66.3 The Hatchling

<p>Volume 66 is sponsored by the Scared To Death podcast. Find out more at <a href="https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/</a></p><p><br></p><p><em>This is a story about a Cadbury egg that is anything but sweet.&nbsp;</em></p><p><br></p><p>Written by Shannon Scott&nbsp;</p><p>Narrated by Jasmine Arch (<a href="https://jasminearch.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jasminearch.com/</a>)</p><p>Edited by Karl Hughes (<a href="https://twitter.com/karlhughes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/karlhughes</a>)</p><p>With music by Daniel Birch (<a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Birch" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Birch</a>)</p><p>and Thom Robson (<a href="https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/</a>)</p><p>And sound effects provided by<a href="http://freesound.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Freesound.org</a>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (<a href="https://carrionhouse.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://carrionhouse.com/</a>)</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Shannon Scott is an adjunct professor of English at several universities in the Twin Cities. She has contributed essays on wolves and werewolves to She-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves (Manchester UP, 2015) and The Company of Wolves Collection (Manchester UP, 2020). She was also co-editor of Terrifying Transformations: An Anthology of Victorian Werewolf Fiction, 1838-1896 (Valancourt, 2012). More recently, her short story, “American House Spider,” came out in in Nightscript in 2019. Her novelette, “Swing a Dead Cat,” was published in Coppice and Brake: A Dark Fiction Anthology, in March 2020. Her short story, “The Bump,” will be coming out in Vastarien: A Literary Journal and her story “Dead Bread Head” was