“Listen” Up: “Watching the Crawl” Adapted to Audible Episode of The NoSleep Podcast

Literarily speaking, this is a professional first: my story, “Watching the Crawl,” has been adapted into a fully-produced episode on Season 24 of The NoSleep Podcast.

Among other mediums, I cut my creative teeth on classic, old-time radio series (The Black Museum…Lights Out…Inner Sanctum), and for intermittent periods as an adult, those shows continue to offer a throwback solace during more solitudinal stretches. To say this is a personal achievement is a weighty understatement.

The NoSleep episodes are a cinematic experience in auditory form, replete with performances featuring a cast of voice actors, sound effects, and atmospheric soundtracks. The cast for “Watching the Crawl” (produced by Jesse Cornett) includes Peter Lewis (as the narrator); Mary Murphy (as Gwen); Ella Boone (as Ashley); and Graham Rowat (as the Officer). Kyle Akers (standing in for David Cummings) is the host for this installment, and his introduction of “Watching the Crawl” begins at the 1h 23min mark.

Settle in somewhere quiet (or perhaps press play on some seldom-traveled backroad), and give “Watching the Crawl” a listen (1h 07min) on Season 24, Episode 12 of The NoSleep Podcast.

“Skeletal” Echoes In the OUTER DARK

The Skeleton Melodies receives a generous shoutout by Gordon B. White on a recent episode of The Outer Dark on This Is Horror.  This installment features readings by both Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Orrin Grey, but Episode 091 launches with a sapient take on why the mode of weird fiction supplies such amenable medium for marginalized voices and outsider characteristics of “the other.”

Near the episode’s opening, in his brief critique of the collection (beginning at about the minute 8:15:00 marker), White (whose debut collection, As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions, was released in 2020) notes a pair of pieces, “Details That Would Otherwise Be Lost to Shadow,” as well as my novella, Haunt Me Still.  Host Anya Martin mentions a potential future appearance on the program, a collaboration which is currently in the works.