Weirdwards @_weirdwards_
Spoken word readings of short, weird fiction and related genres. soundcloud.com/weirdwards Joined June 2020-
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For @FolkloreThurs and their day of #maritime lore here’s my reading of William Hope Hodgson’s terrifying piece of aquatic #horror - The Voice In The Night #FolkloreThursday #Weird #Fungus m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/wil…
No reading this week, I’m afraid, as I’m doing some behind-the-scenes work on the web side of things. Instead, why not listen to something from the archives! m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards
HP #Lovecraft was, undeniably, a deeply troubled and unpleasant person but his legacy is equally undeniable and his birthday still worth remembering. I started this project of #Weird readings with The Outsider, a favourite HPL of mine. m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/hp-…
This week’s #weird #horror reading is When Words Change the Molecular Composition of Water by Jenni Fagan (@Jenni_Fagan) as read from @UndertowPubs’ Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol 5. A challenging one to read but a wonderful story. soundcloud.com/weirdwards/jen…
Clark Ashton Smith died on this day in 1961. You can listen to my reading of his #weird tale A Night In Malnéant here! m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/cla…
This week’s #weird story is And Elm Do Hate, a piece of arboreal #horror from Nina Shepardson (as read from Nightscript 2). m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/nin…
This weekend’s reading is Moving by Emma Kathryn (@GirlofGotham), as reading from the Hauntings issue of @bloodbathzine - a spiralling tale of regret and despair m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/emm…
Today’s #weird reading is Ambrose Bierce’s piece of arboreal horror, A Vine On A House. Herein lies a melancholy tale of betrayal that shares a kinship with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's earlier short story The Giant Wistaria. m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/amb…
No new #weird story today as I’m working on the talks for #RomancingTheGothic but you can still listen to the archives. The Voice In The Night, by William Hope Hodgson, has been one of my favourites so far. m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/wil…
There’ll be no story reading this weekend as my alter ego (@pietersender) will be busy doing a talk on #DnD and the #Gothic for the #RomancingTheGothic series of lectures. If you want to sign up, you can do so here - forms.gle/5rFccWyPjzwwYF…
Quick retweet of today’s #weird fiction reading.
This week’s short #weird reading is Buried by the Dead by Jen McGregor, from the Haunted Voices anthology edited by @Becky_Wojturska / @HauntPublishing. A bit of a different feel, with some welcome dark humour, in this wonderful story. m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/bur…
This week’s #weird #fiction reading is a collection of interlinked drabbles from Daniel Pietersen (@pietersender), who is me writing about themselves in the third person. These stories were first published by @Another_North m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/dan…
I tried a slightly different way of recording this one. It’d be interesting to know if the quality’s any better!
I tried a slightly different way of recording this one. It’d be interesting to know if the quality’s any better!
This week’s piece of #Weird #horror is Mikhail Bulgakov’s tale of haunted guilt and denial, The Red Crown. m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/mik…
This week’s #weirdwards piece of #weird #horror #fiction is When I Was Dead by Vincent O’Sullivan; an eerie tale of reluctant ghosts. m.soundcloud.com/weirdwards/vin…
The blog post for the latest Weirdwards reading - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson - is now up. I’ve added a little bit of biographical detail to this one. #weird #fiction #short #reading #spokenword pietersender.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/wei…
If you like the stories I read here then you need to get this and, if you don’t already have it, the first volume. A trove of tales!

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