"Yolk of the Gods" by Erin Banks,

"New Beginning and Bitter Ends" by J.L. Lane,

"Alexandra's Easter Nightmare" by Mark Mackey,

"Easter Dream" by Rob Tannahill

With music scores by: Joshua Adam Robertson, Rob Tannahill, and Lindsey Goddard

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

She also offers editing and formatting services, as well as cover art. She is a qualified and experienced artist with a unique style, almost like a gut punch, that reflects her love of horror well.

She has always enjoyed telling stories and learned the craft from her father. Spending many nights reading over stories he had written especially for her siblings and her, with them as the main characters. Jacky and the Robots being her favourite.

J. L. Lane lives with her fiancé, their three children and many pets in a small boating town in the Northwest of England, surrounded by canals.

She is a retired chef, who loves creating new dishes but cannot stand the atmosphere of commercial kitchens any longer.

She is active on Facebook and Instagram but has given up on X – formally known as Twitter.

You can contact J. L. Lane through her author page on Facebook.

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Mark Mackey is a fiction writer who has known only one state as residence and hometown, Chicago Illinois. Has co-written Soulless a ocean/island horror novel with Shawn Davis. The author’s stories can be found in various anthologies, some charity, others not.

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Rob Tannahill is the author of Prince Junkie. His writing has appeared in Strange Sex 3, Yale Program of Recovery, Community Health (PERCH #7, Substance), and Weird Fiction Quartertly (Masquerade) and he is a regular contributor to and editor for Dark Moon Rising Publications. Find more at amazon.com/authors/robtannahill

Table of Contents: "Down a Rabbit Hole" by Dawn Debraal - 03:58, "The Rite of Spring" by Mawr Gorshin - 12:34, "The Osterrad" by Nora B. Peevy - 32:53, "The Leveretian" by C. Charles Knight - 39:05, "Easter of Eden" by JC Macek III - 52:26

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A special "thank you" to Joshua Adam Robertson for donating a music track!

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Author Bios:

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband, a stray cat and a rescued dog. She has published over 700 short stories, drabbles, and poems in online ezines and anthologies. She tends to lean toward the horror genre because it makes her life seem so much better! Falling Star Magazine nominated Dawn for the 2019 Pushcart Award; she was Runner-up in the 2022 Horror Story Competition, two-time Author of the Month, nominated 2020, 2022, 2023 Author of the Year and received Contributor of the Year 2023 Spillwords Magazine.

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Mawr Gorshin was born Martin Gross in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, in 1969. He moved to Taiwan ROC in the summer of 1996, and has lived there ever since, working as a teacher of English as a second language.

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Nora B. Peevy is a cat trapped in a human’s body. Please send help or tuna. She is an Olympic champion sleeper and toils away for JournalStone/ Trepidatio Publishing as a submission reader, a reviewer for Hellnotes, and reads scripts for The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Ms. Peevy recently took the position writing nonfiction articles for The Weird Wide Web. She also is a syndicate author for Thrill Ride eZine and has taken up freelance editing as well as editing for Unveiling Nightmares. Her quirky tales are published by Eighth Tower Press, Carnage Press, The Sudden Fictions Podcast, Unveiling Nightmares, and other places. For the Sake of Brigid, her first novelette just came out in May of 2024 and her first novel, Flesh-eating Turtles!!!, is forthcoming.

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C. Charles Knight is a horror author who has published short stories in magazines and anthologies. He has stories being featured in several upcoming anthologies, his novella, "Breathe," is being published in September, and his collection of short stories is planned to go to press in early 2026. He is working on a number of stories including a new novella and novel. To find his work and updates on what he is working on, visit www.theknightwriter.com or on socials @ccharlesknight.

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J.C. Maçek III is the author of the hit true crime novel The Black Dahlia (2024) and the producer of the 2018 film [CARGO], starring Ron Thompson of American Pop fame, as well as the author of the film’s tie-in novel. His other novels include The Antagonist and Seven Days to Die. He is the curator and editor of Symptom of the Universe: A Horror Tribute to Black Sabbath, an anthology of short stories and novellas inspired by the music and lyrics of every era of Black Sabbath. His short fiction and poetry has appeared in Weird Fiction Quarterly, Sleeve of Hearts, The Devil’s Playground, Morsus Vitae, The Beauty in Darkness and many more anthologies and periodicals. He resides in Southern California with his wife and family and a veritable zoo of pets.

Host Lindsey B. Goddard discusses the poetry anthology, Sleeve of Hearts (released through WeirdWideWeb.org) with five of the poets from within the pages.

Sleeve of Hearts will be free on Amazon Kndle from March 4th - March 8th to celebrate Women's History Month.

Info on this book can always be found at WeirdWideWeb.org/SoH

On episode 18, Lindsey Goddard and Kasey Hill discuss a brand new anthology and why 61 authors came together in The Devil's Playground: A Horror Charity Anthology for Drug Addiction to show their support for those who are dealing with addiction.

All proceeds going to To Write Love On Her Arms

Authors included are:
C. S Anderson, Alison Armstrong, Andrew Bell, David Bennet Black, William Bove, Pixie Bruner, J. Rocky Colavito, Dawn Colclasure, Lawrence Dagstine, Emma Rose Darcy, Josh Darling, Jacque Day, Christina Delia, Carietta Dorsch, Alyson Faye, Thomas Folske, A. M. Forney, Lindsey Goddard, Mawr Gorshin, Mark Grover, Megan Guilliams, Dave Hann, Kasey Hill, Whitney R. Holp, Harold Hoss, Ken Hueler, Rhys Hughes, Emily James, Ashley Jane, Toshiya Kamei, Ezekiel Kincaid, Ryan Klopp, Kristoph Kosicki, Basile Lebret, Andrew Lennon, Suzie Lockhart, Tom Lucas, Courtney Lyrics, J.C. Maçek III, Shane Morin, Jason Morton, Michael Noe, OBSCURIA, D.J. Pitsiladis, JT Wolf Poetry, Rick Powell, Ricardo D. Rebelo, John Reti, Yusuf Saleh, Neil Sanzari, Zachary Schneller, Matt Scott, John Claude Smith, Stephanie Smith, Veronica Smith, Michael Errol Swaim, Rob Tannahill, D.J. Tuskmor, Mimi Vizinau, Robb White, Amanda Worthington

Author Elizabeth Broadbent joins me for a chat. We discuss the release of her novel, Ninety-Eight Sabers, and we discuss the cost of free speech, like receiving death threats from strangers! Elizabeth's work was picked up by The Huffington Post, and she appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR due to her viral article "A Mother's White Privilege", but these days she's penning Southern Gothic fiction for some of the best indie presses around. Don't miss this episode!

No theme song this epsiode. No frills. Just real talk! We talk about book bans and the importance of fighting the conservative agenda to remove literature from our schools and libraries. We read from a play; we read poetry; we talk about women's rights, cats, betta fish and flesh-eating turtles!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

An Unusual Harvest by Lamont A. Turner - 00:59 (59 seconds), Voices by J.L. Lane - 24:00 (24 minutes), The Pumpkin Head Kids Come Trick Or Treating by Mark Mackey - 37:53 (37 minutes, 53 seconds), The Midnight Hour by Rick Powell - 42:42 (42 minutes, 42 seconds)

~~About The Authors~~

Lamont A. Turner is the author of the novel 'Never The Night" as well as six collections of short stories. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines.

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J. L. Lane is a horror author from Cheshire, England. Her short stories have featured in many anthologies and her debut novella, Where The Spiders Meet was released back in Spring of 2020, during the apocalypse. The second instalment in the series, When The Spiders Meet, is due out later this year, whilst she works on the third book in the series.

She also offers editing and formatting services, as well as cover art. She is a qualified and experienced artist with a unique style, almost like a gut punch, that reflects her love of horror well.

She has always enjoyed telling stories and learned the craft from her father. Spending many nights reading over stories he had written especially for her siblings and her, with them as the main characters. Jacky and the Robots being her favourite.

J. L. Lane lives with her fiancé, their three children and many pets in a small boating town in the Northwest of England, surrounded by canals.

She is a retired chef, who loves creating new dishes but cannot stand the atmosphere of commercial kitchens any longer.

She is active on Facebook and Instagram but has given up on X – formally known as Twitter.

You can contact J. L. Lane through her author page on Facebook.

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Mark Mackey is a fiction writer who has known only one state as residence and hometown, Chicago Illinois. Has co-written an island horror novel with Shawn Davis. The author’s stories can be found in various anthologies, some charity, others not.

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Rick Powell is a resident of Oak Forest, Illinois, U.S.A. Rick began writing horror and dark fiction in 2012. His poetic and narrative talents have graced the pages of various publications, including Infernal Ink Magazine and the tantalizing anthology Lustcraftian Horrors: Erotic Stories Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft.

Halloween Story Time ~ Table of Contents (with story location in original audio file):

"With Her" by Rebecca Cuthbert - 00:50 (50 seconds)

"The Perfect Pumpkin" by John Claude Smith - 05:40 (5 minutes, 40 seconds)

"Invitation Only" by Lindsey B. Goddard - 19:45 (19 minutes, 45 second)

"The Tale of Pumpkin Little" by Nora B. Peevy - 52:50 (52 minutes, 50 seconds)

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Rebecca Cuthbert is a dark fiction and poetry writer living in Western New York. She loves ghost stories, folklore, witchy women, and anything that involves nature getting revenge. Her debut poetry collection, In Memory of Exoskeletons (Alien Buddha Press) won a 2024 Imadjinn Award for Best Poetry Collection. Her collection of feminist horrors, Self-Made Monsters, was released in October, 2024 from Alien Buddha Press. Her first children’s book, Down in the Dark Deep Where the Puddlers Dwell, will be out Nov. 12th, 2024 with Malediction and AEA Press, and a literary-speculative story collection, Six O’Clock House & Other Strange Tales, will be published in 2025 by Watertower Hill Publishing.

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John Claude Smith has had three collections, four chapbooks, and two novels published, along with tales and/or poems in Vastarien, Pluto in Furs, and more magazines and anthologies. His debut novel, Riding the Centipede, was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist. He is presently shopping four novels, two short story collections, and a poetry collection. Busy is good. Reissues of his OOP earlier books are in progress as he types this sentence (one is out now!). He splits his time between the East Bay across from San Francisco, and Rome, Italy, where his heart resides always.

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Lindsey Goddard's fiction has appeared in publications such as Gamut Magazine and has been performed on popular horror podcasts such as Creepy and Chilling Tales for Dark Nights. She is the author of four short story collections, a poetry book, and a novel, Ashes of Another Life. Learn more about her work at: LindseyBethGoddard.com

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Nora B. Peevy is a cat trapped in a human’s body. Please send help or tuna. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Degree with a Concentration in Creative Writing from Cardinal Stritch University and is an Olympic champion sleeper, toiling away for JournalStone/Trepidatio Publishing as a submissions reader and a reviewer for Hellnotes. Her first novelette, For the Sake of Brigid was released in May of 2024 and her first novel, Flesh Eating Turtles! will be coming out later this year. Her quirky stories are published in Eighth Tower Press, Weird Fiction Quarterly, Obsidian Butterfly, and other presses. You can find her on Facebook (as Onyx Brightwing), her blog, She Writes Fast | A blog for writers and readers (shewritesfast.wordpress.com), and on Slasher as @Sekhautet. She naps in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.