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Tales to Terrify

Tales to Terrify 500th Episode Special (Part 1)

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

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Episode 499. We’re celebrating the eve of our 500th episode with three deliciously dark tales, read by some legendary voices in horror podcasting. First, we meet a man who’s afraid his past won’t stay buried. Then an amateur ghost-hunter gets his big break. Finally, we discover the immense power of a single word.


COMING UP

Good Evening: Happy Horrormas Eve: 00:01:06

Keith O’Neill’s Rise Up in the Falling Rain as read by David Cummings: 00:03:55

Rick Kennett’s The Outsider as read by Graeme Dunlop: 00:35:26

John Everson’s The Last Word as read by Alasdair Stuart and Marguerite Kenner: 01:39:47


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Rick Kennett

Graeme Dunlop on Twitter (@kibitzer)

John Everson

Alasdair Stuart

Marguerite Kenner

Escape Artists

Pseudopod


Original Score by Nebulus Entertainment

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Transcript

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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.

0:58.2

This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome to part one of our 500th episode.

1:26.8

I hope you've grabbed your snacks and refreshments and are tucked

1:30.5

in safe and sound under the covers because our episode this evening comes in at almost two and a half

1:38.7

times the length of a normal show, and it packs some serious chills.

1:45.5

This week we're joined by a handful of very special guests,

1:50.9

voices that, if you've been dabbling in horror podcasting for literally any amount of time,

1:57.2

will no doubt be hauntingly familiar.

2:00.8

One of the things I love most about the horror community is, will no doubt be hauntingly familiar.

2:08.0

One of the things I love most about the horror community, both podcasting and writing, is the camaraderie. Just as fear comes in a near infinite variety of flavors and forms, so too do the

2:16.8

stories and storytellers that invoke it.

2:20.9

And we all just seem to band together in it, too.

2:25.6

It's our shared love of the terrible and the unsettling.

2:29.9

The raw connection may be of our own human frailty in mortality that draws us all to the same

2:38.2

gruesome place. And I love that we can gather like this. I am so excited to have some true

2:47.0

legends of the horror podcasting community to join us for this milestone this evening.

2:52.6

And without wasting any more time, I think it's time for us to dive right in.

2:59.7

Our first story for the evening comes from Keith O'Neill.

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