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Sudapod episode 664, September 6th, 2019. This week's story, in a change to scheduled programming,

my boy builds coffins by Gary McMahon. Hi everyone, welcome to Sudapod the weekly horror podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story comes to us from one of the leading lights of the UK horror scene, Gary McMahon.

Gary is the award-winning author of several novels and numerous short stories.

You can learn more about him from the interview he did with our friends over at This is Horror,

which will be linked in the

show notes. Your reader for this story is Danielle Imara, a London-based live artist,

author and music maker. So, without further ado, Chris has something to show you and he

promises you. It's true. My boy builds coffins by Gary McMahon, narrated by Daniel Imara.

Susan found the first one when she was tidying his room.

Chris was at school and she'd been sprucing up the house before popping off to collect him after the afternoon session.

The ground floor was done, the lounge was spic and span as her mother had loved to say,

and the kitchen was so clean it belonged in a show home.

The downstairs bathroom was cleaning off for a royal inspection.

The unsweet would do, she supposed, and her and Dan's bedroom was the best it could be, considering

they both liked to dump their dirty clothes all over the floor and the furniture.

Now it was time to tackle Chris's room, which was about as messy as any eight-year-old

could hope to achieve.

She pushed open the door, holding her breath and walked into the chaos. His blow-up punch bag had been moved into the

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