The Surgical Fiction Podcast

This is a story straight out of those glory days of playing baseball on the diamonds of Southern California.

Originally written in the latter quarter of the nineteenth century. The Death of Ivan Ilych is still universally considered one of the finest stories in all of literature.

The Death of Ivan Ilych is still universally considered one of the finest stories in all of literature.

In tribute to those who have left us in the current pandemic, and presented for your enjoyment, listen Kevin Macleod's arrangement of Amazing Grace.

In Golgotha Falls (1984), Frank De Felitta, author of the best-selling novels of the occult Audrey Rose (1975) and The Entity (1978), delivers another chilling pause-resister of horror and the supernatural.

Do the dead think?

In Voices of the Dead, by John Babb, the story of the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 is told in vivid detail and stunning prose. Babb is a retired Rear Admiral in the US Public Health Service.

Many believe this to be the finest short story on the subject of precognition ever written. You be the judge. At less than 15 minutes, it's certainly worth a listen.

An ancient skull gradually subsumes Dr. Jolly Frye’s time, talents—and mind. Is it possession, madness, or something else altogether?

For Joshua Bay, hell is twenty-four sleepless hours, every one of them scalpel in hand, standing under a cross in a nameless church atop a dusty hill after a pointless battle. For too many good men, this is where the world ends.