Pseudopod (podcast)
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Pseudopod is a podcast
Podcasting
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

 launched on 11 August 2006 which presents horror genre
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 short stories. It is part of Escape Artists, Inc. which also podcasts Escape Pod
Escape Pod (podcast)
Escape Pod is a magazine-style podcast launched on 12 May 2005 which presents stories in the genre of science fiction. It has been called "the world's leading science fiction podcast". Until his retirement in May 2010, the podcast was hosted by founder Steve Eley and edited by Jeremiah Tolbert...

 and PodCastle. Pseudopod is currently edited by Shawn M. Garrett (previously Ben Phillips until the end of 2010) and hosted by Alasdair Stuart. Wil Wheaton
Wil Wheaton
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III is an American actor and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie Lachance in the film Stand by Me and Joey Trotta in Toy Soldiers...

 calls Pseudopod, "pretty damn awesome," and cites it as an example of how new media is changing the broadcast landscape

Pseudopod won the 2009 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast.

The stories it runs are usually between 2000 and 6000 words in length. It also irregularly releases shorter flash fiction
Flash fiction
Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category...

 pieces and movie reviews.

Escape Artists has a policy against authors reading their own work. Many stories are read by people associated with Escape Artists and other members of the podcasting community.

Pseudopod is distributed under the Creative Commons
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 attribution
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 non-commercial
Non-commercial
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 no-derivatives
Derivative work
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 3.0 license. The fiction itself remains copyright
Copyright
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ed by its respective authors. Pseudopod contracts with authors for non-exclusive audio rights, paying semi-professional rates.

Intro music is “Bloodletting on the Kiss” by Anders Manga
Anders Manga
Anders Manga is an American recording artist with a loyal underground following of fans worldwide. He was nominated for "Best Band" in 2006 by Gothic Beauty Magazine and has released 6 albums since 2005, most recently, "Infinite Gaze to the Sun" in winter 2009.-Personal life:Anders' father, Jerry...

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List of Episodes

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