Welcome to Pseudepod The weekly horror podcast. The stories we present here are full-blooded, although on occasion the protagonists are not by the time the show is over. Consider this job one morning. Pseudepod, episode 730, November 6, 2020.

This week's story, The Smell of Night in the Basement by Wendy and Varkna.

Hello everyone, welcome to a Sudapod The Weekly Horror Podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host, and as usual I have a story for you that I promise you is true.

Just up front this one deals with some fairly hefty issues concerning urban degradation through

a supernatural lens.

So if that feels a little bit too close to the bone for some of you,

step off. We'll see you next week. No harm, no foul.

We will always much, much rather have you be entertained and traumatized.

And if that sounds like your speed... have you be entertained and traumatized.

And if that sounds like your speed, you're in for a treat.

This week's story comes to us from Wendy and Wacknet.

Wendy is the author of an oath of dogs as well as two Viking pathfinder tyants.

A short fiction has appeared in over 40 places including Wastelands 3, the New

Apocalypse, the New Apocalypse,

the Thulei Phalagun, beneath these less skies,

and here previously a Sudapod. She serves as managing and senior editor at

both Nightmare and White Speed and starting in 2021 will step up to be the chief editor of Nightmare.

Everyone here at Escape Artists would like to extend our heartfelt

congratulations and we cannot wait to see what she does at the helm. Nightmare is

one of the consistently best places to read short horror fiction on the

planet and we're proud to call them and Wendy, France.

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