S2.5 Alina's Ring

During World War II, a wounded German soldier stumbles into the home of an Italian peasant family. As the daughter nurses the soldier back to health, she falls madly in love with him without realizing—or does she?—that it was his comrades who murdered her mother and father. Her obsessive, uncompromising passion can lead only to a grisly finale

Written by Nicola Lombardi

And translated by Joe Weintraub

Narrated by Justin Fife (https://www.threads.net/@justin.fife)

Produced by Georgia Triantafyllopoulou (https://www.instagram.com/audiogeekgr )

With music by Epic Stock Media (https://epicstockmedia.com/)

And Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by https://getsoundly.com/

The episode illustration was provided by Matt Seff Barnes (https://www.mattseffbarnes.com/)

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer.

Jasmine Arch manages our community.

Mary Pastrano helps orchestrate the chaos.

And the show would collapse into static and screams without the ongoing work of Karl Hughes, Georgia Triantafyllopoulou, and James Barnett — AKA Jimmy Horrors.

After thirty years of writing--3 novels, six collections, one film adaptation, multiple translations from the English--Lombardi is considered a master of the horror genre in Italy (his website can be found here:at www.nicolalombardi.com). His first collection in English, The Gypsy Spiders and Other Tales of Italian Horror, was published by UK's Tartarus Press in Dec. 2021.

Justin Fife is an audiobook narrator and voice actor, and he can be found on Threads @Justin.fife

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S2.4 Child in a Mirror Dark

A horror took his daughter from him years ago. He hasn't stopped searching for a way back to her, but what has he sacrificed in the process?

Written by Chris DeStefano (social media link)

Narrated by Justin Fife (https://www.threads.net/@justin.fife)

Produced by Georgia Triantafyllopoulou (https://www.instagram.com/audiogeekgr )

With music by Epic Stock Media (https://epicstockmedia.com/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by https://getsoundly.com/

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer.

Jasmine Arch manages our community.

Mary Pastrano helps orchestrate the chaos.

And the show would collapse into static and screams without the ongoing work of Karl Hughes, Georgia Triantafyllopoulou, and James Barnett — AKA Jimmy Horrors.

Chris DeStefano has been fascinated with horror and the macabre since reading a story of spontaneous human combustion as a child. He currently lives, works and writes in New Jersey with his wife, daughters and two black cats. His work has been previously published in Cosmic Horror Monthly, the dark fiction anthology Mixtape:1986, and can be found on X and BlueSky @chrisdestefano

Justin Fife is an audiobook narrator and voice actor, and he can be found on Threads @Justin.fife

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S2.3 Never Use the Last Page

A woman seeks revenge upon the person who killed her fiancé in a most unusual manner.

Written by Morgan Chalfant (https://www.instagram.com/eyesonly34/)

Narrated by Erika Ventura (https://instagram.com/efventu)

Produced by Karl Hughes (https://bsky.app/profile/karlhughes.bsky.social)

With music by Chris Logsdon (https://chrislsound.com/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

The episode illustration was provided by Matt Seff Barnes (https://www.mattseffbarnes.com/)

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer.

Jasmine Arch manages our community.

Mary Pastrano helps orchestrate the chaos.

And the show would collapse into static and screams without the ongoing work of Karl Hughes, Georgia Triantafyllopoulou, and James Barnett — AKA Jimmy Horrors.

Follow Morgan Chalfant on Instagram at @eyesonly34

Erika Ventura is an artist, mother, bilingual narrator, and a painting instructor. How does she manage it all? No idea, but her artwork can be seen on Instagram (@efventu) or you can visit her artist page www.facebook.com/BioArtsy

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