Tales to Terrify 740 Douglas Smith & Joshua Ramey-Renk
Tales to Terrify
Drew Sebesteny
4.5 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode 740. We have two tales for you this week, about a woman convinced the world is ending and a perfectly normal, perfectly safe scenic walking tour.
COMING UP
Good Evening – Guest Host Douglas Gwilym: 00:01:06
Douglas Smith’s Nothing as read by Barbara Henslee: 00:03:05
[Trigger] Joshua Ramey-Renk’s Historic Marker Seven as read by Charles Conover: 00:14:18
TRIGGER WARNINGS
Historic Marker Seven contains scenes of Child Death.
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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. |
| 0:44.3 | 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. |
| 1:22.9 | This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome. |
| 1:27.4 | This is your first time guest host host, Douglas Gwillam. |
| 1:31.1 | You may know me as the editor of Novice Monstrum, |
| 1:35.1 | or as a Bram Stoker Award-nominated short story author. |
| 1:38.7 | Or maybe you've noticed my recent, |
| 1:43.0 | uninvited house guest status at Tales to Terrify, |
| 1:47.0 | where you can hear my stories and hear me read stories by others. They left the door unlocked, and I crept in. |
| 1:55.0 | Our first story for the evening comes from Douglas Smith, described by Library Journal as one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction, |
| 2:05.2 | Douglas Smith's stories have appeared in the top markets in the field, |
| 2:09.4 | including the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, |
| 2:12.6 | amazing stories, |
| 2:14.4 | Interzone, and Weird Tales. |
| 2:17.6 | His most recent work is the Urban Fantasy Trilogy, The Dream Rider's Saga. |
| 2:23.4 | Doug has won Canada's Aurora Award four times, as well as the Juryed IAP Award. |
| 2:30.1 | He's been a finalist for the Astounding Award, CBC's Bookies Award, Canada's Juryed Sunburst Award, and several others. |
| 2:40.5 | Children of the Night, join me for Douglas Smith's Nothing, first published in White Cat magazine in 2012. |
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