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Tales From the Blue Line – Take a Number
A 911 operator thought he’d heard it all until a deluge of panicked calls reports that Mothman, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster have descended upon Atlanta, forcing him to take cryptid sightings with the same seriousness as a misplaced Wi-Fi...
The Shoddy Lands by C. S. Lewis
An English professor’s momentary distraction during a boring visit from a former pupil and his fiancée hurls him into a terrifying, shoddy alternate reality that reveals the shallow, self-obsessed world inside the young woman’s mind. If you have a...
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
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Tales From the Blue Line – Cargo Shorts Bigfoot
A small-town TV reporter’s quiet late shift is hilariously interrupted by a local family reporting a bizarre Bigfoot sighting near the highway, sparking a town-wide debate over whether the creature was eight feet tall or simply a six-foot-three...
The Man Who Found Out By Roger Dee
Professional skeptic and journalist Fortenay strong-arms his way aboard a scientific vessel to expose what he believes is a colossal underwater hoax, only to be dragged by the desperate chief scientist to the six-mile-deep bottom of the ocean where...
The Big Bounce by Walter S. Tevis
When an inventor shows his friend a seemingly harmless rubber ball that converts heat into kinetic energy with every bounce, their simple experiment quickly turns into a desperate race to contain a runaway engine of infinite power before it destroys...
The Lady, Or The Tiger? By Frank R. Stockton
In a kingdom ruled by a semi-barbaric king, a young man’s fate rests on a barbaric game of chance—unless the princess who loves him can use her secret knowledge to save him from either a hungry tiger or an arranged marriage. If you have a...
Tales From the Blue Line – The Tooth Fairy Schedule
After forgetting to leave money for her son’s lost tooth, a weary mom’s life is upended when a bizarre note and official calendar from the Tooth Fairy reveal a secret, unionized world of nocturnal service workers. Tales From The Blue...
The Outer Limit by Graham Doar
A test pilot’s experimental flight goes wrong, but he returns from the edge of space with a terrifying tale and an urgent warning: humanity has been quarantined by an alien force, and the world will end with the next nuclear explosion. If you...