First published in the magazine Sur in 1943.Failed playwrite Jaromir Hladik is captured during the Nazi occupation of Prague in the early stages of World War II. Awaiting his execution in prison, he seeks redemption for a wasted life through contemplating his unfinished work, The Enemies.Narration, “Hladik”, Music, Sound Design by Jon Fredette.Additional Voices by…

First published in Tennyson’s first solo collection, “Poems, Chiefly Lyrical” (1830) when he was around 20 years old. One of the few sonnets Tennyson penned and with this one specifically he grossly distorts the sonnet form to better fit the horrendous mythical sea creature he describes.Narration, Sound Design and Music by Jon Fredette.

A modern folktale which takes place in a parallel-universe New York City; mysterious lunar women are hypnotized by the moon’s influence and converge at the edge of the city to undertake a clandestine task for the satellite.First written in 1968 and originally published with the rest of his cosmic tales in Le cosmicomiche (The Cosmicomics);…

“Continuidad de los parques” was originally written in Spanish and first published within the Editorial Sudamericana in 1964.Summary: A man settles down to finish reading an immersive novel and suffers the consequences of doing so.Narration, Sound Design, and Music by Jon Fredette.

First published in Crypt of Cthulhu in 1988.A man visits a nameless town and questions his existence as reality transforms into nightmare around him, leading him to a clandestine sect of dreams and dark dimensions.Narration, Sound Design, and Music by Jon Fredette

First written around March 1921, the story was first published in the June 1926 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales.Summary: a man visits an isolated castle at Kilderry, where an old friend plans to drain an ancient and locally-revered swamp bog.Narration, Sound Design, and Composition by Jon Fredette

First published in the Christmas number of The Graphic in 1897. It is credited with the creation of the subgenre depicting the “impact event” of science fiction, and is referenced in Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous with Rama”.Summary: At the turn of the 19th century, a celestial collision in our solar system first captures the attention…

The story was first published in May 1842 in Graham’s Magazine and has since been adapted in many different forms, including a 1964 film starring Vincent Price.Prince Prospero walls himself in one of his abbeys, passing the time with wealthy nobles in hedonistic masquerades, in hopes of waiting out a deadly plague known as the…

Originally published in the March 2001 edition of Esquire magazine. It was the basis for the film Memento directed by Christopher Nolan.A man with anterograde amnesia hunts for his wife’s murderer.Narration, Sound Design, Music Composition by Jon Fredette.

Originally “Las ruinas circulares”. First published in the literary journal Sur in December 1940. It was first published in English in View (Series V, No. 6 1946).An itinerant magician discovers a site of arcane, circular ruins, a forsaken temple, and finds inspiration to complete his earthly task.Narration and Sound Design by Jon Fredette.Translated by J.E.I.