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Drabblecast 502 – Good Boy

On March 31, 2025

At last! Another touching dog story on the Drabblecast! This week we bring you an original by H. Robert Barland. Enjoy!

H. Robert Barland is a teacher, Viking re-enactor and black belt martial artist. A former climber, film extra, and resident of the UK, he has now returned to Newcastle, Australia where he lives with his wife and two boys. His work has been published in Etherea and Nightmare Fuel magazines and also in the Wicked Flashes of Fantasy and Written into the Wind anthologies. He considers himself well adapted for life on land and can be followed on X ( @hrobertbarland) and Instagram (@h.robertbarland).”

Episode Art: Ben Mueller

Drabblecast 501 – Pastorale

By Drabblecast

On March 21, 2025

In Drabblecast, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

In a little pastel house, a seer and a psychopomp have questions. This week on Drabblecast– something’s fishy in a curious small town. We bring you a paranormal murder-mystery by
Cormack Baldwin & EV Smith. Enjoy!

Cormack Baldwin (he/him) and EV Smith (he/she/they) are a daring duo of authors and editors. Together, they run Archive of the Odd, a found fiction press. Apart, they have done such jobs as “working in an abandoned lighthouse grinding up fish to feed to other fish” and “succumbing to madness among impossible maps” (no, really!). They went to the coast recently. It was nice. You should see it.

Episode Art: Shane Bevin

Drabblecast 454 – The Doom That Came to Sarnath

By Drabblecast

On November 8, 2021

In Drabblecast, Fantasy, Horror, Lovecraft Month

The Drabblecast kicks off H.P. Lovecraft Month with the grandfather of Weird Fiction’s cautionary dark fantasy, “The Doom That Came to Sarnath.”

There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream and out of which no stream flows. Ten thousand years ago there stood by its shore the mighty city of Sarnath, but Sarnath stands there no more.

It is told that in the immemorial years when the world was young, before ever the men of Sarnath came to the land of Mnar, another city stood beside the lake; the grey stone city of Ib, which was old as the lake itself, and peopled with beings not pleasing to behold…

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Drabblecast 502 – Good Boy

Drabblecast 501 – Pastorale

Drabblecast 454 – The Doom That Came to Sarnath