Podcast on episode 9th

for Tuesday the 9th of December 2025.

A Tale from the Valtz

The Surgeons Tale by Cat Rambo and Jeff Vandermere,

read by Graham Dunlop and produced by Priya Wood and Eric Valdez,

rated R with content notes for graphic surgical details.

Good morning, good day, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to Podcastle, the Flying Castle of Fantasy Fiction.

I'm your host, Matt Dovey, and it is my pleasure to once again trudged down into the dampest, deepest, deepest, coldest depths of our vaults, dodging sturgies and mimics alike to retrieve one of the weightiest tomes from the seawood

Wall archive and present, once again, for your enjoyment, a tale from the vaults.

The Surgeon's Tale by Cat Rambo and Jeff Van derogh

narrated by the inimitable Graham Dunlop. We originally ran this story as

episode 146 in March 2011 and it was first published in Subterranean Press

Winter 2007. Before we get into it it is time, belatedly, as for once I am organised and ahead of schedule in recording my hostpots,

to discuss the officially now a tradition because it's the third year, if I've counted correctly, escape artist's end of year fundraiser.

While I may need to workshop that title a little, happily our fundraising

goblins are far slicker at this gig and have once again managed to arrange a $10,000 matching

fund from some of our most generous supporters, which means that for every local currency unit

that you, dear listener, contribute before the end of 2025, another local currency units will magically appear

in a way they very much don't in pay slips.

That counts both for one-off donations through PayPal, pop on over to podcaster.org and click

the Make a Donation button, but also to new subscriptions, either through PayPal or Patreon.

So if you sign up to Patreon for the first time this month at the $7 tier, for example,

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