📍USA

✍️ In this week's tale… They came looking for fortune. They made the mistake of thinking the dead wouldn't miss their things. 

Written by author Gaetan Battaglia. He has had one novel and ten short stories published by Pegasus Publishers, Three Ravens Publishing, Dragon Soul Press, Colp, Pesto Comics, and Red Cape Publishers. Several narrations have been adapted on YouTube by channels such as Grimms Library and DarkLittleVoices, among others. 

Writing:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Gaetan+Battaglia&i=stripbooks&crid=1C4R35KNT8J9Y&sprefix=gaetan+battaglia%2Cstripbooks%2C181

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Spring into SciFi 2026, Volume 2: https://cloakedpress.com/sis2026/

Big Smoke Pulp, Volume 2:

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📍CAN

✍️ This week's episode marks the 150th episode. A story written by M. G. Wilhelm. Maddie had grown up hunting down geocaches with her Dad. It was their special time together. Years later, after Maddie's dad had passed, she decided to finish what she started and find the mythical Black Weaver Cache. A geocache with an ominous history.

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📍Scotland

✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by JS Apsley, an author based in Glasgow, Scotland, This story was published by Underside Stories on 1 May 2025. His debut fiction submission, "Immersion", won the Ringwood Short Story Prize and was published in January 2025.

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📍USA.

Then an elderly patient tells her a story about a murderer, an impossible infection and an ophthalmologist who discovered something alive inside a man's optic nerve.

She should have walked away.

Instead, she looked.

And then it said, “I see you.”

✍️ Today’s Tale… MN Wiggins is an internationally published author, voice actor, surgeon, and professor from the American South. He’s either a Frightening Tales alumnus or a repeat offender, depending on your point of view, having written The Rejuvenator in Season Four

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Today’s Tale… is written by Gary D, and he’s located up in Ontario, Canada. 

After a lifetime spent in sales & marketing, and having sold just about everything and anything that you can imagine, he’s both travelled and lived in various locations across our planet.

And as the tread on his tires thins and he starts to apply the brakes to slow down, over the last year or so, He’s finally found the time to share some of his wildest stories. 

📍USA.

⚠️Trigger Warning: Child loss / Miscarriage. 

❤️ Special Thanks to Mia, a British voice artist, originally from the south of England, who now lives and works in Ontario, Canada. She has voiced projects for Mercedes-Benz, MARVEL, the UK’s National Health Service, easyJet, Action Against Hunger, Pfizer, and the United Nations.

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📍USA.

✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Jeremy Barber, a weird fiction/psychological horror writer whose fiction is based in New England. His stories explore trauma, PTSD, the horror that stems from the ordinary becoming distorted. He is currently working on his first collection of interconnected horror stories.

In this tale, a New York Cop arrives on a call to something altogether unexpected.

You can find him on Bluesky at: JTBarberwrites

https://bsky.app/profile/jtbarberwrites.bsky.social

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📍Canada.

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Welcome, loyal listeners. I’m your host, Wilhelm, and I’m also this week’s author.

A group of wealthy young adults head out to sea for a little fun, only to discover that they’ve sailed into waters that should have been left alone. Because some curses don’t follow you. They wait for you to enter their territory. Have a listen to X Marks the Spot.

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☠ Greetings, loyal listeners.

I wanted to offer a little something for writers and dark creatives who need something to listen to while they work, when spoken words are simply too distracting.

I've licensed this collection of music for you to enjoy, and I hope it helps put you into that creative space where the work starts to flow.

👁 60 minutes of dark ambience for writing, creating, and wandering somewhere a little darker.

If you enjoy it, leave a comment and let me know. Perhaps I'll assemble another.

Happy creating.

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📍USA.

✍️ Today’s Tale… is written by Bailley Burbage, passionate about writing for many years, using her craft to escape and create a place for people to land. A recent college graduate, she continues to pursue her lifelong love of storytelling while working on her debut novel. Bailley enjoys exploring new ideas, creating immersive worlds, and writing stories that connect with readers on an emotional level. She hopes to complete her first novel within the next year and looks forward to sharing many more stories in the future. 

📍Canada.

✍️ In The Dark Beyond The Screen by M. G. Wilhelm, a creepy tale that explores that feeling of wondering what is out there past the glow of our devices while we're lying in bed. 

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