Willa Cather – "The Enchanted Bluff" - 1909

🎩 Mark Twain – “A Cure for the Blues” 💡- 1871In a world that takes itself too seriously, one man discovers a remedy for despair — and it isn’t found in any doctor’s bag.Mark Twain’s A Cure for the Blues begins as a simple confession: a man plagued by melancholy claims to have f ...  Show more

🎃 Washington Irving – "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820) 🌕A tale where mist drifts through autumn woods and legends ride by night. In the quiet village of Sleepy Hollow, the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane dreams of wealth and love — and of the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel. But be ...  Show more

David and Tamler return to one of their favorites, Frans Kafka, this time on his beautiful and distressing short story "The Hunger Artist," a story that brims with metaphorical possibilities but also implores us to accept it on its own mysterious terms. Plus gooning. The Goon Squ ...  Show more

A mysterious pub draws in lost souls on Christmas Eve. This story appears in the author's collection ADD CYANIDE TO TASTE: A COLLECTION OF DARK TALES WITH CULINARY TWISTS. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use o ...  Show more

A sentient house, haunted by its own loneliness, exercises its powers on a skeptic. This story was published by Diabolical Plots. Content advisory: Brief discussion of death Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use ...  Show more

A man questions his current existence -- and the life he remembers from before. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, and reprinted in Lightspeed.Content advisory: mention of mental illnessOnly a few more days to enter the LeVar Burton Reads Writing Contest! Check out ...  Show more