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Nov 2025
#311 - Qing 42: Charting the Collision Course
The 19th Century is going to be exceedingly rough on Qing China. So, before we venture down into the chasm that is the "Chinese Century of Humuliation's" opening salvos, let's assess where we - and the Empire - sit as of 1810... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f ... Show More
35m 31s
Nov 2025
#312 - Qing 42: Frontiers, Pt. 1: The Vastness Devours Us - Of Willow Palisades & Reincarnation Permits
The world is coming to Qing's doorstep, but it has a whole other set of problems along its own frontiers...
Less chronologically tied-down than most of our episodes, today we look at two of the Qing Empire's four major "inner frontier zones" and how they - in spite of often ge ... Show More
51m 26s
Dec 2025
#313 - Qing 44: Frontiers, Pt. 2: The Vastness Devours Us - Mountain Monasteries & Money Pits
From the koan chants of monasteries tucked between Himalayan peaks, to wending caravan paths stretching endlessly across the arid expanses of the Taklamakan & trackless steppes of Dzungaria, we finish out our look at the four primary frontier regions of the Qing Empire as of 1800 ... Show More
57m 42s
Apr 2023
275: Contemporary Vintage
39m 55s
Nov 2024
393: 1001 Nights: Let it Be(ak) (part 2 of 2)
📝A Cavern Full of Snakes is apparently a Great Classroom📝Hasib is still stuck in the room with the Queen of Serpents and twelve thousand snakes, and the QoS a story to tell. Two of them, actually. Long ones. Two years' worth of stories of guys lost in the world...and two differ ... Show More
55m 13s
Sep 2019
Stories from India (Part 2)
All of this week's stories have been submitted by fans from India. First, Sapphire tells the tale of a man who picks up a stranger late at night in the streets of Delhi. Then, we’ll hide from a crying spirit, hear peculiar noises in Ranchi, Jharkhand, and finally, play Charlie Ch ... Show More
28m 53s
Dec 2023
308: True Horror XVI
44m 39s
Apr 2021
221-Chinese/Scottish folklore: The Great Beyond
<p>This week, there are two stories about death and what comes next, from China and Scotland. On the first, a lonely fisherman meets an odd man down by the river with a strange plan for his life. On the second, a stablehand helps out two strangers who stop by his tavern for the n ... Show More
35m 45s
Jan 2019
Tales to Terrify 363 H. P. Lovecraft H. L. Fullerton
58m 53s
Dec 2019
Friend or Foe?
In today's stories, we venture into familiar locations like a bar in Texas and a subway stop in Japan. Familiar places that all of us can hold both friends...and foes alike. Come close and listen to these harrowing tales of friendship and betrayal. First, we follow a detective on ... Show More
28m 37s
Sep 2024
351. It's Fall Y'all
47m 14s
Oct 2022
293-Hans Christian Andersen: The Little Things
Two stories, two small things making enormous problems. We have "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Red Shoes". For two stories about young women learning and growing, they contain kind of a lot of dismemberment.The creature is Striga! And she's the reason to put on that extra lo ... Show More
39m 50s
Feb 2018
122 - A Story of Love and Horror, Part 2: "Spire"
A story of love and horror. Part 2 of 3.
Weather: “Fire Drills” by Dessa
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26m 38s
Back with pt. 2 of autumnal fictions of the spine-tingling variety. This time largely from (where else) Pu Songling, as well as several shorter entries from the Zibuyu.00:01:15 - Friendship Beyond the Grave00:10:25 - Karmic Debts00:12:30 - Spiritual Man Luo Catches the Wrong Demon00:16:39 - The Human Prawn00:18:37 - The Hairy People of Qin00:21:01 - The Magi ... Show More
<p>Two tales from the future about the terrifying past...</p><p><br /></p><p>3 Husbands by Vanessa Kennedy</p><p><br /></p><p>The Thing in Room 426 by M.L. Parker</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Trigger Warnings Available at bottom of show notes</strong></p><p><br /></p><p>Leave me a ... Show More
<p><em>True unexplained stories sent in by listeners</em></p><p><br /></p><p>TRIGGER WARNINGS AVAILABLE AT BOTTOM OF SHOW NOTES. MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.</p><p><br /></p><p>Leave me a voice mail! <strong>(323) 546-8764</strong></p><p><br /></p><p>Ad Free version available on Patre ... Show More
<p><strong>Coming Up</strong></p><p>Good Evening: 00:00:42</p><p>H. P. Lovecraft’s <em>Dagon</em> as read by Stephen Kilpatrick: 00:10:04</p><p>H. L. Fullerton’s <em>Disturbing the Huntsman</em> as read by Scott Silk: 00:25:27</p><p>Pleasant Dreams: 00:56:57</p><br><p><strong>Per ... Show More
<p><a href="https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Evergreens_in_an_Endless_Autumn"><strong>Evergreens in an Endless Autumn</strong></a><strong> </strong>written by <a href="https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/User:MakRalston">MakRalston</a></p><p><strong>It's Here</strong> written ... Show More
