A weird fiction podcast from John Lombard

Cindy wasn’t right after the late shift. She wouldn’t let us turn on the self-checkers, so we had to ring up sales on the tills. We don’t...

I had the idea for this story many years ago - that for the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, the curse wouldn't necessarily be an...

The Beast did not have to pay for the gloves. True, many aristocrats did not settle their bills, on principle. True, residents of...

This story has a lot going on! To start, I first got into Chinese history a few years back through the History of China podcast....

It was noon on the last day of the 9th month, and Qin Ming hurled himself along the busy streets of Kaifeng, hunted by ghosts. He passed...

For 'A Confederacy of Lanyards', the starting point was a Rat King. A Rat King is an apparently real phenomenon where rats get their...