Episode 6: Resources by M. Leigh

This episode from Season 2 of BENEATH THE RAIN SHADOW is brought to you by Fermented Fiction (fermentedfiction.substack.com/)

Music and sound effects via Epidemic Sound

In this month’s hot seat: M. Leigh
Story title: RESOURCES
Prompts (timestamps for reveals):
52:20 M. Leigh reveals her trope (cursed camp)
53:08 Gordon reveals his location (Sea-Tac)
54:03 Tamara reveals her quirk (pickleball)

Next show livestreams July 29, 2026
Next recorded show drops July 1, 2026
List of links to worthy mentions from recorded show

01:25 Episode 0, Season 2 of the Beneath the Rain Shadow podcast
02:48 Dark Forest Press: https://darkforestpress.com/
02:56 Isolation horror: https://horrorfam.com/isolation-horror/
03:58 Nightmare Magazine: https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/
04:30 Grave Belles Press: https://www.instagram.com/gravebelles/
04:40 Pacific Northwest Writers Association: https://www.pnwa.org/
05:12 PNWA Conference 2026: https://www.pnwa.org/page/conference
05:15 PNWA workshops: https://www.pnwa.org/events/event_list.asp
05:56 Dark speculative fiction:
17:51 In Fear (film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2165859/
18:26 Getaway (film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6263490/
18:40 Sightseers (film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2023690/
18:58 Old (film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10954652/
20:18 “Sunbleached” story by Nathan Ballingrud https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/sunbleached/
20:35 “The Wide, Carnivorous Sky” story by Jonathan Langan https://medium.com/@eggfordinner/john-langans-the-wide-carnivorous-sky-fa1f300a4555
21:19 White is for Witching (novel) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/125757/white-is-for-witching-by-helen-oyeyemi/
21:35 Brady Hartsfield, the ice cream truck man and villain in Mr. Mercedes https://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/mr-mercedes
21:47 Widow’s Bay (series) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33332385/
23:11 Milford style workshop critique format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_Writer%27s_Workshop
24:14 Kaiju https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju
24:53 Seattleite contempt for umbrellas https://kval.com/news/local/we-dont-use-no-stinking-bumbershoots-seattleites-shun-umbrellas-in-the-pouring-rain
25:35 Cosmic horror (aka Lovecraftian horror) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror
28:04 Body snatchers https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BodySnatcher
28:49 Cthulhian (as part of the Cthulhu mythos) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos
30:49 Possession entities (“body and host”) https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BodyAndHost
36:58 ‘In media res’ https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/ask-writer/what-is-in-medias-res
37:35 ‘slobberknocker’ https://www.oed.com/dictionary/slobberknocker_n?tl=true
38:45 ‘didatic’ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/didactic
40:49 Characterization and exposition https://medium.com/elderflypress/characterization-and-exposition-in-fiction-writing-db97096322b1
41:41 Maximalist approach in fiction https://www.storyangles.com/post/minimalism-vs-maximalism-in-writing
41:53 HP Lovecraft in The Call of Cthulhu: “The Thing cannot be described—there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled.”
43:32 Lovecraftian horror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror
43:43 The Seed (film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12449586/
46:25 Harbinger https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HarbingerOfImpendingDoom
48:03 “In the Hills, the Cities” story by Clive Barker https://matthewrettino.com/2022/12/06/n-the-hills-the-cities/
50:12 Author Jeffrey Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford
53:09 Sea-Tac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaTac,_Washington
53:32 Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21217912/
54:03 Bainbridge Island, home of pickleball https://www.bainbridgehistorymuseum.org/our-community-past-to-present/pickleball

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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: Trust Fall: A Not-Very-Magical Fairy Tale About the F Word [Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2026]

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]
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