The Bell Ringer by Raven Oak is a different sort of holiday story. I do love a story of redemption which is one of the reasons I chose it, but instead of the supernatural element the horror from this story comes from human frailty. The Bell Ringer was originally published in The Bell Ringer and Other Holiday Tales by Raven Oak. 

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Kicking off December with a spine-tingling treat: "Discount Night at the Haunted Eco-Lodge" by Katherine Quevedo! 👻

Ever wondered what happens when extreme budget travel meets the supernatural? This deliciously eerie ghost story about the REAL price of penny-pinching your way through life... 

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Katherine Quevedo hails from Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. "Discount Night at the Haunted Eco-Lodge" was originally published inTriangulation: Habitats.  

Quevedo's fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in Nightmare Magazine, Fireside Magazine, LatineLit, On Spec, Last Girls Club, and elsewhere. She is the author of the fantasy novella Thrice Petrified from Of Metal and Magic Publishing and the Elgin Award-winning poetry chapbook The Inca Weaver’s Tales from Sword & Kettle Press. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys watching movies, playing old-school video games, singing, belly dancing, and making spreadsheets. Find her at www.katherinequevedo.com.

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This month’s episode is packed with three unforgettable tales that will pull you from stormy seas to shadowed stages to a rain-soaked cottage.

⛵Spirit of the Caribbean by EJ Delaney: Four teens find an old bottle in a ship’s captain’s quarters—perfect for a game of spin the bottle… they think. This month’s episode of Scary Stories Whispered in the Rain is a Triple Threat! That is there are three scary stories!
For more info about EJ Delaney  https://www.ejdelaney.com

🎭 Cut Throat (The Rules Are For Safety) by Tony Pisculli: A police interrogation peels back the curtain on a Romeo and Juliet production where the rules are written in blood. For more Info about Tony:
https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/

⏰ Whispers in the Rain by Allan Kipyegon: Every night at exactly 11:03, Sarah hears  a cold whispering rain fall in her new home.
For more Info about Allan:
https://kipyegonkorir245.wixsite.com/allan

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🎙️July's episode of Scary Stories Whispered in the Rain delivers two unforgettable tales that blur the boundaries between the natural and the supernatural. 🖤🖤🖤First, we explore Summer's Time by L.N. Hunter https://linktr.ee/L.N.Hunter —a haunting story of religious horror and magical realism with grief at its center. 🕰️ Then, in a delightfully bizarre twist, we dive into Flowers by Nissa Harlow,  nissaharlow.com one of the most entertaining and original creature features I've read to date. 🌺 Whether you enjoy sacred mysteries or floral monstrosities, this episode has something for every horror lover.

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Tune in for an eerie escape into the uncanny. In this episode, I share two chilling tales that blend folklore and dark imagination. First, Utseende by Arnoldo Millan Zubia takes us to a quiet village in Mexico, where something unsettling lurks beneath the surface—haunting the narrator, the hotel where he works, and the town surrounding it.  Then, in The Garden of Unearthly Delights by Lena Ng, enter a lush, mysterious garden where beauty and hard work masks danger.

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This evening's episode, we explore the fragile spaces between the living and the dead—where secrets linger, and love endures in unexpected forms and through the dreams of memory and loss.. First, I’ll read We Don't Talk About That by Ken Carlson (https://kenzofkc.com/), a ghostly family drama. Then I descend into the hauntingly poetic Even Death by Christine Lucas (https://werecat99.wordpress.com/), a lyrical meditation on love and cheating Death. 

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Welcome back to Scary Stories Whispered in the Rain! Tonight I will read, Katie Cord's The Pumpkinhead Scissors Will Always Kill You, Part 1.

Katie Cord is an artist and writer. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with the greatest husband anyone could have, Timothy W. Long, four rambunctious dogs, one evil cat, and Tim's two kids. In her free time, she likes to binge watch television series while painting or drawing and spend time with Timothy W. Long (even if it is just going to Costco). Her first collection of short stories, He Left Her at the Altar, She Left Him to the Zombies is available on Amazon as well as her coming of age zombie tale, Maxine and her latest anthology: Bizarre Stories for Proper Ladies. 

The Pumpkinhead Scissors Will Always Kill You was originally published in BIZARRE STORIES For PROPER LADIES

You can find out all about Katie Cord at https://www.katiecord.com/

After reading Katie's Story, I'll be letting people know what I thought of NightBitch by Rachel Yoder - now please remember my discussion is just the novel, not the film!

Welcome back to Scary Stories Whispered in the Rain! 

In this episode I introduce Jennifer Brozek's story Not Birds of a Feather. Jennifer Brozek is an award-winning author of original and media tie-in fiction as well as an editor known for her work in horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. Among her other credits, she is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her YA tie-in novels, BattleTech: The Nellus Academy Incident and Shadowrun: Auditions, have both won Scribe Awards. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Hugo Award. Her religious horror story Not Birds of a Feather explores what happened to the first bird released from the Ark. I chose this story because I love how it presents an unsettling perspective on one of the most well-known stories in Western civilization, transforming it into horror.

Jennifer's Links: https://jenniferbrozek.com/ 

Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/JenniferBrozek

After reading Jennifer's story, I review Haunted Ones by Kino Mc Farland. 

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Narration and Sound Design by Elizabeth Guizzetti. All background music and sound effects are licensed by Pond 5 or StoryBlocks. 

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Welcome back to Scary Stories Whispered in the Rain! In this chilling episode, I bring you Monday Night Hunger, a story of dancing, vampires and strange memories and sensations. 

Join me as I unveil a tale that will hopefully leave you wanting more, just like our protagonist. 

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Narration and Sound Design by Elizabeth Guizzetti. All background music and sound effects are licensed by Pond 5 or StoryBlocks. 

Background Music: Moonlight Blues Guitar Lounge / Someone Else / Blusey Cool Guitar Lounge / Sorrow to Love / Barren To Bleak / Soft Horror Piano Drone / Surrender / Storytime Piano

I review Ghost Love by Dennis Mahoney. 

Enjoy!

In Episode 3, Elizabeth reads from Paul Michael Winters's, The Bridge, a romantic tragedy about love and loss between two teen boys.

Tonight's featured author, Paul Michael Winter writes (and loves) YA queer fiction and can be found at: Website or his Insta: pmwintersauthor or Blue Sky: pmwintersauthor.bsky.social

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Narration and Sound Design by Elizabeth Guizzetti. All background music and sound effects are licensed by Pond 5 or StoryBlocks. 

Background Music: Winter Slumber / Cascades/ The Fall / Sorrow to Love / Rain of Sorrow / Surrender / Storytime Piano

I review Voices in the Snow by Darcy Coates the first novel in the Black Winter Series. 

Thank you for listening!