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2,265 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★ - 100 ratingsMany talented people's writings and movies address the deep, dark mysteries of our world — across both Fiction (Horror, Crime, Sci-Fi, Action-Adventure, Romance, LGBT) and Non-Fiction (Crime, History, Science, Paranormal) stories.
Please step into the “House of Mystery” 5 nights a week and join us as we go deep into the creative process behind our esteemed guests' works.
Past Guests in Non-Fiction have included Marcia Clark (of the O.J. Simpson trial), Robert Kennedy, Jr., Jesse Ventura, Burl Barer, Nancy Grace, Aphrodite Jones, Mark Olshaker, Anne Bremner (on Amanda Knox), F. Lee Bailey, Tom Mesereau (on Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson), Roger Stone (on the JFK Assassination), Dan Abrams, Juan Martinez (on Jodi Arias), Michael Hawley (on Jack the Ripper), and Michael Butterfield (on the Zodiac Killer).
Past Guests in Fiction have included Eric Shapiro, George Weir, John Copenhaver, Lee Goldberg, Gregory Ashe, J.D. Horn, Rick Poldark, Greg F. Gifune, Michael Bland, Geoff Symon, Gabriel Rottello, James Polchin, Lev Raphael, and Robert Fieseler.
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Episodes
Joe Clifford - All Who Wander
October 05, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes - 65.7 MBOne snowy night in 1998, Brooke Mulcahy's car slides off the road in rural Vermont. Her car is discovered. She is not. Twenty-one years later, Robert Kirby, Brooke's stepbrother, is paid a visit from a young woman (Lily), claiming to be Brooke's daughter. Since a tumultuous upbringing, Robert, formerly known as "Bobby," has enjoyed considerable success. Now an esteemed professor at a private Upstate New York university, Robert has just received a significant NEH grant. After Lily's visit, Ro...
Neil R. Storey - Bram Stoker
October 04, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes - 75.1 MBBram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature. Based on decades of painstaking research in libraries, museums, and university archives and privileged access to private collections on both sides of the Atlantic, the private letters of Bram and the reminiscences of those who knew him not only shed new light on Stoker's ancestry, his life, loves and...
Dacre Stoker & Chris McAuley - Dracula
October 03, 2023 05:00 - 55 minutes - 88.9 MBChris McAuley has written this with Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker and this is the only authorized family sequel which takes place directly after the original novel. Did you know that Bram Stoker stated that Dracula was a true story? In his original preface, Bram stated that every character in the novel was real and that their names needed to be changed as they were prominent individuals in London Victorian society. During the course of the upcoming spooky season, Dacre and ...
Dacre Stoker & Chris McAuley - Dracula
October 03, 2023 05:00 - 55 minutes - 88.9 MBChris McAuley has written this with Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker and this is the only authorized family sequel which takes place directly after the original novel. Did you know that Bram Stoker stated that Dracula was a true story? In his original preface, Bram stated that every character in the novel was real and that their names needed to be changed as they were prominent individuals in London Victorian society. During the course of the upcoming spooky season, Dacre and ...
Sherrill Joseph - Jacaranda Street: Gravestone Image (The Botanic Hill Detectives Mysteries)
September 29, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes - 65.9 MBLenore Valentine Kirby’s cryptic gravestone in a derelict cemetery beckons across centuries. The four Botanic Hill Detectives—Lanny, Lexi, Moki, and Rani—stumble upon a mystery revealed by the deceased woman’s descendant, Mr. Nigel Kirby. Can the teens decipher Lenore Kirby's gravestone image and messages? Their unusual, present-day case, incorporating the life and works of Gothic horror writer Edgar Allan Poe, takes the four out to Ravenswood, the Kirby family’s Victorian home. But one so...
Eddie Muller - TCM Noir
September 28, 2023 05:00 - 56 minutes - 91.1 MBMuller is the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and is co-programmer of the San Francisco Noir City film festival. Muller is considered a film noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the genre, notably on wry commentary tracks for Fox's series of film noir DVDs and introducing Turner Classic Movies's weekly Saturday night "Noir Alley" movie feature. Laura Sheppard, director of events at Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco, dubbed him "The Czar of Noir" The quo...
Sharon Michalove - At the Ready
September 27, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes - 66.6 MBWhat happens when a hunky French-Canadian security executive falls for a feisty Chicago lawyer? Micki Press and JL Martin both have complicated lives, but when they come together, the sparks are undeniable. Micki is trying to make it to the top of one of the most conservative corporate law firms in Chicago. JL is the CEO of WatchDog Inc., a successful security company, and is struggling with his own family complications. When Micki's former lover stalks her, JL steps in to protect her, and ...
Daniella Bernett - Betrayed by the Truth
September 26, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes - 71.4 MBAn inconvenient alibi…a priceless treasure…an MI6 mole It’s a lethal cocktail Journalist Emmeline Kirby and her jewel thief/ insurance investigator husband Gregory Longdon become targets after a desperate stranger asks them to deliver a fortune in rare red diamonds to hotelier Alexander Colefax. Before they can ask any questions, the man is killed. Driven by dark secrets, Colefax is willing to flirt with treason if it means getting what he wants. His coterie included the son of a Kremlin eli...
Richard H Stephens - Windwalker
September 22, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes - 73.5 MB'The White Witch had foreseen Pecklyn’s death at Grim Watch Tower. If the Queen of the Fae was to be trusted, Pecklyn wasn’t coming back.' Maturing into a confident leader, prepared to take on the world, the rightful heir to the Willow Throne is faced with a fierce battle if she is ever to assume her mother's place. Denied by the infamous dragon, Grimclaw, Ouderling seeks the aid of the King of the Dwarfs. Embarking on a journey to a mysterious castle inhabited by ghosts, she experiences a...
Daniele Cybulskie - Chivalry and Courtesy: Medieval Manners for a Modern World
September 21, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes - 76.5 MBA surprising look at how medieval etiquette can improve our lives today, from the author of the popular How to Live Like a Monk Medieval people are often portrayed as having poor hygiene and table manners―licking their knives or throwing chicken bones on the floor. In the Middle Ages, however, such behavior was not tolerated. Medieval society cherished order in nearly every facet of life, from regular handwashing to daily prayer. There were consequences if you didn’t adhere to the rules of ...
Michael L. Hawley - Dr. Francis Tumblety & The Railway Ripper
September 20, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutes - 84.1 MBUndetected by the FBI for three decades until the turn of the twenty-first century, a handful of elusive, transient long-haul trucker serial killers had been murdering hundreds of sex workers and hitchhikers along major US highways. This was not the first time innocent victims were attacked along major US interstate thoroughfares. Nearly lost to history was a similar pattern of carnage that occurred in the late nineteenth century. No less than thirty-nine unsolved murders and nearly forty br...
Michael L. Hawley - Dr. Francis Tumblety & The Railway Ripper
September 20, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutes - 84.1 MBUndetected by the FBI for three decades until the turn of the twenty-first century, a handful of elusive, transient long-haul trucker serial killers had been murdering hundreds of sex workers and hitchhikers along major US highways. This was not the first time innocent victims were attacked along major US interstate thoroughfares. Nearly lost to history was a similar pattern of carnage that occurred in the late nineteenth century. No less than thirty-nine unsolved murders and nearly forty br...
Jonas Saul - The Disappearance (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-Four)
September 19, 2023 05:00 - 48 minutes - 78 MBThe Disappearance (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-Four) On a cold, snowy evening in northern Ontario, Sarah Roberts has gone missing. When the snowstorm clears, a search party begins the arduous job of trekking through the wintry Canadian forests in search of her car. They find her vehicle in a deep ditch, hidden from the road and covered in snow. The passenger door is open, there’s blood on the steering wheel, and signs that someone was dragged from the car. Frustrated and panicked, Parkman, ...
Gary V Brill - DESCENT: A Novel Based on Several True stories
September 15, 2023 05:00 - 45 minutes - 73.6 MBAn airplane will pick up speed quickly in its descent when released from its obligation to hold altitude. A man, when released from his obligations to society will..... Steve Barnes is about to find out. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lee Kelly - With Regrets : A Novel
September 14, 2023 05:00 - 56 minutes - 89.8 MBWith Regrets, from author Lee Kelly, is equal parts Big Little Lies and Bird Box, a suburban drama wrapped in a 24-hour survival story at the end of the world, perfect for fans of David Koepp's Aurora. Seven courses, seven guests, twenty-four hours that will obliterate everything. When recent NYC-transplant Liz Brinkley and her husband are invited to an exclusive soiree by their neighbor, “lifestyle guru” Britta Harris-Che, Liz’s immediate thought is hell no. Britta is insufferable, and Li...
Dr. Pam - When Black Panthers Prowled Amerika
September 13, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes - 67.8 MBNef, short for Nefertiti, is born and raised in the French West Indies. Her mother is a devout Catholic who believes in racial integration, while her father advocates armed revolution to bring down white rule around the world. Nef attends college in New York, graduating with a journalism degree, and then participates in the 1964 “Mississippi Freedom Summer” project led by Martin Luther King Jr. Back in New York, the editor of the Harlem Herald hires Nef as a reporter. She covers fires and c...
Lee Goldberg - Malibu Burning
September 12, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 68.9 MBFor a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildfire in an incendiary thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most d...
Charles Breakfield & Rox Burkey - The Killer Enigma: Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles-Book 16
September 08, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes - 67.6 MBEnough is Enough - JJ rumbled when the Paparazzi invaded dinner When JJ and Jo recognize privacy doesn’t exist for them, they head back to Magnolia Bluff to check on their friends and recapture the small-town anonymity. They reject the status of urban legends in favor of acceptance and a quiet, peaceful life. A supermodel needs time and space to recharge herself between jobs, and he needs time to adore his wife. Does Magnolia Bluff hold the answers to their prayers, or will a dark past ov...
Ron Chepesiuk - Pariso Blanco
September 07, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes - 60.1 MBParaíso blanco is a Colombian streaming television series produced by Caracol Televisión for TelevisaUnivision. The series is based on the life of former German-Colombian drug lord Carlos Lehder, inspired by the book Crazy Charlie written by Ron Chepesiuk. Sebastián Osorio stars as Lehder. The series premiered on Vix on 20 July 2023. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Susy Smith - Ascendant
September 06, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes - 62.9 MBThe world has disintegrated. Civilization has collapsed. Chaos is the new normal. But I, Lacy Monroe, intend to survive. My lover Jace and I can't escape my corrupt uncle, Senator Thomas Monroe. He captures and separates us, forcing us to work for him. He sends me to Mexico City to secure an army to overthrow what remains of the US government. He sends Jace on a suicide mission to conquer New Mexico, the only remaining free state in the Southwest. I was captured. Beaten. Groomed for a sex...
Jennifer Anne Gordon - The Japanese Box
September 05, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes - 82.6 MBThe Japanese Box is a story that blends memoir, creative nonfiction, and the horror of a coming-of-age story, and a coming of middle-aged story. Imagine growing up with a reflection that is often absent, and a Japanese box that is filled with things that should never have been there. Memories. Violence. The Japanese Box is a love letter to anxiety, trauma, grief, and longing. It is a story of a child becoming an adult, and all the ghosts and misfortunes that happen in order to survive...
Cyndi Brec - Scarred Secrets
September 01, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 69.5 MBCyndi Brec loves diving into the imaginary world of books. She is an avid reader of YA, historical fiction, and fantasy. Cyndi lives in Ohio with her fun, loving husband, and two energetic kids. Her experience as a Recreational Therapy Technician for the Geriatric psych and mentally challenged, love for travel, and creative story building has given her many facets to draw from building her story world. She sets a struggling-affection, tension-building pace, full of conspiracies and intrigue,...
Eric P. Bishop - Ransomed Daughter: A Troy Evans Novella
August 31, 2023 05:00 - 48 minutes - 78 MBA father will do anything to protect his daughter. One Girl. They warned him. Go to the local authorities, and your daughter dies. Report the abduction to anyone in the government, and we’ll kill her. One Ransom. Faced with his worst nightmare, a wealthy father must decide how to respond. Follow the ransom demands and pay the abductors? Or use his connections to get his daughter back another way? One Solution. In his desperation, a father turns to a group that operates outside the purv...
Meg Hafdahl - Science of Agatha Christie
August 30, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes - 60.5 MBUncover the theories behind Dame Agatha Christie's most thrilling mysteries: Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The A.B.C. Murders, and so much more! Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of The Science of Stephen King and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film Daddy, present a guide to the Agatha Christie stories and supersleuths we all know and love. Through interviews, literary and film analysis, a...
Stuart Field - John Steel Collection
August 29, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes - 60.6 MBAfter the brutal killing of his family, British Special Forces ex-agent John Steel arrives in New York with one purpose: find the person responsible and exact his revenge. NYPD detective Samantha McCall is investigating a triple homicide when Steel shows up to help find the perpetrator and bring him to justice. What appears to be the work of a serial killer soon turns out to be something different altogether, with relentless mercenaries, a shadowy informant and ghosts from the past for both...
Jason Parent - An Unholy Triquetra
August 25, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes - 68.3 MBThree unique voices in today's horror bring you new takes on an old power that threatens to reshape our world. Celtic legends are reborn within these pages, with fresh stories guaranteed to spark nightmares in the vein of Grimm's pre-Disneyfied fairy tales. A Knot Within A Knot by Jason Parent: A man survives a plane crash only to find himself in darker circumstances, with a winter storm on the horizon and an orphaned child in tow. An elderly woman faces off against a god of night and his s...
Sara DiVello - Broadway Butterfly
August 24, 2023 05:00 - 48 minutes - 78.4 MBNew York in the Roaring Twenties—a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the era, where power, politics, and secrets conspire to bury the truth. Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot’s headline-making murder grips the city. It also draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city’s most mesmerizing myst...
Rod Sadler - Grim Paradise
August 23, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes - 67.2 MBWhen widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery? On July 24, 1960, the quaint charm and serenity of Mackinac, nestled between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas, was shattered by Lacey’s brutal death. Despite a massive manhunt and thousands of pages of police reports, her killer was never caught. Now, in GRIM...
Carl Vonderau - Saving Myles
August 22, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes - 65.2 MBWhen the FBI can' t help, an unassuming banker takes matters into his own hands to bring his son home Wade, a respected banker in La Jolla, CA, and his estranged wife, Fiona, make the unbearable decision to send their teenage son, Myles, away to an expensive treatment center after a streak of harmful behavior. After a year of treatment, Myles comes home, seemingly rehabilitated. But soon, he sneaks off to Tijuana to buy drugs— and is kidnapped. When the ransom call comes, Fiona is frantic ...
Ann Aptaker - A Crime of Secrets (A Donner & Longstreet Mystery Book 1)
August 18, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes - 79.4 MBLambda Literary Award-winning author introduces readers to the crime-fighting duo of Fin Donner and Devorah Longstreet—Lovers. Investigators. Women ahead of their time. New York City, 1899—a city on the cusp of a new century. A city growing taller, faster, a city of new inventions, new ideas—and old dangers on its shadowy streets where crime, misery, and murder lurk. When Pauline Godfrey, a young woman embodying the coming modern age, is viciously murdered, her throat cut, private inquiry ...
Vince A. Liaguno - Unspeakable Horror 3
August 17, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes - 59 MBThe third terrifying volume in the award-winning anthology series of original queer horror. Like the final girl in a slasher film, the LGBTQIA community knows first-hand what it’s like to fight for its survival. Beaten and bloodied after an extended chase scene through modern-day politics and the courts, we think we’ve triumphed and conquered our oppressors. We breathe a little easier knowing our rainbow is ascending in the distance. But—like the indestructible slasher villain—our enemies r...
David S. Pederson - Murder at the Oasis
August 16, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes - 60.8 MBA relaxing trip to a Palm Springs resort turns deadly for Mason Adler and his friend Walter Wingate when first one of their fellow guests, then another, ends up murdered. Suspects and motives abound among the remaining guests as well as the owner of the Oasis resort, Marvin Gagliardi, an old friend of Walter’s. Mason investigates, hoping to prove Marvin’s innocence, but the more he uncovers, the more he wonders if Marvin actually might be the murderer. Distracting Mason is the handsome and...
Curtis M. Lawson - An Unholy Triquetra
August 15, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes - 60.8 MBThree unique voices in today's horror bring you new takes on an old power that threatens to reshape our world. Celtic legends are reborn within these pages, with fresh stories guaranteed to spark nightmares in the vein of Grimm's pre-Disneyfied fairy tales. A Knot Within A Knot by Jason Parent: A man survives a plane crash only to find himself in darker circumstances, with a winter storm on the horizon and an orphaned child in tow. An elderly woman faces off against a god of night and his s...
Ron Chepesiuk - BAD HENRY: The Murderous Rampage of ‘The Taco Bell Strangler’
August 11, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes - 62.6 MBHenry Louis Wallace terrorized Charlotte, North Carolina, from May 1992 to March 1994. Wallace preyed on lower economic-class Black women between 17 and 35 years old. He knew most of his victims, some through his job at Taco Bell, and gained their trust with his friendly demeanor and gentle nature—concealing a monster fueled by drug abuse and rage against women. A rarity in that he was an African American serial killer, his murderous rampage spurred controversy throughout the city. Commun...
Steve Stratton - Shadow Sanction
August 10, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 70 MBWhen the resurgent Sinaloa cartel attacks Wolf and his wife, Elle Parker, on the Crow Indian reservation, the safety of his people becomes Job One—until the president of the United States orders Shadow Tier to stop the Taliban’s opium trade. The president’s underlying message: The drug war is a failure. Fix this now, or your black funding disappears.Torn between saving his people and the president’s demands for direct action, Wolf sends Shadow Tier’s Bravo Squadron to Afghanistan to infiltr...
Colin Leonard - Country Roads
August 09, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes - 65.1 MBSomething is outside; in the fields, by the ditches, on the roads. Something old and cruel and vicious. When Luke Sheridan moves out of Dublin city to rural Kilcross with his wife and baby, he imagines the worst part will be his extended commute to work. They can look forward to enjoying the countryside and being part of a small community. After all, his old friend Declan Maguire lives in the house next door and is a Garda in the nearest town. But Declan’s devilish attitude towards drink, ...
Luna Rey Hall - The Patient Routine
August 08, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutes - 52 MB"A psychedelic, propulsive stream-of-consciousness narrative that feels at times claustrophobic, at times conspiratorial, and at all times curiously suspenseful. Unlike anything I've ever read." — Nick Cutter, author of The Troop "Filled with frantic death energy. Entrancing, gruesome, and heartening too. hall's lyrical hospital saga shows that we are small inside the grandiose mortality machine." — Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth "the patient routine is ...
Zachary Ashford - The Morass : Servant of the Fly God
August 04, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes - 67.6 MBThe Australian Outback is a place mired in myth, folklore, and rumour that’s inspired some of the best horror fiction and creature horror books. Some say it’s full of deadly creatures. Others claim it’s rife with serial killers hunting for backpackers and stranded tourists. Whatever the cause, young people in central Queensland are disappearing and the locals are frightened. Katy is fresh from college and ready to research and write her magnum opus, a book investigating the many disappearan...
James Renner - Little Crazy Children
August 03, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutes - 80.8 MBFor readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author of True Crime Addict and creator/host of the podcasts True Crime This Week and The Philosophy of Crime, as he explores the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the real life town of the bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere for a painstakingly researched account of a senseless and heartbreaking tragedy and the people who were pulled into its aftermath. In September of 1990, in the ...
Reuben Kaye - The Butch is Back
August 02, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes - 60.5 MBBacked by his band The Close Contacts, Reuben’s unmissable live shows have sold out in Australia, London and Europe, winning the prestigious Off West End (Offie) Award for Best Cabaret in London as well as multiple Australian Green Room Awards for Best Artist & Best Cabaret Production, as well as the Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Cabaret twice, gleefully proving that he is the much needed, swarovski studded revolt against the ever narrowing views of an increasingly conservative world and ...
Matthew Quirk - The Night Agent
August 01, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes - 63.7 MBNOW ON NETFLIX! Starring Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan “Matthew Quirk moves into David Baldacci and John Grisham territory with The Night Agent, a paranoid, pulse-pounding thriller that could not be more prescient. If you’re wondering where the best of the next generation of suspense talent is headed, look no further.” — Joseph Finder To find a Russian mole in the White House, an FBI agent must question everything. . . and trust no one. No one is more surprised than FBI Agent Peter S...
Remi Adeleke - Chameleon A Black Box Thriller
July 29, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes - 60.1 MB"Delivering authentic action from someone who has lived it, Chameleon is on target and scores a direct hit!"-Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL and #1 New York Times bestselling author From filmmaker, memoirist, and former Navy SEAL Remi Adeleke, on the heels of his featured roles in the box office film Plane and in Fox’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, comes the first installment in the pulse-pounding Black Box Thriller series, featuring Nigerian-born and New York-raised Kali Kent and the ...
Rick R Reed - Silence of the Missing
July 28, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes - 54.1 MBHe went into the woods…and never came out. In 1986, thirteen-year-old Jeb Kleber vanished during his small town’s Fourth of July fireworks. His mysterious disappearance left his first love, Sammy Blake, grieving for years. Flash forward to present day. A now middle-aged Sam Blake has a comfortable and predictable life with his husband Marc in Chicago. All that changes when a stranger arrives at Sam’s door, claiming to be the missing Jeb Kleber. The stranger knows things he couldn’t possibl...
Spencer Sekulin & JR Johnson - Writers of the Future
July 27, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes - 64.1 MBIn the world of speculative fiction… some of your favorite authors… selected these stories for you to read. 24 Award-winning Authors and Illustrators Bonus Short Stories by Kevin J. Anderson • L. Ron Hubbard • S. M. Stirling Art and Writing Tips by Lazarus Chernik • L. Ron Hubbard • Kristine Kathryn Rusch Edited by Dean Wesley Smith • Jody Lynn Nye 16-page color artwork • Cover art by Tom Wood Check out the stories Brandon Sanderson, Orson Scott Card, Nnedi Okorafor, Robert J. Sawyer...
Mo Moshaty - Love the Sinner
July 26, 2023 05:00 - 48 minutes - 78.3 MBAccording to Dante, a sin is the misdirection of love - the human will, or essentially, the direction of our beings. Love the Sinner is an examination of just how those sins can kaleidoscope into horrific consequences creating a distorted and deadly landscape. These stories stand stark before you in full glaring misstep and macabre to show the human psyche in all its twisted reality. From grief and its rage to medical meddling to ensure a new world order to bloody revenge within a quantum l...
Kristoffer Gair - Butterflies I Have Known
July 25, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes - 59.5 MBEven time cannot stop love. University professor Matthew Richter hates complications. Planning his every day down to the second leaves no opportunity for a social life, which he doesn’t feel the need for anyway. Jian Wei helps run his family’s business. The only thing he enjoys more than tormenting his parents and siblings with endless pranks is plotting his next trick on a certain uptight customer. Though so different, chance inexplicably draws them both to a World War II photography exh...
Matt Birkbeck - The Life We Chose
July 22, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes - 68.7 MBFrom Matt Birkbeck—investigative journalist and executive producer of Netflix’s #1 movie Girl in the Picture—a revelatory father/surrogate son story that takes readers deep inside the inner workings of the mob through the eyes of William “Big Billy” D’Elia, the right-hand man to legendary mafia kingpin Russell Bufalino, who ran organized crime in the US for more than fifty years. William “Big Billy” D’Elia is Mafia royalty. The “adopted” son of legendary organized crime boss Russell Bufali...
Reed Farrel Coleman - Sleepless City: A Nick Ryan Novel
July 21, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 69.5 MB“Thoughtful moral questions and a truly great new character in Nick Ryan. Coleman is a noir grandmaster and I hope this series runs forever.” — Lee Child When you’re in trouble, you call 911. When cops are in trouble, they call Nick Ryan. Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don’t talk about him at all. He doesn’t wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who’s vanished. Or he can make a key wit...
Robert J Sawyer - L. Ron Hubbard Award Winner
July 20, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutes - 83.5 MB“An imaginative restructuring of a phantasmagoric life into an alternative phantasmagorical story. Oppenheimer fans will be intrigued.” —Martin J. Sherwin, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the basis for Christopher Nolan's movie Oppenheimer While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the atomic bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a weapon based on...
Ashley Earley - Heart of Skulls
July 19, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutes - 55.5 MBWhen Scott Nelson first meets Natalie, all he can think about is slitting her throat. Until he realizes they share alarmingly similar homelives. Scott is an outcast with an abusive father, while Natalie is a punk with colorful hair and dreams of being an artist to avoid ever speaking to her family again. Believing that distance from his father’s violent tendencies will relieve Scott of his own rage, he and Natalie do the only thing they can to break free of their abusive families: run away....