Katherine Quevedo | Until It Has Your Reflection

Katherine Quevedo | Until It Has Your Reflection

Author: Adamant Press January 18, 2023 Duration: 20:11
I hold the crayon to the mirror, ready to swipe it across my reflection’s neck just as my husband, Tomas, instructed. Make a quick horizontal line, then break the crayon against the glass. Snap it like you would your reflection’s neck. I’ve chosen the shade closest to my skin tone because it feels fitting for the occasion, the brown that I’d had to explain to our kindergartener was not “the skin color” crayon. Not everyone has skin as dark as ours, and some have darker. I imagine similar conversations in other households, about other crayons. ©2023 by Katherine Quevedo. Narrated by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a particular chill that comes from a well-told dark story, a feeling NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE-Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast knows intimately. This audio edition of the critically-acclaimed digital magazine, edited by Wendy N. Wagner, transforms its written pages into a haunting soundscape. Each episode is a curated descent, presenting original short stories and flash fiction that span the entire spectrum of the unsettling. You might find yourself immersed in a classic tale of a haunted house one week, only to be plunged into a tightly-wound narrative of psychological terror the next. The authors featured are as diverse as the horrors they conjure, including celebrated award-winners and compelling new voices you'll be grateful to discover. Produced by Adamant Press, this podcast serves as a monthly audio anthology for those who find fascination in the shadows. It’s more than just an audiobook experience; it’s an invitation to explore the artistry of fear, where the timeless appeal of a campfire ghost story meets the sharp edge of contemporary dark fantasy. Settle in, if you dare, and let the latest issue pull you into its depths.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)
Podcast Episodes
Bruce McAllister | The Dark Devices [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:38
At the tiny abbey in the province of Tasselt—the only abbey in the region with both an abbot and his monks and a dozen nuns as well (a temporary matter that had somehow become permanent)—the abbot, whose skin had gotten…
Manish Melwani | MAMMOTH [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:18
If you haven’t seen it yet, you will. | © 2024 by Manish Melwani. Read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Beatrice Winifred Iker | The Southern Bells [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:31
This poem began as a letter from a grandmother to her grandchild. It warns of uncontrollable wickedness and gifts them wisdom for how to survive despite it. | © 2024 by Beatrice Winifred Iker. Narrated by Janina Edwards.…
Victor Forna | like blood on the mouths of death [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:03
I first saw them one evening in May. I couldn’t tell what they were: small, like kids, like me, but they rustled, raffia fronds for skin. | © 2024 by Victor Forna. Narrated by Mirron Willis. Learn more about your ad choi…
Carlie St. George | Solve This One, Mrs. Miller [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:59
The question is, who dies at the end of this story? | © 2024 by Carlie St. George. Narrated by Alison Belle Bews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Daniel David Froid | An Offering from the Void [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:23
There is something uniquely squalid and sad about estate sales. To traipse through a cluttered house, one of a teeming crowd here to bear witness to the end of a life and all that it held, not to pay respect but instead…
John R. Turner | Ensabled Night [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:32
The opening line is my riff on Bach’s chorale prelude “Come, Sweet Death,” one of his most profound. | © 2024 by John R. Turner. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
James Tatam | Backseat Kiss [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:45
It didn’t come as a surprise when AJ told me she wanted to open our relationship. We’d been an item for four years, but by the middle of the third year the two of us had long since checked out. | © 2024 by James Tatum. N…
Shannon Scott | My Containment [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:03
When the American saw me sitting on a stone in the river, his mouth opened and closed, a brown trout caught on a fishing line. He kept his eyes on me as he hurried to pull off his socks and shoes, as if I would vanish ot…