Peter Straub | A Short Guide to the City
The viaduct killer, named for the location where his victims’ bodies have been discovered, is still at large. There have been six victims to date, found by children, people exercising their dogs, love...
25 Sep 201335min
Robert Kirkman | Alone, Together
She was dressed like a private detective from a low-budget TV show—a pair of slacks, modest high heels, and the most ridiculous trench coat I’d ever seen, one of the shorter ones, that hung just above...
11 Sep 201350min
Jennifer Giesbrecht | All My Princes Are Gone
When the world was young, it was filled with monsters. Narrated by Kathe Mazur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Aug 201316min
Matthew Cheney | How Far to Englishman’s Bay
Max had made the decision that April morning to close up the bookshop and go away for once and for all, but he hadn’t told anyone yet, and he needed somebody to take the cat, so it was a good thing Je...
7 Aug 201352min
Ramsey Campbell | The Companion
When Stone reached the fairground, having been misdirected twice, he thought it looked more like a gigantic amusement arcade. A couple of paper cups tumbled and rattled on the shore beneath the promen...
24 Jul 201334min
Lee Mandelo | And Yet, Her Eyes
Sasha came back from Kandahar in pieces, a sack of broken glass in the shape of a woman. She knew her edges stuck out at hard, invisible angles, waiting for an unwary hand to snag and recoil, so she k...
3 Jul 201340min
Carrie Vaughn | Fishwife
The men went out in boats to fish the cold waters of the bay because their fathers had, because men in this village always had. The women waited to gather in the catch, gut and clean and carry the fis...
26 Jun 201331min
Laird Barron | Shiva, Open Your Eye
The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth a...
12 Jun 201346min
