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The Floodgates of Willowhill, by Mary SanGiovanni

“Everybody whose grown up in Faulkesville, well, they’ve always guessed there’s something wrong with the woods on the edge of town, the ones that border Willowhill, something people don’t like to bring up in polite company.”

Teenage Samantha keeps her nose in her books and her head in the clouds – in lands far beyond the borders of the small town of Faulkesville where she’s grown up… Where her parents mysteriously died two years ago, and where her Uncle Ted and buddy Hank Jedsoe are about to discover the real horrors that lurk in the haunted woods on the edge of town.

Episode 5 – Blind Love, by Joe R Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale

As part of “Dark Duets,” mojo storyteller Joe R Lansdale paired up with his daughter, Kasey Lansdale, to pen this tale of a monster whose power is through the eyes.

Quick witted but unlucky in love, Jana is dragged by her friend Erin to attend an ‘eye gazing party,’ a new age phenomenon run by a couple of hucksters on the far edge of a small Texas town. Jana’s skepticism turns to confusion when Erin – and all the girls at the party – are entranced by an unremarkable man “Thirteen.”

Featuring a special performance and selections of music by Kasey Lansdale.

Episode 4 – Murdered Sleep, by Kat Howard

“Sleep is dying, and has been for a long time now, through uncounted ticks of clocks and the flickers of thousands of too-brief candles.”

It’s the night of the Senior Prom, and rather than show up awkwardly, Cassie has decided to stay home with the Dark Tome. But, she soon meets a mysterious stranger with an invitation to a masquerade ball wicked and mysterious, far stranger than any rites of spring. What she learns there will reshape her thoughts on dance, if she can ever make it back.

The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe

A fresh take on Edgar Allen Poe’s classic “The Masque of the Red Death” – featuring an all-star cast of New England actors, and immersive location sound recording, and an inventive script, this production re-imagines Poe’s tale of a group of ill-fated improvisatori who take on an audience with the ‘dark prince’ who holds extravagant balls to distract the gentry from the ravages of the plague.

Produced by William Dufris and AudioComics as part of their “HorrorScopes” series. With field-recording by Fred Greenhalgh / FinalRune Productions.

Episode 3: Breathe My Name, by Christopher Golden

Being a miner is like playing Russian roulette every day of your life. Any morning you might wake up, and find the chamber with the bullet.

Tommy – the youngest in a long proud line of West Virginia coal miners – finds out what it feels like to have your card be up when an explosion traps him and a dozen other souls two miles beneath the earth.

With oxygen growing thin, their only prayer might come from an old ghost story.