Fictional

Prospero can't remember the last time he slept. He can't remember the last time he saw his daughter or even how old she is. He has been working on one singular task for decades, and now he's nearly there. He's on the precipice of the greatest discovery of all time...

...and then someone kicks in the door. They're coming for him.

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Music:

"Ervira" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Great Egret" by Chad Crouch

"Greyleaf Willow" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Vik Fenceta" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Hickory Shed" by Blue Dot Sessions

"A1 Rogue" by Podington Bear

"Refraction" by Podington Bear

"Myrian" by Blue Dot Sessions

Dracula has already claimed his first victim, and she is working on many more. Soon, the British Isles and then the rest of civilization will be one of two things: hunter or hunted. The few that Dracula chooses to turn will feed on the rest, and no one within 1000 miles of him knows it's coming. No one, that is, except for an unlikely alliance of people that will stop at nothing to put Dracula's reign to an end before it starts.

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Vampire folklore on Myths and Legends: https://www.mythpodcast.com/4281/50-dracula-bad-blood/

The book I mentioned: http://a.co/d/fV8l8Gd

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Music:

"Residual Anxieties" by Ketsa

"Cicle Gerano" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Velvet Ladder" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Thule Racer" by Blue Dot Sessions

Mina is distraught. Her friend is sick, hit by a strange and sudden anemia the day a ship came into port from the other side of the world - some province in Romania known as Transylvania. Worse, Jonathan, her fiancee, hasn't returned yet. He had gone to visit a nobleman on the continent, and he was now a month overdue.

Mina wasn't the only one with problems, though. At the mental institution, a heartbroken doctor has a patient come in with a dark secret...and a sinister appetite.

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Music:

"Serial Killer" by John Bartmann

"Thin Passage" by Blue Dot Sessions

"I Should have been More Human" by Chris Zabriskie

"What does Anybody Know about Anything?" by Chris Zabriskie

"Gadwall" by Chad Crouch

"Doubled" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Tender Moment" by John Bartmann

"Pieces" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Floor Shine" by Blue Dot Sessions

Jonathan Harker is on a work trip, which means new and bizzare foods, people with interesting stories, and a meeting with a count that people seriously will not stop warning him about. He doesn't see what the fuss is about. It's just an old guy with a handlebar mustache who lives in the woods in a creepy castle surrounded by wolves. What could go wrong?

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Music:

"The Caspian Sea" by Blue Dot Sessions "Veins of Silver" by Blue Dot Sessions "Morning Too Soon" by Ketsa "Can I Play" by Ketsa "Cicle Vascule" by Blue Dot Sessions "Good Evening Melancholy" by Ketsa "March on Gumdrop Field" by Blue Dot Sessions

Irene Adler. She's in one story, but she left such a permanent, indellible mark on Sherlock Holmes that he will now and forever refer to her as THE woman. Sherlock receives two visits in one night. One is expected: royalty with a problem that could alter the history of Europe. The other is a surprise: Watson, who's well on his way to a dad bod.

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Music:

The Gall" by Podington Bear "Elephants On Parade" by Podington Bear "The Confrontation" by Podington Bear "PC Plodder" by Ketsa "Catharcism" by Ketsa "Buzzy Minuet" by Chad Crouch

In an alternate future, it's 1981 and the UN allies have been at war with the Soviet Union for six years. In that short amount of time, the world has been reduced to an irradiated husk of itself. Standing victorious over a fallen world, the Soviets unexpectedly find themselves overwhelmed by a new technology developed by the Allies. A technology that will turn the tide of the war. One that will harbor a deep secret.

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Music:

"Holo" by Blue Dot Sessions

On the season 2 finale, Victor Frankenstein's creation is responsible for two deaths, but Victor fears that the body count isn't close to being finished. The battle between creator and creation will stretch over multiple continents, destroying lives and bringing up questions of our responsibility toward our creations, arrogance, and what it means to live a good life.

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Music:

"Two Boys and a Girl" by Podington Bear

"Darklit Carpet" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Bare Shoulders" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Relay 7" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Our Fingers Cold" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Spot Peter" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Stillness" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Solemn Application" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Tessalit" by Blue Dot Sessions

"March on Gumdrop Field" by Blue Dot Sessions

A lurching green monster that's afraid of fire with bolts in his neck. A hunchback assistant named Igor. A menacing, mustache twirling doctor. None of those things are in this episode.

Instead, we have an eight-foot-tall introspective giant, a thoughtful, if dangerously ambitious child who doesn't understand the enormity of the task he's undertaking, and a world that's not ready for the consequences of one young man's thoughtless genius.

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Music:

"Anxiety" by Kai Engel

"Plate Grayscale" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Delirium" by Kai Engel

"Morbid Imagination" by Kai Engel

"A Catalog of Seasons" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Tolls Folly" by Blue Dot Sessions

A couple in early 1800s Louisiana is headed home when they spot something unusual by a pillar, something that will change their lives, and the lives of the most powerful family in town, forever.

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Music:

"When in the West" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Bell Solo" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Bidous Transit" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Low Slopes" by Blue Dot Sessions

"February" by Kai Engel

"Crying Earth" by Kai Engel

As always, our theme song is by the fantastic Breakmaster Cylinder

Two stories by the U.S. writer O. Henry. In the first, a young woman is dying, pinning her hopes to a leaf dangling on a branch. In the second, ol' Soapy, a homeless man in New York City, is gearing up for a trip to his summer home: prison. A warm bed, three meals a day, and safety from harassment by people on the street. The only problem? He can't seem to get himself thrown in there.

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Music:

"Constellation" by Podington Bear

"3rd Chair" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Come as You Are" by Blue Dot Sessions

"The One Shot" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Valantis" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Valantis Vespers" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Faithless Constellation" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Demalion" by Blue Dot Sessions