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  • The False Prophet | Ancient World Mystery Story | Podcast

    The False Prophet | Ancient World Mystery Story | Podcast
    May 13 2026
    The False Prophet by David Drake is a short story by David Drake set in the waning days of the Roman Empire. It features his recurring classical Roman-era characters, Vettius (a ruthless soldier) and Dama (a witty merchant). The narrative follows the duo as they encounter a charlatan who is not quite what his loyal followers believe him to be, blending adventure and mystery with supernatural or science-fictional elements. The story is a centerpiece of Drake's Vettius and Dama mini-trilogy, which also includes Black Iron and The Shortest Way.

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • The Cloak and Another Dark Tale | Podcast

    The Cloak and Another Dark Tale | Podcast
    May 10 2026
    Dragon the Book is a short story by David Drake. A wizard pursues a book held in the arms of a rival, long dead. But everything has its price; greed for power acts as a blindfold to the actual cost.

    The Cloak is a short story by Robert Bloch, first published in the magazine Unknown in May 1939. The narrative follows a man named Henderson who purchases an authentic-looking cloak for a Halloween party, only to find that it transforms him into a vampire-like creature with an irresistible urge to drink blood.

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    53 mins
  • Winged Death | H.P. Lovecraft | Podcast

    Winged Death | H.P. Lovecraft | Podcast
    May 1 2026
    "Winged Death" is a 1934 horror short story by H.P. Lovecraft (he was a ghost writer for Hazel Heald, who received partial credit for this story), featuring a scientist's revenge plot using poisonous African flies, which ties into the Cthulhu Mythos through ancient ruins and malevolent entities, blending colonial-era horror with supernatural elements. The story begins with the discovery of a corpse in a South African hotel, with clues pointing to a journal detailing a doctor's plan to kill a rival using disease-carrying insects, leading to a supernatural climax where the doctor becomes a victim of his own creation.

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    1 hr
  • Fishhead and Another Dark Story | Podcast

    Fishhead and Another Dark Story | Podcast
    Apr 21 2026
    Fishhead is a 1913 horror short story by American author Irvin S. Cobb, set in the bayous of Reelfoot Lake, about a monstrous, outcast man-fish hybrid and his violent conflict with two local men, noted for its gruesome atmosphere and influence on H.P. Lovecraft. It's considered a classic of weird fiction, praised by Lovecraft himself for its "banefully effective" portrayal of "unnatural affinities" between the creature and the lake's fish.

    X Marks the Pedwalk" by Fritz Leiber is a futuristic science fiction story that explores the tensions and violent conflicts between two factions: pedestrians and motorists in a society where the two groups live in starkly divided urban environments. The narrative comically exposes the increasing absurdity in their society's norms and expectations.

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    29 mins
  • Air Raid | Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction | Podcast

    Air Raid | Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction | Podcast
    Apr 15 2026
    Air Raid is a short story by John Varley that won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity is decimated by disease and deformity, the plot follows a team of reanimated "undead" time travelers who travel back to the past to rescue victims of impending air crashes. These "Snatch teams" extract healthy passengers from doomed flights (such as a 1979 plane crash) before they die, bringing them forward to Centauri-3 (or "New Earth") to repopulate the dying future world. The story explores themes of time travel paradoxes, moral ambiguity, and human survival, noting that the rescuers must replace the victims with "wimps" (realistic dummies) to maintain the timeline's integrity.

    The story served as the basis for the 1989 film Millennium.

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    32 mins
  • Denkirch | Horror Fiction | Podcast

    Denkirch | Horror Fiction | Podcast
    Apr 9 2026
    Denkirch is the first published short story by David Drake, originally appearing in the 1967 horror anthology Travellers by Night edited by August Derleth. It is described as a Lovecraft pastiche and established Drake's early career in horror and weird fiction before he became famous for military science fiction.

    Excerpt: "Now I sleep only by day or when the sky is cloudy, and when the stars gleam bright in the heavens I walk little back streets, avoiding other people, for I do not care to be reminded of my humanity and my inevitable fate. My acquaintances think me odd, but they would not understand if I told them that on dear nights the stars speak to me, and that if I did not walk I would go mad. So I walk the lonely streets, and the echoing cadence of my stride helps to muffle the rhythmic whispers, but still my mind is forced back to Denkirch, who proved Man’s unique place in the universe."

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    33 mins
  • We Can Remember It For You Wholesale | Philip K. Dick | Podcast

    We Can Remember It For You Wholesale | Philip K. Dick | Podcast
    Mar 28 2026
    We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is a compact but deeply unsettling slice of classic sci-fi—one that bends memory, identity, and reality until none of them feel reliable.

    Published in 1966 by Philip K. Dick, the story follows Douglas Quail, an ordinary man with an extraordinary obsession: Mars. He dreams of going there, but his life—and his bank account—keep him grounded on Earth. That’s when he turns to a company called Rekal, Inc., which offers something almost too perfect: implanted memories.

    Why travel to Mars when you can remember that you already have?

    Quail pays for a customized memory—one where he lived out his fantasy as a secret agent on Mars. But as technicians begin the implantation process, something goes wrong. Or rather… something surfaces.

    They discover that Quail may already have real memories of Mars—memories that were deliberately erased.
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    From that moment on, the story fractures into paranoia. Authorities move in. Identities blur. Quail can’t tell whether he’s a bored office worker, a former government operative, or something even stranger. Every answer only deepens the mystery.

    At its core, the story plays with a haunting idea:
    If your memories can be manufactured… how do you prove who you are?

    The story was famously adapted into the film Total Recall (1990).

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    54 mins
  • Murder in Old Manhattan | Frank Bonham | Podcast

    Murder in Old Manhattan | Frank Bonham | Podcast
    Mar 17 2026
    ​A detective of 1857 didn’t know about fingerprints, and he had to learn a lot about human nature. | Narrated by M.P. Pellicer

    Frank Bonham was born into a family of writers. His grandfather, a gold camp judge, and his mother were poets. He wrote his first two stories at the age of ten. He suffered from asthma, and while convalescing from an attack, he started to write short stories and submit them to pulp magazines. Phantom Detective Magazine accepted his fourteenth submission. In his first two years as a writer, he produced 100 stories and sold only seven.

    He worked for a couple of years as a ghost writer for Ed Earl Repp, but then moved on to become a freelance writer, turning out Western stories as he had done for Repp. Eventually, he moved to Hollywood and wrote television scripts and mystery stories.

    By the time he died in 1989, he had written some five hundred short stories, novellas, and novels. One of his best-known works was the award-winning Durango Street.

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    38 mins