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An award-wining poet, short story writer and novelist, Walter de la Mare is probably best known for his works for children and his perennially popular poem ‘The Listeners’. His ghost stories were much admired by H. P. Lovecraft and inspired subsequent authors of supernatural horror such as Robert Aickman and Ramsey Campbell. In 1921, his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, and this haunting, surrealistic tale is the opening tale in our anthology.

John Doe always assumed his father was nuts. Then the Bureau of the Bizarre showed up at his door with a job offer. Now he’s a Collector, tasked with mopping up the mess reality leaves behind when it gets drunk and shits the bed. His office is The Deep Estate, a bureaucratic labyrinth carved out of the Backrooms. His partner is Edith Sinner, who is absolutely not a vampire.

Born an old man. Destined to die a baby. When Benjamin Button enters the world in 1860, he is no ordinary newborn. Swaddled in baby clothes and crammed into a hospital crib sits a seventy-year-old man with a smoke-colored beard, faded eyes, and a raspy, demanding voice. Cast out by a horrified...

In a seedy backstreet, in a rotting theatre, the sinister Dr Caligari runs a cabaret with his demonic assistants, Snuff and Anthrax. A riot of a listen, this surreal and macabre comedy follows the smooth-talking Dr Caligari as he encourages unwilling guests to tell their story in his London nightclub. Written by Alan Gilbey, strange encounters and dark mysteries are recounted by guest acts on London’s most bizarre stage.

Over four hours of strange and chilling tales of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the surreal, including the classics Master of the Crabs by Clark Ashton Smith and Black God's Kiss by C.L. Moore. A unique blend of short stories for fans of all audio genres!

A SERIALIZED FICTION PODCAST: A gigantic Goldfish Bowl, three stories high, has appeared overnight in the university quad. No one knows where it came from. No one knows what it means. But the fish need feeding, a committee has been formed to determine how many subcommittees the situation requires, and somewhere in the Administration Building, a college president is too busy drowning in his inbox to look up. Welcome to the University of the Surreal, a campus where the impossible keeps happening — and somehow, that's not even the strangest part. https://www.universityofthesurreal.com

She wants to be alone. Being crowded, hemmed in by other people make her feel smothered. Traveling, airports, are stifling with their crowds, the pressure of people. After visiting her family, Jenny wants nothing more to get home where she can be alone... and breathe. Turning inward is her usual defense, but perhaps... in our strange universe, she can encounter some sort of special service for loners. A short surreal story digitally narrated.

Who are we but our memories? What if our memories are wrong? GONE is an episodic, surreal thriller tabletop actual play using the new Nibiru system about identity, memory, and what makes us who we are.

Learn the truth behind the mask of Hollywood in these 10 bizarre tales of dreams and dream weavers, movies and movie-makers, by some of the most respected fantasy writers of our time.

For many years, the Witherby family has been most cruel to animals and insects. But one day Mother Nature says "enough is enough," and unleashes vengeance upon the Witherby family in the form of a giant, man-eating spider. Will any of the Witherbys get out of this tale alive?

On occasion, the dimensional barriers between realities weaken. In those instances, you might catch a glimpse of different places and times. Welcome to Never Wake. Never Wake offers four short stories from the Meridian Wanderings universe. Wonderfully penned prequel fables, Never Wake is the perfect place for fantasy and sci-fi fans to jump on or for long-time Meridian Wanderings fans to learn of tales from long ago.