Gallery of Curiosities

We're dropping in at a grad school with a most esoteric and cutthroat curriculum. Laura Lee Bahr performs. #Horror #Fantastique #Occult #Academia Author Michael Voss a writer of weird tales and dark fiction. His work has appeared most recently in Cosmic Horror Monthly. He lives in Milwaukee with his wife and their rescue pup. Voice Actor Laura Lee Bahr is the author of the novels Haunt, Long-Form...

Happy Halloween! Let's go toshing beneath Victorian London. What could possibly go wrong? Daren Callow performs #Steampunk #Horror #CreatureFeature Author Brandon Daub’s stories have appeared in Grimdark Magazine, Dark Fire and Three Crows, and the anthologies All Hail our Robot Conquerors! and Knee Deep in Grit. His short story “A Vague Inclination to Please” was a finalist for WSFA’s Small Press...

Grab your fedora and a finger of scotch a whole lotta weird. Kris Law performs #Noire #Odd #Horror #metawriting Author M. Regan has been writing for over a decade, with credits ranging from localization work to short stories to podcast scripts. Their soulful debut novella, 21 Grams, can be found on Amazon and Timber Ghost Press’s website, while they can be found on X and Facebook at @MReganFiction...

A student of the occult scours Venice for a lost beloved. David Ault reads. #DarkFantasy #Romance #LGBT #skeletons Author 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 from North Yorkshire, UK. He started voice acti...

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 and In her spare time, Julia enjoys reading and gaming. Voice Actor Jasmine Arch is a narrator, writer, and poet whose brain thrives on chaos and caffeine. She lives in a rural corner of Bel...

A courtship as a series of fatal picnics. Laura Lee Bahr reads. #horror #humor Author 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 and Little Old Lady Comedy. Voice Actor Laura Lee Bahr is the author of the novels Haunt, Long-Form Religious Porn,...

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 anthology Mother: Tales of Love and Terror. Find out mo...

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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 French modern art to the United States in an ess...

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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 #weird 00:01 Tuning the Interocitor 00:32 Welcome to Brunel Hall 02:19 Opening Epigraph 02:55 The cattle market of Inverness 05:05 Duncan Stewart begins his tale Author John Buchan (1875-1940) 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was a Scottish novelist, historian, and politician, and served as the...

Would you loan your dearly departed some skin? S Michael Allen Rose reads. Content note for kink #darkFantasy #weirdDetective #skeletons 00:20 welcome 02:02 story begins 13:53 on your way Author 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 Greek anthologies and in venues such as StarSh...

Remember playing Call of Cthulhu table-top? It’s time to make your sanity roll. Isaiah Plovnick reads. #cosmicHorror #dieselpunk #noire #humor 00:20 welcome 02:02 story begins 13:53 on your way Author 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 officer and currently works as a criminal defense in...

So you think you know what really happened in Hamelin? #darkFantasy #fairytale Welcome 00:20 Author bio 2:00 Changelings 02:41 Artifacts of Hamelin 14:00 Narrator bio 15:39 On your way 16:27 Author 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 and Information Science, which comes in handy...

We've had complaints about the horror themes, so here's a fairy tale to lighten the room. Alex Ford reads. #steampunk #darkFantasy #fairytale Author 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, Monstrosities & Other Horrors; Michigan Quarte...

The consumptive poet Keats makes a strange encounter while voyaging to Naples. #paranormal #historical Author 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 Skies, Southwest Review, Tales to Terrify, Flash F...

A carnie, a Romanian, and a zombie ape. What could possibly go wrong? Kris Law reads. #1930s #Odd #Horror Author 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. He’s on Twitter @philmargolies nearly as often as...

A steampunk'd fairy tale retold for troubled times. Jasmine Arch reads. #Steampunk #Fairytale Gwen 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 Night Witches. Her short fiction has appeared in venu...

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 things are. More can be found at internetmanifestati...

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 was a 2013 Bram Stoker Award® finalist for Superior...

All monsters are elusive, some more so than others. None of them, however, are secretive about their existence. Michael Whitehouse reads. #DarkFantasy Born 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 other short story “The Grand Museum” has appeared in...

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 Press, among others. He helps host Liars’ League...