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Cornwall Cancer Cafe Podcasts can help you navigate your cancer journey because we know precisely how important support is at the time you need it the most wherever you are. We, like you (or a friend or family-member of yours) have been given a cancer diagnosis. We have first hand experience of the emotional roller-coaster for us all, our families, our carers, friends and colleaguesWe want to give back to those fighting cancer in the wider community in Cornwall after receiving so much support ourselves.Soon to launch - our main website: www.cancercafepodcast.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

The Horror Collection (Extreme Edition) marks a brutal milestone for KJK Publishing as the series unleashes its 11th volume—and one of its most dangerous yet. One of only three themed entries in the entire collection, this special edition dives headfirst into the darkest corner of the genre: extreme horror.

Thirty-nine terrifying stories that will keep you up all night and make you want to call in sick to work. Enjoy stories of karma, fear, supernatural horror, deadly women, and retribution.The Better Off Dead Series delves into the farthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk. These masters of horror will haunt your dreams and stalk your nightmares, taking you to the edge of sanity before pushing you to the brink of madness!

A cab ride to an infamous cemetery takes a sinister turn when the passengers discover they may be the graveyard’s next residents. Fun and games unleash evil beyond imagination when a young couple rolls the dice of a board game from hell. And a treasure hunt turns deadly when a pair of explorers discover what’s really hiding deep in the woods....

Adverts for a mysterious ‘Winter Wonderland’ are appearing across town. People are disappearing. The world has gone insane. Emma Waterson despises Christmas. To her, the festive period is associated with dead children, divorce, and depression. She’s seen the adverts. The TV spots. Heard the radio jingles. She couldn’t think of anything worse. So why does she suddenly want to visit so badly?

Rogues in the House Podcast has gathered the best tales of sword and sorcery from across the community. Here, brave adventurers will find stories lovingly crafted from heroic fantasy greats such as Howard Andrew Jones, John R. Fultz, and John C. Hocking. At their side are up and coming genre authors Chuck Clark, T.A. Markitan, Cora Buhlert, and many more.

Blood is bright crimson. Your lips have turned blue. Best keep both eyes open. Because we are coming for you. - Valentine's Day isn’t all love, fun, and games. Flash horror Valentine's stories from a ton of talented authors. From dark and disturbing, morbid humor, or guts and gore; these stories have it all. How will you celebrate the holidays?

Struggling to recover from a particularly bad breakup, Amy is unable to resist the allure of drugs and alcohol, but an explosive and unexplainable death at a party leaves questions that she is wary to press. Six friends marked for death. An unrelenting and merciless force hunting them. Amy and friends must face the harsh reality of their actions before there is no one left to save.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. That noise in the dead of night. The shadow that slips by almost unnoticed. The fear that pulverizes your sense of reasoning and pushes you deep down under seven layers of covers. There is no escaping it, and when the dark forces of the universe come after you, the world will know exactly what you are made of. Will you run? Will you fight? Maybe you’ll join forces with the darkness that rips through your quiet little life. Everyone’s dying to find out.

It was supposed to be a simple rescue mission: secure the doctor and exfil to the surface. A task that Nade Wilhelm and Pip Damon of A.L.P.H.A Team could be forgiven for considering beneath them. But there are things thriving in the underground facility that would have been better off undiscovered.

In the year 2030, a dying scientist released a volatile pathogen into the atmosphere. It granted the elderly a plethora of augmented abilities, near-immortality, and an insatiable bloodlust for the generations that have wronged them.

If there was a way to save a loved one from a terrible disease, would you take it? What if the consequences were unclear? Alistair Rain’s life is fading before his eyes. His wife, Eliza, is being taken from him before her time, her body ravaged by an inoperable plague. Desperate, he turns to prayer, the last bastion of hope, but God doesn’t exist. Not in Alistair’s world. What answers is something else entirely. Something far beyond his comprehension. Something that will irrevocably change his life and the lives of those around him forever. Sin is a dark horror from the mind of Matthew A.

Scotty is no stranger to being bullied, but after a chance encounter in an online chatroom, finds hope in Rebecca. Scotty is about to find out that people on the internet can be worse than people in real life. Facebook. Twitter. These are the places the modern troll thrives. How far would you be willing to go to bring a troll to justice?

Stan Armstrong dedicated his entire life to science. Branded as a maverick and a risk-taker by his colleagues, his unorthodox experiments and outlandish theories of time and space resulted in loss of funding and, ultimately, his termination from tenure at the university where he’d spent his entire career. Stan’s insatiable quest to explore extreme hypotheses and to prove the unproven were matched only by his neurotic lust to peel back the mysterious layers of time and space to expose the hidden secrets of the universe.

London. Post apocalypse. A group of survivors struggle to make a meagre life in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by mutated humans and creatures. For Jaxx and Rhema Bastion—born and raised on the top floor of the Access News tower—it’s all they’ve ever known. The discovery of a young child, Luna, almost feral and living alone in an abandoned building, changes their lives forever. When fate splits them up, the Access News tower comes under attack and the remaining survivors are forced to move on.

Ed and Wink are two friends in search of a good time. Drugs, trespass, the odd bit of petty theft, who’s going to mind? Burlow Farm is just another place ripe for the plucking. An easy target. But the friends are about to realise they are wholly unprepared for the horrors that lie in wait both above, and below ground. Horrors that have no place in this world. Horrors that will leave them broken for the remainder of their days… should they survive.

The Best of Bizarro Fiction: Vol. 2 features 11 carefully crafted surreal tales of the absurd, the hilarious, and the outright horrific. Edited by Matthew A. Clarke.

Silver City is not the kind of place you'd want to be with no recollection of who or what you are. Especially if you happen to find yourself naked in a pig barn, with a fresh bullet hole in your forehead. Suffocated with overwhelming anger and seemingly superhuman strength, the dead man sets out to discover who is responsible, why he was targeted, and what the speckled gunk sealing his wounds is. Gangsters, police, and freakish creatures that dwell in the depths of the silver mines, the entire city is working to bring him down.

A horror podcast where original fiction is paired with real science to explore how curiosity, perception, and the human body can become sources of fear. Available on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon. Bonus episodes available on Patreon.

This podcast series is an audio recording of the book “Disrupting Mercy”, read by Matthew Clarke.