A student of the occult scours Venice for a lost beloved. David Ault reads. #DarkFantasy #Romance #LGBT #skeletonsAuthor Louis Evans is a passionate advocate of skeleton-based urban transit. His work has appeared in Vice, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nature: Futures, and more. He is married to artist.Voice Actor David Ault (he/him) is…

Is it cheating to use a love charm? Jasmine Arch reads. #gaslamp #fantasy #romance Author Julia LaFond got her master’s in geoscience from Penn State University. Her fiction has been featured in venues such as The Martian Magazine, Etherea Magazine, and Thirteen Podcast. In her spare time, Julia enjoys reading and gaming. Voice Actor Jasmine Arch i…

A courtship as a series of fatal picnics. Laura Lee Bahr reads. #horror #humorAuthor Nikki Lynn Blakely lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and enjoys crafting stories that evoke smiles, tears, laughter, the occasional eye roll, and sometimes even a scream. Her work has appeared in Sundial, Uncharted, Luna Station Quarterly, and Little Old Lady Co…

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Do you dare to find the witch in the woods? Sarah Golding reads.Author Ryan Cole is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Virginia with his husband and snuggly pug child. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, and his work has appeared in Ember Journal, Voyage YA Journal, and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthol…

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Got Ghosts? We are ready to believe you. Wulf Moon reads.Author Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) earned a degree from MIT then escaped west and became part of the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s as an artist, poet, author, and humorist. He was best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as “The Purple Cow,” and for introducing…

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It's Christmas, so we're back in New Babbage for a very Scottish weird tale. Vic Mullin reads. #Christmas #Scotland #weird00:01 Tuning the Interocitor00:32 Welcome to Brunel Hall02:19 Opening Epigraph02:55 The cattle market of Inverness05:05 Duncan Stewart begins his taleAuthor John Buchan (1875-1940) 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was a Scottish novelist, …

Would you loan your dearly departed some skin?S Michael Allen Rose reads. Content note for kink #darkFantasy #weirdDetective #skeletons00:20 welcome02:02 story begins13:53 on your wayAuthor Atalanti Evripidou is a social psychologist and a speculative fiction writer who occasionally dabbles in poetry too. Her short stories can be found in several G…

Remember playing Call of Cthulhu table-top? It’s time to make your sanity roll. Isaiah Plovnick reads. #cosmicHorror #dieselpunk #noire #humor00:20 welcome02:02 story begins13:53 on your wayAuthor Ian Michael Bavian is a new writer long time reader. He enjoys the works of Pratchett, King, Adams, and Wyndham to name only a few. He was an Army office…

When you’re writing a book, do you keep a separate calendar for it, so you know what is going on and when? When you edit your chapters, do you often struggle to locate a scene that needs to be changed? (Where is that swordfight, anyway?) When you want to get a birds-eye view of your story for plotting purposes, do you get lost in the weeds of your …

So you think you know what really happened in Hamelin? #darkFantasy #fairytaleWelcome 00:20Author bio 2:00Changelings 02:41Artifacts of Hamelin 14:00Narrator bio 15:39On your way 16:27Author Rachel Ayers lives in Alaska, where she daydreams, writes and hosts shows for Sweet Cheeks Cabaret, and stares at the mountains. She has a degree in Library an…

We've had complaints about the horror themes, so here's a fairy tale to lighten the room. Alex Ford reads. #steampunk #darkFantasy #fairytaleAuthor M.E. Bronstein is a PhD student in Comparative Literature who writes short stories when she should be working on her dissertation. Her writing has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies; Miscreations: Gods…

The consumptive poet Keats makes a strange encounter while voyaging to Naples. #paranormal #historicalAuthor Jonathan Duckworth is a completely normal, entirely human person with the right number of heads and everything. He received his MFA from Florida International University. His speculative fiction work appears in Pseudopod, Beneath Ceaseless S…

A carnie, a Romanian, and a zombie ape. What could possibly go wrong? Kris Law reads. #1930s #Odd #HorrorAuthor Phil Margolies writes science fiction and fantasy, and dabbles in horror. His short fiction has appeared in Brave New Girls, The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror anthology, Perihelion SF, Abyss & Apex, and other publications. H…

A steampunk'd fairy tale retold for troubled times. Jasmine Arch reads. #Steampunk #FairytaleGwen C. Katz is an author, artist, and game designer who lives in Pasadena, California with her husband and a revolving door of transient animals. Her first novel, Among the Red Stars, tells the story of Russia's all-female bomber regiment known as the Nigh…

Be cautious of the paths you tread. Lou J Berger reads. Mild content note for language. #Steampunk #WeirdWest #CosmicHorror Author William Stiteler lives somewhere in Central New York, and has been published in places such as Grimdark Magazine and Kaleidotrope, occasionally as S.M. Williams. When not writing, he spends his time determining where th…

What a year. Alasdair Stuart reads. Strong content note for horror/gore. #Steampunk #Horror Indiana (USA) author James Dorr's most recent book is a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press, TOMBS: A CHRONICLE OF LATTER-DAY TIMES OF EARTH. Working mostly in dark fantasy/horror with some forays into science fiction and mystery, his THE TEARS OF ISIS w…

All monsters are elusive, some more so than others. None of them, however, are secretive about their existence. Michael Whitehouse reads. #DarkFantasyBorn to immigrant parents, author Ola Al-Fateh has strongly connected to the merging of different worlds from the moment she arrived into this one. All her stories reflect this to some degree. Her oth…

Do monsters stay monsters after the story ends? A little something to go with your post-Halloween melancholy. Matt Dovey reads.Author Liam Hogan is an award winning short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and Best of British Fantasy 2018 (NewCon Press). He’s been published by Analog, Daily Science Fiction, and Flame Tree…

Happy Halloween! Would you sell your soul for one last chance at greatness? Kristin Holland of Nocturnal Transmissions podcast reads.Author Lena Ng skulks around Toronto, Canada, and is a zombie member of the Horror Writers Association. She tiptoes at night so no one knows she’s awake. Under an Autumn Moon is her short story collection. She is curr…

Aesop on the postmodern rocks. Daren Callow narrates. #FracturedFairyTalesAuthor Louis Evans is a sci-fi writer with work in Analog, Interzone, Escape Pod and more. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner and two cats named after fictional detectives. He is almost certainly not infested with a mind-controlling fungus.Narrator Daren Callow is a writer…

Double-crossing dames, reanimated corpses, and the LAPD on your heels. It's hard to be a dick. Jim Hodgson reads.Author Brian K. Lowe has been writing since he was a child, the same time during which he was devouring comic books and travelling to Mars with Edgar Rice Burroughs. A graduate of UCLA, Brian lives in Southern California with his wife, w…

It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your death is? Jasmine Arch reads. #gaslamp #DarkFantasy #YAAuthor Natasha C. Calder is from Ely, UK. She has an M.Phil in Medieval Literature from the University of Cambridge and is a graduate of Clarion West 2018. Her work has previously appeared in The Stinging Fly, Lackington's and Burning House Press.Reader J…