Originally published by Esquire in 1954.Summary: While at dock, a passenger of a banana boat encounters a mad, weary traveller seeking passage away from the terrors he experienced on a lost expedition.Dr. Goodbody played by Hunter Hash.Narration, Sound Design, and Composition by Jon Fredette.

Summary: A psychopath finds brief reprieve from a prolonged depression in a Parisian daredevil’s act.The Cyclist played by Tony Wolf. Narration, Sound Design and Composition by Jon Fredette.Jeanne Mareteux Level (1875-1926) was a doctor and author of some 700 ‘conte cruel’, many of which were adapted for performance at the infamous Grand Guignol theatre in…

Summary: With his imagination, a sickly boy creates his own religion, worshipping a merciless and vengeful god, to help him cope with his dull, depressive existence.Originally written by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) between 1900 and 1911 and initially published in his book The Chronicles of Clovis. It has been adapted for opera, film, radio and…

Summary: A baby and her mother are visited at home by a gift-bearing stranger in a post-apocalyptic dystopia.Mark Slade has appeared in numerous publications such as The Stray Branch, Weird Year and Wicked Gardens. He has written/and created such audio shows as Blackout City, The Sundowners and written for audio shows The Curiosity Peddler and…

Summary: A man encounters an isolated stranger who lives at the edge of his village and discovers there is more to the stranger than he first surmised.John Davys Beresford (17 March 1873 – 1 February 1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and some short stories in the horror story…

Summary: The fate of humankind hinges on informational broadcasts from the Emergency Alert System about an unknown pathogen outbreak.I decided to write a short story and keep the podcast going while I am away from my home system and incapable of recording my voice.Story, composition and sound design by Jon FredetteSoundcloud (Overflow Downloads): https://soundcloud.com/the-oddcast-2/the-vectorBandcamp (Lossless…

Summary: Peyton Farquhar, a plantation owner in his mid-thirties, is being prepared for execution by hanging from an Alabama railroad bridge during the American Civil War.Background Info: Originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, it was first collected in Bierce’s 1891 book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. The story, which is…

Summary: In the 1940s, Russian scientists kept 5 men awake for 15 straight days. The results were horrifying.Background Information: This story was taken from the horror site Creepy Pasta, and is one of the more celebrated stories on the site. To my knowledge, the author is still unknown to this day.Narration and Sound Design by…

Summary: the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurred early on in World War I when he was a merchant marine officer and adrift on the open ocean.Written in July 1917, one of the first stories HP Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published…

Summary: A man encounters a terrific monster and believes it to be an omen of his own death.Background Information: “The Sphinx” was only published once, in Philadelphia’s Arthur’s Ladies Magazine during January of 1846. The story takes place right outside of New York City, where Poe was living with Virginia at the time. The story…