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Sudapod, episode 999. That's right. October 24th, 2025. This week's story, Barguest, by Susan King,

narrated for you by Louise Hewitt, hosted by Alastair Stewart, and with audio by Chelsea Davis.

Welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast. I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story

was first published in Modern Folklore, a Coma Press course anthology in August 2025.

Author Susan King says, Coma Press is an indie publisher based in Manchester, UK.

As a publisher, they regularly operate short fiction

courses for the public, which each result in attendees' best work being published in an e-book.

For modern folklore, the course leader and anthology editor Matt Wesselowski worked with their

attendees, from seasoned writers to complete beginners, to develop a narrative

throughline, in this case the fictional town of Abbashtow as a staging area for 12 unique,

brand new and unsettling tales of modern folk writing.

Me again.

That is so cool!

Also if you haven't heard or read them, yet W Wesselowski's Six Stories series is one of the very few pieces of podcast-adjacent fiction that really works for me.

Susan King was born in Merseyside and now lives in County Durham. She has won numerous awards, including the Women Writers Network Award, the London Writers' Competition and the Southampton

Writers Conference Prize. She was one of 12 finalists in the London Independent Story Prize in

2022, shortlisted in the New to the Scene Flash Fiction 2025 competition as well.

She is currently on the shortlist for the Bridport short story competition

2025. Her short stories have been published online in women's magazines and featured in two

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