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NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)

Seanan McGuire | Spores

NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)

John Joseph Adams

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.2704 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Something in the lab smelled like nectarine jam. I looked up from the industrial autoclave, frowning as I sniffed the air. Unusual smells aren’t a good thing when you work in a high-security bio lab. No matter how pleasant the odor may seem, it indicates a deviance from the norm, and deviance is what gets people killed. | Copyright 2014 by Seanan McGuire. Originally published in THE END IS NIGH, edited by John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey. Reprinted by permission of the author. Narrated by Kate Baker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.8

Welcome to the Nightmare magazine story podcast.

1:16.8

I'm your host, Jack Kincaid.

1:18.8

We have a special bonus podcast for you for this offering of the June issue.

1:22.7

We have a story titled Spores, written by Seanan McGuire.

1:26.5

The story's narrated by Clark's World's own,

1:28.6

Kate Baker. The story is also one of 22 stories you'll find in The End is Nye, the first of a series

1:34.9

of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction called The Apocalypse Triptych, edited by Nightmare

1:40.8

Magazine's very own editor and acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and best-selling author Hugh Howie.

1:47.2

The audiobook version is available right now on Amazon and through audible.com.

1:51.4

It was post-produced by yours truly, and what you're about to hear comes straight from that audiobook.

1:56.6

If you want more information about the Apocalypse Triptych, visit John Joseph Adams.com

2:00.9

slash Apocalypse-T-T-Y-C-C-H. That's T-R-I-P-T-Y-C-C-H.

2:06.1

As for the author of this story, Shonen McGuire, she was born and raised in northern California,

2:11.3

resulting in a love of rattlesnakes and an absolute tear of weather.

2:14.9

She shares a crumbling old farmhouse with a variety of cats,

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