Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales & Other Weird Stories

📍USA.

✍️ Today's tale is by Author Douglas J. Moore teaches us about the history of Witchcraft in this tale; he calls Kay and the Black Cat. The performance is an adaptation of a larger story. Douglas J. Moore is an author from New England who writes horror, speculative fiction, and alternative history.

His collection of mid-2000s science fiction stories, “This World is Not Conclusion,” can be found here:

Amazon.com: This World Is Not Conclusion eBook : Moore, Douglas J.: Kindle Store

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📍UK.

✍️ Today's tale is by Author Michael Byrne, who shares this dark folklore with us this week. An age-old lesson to always be wary of crossing faery kind. This husband and wife learn what it means to get what you wish for.  

Michael Byrne is originally from Rochdale, Lancashire, and is now based in London; he writes folklore and horror-infused fiction.

Outside of writing, he explores the UK and beyond, delving into obscure folk customs and esoteric museums. Find him online at @King._of._terrors 

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📍USA.

✍️ Today's tale is by Asher Ellis, teaching us that karma has a way of settling the score. Carlos would never have guessed how this job was going to end. Not in a million years. It was supposed to be easy. Hijack the yacht of some playboy the world wouldn't miss and make out like bandits. But things don't exactly go to plan. 

Other works by Asher Ellis:

CURSE OF THE PIGMAN - Crossroad Press

Award-winning short films: EXIT 7A, The Portal and Conjure X (available on the Tubi streaming app).

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📍UK/USA.

✍️ Andrew Hodges, an English writer living in the United States, shares his story, where in the southern United States is a house where a little old lady lives, a little old lady who was old when Dad was a boy. A little old lady whose garden isn't just right, where the little old lady... isn't just right. And I have the poor luck to live next door. 

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📍USA.

✍️ Today's tale is by writer Kaci Skiles Laws, who steps away from her poetry to entertain us with her tale, POTSY.

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📍USA.

Her story this episode tells the tale of how unfinished business can keep us from getting the rest... we so desperately need.

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📍Pakistan.

✍️ Today's Tale is by Arisha Wassim, a psychology graduate and university instructor from Islamabad. Her academic fascination with the human mind naturally bleeds into her writing, where she explores themes like mental illness, guilt, and isolation. Her work is heavily inspired by the classic atmospheric dread of Poe and Shelley, seeking to find the horror not in monsters, but in the quiet unraveling of the self.

Today's tale explores the idea that hauntings are not exclusive to objects and buildings, but our minds can also be playgrounds for the supernatural. 

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Author Zea Mindwerl shares this story she wrote for a prompt at Blog.Reedsy.com. It's a dark tale about the unknown things out in the dark of night. And hammers home the idea that there's no place like the safety of home in a tale she calls FEAR.

The story was originally posted in 2023 but has since gone missing from my podcast... I have no idea why. But in the time that's past from when I originally posted this and now I've learned so much about audio recording and mastering. So I've applied that to the original performance and updated the effects with new ones from my subscription with Epidemic Sounds.

Imagine being followed around by death itself... for seemingly no reason at all. Jim Cort dives into this idea in this original story.

A nostalgic look back at horror alumni Nelson Bond. Who's aged old writing paved the way for todays contemporary authors. His tale The Bookshop, explores the secrets often found in seemingly innocuous places.