Episode 45: The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
First published in 1902 by Harper's Monthly and reprinted in his third collection of short stories The Lady of the Barge (also, 1902). The M...
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Episode 44: Midsummer by Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen, the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He has garnered a...
Episode 43: Terra Incognita by Vladimir Nabokov
First published in the émigré journal Posledniya Novosti in Paris in 1931. Translated by the author and his son, the story was published in...
Episode 42: The Beautiful Suit by H.G. Wells
Originally published under the title "A Moonlight Fable" in the April 10, 1909, number of Collier's Weekly. A young man acquires a hand-wove...
Episode 41: The Awakening by Arthur C. Clarke
First published in Zenith in February 1942 and later revised and published in Future in January of 1952. Collected in The Best of Arthur C....
Episode 40: The Guide by Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters (nom de plume of Edith Pargeter) was an English writer, and the short story (originally titled Guide to Doom) was first publish...
Episode 39: Gateway of the Mind by Anonymous
Originally posted on Creepypasta on November 23, 2009 by an anonymous author. An experiment in the early 80s attempts to establish contact w...
Episode 38: The Writing of the God by Jorge Luis Borges
Original Spanish title: "La escritura del dios"First published in the literary magazine Sur in 1949, and later reprinted in The Aleph. An in...
Episode 37: They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
Originally published in 1991 through OMNI magazine. Two multidimensional aliens deliberate over contacting the human race once they realize...
Episode 36: An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce
First published in the San Francisco Newsletter of December 25, 1886 and was later reprinted as part of Bierce's collections Tales of Soldie...
Episode 35: 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Published in the January 1962 in the Worlds of "If" Science Fiction magazine. A painter in the Chicago Lying-In Hospital witnesses an absurd...
Episode 34: Leiningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson
Originally published in the December 1938 edition of Esquire. It is a translation, probably by Stephenson himself, of "Leiningens Kampf mit...
Episode 33: Darkness by Lord Byron
Written in July of 1816 and inspired by "The Year Without Summer", the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies t...
Episode 32: In the Court of the Dragon by Robert W. Chambers
First published in his collection The King in Yellow in 1895. An unnamed narrator attends an afternoon mass at the church St. Barnabe and ha...
Episode 31: The Black Meat by Eric Dean
Published on Monologging.org, on S.H. Roddey’s Haunted Head, and in Literati Presents #5 by Literati Press. The original audio version, host...
Episode 30: The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
First published in the San Francisco Examiner on April 12, 1891 and reprinted in Bierce's collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians the sam...
Episode 29: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
Originally published in the October edition of New Dimensions 3 in 1973. The story was nominated for the Locust Award for Best Short Fiction...
Episode 27: The Screwfly Solution by Raccoona Sheldon
Originally published in the anthology "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact" (June, 1977) the novelette went on to win the Nebula Award that...
Episode 26: Orientation by Daniel Orozco
Originally published in The Seattle Review and subsequently in The Best American Short Stories 1995.A new office employee is given orientati...
Episode 25: The Mirror by Haruki Murakami
Written in 1981/2 and published in 1983 in an undisclosed Japanese periodical. Later added to his short story collection Blind Willow, Sleep...