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Borderline Personality Disorder has been described as emotional “third degree burns over ninety percent of your body.” It’s as close to a curse as a personality disorder can be: deep fear of being abandoned creates behaviors that end up driving people off. Learn all about it in t ...  Show more

Data centers are the backbone of our digital world. All the sites you visit and social media you post happen there. A boom in huge data centers to support AI is underway, and they’re taking a big toll on the environment and life for the people around them.See omnystudio.com/liste ...  Show more

Patrick has a new book that's just out, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks. It's twelve strange but true stories of skulduggery and intrigue. Listen to an exclusive excerpt from the audiobook, narrated by Patrick, about the flamboyant, un-catchable arms ...  Show more

Yōko Ogawa's award winning collection of connected short horror stories Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales is our Halloween book club pick. Settle in with some blankets as we discuss unreliable narrators, subverted expectations and metafiction. 

We like predictability, we like routine and we like certaintyBut when paranormal events like these occur, they throw all that out of the windowThings no longer make senseAnd we are no longer ever the same,They creep us out and melt our minds, these things just cannot be!And yet t ...  Show more

The very idea of ghosts creep most of us out… we don’t understand them and they don’t seem to be bound by the same physical rules and limitations that we areHowever when those ghosts are children, that fear and dread reaches a whole new level...Are there really child ghosts? Have ...  Show more