You guys, I can barely contain myself! PodCastle hit its 200th episode today! And we're celebrating with Scott Lynch's awesome story "In the Stacks," which has swords, sorcery, and takes place in the coolest, most dangerous library ever!

Also, Anna and I asked a lot of cool people to help us do a full cast reading! Anyone who can place Rachel ( Read more... )

Here's a Christmas present I discovered at the beginning of the year: my Krampus short story "Saint Nicholas' Helper" is at Pseudopod, in time for the holidays! Being as it's at Pseudopod, it is not a nice story. But if you dark fiction to go with the darkest nights of the year, I hope you enjoy it.

There's a storybook my parents had that's ( Read more... )

Hurley's mom said it best: "Jesus Christ is not a weapon."

This week at PodCastle we reprinted Leah Bobet's hilarious and awesome "The Parable of the Shower," read by Laurice White. You should give it a listen.

So I was supposed to write and record an introduction for it when the Orson Scott Card outrage started going off in rapid succession (for non ( Read more... )

Guys guys guys! My story "God-Shaped Box" is available in audio! And holy crap look who read it - Larry Santoro, who did one of my favorite ever Escape Pod stories and readings: Eugie Foster's "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest, Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast. "

"God-Shaped Box" has a special place in my heart - and I've always thought it ( Read more... )

For the past few months I've been wandering the musty hallways of PodCastle muttering madly to anyone who will listen: Gene Wolfe. Gene. Fucking. Wolfe.

People looked at me oddly. Because, of course, they had no idea why I'd use Mr. Wolfe's name so.

Well, now it can be told. PodCastle's running a Gene Wolfe story this week: "The Island of Doctor ( Read more... )

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Last week at PodCastle we ran M.L.N. Hanover's twisted "Hurt Me". It's a story that probably could've been as at home on Pseudopod as PodCastle, but I was moved by the emotion in the story, and specifically, the love. And today, as kind of a Valentine's Day special, we've posted a re-recording of another love story: "The Curandero and the Swede: A ( Read more... )

Escape Pod has gone pro!!! They're doing a trial run of paying authors 5 cents per word, posting reviews and other content on their blog, and also, ePublishing! And "Saint Darwin's Spirituals" is in the premiere ePub, along with matthewsrotundo's story "Fuel" (which I had the pleasure of narrating for EP). There's also a couple of spiffy reviews included, and a ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to say that Part 2 of "Horror World 2025", my collaboration with Kevin "No J" Anderson, is now live at Drabblecast! I think it went live on Saturday - just in time for Halloween.

So if you like the Headless Horseman, zombies, aliens, vampires (not those kind of vampires), the Wolfman, and most importantly Westworld - check it out!

Neil Gaiman's been talking about giving a scary book to someone you love this Halloween. An idea I think is fantastic, and completely support. In addition, I'm giving a few things free to all of you - Escape Pod bought my story "Saint Darwin's Spirituals" and just published it in time for Halloween! Spiritualized steampunk with golems and ( Read more... )