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If there's a line, we've probably crossed it. We discuss anything on our minds: science, politics, fun facts, conspiracy theories, you name it. Most importantly, we aim to provide accurate information but encourage fact checking and listener participation. Our goal is to entice individuals into thinking just a little bit more about everyday topics and providing a new perspective on some not-so-common subjects. Not that it matters.

Joining together, nine Babylonian necromantic sorcerers were appointed as secret protectors of the royal court and the city by the King. In the shadowy halls of Babylon’s underground temples, they met under the veil of night, engaging in the most secretive of esoteric rites. In their ancient Akkadian tongues, they shared their dark secrets, communed with the dead, and joined with sister witches for intense sexual magic rituals.

From Brian Barr comes Cherubim of the Ultima: a serialized novel! In this first chapter, "Enter Genesis", Ran seeks revenge against the Genesis Circle and their evil serpentine master, Naga. But will he achieve his vengeance before they have a chance to eliminate him?

In this final installment of the Metal Magic series, a glam rock musician assumes a demonic identity for his stage shows, which leads to dire results.

The Metal Magic Trilogy collects Metal Magic, Punk Pandemonium, and Damned in Glam. These three occult horror stories tell of musicians discovering magic grimoires and unleashing chaos.

Dr. Hashimoto pressed the button on the side of his mask. Instantly, the fibernetics, silicone, and mechanized shell within the artificial skin recoiled, showing his true 55-year-old face once again. Milliseconds ago, he was John Wayne, and now he was that respectable robotics scientist once again. The electrodes were still attached to his forehead and the sides of his face, graying hair resting along his temples.

In this sequel to Metal Magic, a punk musician finds a guitarist grimoire. He simplifies the chord progressions and notes to turn the grimoire's songs into punk songs, which produces some interesting effects. Blood, gore, and mayhem await in Punk Pandemonium!

This double feature includes two dark fantasy stories featured in Brian Barr's Daemensions short story collection. "Songs of the Hallow Saints" follows a Celtic swordsman searching for his love in the underworld. "The Coldest Winter" follows a king haunted by the death of his beloved queen, who drowned in an ice-covered pond.

Here it is - The 3 H's Trilogy, now available in a complete collection that is a weird mix of cosmic horror, weird fiction, comedic bizarro, and dark romance! The 3 H's Trilogy begins with the story of a woman who falls in love with a decapitated head. From there, the story only gets weirder and darker, and is unlike any other tale ever written. Edited by Jeff O'Brien, who also provided an introduction for this collection.

H.P. Lovecraft is a starving, skeptical American writer of the weird and horrific, struggling to make ends meet in Connecticut. Aleister Crowley is a famous British occultist focused on running his own magic organization, the O.T.O. Though Crowley and Lovecraft's lives differ to a high degree, neither man is aware of the fate they share. They’ll soon find out, in Dark Ripple.

Susie and Mac are ghost hunters. They investigate and exorcise haunted houses for a living. A client hires Susie and Mac to investigate a house in Lexington, SC. Although they are experienced in handling malignant spirits and haunted territories, the client promises that this place is unlike any the ghost hunters have exorcised before. Susie and Mac never back down from a challenge, or from a job. They'll make their way to the house, and encounter the hell that's waiting for them. Whether they can survive or not is a different question.

A metal guitarist is gifted with a guitar grimoire, which he inherited from his late father's library. With careful reading, practice, and commitment, this strange occult book could make him the greatest musician in the world...if the magic works in his favor.

"Her name is Alexis. She's a punk girl with shabby green-dyed hair. She wears a pink collar around her neck. Alexis talks about growing up in Lexington, SC. She belongs to some strange cult, in which her family members are the only devotees: her mother, her father, and her brother. She hates them all. Whenever she brings up the house they share, I see her contempt. She wants to get away from it. I want to help her. I've helped others escape from cults in the past. Why can't I do the same now?

A woman finds a head in her mother's garden. Things get weirder when the head talks to her....