Nicole Doolin

In his 1919 essay titled The Uncanny, Sigmund Freud wrote, The subject of the uncanny undoubtedly belongs to all that is terrible, to all that arouses dread and creeping horror.

Unlike some of his contemporaries who theorized that this phenomenon was associated with the fear of the unknown, Freud believed this uncanny experience was rooted in the familiar environment of our childhood.

Whether or not it's the familiar or the unfamiliar which triggers the uncanny experience, we've all encountered people, places, or things that make us feel dread.

And luckily for us, there have been many well-crafted horror stories produced on the podcast through the years, providing plenty of opportunities to experience the uncanny.

There's a spectrum of styles, from the suggestive to the graphic.

Something for everyone.

Welcome to the podcast.

I'm your host, Nicole Doolin, and I've been voice acting on the show for over 10 years.

Before I started on No Sleep, I appeared in the horror podcast Tales to Terrify, which was hosted at the time by the late horror writer and actor Lawrence Santoro, who discovered my voice work on the internet and asked me to perform horror stories for them.

That's how David found me, and he invited me to join the No Sleep podcast.

If I remember correctly, my first story was Forget Me Not, a blend of horror and science fiction.

I like speculative fiction, so I enjoy horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.

Also historical fiction.

So you can still find me on the Tales to Terrify podcast where I perform horror stories solo.

If you like science fiction, they're also starting a new sci-fi anthology podcast called Folded Space, which is premiering this September.

And in it, I will perform a space opera like no other.

So stay tuned.

And if you're interested in horror stories for younger audiences, I star alongside Atticus Jackson in the Nightmare Soup podcast.

I want to take a moment to thank you for being a part of the No Sleep family.

There's a lot of chaos and division in the world, but we've managed to find common ground here.