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PseudoPod 1053: Put Your Metal Blade to the Earth “There is an inherent danger in digging” Put Your Metal Blade to the Earth by Madeline Logemann Narrator: Lewis Davies Host: Graeme Dunlop Audio: Chelsea Davis This story is a PseudoPod original. C/W: Mass graves, plague

Let's fill bluesky with spooky art 💀 QRP with a spooky piece! #DarkArt

Apex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social is doing their annual Kickstarter and I urge everyone to back one of the genre's most constantly amazing magazines! BONUS: If you share this post you're in the running to receive a signed book from me. Details in thread. 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Be the patient your therapist worries about on the full moon 🌕💫

The countdown to Halloween has begun! But which monster should you disguise yourself as this year? @corinnepwriter.bsky.social is delving into some classic Halloween monsters to help you make your final call. Up next: The Werewolf. britishfantasysociety.org/classic-hall...

Congratulations! We loved this anthology too: we ran ‘Data Ghost’ from it last year pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...

Capricorn: There are questions that people with no imagination should avoid asking. Like, "What's the worst that could happen?”

Scorpio: Don’t worry about the writhing horrors beneath your flesh, it’s sweater season!

They're almost here... soon.

🎃 Do you love carving pumpkins for Halloween? We traced the history of the holiday tradition: www.snopes.com/news/2026/10...

It's me, narrating something other than warhammer..... but which doesnt....not....have....a warhammer fantasy feel to it? @pseudopod.org is generally great. Check it out.

"Songs in a Lesser Known Key" by Mjke Wood at @pseudopod.org is about a song that gets stuck in everyone else's head--and what that makes them do. I think Wood isn't on Bluesky? If I'm wrong, please tag him!

You know what doesn't get enough love? Horror short stories. From today through Halloween, I'll update this thread with Horror short story recommendations. Stuff you can read in a sitting while feeling like the shadows are watching.

Post your moon art 🌕

Featuring “Growing Life” by Annie ZH Sun – thank you, Alex! @anniezhsun.bsky.social

Ignore the negative chatter; it's all a matter of perspective 👻

Happy National Apple Day! Speaking of apples, the most brutal Irish curse I’ve ever come across is go ndéana an diabhal dréimire de chnámh do dhroma is é ag piocadh úll i ngairdín Ifrinn. It means “may the Devil make a ladder of your backbone while he picks apples in the garden of Hell.”

The @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter is going up soon, for all interested parties. (That's you!)

Congratulations on the win at the @multiversecon.bsky.social artshow to Pseudopod staff member @mmschill.bsky.social 👾

Happy #NationalCryptidDay / #NationalSasquatchAwarenessDay to all who celebrate!

PseudoPod 1052: Flash on the Borderlands LXXX Soil, Shadows and Blood • The Wishing Angel of Suffolk County, by Holly Hefner • John Must Die, by Sam Woodcock • Bird Bone, by Mar Vincent • Woodsong, by Arthur H. Manners Narrators: Alethea Kontis, Thomas Busby, Dani Daly and Preston Buttons

You know how some humans set animal traps?

Oct 19th 1957 - Michael Myers was born. Date mentioned in Halloween: Resurrection (2002) when Michael walks into the room of another patient 📽️📅 Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Diabolical Plots submissions are open again for one week, this time for the Diabolical Rot theme! guest edited by @amandaghelms.bsky.social www.diabolicalplots.com/guidelines/

Okay, it's out now so I can share! One of the Artworks I made for the Crossroads Folk Horror zine, Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes Watercolor on Arches 😈🎨🦇 Get a copy of the @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social zine here- it's fantastic :) ⬇️ crossroads-folkhorror.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

Wait ‘till we tell you about Santa Claus

I regret that I didn't see this review of Woodsong sooner. How lovely! I'm glad you enjoyed the story, @cypayseur.bsky.social. ICYMI, Woodsong is now available to listen to free at @pseudopod.org. pseudopod.org/2026/10/16/p... #horror #podcast #shortstory

Happy Saturday, Devils 😈

On St Andrew's Eve, Romanian folklore says the strigoi walk. Corben Vale, author of the Carpathian Chronicles, on garlic, unnamed wolves and the old rule that telling stories kept the dead away. https://gnofhorror.com/st-andrews-eve-romanian-folklore-strigoi/

Excited to have this weird little reprint out in the world—and just in time for spooky season!

A drawing inspired by the story "Willow Tests Well" as written by Nick Mamatas and audio form posted by @pseudopod.org Find the short horror story here pseudopod.org/2013/05/03/p...

Thank you so much to the team at Pseudopod for bringing my story to life! - Sam

Delighted that my flash horror story "Woodsong" is reprinted in audio form in this week's episode of Pseudopod. At the edge of survival, an indomitable father-son pair cling to hope. Thanks to @pseudopod.org for running the story! #horror #flashfiction #shortstory #podcast

News outta Fantasycon: An anthology that began as an idea at Worldcon in this very hotel bar has now been bought by @guardbridgebooks.bsky.social - and I have one of my weird dark ritual stories in there! Thanks to @pslivingstone.bsky.social and @cjhenderson.bsky.social for being stellar leaders 💪🏻

I'm in this one! ⭐️ Have a listen! I like stories about angels. Especially the creepy ones. #booksky #audio #narration

Wanna hear something spooky? (And to add to the spookiness, I am posting this from the town of Bayport. Just meters from The Wishing Angel of Suffolk County!)

Ahhhhhhhh! My very dead, very old thing is live at @pseudopod.org this week: pseudopod.org/2026/10/16/p...