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For John Borden, dying is the least of his worries.

It’s 1989 and John is an unscrupulous waterbed salesman sleeping through life, until he meets Claire, a beautiful psychic, at a tarot party. She draws seven cards and predicts John will suffer seven absurd events over the next seven days, culminating with a death sentence: he will die on the seventh day. But John doesn’t believe in this “psychic stuff.”

That is, until Claire’s predictions start coming true with eerie precision, forcing John to face some hard questions. Can you cheat your fate? Are there worse things than death?

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A strange plague has struck Abbesstown, NH, a sleepy farming village in the foothills of the White Mountain: Fever, the vomiting of blood, wild night terrors that wrack the victims. No medicine seems to work against it, and so the Reverend Josiah Abbess, believing something infernal is at work in his flock, begins his campaign to root out the evil. What follows becomes known as The Abbesstown Vampire Panic. 

200 years later, and the peace is once again violently shattered when a man drives his truck into the side of city hall, attacking those who come to assist him with an ax. Wild eyed and sweating blood, ranting of a coming storm, he is finally taken down by the town’s police and brought to the hospital. 

In the following days, a familiar old plague follows. In the midst of the ensuing panic, Jury Havock, scion to the Havock business empire, appears. He is cool headed. Pragmatic. Determined to get control over the sickness overtaking the population. But Corinne Abbess, the last of her disgraced bloodline, is suspicious of this would-be messiah, and becomes determined to uncover the truth about his sudden appearance in town, and all of the unbelievable events that follow.

Every night, Gabe pulls up to the same drive-thru window, and every night, the same voice on the other end is waiting; Louie. Drive Thru Magic follows two strangers who fall for each other through a speaker box, connecting, sharing their grief, and learning how to move forward as young adults in the world. Starring Briggon Snow (The Bright Sessions) as Gabe and Daniel J. Kim (Cobra Kai) as Louie. With Danielle Kennedy (The ‘Burbs) and Lauren Shippen (Two Thousand And Late). Produced by Atypical Artists and created by Briggon Snow.

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In this improvised narrative role playing podcast, come and join artists, writers, and comedians from Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Marvel Comics, and more as they fight and fumble their way across the madcap, and exceedingly rude, fantasy wasteland of Cordelia. Branson Reese and his jester's retinue, Christopher Hastings, Carly Monardo, Tim Platt, Joe Lepore, and Ali Fisher star as a group of unlikely survivors (a talking crow, a lich in a wig, a bubbly fawn, a Sasquatch punk, and a tiefling hunk, specifically) who must solve the mystery of Polaris University's vanishment and return balance and higher education to their world. It's going to be very hard and very, very, rude.

Step into the strange world of YAGA with YAGA: The Official Podcast, hosted by Carley Thorne. Join the cast and creative team as they unpack each episode, explore the mysteries of Whittock County, and uncover the secrets, strange happenings, and unsettling characters that make YAGA so captivating. With behind-the-scenes stories, Easter eggs, fan theories, and more, trust no one and welcome to the coven!

Summer, 1989, somewhere in deepest darkest England. Mockery Manor is a theme park where people disappear, and it's up to a pair of chaotic teenage twins to catch a killer.

British Podcast Awards 'Best Fiction' Nominee 2020. If you like Widow's Bay, Hot Fuzz, and Only Murders In The Building, then Mockery Manor is for you.

Mockery Manor is a full-cast production best enjoyed using headphones.

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SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

A weekly narrative horror fiction podcast. Hosted by Drew Blood, Paul J. McSorley, Erik Peabody, and Geoff Sturtevant. Made entirely by humans; no AI.

A full cast horror audio drama inspired by Robert W. Chambers’ cult weird fiction collection, The King in Yellow. Desperate to get back on the bestseller list, Dr. Molly Bedrook sifts through histories of banned literature for a topic worthy of her next book. She finds references to The King in Yellow, a stage-play so widely condemned that even she can’t get her hands on a copy. With the help of her PhD students Zee and Carl, she uncovers the unsettling stories surrounding it: stories littered with asylums, conspiracies, and untimely ends. As they dig deeper into the lives — and bizarre deaths — of the those affected by the play, they start down a dangerous, reality-bending road. But despite the many cautionary tales she’s uncovered, Molly knows her writing career can’t survive another commercial flop. And there’s one surefire path to success: locate a surviving copy of The King in Yellow. The Pallid Mask is written by Jordan Acosta, and brought to you by Alternative Stories, the creative minds behind the award-winning sci-fi audio drama, The Dex Legacy, in collaboration with Hawberk Press.