October is fast approaching! To gear up for the Halloween season, I’m offering a handy list of several of my short spooky stories available for free in audio form and print! These stories span sci-fi horror, quiet horror and weird tales in the vein of The Twilight Zone or Tales from the Crypt.
Hope you enjoy…
Listen
“Negation” in Simultaneous Times. Space explorers find more than they bargained for in a story that has vibes of Annihilation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:
“Just Another Apocalypse” on Pseudopod. Why do those zombies have balloons? Find out in Episode 920: https://pseudopod.org/2024/05/20/pseudopod-920-just-another-apocalypse/
“The U Train” on Sley House Publishing Presents. Four strangers wait for a subway that never arrives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUmuOcEo6eE.
“Unrest” on Tales To Terrify. A date goes wrong as neither person is what they seem: https://talestoterrify.com/episodes/633-emily-j-weisenberger-kc-grifant/
“The Peerlings” on Tales to Terrify. An off-world colony encounters an unstoppable entity: https://talestoterrify.com/episodes/tales-to-terrify-354-chris-panatier-kc-grifant/
Read
“A Woman’s Weapon” (poem) at Timber Ghost Press. A botanist goes too far in this narrative poem: https://www.timberghostpress.com/blog/a-womans-weapon-by-kc-grifant#/
“What the Storm Brings” in the Lovecraft eZine. Rose is all set for the superstorm about to hit Boston. What she didn’t prepare for was a mysterious stranger who arrives at the same time: https://lovecraftzine.com/magazine/issues/2015-2/issue-34-march-2015/what-the-storm-brings-by-kc-grifant/
“The Sighting” in Stupefying Stories. Big Foot Hunters get close to possibly irrefutable evidence of the creature: https://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-sighting-by-kc-grifant.html
“Lonely Arcade” in Stupefying Stories. An encounter with a ghost at a beach arcade leads to a tough decision: https://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2023/06/lonely-arcade-by-kc-grifant.html
If you like these, several of the audio stories appear in my short story collection, alongside many other spooky tales. You can check it out here!
KC Grifant 