Drabblecast 506 – The Window Boy
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Silosibyn Sandalhemp (Cryptkeeper Norm) returns to host the Drabblecast Hallowellness Special, and t...
Drabblecast 505 – No Real Creatures
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Strangies Norm Sherman’s latest CD, “The Instruction Book” Would you like to look...
Drabblecast 504 – The Mub
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We can, as well. Create. Respect. His. Might. This story originally appeared in Clarkesworld. Go her...
Drabblecast 503 – The Bleeding Tree
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the Diggerman, the crooked music in his steps, the muddled drumbeat in his cusses. He can’...
Drabblecast 502 – Good Boy
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At last! Another touching dog story on the Drabblecast! This week we bring you an original by H. Rob...
Drabblecast 501 – Pastorale
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a little pastel house, a seer and a psychopomp have questions. This week on Drabblecast– someth...
Drabblecast 500 – The Repairers of Reality
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We made it everyone! On this, the 500th episode, a commissioned original from a Drabblecast favorite...
Drabblecast 499 – Nowhere
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Brown wears brown John Brown pants, on this week’s Drabblecast! We present an original stor...
Drabblecast 498 – The Sol Searching Fool
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A lesson on loneliness on this week’s Drabblecast– an original story by Arasibo Campeche called ...
Drabblecast 497- The Goat Wife
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Drabblecast- a melancholy story about loss, abandonment, and the perils of old magi...
Drabblecast 496 – Sundays with Pop-Pop
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stop asking so many damn questions. Come and listen to the newest weird story from Pop-Pop. He’s g...
Drabblecast 495 – Jared Chapel’s The First Car Ballet
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lights! Wheels! Wipers! Curtain! This week, a marvel of machines and carbureted choreography awaits ...
Drabblecast 494 – Trifecta: The Sherman Evening Post
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You have a ring on your door bell, and laid on your stoop is a brown papered parcel, tied with damp ...
Drabblecast 493 – China Doll
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Your curiosity and your inner voyeur are calling. Will you be able to meet their gaze? This week on ...
Drabblecast 492 – Doubleheader: Christine Nogle
25 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Drabblecast, become something new! We bring you two stories about transformation ...
Drabblecast 491 – Learn to Count With the Doomed Expedition
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One, two, three, what’s that staring back at me? Four, five, six, I know what this viscera predict...
Drabblecast 490 – Slime on my Hackles
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Drabblecast, we have arrived in the seedy side of space. The sign on the front says...
Drabblecast 489- The Black Waters of Lethe
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Drabblecast, we bring you a dark ancient tale from a distant lost land called “Th...
Drabblecast 488- From Earth to Io, with Love
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tickets, please! Tickets! Right this way! Coupons to the right, and fast passes to left. NO pushi...
Drabblecast 487- Bad Meat
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our story this week is spoiling for a good time. Enjoy a delicious exploration of the human conditio...
Drabblecast 486- Those Who Forget and Those Who Perish
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our story this week is “Those Who Forget and Those Who Perish” by K. W. Colyard. Enjoy! Cover ar...
Drabblecast 485- He Who Ruined Everything
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let us quell your unease with our favorite platitude, “When God closes a door, he opens a window, ...
Drabblecast 484- Cosmic Bowling
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast hits the lanes this week with original story, “Cosmic Bowling” by Mike James Dav...
Drabblecast 483- Snow
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast wraps up 2023 with a Drabbleganza, followed by a story about tough decisions and lea...
Drabblecast 482- That Bloody Frontier
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast Weird West Event closes out this week with another original story– this time with ...
Drabblecast 481- The Alamo
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast Weird Wild West continues, with “The Alamo” by Cedrick May. Cover art by Tristan...
Drabblecast 480- Rusty Sue
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast Weird West event continues, with “Rusty Sue” by Arthur H. Manners. Cover art by ...
Drabblecast 479-Headhunting
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast kicks off the Weird West event, with Avra Margariti’s story “Headhunting” and ...
Drabblecast 478- Cool Air
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the summer winds down and things cool down, the Drabblecast brings you a story that will give you...
Drabblecast 477- The Eight-Thousanders
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mountain climbing might be more treacherous than you think. This week on the Drabblecast, we bring y...
Drabblecast 476- The Pigeon
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Norm talks birds on this week’s episode, before presenting Drabblecast’s production of “The Pi...
Drabblecast 475- Doubleheader
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A merry hanging and a game of jacks, this week on the Drabblecast! Cover art by Bo Kaier
Drabblecast 474- Exit the Professor
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Drabblecast– mutant hillbillies! Cover art by Bo Kaier Exit the Professor by...
Drabblecast 473- Trunk to Trunk
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast brings you an original tale of interspecies aid. We present “Trunk to Trunk,” by...
Drabblecast 472 – The Hard Problem of Consciousness
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
#Hivelife this week on the Drabblecast! We bring you “The Hard Problem of Consciousness” by Andr...
Drabblecast 471 – The Monster-God of Mamurth
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast takes you on an expedition you’re gonna have to see with your own eyes to believe!...
Drabblecast 470 – Personal Best
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast presents an original story by Michael Bettendorf about football and growing up the h...
Drabblecast 469- Yummy Tummy
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dating is weird this week on the Drabblecast. We bring you a Drabblecast original, “Yummy Tummy”...
Drabblecast 468 – The Bad Ones Are Always The Best
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast returns with a sinister tale of generational ick. We present “The Bad Ones Are Alw...
Drabblecast 467 – Woods For the Trees
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Drabblecast, Dendrology meets Criminal Psychology. A story by Harley Carnell. Art b...
Drabblecast 466 – Is This a Plate?
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever feel Déjà vu on the road supposedly less traveled? Truth and lies on this week’s Drabblecas...
Drabblecast 465 – Trifecta: Love Hurts
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s show has it all: vampires, evolutionary biology, and quivering jacked up Taylor Swifts...
Drabblecast 464 – The Follower’s Revel
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we the Drabblecast brings you some interesting original historic found footage uncovered b...
Drabblecast 463 – A Hymn Upon the Lips of the Dead
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Sponsor– Mothmen 1966 The secret’s out on this week’s Drabblecast, and nothing will ev...
Drabblecast 462 – The Tenant
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An uncanny episode of original fiction this week on the Drabblecast– we bring you, “The Tenant”...
Drabblecast 461 – How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put Your Restaurant on the Galactic Map
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Finally, a Drabblecast episode for weird foodies. We bring you a Drabblecast original called, “How...
Drabblecast 460 – Distributed Denial of Sexytimes
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Sponsor: Mothman 1966 In this week’s Drabblecast story, the only scenes that aren’t sex ...
Drabblecast 459 – 7099 Brecksville Road, Independence, Ohio
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Norm is cryptic this week in terms of offering information on the featured story, “7099 Brecksvill...
Drabblecast 458 – Plans for Expansion
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast is molting! Norm shares some exciting news in the intro this week, Drabblecast has l...
Drabblecast 457 – When the Sun Hits
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s show brings you an original commissioned HP Lovecraft mythos story by Nick Mamatas cal...
Drabblecast 456 – In My Brain in My Body
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shark week on Drabblecast has never been so unnerving! Enjoy an original Drabblecast story this we...
Drabblecast 455 – How Lovely Are Your Branches
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Norm closes out the year and existence as we know it, due to the phenomena known as “The Continuat...
Drabblecast 454 – The Doom That Came to Sarnath
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast kicks off H.P. Lovecraft Month with the grandfather of Weird Fiction’s cautionary ...
Drabblecast 453 – Trifecta: Modern Fairy Tales
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast brings you three original stories this week (Modern Fairytales, if you will) from au...
Drabblecast 452- Watch Anya Blume
09 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re getting back to nature this week on the Drabblecast, with Michael Piel’s original story, “...
Drabblecast 451 – How to Get Back to the Forest
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: some explicit language. Join us this week for a little Camp Dystopia! The Drabblecast bring...
Drabblecast 450 – A Good Man Is Hard to Find
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Sponsor: You Know It’s True by J.R. Hamantaschen This week on the Drabblecast, we bring yo...
Drabblecast 449 – The Tyrant Lizard (and Her Plus One)
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dinosaurs gone awry on this week’s Drabblecast! We bring you an original story by John Wiswell c...
Drabblecast 448 – Stay
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is brought to you by J.R. Hamentaschen’s fourth horror fiction anthology “...
Drabblecast 447 – Echoes
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast is on the scene this week, with an original story by Gail Ann Gibbs, read by Starla ...
Drabblecast 446 – The Wichita Drive
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Weird things are afoot in the west this week on the Drabblecast! Enjoy an original, previously...
Drabblecast 445 – Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drabblecast wraps up Women & Aliens month with a gritty and intense story by James Tiptree Jr., aka ...
Drabblecast 444 – The Hands of Heroes
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a hero? The Drabbecast brings you an original commissioned story by Cat Rambo this week...
Drabblecast 443 – The Day I Didn’t Get A Pet Nebula
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who says Drabblecast doesn’t do Young Adult Fiction? This week we launch Women & Aliens Month with...
Drabblecast 442 – The Secret of Theta Pi
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sea creatures and sorority sisters on this week’s Drabblecast! We bring you an original tale by St...
Drabblecast 441 – Trifecta: Strange Futures
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Drabblecast– three stories about Strange Futures. We bring you Drabblecast origin...
Drabblecast 440 – The Earth-Brain
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, every day is Earth Day when you’re living on an Elder God! We bring you a h...
Drabblecast 439 – Rocket Surgery
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’d tested plenty of missiles before, but Teeny was the only one that convulsed when we cut him o...
Drabblecast 438 – Midnight Clear, or, How Santa Claus Killed the Sun
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Norm brings in the New Year with an original Drabblecast story by author Tim Pratt! This story is a ...
Drabbleclassics- Dirty Santa
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A classic Drabblecast Tim Pratt story, presented to you by Guest Host, Avery Alexander! The apartm...
Drabblecast 437 – The Shallow One
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast wraps up HP Lovecraft Month this year with a mythos story unlike any variety you’v...
Drabblecast 436- The Wallpaper Out of Space
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our next original Drabblecast-commissioned story for HP Lovecraft month installment, “The Wallpape...
Drabblecast 435 – Maternal Instinct
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lovecraft and love life mix on this week’s Drabblecast! As our first offering HP Lovecraft month, ...
Drabblecast 434 – The Shadow Over Innsmouth Pt. 2
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of a Drabblecast production of H.P. Lovecraft’s classic The Shadow Over Innsmouth. The re...
Drabblecast 433 – The Shadow Over Innsmouth Pt. 1
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast Annual Halloween Special kicks off this year simultaneously with HP Lovecraft month ...
Drabblecast 432 – Housebound
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Weirdness is in the air at Drabblecast as we bring you an original story about spousal life and home...
Drabblecast 431 – A Promise
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s Drabblecast features a poignant story about patience, perspective, parenthood and the ...
Drabbleclassics- Maybe the Stars
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Drabblecast fan Jen Fischer hosts another Drabbleclassics episode this week, bringing you a touching...
Drabblecast 430 – Notes from the Assistant’s Intern
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Drabblecast: dirty jobs. We bring you a quirky original tale by Bryan Miller abou...
Drabblecast Director’s Cut – On a Clear Day You Can See All the Way to Conspiracy
26 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Get Your Home Improvement On, Sucka…” Norm and author Desmond Warzel sit down and talk about ...
Drabblecast 429 – Letter from Lynchburg
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alternate history on this week’s show– an original story by Edward J. Knight about the American ...
Drabblecast 427 – Doubleheader- Matthew Sanborn Smith
04 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Drabblecast, Norm and author Matthew Sanborn Smith bring you a dose of perspective ...
Drabblecast 426- Trifecta: Friends Close, Enemies Closer
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, another Drabblecast Trifecta, this time with the theme: Friends Close, Enemies Closer. ...
Drabblecast 425 – The Bodies
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Another gripping and macabre tale from Drabblecast fan favorite Tim Pratt. Finding that first body w...
Drabblecast Director’s Cut – Necessary Cuts
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“My headlights were streaked pink with frog blood…” Norm and author comedian/writer Bryan Mill...
Drabblecast 425 – Unlike Most Tides
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Norm pays tribute and bids farewell to the greatest unsung hero of the podcast for the past two year...
Drabblecast 424 – On the Feeding Habits of Humans: A Firsthand Account
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our first Women & Aliens Month commission for 2020– It’s a goodie, a full-cast production of a...
Drabblecast 423 – The Martians Claim Canada
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Drabblecast begins it’s 9th Annual Women & Aliens Month”– a full month of original commiss...
Drabblecast 422 – The Full Moon Group
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show Norm makes a case for adult diapers in preparation for the apocalypse before g...
Drabblecast 421 – The Life You Save May Be Your Own
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Norm begins this episode with a metacast update on what’s been going on behind the scenes at the D...
Drabblecast 420 – Comfort and Joy
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This year’s Drabblecast Christmas Special brings you another original commissioned holiday story f...
Drabblecast 419 – Trifecta: Halloween Special
08 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Special Guest Host Cryptkeeper Norm hosts this year’s Drabblecast Halloween special. The Drabbleca...
Drabblecast 418 – Not Recommended for Guests of a Philosophically Uncertain Disposition
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Sponsor- I’m From Nowhere by Lindsay Lerman Damita managed The Fracture’s visitor centre...
Drabblecast 417 – Love in the Balance
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Sponsor- I’m From Nowhere, a novel by Lindsay Lerman. This week’s Drabblecast explores u...
Drabblecast 416 – Necessary Cuts
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Closing out this year’s H.P. Lovecraft month, we bring you another Drabblecast original, this time...
Drabbleclassics 31 – Boojum
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this Drabbleclassics episode, author and Drabblefan Weirdo Abbie Hilton breaks down the hit Drabb...
Drabblecast 415 – The Best Scarlet Ceremony Ever!
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sweet Valley High and the Babysitters Club meet cult life and H.P. Lovecraft mythos, as we continue ...
Drabblecast 414 – Dance, Siege, Swoop
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lovecraft Month continues as the Drabblecast brings you an original, commissioned piece of H.P. Love...
Drabblecast 413 – The Rats in the Walls
10 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking off this year’s H.P. Lovecraft month with a classic from the man himself. It’s not your ...
Drabblecast Trailer – 1977 by Carrie Vaughn
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Official Video Trailer for Drabblecast 412– 1977 by Carrie Vaughn. Read by Naomi Mercer, Norm Sher...