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I recently interviewed Rick Gualtieri, the bestselling New Jersey author behind the Tome of Bill series, for Fearsome Fiction. Rick has built one of indie horror-comedy's most beloved franchises around Bill Ryder, a dateless gamer who gets turned into a vampire and becomes the undead world's most reluctant savior—more than a dozen novels deep and still going strong. We talked about his origin story, his writing process, the art of making horror funny without defanging it, and why comedy and horror belong together. It's a great conversation for fans of the genre and anyone curious about what it takes to build a long-running indie series from scratch. Listen wherever you get Fearsome Fiction.

Welcome back to True Crime Tuesdays on Fearsome Fiction. Today we're going deep into one of the most haunting and complicated criminal cases in recent American history—the Delphi murders. It started on a cold February afternoon in 2017 in the small town of Delphi, Indiana. Two best friends, thirteen-year-old Abby Williams and fourteen-year-old Libby German, went for a walk on a popular hiking trail near an old railroad trestle. They never came home. What followed was five years of anguish, dead ends, a viral piece of evidence the whole country watched, and then—finally—an arrest. But the story doesn't end there. Not by a long shot. This one has everything: a small-town mystery, a killer hiding in plain sight, jailhouse confessions, Norse paganism, and an appeal that's heading into court next year. Let's get into it.

Welcome to Fearsome Fiction. Today we're stepping into a New England boarding house where one room has a way of making its occupants very, very uncomfortable. "The Southwest Chamber" was written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published in 1903—and it is exactly the kind of quiet, creeping horror that gets under your skin before you realize what's happening. A dead woman's room. A succession of boarders who each try, and fail, to spend the night. And something in that room that won't stay buried. Stay with us.

You've been with Marshall James through all of it. The suspicion. The fear. The slow unraveling of everything he thought he knew about the people around him — and about himself. You followed him into the dark and waited with him there while the truth fought its way to the surface. Now we're here. The final chapters of Night Flight to Murder Town. Marshall gets his life back. The cloud that's followed him, the whispers and the doubt and the weight of being the man everyone suspected — it lifts. He is vindicated. And standing on the other side of all of it, he gets to ask the question we all ask when the worst is finally over: now what? The answer, it turns out, is New York City. A new beginning. A life rebuilt from the wreckage of the old one. And beside him through all of it — Boo. His husband. His anchor. The reason the new life is worth building at all. But New York, as it happens, is not the last chapter. It's just the one before the last chapter. Because Marshall and Boo are leaving the city now, trading its noise and its energy and its beautiful relentlessness for something quieter. Something on the water. A town called Lambertville, on the banks of the Delaware, where a different kind of life is waiting. Some of you may know that town. Some of you may even know that stretch of river. This is where Marshall James lands. This is where his story, for now, comes to rest. These are the final episodes of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller.

He looked like your neighbor. He worked as a computer programmer. He threw dinner parties for friends. But from 1971 to 1983, Randy Steven Kraft prowled the freeways of Southern California — and beyond — leaving a trail of young men's bodies in his wake. When police finally caught him, they found something almost no one expected: a coded list. Sixty-one cryptic entries, each one believed to represent a life he had taken. Investigators called it the Scorecard. More than fifty years later, victims are still being identified — and the case is still growing. This week on True Crime Tuesdays, we go deep into one of America's most prolific and least-known serial killers: the man police called the Scorecard Killer, the Freeway Killer, and the Southern California Strangler. And we ask the question that haunts investigators to this day: how many names are still on that list?

Fasten your headphones for another three chapters of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller by Mark McNease. Narration provided by Wondervox. When we left Marshall James, he was in the middle of a very bad few days in New York City. His friend Trent is dead, the murder scene has been suspiciously cleaned up, and someone has apparently lifted Marshall's driver's license — which has now turned up in a dead senator's apartment. In Chapter Thirty-Four, Marshall and Colin pay a visit to Rhonda — Colin's neighbor two floors down — to use her computer and finally open the disk that Trent died for. What they find on it is a spreadsheet of cities, money, and names that make everything a great deal more dangerous. Chapter Thirty-Five takes us back to the present in Lambertville, New Jersey, where his husband Boo has been gently lobbying for a change of scenery. He wakes up in a bed and breakfast, comes downstairs to coffee and conversation, and meets Kyle Callahan and his husband Danny Durban — hosts, innkeepers, and, as we'll come to see, people who know something about starting over in a new town. Chapter Thirty-Six continues that morning, as Marshall begins to take the measure of this quieter life and wonder whether he might actually belong in it.

This episode of The Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip pulls into Colorado, the highest state in the union, for a deep look at one of the strangest contrasts in American cryptid lore. We open with the Slide-Rock Bolter, an absurd creature from the lumber camp folklore of the early nineteen-hundreds, first documented by Minnesota state forester William T. Cox in his nineteen ten book Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods. We trace the Bolter back to its origins in the Fearsome Critters tradition, the body of tall tales that working men in American logging camps invented to entertain themselves, haze new arrivals, and put a face on the genuine dangers of life in the timber.From there, we walk through the broader folklore of the Colorado high country, including the Cornish Tommyknockers brought to the silver camps by immigrant miners in the late eighteen-hundreds, and the older Indigenous traditions of giant or hairy beings in the mountains that predate any of the European arrivals. The second half of the episode shifts from folklore into testimony, exploring the long record of wild man and Sasquatch encounter reports that have come out of the Colorado backcountry from the late eighteen-hundreds to the present day.We cover historical newspaper accounts from the central Rockies, the San Juans, Pikes Peak country, the Wet Mountains, and the Sangre de Cristos, and we move into the modern record with a series of encounter stories drawn from the broader Colorado field, including reports from the Weminuche Wilderness, the Flat Tops, the country around Mount Sopris, the Pagosa Springs area, the mining ghost towns of the San Juans, and the high passes above the San Luis Valley. The episode examines the recurring patterns that show up in the Colorado record, including elevation clusters, water corridors, the strange quality of silence that witnesses describe right before and after an encounter, the consistent pattern of avoidance behavior in the creatures themselves, and the credibility profile of the witnesses, who are overwhelmingly hunters, backpackers, rangers, ranchers, and other people with deep experience in the country they were standing in when the encounter occurred.Along the way we discuss the cultural function of folklore in dangerous places, the ways that men in mining and lumber camps used invented monsters to talk about real risks like rockslides and cave-ins, and the long, often unspoken thread of testimony from people who have walked off the Colorado high country carrying something they were never quite able to put down.Have you experienced a Bigfoot sighting, Sasquatch encounter, Dogman experience, UFO sighting, or any unexplained cryptid or paranormal event deep in the woods? We want to hear your story.Email your encounter to brian@paranormalworldproductions.com for a chance to be featured on a future episode of Backwoods Bigfoot Stories.Backwoods Bigfoot Stories is a paranormal storytelling podcast featuring real Bigfoot encounters, Sasquatch sightings, Dogman reports, cryptid experiences, and true scary stories from the backwoods.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss a chilling encounter from the forest. Listen with the lights off… if you dare.

On the evening of May 16, 2006, aspiring screenwriter Rey Rivera received a brief phone call, said "oh," and ran out of his Baltimore home. He was 32 years old, newly married, and by every account a happy man on the verge of the life he'd always wanted. Eight days later, his body was found inside a locked, abandoned conference room at the historic Belvedere Hotel — beneath a hole in the ceiling that should have been impossible to make from above. The physics didn't add up. The injuries didn't match. The detective assigned to the case said the scene looked staged and was pulled off it three weeks later. And taped to the back of Rey's computer at home was a note — typed in tiny font, folded into a strange shape, addressed to "brothers and sisters" — that opened with a Masonic phrase, referenced volcanoes and secret societies and Stanley Kubrick, and was never satisfactorily explained by anyone. This week on True Crime Tuesday, we go to Baltimore, to a fourteen-story hotel, and to one of the genuinely strangest unsolved deaths of the past twenty years. No resolution. No clean answers. Just a hole in a roof, a note that reads like a riddle, and a case the medical examiner still considers open.

Marshall is in full survival mode. With a murdered man and a ransacked apartment behind him, he recruits his unlikely new ally Colin for a reconnaissance mission to Trent Stoffer's Upper East Side building. What they find — or rather, don't find — turns everything upside down. The apartment is spotless, the bedroom pristine, and Trent, according to a very helpful man named Dennis, is alive and well in Hong Kong. The body is gone, the evidence is gone, and Marshall is left looking like a man who has lost his grip on reality. Meanwhile, in a complete change of pace, Marshall and Boo enjoy a sun-drenched afternoon in New Hope, Pennsylvania — ice cream, Main Street, and the Bucks County Playhouse — before Boo reveals the dark history of Passion House, the B&B where they're staying. A housekeeper. A famous writer. A canal. And a locked storage room upstairs that no one talks about. Back in 1992 New York, the mystery deepens. Dennis's too-smooth performance and the suspiciously immaculate crime scene tell Marshall exactly one thing: everyone is in on it. The doorman, the super, and whoever cleaned up that bedroom with professional efficiency. The only lead left is a computer disk Trent slipped him — and finding a computer to read it on.

She killed her husband with a fentanyl-laced Moscow Mule — then wrote a children's book about grief. On May 13, 2026, the same day that would have been Eric Richins' 44th birthday, a Utah judge sentenced Kouri Richins to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In this episode of True Crime Tuesdays, Mark McNease walks you through one of the most chilling cases in recent memory — a tale of debt, deception, a secret affair, and a calculated murder hiding in plain sight behind the cover of a children's book. From the first failed attempt on Valentine's Day to the fatal Moscow Mule, from the internet searches about lethal doses to the jury that deliberated less than three hours — this is a story that is almost too dark to be believed. True Crime Tuesdays is a Fearsome Fiction feature. New episodes every Tuesday.

In these three chapters of Night Flight to Murder Town, Marshall James finds himself waking up on the couch of Colin Griffin — a sharp-witted escort who becomes his unlikely confidant — and paying the price of admission: the truth. Marshall lays out his history, from his Hollywood past to the body he found that morning, and Colin listens without calling the police. Meanwhile, in a counterpoint chapter set in the present, Marshall and his partner Boo enjoy a deceptively quiet afternoon in Lambertville and New Hope — a brief, tender interlude that feels worlds away from what's unfolding in New York City. Back in the past, the stakes suddenly escalate. A breaking news report out of Manhattan reveals that Senator Daniel Roth — the powerful man Trent Stoffer had been secretly involved with — has fallen twelve stories to his death from his apartment near the United Nations. With his old flame dead and a senator now gone, Marshall grows convinced that his presence in New York is no accident. He's been here before — marked as a patsy, caught in someone else's design. And so he does what Marshall James always does: he heads straight for the scene of the crime.

Today in this special feature of the Fearsome Fiction Podcast we're offering another short story from Mark McNease's collection, 'Five of a Kind.' Jawbone tells the story of young Richard who was eighteen years old when a head-on collision on a snowy Indiana road took the lower half of his face. He survived — and that, in many ways, was the cruelest part. We Richard Krump across the decades after his accident: the surgeries that promised normalcy and delivered nothing, the friends who never showed up to his homecoming party, the little girl in a drugstore who gave him his name, and the slow, steady retreat of everyone he ever loved — until only his books, his silence, and finally his paintings remained. A haunting, deeply human story about disfigurement, isolation, and the particular cruelty of surviving intact on the inside while the world refuses to see past the outside. Jawbone begins where a young man's life as he knew it ends.

True Crime Tuesdays — A Fearsome Fiction Feature: Shot by a Killer Clown It was Memorial Day weekend, 1990, in Wellington, Florida. Marlene Warren answered her front door to find a clown holding flowers and balloons — and was shot in the face at point-blank range. The clown got back in the car and drove away. Marlene died two days later. The case had a suspect almost immediately. It had circumstantial evidence. It had motive. What it didn't have — for twenty-seven years — was enough to make an arrest. This week on True Crime Tuesdays, we follow one of the most bizarre cold cases in American history from a quiet Florida neighborhood in 1990 all the way to a courthouse in 2023, and a prison release that left a victim's family without the justice they deserved. Fearsome Fiction is produced by MadeMark Media. New episodes every Tuesday.

Welcome to Fearsome Fiction, the podcast that brings you mysteries, thrillers, rare gems, and a weekly True Crime Tuesday. Today we conclude our journey through one of the greatest locked-room mysteries ever written, with chapters 14 through 29. Published in 1907, Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room set the standard for a genre that would captivate readers for generations. A young woman is found brutally attacked inside a room locked from the inside. No one could have entered. No one could have escaped. And yet someone did both. Following the investigation is the brilliant young journalist and amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille — one of fiction's most ingenious and overlooked heroes — as he unravels a mystery that seems to defy every law of logic and nature. Now for your listening pleasure, the remaining chapters of Gaston Leroux's 'The Mystery of the Yellow Room.'

Marshall James: Chapters Twenty-Five Through Twenty-Seven Chapter Twenty-Five finds Marshall waking up in Leland's apartment the morning after a drug-fueled night he remembers all too clearly. Filled with regret, he dresses, slips out, and returns to Trent Stoffer's Upper East Side apartment — where he finds the place ransacked and Trent dead, bound and tortured in his bedroom. Knowing the police will eventually trace him to the scene, Marshall grabs a hidden computer disk from his suitcase and disappears into the New York morning — just as Carlton the doorman picks up the phone. Chapter Twenty-Six steps out of the thriller's timeline for a quieter moment, as Marshall and Boo walk the streets of Lambertville, taking in Bridge Street, the Brightside Diner, and the unhurried pace of small-town life. For the first time in a long time, Marshall feels something loosen. He begins to think Lambertville might be exactly the change he needs. Chapter Twenty-Seven brings us back to the immediate crisis. With nowhere to go and the clock ticking, Marshall makes his way to the Big Cup coffee shop in Chelsea, where he encounters Colin — a young, sharp-eyed escort with a gift for reading people. Out of options and running on fumes, Marshall accepts Colin's offer of a couch and a few hours of sleep, knowing he's going to have to tell someone the truth very soon.

True Crime Tuesdays - A Fearsome Fiction Podcast Feature: The Black Dahlia Welcome to True Crime Tuesdays. I'll be sharing a true crime story every Tuesday on Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast. Narration is provided by my own Wondervox. Fasten your headphones for one of the most famous unsolved murders in the annals of American crime - or is it American madness? They found her on the morning of January 15th, 1947. A woman walking with her daughter through a vacant lot in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. She thought at first that what she was seeing was a discarded department store mannequin. A broken one, in two pieces. It wasn't a mannequin. The body had been completely severed at the waist. Drained of blood. Cleaned. Posed with a precision that suggested not rage — but ritual. Her face had been slashed at the corners of the mouth, cutting what investigators would describe as a grotesque grin from ear to ear. She was twenty-two years old. Her name was Elizabeth Short. The press would call her the Black Dahlia — a name she never knew in life, but one that would outlast everything else about her.

Welcome to Fearsome Fiction, the podcast that brings you mysteries, thrillers, rare gems, and a weekly True Crime Tuesday. Today we continue our journey through one of the greatest locked-room mysteries ever written. Published in 1907, Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room set the standard for a genre that would captivate readers for generations. A young woman is found brutally attacked inside a room locked from the inside. No one could have entered. No one could have escaped. And yet someone did both. Following the investigation is the brilliant young journalist and amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille — one of fiction's most ingenious and overlooked heroes — as he unravels a mystery that seems to defy every law of logic and nature. Now for your listening pleasure, another three chapters of Gaston Leroux's 'The Mystery of the Yellow Room.'

Today we continue our serialized audio journey through one of the great classics of detective fiction: The Mystery of the Yellow Room, by Gaston Leroux — presented here in the Vivid Press Edition. First published in 1907, this novel gave the world one of its most enduring puzzles: a woman attacked in a room locked from the inside, with no possible means of escape for her assailant. No hidden doors. No passable windows. No explanation — until a brilliant young reporter named Joseph Rouletabille decides to find one. If you've never read it, you're in for something special. If you have, welcome back to one of the finest locked-room mysteries ever written. In today's episode, we bring you Chapters Seven through Ten.  Sit back, settle in, and enjoy "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" by Gaston Leroux. Narration provided by Wondervox.

Story: fearsome light Author: bloodscully Rating: Explicit Site link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/79090251 Read by: kristinsauter Summary: It's late at night when she says it, so low and quiet he almost misses it: “When you were missing, I thought of the last time you fucked me whenever I touched myself.” Used by the author's permission. The characters in these works are not the property of the Audio Fanfic Podcast or the author and are not being posted for profit.

Welcome back to Fearsome Fiction, and to Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller. When we last left Marshall, he was finding his footing in a New York City that was as thrilling as it was foreign — a city that moved faster than he did, that asked more of him than he expected, and that seemed to be keeping secrets at every turn. In tonight's chapters, those secrets begin to take on weight. Trent hands Marshall a small yellow envelope — a floppy disk he calls "insurance" — and refuses to say more. It's the kind of thing a man hands off only when he's afraid of what might happen to it. Or to him. Marshall puts the envelope away and goes on with his evening, because what else do you do? You put on a borrowed coat, you navigate your first New York City subway ride — tokens and all — and you head to Chelsea for what you tell yourself is just dinner. And maybe something more. What he finds at Leland's apartment, though, isn't dinner. It's a little white pill and a great deal of persuasion. And with one small word — sure — Marshall James crosses a line he can't uncross. Chapters twenty-two, twenty-three, and twenty-four. A disk full of secrets. A train into the dark. And the first of many falls to come.

Welcome to Monsters on the Edge, a show exploring creatures at the edge of our reality in forests, cities, skies, and waters. We examine these creatures and talk to the researchers studying them.Joining us on this week's show:Cryptid Comforts is the art of Lisa Russell, who specializes in designing cryptid and folklore themed plushies and pet toys. She also makes a variety of other accoutrements featuring her original art, stickers, tote bags, keychains, buttons, ect.Over the past 4 years she's expanded into the roll of Showrunner as well. Beginning with Squonkspalooza in PA, then adding Fearsome Folklore Fest in Nashville, TN last year and now adding UFO DAY in Buckhannon, WV. Each show she co-hosts with someone different and each brings its own unique experience while all are free family friendly fun.Fearsome Folklore Festivalhttps://www.instagram.com/fearsomefolklorefestivalUFO Day West Virginiahttps://www.instagram.com/ufodaywvSquonkapaloozahttps://squonkapalooza.com/Cryptid Comfortshttps://linktr.ee/cryptidcomfortsClick that play button, and let's unravel the mysteries of the UNTOLD! Remember to like, share, and subscribe to our channel to stay updated on all the latest discoveries and adventures. See you there!Join Barnaby Jones each Monday on the Untold Radio Network Live at 12pm Central – 10am Pacific and 1pm Eastern. Come and Join the live discussion next week. Please subscribe.We have ten different Professional Podcasts on all the things you like. New favorite shows drop each day only on the UNTOLD RADIO NETWORKTo find out more about Barnaby Jones and his team, (Cryptids, Anomalies, and the Paranormal Society) visit their website www.WisconsinCAPS.comMake sure you share and Subscribe to the CAPS YouTube Channel as wellhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs7ifB9Ur7x2C3VqTzVmjNQ

Gaston Leroux published The Mystery of the Yellow Room in 1907, and it's been quietly influencing mystery writers ever since. In this episode we dig into chapters 1 through 6 — the impossible crime at the Château du Glandier, the locked room that shouldn't have an answer, and the arrival of the irrepressible young journalist Joseph Rouletabille, who is eighteen years old and already the smartest person in the room. This is the book that shaped Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, and the entire locked-room mystery tradition. It holds up beautifully, and it's a lot of fun. Get your copy — ebook and audiobook available now:

In the "Forged by Fire" series, we follow David through the ultimate crucible: the transition from a hunted fugitive in the wilderness of 1 Samuel to the established King of Israel in 2 Samuel. These messages explore how God uses seasons of intense pressure, betrayal, and waiting to refine the character of His people. From the caves of Engedi to the heights of the Davidic Covenant in 2nd Samuel 7, we see that God's primary work isn't just changing our circumstances, but shaping our hearts. Join us as we learn how the "fire" of life's trials is designed not to consume us, but to forge a faith that lasts.

Welcome back to Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast, with Night Flight to Murder Town - A Marshall James Thriller, chapters nineteen through twenty-one. It's 1992, and Marshall James is forty blocks into his first real walk through New York City — down through Chelsea, where hope is spilling out onto the sidewalk in front of every coffee bar. He's thirty-three, starting over, and beginning to believe that might actually be possible. That belief gets complicated fast. A tour of Muscles Gym leads to a dinner invitation from Leland Jenner that Marshall knows he shouldn't accept — and accepts anyway. Meanwhile, he learns that Trent has his own standing Tuesday arrangement with a certain Senator Daniel Roth. Then we jump forward. Marshall and his partner Boo arrive in Lambertville to look into the murder of a famous author — last seen alive at the bed and breakfast where they're now unpacking. The canal, the locked rooms, and a housekeeper with perfect comic timing are all waiting for them. Chapters Nineteen, Twenty, and Twenty-One. Night Flight to Murder Town.

On today's episode, we discuss how Elon Musk's tech empire is reshaping both the roads and what's under them, starting with Charlotte's first ride in a Tesla autonomously threading through Dallas rush‑hour traffic and how “Jug” (James's Tesla) handles aggressive drivers better than most humans do. The Fearsome Threesome then dig into The Boring Company's newly approved tunnel projects in cities like New Orleans and Dallas, explaining how Musk's relatively low‑cost, largely autonomous boring machines could bypass surface congestion if regulators will cooperate. From there, they bounce through a grab bag of tech topics: naming future Teslas, how fast‑charging and autonomy might change commuting, and what an eventual web of electric tunnels could mean for urban design. In the back half, the conversation turns to digital privacy and “burner” tech, using a real high‑school case where a student left a burner phone filled with a teacher's photos on her desk to explore how traceable “anonymous” devices actually are through point‑of‑sale data, activation records, and IP logs. Dwayne and Mark lay out how investigators could still unmask the prankster, while James keeps circling back to the core question of what, legally, counts as a crime versus something that's just deeply creepy and grounds for school discipline. Throughout, the crew mix serious concerns about surveillance, safety, and stalking with their trademark humor, local PJ's Coffee ad‑reads, and side riffs about naming cars after blue‑footed boobies and grinning every time someone says, “I'm taking the Jug.” Don't miss it!

Welcome to Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast and another three chapters of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller. Marshall James arrives in New York and gets his first look at Muscles, the gym where he'll be working, courtesy of Trent. He's told the previous manager had to go away and has not been seen since. The new one, Leland, can't quite hide his interest in Marshall. And Trent makes it clear, without raising his voice, that everyone in the room knows exactly where the lines are. New York is a city that demands a verdict, and Marshall's is immediate. He loves it, against his better judgment. But love doesn't mean safety. Trapped in Trent's luxury apartment with a man whose pager never stops buzzing and whose overseas calls carry the unmistakable sound of crime, Marshall knows he needs to run. He just needs money first, and a map. Meanwhile, back in the future, Marshall and his husband Boo arrive at a bed and breakfast in Lambertville. Their host Kyle Callahan jokes that their room is the "murder suite" and it's been been good for business. Marshall will soon learn the truth of it, as they explore the river town they just might move to.

This week we're recapping Round 4 of the 2026 Horror Games as we break down the Egregious Eight and prepare to enter the Fearsome Four. We revisit the most creative kills across each matchup, debate the biggest upsets including Art the Clown vs. Jason Voorhees, and honor the fallen tributes from every district. Vote in the Horror Games Leave a Voicemail

Fatal Mistake opens in a dying, collapsed world — a ruined island city divided between the fortified enclave of Eastward, where the privileged few cling to order, and the brutal wastelands outside its walls: the Ruins and the Slopes, where survival is the only law. Two storylines run in parallel. In the present, we meet Harry Hell — a former elite assassin who has spent five years hunting the most dangerous woman alive: a killer known only as Nectar. The story begins with her turning the tables on two of his men sent to find her, slitting one's throat and sending the other back with a message. Harry is cold, purposeful, and consumed by a single obsession — avenging the death of Raul, his partner and the only person he ever loved, who Nectar killed. Running alongside that is the origin story of both characters. Harry was born Harold Hellerman, the privileged twin son of a ruthless banker, handed over to Control — the island's iron governing body — as a teenager to be trained as an Eliminator, their word for assassin. His twin Elliot went with him. They were the best of the best, shaped from childhood into something barely human. Harry is cold and questioning; Elliot is eager and thrilled by the violence in a way that quietly disturbs his brother. Nectar's story is the mirror image. Born on a factory floor to a mother who disappeared and left her to fend for herself in the Ruins, she was found by an old seer called Witch Woman, who recognized something extraordinary and terrifying in the child and trained her into a legend. By the time she was a teenager she was already feared. By adulthood she was untouchable. By the end of chapter ten, the two worlds are on a collision course neither can escape — and we understand that what's coming isn't just a fight to the death. It's the only ending two people like this were ever going to have.

In addition to my weekly 3-chapter installments of 'Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller,' I'm offering up three extra-long listens of 'Fatal Mistake: A Harry Hell Novella.' It's the first of three novellas planned that take us on the wild journey that is Harry Hell's life. Queer, dystopian, fearsome. Fatal Mistake opens in a dying, collapsed world — a ruined island city divided between the fortified enclave of Eastward, where the privileged few cling to order, and the brutal wastelands outside its walls: the Ruins and the Slopes, where survival is the only law. Two storylines run in parallel. In the present, we meet Harry Hell — a former elite assassin who has spent five years hunting the most dangerous woman alive: a killer known only as Nectar. The story begins with her turning the tables on two of his men sent to find her, slitting one's throat and sending the other back with a message. Harry is cold, purposeful, and consumed by a single obsession — avenging the death of Raul, his partner and the only person he ever loved, who Nectar killed.

Welcome back to Fearsome Fiction, and to Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller. When we last left Marshall, he was stepping into a world he wasn't sure he could step back out of. Now in New York City he's about to find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Chapter Thirteen drops Marshall into Trent's world with all its chrome and white leather and carefully curated secrets. The apartment on the Upper East Side tells you everything you need to know about how far Trent has come, and how far he's willing to go to stay there. Chapter Fourteen takes us downtown to the Village in all its complicated glory. The AIDS crisis hangs over everything like bad weather. The neighborhood is changing, the gays are moving north to Chelsea, and the yuppies are moving in behind them. Trent walks him through his little empire , a bar called Tipsy's, a gym called Muscles, and the growing sense that whoever Trent is laundering money for is not someone you want to disappoint. Chapter Fifteen brings us forward in time to Lambertville, New Jersey where Marshall and Boo arrive at Passion House Bed and Breakfast. A man named Kyle Callahan tends flowers on the porch. His handyman Justin helps. His husband Danny waits inside. It appears a new day may be at hand.

In addition to my weekly 3-chapter installments of 'Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller,' I'm offering up three extra-long listens of 'Fatal Mistake: A Harry Hell Novella.' It's the first of three novellas planned that take us on the wild journey that is Harry Hell's life. Queer, dystopian, fearsome. Fatal Mistake opens in a dying, collapsed world — a ruined island city divided between the fortified enclave of Eastward, where the privileged few cling to order, and the brutal wastelands outside its walls: the Ruins and the Slopes, where survival is the only law. Two storylines run in parallel. In the present, we meet Harry Hell — a former elite assassin who has spent five years hunting the most dangerous woman alive: a killer known only as Nectar. The story begins with her turning the tables on two of his men sent to find her, slitting one's throat and sending the other back with a message. Harry is cold, purposeful, and consumed by a single obsession — avenging the death of Raul, his partner and the only person he ever loved, who Nectar killed. By the end of chapter ten, the two worlds are on a collision course neither can escape — and we understand that what's coming isn't just a fight to the death. It's the only ending two people like this were ever going to have.

Welcome back to Fearsome Fiction, and to Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller. In the next three chapters, Marshall's fresh start in New York takes a sharp, unsettling turn. What begins as a nostalgic breakfast in a familiar Manhattan diner becomes something far more dangerous when Trent finally hints at the truth behind his sudden wealth. Laundromats? Not exactly. And the "job" he has in mind for Marshall may come with consequences neither of them can fully control . As the charm of Trent's polished world gives way to whispers, bodyguards, locked lobbies, and carefully managed secrets, Marshall realizes he may have stepped into something darker than he imagined. And just when the walls begin to close in, we shift—back to Lambertville. Back to Boo. Back to the choices that will define what kind of man Marshall becomes. A new city. A dangerous offer. And a past that refuses to stay in the rearview mirror. Settle in… the flight's about to get turbulent.

Welcome back to the Fearsome Fiction Podcast. One of my offerings is the weekly serialization of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller, book 4. This week, we dive into Chapters Seven through Nine of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller. Marshall leaves behind Hollywood—and a heartbreaking goodbye—to chase a new life in New York City. But from a turbulent red-eye flight to a sunrise over Manhattan, it's clear this isn't just a fresh start. With Trent waiting at the gate, a mysterious chauffeur, and whispers of danger already in the air, Marshall's arrival in the City may be the beginning of something far more complicated—and far more dangerous—than he ever imagined. Let's step into the night flight… and what's waiting on the other side.

Welcome back to the Fearsome Fiction Podcast. One of my offerings is the weekly serialization of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller, book 4. This week Chapters Four through Six take us from the fading shadows of Los Angeles to the restless pulse of New York—and toward a future neither Marshall nor Boo can quite see coming. Marshall says goodbye to a dying friend and the ghosts of his Hollywood past, turns down one last temptation on a city bus, and boards a flight east with more regret than luggage. Years later, settled into marriage and New York life, he finds himself facing a different kind of fear: leaving behind the city that became his identity. Love, loss, survival, and the uneasy sense that life is about to shift again—these chapters mark the end of one era and the trembling beginning of another.

Mysteries. Thrillers. Rare Finds. I've renewed, refreshed, and rebranded my fiction podcast, and I'm thrilled to welcome you to the new Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast. Each week I'll be sharing several chapters of my own harrowing fiction, the kind of stories that creep under your skin and refuse to leave, along with rare and forgotten gems, and select works from other authors whose voices deserve to be heard in the dark. This week: Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 1 - 3) Marshall James returns in Night Flight to Murder Town, Book 4 in the series. He's thinking about leaving New York City with his husband for a quieter life, away from the relentless pace of the nation's largest city. But how did he get here in the first place? After three stories detailing his harrowing Hollywood past — where lovers, losers, and more than one serial killer nearly ended his life before he could make something of it — Marshall finally tells us how and why he left LaLa Land for Gotham. This is the origin story beneath the scars. The turning point. The night everything changed.  

On today's episode, we discuss James's new M‑series iPad and how modern tablets now function as near‑full computers, especially when paired with keyboards, mice, and pro apps like Word and Acrobat. The conversation quickly shifts to Teslas and self‑driving tech, with stories of how fast human driving skills atrophy, how FSD handles rain, potholes, and surprise hazards better than most people, and why the hosts are convinced that within a decade nearly all trucks and many cars will be automated. From there, they zoom out to Elon Musk's broader ambitions: a Moon Base Alpha with domed habitats and rail‑gun satellite launchers, rapid‑reuse rockets, Starlink's dense satellite web, and X as a potential low‑friction global financial platform that could undercut traditional banks while dovetailing with Bitcoin and crypto. Mark breaks down why Bitcoin's mining cost now nears its market value, what that implies about price floors and energy use, and how mining once drove his home power bill to two or three times normal. In the AI segment, the trio tackles autonomous surgery and welding robots, AI‑assisted coding with tools like Claude, Grok, and “vibe code,” social‑media worlds where AI agents train themselves and each other, and the cultural fallout from parasocial AI companions losing the ability to say “I love you.” They close by coining “glass holes” for people abusing smart glasses to record everyone, warning listeners that every profession—from truckers and diesel mechanics to window washers and even medical‑malpractice lawyers—will be reshaped by robots and AI, and urging younger workers to master both their craft and AI tools so they can ride the wave instead of being wiped out by it. Don't miss it!

In this episode, we examine An American Crime (2007), a harrowing film based on one of the most disturbing true crime cases in American history. The movie follows the story of Sylvia Likens, a teenage girl left in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski while her parents traveled for work. What begins as a temporary living arrangement quickly spirals into unimaginable cruelty, as Gertrude, her children, and neighborhood kids participate in escalating physical and psychological abuse. We also dive into the real-life case that inspired the film, exploring what actually happened to Sylvia Likens in 1965 and how closely the movie follows the facts. This episode discusses the social conditions, power dynamics, and warning signs that allowed the abuse to continue unchecked, as well as the legal consequences that followed. While deeply unsettling, this story raises critical questions about accountability, community responsibility, and how extreme harm can occur in plain sight. Listener discretion is strongly advised.Sources:Torture Mom - Ryan Green https://people.com/sylvia-likens-abuse-caretaker-orchestrated-8752827WikiAn American CrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The meeting discussed various topics, including Glenn Cox's solar panels, which melted ice despite cold weather. Dwayne shared his experience with a propane-powered space heater maintaining a warm household. The group also discussed the impact of bad weather on power restoration, with estimates of power returning by Wednesday night. They debated the reliability of military-spec equipment versus commercial products. The conversation also touched on political issues, including the manipulation of politicians like Tim Walz, the potential for Trump to leverage his influence, and the challenges of voting machine integrity. Additionally, they mentioned the potential collapse of the media and Hollywood industrial complexes.

On todays show James Glenn and Dwayne covered various topics, including the military's decision to stop using the SIG 220 due to accidental discharge, the severe winter conditions in Louisiana, and the challenges of maintaining power and water during the storm. They also discussed the political unrest in Minnesota, the use of the Signal app for coordinating protests, and the involvement of Somali fraud. Additionally, they mentioned the impact of the storm on power outages, with 100 million Americans affected and significant infrastructure damage. The conversation also touched on the funeral of Scott Adams and the political implications of recent events.

The true story behind The Girl From Plainville, the chilling real-life case that sparked national debate about responsibility, mental health, and the power of words. In 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy III died by suicide in a Massachusetts parking lot. In the months leading up to his death, Roy had been in an intense, mostly digital relationship with 17-year-old Michelle Carter — a relationship later revealed through thousands of text messages. Prosecutors argued that Carter's messages didn't just witness Roy's struggles, but actively encouraged his death, including a final phone call in which she told him to get back into his carbon-monoxide-filled truck. Carter's eventual conviction for involuntary manslaughter raised unprecedented legal and ethical questions: Can someone be held criminally responsible for another person's suicide? We explore the facts of the case, the court's controversial ruling, and how this tragedy continues to shape conversations around mental health in the digital age.Sources:Dateline:Reckless Michelle Carter: Love, Texts, and Deathhttps://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a37499262/where-is-michelle-carter-now-texting-suicide/https://www.masslive.com/politics/2022/03/conrads-law-bill-created-after-michelle-carter-texting-suicide-case-still-not-passed-case-gets-looked-at-through-new-lens-of-hulus-the-girl-from-plainville.htmlhttps://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Conrad_RoySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

AP's Lisa Dwyer reports that sharks teeth could get a bit softer... but not for the right reason.

Talhotblond is a 2012 Lifetime made-for-television movie based on a shocking real-life internet love triangle that ended in murder. The film dramatizes how online anonymity, emotional insecurity, and deception spiraled into deadly violence.The story centers on Thomas Montgomery, a middle-aged, married factory worker who is dissatisfied with his life and seeks escape through online chat rooms and poker sites. There, he reinvents himself as a younger man, claiming to be a U.S. Marine named “Tommy.” Using this false identity, he begins an online relationship with a young woman known by the screen name “talhotblond.”Unbeknownst to Montgomery, one of his younger coworkers, Brian, is also communicating with the same girl online. Unlike Montgomery, Brian is honest about who he is, and his growing connection with “talhotblond” triggers intense jealousy in Montgomery. As the online relationships deepen, Montgomery's lies multiply, and his emotional stability begins to unravel.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast episode explores the tragic true story of Nick Markowitz, a 15-year-old boy whose life was taken after being used as leverage in a reckless dispute that spiraled out of control.When a conflict involving his older half-brother and a local drug dealer escalates, Nick is pulled into a situation he had no part in creating. What starts as a misguided attempt to intimidate someone quickly becomes a tragedy driven by fear, ego, and the inability of the adults involved to stop what they started.The episode also examines how this case entered popular culture through the 2006 film Alpha Dog. While the movie brought national attention to the crime, it also raised difficult questions about storytelling, responsibility, and whose perspective gets remembered. We compare the film's portrayal of events with the real case, including criticism from Nick's mother, Susan Markowitz, who later wrote My Stolen Son to reclaim her child's story from sensationalized narratives.Sources:My Stolen Son: The Nick Markowitz Story by Susan Markowitz w/ Jenna Glatzer https://allthatsinteresting.com/nicholas-markowitzAlpha Dog https://allthatsinteresting.com/jesse-james-hollywoodhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Doghttps://www.independent.com/2009/06/21/witness-rundown-hollywood-trial/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-nov-01-me-64254-story.htmlhttps://www.independent.com/2009/06/10/ben-markowitz-on-stand/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, we explore the real-life case of Susan Wright, a Texas woman whose story captured national attention and later inspired the Lifetime made-for-TV movie Blue-Eyed Butcher. We walk through Susan's background, her marriage to Jeff Wright, and how a seemingly ordinary suburban life became the center of a high-profile criminal case. Sources:https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/susan-wright-193/Snapped season 1, Episode 9 https://abc13.com/post/susan-wright-murder-trial-jeff-stabbed-husband-193-times/9184616/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wright_(murderer)https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/trending/blue-eyed-butcher-texas-woman-who-stabbed-husband-193-times-2003-released-parole/GMR2DZYQLVEIBCYYT7DPOB6IW4/https://6abc.com/archive/7736279/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I Am Zozo is a horror film that follows a group of friends who decide to use a Ouija board out of curiosity. During their sessions, the board begins responding aggressively and identifies itself as “Zozo.” As the group continues to engage with it, the atmosphere becomes increasingly tense and unsettling, suggesting that whatever they've contacted grows stronger the more attention it receives. The film leaves it ambiguous whether Zozo is a real entity or a manifestation of fear, making the experience feel disturbingly realistic.In real life, Zozo is a modern paranormal legend that gained popularity through internet forums in the early 2000s. Despite claims that it's an ancient demon, there's no historical evidence to support that. Many experts point to the ideomotor effect, where subconscious movements cause the planchette to move without the user realizing it. Over time, repeated stories and media portrayals turned Zozo into a widely feared figure, showing how belief and suggestion can transform an online myth into something that feels terrifyingly real.Sources:https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/science-mysteries/zozo-the-ouija-board-demon.htmlhttps://allthatsinteresting.com/zozo-demonhttps://www.nj.com/entertainment/2016/05/zozo_phenomenon_documented_in_new_book_paranormal_corner.htmlhttps://darrenevansparanormal.blogspot.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Zozohttps://www.prweb.com/releases/live_extreme_halloween_paranormal_broadcast_set_for_zozo_ouija_demon_house_in_oklahoma_city_ok/prweb13767920.htmhttps://blogcritics.org/exclusive-interview-tim-wood-darren-evans-on-upcoming-live-stream-of-zozo-paranormal-investigationhttps://www.ranker.com/list/ouija-board-conversations-with-zozo/lowe-saddlerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Writer and director Akela Cooper (M3gan, Malignant) joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to discuss her chilling short "Old Acquaintance," part of David Dastmalchian and horror drag icons The Boulet Brothers' The Boulet Brothers' Holiday of Horrors anthology now streaming on Shudder and AMC+. Set on New Year's Eve, "Old Acquaintance" follows a woman returning home after her father's sudden death, only to discover the demon that haunted him may now be coming for her. Cooper unpacks the story's emotional core, the mythology behind the demon, and why the holidays are the perfect pressure cooker for horror. The conversation also explores Cooper's collaboration with The Boulet Brothers and David Dastmalchian, the challenge of telling a deeply personal, terrifying story in a short format, and how holiday traditions can amplify dread instead of comfort. And don't miss the other interviews for Holiday of Horrors as part of the Talking Strange show, including chats with David Dastmalchian, The Boulet Brothers, and Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House, Hush, The Fall of the House of Usher). _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode explores the true story behind Lifetime's Husband, Father, Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story. From adoption and reunification to manipulation, abuse, and murder. We examine the escalation of violence, the deaths of Katie, her adoptive father, and her infant son Bennett, and how systemic failures allowed danger to go unchecked. We also separate fact from dramatization in the Lifetime movie, highlighting the real people behind the headlines.Warning: Discussion of incest, domestic abuse, and multiple deaths, including an infant.Sources:https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/husband-father-killer-the-alyssa-pladl-storyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bH9b8zLQF0https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-sandhills/news/2018/04/13/911-call-reveals-new-details-in-triple-murder--suicidehttps://abc11.com/post/classmate-of-man-who-killed-wife-infant-in-incest-case-recalls-unusual-behavior/3338606/?userab=abc_web_player-460*variant_b_abc_dmp-1901%2Cotv_web_player-461*variant_b_otv_dmp-1903%2Cotv_web_content_rec-445*variant_b_less_popular_bias-1850%2Chp_banner-426*variant_e__tall_white-1781https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43747225https://www.aetv.com/articles/steven-pladl-murdersSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In 1976, a chilling horror film hit theaters, introducing the world to Damien, the Antichrist child. But while audiences were terrified on screen, strange and deadly events were unfolding behind the scenes. The Omen didn't just scare moviegoers, it seemed to haunt its cast and crew in real life.Was it coincidence? Or did the dark subject matter of Satan, prophecy, and the Antichrist bring real-world consequences? In this episode, we'll explore the chilling events, behind-the-scenes horror, and the enduring legend of The Omen curse. Sources:Cursed Films: The Omen The Omenhttps://www.cineworld.ie/static/en/ie/blog/the-curse-of-the-omen-facts-the-first-omenhttps://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/omen-movie-curse-42514085https://screenrant.com/omen-1976-cursed-set-scarier-than-movie/https://eosty.medium.com/the-curse-of-the-omen-real-story-1964c1c355d4https://www.ripleys.com/stories/the-omenhttps://fiveable.me/key-terms/cognitive-psychology/invisible-gorilla-experimentSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, we take a closer look at the tragic abduction of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman—an event that would go on to reshape the way communities respond to missing-child emergencies. We explore the circumstances surrounding Amber's disappearance in 1996, the investigation that gripped the nation, and how her legacy inspired the creation of the AMBER Alert system used across the United States today.We also discuss the 2006 made-for-TV film Amber's Story, examining how one heartbreaking case sparked a nationwide movement to protect children and mobilize communities.Sources:Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2021/still-searching-for-ambers-killerhttps://people.com/who-killed-amber-hagerman-8752172See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient North Africa by classicist Professor Josephine Quinn and comedian Darren Harriott to learn about Hannibal of Carthage and his war with Rome. Located in modern-day Tunisia, Carthage was once a Mediterranean superpower that rivalled Rome. In 218 BCE, the Second Punic War began between the two powers, with the Carthaginian army led by a man named Hannibal Barca. Famously, Hannibal took his forces – including a contingent of war elephants – over the Alps and into Italy, finally marching on Rome itself. But eventually the Carthaginians were beaten back, and Hannibal ended his days in exile. In this episode we explore his epic life, from his childhood in Spain, to his tactical brilliance as a general, to his post-war career as a reformist politician. If you're a fan of ancient Rome, genius generals and new developments in classical history, you'll love our episode on Hannibal of Carthage. If you want more from Darren Harriott, check out our episode on Victorian Bodybuilding. Or for more plucky generals, listen to our episodes on Joan of Arc, Julius Caesar or Robert Bruce. You're Dead To Me is the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Every episode, Greg Jenner brings together the best names in history and comedy to learn and laugh about the past. Hosted by: Greg Jenner Research by: Emma Bentley Written by: Emma Bentley, Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse, and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Production Coordinator: Gill Huggett Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse Executive Editor: Philip Sellars