Tales to Terrify 539 STOKERS Carol Gyzander & Anna Taborska
Tales to Terrify
Drew Sebesteny
4.5 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode 539. This week, we have two runners-up from this year’s Bram Stoker Awards. First, a down-on-her-luck woman finds a second chance at a mysterious house of ill-repute. Then, a horror author on a family outing runs afoul of the local livestock.
COMING UP
Good Evening: Flash Contest Closing, Stoker Awards: 00:01:06
Carol Gyzander’s The Yellow Crown as read by the author: 00:06:08
Anna Taborska’s Two Shakes of a Dead Lamb’s Tail as read by Amanda Stribling: 00:31:26
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Original Score by Nebulus Entertainment
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Amanda Gottfried
Kathy Robinson
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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. |
| 0:45.3 | Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses, keeping you from sleep. It's time to face your darkest fears. |
| 1:22.6 | This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome. |
| 1:48.1 | Hear my words. Take this to heart. This is your final warning. The swirling underwater vortex of our nautical-themed flash fiction contest seals forever at midnight central time on May 31st.That's this Tuesday, just a couple days away. |
| 1:53.4 | "'So if you've been slowly dog-paddling your way out from shore, "'this is your sink or swim moment. |
| 1:57.0 | "'Time to throw off those water wings, |
| 2:00.0 | "'take a deep breath and dive as deep and as fast as you can. |
| 2:05.7 | Let that ink flow from your pen like blood from a fresh vein, and get your fifteen hundred words or less cast into the roiling waters before the portal seals forever. |
| 2:21.6 | Tales to terrify.com slash flash contest, in case you've missed it, is where you can drop your |
| 2:29.2 | masterpiece. And if your story is selected, you'll win a cool 50 bucks, have your story produced on the show, |
| 2:37.6 | and be able to wow friends and family with the knowledge you're the master of short seafaring scares. |
| 2:47.0 | We've got a big job ahead of us, selecting a winner. |
| 3:12.1 | There's been an incredible array of imaginative, spine-tingling terrors from the deep poured into our contest submissions, and I can't thank everyone enough who waded into these dark waters by submitting a story. We'll be announcing the winner by July 1st, so stay tuned for that. |
| 3:19.2 | Speaking of winners, I mentioned a couple weeks ago that we'd be sharing a pair of Bramstoker Award-nominated Tales with you. |
| 3:22.4 | And this week, that time has come. |
| 3:26.4 | Congratulations to this year's winners and to everyone who made the shortlist. |
| 3:31.7 | If you're not that familiar with the Bram Stoker Awards, I think it's safe to say they're |
| 3:36.6 | one of the premier awards for our genre. Put on by the Horror Writers Association, they happen each |
| 3:43.6 | year in tandem with StokerCon, which went down two weeks ago in Denver, Colorado. Needless to say, |
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