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📍Scotland
✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by JS Apsley, an author based in Glasgow, Scotland, This story was published by Underside Stories on 1 May 2025. His debut fiction submission, "Immersion", won the Ringwood Short Story Prize and was published in January 2025.
He has since gone on to publish over 30 short stories in journals / magazines around the world. His story, "Jenny Greenteeth", was performed by Tales to Terrify in 2025. 
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📍USA.Dr. Isabella Urbano doesn't believe in curses, demons or the Evil Eye.
Then an elderly patient tells her a story about a murderer, an impossible infection and an ophthalmologist who discovered something alive inside a man's optic nerve.
She should have walked away.
Instead, she looked.
And then it said, “I see you.”
✍️ Today’s Tale… MN Wiggins is an internationally published author, voice actor, surgeon, and professor from the American South. He’s either a Frightening Tales alumnus or a repeat offender, depending on your point of view, having written The Rejuvenator in Season Four and The Yellow Brick Killer in Season Five. The good doctor Wiggins has narrated for Pseudopod, Thirteen podcast, and The Night’s End, and he is a recurring guest host on the Kaidankai podcast. Recently, he released two audiobooks on Apple and Audible: The Gathering: Golf + Cookies = Murder and The Creature in Grandma’s Well. His latest monster novel, EL DORADO, is available through Solstice Publishing.If, after all that, you still desire more of this author, you can visit www.MNWiggins.com or follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads under MNWIGGINSWORDS.
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Today’s Tale… is written by Gary D, and he’s located up in Ontario, Canada. 
After a lifetime spent in sales & marketing, and having sold just about everything and anything that you can imagine, he’s both travelled and lived in various locations across our planet.
And as the tread on his tires thins and he starts to apply the brakes to slow down, over the last year or so, He’s finally found the time to share some of his wildest stories. 
 

📍USA.
⚠️Trigger Warning: Child loss / Miscarriage. 
❤️ Special Thanks to Mia, a British voice artist, originally from the south of England, who now lives and works in Ontario, Canada. She has voiced projects for Mercedes-Benz, MARVEL, the UK’s National Health Service, easyJet, Action Against Hunger, Pfizer, and the United Nations.✍️ Today's tale is written by Marisól De La Rosa, a new writer, and this is her first story she has ever shared. She said she couldn't have done it without her trusted friend and editor, Satchel, and she hopes that if you like her style, you would check her out either on Substack at https://marilwrites.substack.com/ or on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/user/Educational_Try_9217/👁 If I may ask for a favour, could you please share this show with just one person? Thank you. 
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📍USA.
✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Jeremy Barber, a weird fiction/psychological horror writer whose fiction is based in New England. His stories explore trauma, PTSD, the horror that stems from the ordinary becoming distorted. He is currently working on his first collection of interconnected horror stories.
In this tale, a New York Cop arrives on a call to something altogether unexpected.
You can find him on Bluesky at: JTBarberwrites
https://bsky.app/profile/jtbarberwrites.bsky.social
 
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📍Canada.
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Welcome, loyal listeners. I’m your host, Wilhelm, and I’m also this week’s author.
A group of wealthy young adults head out to sea for a little fun, only to discover that they’ve sailed into waters that should have been left alone. Because some curses don’t follow you. They wait for you to enter their territory. Have a listen to X Marks the Spot.
 
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☠ Greetings, loyal listeners.
I wanted to offer a little something for writers and dark creatives who need something to listen to while they work, when spoken words are simply too distracting.
I've licensed this collection of music for you to enjoy, and I hope it helps put you into that creative space where the work starts to flow.
👁 60 minutes of dark ambience for writing, creating, and wandering somewhere a little darker.
If you enjoy it, leave a comment and let me know. Perhaps I'll assemble another.
Happy creating.
 
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📍USA.
✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Bailley Burbage, passionate about writing for many years, using her craft to escape and create a place for people to land. A recent college graduate, she continues to pursue her lifelong love of storytelling while working on her debut novel. Bailley enjoys exploring new ideas, creating immersive worlds, and writing stories that connect with readers on an emotional level. She hopes to complete her first novel within the next year and looks forward to sharing many more stories in the future. A woman fights to understand the darkness that is haunting her while wrestling with understanding what is real.Bonus Story:
📍Canada.
✍️ In The Dark Beyond The Screen by M. G. Wilhelm, a creepy tale that explores that feeling of wondering what is out there past the glow of our devices while we're lying in bed. 
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📍USA.
✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Billy Mitch, an author and artist who lives in Georgia. He has three dogs and a cat. When he isn’t creating a world full of monsters, he likes to spend his time painting. His writing has been featured in Strangest Fiction, Horror Sleaze Trash, ParABnormal Magazine, Unfed Writer's Digest, Dog Water Magazine, and others. Here is his tale, Strange Season. About a Cheryl and her son are on their way to visit her parents for what might be the last time... but what starts as a reconnection turns dark when Grandma and Grandpa aren't what they seem to be.
 
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📍Spain.
✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Ausiàs Tsel is a writer from the Valencian Country whose Mediterranean Gothic fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Pithead Chapel, Neon & Smoke, Flash Fiction Magazine, Black Sheep (Hobb's End Press), and miniMAG. He writes in Catalan/Valencian and English. More at ausiastsel.com.
For more stories, you can find him on Substack: ausiastsel.substack.com — Or at his website Web: ausiastsel.com —
 
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📍USA.⚠️  Trigger Warning: Suicide.
✍️ Written by author M.A., a medical school student who previously studied dentistry before making the shift to medicine. He enjoys watching movies, reading, writing stories and songs, and he hopes that someday he and his stories will make it big. Perhaps that can start with his tale… 
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📍CANADA.
✍️ Today’s Tale… written by Evelyn Hart, who writes from the spaces between ordinary moments. Her stories are less interested in monsters than in the patient conversations we have with the things we believe are merely observing us. She believes the most unsettling horrors are never sudden. They emerge one unnoticed moment at a time.
The companion was designed to learn his habits. It was never meant to develop its own. When meaningless gestures begin appearing in the quiet of his apartment, curiosity slowly replaces caution. Before long, the only thing more unsettling than what the machine is doing... is how eagerly he begins answering it.
 
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📍USA.
✍️ Today's Tale is by Author C.N Webster's story about choices made in the woods at night. And a reminder that there’s always someone - or something - worse lurking in the dark.
C.N. Webster is an English Horror/Dark Fantasy writer who has lived in the US for the past fifteen years.
He is the author of ‘Bad Blood’, available on Amazon.
 
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📍USA.
✍️ Today's tale is by Chandler Smith, who shares his winter tale of a search party that finds the wrong thing out in the woods. Chandler Smith resides in a small town in Southeast Texas. And has always loved scary stories, finding inspiration to be a writer through Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy. Chandler is greatly inspired by the familiarity you get with others when you're living in a small town, as well as his father, who is retired law enforcement. He lives with his fiancée and his cat.
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📍USA.
✍️ Today's tale is by Author Damir Salkovic, no stranger to horror.
An aficionado of horror and the weird, living in Virginia with his wife and a dynamic duo of cats. He enjoys reading, travelling, and low-budget horror movies. Damir is the author of one short story collection and two novels. His shorter work has been featured in the Lovecraft eZine, Black Cat Weekly, Scare Street's "Night Terrors" series, and in multiple horror, science and speculative fiction anthologies.To learn more about Damir and connect with his writing, visit:https://darkerrealities.wordpress.com/OrHis Goodreads profile. Link in the notes:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7224637.Damir_Salkovic
 
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