Welcome back to LIVE AND SPOOKY x The Myth & Fiction Podcast!

This October, we’re giving you double the episodes with double the chills. Each week, we are spotlighting the newest Flame Tree horror fiction titles so you can celebrate and fully embrace the spooky season.

This week’s book star is Latin American Shared Stories. I know what you’re thinking, ‘that doesn’t sound like a horror anthology’, and you’re right, it’s not strictly horror. It’s a vibrant collection of speculative stories and fascinating essays highlighting the many voices, mythologies, folklore and storytelling prowess of authors from Latin American countries or writing in the traditions of the Latin American diaspora. But our die-hard horror fans shouldn’t panic, we’ve sifted through the collection and found the spookiest stories for you all. This is after all, October, and if not now when?

Featuring

‘Nacho’ by Daniel Olivas (06.11), narrated by V. Castro.

AND ‘Sucker’ by Alyssa Alessi (24.36), narrated by V. Castro.

This episode is hosted by Bea.

Latin American Shared Stories is now available to purchase on our website or from any good bookstores near you. The US on sale date is the 11th of November.

‘Nacho’ is ©2022 Daniel Olivas and was originally published in The Rumpus in 2022 but more recently appeared in Latin American Shared Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, 2025).

‘Sucker’ is ©2025 Alyssa Alessi and appeared in Latin American Shared Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, 2025)

#horrorfiction #newreleases #spookyseason

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Music is an extract of Sunbeams by Allen Stroud, from his Fractal Series album, licensed courtesy of fpl-digital 2025.

This podcast is hosted and sometimes narrated by Beatrix Ambery (also audio editor), Olivia Jackson (also podcast coordinator), Shilpa Varma and Nick Wells (also producer).

Chosen from hundreds of wonderful tales, short stories such as these are selected by our short window open submission process, giving opportunities to writers of all levels of experience, culture and location. Look out for our submission announcements, and see the full list here: flametreepublishing.com/gothic-fantasy-book-series-list.html

Our full range of thematic short stories, epic tales, mythology and folklore titles are available at all good bookstores, online and in retail, and at flametreepublishing.com

Flame Tree Publishing, Independent Publisher of the Year 2024, British Fantasy Society. Beautiful Books, Timeless Storytelling, Fresh Perspectives.

The Flame Tree Myth and Fiction podcast is created and © copyright 2025 Flame Tree Publishing Ltd.

Here we are at the final episode of October. If this is your first time tuning in, welcome! We've been serving up horror fiction all month long. Two stories per episode, twice a week, with author insights and listener discount codes.

We're closing out the month and the season with two novels. Justin Holley's Unseen Gods, and Ramsey Campbell's An Echo of Children. These are fully fledged horror stories and both came out within the last few weeks. Amanda Benzecry reads the Prologue from Unseen Gods and Nathan Chatelier reads an extract from Chapter 7 of An Echo of Children.

Biographies

Justin Holley lives somewhere on the Cass Lake chain of lakes with his wife, and also a rather large Daneiff named Nu and a clever but tiny Devon Rex named Jinx. Justin is the author of the novels Blood from the Stars, Tethered to Darkness, Seven Cleopatra Hill, the 3-book Bruised series, and several pieces of short fiction haunting anthologies and magazines around the world. Bruised made Grand Master Brian Keene’s 2015 list of top fifteen books. He’s hard at work on his next novel when not boating, investigating the paranormal, or playing sport.

Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and now lives in Wallasey. He has received the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. Three of Campbell’s novels have been filmed – The Influence, Pact of the Fathers and The Nameless (in development as a Netflix series).

Both books are now available to purchase on our website using the discount code revealed in the episode! Unseen Gods by Justin Holley and An Echo of Children by Ramsey Campbell.

This episode was hosted by Olivia.

‘Unseen Gods’ is ©2025 Justin Holley (Flame Tree Publishing, 2025)

‘An Echo of Children’ is ©2025 Ramsey Campbell (Flame Tree Publishing, 2025)

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Music is an extract of Sunbeams by Allen Stroud, from his Fractal Series album, licensed courtesy of fpl-digital 2025.

This podcast is hosted and sometimes narrated by Beatrix Ambery (also audio editor), Olivia Jackson (also podcast coordinator), Shilpa Varma and Nick Wells (also producer).

Chosen from hundreds of wonderful tales, short stories such as these are selected by our short window open submission process, giving opportunities to writers of all levels of experience, culture and location. Look out for our submission announcements, and see the full list here: flametreepublishing.com/gothic-fantasy-book-series-list.html

Our full range of thematic short stories, epic tales, mythology and folklore titles are available at all good bookstores, online and in retail, and at flametreepublishing.com

Flame Tree Publishing, Independent Publisher of the Year 2024, British Fantasy Society. Beautiful Books, Timeless Storytelling, Fresh Perspectives.

The Flame Tree Myth and Fiction podcast is created and © copyright 2025 Flame Tree Publishing Ltd.

If you listened to Tuesday's episode, you’ll know that this week on the LIVE AND SPOOKY edition of the podcast, we’re spotlighting our anthology, Latin American Shared Stories. A vibrant collection of speculative stories and fascinating essays highlighting the many voices, mythologies, folklore and storytelling prowess of authors from Latin American countries or writing in the traditions of the Latin American diaspora.

In that episode, we included a note from the editor V. Castro and shared two brand new short stories along with insights from their authors.

Today’s bonus episode gives the rest of the anthology’s contributors a platform to share their thoughts and inspirations behind their work. We’ll also be revealing an exclusive discount code that will get you 30% off the anthology on our website!

A big thank you to all of the anthology contributors who sent in audio clips for the podcast: V. Castro, Daniel Olivas, Alyssa Alessi, Gustavo Bondoni, David Bowles, Dr R. Andrew Chesnut, Rios de la Luz, Ivette N. Diaz, Laura Diaz de Arce, Ruth Joffre, S. Alessandro Martinez, Juliana Spink Mills, Vanessa Molina, Richie Narvaez, Wi-Moto Nyoka and A.E. Santana.

This episode was hosted by Bea.

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Music is an extract of Sunbeams by Allen Stroud, from his Fractal Series album, licensed courtesy of fpl-digital 2025.

This podcast is hosted and sometimes narrated by Beatrix Ambery (also audio editor), Olivia Jackson (also podcast coordinator), Shilpa Varma and Nick Wells (also producer).

Chosen from hundreds of wonderful tales, short stories such as these are selected by our short window open submission process, giving opportunities to writers of all levels of experience, culture and location. Look out for our submission announcements, and see the full list here: flametreepublishing.com/gothic-fantasy-book-series-list.html

Our full range of thematic short stories, epic tales, mythology and folklore titles are available at all good bookstores, online and in retail, and at flametreepublishing.com

Flame Tree Publishing, Independent Publisher of the Year 2024, British Fantasy Society. Beautiful Books, Timeless Storytelling, Fresh Perspectives.

The Flame Tree Myth and Fiction podcast is created and © copyright 2025 Flame Tree Publishing Ltd.