About tales to terrify
tales to terrify delivers the finest short horror fiction straight into your ears each and every week.
Since 2012, Tales to Terrify has curated the best short horror fiction from established and emerging writers, and turned each story into simple, spine-tingling audio.
We’re a volunteer-run podcast. Our staff and narrators do what we do because we’re passionate about horror and bringing creepy tales to life for you, our listeners.
STAFF
Drew Sebesteny
Host + Producer
A creative creature by nature, Drew spends his days crafting words and pictures as the owner of an advertising agency. By night, though, he writes and narrates tales to terror for unsuspecting audiences. Along with Seth, Drew took over the podcast when it separated from the District of Wonders back in 2019. It’s been a wild and weird ride since.
He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada with his partner, Kyleigh, and a menagerie of small, hungry critters.
Seth williams
Managing editor
Seth started his journey with TtT as a listener when episode numbers were in the double digits and the Nook was a warm, cozy and inviting retreat from a long and mind numbing commute. Hearing a call from Stephen during an episode, he joined the team as a narrator, which in time lead to an invitation to become an associate editor. This was about the same time that another narrator, a very talented and as everyone knows all around good guy Drew also joined in the same role. Drew became the owner and Seth became the editor, then managing editor for the podcast.
Seth has narrated stories for Tales to Terrify, Far Fetched Fables and StarShipSofa. He currently lives on the south coast of Massachusetts with a husband, dog and a cat.
meredith morgenstern
FICTION EDITOR
Meredith Morgenstern is a member of the HWA, fiction editor for Tales to Terrify podcast, and has been published in ELECTRIC SPEC, TALES TO TERRIFY, STAR SHIP SOFA, and others. Her pronouns are she/her. She accidentally lives in New Jersey with her two children and probably some ghosts. Follow her on Twitter at @MLMorgenstern.
Andrew Gibson
Audio EDITOR
Andrew was pulled feet-first from the swamps of South Louisiana, kicking and screaming. He remains mostly as such to this day.
You can find his work on Audible under Andrew Gibson or, for the more romantically inclined, Blake Lockheart. You can also catch him streaming his recording sessions live in “The Narrator’s Nook” and “The Haven” Discord servers.
Krystal Hammond
Narration EDITOR
Krystal Hammond is a narrator/writer, cancer survivor, and nonbinary queer human. They grew up in rural North Carolina, nurtured by a steady diet of local Black Beard legends and Confederate ghost stories. These nuggets of folktale and myth fostered a life-long love of storytelling and all the drama that goes with it. They also have a Master’s degree in biological anthropology and adore ugly cats.
Feel free to check out their narration website at krystalhammond.com or find them on Twitter @thekmhammond.
Kathleen Palm
Assistant EDITOR
Kathleen Palm haunts her 100 year old farmhouse in rural Indiana. She started writing about eighteen years ago, her words tumbling into the dark and creepy land of horror. Surrounded by her husband, two college kids, four cats and two dogs, she survives in her living room absorbed in anything scary or weird.
Her short stories can be found here and there for those brave enough to look, and her debut upper middle grade horror book Into the Gray (Feb ’23) lurks in the shadows, waiting. For anyone who wants to talk spooky, find her on Twitter @KathleenPalm.
Spencer Disparti
Assistant EDITOR
Spencer’s passion for literature and storytelling started at an early age when his dad would read to him classic stories from such authors as: Hugo, Dickens and Wells.His love of sound grew even more when he started to play the guitar. From there, he became an avid audiophile and even pursued an education in audio engineering.As a regular listener of Pseudopod, TtT and the Drabblecast, on a whim, he thought it would be fun to narrate a story and the rest is history.
First Readers
Douglas Gwilym
Bram Stoker Award–nominated author Douglas Gwilym came to Tales to Terrify, first and foremost, as a fan. Pleased with what they’d done with his own work and the work of colleagues, he leaned in a little too close. Now he reads submissions and narrates at one of the best (and longest-running) podcasts of dark fiction, an institution that celebrates smart, human, and inventive horror.
Gwilym edited the Triangulation F/SF/H anthology for four years before creating The Midnight Zone (first edition Novus Monstrum) with Shirley Jackson Award–nominated editor Ken MacGregor. He is a novelist, editor, voiceover artist, multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter, and software developer. He’s narrated 50+ hours of classic weird fiction on YouTube, is frequent guest and occasional host of the weekly web show Story Hour, and serves as air-traffic-controller for the weird spirits of Pittsburgh.
Frank Oreto
Frank Oreto is a writer of weird and horrific fiction living in the wilds of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Flame Tree Press, and The Year’s Best Hardcore Horror. When not writing Frank creates elaborate meals for his wife and ever-hungering children.
Nate lee
Nate puts words in various orders. Sometimes people give him money afterward. No one knows why. You can find more of his writing at www.mirrorshards.net, including a lot of free short and microfiction and a very intermittently updated blog.
Stephen gagin
Stephen is a born and bred Yankee from Winthrop, Massachusetts. In the real world, he’s an Insurance Broker and Tax Return Preparer. He’s married with two children and a mini-Poodle grand dog named Xena.
His passions are sailing, cooking, scuba diving and, as a good Catholic boy, he enjoys narrating and reading horror stories for Tales to Terrify. He’s working his way deeper into voice acting by narrating for LibriVox and Mac n Bonny’s, and has volunteered with the Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic organization. He’s also the author of Bravo TWO Sierra & Code Alpha – military thrillers available on Amazon and Kindle.