Show Notes
📍USA.
✍️ Today's tale is by Asher Ellis, teaching us that karma has a way of settling the score. Carlos would never have guessed how this job was going to end. Not in a million years. It was supposed to be easy. Hijack the yacht of some playboy the world wouldn't miss and make out like bandits. But things don't exactly go to plan.
Other works by Asher Ellis:
THE REMEDY published by Full Fathom Five,
which two-time Bram Stoker award winner, Brian Keene, described as
"The cure for the trite, too-familiar trappings infecting the horror genre."
It was re-released by Deadite Press in 2023, along with its
never-before-published sequel, THE THERAPY.
CURSE OF THE PIGMAN - Crossroad Press
PET - Crossroad Press
CRACKER JACK re-released by Crystal Lake Publishing.
"EXPERTISE", a short-story which appeared in the Bram Stoker-nominated anthology,
Worst Laid Plans from Grindhouse Press.
Other audio work:
HUMOR THEORY on the Tales to Terrify podcast.
Award-winning short films: EXIT 7A, The Portal and Conjure X (available on the Tubi streaming app).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6tR5O7jOUc
MY NAME IS ART was featured in Amazon's first annual "All Voices Film Festival,"
celebrating underrepresented communities.
https://thinkspeak.org/my-name-is-art/
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📍USA ✍️ In this week's double feature we first present a tale… by Jeremy Barber an author of weird fiction and psychological horror whose stories are rooted in Massachusetts and the surrounding landscapes of New England. His fiction explores PTSD, trauma, and the unsettling moments when the ordinary turns into horror itself. Jeremy is currently at work on a collection of interconnected short horror stories set in New England. He shares with us today a tale called ‘The bellowing’. Jtbarberwrites.bsky.social
📍USA ✍️ This week's tale… written by Justin Alcalá, an award-winning Mexican-American horror and dark fiction writer. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives with Bigfoot in the mountains of North Carolina. In the past fifteen years, Justin has published four novels and over sixty short stories in American literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. He’s won several literary awards, including the Speculative Literature Foundation Finalist Award for A Dead-End Job and Horror Writers Association Grant for The Taming of the Cthulhu. You can find Justin on Instagram, Twitter, Goodreads, TikTok and Wordpress. If you enjoy this story, you can visit Justin’s previous Frightening Tale “How the Devil Bargains” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m8AjcHEjxA&t=12s
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📍USA ✍️ In this week's tale… They came looking for fortune. They made the mistake of thinking the dead wouldn't miss their things. Written by author Gaetan Battaglia. He has had one novel and ten short stories published by Pegasus Publishers, Three Ravens Publishing, Dragon Soul Press, Colp, Pesto Comics, and Red Cape Publishers. Several narrations have been adapted on YouTube by channels such as Grimms Library and DarkLittleVoices, among others.
📍CAN ✍️ This week's episode marks the 150th episode. A story written by M. G. Wilhelm. Maddie had grown up hunting down geocaches with her Dad. It was their special time together. Years later, after Maddie's dad had passed, she decided to finish what she started and find the mythical Black Weaver Cache. A geocache with an ominous history. 🕯️Loyal Listeners, thank you for joining me once more for a tantalizing tale of the weird and paranormal. Like, subscribe, and share Frighteningtales wherever you can! 👁 For more than 130 previous episodes, visit frighteningtales.com 👁 For Show Merch visit: https://frighteningmerch.myspreadshop.ca