The Drabblecast takes you on an expedition you’re gonna have to see with your own eyes to believe! We bring you The Monster-God of Mamurth by Edmond Hamilton. Cover art by Bo Kaier The Monster-God of Mamurth by The Edmond Hamilton Out of the de

Personal Best

Apr 29th, 2023 31m 45s

The Drabblecast presents an original story by Michael Bettendorf about sports, parental expectations and growing up the hard way in a literal way.Read to you by Renee Chambliss.Art by DS Oswald

Yummy Tummy

Apr 29th, 2023 15m 44s

Dating is weird this week on the Drabblecast. We bring you a Drabblecast original, “Yummy Tummy,” by Chelsea Pumpkins, read by Word Whore. Enjoy!

Drabblecast 470 – Personal Best

Apr 18th, 2023

The Drabblecast presents an original story by Michael Bettendorf about football and growing up the hard way. Read to you by Renee Chambliss. Art by DS Oswald Personal Best By Michael Bettendorf It’s hard to see eye to eye with your parents whe

Drabblecast 469- Yummy Tummy

Mar 31st, 2023

Dating is weird this week on the Drabblecast. We bring you a Drabblecast original, “Yummy Tummy” by Chelsea Pumpkins, read by The Word Whore. Tasty! Cover art by Michael Butkovich Yummy Tummy by Chelsea Pumpkins The bell over the

Drabblecast 468 – The Bad Ones Are Always The Best

Mar 22nd, 2023

The Drabblecast returns with a sinister tale of generational ick. We present “The Bad Ones Are Always the Best,” by Michelle Ann King. The Bad Ones Are Always the Best by Michelle Ann King Marty’s grandson takes the cup of tea he’s offered — wi

Drabblecast 467 – Woods For the Trees

Feb 25th, 2023

On this week’s Drabblecast, Dendrology meets Criminal Psychology. A story by Harley Carnell. Art by Bo Kaier. Woods For the Trees by Harley Carnell On the second day of our search for John Shaw, John Shaw joins our search party. Frustrated afte

Drabblecast 466 – Is This a Plate?

Feb 11th, 2023

Ever feel Déjà vu on the road supposedly less traveled? Truth and lies on this week’s Drabblecast, we bring you an original story from Bob McHugh called “Is This a Plate?” Enjoy! Produced by Adam Pracht Read by Dominick Rabrun Beyond this poi

Drabblecast 465 – Trifecta: Love Hurts

Jan 9th, 2023

This week’s show has it all: vampires, evolutionary biology, and quivering jacked up Taylor Swifts. We bring you three flash fiction pieces about the complications of being in love: Taylor Swift by Hugh Behm-Steinberg, The Evolution of a Breaku

Drabblecast 464 – The Follower’s Revel

Dec 23rd, 2022

This week we the Drabblecast brings you some interesting original historic found footage uncovered by author Jonathan Louis Duckworth called, “The Follower’s Revel.” Enjoy! Art by Bo Kaier.

Drabblecast 463 – A Hymn Upon the Lips of the Dead

Nov 11th, 2022 20m 36s

Episode Sponsor– Mothmen 1966 The secret’s out on this week’s Drabblecast, and nothing will ever be the same. We bring you an original Drabblecast story called “A Hymn Upon the Lips of the Dead,” by Mav Lux. Oh and Norm sings us a song about s

Drabblecast 462 – The Tenant

Nov 3rd, 2022 28m 57s

An uncanny episode of original fiction this week on the Drabblecast– we bring you, “The Tenant” by Sarah E. Stevens. Cover created by Bo Kaier in concert with the midjourney text-to-image AI (and unidentifiable, scraped contributors). We hope t

Drabblecast 461 – How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map

Sep 30th, 2022 29m 47s

Finally, a Drabblecast episode for weird foodies. We bring you a Drabblecast original called, “How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map” by P.A, Cornell. Enjoy… Episode Sponsor– Mothmen 1966 Cover created by

Drabblecast 460 – Distributed Denial of Sexytimes

Aug 24th, 2022 45m 26s

Episode Sponsor: Mothman 1966 In this week’s Drabblecast story, the only scenes that aren’t sex scenes are crime scenes. We bring you an original Drabblecast story by Tim Pratt about a dark future of vigilante justice sex toys, called “The Dist

Drabblecast 459 – 7099 Brecksville Road, Independence, Ohio

Aug 3rd, 2022 34m 39s

Norm is cryptic this week in terms of offering information on the featured story, “7099 Brecksville Road, Independence Ohio,” by JR Hamentaschen. He will say that that’s the story, and that’s the author. And to listen with headphones on. And al

Drabblecast 458 – Plans for Expansion

Jul 11th, 2022 28m 56s

The Drabblecast is molting! Norm shares some exciting news in the intro this week, Drabblecast has launched a Patreon, and a new quarterly magazine, “The Tentaculum.” Also, welcome new Managing Editor Cameron Howard! Finally, we close out HP L

Drabblecast 457 – When the Sun Hits

Apr 13th, 2022 40m 26s

This week’s show brings you an original commissioned HP Lovecraft mythos story by Nick Mamatas called “When the Sun Hits.” Afterwards, Nick talks about the story in an Author’s Note and Norm gives everyone an existential crises in a Drabble Ne

Drabblecast 456 – In My Brain in My Body

Feb 8th, 2022 9m 24s

Shark week on Drabblecast has never been so unnerving! Enjoy an original Drabblecast story this week from Evie Mae Barber about what lurks even deeper in the depths… The great white looked like he was having a good time, swimming upside down,

Drabblecast 455 – How Lovely Are Your Branches

Jan 1st, 2022 24m 15s

Norm closes out the year and existence as we know it, due to the phenomena known as “The Continuation,” with the Drabblecast annual holiday Tim Pratt story, an original commission called “How Lovely Are Your Branches.” Enjoy! Somebody was murde

Drabblecast 454 – The Doom That Came to Sarnath

Nov 8th, 2021 26m 2s

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

Drabblecast 453 – Trifecta: Modern Fairy Tales

Oct 20th, 2021 42m 31s

The Drabblecast brings you three original stories this week (Modern Fairytales, if you will) from authors Alice Gauntley, Matthew Sanborn Smith, and Kevin D. Anderson. Enjoy! Our birthday was the first of March, and for two weeks beforehand it

Drabblecast 452- Watch Anya Blume

Oct 9th, 2021 28m 56s

We’re getting back to nature this week on the Drabblecast, with Michael Piel’s original story, “Watch Anya Blume.” Enjoy! Anya Blume showered, slept, and showered again. Yes, she thought, she was beginning to feel human. Exhausted, sure, but h

Drabblecast 451 – How to Get Back to the Forest

Sep 29th, 2021 39m 46s

Warning: some explicit language. Join us this week for a little Camp Dystopia! The Drabblecast brings you a story about growing up the hard way by Sofia Samatar, called “How to Get Back to the Forest.” Enjoy! Episode Sponsor- “You Know It’s Tru

Drabblecast 450 – A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Aug 25th, 2021 44m 42s

Episode Sponsor: You Know It’s True by J.R. Hamantaschen This week on the Drabblecast, we bring you a classic story by Flannery O’Conner about simpler times and a summer family vacation gone awry. Enjoy! Warning: This story is being presented

Drabblecast 449 – The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One)

Aug 3rd, 2021 22m 42s

Dinosaurs gone awry on this week’s Drabblecast! We bring you an original story by John Wiswell called The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One), enjoy! Episode Sponsor: J.R. Hamentaschen’s horror anthology, “You Know It’s True” Free on Kindle Unlim