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Anthologies and Collections – PseudoPod https://pseudopod.org The Sound of Horror Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:23:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pseudopod.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cropped-PseudoPod-chip-32x32.png Anthologies and Collections – PseudoPod https://pseudopod.org 32 32 PseudoPod 1007: The Children of the Event https://pseudopod.org/2025/12/12/pseudopod-1007-the-children-of-the-event/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:01:25 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12509 “The Children of the Event” was first published in the collection ‘Portraits of Decay’ by Carson Winter, published by Salt Heart Press in June 2025. To support us during our year-end campaign, go to escapeartists.net/support-ea Notes from the author: As long as I can remember, I’ve been a Godzilla fan. My fate was set at the age of six, when me and a neighborhood boy rented…

]]> PseudoPod 1002: The Squatters https://pseudopod.org/2025/11/07/pseudopod-1002-the-squatters/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:01:14 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12452 “The Squatters” originally appeared in the 2025 Anthology, Silk and Sinew C/W for mass graves, genocide The government begins excavating the bones in late February to coincide with the events planned to commemorate the massacre. It is meant to gesture that they truly do intend to follow through on their promise of “truth and reconciliation” and with the upcoming…

]]> PseudoPod 997: Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be https://pseudopod.org/2025/10/10/pseudopod-997-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxxv-together-is-our-favorite-place-to-be/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:41:33 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12410 “The Wind Beneath” originally appeared in Cosmic Horror Monthly “They Still Haven’t Found Stevie” has previously been featured on the No Sleep Podcast “Precious Darlings” originally appeared in Bag of Bones: This is Too Tense C/W: pandemic, mass death; child abduction; second-person PoV, body horror Our family doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.

]]> PseudoPod 995: Data Ghost https://pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/pseudopod-995-data-ghost/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:01:08 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12393 “Data Ghost” originally appeared in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology When the station stats popped up on the screen, the Interface said, Anomalous. Deni batted at their ear and muttered, “No, no, quit it.” In the second cockpit seat, Winnie threw them a look. “What?” At Deni’s shrug, her brows stayed up, skeptical. “Use your words, Tulip.” “It’s the Interface.”…

]]> PseudoPod 955: Flash on the Borderlands LXXII: 2024 Anthologies and Collections Showcase https://pseudopod.org/2024/12/27/pseudopod-955-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxxii-2024-anthologies-and-collections-showcase/ Fri, 27 Dec 2024 05:01:24 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12048 “Summer Night” was first published in the 2024 anthology Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror “Chosen” was first published in the 2024 anthology Howls from the Scene of the Crime “The Encausting” was first published in Seaside Gothic and reprinted in the 2024 collection One Eye Opened in That Other Place “The Njogel” was first published in the 2024 collection The Dancing…

]]> PseudoPod 954: Be Not Afraid https://pseudopod.org/2024/12/20/pseudopod-954-be-not-afraid/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:01:09 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12045 “Be Not Afraid” originally appeared in the 2024 anthology We Mostly Come Out at Night edited by Rob Costello The Mothman The Mothman Prophecies (Book) The Mothman Prophecies (Film) Krampus Krampus (2015 movie) “Take out all the yellow ones,” Mamaw says. “Put these in.” She takes a box of Christmas bulbs out of the plastic grocery sack from the Dollar General and…

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]]> PseudoPod 953: If You Don’t Want a Cat, Don’t Get a Kitten https://pseudopod.org/2024/12/13/pseudopod-953-if-you-dont-want-a-cat-dont-get-a-kitten/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:01:36 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12042 “If You Don’t Want a Cat, Don’t Get a Kitten” originally appeared in the 2024 collection Recreational Panic From the author: “I dedicated one of my stories, ‘If You Don’t Want a Cat, Don’t Get a Kitten’, to Brian Keene. His adventures with stray kittens are well-documented online, namely the humanitarian work he undertakes by trapping them, getting them spayed/neutered…

]]> PseudoPod 952: Onitsha Main, Ochanja, The Twins, Nkpor, and the Shadows of Shoprite https://pseudopod.org/2024/12/06/pseudopod-952-onitsha-main-ochanja-the-twins-nkpor-and-the-shadows-of-shoprite/ Fri, 06 Dec 2024 05:01:53 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12036 “Onitsha Main, Ochanja, The Twins, Nkpor, and the Shadows of Shoprite” was originally published in the 2024 anthology, Escalators to Hell: Shopping Mall Horrors Onitsha Main. It started with the garri sellers. Basin by basin, their grains went gray with mold. Stall by stall, they all shut down. The small-scale carpenters down by the port were next. With soaring prices…

]]> PseudoPod 951: Last Supper https://pseudopod.org/2024/11/29/pseudopod-951-last-supper/ Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:58:37 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12033 PseudoPod 951: Last Supper is a PseudoPod original. CW: Thanksgiving dinner drama “Last Supper” is a follow-up to “Licking Roadkill”, which previously appeared at PseudoPod (ep 786, Nov 2021) and in the collection A Meeting In the Devil’s House. From the author: “It’s [Last Supper] a standalone story, but if you tackle “Licking Roadkill” first…

]]> PseudoPod 950: The Slow Music of Drums https://pseudopod.org/2024/11/22/pseudopod-950-the-slow-music-of-drums/ Fri, 22 Nov 2024 05:01:08 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12017 “The Slow Music of Drums” was originally published in the 2024 Anthology Northern Nights edited by Michael Kelly TW: features grief, an implied apocalypse, sinister music, a family curse, cosmic horror and bees Astute readers and listeners may be aware, or interested to learn, that the C in A.C. Wise’s name stands for Campbell. The property described in “The Slow Music…

]]> PseudoPod 949: Less Exalted Tastes https://pseudopod.org/2024/11/18/pseudopod-949-less-exalted-tastes/ Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:49:54 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12014 “Less Exalted Tastes” originally appeared in the 2024 collection All Who Wander Are Lost Gemma Amor https://gemmaamorauthor.com/ Total Immersion https://gemmaamorauthor.com/books-gemma-amor/full-immersion-by-gemma-amor/ Hot Singles In Your Area by Jordan Shiveley https://unbound.com/books/hotsingles Irish House Burning Mania https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/

]]> PseudoPod 948: A Relationship in Four Haircuts https://pseudopod.org/2024/11/08/pseudopod-948-a-relationship-in-four-haircuts/ Fri, 08 Nov 2024 05:01:12 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12006 ‘A Relationship in Four Haircuts’ was originally published in the 2024 anthology Welcome to Your Body: Lessons in Evisceration C/W for emotional abuse Iris, by the Goo Goo Dolls You met him on Etsy. That’s right. Not a dating app, but an online marketplace for small business owners. You’d asked about a custom jade ring you’d been sniffing around for but…

]]> PseudoPod 947: Will They Disappear https://pseudopod.org/2024/11/04/pseudopod-947-will-they-disappear/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:57:25 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11995 ‘Will They Disappear’ originally appeared in the 2024 collection The Nightmare Box from Cursed Morsels Press From the author: “This piece is based on the horrendous real-life story of Jennifer and Sarah Hart, two white women who adopted six Black children and then proceeded to abuse them for years. (In a ghoulish twist, they brought their children to Black Lives Matter rallies.

]]> PseudoPod 899: Arcanum Miskatonica https://pseudopod.org/2023/12/29/pseudopod-899-arcanum-miskatonica/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 05:01:40 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11640 “Arcanum Miskatonica” was originally published in Lovecraftiana Vol.3, No.1, April 2018 and reprinted in the 2023 anthology The Nameless Songs of Zadok Allen & Other Things that Should Not Be edited by Jessica Augustsson From the editors: The Nameless Songs of Zadok Allen & Other Things that Should Not Be is JayHenge’s 20th speculative fiction anthology, and editor Jessica Augustsson…

]]> PseudoPod 898: It Takes Slow Sips https://pseudopod.org/2023/12/22/pseudopod-898-it-takes-slow-sips/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 05:01:15 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11638 “It Takes Slow Sips” first appeared in the anthology Lost Contact and was reprinted in the 2023 collection The Inconsolables CW: Stalking, allusion to date rape From the author: “The word incel, which means “involuntary celibate,” is never used explicitly in “It Takes Slow Sips,” but this community, to use the term loosely, makes the skin crawl like little else in the…

]]> PseudoPod 897: The Red Lady https://pseudopod.org/2023/12/15/pseudopod-897-the-red-lady/ Fri, 15 Dec 2023 05:01:57 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11623 “The Red Lady” was originally published in the 2023 anthology Collage Macabre presented by the Future Dead Collective SHOW NOTES The Whoniverse The Full Lid ‘Art is never finished, only abandoned.’ – This week’s closing quote has a fascinating, and very complex history. From the author: “The works of Robert W. Chambers were some of the first horror shorts to get me…

]]> PseudoPod 896: Douen https://pseudopod.org/2023/12/09/pseudopod-896-douen/ Sun, 10 Dec 2023 01:54:11 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11607 “Douen” was originally published in The Dark Magazine and reprinted in the 2023 collection Skin Thief. From the author: “This story is set at my Grandmother’s house in Trinidad. The story itself is written in dialect the way I would have spoken it. It poured out of my head that way fully completed. Because I’m part of the diaspora, it is really reflective of how my parents spoke to…

]]> PseudoPod 894: Thirteen Ways of Not Looking at a Blackbird https://pseudopod.org/2023/11/24/pseudopod-894-thirteen-ways-of-not-looking-at-a-blackbird/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 05:01:52 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11587 “Thirteen Ways of Not Looking at a Blackbird” was originally published in the 2023 anthology No Trouble at All edited by Alexis Dubon and Eric Raglin Hugh Dancy: Will Graham I. I am a baby boy. In the bathtub, looking out, past my mother as she cries and holds the already wet washcloth to her eyes. Over her mouth. I am looking into the full-length mirror on the bathroom…

]]> PseudoPod 893: The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm https://pseudopod.org/2023/11/17/pseudopod-893-the-stringer-of-wiltsburg-farm/ Fri, 17 Nov 2023 05:07:23 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11569 “The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm” was originally published in Vastarien and was reprinted in the 2023 collection Who Lost, I Found Dark Harvest novel Dark Harvest Daddy called tobacco a quick and dirty crop. Quick because it was one hundred days from planting to harvest. Dirty because cutting the leaves off the plants released a juicy, dark sap that dried, sticky sweet…

]]> PseudoPod 892: The Body Remembers https://pseudopod.org/2023/11/10/pseudopod-892-the-body-remembers/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 05:01:53 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11532 “The Body Remembers” was originally written for, and published in, the anthology Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures in April 2023. CW: War, death, graphic descriptions of injuries, self-harm, suicidal ideation From the author: “The idea for this story came from thinking about how even when we heal from physical trauma and no visible scars remain, we can still be…

]]> Anthologies and Collections from 2023: Bloodline https://pseudopod.org/2023/11/09/anthologies-and-collections-from-2023-bloodline/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:21:23 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11536 Novels are all very well, but is there anything more satisfying than a well-crafted short story? We don’t think so, here at PseudoPod towers. A gripping introduction, a compelling narrative and a hard-hitting ending, all in under six thousand words. A point well made and a story well told. Some may be nibbles while others are more… substantial, but they’re all, in a manner of speaking, bite-sized.

]]> PseudoPod 845: 15 Eulogies Scribbled Inside a Hello Kitty Notebook https://pseudopod.org/2022/12/30/pseudopod-845-15-eulogies/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:14:56 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11073 “15 Eulogies Scribbled Inside a Hello Kitty Notebook” originally appeared in Carlie’s debut collection, You Fed Us to the Roses, published by Robot Dinosaur Press in October 2022. February—Liam I didn’t know him well. Nobody did, really: he was the new kid. But he was funny, and he was cute, and I probably would’ve said yes when he asked me out, except that’s when the gullet…

]]> Anthologies and Collections from 2022: Dream Warriors https://pseudopod.org/2022/11/03/anthologies-and-collections-22/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 04:01:46 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=10920 Here at PseudoPod we believe that short stories in anthologies (pieces by different authors) and collections (pieces from a single author) deserve to be seen by more readers. We, and our audience, love short fiction and we never have enough slots to run everything we’d like to in a year – but what we can do is shine a light on some of the many, many books that feature amazing selections of stories.

]]> Anthologies and Collections and PseudoPod and You III: Dream Warriors https://pseudopod.org/2022/06/02/anthologies-and-collections-2022/ Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:11:21 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=10730 There are a number of short stories in anthologies and collections that deserve to get in front of more readers. We want to shine more light across our community and widen our circle to make room for more writers and readers. We and our audience love short fiction, and we never have enough space to run everything we want in a year, so we want to get samples of entire books of short fiction in…

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