Mind-Bending

When Kara Magari uncovers a secret door in the middle of the forest, she discovers (and trips through) a portal to a hidden world full of terrifying things: Ourea....

In these 11 stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien - and through it, find a way to liberation....

From acclaimed author Courtney Maum, a short story about a couple in the throes of divorce during COVID-19 that will remind listeners of the heartfelt humor and acuity of her critically acclaimed and beloved debut novel, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You....

Wounded Army vet Logan Murray thought mimics were the stuff of board games and dungeon manuals...right up until one ate him. In a flash of snapping teeth, Logan suddenly finds himself on the doorstep to another world....

When a disabled spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, seven members of the advanced Tosok race are welcomed by the world.....

Sleepwalk’s hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At 50 years old, he’s been living off the grid for over half his life. He’s never had a real job, never paid taxes, never been in a committed relationship....

On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life....

Luke Smitherd is bringing his unique brand of strange storytelling once again....

Evan Portin is at a sad, scary place in his life. While taking a long walk to compose himself and figure out where to go from here, he encounters a young woman being mugged in a park....

Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, is a depressed widower with a peculiar tendency to fall down in strange places....

Michael McGill is a burned-out private detective who suddenly becomes enlisted by an army of presidential goons to retrieve the Constitution of the United States....

Raleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for 24 million dollars, quit his minimum-wage job, and set his sights on one goal....

Untouched by Human Hands consists of 13 stories of beings who dwell on the strange borders of reality....

Two cousins, devastated by a childhood prank, reunite 20 years later to renovate a castle in Eastern Europe. The fortress has a bloody history that stretches back hundreds of years....

When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered, he is forced to flee, not only to prove his innocence but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire....

When an elite team of specialists receives a long-awaited first contact from an alien race, it’s nothing like what they’d imagined....

After his book becomes a best seller, novelist Jack Ripley moves into a house on the edge of Cutler Harbor with his wife and two daughters. Nearly a century old, Winthrop House....

Three haunted young men. A terrible curse. One girl who could break it...if this place doesn't break her first. I learned I couldn't trust anyone - until Cade. My foster brother took me under his wing and sheltered me from the worst of the crap thrown at us....

An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country....

It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be...Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king's agent, is one of the few people who know....