The artifact is 150,000 years old.

It's made of an artificial metal we have been unable to identify.

There is a message scratched on the front.

What does it say?

This is a horror podcast.

Consider yourselves warned.

Sudapod, episode 986, July 25, 2025.

This week's story, the louder I call, the faster it runs, by E. Catherine Toble, narrated by

Essie Bats, hosted by Alistair Stewart with audio by Chelsea Davis.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast. I'm Alistair Stewart with Audio by Chelsea Davis. Hi everyone, welcome to Sudapod, the Weekly Horror Podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story comes to us from the Incredible E. Catherine

Tobler.

Tobler is the platonic definition of a community leader, an editor and writer whose work has

done nothing but improved the industry.

Her short fiction and poetry has appeared in Clarksworld, F&SF, Bourbon Pen, Gamut, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Nightmare and

others. Her photography has appeared in the New Yorker. Her editing and writing has been a finalist

for the Nebula, the Utopia, the Sturgeon, the Hugo,

the Dittmar, the Orialis, the Locus, and the World Fantasy Awards. She currently edits

the Deadlands. The louder I call, the faster it runs, originally appeared in Bourbon Penn,

and will appear shortly in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Horror, number 16.

Your narrator this week is Essie Bats.

Essie is the chronically sleepy bat ghoul of the Pacific Northwest.

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