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Tales to Terrify
@talestoterrify.bsky.social
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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.
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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
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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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)
A black widow spider with a babydoll head crawls out of a fireplace.
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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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
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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.)
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.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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If anyone needs us this weekend, we'll be watching our collective boyfriend in GdT's "Frankenstein."
Oscar Isaac looking smexy as hell in "Frankenstein"
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Welcome to episode 719. First, we meet a woman with a hunger for justice. Then, a man fears for his relationship thanks to his girlfriend’s obsession with a chatbot (by
@keithlafountaine.bsky.social, read by @thevoicesinmyhead.com).

talestoterrify.com/episodes/719-james-fritz-keith-lafountaine
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Happy Halloween and welcome to 718. First, we meet the four runners-up and one winner of our first ever Halloween Flash Fiction Contest. Then, a classic tale about a man who inherits a house and the dark history that comes with it.

talestoterrify.com/episodes/718-halloween-flash-contest-e-f-benson
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Welcome to episode 717. We have one tale for you this week, about a man whose farm becomes the feeding ground for a beast straight out of legend.

talestoterrify.com/episodes/717-c-w-stevenson
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A Tales to Terrify slush reader?
Don't dream it: be it!
Apply @ tinyurl.com/TtTSlushReader
Movie still of Patricia Quinn as Magenta in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
October 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Win your copy of @frankoreto.bsky.social's new release: It's Dark in Here: Twenty-One Weird Tales and One Poem About Squirrels. Simply like this post and answer one prompt:

"You open the door to find a squirrel on your front step. It looks you dead in the eye, opens its mouth, and says ________."
October 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Welcome to episode 716. We have three tales, about an ominous voice calling from the woods (read by @michelle-kane.bsky.social), a dangerous bargain to break a curse (read by @sarasounds.bsky.social), and a descent into madness at the hands of a monstrous clock.

talestoterrify.com/episodes/716...
October 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Requirements to join our podcast as a volunteer slush reader:
-Must love horror
-Must be snarky
-Must have a god complex when judging others
-Must be willing to put up with grumpy, misanthropic (unpaid) co-workers
-Cute pet photos a plus, but not required

Apply here: tinyurl.com/TtTSlushReader
A still from the black-and-white Disney animation, "Danse Macabre," of skeletons holding hands and dancing in a circle.
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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We're looking for volunteer first readers.
Come play with us at the podcast. Forever... and ever... and ever.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/TtTSlushReader
The twins from "The Shining" wearing blue dresses and knee high socks, holding hands in a floral-pattern wallpapered hallway. Text reads: "COME PLAY WITH US."
October 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Welcome to episode 715. We have one tale for you this week, about a stray dog that causes otherworldly chaos (by @ericawatersbooks.bsky.social, read by @krystalhammond.bsky.social).

talestoterrify.com/episodes/715-erica-waters
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Do you like reading short horror stories?
Are you opinionated and judgey?
Do you have a god complex?

Tales to Terrify is looking for new volunteer first readers!

If you think you got what it takes, fill out our application:
tinyurl.com/TtTSlushReader

(Remember: this is a strictly volunteer role.)
Bart and Homer Simpson in eerie shadows. Homer pats the seat on the couch next to him. Text reads: "JOIN US"
October 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Welcome to episode 714. We have two tales for you this week, about guardian eldritch horrors (by @amadolaila.bsky.social, read by @jimmyhorrors.bsky.social) and the risks of messing with time (by @linardos.bsky.social).

talestoterrify.com/episodes/714-laila-amado-akis-linardos
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
Word limit: 250
Theme: New origins of Halloween traditions
Prize: $50
Entry fee: NONE
GL and subs: tinyurl.com/TTTHalloween...
Graphic shows three characters walking down a path in a forest, arms linked. Two have rounded jack-o-lantern heads, one has a paper bag head. They wear long coats. Two have skirts, one in pants.
September 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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The latest in our author interview series is live on our Patreon. This month, Seth chats with author @jvgachs.bsky.social. Check it out at Patreon.com/talestoterrify!
September 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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What a great weekend to finish your story for our Halloween contest!
Prize: $50
Word limit: 250
Theme: New origins of Halloween traditions.
Entry fee: NONE
GL and subs: tinyurl.com/TTTHalloween...
A figure wearing a floor-length white sheet like a ghost. They are standing on a floor of dead leaves in a forest and holding a jack-o-lantern. Text reads: "Halloween Origins; Flash Fiction Contest; Closes midnight, Sept 30th."
September 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Welcome to episode 713. We have two tales for you this week. First, a woman has one hell of a mess to clean in her bathroom (read by @melrosevo.bsky.social). Then, we get to the bottom of who’s haunting the house.

talestoterrify.com/episodes/713-r-s-nelson-qed
September 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Just one more week to get those micro-fiction Halloween tales submitted to our contest.
You don't want to be left in the dark all alone, do you?
Guidelines and submission portal here: tinyurl.com/TTTHalloween...
Graphic shows two trick-or-treaters with grinning jack-o-lantern heads. The teeth are all sharp and the eyes look wicked. They're holding bags that say "Trick or Treat." Behind them is what looks like an abandon house or farm with a vertical sign reading, "Welcome." Text reads: "Halloween Origins: Flash Fiction Contest. Closes Midnight, Sept 30th."
September 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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A full tree in a vast field, half in purple, half in orange. Text reads: "The Morning After, by Nathaniel Lee, narrated by Andrew Gibson, episode 591."
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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A skeleton lit in red light, with other skeletons lit in purple behind it. Text reads: "Decoration by Frank Oreto, narrated by Griswold Addams, episode 562."
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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A skull on the ground, with fog, and what appears to be blood left over. Text reads: "Bella's Brood by E.E.W. Christman, narrated by Chrystal Hammond. Episode 524"
September 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A bare tree reaching upward in a barren background. Text reads: "The Wishing Tree by Natalie Ironside, Narrated by Krystal Hammond, episode 507."
September 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM