Come walk the road (or unsettling staircase leading down into the earth) less traveled this week on the Drabblecast, as we present author Rory Say’s story “The Bridge.” Enjoy!
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Silosibyn Sandalhemp (Cryptkeeper Norm) returns to host the Drabblecast Hallowellness Special, and the Drabblecast presents a production of Thomas Ha’s creepy short story, “Window Boy.”
This story originally appeared in Clarkesworld.
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Thomas Ha is a Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated writer of speculative short fiction. You can find his work in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Weird Horror Magazine, among other publications. His work has also appeared in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. His debut short story collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, is available for preorder and will be released by Undertow Publications in September 2025. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and, after a decade plus of living in the northeast, now resides in Los Angeles with his family. Find Thomas (he/him) here. Bluesky: @thomasha.bsky.social https://www.thomashawrites.com
The Creative Mercenary Originator of Electronic Imagery known as Umbra Ludus is a self-taught artist focusing on dark, dramatic, bold and colourful designs by exploiting 3D mediums in a traditional semi-impressionistic staging or just a pixel jockey who hides that can’t paint under layers of digital masturbation. Bluesky – @umbra-ludus.bsky.social X – @joel_bisaillon https://www.instagram.com/umbraludus
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Narrator: Norm Sherman
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Author: J. M. J. Brewer
J. M. J. Brewer (he/him) is a staunch supporter of nature conservation. You can find more of his fiction at jmjbrewer.com.
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We can, as well. Create. Respect. His. Might.
This story originally appeared in Clarkesworld.
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Norm Sherman’s latest CD, “The Instruction Book”
Thomas Ha is a Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated writer of speculative short fiction. You can find his work in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Weird Horror Magazine, among other publications. His work has also appeared in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. His debut short story collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, is available for preorder and will be released by Undertow Publications in September 2025. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and, after a decade plus of living in the northeast, now resides in Los Angeles with his family. Find Thomas (he/him) here. Bluesky: @thomasha.bsky.social
Samir Sirk Morató is a scientist, artist, and flesh heap. Some of their published and forthcoming writing can be found in ergot., Cosmic Horror Monthly, NIGHTMARE, and khōréō; their visual art can be found in Flash Fiction Online, body fluids magazine, and The Skull & Laurel. They are on Bluesky and Instagram @spicycloaca.
Kristin Holland (he/him) is Host, Creator, Producer and Humble Narrator at Nocturnal Transmissions Podcast. Kristin is a Tasmanian born, now ‘mainland’ residing, Australian. With a background in education and visual art, he decided to embrace a ‘Renaissance man’ approach to his working life and has subsequently worked as a professional musician, stage and screen actor and voice over artist. He has appeared on the small screen in Neighbours, Rush, The Pacific, Nightmares & Dreamscapes and City Homicide and on the large screen in Australian feature film ‘The Sunset Six’. Find him here.
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Listen to the Diggerman, the crooked music in his steps, the muddled drumbeat in his cusses. He can’t walk straight or talk straight. All those years of digging left him bent.
A story of change and renewel and supernatural bears on this week’s Drabblecast! We bring you “The Bleeding Tree,”by Joe Koch. Also, Norm announcies The Strangies awards! Go here to learn more and vote for your favorite stories of 2023 and 2024:
Norm Sherman’s latest CD, “The Instruction Book”
Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Their books include The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Convulsive, Invaginies, and The Couvade, a 2019 Shirley Jackson Award finalist. His short work appears in Nightmare Magazine, Vastarien, Southwest Review, PseudoPod, The Mad Butterfly’s Ball, and many others. Find Joe (he/they) at horrorsong.blog. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/horrorsong.blog Twitter: @horrorsong
Łukasz Godlewski is a comic book creator from Gdańsk – Poland. He is an author of Painter, his first big graphic novel which is a tribute to Lovecraft and other classic weird fiction authors. Currently he is about to publish his new horror comic book – Black Heart. Story combines modern horror and the ancient history of India. Facebook: @godlewskiart Instagram: @godlewski_art
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At last! Another touching dog story on the Drabblecast! This week we bring you an original by H. Robert Barland. Enjoy!
H. Robert Barland is a teacher, Viking re-enactor and black belt martial artist. A former climber, film extra, and resident of the UK, he has now returned to Newcastle, Australia where he lives with his wife and two boys. His work has been published in Etherea and Nightmare Fuel magazines and also in the Wicked Flashes of Fantasy and Written into the Wind anthologies. He considers himself well adapted for life on land and can be followed on X ( @hrobertbarland) and Instagram (@h.robertbarland).”
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In a little pastel house, a seer and a psychopomp have questions. This week on Drabblecast– something’s fishy in a curious small town. We bring you a paranormal murder-mystery by
Cormack Baldwin & EV Smith. Enjoy!
Cormack Baldwin (he/him) and EV Smith (he/she/they) are a daring duo of authors and editors. Together, they run Archive of the Odd, a found fiction press. Apart, they have done such jobs as “working in an abandoned lighthouse grinding up fish to feed to other fish” and “succumbing to madness among impossible maps” (no, really!). They went to the coast recently. It was nice. You should see it.
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Tickets, please! Tickets! Right this way! Coupons to the right, and fast passes to left. NO pushing, folks. Watch your tendrils! Keep your goo to yourself. All lines will get you to the newest episode, “From Earth, to Io with Love. ” by Adelehin Ijasan!
Adelehin Ijasan is a Nigerian writer living in Scotland. He’s also an eye surgeon. His short stories have appeared in Fiyah, Interzone, Omenana and other venues. He was nominated for the Commonwealth short story award in 2014 and, more recently, was on the Nommos Award longlist for speculative fiction. Adelehin made the Locus recommended reading list in 2020 and is one of the co-creators of the Sauútiverse, a sci-fi fantasy shared project published by Android Press in November 2023
Cover art by Anike Kirsten
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Our story this week is spoiling for a good time. Enjoy a delicious exploration of the human condition, “Bad Meat” by Chip Houser!
Chip Houser (he/him) has stories in Bourbon Penn, PodCastle, Daily Science Fiction, and various other markets. “Dark Morsels,” a chapbook of his very short fiction, is forthcoming from Red Bird Chapbooks. He’s a graduate of Odyssey, a practicing architect, and an avid walker of slow dogs and an equally avid yet even slower hiker of mountains. Links to his stories and other oddities can be found at chiphouser.com.
Cover art by Bo Kaier
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Our story this week is “Those Who Forget and Those Who Perish” by K. W. Colyard. Enjoy!
Cover art by Steve Lillie
Do you long to be a part of the mob? Did this week’s story give you mob-envy? Then do we have something akin to a mob, but less angry, and less muddy, and also sort of just a rough collection of like-minded people who like similar things, and also it smells better. It’s the Drabblecast Patreon! Where you can meet your fellow less muddy, less angry, and collected new friends and get things like early access to ad-free episodes and bonus episodes! Plus with something new brewing in the dark coming to Patreon only.
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The Drabblecast Weird West Event closes out this week with another original story– this time with epic train shoot-outs, centaurs, and manifest destiny! We bring you, “That Bloody Frontier” by Sasha Brown.
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The Drabblecast Weird Wild West continues, with “The Alamo” by Cedrick May.
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The Drabblecast kicks off the Weird West event, with Avra Margariti’s story “Headhunting” and 100 word Drabble Quickdraw Contest winner “Taming the Larvalands” by Matt Blairstone. Enjoy!
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As the summer winds down and things cool down, the Drabblecast brings you a story that will give you chills! We present, “Cool Air” by H.P. Lovecraft.
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A merry hanging and a game of jacks, this week on the Drabblecast!
The Drabblecast brings you an original tale of interspecies aid.
#Hivelife this week on the Drabblecast!
The Drabblecast takes you on an expedition you’re gonna have to see with your own eyes to believe!