PodCastle
is a weekly fantasy podcast producing audio performances of fantasy short fiction including;
all the sub genres of fantasy, including magical realism, urban fantasy, slipstream, high fantasy, and dark fantasy.
Escape Artists launched the floating PodCastle on 1 April 2008, with Rachel Swirsky as founding editor and Ann Leckie as assistant editor.
Swirsky left in 2010 to focus on her own writing.
Editors Anna Schwind and Dave Thompson stepped down at the end of March 2015;
while Leckie served as associate editor.
Starting in 2015, Rachael K. Jones and Graeme Dunlop shared editing
and hosting duties, along with regular guest host M. K. Hobson.
In May of 2016, Rachael stepped down as co-editor and Jen R. Albert joined Graeme as the new co-editor.
In January 2017, Graeme left the co-editor position and
Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali took his place until January 2019.
C. L. Clark served as co-editor alongside Jen.
In 2021 the co-editor title passed to Eleanor R. Wood and Shingai Njeri Kagunda,
who helm the flying castle along with assistant editor Summer Fletcher.
PodCastle has released hundreds of stories written by authors such as
Peter S. Beagle, Natalia Theodoridu, Jeff VanderMeer, N.K. Jemisin, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Ken Liu.
We pay our authors and narrators, but we will always be 100% free for you.
We are supported through listener donations and sponsorship, so if you like what you hear,
please consider sponsoring us via Patreon or PayPal!
PodCastle is distributed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
You can find us on social media at Facebook and Twitter or join the discussion at our fan forums.
Visit our Wikia for a sortable list of episodes and more information.
General comments or questions can be sent to podcastle@escapeartists.net
Episodes are accompanied by online written stories which you can read in full for free.
Current Count: 562 Stories
PodCastle Episode 001
PodCastle 1: Come Lady Death
April 1, 2008
Author : Peter S. Beagle
Narrator : Paul S. Jenkins
Host : Ann Leckie
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First appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, 1963
Contains…well, Death.
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