Denkirch | Horror Fiction | Nightshade Diary Podcast

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Denkirch is the first published short story by David Drake, originally appearing in the 1967 horror anthology Travellers by Night edited by August Derleth. It is described as a Lovecraft pastiche and established Drake's early career in horror and weird fiction before he became famous for military science fiction. Excerpt: "Now I sleep only by day or when the sky is cloudy, and when the stars gleam bright in the heavens I walk little back streets, avoiding other people, for I do not care to be reminded of my humanity and my inevitable fate. My acquaintances think me odd, but they would not understand if I told them that on dear nights the stars speak to me, and that if I did not walk I would go mad. So I walk the lonely streets, and the echoing cadence of my stride helps to muffle the rhythmic whispers, but still my mind is forced back to Denkirch, who proved Man’s unique place in the universe." Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 Miami Ghost Chronicles: www.MiamiGhostChronicles.com Nightshade Diary: www.NightshadeDiary.com Stories of the Supernatural: www.StoriesoftheSupernatural.info Eerie News - www.Eerie.News Stranger Than Fiction Stories: www.storiesofthesupernatural.info/strangerthanfiction LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com MY BOOKS: Amazon: http://amazon.com/author/marlenepardo... Goodreads:   / 17113386.marlene_pardo_pellicer   SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER ON SUBSTACK: https://marlenepardopellicer.substack... You can find me on major video and podcast platforms, just look for MP Pellicer or Miami Ghost Chronicles. Hypnosis DIY - https://www.hypnosis-diy.com Music - Pixabay.com, Purple-Planet.com Narration always by a human, no A.I.

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale | Philip K. Dick | Nightshade Diary Podcast

 

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is a compact but deeply unsettling slice of classic sci-fi—one that bends memory, identity, and reality until none of them feel reliable. Published in 1966 by Philip K. Dick, the story follows Douglas Quail, an ordinary man with an extraordinary obsession: Mars. He dreams of going there, but his life—and his bank account—keep him grounded on Earth. That’s when he turns to a company called Rekal, Inc., which offers something almost too perfect: implanted memories. Why travel to Mars when you can remember that you already have? Quail pays for a customized memory—one in which he lives out his fantasy as a secret agent on Mars. But as technicians begin the implantation process, something goes wrong. Or rather… something surfaces. They discover that Quail may already have real memories of Mars—memories that were deliberately erased. ​ From that moment on, the story fractures into paranoia. Authorities move in. Identities blur. Quail can’t tell whether he’s a bored office worker, a former government operative, or something even stranger. Every answer only deepens the mystery. At its core, the story plays with a haunting idea: If your memories can be manufactured… how do you prove who you are? The story was famously adapted into the film Total Recall (1990). Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 Miami Ghost Chronicles: www.MiamiGhostChronicles.com Nightshade Diary: www.NightshadeDiary.com Stories of the Supernatural: www.StoriesoftheSupernatural.info Eerie News - www.Eerie.News Stranger Than Fiction Stories: www.storiesofthesupernatural.info/strangerthanfiction LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com MY BOOKS: Amazon: http://amazon.com/author/marlenepardo... Goodreads:   / 17113386.marlene_pardo_pellicer   SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER ON SUBSTACK: https://marlenepardopellicer.substack... You can find me on major video and podcast platforms, just look for MP Pellicer or Miami Ghost Chronicles. Hypnosis DIY - https://www.hypnosis-diy.com Music - Pixabay.com, Purple-Planet.com Narration always by a human, no A.I.

Voodoo Murder on Fleet Street

 On August 8, 1949 a spiritualist who lived in the Polish-Bohemian section of Baltimore was found beaten and strangled inside her séance room. What eluded the authorities was a motive for the crime. READ THE REST OF THE STORY

Alien Intrusion | Interview with Pat O'Connell | Stories of the Supernatural

 Pat O'Connell discusses the backstory behind her book: Bleedthrough: A true story of aliens, demons, and pure evil in Texas.

In the three years between 2010 and 2013, Texas aircraft repair shop owner, Clay Wheeler, his wife, and his employees experienced an array of events at Sparks County Airport that make the events at Utah’s Skinwalker Ranch pale by comparison. UFO sightings, alien intrusions, poltergeist activity, spirit manifestations, demonic presences and possessions, assaults, shootings, a government raid … and plain old murder. This story is about Clay: a man trying to run a respectable business while doing his best to cope with bizarre events and phenomena that jeopardize everything he has built and worked for. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11

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Morbid Tales Part 2 | Interview with Allan Pacheco | Stories of the Supernatural

Allan Pacheco is a paranormal investigator, author and historian who leads private ghost and history tours in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His extensive research covers ghosts and hauntings, UFOs and aliens, mystery beings, missing people and more. A native Santa Fean and descendant of the Conquistadors, Allan is a leading authority on the high strangeness and supernatural secrets of the mysterious Southwest.

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The Seventh Victim and Another Unexpected Tale | Nightshade Diary Podcast

The Sentinel is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke. It served as the foundational concept for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The story is set in 1996 following Wilson, a veteran selenologist on a lunar expedition. While exploring the Mare Crisium region, he discovers a mysterious, pyramid-shaped structure surrounded by an invisible force-field— clearly not of terrestrial or lunar origin. Wilson theorizes it was —a device placed on the Moon by an ancient, advanced alien civilization to monitor the development of intelligent life across the cosmos. The Seventh Victim is a science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley. It presents a dystopian future where global warfare has been replaced by a government-sanctioned, televised hunting game called The Big Hunt. In this society, individuals who are prone to violence can voluntarily become hunters, tasked with tracking and killing assigned victims, while later facing the same fate themselves as a victim. The story follows Stanton Frelaine, an experienced hunter preparing for his seventh mission, who is assigned Janet-Marie Patzig, a woman—unprecedented in the game—whose passive acceptance of her fate unsettles him. The story was heavily reimagined into the 1965 Italian film The 10th Victim starring Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress, followed by two sequels: Victim Prime (1987) and Hunter/Victim (1988). The original short story is considered a foundational influence on later works like The Hunger Games and the live-action game Assassin. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com

Morbid Tales Part 1 | Interview with Allan Pacheco | Stories of the Supernatural

Allan Pacheco is a paranormal investigator, author and historian who leads private ghost and history tours in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His extensive research covers ghosts and hauntings, UFOs and aliens, mystery beings, missing people and more. A native Santa Fean and descendant of the Conquistadors, Allan is a leading authority on the high strangeness and supernatural secrets of the mysterious Southwest.

Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 Miami Ghost Chronicles: www.MiamiGhostChronicles.com Nightshade Diary: www.NightshadeDiary.com Stories of the Supernatural: www.StoriesoftheSupernatural.info Eerie News - www.Eerie.News Stranger Than Fiction Stories: www.storiesofthesupernatural.info/strangerthanfiction MY BOOKS: Amazon: http://amazon.com/author/marlenepardo... Goodreads:   / 17113386.marlene_pardo_pellicer   SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER ON SUBSTACK: https://marlenepardopellicer.substack... You can find me on major video and podcast platforms, just look for MP Pellicer or Miami Ghost Chronicles. Hypnosis DIY - https://www.hypnosis-diy.com Music - Pixabay.com, Purple-Planet.com Narration always by a human, no A.I. Guest - Allan Pacheco Website - ​santafeghostandhistorytours.com

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