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Tales to Terrify

Tales to Terrify 535 Katie Young

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

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Episode 535. We have one longer tale for you about a governess who’s strange charges harbour dark secrets in the dirt.


COMING UP

Good Evening: Flash Contest: 00:01:06

Katie Young’s Fruiting Bodies as read by Georgia Cook: 00:04:06


PERTINENT LINKS

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Flash Fiction Contest

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Original Score by Nebulus Entertainment

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SPECIAL THANKS TO

Amanda Gottfried

Kathy Robinson

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0:00.0

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0:01.7

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0:05.4

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0:09.1

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0:44.3

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

0:48.3

It's time to face your darkest fears.

1:22.6

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

1:28.3

I'm a little under the weather this week, so I'll keep things short. Just a few days now until the deep, dark waters part and the entrance to our nautical flash fiction contest is revealed.

1:38.0

Keep an eye out for it over at Tales to Terrify.com slash flash contest, which is where you can also find out more particulars about

1:47.6

the contest. But for those who are curious, entries can be up to 1,500 words, and the winner takes

1:54.8

home bragging rights, has their story published on an episode of Tales to Terrify, and will receive a cash prize of $50.

2:04.3

Selected Runners Up can also have their story read aloud by one of our phenomenal narrators and published on the show.

2:12.6

The contest opens May 1st, and will run until the end of the month.

2:24.3

So, while you've got a little bit of time yet, fair warning, it does evaporate fast. So get your seafaring, storytelling juices flowing, and let's see what delicious, barnacle-encrusted horrors you can summon from the deep.

2:35.9

We have one longer tale for you this evening, which comes to us from Katie Young.

2:42.8

Katie Young is a writer of dark fiction. Her work appears in various anthologies, including

2:48.9

collections by Cemetery Gates, Scott J. Moses,

2:53.1

Dark Dispatch, Nix Publishing, Ghost Orchard Press, and Fox Spirit Books.

2:59.9

Her story, Lavender T, was selected by Zoe Gilbert, author of Folk,

3:05.5

for inclusion in the Mechanic Institute Reviews Summer Folk Festival 2019.

3:12.0

Katie is also a regular contributor to literary salons and storytelling events around London,

3:18.5

where she lives with her partner, an angry cat, and too many books. Is that really a thing?

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