This week’s short horror story, Clunk, inspired by the prompt "Deep Space", is written by Nairis Santini and read by Shahan Hamza

The author would like to dedicate it to Serafino, "who read my stories when I was little and inspired me to continue writing."

Content Notes:

- Family arguements

- Thalassophobia

- Loss of Time

- Loss of Space

Directed and Produced by April Sumner

Written by Nairis Santini

Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner

Featuring

Shahan Hamza as Narrator

Edited by Lowri Ann Davies and Nico Vettese

Music by Nico Vettese and Sam Jones

Mastering by Catherine Rinella

Art by April Sumner

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We are featuring a feed drop from a brilliant show on the RQ Network: Planet Arcana. Created by the talented J Strautman and B Marsollier.

Planet Arcana is a science fantasy audio fiction, presented by two game runners, and built through a D&D 5e framework. The show will appeal to fans of actual play and audio drama alike.

The world of Planet Arcana is rife with mystery, intrigue, crime and no answer is ever straightforward. What really happened at the Riskotheque casino? Who’s been stealing Android organs? And why?

4000 years after a calamity known as the Big Oops, the world of Planet Arcana is a place of humans and androids, neon metropolises, sunken cities, phenomenal parties, paranormal oddities, and a pantheon of Major Arcana.

An influencer, a drug dealer, and a cowboy walk into a casino, then into a vast mystery of science, magic, and Tarot-inspired gods. Three Fools on a simple quest to find a key, and open a box.

Introduction and outro by Lowri Ann Davies. Listen to Planet Arcana on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more about Planet Arcana on its official website.

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Credits:

Co-Creators & DMs J Strautman and B Marsollier

Performed By J Strautman, B Marsollier, Peter Marsollier, Shaun Oldfield, and Skye Wallace

Editing, original music, and sound design by J Strautman

Sound effects from Nikko Hunt's Cinematic Sound Pack [https://nikkohunt.gumroad.com/l/dpclP] used, under CC by 4.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode]. Pitch modified lower from the original

Content warnings: swearing, violence, drug use.

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This month we are featuring a feed drop for an incredible podcast on the RQ Network: Not Quite Dead.

Not Quite Dead is a UK-based Gory, Horror, Romance, podcast from the award-winning team behind Spirit Box Radio, Remnants and Clockwork Bird.

Follow Alfie, a nurse working overtime when a patient arrives with her throat torn out. This is just the beginning of a terrifying night as Alfie finds himself caught in a battle between the living and the undead.

Saved by a mysterious stranger named Casper, they find themselves inescapably bound together. Neither of them are happy about it, but the draw of each other’s blood is irresistible.

Introduction and outro by Anusia Battersby. Listen to Not Quite Dead on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. To learn more about Not Quite Dead, check out their official website.

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Credits: Written, performed and edited by Eira Major.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-1/

Content Warnings:

Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. This episode contains:

– mild profanity

– references to sex

– discussion of the process of dying

– medicalised descriptions of death processes and dead people

– death, including violent death

– references to medical procedures

– hospital settings

– mentions of blood

– mentions of infidelity

– descriptions of blood

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We are featuring the first episode of a new series from Rusty Quill: Welcome to Fosters.

Detectives investigate a dire disturbance in both magic and the dead on the streets of Sydney, Australia in this spirited urban fantasy.

Listen to the next episode by going to the Rusty Quill website, or by searching for “Neon Inkwell” wherever you find podcasts.

Neon Inkwell: https://shows.acast.com/neon-inkwell

Transcript: https://shorturl.at/pJQV7

Showrunner Elizabeth Moffatt

Directed by Chris Magilton

Written by Imogen Cassidy

Script Editor Chris Magilton

Produced by April Sumner

Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner

Featuring

Michael Bache as Brian Hewlitt-Smith

Nina Nikolic as Jill Foster

Harrison Keen as Mark Wilson

Lowri Ann Davies as the Forest Spirit

Tim Sefo as Oliver Long

Brooke Scobie as Oliver's mum

Lee Davis-Thalbourne as Genial Passenger

Flloyd Kennedy as Mrs West

Sebrina Thornton-Walker as Gloria Foster

Matt Malachite as Graham Edgers

Alice Magilton as Marie

Isabelle Houghton as young Jill

Hannah Aroni as Sylvia Price

Maia Harlap as The Receptionist

Chris Alosio as Tulele

Cooper Mortlock as Mook and Mr Simpson

Additional voices by Elizabeth Moffatt and Chris Magilton. Our Zombie Horde include Jenna Krasowski, Alexander Bryan, and Catherine Rinella.

Dialogue Editor – Lowri Ann Davies

Sound Designer – Elizabeth Moffatt

Mastering Engineer and Music Editor– Meg McKellar

Title music by Sam Jones

Additional music by Nico Vettese

Art by Guerrilla Communications

Original SFX and foley for this series were produced by Elizabeth Moffatt, Frances Miller-Pezo, Daniel Hill, Chris Magilton, and Imogen Cassidy. Additional SFX for this series include sounds sourced from Soundly, Freesound, Zapsplat, AudioHero, and Pixabay. This includes SFX provided by Klankbeeld, Avakas, Youandbiscuitme, Pfranzen, Dynamicell, Newlocknew via freesound.org.

The Australian production team would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which this series is set, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.

Neon Inkwell is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence.

Introduction and outro by Lowri Ann Davies.

Content warnings

- Altered reality

- Childhood trauma

- Fire

- Hunt or attack by an animal

- Undead

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We are featuring a feed drop from a brilliant show on the RQ Network: Hi Nay.

"Hi Nay” is an atmospheric, analog-style horror audio drama, featuring Folk Horror, mythology and chilling supernatural terrors in an urban setting.

Hi Nay, literally translated to “Hi Mom”, follows Mari, a Filipina immigrant who lives in Toronto.

Mari first gets roped into Toronto’s supernatural crises after saving Laura from being killed. From then on, she assists Detectives Donner and Murphy in dealing with supernatural threats using her upbringing as a babaylan (Shaman).

Mari finds herself dealing with a multitude of supernatural issues in Toronto. She has a great aptitude for magic, though her abilities seem to have a price she’s not forthcoming about. She calls her Nanay (mother) often and recounts her experiences over the phone.

This exciting audio drama is filled with Mystery, Suspense, and most importantly, Horror.

Introduction and outro by Shahan Hamza. Listen to Hi Nay on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more about Hi Nay on its official website.

Credits:

Motzie Dapul (Creator, writer, director, editor, voice actor for Mari)

Reg Geli (Co-creator, editor)

Yoyi Halago, Alyssa Gimenez (Editors)

Abigayle Rhodes as Laura, Leon Johnson as Donner, Edward Boxler as Murphy, Adil Ramchurn as Ashvin (Main Cast)

Content Warnings: Injury and bruising, Blood, Vomit, Animal remains, Human remains

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This month we are featuring a recent episode of one of many exciting podcasts on the RQ Network: Push the Roll with Ross Bryant.

Push the Roll with Ross Bryant is a weekly improvised comedy horror actual play podcast from the creators of the award-winning Ain’t Slayed Nobody podcast. Each episode features improvised Call of Cthulhu adventures combining cosmic horror table top RPG and dark comedy filled with amazing special guests.

This is part one of The Butterfly Factory and features a guest appearance from Brennan Lee Mulligan

To listen to the next exciting episode which is out now by clicking on the link in the description or search for Push the Roll with Ross Bryant wherever you get your podcasts or you can find more information on rustyquill.com or pushtheroll.com

You can find the episode transcript at https://pushtheroll.com/transcripts.

Push the Roll with Ross Bryant is created and produced by Cuppycup and Hosted by Ross Bryant.

Featuring

Ross Bryant as Keeper of Arcane Lore

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Allen Clay

Paula Deming as Margot Marceau

Nic Rosenberg as Willow

cuppycup as Velvet Bloom

Dialogue Editing by cuppycup

Sound and Music Design by cuppycup

Produced by cuppycup

Introduction and outro by Karim Kronfli

You can listen to the 2nd part of this brilliant episode by using This Link.

Or you can listen to Push the Roll with Ross Bryant on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, on its official website, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Content warnings

· sexual themes,

· exploitation,

· gaslighting,

· drug and alcohol use,

· profanity,

· political violence references

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This month we are featuring a feed drop of one of many amazing podcasts on the RQ Network: Malevolent.

Malevolent is a thrilling, Eldrich Horror, Mystery, audio drama brilliantly combined with elements of choose your own adventure and actual play via their Patreon.

This first episode of Malevolent follows Arkham P.I Arthur Lester who wakes up blind, terrified and confused with no memory of who he is and what has happened, only a nameless, eerie, voice guiding him through the darkness.

Malevolent is from Harlan Guthrie the same talented creator behind Deviser and Dice Shame.

Introduction and outro by Anusia Battersby. Listen to Malevolent on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or listen wherever you get your podcasts, or to learn more about Malevolent check out its official website.

Credits:

Written and performed by Harlan Guthrie

Content warnings:

Blindness,

Memory Loss,

Human Remains,

Threats of violence,

Manipulation,

Eldritch horror

Mentions of, Accidental killing, dismemberment, Child Death

SFX, Guns and Gunfire

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