Tales to Terrify 408 Brian Rappatta (Double Feature)
Tales to Terrify
Drew Sebesteny
4.5 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Episode 408. This week we're taking a break from our travels, but have a little housekeeping to do. For fiction, we have a double feature from author Brian Rappatta, about a bad day at work and a truly dysfunctional family.
Coming Up
Some Light Housekeeping: 00:01:40
[Trigger] Brian Rappatta’s The Plunge as read by Drew Sebesteny: 00:05:17
[Trigger] Brian Rappatta’s The Dead March as read by Dan Rabarts: 00:20:16
Trigger Warnings
The Plunge contains scenes of child harm. The Dead March contains rape/necrophilia and child abuse.
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast? |
| 0:01.7 | Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. |
| 0:05.4 | It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment. |
| 0:09.1 | Just click the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:43.3 | Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses, keeping you from sleep. |
| 0:50.3 | It's time to face your darkest fears. |
| 1:22.0 | This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome. |
| 1:24.1 | Well, it's happened. |
| 1:27.4 | I've been hit by the first major illness of the season, a plague that's |
| 1:28.8 | been coursing through coworkers and loved ones alike, spreading like a voracious zombie virus, |
| 1:35.0 | leaving those in its wake, drained, and empty. So, while we take a breather, and I hole up |
| 1:41.8 | under a mountain of blankets, clutching a cup of hot tea and feeling sorry |
| 1:45.5 | for myself. I'm going to turn it over to our editor, Seth Williams, for a little bit of |
| 1:51.1 | housekeeping. Hello everybody. This is Seth, the editor here at Tales to Terrify. I hope you all |
| 1:58.0 | are having a wonderful day. I have a few pieces of housekeeping. |
| 2:02.3 | First, we are still open for submissions for works under 2,500 words. |
| 2:07.5 | Check out the guidelines on our website. |
| 2:09.6 | I really look forward to reading what you all send in. |
| 2:12.6 | And bonus points if it has a ship, boat, lighthouse, ghost, something along those lines. Finally, I'd like a little help. |
| 2:21.8 | This year, we've published some amazing original works. If you have nominating privileges at one |
| 2:27.2 | of the organizations who recognize members of our community, please keep our authors in mind. |
| 2:33.9 | As always, if you have a question or a suggestion about the podcast, please email |
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