Author: S. Boyd Taylor – The Drabblecast

Drabblecast Director’s Cut: Teddy Bears and Tea Parties

On June 26, 2018

In Director's Cut, Drabblecast, Interview

As a part of the Relaunch Prelaunch we revisit a listener favorite for the “Director’s Cut: Teddy Bears and Tea Parties.”

This story was written by S. Boyd Taylor and was originally aired in 2010. It’s a heart-breaking horror story about little girls, stuffed animals, and hunger.

Excerpt:

Shadows move on the mantelpiece and the end tables. She freezes. The family pictures are moving. Brass frames buckling into bow-shaped mouths. They want to eat her.

Don’t be scared, she says. Of course they’re hungry. Everything must eat. And there isn’t much food…

Drabblecast 252 – The Elder Thing and the Puddle People

By Drabblecast

On August 9, 2012

In Comedy, Drabblecast, Horror

Upon the coming of the rain and the and the reawakening of the Krr’at race, the Elder Thing returned to us and squealed Its sky-splitting squeal and waded in among us. It came with the green feet that had eyes and mouths, and with the yellow, rubbery outerskin, and with the lace and the glitter — oh, the horrible, horrible glitter…

This episode of the Drabblecast continues H.P. Lovecraft Tribute Month, specifically focusing on the frequent appearance of cults in Lovecraft’s work. In the drabble, cult meetings aren’t always all about sacrifices and secret rites. In the feature, what starts out as an innocent encounter between a little girl and her imaginary friends takes an ominous turn when the “puddle people” turn out to be real creatures who worship her as their capricious god. When a rebel revolts against the the cult to save her daughter from being sacrificed, how will their deity react?

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Cover for Drabblecast episode 194, A Distant Sound of Hammers, by Broken Cyborg

Drabblecast 194 – A Distant Sound of Hammers

By Drabblecast

On January 5, 2011

In Drabblecast, Drama, Horror

The horn blares and the red light floods down over the Cragmer’s Slaughter House sign and thirty feet below me the gates part wide like a huge and starving mouth. Then pours forth the herd…

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Drabblecast 146 – Teddy Bears and Tea Parties

By Drabblecast

On January 14, 2010

In Action, Drabblecast, Fantasy, Horror

The Drabblecast brings you Teddy Bears and Tea Parties written by S. Boyd Taylor. It’s a heart-breaking horror story about little girls, stuffed animals, and hunger.

It’s a bit of a graphic one, folks, so make sure to put the ear muffs on the kids.

Tag: Author: S. Boyd Taylor

Drabblecast Director’s Cut: Teddy Bears and Tea Parties

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Drabblecast 252 – The Elder Thing and the Puddle People

Drabblecast 194 – A Distant Sound of Hammers

Drabblecast 146 – Teddy Bears and Tea Parties