Seventeen-year-old Billy Weaver is charmed by the bizarrely cheap and cozy Bed and Breakfast he stumbles upon, only to discover that his sweet, forgetful landlady has a sinister connection to her last two tenants. If you have a story you’d like to...
Pickman’s Model By H. P. Lovecraft
After an acclaimed artist disappears, a colleague reveals the macabre secret of his genius: his terrifying, hyper-realistic paintings of demonic ghouls were drawn not from imagination, but from life. If you have a story you’d like to contribute to...
Tales From the Blue Line – Quarterly Meeting of the Damned
What Janet expects to be a late-night, mandatory corporate meeting about layoffs instead traps her in an endless “alignment session” with her living coworkers and a new set of employees spanning multiple centuries, all equally committed to the...
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 story...
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 Line: Every...
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 have a...
Tales From the Blue Line – Radio Silence
While working the quiet graveyard shift in the emergency room, Nurse Carla’s routine is shattered when all sound mysteriously vanishes, replaced by cryptic, desperate messages flashing across the patients’ heart monitors. Tales From The Blue Line:...
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Four unfortunate elders are given a second chance at youth, but will their old habits leave them trapped in a cycle of regret? Originally published anonymously in 1837, it was later published in Hawthorne’s collection Twice-Told Tales, also in 1837...
Knock by Fredric Brown
When the last man on Earth receives a knock on the door, he discovers the horrifying truth about humanity’s new place in the universe. If you have a story you’d like to contribute to the series, you can visit You can support the show by becoming a...
Tales From the Blue Line – Mirror Ghost
A skeptical woman who believes there’s no such thing as ghosts moves into an old apartment, where her bathroom mirror begins commenting on her daily life Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into...