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Tales to Terrify 490 Fred Venturini Dan Micklethwaite

Tales to Terrify

Drew Sebesteny

Short Fiction, Dark Tales, Arts, Books, Creepy Stories, Creepy, Horror Stories, Fiction, Scary Stories, Creepy Pasta, Horror Fiction, Drama, Terror, Short Stories, Horror, Suspense, Flash Fiction

4.5678 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Episode 490. This week we start off with a special sneak peek at a brand new novel. Then, a woman’s siblings cause her faith and loyalty to be put to the test.


COMING UP

Good Evening: Housekeeping: 00:01:06

Excerpt: Prologue from Fred Venturini’s To Dust You Shall Return as read by Drew Sebesteny: 00:04:06

Dan Micklethwaite’s A Runeprayer for Bjarvi as read by Heather Thomas: 00:26:49


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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. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses,

0:44.3

keeping you from sleep. It's time to face your darkest fears.

1:02.0

This is Tales to Terrify. This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome.

1:24.0

Well, it feels like it's been a while since I've been able to say this, but I have very little

1:30.1

housekeeping to share with you this week, other than to remind you that, of course, submissions are

1:36.4

still open, tales to terrify.com slash submissions, and to say, we'll be announcing the winner of our design contest very soon.

1:46.8

We ended up with some fun and absolutely chilling images,

1:51.8

and I'm excited to share them with you, thanks to everyone who submitted.

1:57.2

We've got something a little different to kick off our episode this week.

2:03.3

Author Fred Venturini has a fantastic new novel coming out next week, Tuesday, June 22nd, to be exact.

2:12.5

I've had the privilege to dig into it early, and while I'm still a few chapters away from the end,

2:19.7

I've enjoyed it far too much to keep it to myself.

2:23.4

So, we've secured an excerpt from the book that I think you'll absolutely love.

2:30.4

Tonight, I'll be reading you the prologue from To Dust You Shall Return, which works fantastic

2:38.0

as a standalone intro to the dark and gruesome world of Venturini's new novel. But before I dive

2:46.7

in, as is tradition here at Tales to Terrify, let's hear a little about the author.

2:53.4

Fred Venturini is the acclaimed author of the novels The Heart Does Not Grow Back and Escape of

3:00.8

Light, and his short fiction has been featured in Chuck Polaniac's burnt-tongue's anthology.

3:08.1

His latest release,

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