A student of the occult scours Venice for a lost beloved. David Ault reads. #DarkFantasy #Romance #LGBT #skeletonsAuthor Louis Evans is a passionate advocate of skeleton-based urban transit. His work has appeared in Vice, The Magazine of Fa

Coward's Corsage

Feb 20th, 2024 11m 24s

Is it cheating to use a love charm? Jasmine Arch reads. #gaslamp #fantasy #romance Author Julia LaFond got her master’s in geoscience from Penn State University. Her fiction has been featured in venues such as and In her spare time, Jul

A Woman of Good Manners by Nikki Lynn Blakely

Feb 20th, 2024 13m

A courtship as a series of fatal picnics. Laura Lee Bahr reads. #horror #humorAuthor Nikki Lynn Blakely lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and enjoys crafting stories that evoke smiles, tears, laughter, the occasional eye roll, and someti

Thread in the Mouth by Ryan Cole

Oct 31st, 2023 43m 50s

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Do you dare to find the witch in the woods? Sarah Golding reads.Author Ryan Cole is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Virginia with his husband and snuggly pug child. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Cont

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Coming Soon to the Gallery

Oct 30th, 2023 2m 2s

SUBMISSIONS CLOSED. All manuscripts have been responded to. Get in touch if you did not get your letter.

The Ghost Extinguishers by Gelett Burgess

Mar 31st, 2023 32m 39s

Got Ghosts? We are ready to believe you. Wulf Moon reads.Author Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) earned a degree from MIT then escaped west and became part of the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s as an artist, poet, author

SUBMISSIONS OPEN

Feb 15th, 2023 4m 30s

We are reading your manuscripts Feb 14 - April 15, 2023. Please read the guidelines at GalleryCurious.com before submitting. Music: Roller Rink Bossa, Showbiz, by Brett Van Donsel

A Journey of Little Profit by John Buchan

Dec 31st, 2022 35m 14s

It's Christmas, so we're back in New Babbage for a very Scottish weird tale. Vic Mullin reads. #Christmas #Scotland #weird00:01 Tuning the Interocitor00:32 Welcome to Brunel Hall02:19 Opening Epigraph02:55 The cattle market of Inverness

The Macabre Dance of the Fiddler and Kore by Atalanti Evripidou

Nov 1st, 2022 49m

Would you loan your dearly departed some skin?S Michael Allen Rose reads. Content note for kink #darkFantasy #weirdDetective #skeletons00:20 welcome02:02 story begins13:53 on your wayAuthor Atalanti Evripidou is a social psychologist

An Odd Question by Ian Michael Bavian

Oct 24th, 2022 15m 45s

Remember playing Call of Cthulhu table-top? It’s time to make your sanity roll. Isaiah Plovnick reads. #cosmicHorror #dieselpunk #noire #humor00:20 welcome02:02 story begins13:53 on your wayAuthor Ian Michael Bavian is a new writer lo

Changelings by Rachel Ayers

Aug 30th, 2022 17m 31s

So you think you know what really happened in Hamelin? #darkFantasy #fairytaleWelcome 00:20Author bio 2:00Changelings 02:41Artifacts of Hamelin 14:00Narrator bio 15:39On your way 16:27Author Rachel Ayers lives in Alaska, where she

The Seventh Wife's Confession by M.E. Bronstein

1 Jun 15th, 2022 42m 50s

We've had complaints about the horror themes, so here's a fairy tale to lighten the room. Alex Ford reads. #steampunk #darkFantasy #fairytaleAuthor M.E. Bronstein is a PhD student in Comparative Literature who writes short stories when she

Silvergloom by Jonathan Duckworth

Apr 19th, 2022 20m

The consumptive poet Keats makes a strange encounter while voyaging to Naples. #paranormal #historicalAuthor Jonathan Duckworth is a completely normal, entirely human person with the right number of heads and everything. He received his MFA

The Prince in the Darkness by Phil Margolies

Mar 15th, 2022 41m 27s

A carnie, a Romanian, and a zombie ape. What could possibly go wrong? Kris Law reads. #1930s #Odd #HorrorAuthor Phil Margolies writes science fiction and fantasy, and dabbles in horror. His short fiction has appeared in Brave New Girls, The

Seven Cups of Tea by Gwen C. Katz

Mar 4th, 2022 36m 43s

A steampunk'd fairy tale retold for troubled times. Jasmine Arch reads. #Steampunk #FairytaleGwen C. Katz is an author, artist, and game designer who lives in Pasadena, California with her husband and a revolving door of transient animals.

Walking The Line by William Stiteler

Feb 23rd, 2022 34m 28s

Be cautious of the paths you tread. Lou J Berger reads. Mild content note for language. #Steampunk #WeirdWest #CosmicHorror Author William Stiteler lives somewhere in Central New York, and has been published in places such as Grimdark Maga

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Feb 16th, 2022 4m 30s

We are reading your manuscripts Feb 14 - April 15, 2023. Please read the guidelines at GalleryCurious.com before submitting. Music: Roller Rink Bossa, Showbiz, by Brett Van Donsel

Appointment in Time by James Dorr

Feb 12th, 2022 16m 5s

What a year. Alasdair Stuart reads. Strong content note for horror/gore. #Steampunk #Horror Indiana (USA) author James Dorr's most recent book is a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press, TOMBS: A CHRONICLE OF LATTER-DAY TIMES OF EARTH. Wo

Within My Reach by Ola Al-Fateh

Nov 30th, 2021 32m 13s

All monsters are elusive, some more so than others. None of them, however, are secretive about their existence. Michael Whitehouse reads. #DarkFantasyBorn to immigrant parents, author Ola Al-Fateh has strongly connected to the merging of d

The Peculiariity of Two by Liam Hogan

Nov 27th, 2021 22m 59s

Do monsters stay monsters after the story ends? A little something to go with your post-Halloween melancholy. Matt Dovey reads.Author Liam Hogan is an award winning short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and Be

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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (Dimension X)

Nov 1st, 2021 25m 6s

Day of the Dead - when voices long past rise to speak again. With Mars feeling ever more approachable, I thought I'd dig up the Dimension X adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Listen today, for on the morrow, these voices

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The Horla by Guy de Maupassant (Mystery in the Air)

Nov 1st, 2021 24m 1s

Day of the Dead - when voices long past rise to speak again.Mystery In The Air's 1948 radio adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's The Horla, performed by often-imitated voice of the unwholesome Peter Lorre. Listen today, for on the morrow the

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The Chicken Heart by Arch Obler

Oct 31st, 2021 7m 40s

Happy Halloween!Legendary golden age radio writer Arch Obler revived his famous 1937 Lights Out! script for this 1962 recording from his Drop Dead! anthology record album (you know, vinyl?)Presented here as an annual Halloween treat