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
Writer and designer, editor and inventor, brewer and narrator, Drew’s been called a lot of things in his career – some nicer than others. By day he spins stories with words and pictures as an advertising copywriter and creative director. But by the light of the moon, he can be found weaving tales for sound and screen, and alchemizing bubbly brews with hops and barley.
He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada with his son and a menagerie of small creatures.
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.
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
J. R. ANDREWS
J.R. Andrews was born in Michigan, but has lived as far afield as Los Angeles, California and Anchorage, Alaska. A lifelong reader, this camera-shy slusher didn’t begin writing till in his early thirties. He has words in The Vanishing Point Magazine, Dark Winter Lit Magazine, and Coffin Bell Journal, to name a few.
A harmless email lured him into the TtT fold, for which he’s immeasurably grateful. He currently lives in North Central Florida with his three-legged familiar: his cat, Lovey. In fact, he’s probably talking about her on Twitter right now, @andrewshorror.
KATHLEEN PALM
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.
Morgan Payne
Morgan is dedicated to uplifting marginalized voices in horror fiction and has been running their blog, Diversity in Horror for over five years. They’ve appeared on podcasts such as Progressively Horrified, Is it Transphobic, and contributed articles to Morbidly Beautiful.
When they’re not reading, writing, or watching horror Morgan works at a hospital where they’re the head of the LGBTQIA+ employee resource group. Morgan lives with their wife, three cats, four rats, and a very grumpy rabbit.
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.