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Fever dreams can be unsettling experiences. These ramped up nightmares are vivid, detailed and only happen when the human body experiences a fever. What is it about the combination of fevers and dreams that make these night terrors so hellish? Learn all that and more in this clas ...  Show more

Humanity’s created a lot of neat things over the eons and starting in the 1940s, the UN created an agency focused on preserving those things for the whole world and future people. But that mission is in danger of becoming only about branding and money.See omnystudio.com/listener ...  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