Auditory Anthology

A cynical man's drunken rants about Martians secretly controlling the world take a sudden turn when he realizes the reporter he's been confiding in might be one of the few humans who can actually see them.

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A news reporter finds herself investigating a series of tragedies across the city, only to discover a silent, mysterious dog who always appears at the scene just before a death occurs.

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a li...

When alien invaders attempt to subdue a small group of backwoods humans with their advanced weaponry, they discover that their plans have been foiled by what they believe is the planet's formidable defenses, and one simple-minded man.

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A skeptical woman who believes there’s no such thing as ghosts moves into an old apartment, where her bathroom mirror begins commenting on her daily life

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.

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When the last man on Earth receives a knock on the door, he discovers the horrifying truth about humanity's new place in the universe.

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Four unfortunate elders are given a second chance at youth, but will their old habits leave them trapped in a cycle of regret?

Originally published anonymously in 1837, it was later published in Hawthorne's collection Twice-Told Tales, also in 1837

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A staid chemistry teacher's quiet life is upended when a beautiful, scantily clad alien woman from the Pleiades, on a mission to catalog Earth's "primitive" social customs, invites herself to live with him, just as his big career break arrives.

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While cleaning out her late father's house, a grieving woman discovers an old audio cassette that appears to be a recording of her own future.

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.

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In a future where war is simulated through electrohypnosis to curb real-world violence, a young man undergoes his "combat experience" only to discover the true, lasting cost of engineered peace.

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Dr Homer Green used his invention, a rejuvenation treatment that lets your body always heal any damage to it perfectly, on himself. That was on September 11, 1943. Now it’s August 4, 2170 – more than 200 years later. He looks exactly the same.

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A farmer tries to dissuade his son from pursuing a life as a space adventurer, hiding a terrible secret about his own past that he fears will forever bind his son's fate to his.

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A nursing student encounters a quiet teenager in a psych ward who claims his reflection is learning, watching, and slowly preparing to take his place in the real world.

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little faster.

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On a seemingly utopian "Dream Planet" where every need is met, a benevolent leader's carefully constructed paradise unravels when his pampered inhabitants, starved for purpose, rebel against a life without work or struggle.

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A man's promising first date takes a bizarre turn when the charming woman he met begins sending him strange texts that lead him to a shocking and impossible truth about who she really is.

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a...

A jaded morgue ship attendant, desperately searching for his lost son, uncovers a 300-year-old mystery when he revives a perfectly preserved corpse that holds the key to ending a brutal interstellar war.

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When a nursing graduate moves into her first apartment, the unsettling sounds from the sealed-off attic above her—where no attic should be—lead her to a chilling discovery about the building's tragic past.

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help th...

When a curious beer truck driver accidentally creates a strange, water-hungry jelly in his kitchen, a lost weekend spirals into a terrifying discovery that could doom all of Lake Michigan—and maybe a whole lot more.

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A cynical local news reporter investigates an alleged alien abduction in a quiet suburban cul-de-sac, only to uncover a hilariously mundane truth behind the "otherworldly" events.

Tales From The Blue Line: Every morning at three, Mason and Ally ride the Blue Line into downtown Chicago together. The train brings out its own brand of weird, which has led to Mason and Ally trading spooky stories to help their commute pass a little ...

When a vicious alien monster crash-lands in the Florida Keys, two telepathic researchers and a reclusive hermit find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against a creature far more terrifying than they could ever imagine—or so they think.

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