Apr 28, 2026
In Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods, the idyllic setting of the Adirondack mountains conceals something sinister. One child going missing is a tragedy–but two children–and from the same family is a disturbing pattern. A young investigator is pretty sure that the wealthy Van Laar family is concealing something, if...
Apr 14, 2026
Heads up, listeners. The ghosts of Hill House invaded this recording, so you might hear some audio glitches.
In Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Eleanor Vance has just buried her ailing elderly mother when she is invited to be part of a psychic investigation at a notoriously haunted house. The plan is...
Mar 31, 2026
In Mo Moshaty’s short story “Dandelion Wine” in her collection Clairviolence, a long married couple have a fight over a plum cake won in a bingo game that just might be the end for the two of them.
Recommended in this episode: Lindy Ryan’s Dollface, Gwendolyn Kiste’s In These Gilded Ghostly Hearts...
Mar 17, 2026
In Play Nice by Rachel Harrison, carefree Clio Barnes’s life is interrupted when her estranged mother dies, and she and her sisters inherit their childhood home. Her plans to renovate the old place and sell it quickly fall apart when the demons from her past refuse to be ignored.
Recommended in this episode: Good...
Mar 3, 2026
In Sarah Orne Jewett’s short story “The Landscape Chamber,” a woman travelling alone, in search of adventure, finds herself off the beaten path. When her horse is injured, she seeks help at an old manor tucked away in the country, seemingly forgotten by time. There, she meets an old man and his lonely daughter....