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Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

Listen to THE BRIDES OF SLEEPY HOLLOW wherever you get podcasts! #podguild #horrorsky #horror #halloween

// WRITTEN BY
Jane Nightshade
Amber Jourdan
@danbfierce.bsky.social
Whitney Zahar

// PROMOS
Ghost Bites @brewcrime.bsky.social
@pitneyandamelia.bsky.social
@chicklitpod.bsky.social

Image is a parody of the teaser poster for the 1968 film DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE. A black and white image of a woman's neck with "Cut Here" written on a dotted line. She has her hand to her cheek, on which a wedding ring is visible. Text: "The Brides of Sleepy Hollow. Coming to Octoberpod on Oct 28th wherever you get podcasts."

October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

The wait is over! Octoberpod's #Halloween2025 Special: THE BRIDES OF SLEEPY HOLLOW is now available wherever you get podcasts! #podguild #horrorsky #horror #halloween

// GUESTS
Ari Shey, Tom O'Connor ( @madisonstandish.bsky.social ), @chicklitpod.bsky.social & @mschaunceykr.bsky.social

A nude woman with long red hair sits in a high-backed chair with pale pink fabric covering her body. The words "Cut Here" are visible on a dotted line around her neck. Next to her, a jack-o-lantern is engulfed in other-worldly flames. Text: "The headless horseman is back! And this time ... you may lose MORE than your HEAD! The Brides of Sleepy Hollow. Coming to Octoberpod on Oct 28th wherever you get podcasts."

October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

The wait is over! Octoberpod's #Halloween2025 Special: THE BRIDES OF SLEEPY HOLLOW is now available. Listen below or wherever you get podcasts! #podguild #horrorsky #horror

🎃 open.spotify.com/episode/6mDO...
💀 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
🎃 spreaker.com/episode/hall...
💀 youtu.be/TSTfI9S_3Nw

October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

Octoberpod presents DIAL R FOR RAVEN! Ft. @madisonstandish.bsky.social

Listen to Octoberpod AM below or wherever you get podcasts!

🎃 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
🐦‍⬛ open.spotify.com/episode/2H75...
🎃 youtu.be/3ayE-M7SgFw
🐦‍⬛ spreaker.com/episode/dial...

#podguild #horrorsky #horrorcommunity

A VHS copy of PSYCHO, a paperback of the works of Edgar Allan Poe with a Raven on the cover, and the thumbnail for MADISON ON THE AIR: The Birds float over a black and white backdrop. Text: "Dial R for Raven. Halloween, Hitchcock & Fowl Play. Ft. Madison on the Air! Coming Tues. Oct 14th to Octoberpod AM ... wherever you get podcasts."

October 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

Octoberpod presents DIAL R FOR RAVEN! #Halloween, Hitchcock & Fowl Play! Ft. @madisonstandish.bsky.social

Listen now on Octoberpod AM wherever you get podcasts!

// PROMOS
Ghost Bites (presented by @brewcrime.bsky.social )
@beyond6seconds.bsky.social
Make it Through the Night by Amy Koto

October 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

SCARY STORIES FOR PUMPKIN CARVING!

Ft. @brewcrime.bsky.social @pitneyandamelia.bsky.social @3spookedgirls.bsky.social @missionspooky.bsky.social

// PROMOS
@3spookedgirls.bsky.social
Ghost Bites (presented by @brewcrime.bsky.social )
Pop Culture Diary (presented by @reverietruecrime.bsky.social )

YouTube thumbnail featuring a person wearing a pumpkin on their head, holding a finger to the pumpkin's grinning mouth as if to say "Shhh" Accompanying text reads:

"Now Streaming! Scary Stories for Pumpkin Carving! From guest contributors Amelia (Pitney & Amelia's Bitchen Boutique), Mike & JT (Brew Crime & Ghost Bites), Autumn Grube (Autumn's Oddities), Syrai (Freaky AF), Kord (Mission Spooky), Amber Jourdan (Witches Talking Tarot), Amy Koto, MJ McAddams, YouTube's Lady Vengeance & Carissa Vikis (Beauty Unlocked).

Listen to Octoberpod AM wherever you get podcasts or watch Octoberpod Home Video on YouTube!"

September 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

NOW STREAMING! Spooky Stories for Pumpkin Carving! Listen below (or wherever you get podcasts)

🎃 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
💀 spreaker.com/episode/cryp...
🎃 youtu.be/UGveN_vft3o (drops @ 1:38pm EDT)
💀 open.spotify.com/episode/1Va1...
🎃 pca.st/eohaa3ir

#podguild #horrorsky #horror

September 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

🎃NOW STREAMING🎃

Listen OCTOBERPOD'S CHILLING THRILLING SOUNDS OF RETRO HORROR below or wherever you get podcasts!

💀 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
🎃 youtu.be/tXN15-fXHao
👽 open.spotify.com/episode/1SK5...
👻 www.spreaker.com/episode/octo...
🦇 go.goodpods.com/6DMQa5

#podguild #horrorsky

Image is a parody of a vintage Halloween sound effects vinyl record with a K-Mart price sticker affixed. The image is of 2 jack-o-lanterns beneath an orange text box for the title. Text reads: "Octoberpod's Chilling Thrilling Sounds of Retro Horror. Over 60 Minutes of audio environments filled with ghosts, aliens, witches & homicidal maniacs! Here lies our most terrifying collection of audio soundscapes: well calculated to haunt your home all season long! Your horror host, Edward October guides you through 6 hair-raising retro horror haunts. Listen to Octoberpod AM on Tue 9/16 ... wherever you get podcasts!"

September 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

🎃 Welcome Spooky Season with OCTOBERPOD🎃
Listen to our SPOOKY SEASON LAUNCH PARTY!

// SPECIAL GUESTS: Witches Talking Tarot, Twisted & Uncorked, and @serialnapper.bsky.social

// PROMOS: @tisyourselfpodcast.bsky.social True Crime South Africa @coldcasekansas.bsky.social

Hauntings! Aliens! Homicide! Spooky Season Launch Party. Now Streaming! Ft. special guests: Witches Talking Tarot, Twisted & Uncorked, and Serial Napper. Listen to Octoberpod AM wherever you get podcasts or watch Octoberpod Home Video on YouTube!

September 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

🎃 Welcome Spooky Season with OCTOBERPOD🎃

Listen to our SPOOKY SEASON LAUNCH PARTY at the links below or wherever you get podcasts!

🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/6SiT...
▶️ youtu.be/HsrQT2Q7Dmw
⭐️ www.spreaker.com/episode/fien...

September 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

NOW STREAMING! Listen to TALES FROM THE BIG BAD WOODS on Octoberpod AM wherever you get pods! #podguild

// GUESTS @tisyourselfpodcast.bsky.social @3spookedgirls.bsky.social & @familyplotpodcast.bsky.social

// PROMOS @danbfierce.bsky.social & @serialnapper.bsky.social & @rpcanarypi.bsky.social

Image resembles a flyer for a late-1960s spook show. Edward October (a man in a rumpled suit with masked pumpkin for a head) leans in from the margins. TEXT: "Hey! Son of a gun! It's Octoberpod time! Irish folk horror in the mountains of West Virginia: Robin, Ash & Hood by Amber Jourdan and starring Nicola Bardon. NEW INTERVIEW: Midnight Pancakes. Edward October sits down with Tara & Jessica (Social Seance Society) to discuss 90s horror, The Blair Witch Project, secret origins & the whole shebang. A classic WEIRD WEREWOLF story by Robert E. Howard. Octoberpod AM Presents TALES FROM THE BIG BAD WOODS. Aug 19th wherever you get podcasts"

August 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

NOW STREAMING! Listen to TALES FROM THE BIG BAD WOODS on Octoberpod AM wherever you get podcasts!

🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
❇️ open.spotify.com/episode/3mFV...
⭐ www.spreaker.com/episode/tale...
▶️ youtu.be/I192BdiQGXM (Drops today at 1:38 PM EDT)

#podguild #promotehorror #horrorsky

August 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

August 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

A title card reading "A Hammer Film Production" from THE BRIDES OF DRACULA

A title card reading "A Hammer Film Production" from HORROR OF DRACULA

A title card reading "A Hammer Film Production" from THE MUMMY

A title card reading "A Hammer Film Production" from KISS OF THE VAMPIRE

August 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

IT'S HERE! Listen to our Back to School Horror Marathon (ft. a cameo by @ourtruecrimepod.bsky.social ) below or wherever you get podcasts

🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/6Kyf...

PROMOS: @ourtruecrimepod.bsky.social & @doomgeneration.bsky.social

#podguild #horror

Images of teachers and school age children, drawn in the style of vintage clip art. The students appear to be studying spooky shit, because there are pictures of skulls on their books. Text: "Octoberpod's Back to School Classic Horror Marathon. Presented by Octoberpod AM. 2 hours of thrills and chills! Tues 8/5/25 wherever you get podcasts."

August 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

🚨🚨 COMING NEXT WEEK 8/5/25 🚨🚨

Octoberpod AM's BACK TO SCHOOL CLASSIC HORROR MARATHON! Say goodbye to summer and say hello to a new school year with Edward October & a cameo from Jen @ourtruecrimepod.bsky.social Plus! Encore performances from some of your favorite podcasters.

#podguild #horrorsky

July 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

New OCTOBERPOD Tues 7/22! It's our confidential GUIDE TO SUMMERTIME AMUSEMENTS. Theme park ghost stories! Horror cinema's vacation destinations! Renaissance Festival nightmares! #podguild #horrorsky #HorrorSky #horrorcommunity

// PROMOS @madisonstandish.bsky.social @horrifyinghistory.bsky.social

A torn poster on a textured wall, which depicts three mothers and their children riding a colorful roller coaster. Torn poster edges obscure the childrens' faces, revealing incongruous images and text underneath. Another torn poster edge reveals the following text, written on the wall: "Octoberpod's Guide to Summertime Amusements. Our confidential guide to national parks, weekend getawa ... [Obscured by ripped poster edge] ... Amusement park ghost stories, horrifying acciden ... [Obscured by ripped poster edge] ... The worst vacation destinations in horror cin ... [Obscured by ripped poster edge] ... Renaissance Festival nightmares and ... [Obscured by ripped poster edge] ...OVER 90 MINUTES OF GH ... [Obscured by ripped poster edge] ...frightful fun in the su ... [Obscured by ripped poster edge] ... Special Guests: Autumn Grube (Autumn's Oddities) & Amber Jourdan (Witches Talking Tarot). Listen to Octoberpod AM Tues Jul 22 wherever you get podcasts.

July 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

💀🫦NOW STREAMING 🫦💀

Listen to "Dying to be BOO-tiful" on OCTOBERPOD AM wherever you get podcasts

// GUESTS @horrifyinghistory.bsky.social Beauty Unlocked, Autumn's Oddities

// PROMOS @leasthaunted.bsky.social @familyplotpodcast.bsky.social

#podguild #horror #horrorsky #podcast #retro #cryptids

Fashionable woman in front of a pale orange woodgrain background looks at camera with a stylized skull superimposed over her face. TEST: Dying to be BOO-tiful. New on Octoberpod AM! Now streaming wherever you get podcasts! Ft. Special Guests Autumn Grube (Autumn's Oddities), Carissa Vikis (Beauty Unlocked) & Brenda (Horrifying History). Listen for tales of a faceless brothel ghost, witches, cryptids, dangerous beauty trends, a haunted church, mothman's butt, curses & feminist rage. OctoberpodVHS.com"

Illustration credit: Fabian Kunzel-Zeller, courtesy Unsplash.com

July 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

💀🫦NOW STREAMING 🫦💀

Listen to "Dying to be BOO-tiful" on OCTOBERPOD AM at the links below or wherever you get podcasts

🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/4AHt...
⭐️ www.spreaker.com/episode/fien...
🎧 pca.st/qzo8mq18
❤️ www.iheart.com/podcast/53-o...

#podguild #horrorsky

July 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

🚨 NEW OCTOBERPOD TOMORROW 6/24 🚨

Listen to ALPINE PASSAGE: coming to Octoberpod AM 6/24 wherever you get podcasts!

// PROMOS @chatsunami.bsky.social @chicklitpod.bsky.social & @backlookcinema.bsky.social

#podguild #horrorsky #promotehorror #horror #podcast #podcasts

The image is in the style of a black and white ad one would find in a vintage (circa 1970s-80s) TV Guide. Images of a man with no skin, his musculature showing. TEXT: "Alpine Passage. Abandoned tunnel ... or portal to Hell? Join host Edward October on a journey through the deepest places in the earth & the darkest corners of the soul. Tues. June 24th. Listen Octoberpod AM wherever you get podcasts."

June 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

🚨 NEW OCTOBERPOD TOMORROW 6/24 🚨

Listen to ALPINE PASSAGE by Amber Jourdan & Annie Morgan. Ft. Ari Shey, @serialnapper.bsky.social , @diabolicalpod.bsky.social & @brewcrime.bsky.social & an interview w/author Amy Koto.

Coming to Octoberpod AM 6/24 wherever you get podcasts!
#podguild #horrorsky

June 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM

Octoberpod

@octoberpod.bsky.social

90+ mins of spooky stories for stormy nights drops TOMORROW (6/10). Listen to Octoberpod AM wherever you get podcasts!

// PROMOS
@familyplotpodcast.bsky.social Episode #200, @beyond6seconds.bsky.social
@brewcrime.bsky.social
A Little Wicked podcast

#podguild #horrorsky #horrorcommunity