limited-edition hardcover of @lairdbarron.bsky.social's NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT. Production continues! We still have a few available for pre-order in the store. Only 500 will be produced.
badhandbooks.com/preorders/no...
Behind the scenes/pages trivia:
I had to rewrite this scene after seeing Bad Boys: Ride or Die
#buymybooks Did you know I wrote a novella riffing on the Dracula/Renfield relationship, but set in the world of hardcore indie death-match pro wrestling?
It’s called TURN (see what I did there?) and it’s available now on the ‘zon or direct from me.
Add this spandex gothic horror to your TBR.
Seeking reviewers, influencers, people who like to talk about horror short fiction—if you're interested in reading and reviewing my collection PORTRAITS OF DECAY, please reach out.
07.12.2025 16:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An empty London street leading to Big Ben and Parliament.
Friends, family, mortal enemies: A listener is asking about a short story we may have aired during Covid about a woman and her sister in a desolate London where everyone is stuck in a coma repeating a word.
We've searched our show notes and can't find a match.
Do any of you recognize this?
FFer Read (Listen?) of the Day: "Echthroxenia" by @avramargariti.bsky.social in @talestoterrify.bsky.social
talestoterrify.com/episodes/699...
If you write fantasy, sf, or horror, you might could be interested in this...
05.12.2025 14:18 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to episode 723. We have one longer tale for you this evening, about a team of Antiquarians tasked with uncovering the origin of a mysterious artifact (read by @douglasgwilym.bsky.social).
talestoterrify.com/episodes/723-derek-alan-jones
TL;DR = Horror fans are literally the nicest people on earth. Science says so.
But we here at the podcast already knew that.
Mark your calendars! We are kicking off our End of Year Giving Campaign on the 2nd, Giving Tuesday!
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word about my Patreon? My goal for the day is one new patron.
Patrons help support my art and my existence. You'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, & other fun posts.
www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Number 1 New Release! Congrats to everyone involved. We're almost at #1 in US Horror, as well. Let's get it done for the Cryptids: getbook.at/IIDBIW10
28.11.2025 20:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I'm bored and I have a lot of weekend left. Anyone want a $50 ebook cover? Normal price is $100-$200. Call it a Black Friday sale, this weekend only. Shoot me a DM! I love Indies. <3
28.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0feel strongly that you shouldn't buy shit on black friday, BUT if you did want to buy something, why not buy my books from the incomparable indie distributor @asterismbooks.bsky.social? TOADSTONES (original weird fiction) and NIGHT FEARS (collection of translated fic from Weird Tales magazine)?
28.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Welcome to episode 722. We have two tales for you this week. First, we develop an unfortunate aversion to fingernails. Then, a wife, tired of her husband’s illness, soon regrets taking matters into her own hands.
talestoterrify.com/episodes/722-sam-logan-e-f-benson
To our friends celebrating Thanksgiving in the States tomorrow, make sure you know who's coming to dinner: Most cryptids like their turkeys roasted, monsters like their turkeys raw, and demons prefer them still gobbling. Trust us: do NOT try to feed a cooked turkey to a demon. 😬
26.11.2025 14:14 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic showing lightning against a purple sky with a farmhouse and trees in silhouette at the bottom. Text reads: "Tales to Terrify is open to flash horror submissions. Must be under 2,000 words (hard limit). General guidelines & submission portal: https://tinyurl.com/flashsubs. Unfortunately, we cannot offer payment for flash just yet."
Holiday season got you down? Don't sulk about it - write about it! Then send that writing to us!
25.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Today marks 3 years since @talestoterrify.bsky.social performed my story, "The Dedication of the High Priestess," on their show. One of my best and favorite works, and I'm still in love with their performance. Give it a listen if you can.
talestoterrify.com/episodes/565...
#HorrorSky #BookSky
Movie art for 1971's "Dracula vs. Frankenstein" movie, with lots of lightning and red fog (?) and, well Dracula and Frankenstein fighting each other. Or about to make out?
Children of the Night, please help us settle an ongoing debate here at the podcast Gothic steampunk castle tower:
Could Dracula turn Frankenstein's Creature into a vampire?
Support your answer.
Welcome to episode 721. We have two tales for you this evening. First, a village plays host to a visitor with an insatiable appetite. Then, an English iron and coal magnate finds his work is transforming more than just his career.
talestoterrify.com/episodes/721-dafydd-mckimm-l-t-williams
The latest Goodreads review of KILL YOUR DARLING by @claymcleod.bsky.social says it's "Dark and dope." Read this brutally beautiful novella and join the discussion.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
hear ye hear ye, old awards season declared crappy by all! chooseth ye bitter karella for new awards this season!!!!!
17.11.2025 21:09 — 👍 54 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
The latest in our author interview series is up now on Patreon! This round, Seth chats with the horrifically humble Derek Alan Jones. Join us at patreon.com/talestoterrify to learn more about him and his work. #authorinterviews #horrorwriters
16.11.2025 18:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A black widow spider with a babydoll head crawls out of a fireplace.
The TtT staff are around this weekend if anyone needs a monster-sitter. DM for hourly rates.
(image: David Gough, Grief Crawling from the Ashes, 2021)
Welcome to episode 720. We have one classic tale for you tonight, about an old country estate that’s corridors holds more than portraits and shadows (read by @georgiacooked.bsky.social).
talestoterrify.com/episodes/tales-to-terrify-720-e-f-benson
Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein staring up at Jacob Elordi as the Creature in our dream tower, all moody and steampunk, with a gigantic, circular stone facade of a screaming face in the background.
We had a mandatory all-staff viewing of Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" over the weekend. We are now pleased to announce that we will be moving the podcast HQ from the dungeons to this magnificent tower on a cliff. (Hopefully with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi still in it.)
10.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Oscar Isaac looking smexy as hell in "Frankenstein"
If anyone needs us this weekend, we'll be watching our collective boyfriend in GdT's "Frankenstein."
07.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
