Latest Retropunk Podcast Episodes
Men Against the Current by Louis Evans
Gallery of Curiosities - March 01, 2024 20:27 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA 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...
A Woman of Good Manners by Nikki Lynn Blakely
Gallery of Curiosities - February 20, 2024 11:01 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA 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 Sundial, U...
Coward's Corsage
Gallery of Curiosities - February 20, 2024 11:01 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIs 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 The Martian Magazine, Etherea Magazine, and Thirteen Podcast. In her spare time, Jul...
Thread in the Mouth by Ryan Cole
Gallery of Curiosities - October 31, 2023 23:59 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHAPPY 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, Voyag...
Coming Soon to the Gallery
Gallery of Curiosities - October 30, 2023 20:50 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSUBMISSIONS CLOSED. All manuscripts have been responded to. Get in touch if you did not get your letter.
The Ghost Extinguishers by Gelett Burgess
Gallery of Curiosities - March 31, 2023 07:59 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsGot 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 nonse...
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Gallery of Curiosities - February 15, 2023 05:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe are reading your manuscripts Feb 14 - April 15, 2023. Please read the guidelines at GalleryCurious.com before submitting. Music: Roller Rink Bossa, Showbiz, by Brett Van Donsel
A Journey of Little Profit by John Buchan
Gallery of Curiosities - December 25, 2022 07:11 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIt'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 Buc...
The Macabre Dance of the Fiddler and Kore by Atalanti Evripidou
Gallery of Curiosities - November 01, 2022 10:13 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWould 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 dabbl...
An Odd Question by Ian Michael Bavian
Gallery of Curiosities - October 24, 2022 05:15 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsRemember 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,...
Changelings by Rachel Ayers
Gallery of Curiosities - August 30, 2022 20:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSo 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 Caba...
The Seventh Wife's Confession by M.E. Bronstein
Gallery of Curiosities - June 15, 2022 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe'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 ha...
Silvergloom by Jonathan Duckworth
Gallery of Curiosities - April 19, 2022 23:59 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe 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 speculativ...
The Prince in the Darkness by Phil Margolies
Gallery of Curiosities - March 15, 2022 05:25 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA 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...
Seven Cups of Tea by Gwen C. Katz
Gallery of Curiosities - March 04, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA 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 ...
Walking The Line by William Stiteler
Gallery of Curiosities - February 23, 2022 23:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBe 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. ...
Appointment in Time by James Dorr
Gallery of Curiosities - February 12, 2022 23:31 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhat 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 i...
Within My Reach by Ola Al-Fateh
Gallery of Curiosities - November 30, 2021 20:04 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAll 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 ...
The Peculiariity of Two by Liam Hogan
Gallery of Curiosities - November 27, 2021 20:47 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsDo 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 p...
The Monstrous Metronome by Lena Ng
Gallery of Curiosities - October 29, 2021 03:55 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHappy Halloween! Would you sell your soul for one last chance at greatness? Kristin Holland of Nocturnal Transmissions podcast reads. Author Lena Ng skulks around Toronto, Canada, and is a zombie member of the Horror Writers Association. She tiptoes at night so no one knows she’s awake. Under ...
The Ants, the Grasshoppers, the Locusts, and the Fungus by Louis Evans
Gallery of Curiosities - October 22, 2021 11:44 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAesop on the postmodern rocks. Daren Callow narrates. #FracturedFairyTales Author Louis Evans is a sci-fi writer with work in Analog, Interzone, Escape Pod and more. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner and two cats named after fictional detectives. He is almost certainly not infested with a m...
The Quick and the Dead by Brian K. Lowe
Gallery of Curiosities - August 25, 2021 09:07 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsDouble-crossing dames, reanimated corpses, and the LAPD on your heels. It's hard to be a dick. Jim Hodgson reads. Author Brian K. Lowe has been writing since he was a child, the same time during which he was devouring comic books and travelling to Mars with Edgar Rice Burroughs. A graduate of U...
The Death Trade by Natasha C. Calder
Gallery of Curiosities - August 17, 2021 07:55 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIt's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your death is? Jasmine Arch reads. #gaslamp #DarkFantasy #YA Author Natasha C. Calder is from Ely, UK. She has an M.Phil in Medieval Literature from the University of Cambridge and is a graduate of Clarion West 2018. Her work has previously appeared in The Sti...
Mourning Medusa by Mark Orr
Gallery of Curiosities - July 12, 2021 21:23 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe commander of an occult objects recovery unit recalls a lost love while patrolling the Mediterranean during World War II. Author Mark Orr lives in Middle Tennessee with his wife of forty years, a couple of cats, a history degree and way too many books. On his best days, he gets to play with ...
Does It Hurt? by Dawn Lloyd
Gallery of Curiosities - July 05, 2021 01:59 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA bit of monkpunk to mark the passing of the solstice. Lou J Berger and Andrew McCurdy narrate. #monkpunk #horror #humor Author Dawn Lloyd is an American who got bored and set out across the world looking for adventure. Nineteen years, four continents and six countries later, she has returned t...
The Instant by Harris Coverley
Gallery of Curiosities - June 18, 2021 04:25 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA gentlemen's evening of drinking and parlor games goes horribly wrong. Daren Callow narrates. #steampunk Author Harris Coverley lives in Manchester, England, where he (mostly) pretends to be busy. He has short fiction published or forthcoming in Planet Scumm, Horror Magazine, Eldritch Journal,...
The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Gallery of Curiosities - December 30, 2020 23:37 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFor our 100th episode, we're going all the way back to our first episode. Unfortunately the original master file from 2010 was not able to be recovered to be remastered properly. Osgoode - Kris Law vokrislaw.com
To Our Own Ghosts by Deborah L. Davitt
Gallery of Curiosities - November 18, 2020 06:37 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsConsidering everything else that has happened this year, how would you react to a ghost in your home? #ghosts #1920s Author Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. She’s known for her Pushcart-nominated poetry, short stories, and novels. He...
The Pinch by M.A. Smith
Gallery of Curiosities - October 06, 2020 18:11 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsPickpocketing in London. What could possibly go wrong? Daren Callow narrates. Author M. A. Smith writes from Gloucestershire, UK, where she lives with her family. Her fiction has appeared in magazines including Mythic, Gathering Storm and Dark Moon Digest,and her novella Severance was publish...
Dorothea Defies Convention by AJ Brennan
Gallery of Curiosities - September 10, 2020 18:37 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSending a woman to war is most unconventional. Sending a hedgewitch, even more so. Jasmine Arch narrates. Author A.J. Brennan is a Washington, D.C.-based speculative fiction writer and National Novel Writing Month obsessive. Her work has appeared in The Arcanist, Wizards in Space and Translunar...
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