PseudoPod 719: Cordona’s Skull
PseudoPod
Escape Artists Foundation
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🗓️ 28 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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“Cordona’s Skull” was first published in Weird Tales, July 1950 Joe “Fresno” Talley dropped his cigarette butt on the sidewalk and ground it out with his foot, careful not to step on it where the hole had worn through his shoe sole. Absently he felt in the pocket of his shabby trousers, before remembering. No more cigarettes; that last one had been picked up out of the gutter…
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| 0:00.0 | Pseudipod is extruded into this universe from a dimension of purest fear. |
| 0:06.0 | It's beautiful in its own alien way. |
| 0:09.0 | But what's to come will... |
| 0:12.0 | Unsettle you. Pseudopod, episode 719 for August 28, 2020. |
| 0:28.3 | Cordona Skull by Mary Elizabeth Councilman. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Lisa Kroger and I'm Melanie R Anderson. |
| 0:38.2 | And we are the authors of Monster, she wrote, the Bram Stoker Award Winning's book about the women who pioneered the horror and speculative |
| 0:47.2 | fiction genres. We also co-host the No Fear and Monster She Wrote Podcasts. |
| 0:55.0 | This week's story is by Mary Elizabeth Councilman, |
| 0:59.0 | one of the women you'll meet in Monster She wrote. |
| 1:02.0 | Born in Alabama in 1911, Councilman attended the University of Alabama, |
| 1:07.0 | worked as a reporter, and eventually taught creative writing |
| 1:10.0 | at what is now Gadsden State Community College. |
| 1:12.8 | She is best known for her horror and weird tales. |
| 1:15.9 | She published stories and poetry and publications |
| 1:18.4 | like the Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping. |
| 1:21.6 | And she was one of the most prolific contributors to the Pulp magazine Weird Tales. |
| 1:26.2 | She died in 1995. |
| 1:29.0 | Cordona's Skull was first published in Weird Tales July 1950. |
| 1:36.3 | Your narrator this week is Bob Eccles. |
| 1:39.3 | Bob is a parking enforcement officer with the University of Michigan Police Department. |
| 1:44.7 | He served in the US Army Military Police and is a 30-year radio broadcasting veteran. |
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