Sudapod is extruded into this universe from a dimension of purest fear. It's beautiful in its own alien way, but what's to come will unsettle you.

Sudapod, Episode 846. January 1st, 2023.

This week's story, ye good old ghost story by Anthony Boucher.

Hello everyone, Happy New Year. Welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast and welcome to our 1927 public domain showcase.

Over the next few weeks we'll walk you through some good old fashioned nightmares, now in the public domain, but no less toothless.

This story first appeared in Weird Tiles January 1927 under the pen name William AP White.

The author, real name Anthony Boucher was an American author, critic and editor, who wrote several classic mystery novels, short stories, science fiction and radio dramas.

Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as a reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the SF Chronicle and wrote mystery reviews for many years in the New York Times.

He was one of the first English translators of Jorge Luis Boucher translating the Garden of Forking Pals for Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine, and he helped found the mystery writers of America in 1946.

He was a founding editor with J. Francis McCommus of the magazine of fantasy and science fiction from 1949 to 1958 and attempted to make literary quality an important aspect of SF.

He won the Hugo for Best Professional Magazine in 1957 and 1958. He also edited the long-running Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction anthology series from 52 to 59.

He wrote short stories for many pulp fiction magazines in America, including Adventure, Astounding, Black Mask, Edmund Bain's Mystery Book, Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine, Galaxy Science Fiction, The Master Detective, Unknown Worlds and Weird Tiles.

We here at Sudapod will always love him most for... they bite.

You're in the right over this week is the always fantastic Rish Outfield.

Rish Outfield is a writer, voice actor and audiobook narrator. He got his start co-hosting the Dunes Steve Audio Fiction magazine, and that gets my goat podcasts, where he and Big Anklovich attempt to waste time entertainingly.

He also features his own stories on the Rish Outcast podcast.

So, without further ado, get ready for a good old ghost story, one that is, as ever, we promise you.

True.

Ye good old ghost story by Anthony Boucher, narrated by Rish Outfield.

But there ain't no such thing, said Jed Hoskins old man forcefully.

No such thing as what queried the stranger with the black bag, who had just seated himself near the group.

Hans, Jed Hasen to explain, Granddad Miller there he says the old Lawrence Holmes hunted.

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