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Sudapod, episode 110, January 2nd, 2026.

We made it, folks. Happy New Year. This week's story, A Rose for Emily by

William Faulkner, read for us by Ben Phillips, with audio production by Chelsea Davis, and hosted by

me, Alistair Stewart. Hey everyone, welcome to Sudapod and welcome to 2026. We remain your

weekly horror podcast podcast and I remain

Alistair, your host. And this week's story is the first in our annual public domain showcase.

This year celebrating stories that were first published in 1930 and are now in the public domain.

Today's comes to us from William Faulkner, who was born in 1997, passed in 1962, and was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.

Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and one play.

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer for fiction twice. In 1998, the modern library ranked his 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury,

sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century,

as well as his As I Lay Dying from 1930 and light in August from 1932.

His short story, arose for Emily, which you see here, was his first published story in a major

magazine, The Forum, in 1930.

Your Honor this week is one of the reasons I'm in this job.

One of Sudapod's original editors, the one, the only Mr. Ben Phillips. Ben is a programmer,

musician, and writer currently working as a barback in New Orleans. He was a founding editor

of Sudapod from 2006 to 2010. He recently wrote and narrated a story for the Midnight in New Orleans

Horror Podcast, which we will drop into the show notes.

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