First published in 1902 by Harper’s Monthly and reprinted in his third collection of short stories The Lady of the Barge (also, 1902). The Monkey’s Paw is one of the most well-known, adapted, and influential horror short stories ever written. An old war acquaintance brings a furry talisman in the shape of a monkey’s paw,…

Arthur Machen, the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He has garnered a reputation as one most influential classic horror story authors to have ever written. Summary: Leonard, a farm hand, after a day in the city retires to his small house for…

First published in the émigré journal Posledniya Novosti in Paris in 1931. Translated by the author and his son, the story was published in English in The New Yorker in May, 1963, and later added to A Russian Beauty and Other Stories.Three men traverse an area of unknown country, the tropical hell of Badonia, in…

Originally published under the title “A Moonlight Fable” in the April 10, 1909, number of Collier’s Weekly.A young man acquires a hand-woven suit from his mother, and, becoming obsessed with its beauty over a period of days, he flees into the night with it.Narration, Sound Design, and Music by Jon Fredette.

First published in Zenith in February 1942 and later revised and published in Future in January of 1952. Collected in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1955.Upon discovering a terminal illness that will kill him within a year, an influential cult leader known only as “The Master” enters deep cryosleep for a century in hopes…

Ellis Peters (nom de plume of Edith Pargeter) was an English writer, and the short story (originally titled Guide to Doom) was first published in Alfred Hitchcocks: Stories that Scared Even Me in 1967.As a tour guide of an old fortified mansion finishes his last tour of the day, he is approached by a mysterious…

Originally posted on Creepypasta on November 23, 2009 by an anonymous author.An experiment in the early 80s attempts to establish contact with God by depriving a test subject of all senses.Narration and Sound Design by Jon Fredette.

Original Spanish title: “La escritura del dios”First published in the literary magazine Sur in 1949, and later reprinted in The Aleph.An incarcerated magician seeks a divine script that will allow him the omnipotence to free himself and avenge the destruction of his pyramid at Qaholom.Voice: Nik MarvinNarration, Music, Sound Design by Jon Fredette

Originally published in 1991 through OMNI magazine.Two multidimensional aliens deliberate over contacting the human race once they realize their entirely made out of meat.Aliens: Mats Bennett and Jon FredetteSound Design by Jon Fredette

First published in the San Francisco Newsletter of December 25, 1886 and was later reprinted as part of Bierce’s collections Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Can Such Things Be?A man from the ancient city of Carcosa awakens from a sickness-induced sleep to find himself lost in an unfamiliar wilderness.Music, Sound Design, and Narration by…