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So like I say, if you're worried about this, please go to the site and click on the spoiler tags

and that should give you enough to make a decision either way. Pseudepod, episode 646, 3rd of May 2019. This week's story and Horror Podcast. I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story was originally published in the Spectral

Press chapbook series and also won the Orioles Award for Best Short Horror Story in 2014. Angela's been here twice before too with

episode 565 Kuku and a flashpiece called the Little Match Gill, both of which are

wonderful and well worth your time. Your reader this week is Robin McLeavy.

Robin is an actress best known for her work on AMC's hit Western series Hell on Wheels.

Horror fans may know her as princess in the brutal Australian film The Loved Ones.

The Faculty of Horror did an excellent episode on this film and Wolf Creek that is worth checking

out if the synopsis of the Loved Ones makes you feel a bit lightheaded, the links will be in the show

notes.

So get ready because Angela and Robin have a story for you and we promise you it's true. Hath and Home by Angela Slatter, narrated by Robin McClievy.

Carolyn held the door open, listening to the keys make that gentle clink clank as they hung

from the lock. He pushed past her and she could smell the peculiar

odour he gave off now, puberty and a state institution. As he crossed the threshold, his two small shoes leaving mud on the new

welcome mat, she had thrown out the one exhorting a universal power to bless this mess, the

house seemed to sigh. Then again, maybe it was her, but she couldn't

remember the air leaving her lungs. Then again it might have been the heating system

...