Welcome to hell.

In your ears.

In podcast form, it will be disturbing.

Turn back, lest ye be disturbed.

Sudeau.

Pseudepod, episode 981 for June 20th, 2025.

The Shambler from the Stars by Robert Block, narrated by John Padgett, hosted by Josh Tuttle,

audio by Chelsea Davis. Hey everyone, I'm Josh, associate editor at Sudapod, your host for this week.

Today's story, The Shambler from the Stars, by Robert Block, first appeared in weird tales in

in 1935. Robert Block was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror,

and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema, and television.

Best known as the writer of Psycho, 1959, the basis for the film of the same name by Albert Hitchcock,

which really blew the doors off Plainfield, Wisconsin.

Block wrote hundreds of short stories in over 30 novels. He won the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker

Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He served a term as president of the mystery writers of America,

and was a member of that organization, and of science fiction writers of America, the Writers Guild of America, the was a member of that organization and of science fiction writers of America,

the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Count

Dracula Society.

Your narrator this week is John Padgett.

John is a professional, though lapsed, ventriloquist, who lives in New Orleans with his spouse,

their daughter, and a rescue dog and cat. He is the editor-in-chief of Vesterion, a literary

journal, a source of critical study and creative response to the work of Thomas Logatti,

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