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"November 1938 “What we are looking for,” said the doctor, “are photographs to help us document the treatment’s effect upon the patient. We need a picture before the treatment and afterward. Those are for the hospital files. But we also want photos taken...
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"The coffin lies at the curb, tilted aslant on the strip of grass next to the sidewalk. Old Mr. Byerly spies it on an evening walk through his suburban neighborhood. It’s been put out alongside a pile of other discards—an old-fashioned lawn mower, a...
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My wife sometimes asked what had gone wrong with us. She had always been our bank of compassion, the caretaker of our marriage, the one who diagnosed what was needed to keep us on track, and made sure that it was provided. I evaded the question. How could...
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(Editorial Note: Starting with this month’s story, we will only post ebooks in the EPUB format as Amazon phased out the MOBI format a few years ago. Also, moving forward, we will be tagging our stories. We plan to tag our backlog of stories over the next...
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Annie's Heart is a Haunted House was first published in THE HIDEOUS BOOK OF HIDDEN HORRORS, edited by Doug Murano, and was later published in Todd Keisling’s Stoker-nominated collection, COLD, BLACK & INFINITE
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PseudoPod 1048: The Work of Smith House is a PseudoPod original. C/W: Spoiler Warning cultural appropriation, reference to suicide, male on female violence [collapse] “The Work of Smith House” is a PseudoPod original The photos hardly did Smith House...
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PseudoPod 1050: This House of Hopes, This House of Bones is a PseudoPod original. C/W: domestic violence, murder My husband is home again. I cannot hear him well, not with the ringing in my ears and the throbbing headache making every movement agony, but...
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PseudoPod 1051: The Ghost of a Flea is a PseudoPod original. C/W: explicit sexual content ‘Courtyard’ by Tol, taken using a 2002 Sony DSC-F717 bridge camera. “Of course, I haven’t exactly conducted a survey,” Robert was saying, “but I get the impression...
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CW: none. My friend and client Hana, before she passed away, used to tease me about my fear of the dark. Hana was DeafBlind, and when I’d come to her home to work with her in figuring out some new appliance, or going through the mail, or whatever errands...
Nena came to consciousness little by little. She was ever present in the air of apartment 5K in the seventy-unit building in Brooklyn, like the wafting scent of sewer gas coming from old drain pipes: it’s easily ignored but still makes you a little sick....
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A ghost of the dead daughter visits the musician every night. Together, they compose their masterpiece of grief. Content warning: Death of a child Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Sofia Ezdina, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Olga...
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A daughter living overseas visits her mother. Their time is counted in recipes, familiar yet growing ever stranger. Content warning: Death Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Diana Dima, edited by Aleksandra Hill. Audio edition read by Rebecca Jensen...
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A family vacation in the mountains takes a weird turn when they are forced to choose what to bring and what to leave behind. Content warnings: Violence, war, animal cruelty, death, intergenerational trauma Copyright khōréō magazine 2024. Story by Leslie...
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My entry into her apartments teeters entirely on this precarious pair of facts; one, I am small; and two, I am armed with Mother’s message.
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This text was extracted from McClure’s Jan 1911, illustrated by Henry Raleigh. The short story was adapted by herself into a novel in 1913; and again adapted into an opera and numerous films (including one by Alfred Hitchcock) and radio plays. “THERE he is...
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This text was extracted from McClure’s Jan 1911, illustrated by Henry Raleigh. The short story was adapted by herself into a novel in 1913; and again adapted into an opera and numerous films (including one by Alfred Hitchcock) and radio plays. “THERE he is...
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Alice meets a man who loves languages, who consumes them as one would a delicious meal. "Banhus" by M.E. Bronstein is a story about language, and conquest, and finding freedom. Copyright khōréō magazine 2022. Story by M.E. Bronstein, edited by Aleksandra...
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Eliza's mother was a talented artist without much time for family—until she died. Now, she needs Eliza for her last shot at fame, whatever the cost."The Scumbling" by J.C. Changmore is a haunting tale of ghosts, family, and broken love. Copyright khōréō...
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When Alice's father finds a snake in a crate of bok choy in their grocery store their family owns, he wants to kill it. But Alice sets the snake free into their family home, one more secret for its rotten walls to keep—until they can't anymore. Copyright...
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“The Parricide’s Tale” is an excerpt from a larger work, the notorious Gothic Novel Melmoth The Wanderer (1820) Wikipedia article on Melmoth The Wanderer This week’s quote It was in the midst of one of his most licentious songs, that my companion suddenly...
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“The Oval Portrait” was published in the April 26, 1845 edition of the Broadway Journal. “Not More Lovely than Full of Glee” originally appeared in A Winter’s Tale: Horror Stories for the Yuletide The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make...
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"tragedy of the sugarcane ghost" by Desirée Winns Decades after his death, a murdered man possesses the son of his killer to finally settle the score between them. A harrowing story that explores the cost of vengeance. Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Read...
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