Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMartin Cahill | It Was Never the Fire
He was the kid who looked at the sun too long. He hunted for lighters like sharks hunted for blood. Christ intrigued him for all the wrong reasons. H…
12 years, 1 month ago
Dale Bailey | Sleep Paralysis
I am subject to dreams, especially one of a curious type in which I wake on my back, unable to move, my arms pinned to my side, my legs straight. My …
12 years, 2 months ago
Bones | Bones
There is nothing more absurdly incongruous—ironic perhaps—than the burning fear found in the hearts of all men: the fear of death. Ironic, I say, for…
12 years, 2 months ago
Genevieve Valentine | A Dweller in Amenty
The Pernille’s housekeeper shows me into the music room, where they’ve shoved the piano to the wall to make room for the coffin and the table and my …
12 years, 2 months ago
Isabel Yap | Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez?
It all started when Ms. Salinas told us about her third eye. It was home ec., and we were sitting in front of the sewing machines with table runners …
12 years, 3 months ago
Gary A. Braunbeck | We Now Pause for Station Identification
So if there’s anyone listening at this god-awful hour, tonight’s topic is the same one as this morning, this afternoon, and earlier this evening . . …
12 years, 3 months ago
Adam-Troy Castro | The Totals
Clutch has killed somebody recently. This goes without saying. For as long as Clutch can remember, he has always killed somebody “recently.” If not w…
12 years, 4 months ago
Tim Pratt | Ghostreaper, or, Life After Revenge
I’d used duct tape to attach one end of a garden hose to the exhaust pipe, and the other end of the hose ran in through the crack at the top of the p…
12 years, 4 months ago
Adam Howe | The Mad Butcher of Plainfield’s Chariot of Death
Gibbons swigged from his hipflask, driving one-handed as he followed the caravan of carny vehicles barreling along the interstate toward tonight’s sh…
12 years, 5 months ago
Conrad Williams | The Owl
Walk continuously around a tree with an owl in it: the owl will keep its eye on you until it has wrenched off its own head. He couldn’t remember wher…
12 years, 5 months ago