Hey folks, Alister here. This is kind of an odd one because there's nothing

explicit on the page and it's all very subtly done, but the ending of this one

is going to be difficult for some people. so if you don't want to be snuck up on by a story

then maybe consider Meekness for the Christmas story in a few days and if not stick around I'll be along in a second

Sudapod episode 680 December 20th, 2019.

This week's story, The Wild Wood by Mildred Klingaman

Hey everyone, welcome to Sudopod the weekly horror podcast.

This week's story comes to us from the late great Mildred Klingman, whose existence

is one of the rare and wonderful pleasures of this job. Every now and again, you find one of those authors

that did amazing work and has been criminally overlooked and you

get a chance to I'll bring them back into the light and Mildred's special. Mildred

did some amazing stuff. Much of which was published in the 1950s in the magazine of Fantasy and SF

edited at that point by Anthony Boucher. Boucher included this story in the seventh volume of

the Best from Fantasy and S. in SF and dedicated a book to her

calling her the most serendipitous of discoveries. Clingaman was as strongly

associated with F in SF as Zenner Henderson. She was a founder of the Tucson Writers Club, served on the

board of the Tucson Press Club, and was posthumously awarded the Cordwainer-Smith Rediscovery

award in 2014. Your reader for this story is much like Mildred Klingman, an astonishingly

talented female writer, but one that as long as I draw breath will not be

allowed to become an undiscovered treasure or any of those

terms which the industry seems so fond of using for writers that do excellent work but aren't

white guys.

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