PodCastle 905: The Next Dead Wife
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4.6 • 551 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Author : Jeanna Mason Stay Narrator : Valerie Valdes Host : Matt Dovey Audio Producer : Eric Valdes Discuss on Forums PodCastle 905: The Next Dead Wife is a PodCastle original. Content warnings for coercive control, domestic violence, and murder Rated PG-13 The Next Dead Wife by Jeanna Mason Stay Every time a new […]
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| 0:00.0 | Podcast on Episode 905 for Tuesday the 19th of August 2025 |
| 0:18.2 | The Next Dead Wife by Gina Mason's Day, read by Valerie Valdez and produced by Eric Valdez. |
| 0:26.6 | Rated PG-13, with content notes for coercive control, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to Podcastle, the flying castle of fantasy fiction. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm your host, MacDovey and it is my privilege to present for your enjoyment, The Next Dead |
| 0:52.9 | Wife by Gina Mason Stay, narrated by |
| 0:56.1 | Valerie Valdez. I'm even more privileged to say that this story has a podcast original. |
| 1:04.8 | Gina Mason's Day has always been a sucker for fairy tales and myths, the romantic, the gruesome, |
| 1:10.2 | the macabre, the utterly bizarre. |
| 1:12.6 | She lives fireflies, serial commas and gullas, not necessarily in that order. |
| 1:18.6 | She dreams of one day owning a herd of cheer sheep. |
| 1:22.6 | Gina, her husband and her four children currently live in Utah, but she misses the brilliant blue skies and unusual, occasionally deadly, fauna of Alice Springs. |
| 1:32.3 | Valerie Valdez lives in an elaborate meme palace with her husband and kids, where she writes, edits and moonlights as a muse. |
| 1:41.3 | When she isn't co-editing a skate pod, she enjoys crafting bespoke, artisanal |
| 1:45.6 | curses, playing video games and admiring the outdoors from the safety of her living room. |
| 1:52.1 | Her debut novel, Chilling Effect, was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award, |
| 1:57.4 | and her short fiction and poetry have been featured in Uncanny magazine, Magic |
| 2:01.3 | the Gathering and several anthologies. Writing is Leah Amador, her first contemporary fantasy romance |
| 2:08.5 | novel, Which You Would, is forthcoming from Avon Books in September 2025. |
| 2:13.7 | And now pay attention, for our tale is about to begin |
| 2:18.3 | and you're determined for it to end differently this time. |
| 2:31.0 | The Next Dead Wife by Gina Mason's Day, narrated by Valerie Valdez. |
| 2:37.0 | Every time a new wife crosses my husband's threshold, I tell myself this time will be different. |
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