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Sudapod. Episode 960, January 31st, 2025.

This week's story, Mummy by Kelsey Percival Kitchell, narrated by Matt Arnold, hosted by Alastair Stewart, audio by Chelsea Davis.

Hi everyone, welcome to Sudapod. I'm Alistair, your host, Chelsea is your audio genius,

and this week's story is the

last in our showcase of work that centered the public domain this year, having been published

for the first time in 1929. Our story this week comes to us from Kelsey Percival Kitchell, and we

want to thank and we'll link to Tellers of weird tales for the following bio.

Kelsey Percibel Kitchell was born on October 6, 1881 in Perth, Amboy, New Jersey,

where her father practiced dentistry.

She was an adventurer, even as a young woman,

and in May, 1905, she returned to New York City from Puerto Cortez, Honduras,

on a ticket she had purchased herself.

What drew her to Latin America at the time is an open question, and she would return later with her husband.

Ms. Kitchell began writing at a young age. Her earliest credit that has been found at the time of writing of this bio was called Pirate Treasure, a short story

published in Pearson's magazine in June 1909. Even after she had married, she wrote under her

own name. Magazines that printed her stories and poems included adventure, the all-story,

The Crisis, Ghost Stories, Gunter's magazine, Prairie Schooner, the Smart Set, Tropical Adventures

and Young's magazine. A story for the Crisis, the Raines, were set in Jamaica. Her lone

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