The Apocalypse Theater Podcast is a weekly show featuring fiction and dark fiction short stories written by Benjamin Allen. Each episode is broken up into acts and includes a Five Minutes of History segment in the middle where we feature the week's important figure or event in history.
Benjamin Allen: novelist and podcaster
Do you ever feel like you're living the same day over and over again? Every three years our University of the Seven Suns along with hundreds of other psionic schools from across the Eternium compete in a giant resource contest within the ringworlds surrounding the Dyson Sphere of Partikan. It was pretty fun until I started waking up at the beginning of the contest without knowing why. No one else seemed to know what I was talking about so I was on my own in figuring out how to break the cycle. The truth turned out to be more sinister and dangerous than I ever would have imagined. Enjoy the first few chapters of the audiobook. If you like it, check out Audible.com for the full story.
We continue Jonathan Tabith's story as he and Marissa Narcuss are captured in the city of Mecha Asche. Somehow Jonathan's energy is being drained, and the Aallandrons grow closer to learning more about where the human beings come from.
Chae Ma-Ri was just a normal school girl in South Korea until her parents are brutally murdered. A mysterious former secret agent offers to train her to get revenge, beginning a campaign that leads her into a life of organized crime within The Family.
Rictor and the crew are commissioned to retrieve one of the dangerous Remel Orb artifacts. Tribulations abound, but the real threat is much closer to home. Check out the audiobook, Dreadnaut, and my new eBook, Mind Games on December 6th for more!
Jonathan Tabith returns for another crazy episode as the king's daughter, Marissa Narcuss, has been kidnapped. Upon being tasked with her recovery, Jonathan embarks on a journey that takes him to some interesting places.
Shault and his men are ordered to protect Signoia and prevent the theft of the city's dangerous artifact, but upon arrival, he and his troops learn that they may already be too late.
After The Family leaves her to die in South Korea, Hyun Grayson travels to America to eliminate each Family member once and for all. Not for the faint of heart.
Our first story from start to finish with Elgar King. "A series of strange quest failures allows a vengeful dark psionic to acquire the Dark Scepter, a powerful artifact that even King Solomon judged too dangerous for existence. Now, he has Earth in his crosshairs. I'd help out, but I find myself somewhat preoccupied."
Quick bonus episode involving Lance Hunter's disappearance. Tune in March 30th for the Season Premier of the Podcast
What would you do if you could be someone else at any given time? Madison discovers a ring that can transform the wearer into a person of the opposite sex, only to find herself caught up in a scheme that involves two potentially dangerous individuals.
We continue the second half of Jonathan Tabith's most recent story. Jonathan begins to rise in the ranks within the Aallandron Vorago games as his fellow human beings and their towns find themselves targeted by the ruling Aallandranon people.
Alec Turner should really slow down the crime fighting and take a vacation, but when his partner is kidnapped....Oh, it is so on! Enjoy this Halloween episode that's just in time for the pumpkin season.
Jonathan Tabith's story continues with Part 3 of The Fall of the Enigma Series. As the human survivors become more desperate, the Aallandron natives become increasingly hostile. There comes a time to fight, and that time has almost arrived.
Just a quick little bonus episode with some updates about the next episode. Stay tuned! Enjoy! - Ben
After a grisly discovery, Agent Alexandra Kripke must piece the clues of a decades old mystery together in order to find a serial killer who was long believed to be dead. Listen to The House on Swanson's Landing, Episode 5, before listening to this one.
A popular arcade style VR game turns into a recruitment station when real life flying saucers begin destroying cities around the globe. Charlie must put his skills to the test in this epic episode of the podcast.
Rosco is tasked with finding and eliminating a demon from the tower of a reclusive wizard known as Pir of the Monsoon. Complications ensue. Artwork by KELLEPICS from Pixabay.com Check out EKPublishingMedia.com for more information
If you would have told me two years ago that I would both seal a monstrous demon to the Hell-Sword and be the one called to answer to The Great Old One, Cthulhu, I'd think you were trying to sell me a time machine or something because that's amazing you'd be able to know that. Let's just say Cthulhu and I have some differences to hash out this go around. Get the first book, The Last Necromancer, on Audible!Check out EKPublishingMedia.com for more information Image by D1_TheOne Music by MaxKoMusic
Rictor tries to hold the group together after Seladia is tasked with a potentially career ending hit job that causes a huge rift between the two party members. Can Rictor salvage their relationship or has the group become too fractured from the outset? Don't forget to check out The Last Necromancer on Audible! Get it free here: https://www.audible.com/pd/B08DW3RVPW/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-208789&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_208789_rh_us Or, get another audiobook free at: AudibleTrial.com/ApocalypseTheaterPodcast EKPublishingMedia.com Music: Ancient Trials by VGM Mark H Image by Mark Frost, BlackDog1966
Lance Hunter has one last mission to finish before meeting his father for New Years. It was supposed to be a simple distress signal shutdown—until the nightmares begin. Who is the mysterious woman on the other line, and what horrible event caused the Eternity Research Center to become a graveyard? Don't forget to check out The Last Necromancer on Audible! Get it free here: https://www.audible.com/pd/B08DW3RVPW/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-208789&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_208789_rh_us Or, get another audiobook free at: AudibleTrial.com/ApocalypseTheaterPodcast Runaway by Diamond Ace | https://soundcloud.com/diamond-ace-music Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US
Beyond Ochre wraps up its first season with a fourth and final episode. Nadia and Kayla part ways with Thereza and Gruff before embarking on a journey to a mysterious glass tower in the Rocky Mountains. Grab some snacks and enjoy a road trip through the Junk of the post apocalyptic US of A! Check out episodes 6, 9, and 13 to get the full Beyond Ochre story.
What kind of mischief can a hot-headed dwarf, a roguish thief, a mark-shot elven ranger, a ten year old vocal prodigy, an alcoholic priest, and a substance-addicted wizard get up to? Apparently a lot on this extended full-length Dungeons and Dragons tribute episode. Join our adventurers on a quest to find Chiron's staff within the dangerous Dark Harbinger that floats over the Adane Sea. Enjoy episode fifteen, Rictor's Gamble, of the Apocalypse Theater Podcast.
Bringing you a poetic Greek tragedy/romance short story for Valentine's Day. I hope this stand-alone romance can sate your appetite for a good audio performance. A man experiences heaven and then must realize the cold absence of this heaven. This is Episode Fourteen, Calypso - 칼립소
Happy Holiday Season to everyone from the Apocalypse Theater Podcast. Enjoy another dive into the world of Beyond Ochre.(Catch up with Episode 6 and 9 before listening to 13) Will Thereza, Nadia, and Kayla survive their trip into the heart of New York City, or will their new mysterious AI friend have bigger plans for them?
Happy Thanksgiving! Kara Moyers just wanted to enjoy her lunch and then take a nap when a strange man takes her hostage. Will she live to see Thanksgiving two days later, or is the holiday destined for tragedy? This is episode twelve. Enjoy!
Good to be back, bringing you the next chapter in The Fall of the Enigma series. Catch up by listening to Episode Eight, Ant-Lion. In this episode, Jonathan Tabith and the rest of the Enigma crew face challenges upon the surface of a new world.
A little Halloween bonus for everyone as a precursor to our latest episode, which drops Tuesday. This is a short story called, Under the Temple of Madness. Enjoy!
Beyond Ochre's story continues in Episode Nine, picking up where Episode Six's The Big Day left off. Thereza, Nadia, and Kayla are drawn into a dangerous web after they find themselves in what was once considered the greatest place on Earth.
Jonathan Tabith and his crew of 5,000 begin their venture into deep space aboard the Star Ship Enigma. As an anomaly rips their ship apart, the crew's survival hinges upon whether or not they can survive the journey to a nearby planet.
Katie Ahn is a normal girl in private school, until her consciousness is swapped with that of a benevolent creature with a message for the human race. This is Episode Seven of the Apocalypse Theater Podcast.
Episode Six of the Apocalypse Theater Podcast features an ongoing story about three sisters who must make their way across the irradiated wastes of the East Coast of the US. Beethoven's birthday was last week, so he deserves a quick historical rundown.
This is a four-part episode about a house's nightmarish history. William and his sisters find a mysterious hidden doorway in their house, and it holds many dark secrets. We also have a brief history about the great Aethalflaed at the turn of the 900s.
Episode Four of the Apocalypse Theater Podcast includes the first chapter of Ben's epic fantasy, The Last Necromancer, titled House of Horrors. We have a brief intermission with Five Minutes of History on King Alfred the Great. We finish up with an abduction story that's out of this world with Seven.
Episode Three of the Apocalypse Theater Podcast includes the short story, Nightmare on the Ben, an intermission with Five Minutes of History involving one of the most impressive shootouts in history, and then concludes with Facing Your Fear. Don't forget to subscribe and give us a good review!
Episode Two of the Apocalypse Theater Podcast features Lance Hunter's silent descent into the heart of a space ship, a brief five minutes of history on Spartacus, and then we finish up with a conversation between two hit men who happen to be brothers. Transcripts can be found at EKPublishingMedia.com Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a good review!
Bonus Episode of The Apocalypse Theater Podcast as we come to a stark realization at a certain point in time within the Milky Way. And then we have a short but lifelong flash fiction to keep your mind busy during this Thanksgiving of 2018.
Episode One of The Apocalypse Theater Podcast includes the short story, World of Glass and concludes with The Widow of the Pool. While searching houses in Montebourg, France during WW2, Hector and Rich find themselves lost in a mysterious wilderness in the past before they're ambushed. Hector flees and finds the present world to be more than he can handle.