This episode from Season 2 of BENEATH THE RAIN SHADOW is brought to you by Fermented Fiction
Music and sound effects via Epidemic Sound
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In this month’s hot seat: M. Leigh
Story title: BAIT
Prompts (timestamps for reveals):
1:02:10 Gordon reveals his prompt (Location: city or county park)
1:03:26 M. Leigh reveals her prompt (horror trope: “Everybody’s in on it”)
1:04:10 Tamara reveals her prompt (Pacific Northwest quirk: derelict boat)
Next show livestreams March 25, 2026 (youtube.com/@FermentedFiction)
Next recorded show drops April 1, 2026 (fermentedfiction.substack.com/s/sinister-soup)
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List of links to worthy mentions from recorded show (in order)
(people, books, events, news items etc + anything related to BTRS Books or Fermented Fiction)
02:41 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark
03:42 Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark illustrator Stephen Gammell
04:00 Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark illustrator Brett_Helquist
04:24 Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark author Alvin Schwartz
04:56 Author Algernon Blackwood
04:59 Author Arthur Machen
05:05 The Willows by Algernon Blackwood (full text)
05:30 Magical Realism and Literature: "Chapter 14: From the Inside of Belief" (Sasser, KA:
Cambridge University Press, 2020)
06:37 "Creature Features"
06:56 Twilight Zone + Outer Limits
07:06 "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" [Twilight Zone, 1963]
07:31 Creature From the Black Lagoon [1954]
07:37 The Snow Queen [1957] [not Disney; directed by Lev Atamano for Soyuzmultfilm]
08:02 Scooby-Doo franchise
08:25 The Sixth Sense
09:02 M. Night Shyamalan
09:08 Signs
SHOW NOTES, BTRS S2
Mar 2, 2025
SHOW NOTES FOR S2 EP3 (technically 2) of BENEATH THE RAIN SHADOW
Attach to the livestream descrip in YouTube + recorded episode text in Substack
09:24 The Ghost in the Darkness
09:36 The man-eating lions of Tsavo || Field Museum of Natural History
10:33 Pet Sematary by Stephen King
11:50 Columbia River Gorge leg of the Empire Builder Amtrak line
13:22 Apocalyptic Horror + Survival Horror
14:01 Tri-Cities, Washington state (Pasco, Richland, Kennewick)
17:07 "3 A.M. Worries"
17:36 Interior monolog
18:24 Twin Sisters rock formation and folklore, Columbia River Gorge
19:38 Ground Zero
19:53 Nuclear EMPs
20:50 Wind and Fallout Patterns
22:20 About refrains in fiction
22:40 About foreshadowing in fiction
23:15 Threads (1984)
28:41 Blocking in fiction
30:25 Toxic Nice Guy trope
35:08 “Lightning strike” creativity
35:28 Amtrak California Zephyr line
36:28 Hanford Nuclear Reservation
36:47 Salmon ladder
37:19 Serendipity in creative writing research
42:39 Author Melissa Bank
43:42 Author Mike Allen
43:46 Author Thomas Ligotti
44:45 As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions (Gordon B. White)
47:29 Drabble (definition)
51:35 Norwescon 2026
52:01 SquatchCon 2026
52:27 Author Kendare Blake
53:11 Author Lish McBride
53:13 KPop Demon Hunters
53:20 Author Matt Dinniman
53:22 Author Philip Fracassi
53:33 Terrifiers trilogy
53:39 Crypticon 2026
53:55 Author Luciano Marano
SHOW NOTES, BTRS S2
Mar 2, 2025
SHOW NOTES FOR S2 EP3 (technically 2) of BENEATH THE RAIN SHADOW
Attach to the livestream descrip in YouTube + recorded episode text in Substack
54:30 Cairn (part two in the Voices From the Cold trilogy) by Clay Vermulm
54:44 “Plumbing the Depths” Survival and Adventure Horror,” Nightmare Magazine, 2025
55:17 Story Hour 2020: Gordon B. White (Feb 11, 2026)
55:53 Nightmare Magazine (“Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights”
forthcoming in March by Gordon B. White)
55:59 Nightmare Magazine editor, Wendy Wagner
56:08 Novelette (definition)
56:41 Mill Creek Library System
57:03 Gargoyle Safari by Luciano Marano
57:12 Hardboiled horror
57:37 Pacific Northwest Writers Association contest
58:44 Crypticon III contest anthology
59:06 Kirkland Arts Center + HWA Moon Cycles Reading Series
59:28 Rhymes With Camera Substack returns with weekly postings
59:55 “How to Handsell Your Horror” HWA virtual workshop with Tamara Kaye Sellman
1:01:06 Experimental Files anthology tribute to Gemma Files
1:01:15 Experimental Film by Gemma Files
1:01:29 Author John Langan
1:01:xx Author Michael Cisco
1:01:xx Author Maria Haskins
1:03:32 Examples of the “Everybody’s in on it” trope: Rosemary’s Baby (1968) + Stepford Wives
(1975) + Get Out (2017) + Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
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ABOUT YOUR HOSTS
Clay Vermulm: Podcaster, author, editor, filmmaker, publisher
https://www.clayvermulmfiction.com/
Of interest: Cairn (Voices from the Cold trilogy, Book II) [Dark Forest Press 2026]
Tamara Kaye Sellman: Author, podcaster, editor, filmmaker, publisher
www.rhymeswithcamera.com
Of interest: Rain Shadows: Dark Tales From Washington State [BTRS Books, 2025]
M. Leigh: Podcaster, author
https://www.mleighstories.com/
Of interest: “Where Are All The Boogeyladies?” [Horror Inherent, 2024]
Gordon B. White: Podcaster, author, mentor
https://www.gordonbwhite.com/
Of interest: Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror(s) [Trepidatio Publishing, 2023]
SHOW NOTES, BTRS S2
Mar 2, 2025
SHOW NOTES FOR S2 EP3 (technically 2) of BENEATH THE RAIN SHADOW
Attach to the livestream descrip in YouTube + recorded episode text in Substack
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