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Tales of yuletide wonder and low-tide horror!

Harry Beatnick wants to be the world's greatest beat poet, will his bongos help him beat the odds? 

In the criminal justice system crimes against the swift completion of a courier’s appointed route are considered especially heinous. In Milwaukee the dedicated Agents of the Inspector General’s office who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

When Linda Richards goes to the store she's tricked by a salesman with a devil tale and a devil beard into buying the most devilish method of heating food! And now all her precooked frozen chickens have come home to roost! 

Edmund Hadley wishes to be the first to summit Everest, but those dastardly Mountain pirates are doing their thing and it really gets in his way! 

Gertrude Fasola lived a simple life, its her death that's complicated! DOCTORS HATE HER!

Sometimes the only way to show off how good you are is to make someone else pay for it!

A PSA to all those good-for-nothing housewives out there. 

A Baron of industry comes to grips with his own mortality in the only way he knows how: throwing more money at the problem.

A man who has it all, but doesn't know what he wants.

Famed sleuth, Grant Shields is at it again as he snoops around Milwaukee for the person responsible for killin all these people and whatnot. 

Private investigator Grant Shields is on the hunt for answers once more. But is he asking the right questions? Boy, that'd sure be a problem if he wasn't. 

Private Investigator Grant Shields is about to nab the greatest art thief of all time!

A west-Arkansas town finds out that their breath stinks. Listen to find out if they take it well.

A veteran chef is forced by a cruel restauranteur to flee deep into the back of house and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers. Jean J. Rambeaux is a former waiter/busboy who did 5 tours in a Vietnamese restaurant and won three "Pep Boys 'Does Everything for Less' Gold Stars", but his past still haunts him.

In this particularly terrifying installment of The Slanted Hallway, a blood-drinking baron invites a political cartoonist into his big spooky mansion. What she uncovers is not that scary, to say the least. But to say the accurate amount would be to say that what she uncovers is VERY scary indeed. Join us next week for a story about either a vampire, a werewolf, a ghost, or Frankenstein!

Goshen City needs a savior A.S.A.P hopefully the son of a billionaire philanthropist can figure out how to carry on his father's legacy of philanthropy. 

The ultimate conclusion to the 4 part series. The entire world waits with bated breath for the answer to what's OUT THERE. See how I did that? That's how you know it's going to be good. Clever stuff. Clever stuff. Oh! Am I still typing? Whoops! Just gotta take my fingers off the keyb 

In part three of this series. We follow a dedicated public servant on his quest to save his great nation from... themselves? How could that be? Listen to find out!

Part 2 of this episode? It's even more..... unusual. John Brown is still a lousy nerd who's scared so we all have to listen to him. OR DO WE????? The FBI is on the case. 

This episode? It's pretty..... unusual. John brown is a lousy nerd but he's scared so we all have to listen to him. OR DO WE?????

Edith hag is going for a typical standard completely unremarkable trip from one place to another place OR IS SHE?????

Creepy things keep happening to the livestock in America's heartland, and one man will have to step up and put his bum on the line, for America. 

Sasha Petrodollarsevitch is after his dead wife's killer. He's also an FBI agent, and he's also a karate expert. 

A past-her-prime scientistess wonders if she can find a man before she's all dried up. Or I guess it's a metaphor for that or something.

But actually the narrator fights with a malfunctioning censor as he tries recount a classic fairy tale... OR DOES HE???????

George, Luanne, and Billy are three typical teeny-boppers who spend a weekend getting stabbed and stuck and poked at camp Stickypokeystabby.

Compare to H.P Lovecraft's classic tale of horror. Or compare to a nice lasagna. You know how you can just stick a lasagna right back in the oven the next day to enjoy a second time? Well let's just say, when a young art student goes to stick that lasagna back in the oven, the oven door closes with his hand inside, because his oven isn't on a level surface like the factory instructions say, no he's trapped inside: THE SLANTED HALLWAY.

A young lady is possessed and her only hope lies with her local exorcist. 

In this week's episode, the National Christian Council On Fire Prevention, or  N.C.C.F.P for short, teaches us the importance of good, Christian, fire safety.  Fire Safety. It's about fire safety. 

We've found it, the scariest thing in the world: someone stating their ill-informed opinions loud enough for more than say, 100 people, to hear them. Only this time it isn't their trusty government official doing it, it's somebody else! And that somebody else is a hobo! And that hobo's name is Marty! And those opinions are numerous! Scared yet? 

The Civil War pitted brother against brother... and ALIEN AGAINST MAN?????

A story about a town, a man, a sheriff, a mayor, townsfolk, and whats this a psychopaths on the loose???? Say it ain't so- But it is!

The Narrator spends some time telling the story of a mouse and a cat???? But this is no ordinary game of cat and or mouse????

Everyone's favorite threat of total annihilation is back with, The Cold War! Let's just hope our leaders don't slip up for even a second. 

A question that has driven a wedge between otherwise happy couples since time immemorial: "Where do you want to eat tonight?". Find out if Thomas and Victoria Adder can survive!

Henry Schlecter is a spy. The Matterhorn. A briefcase with some very important information in it. You get the idea.

William White may be sick with something, just like the rest of us probably are. And just like the rest of us, he should pay somebody indefinitely in order to fix or kind-of fix those not easily defined ailments. OR SHOULD HE?

In an alternate science fiction reality, a man finds himself so destitute he is willing to sell his body for experimental testing at the local Gaggiman's Consumer Goods Factory. The experiment may or may not go awry, which may or may not cause him to end up in a science fiction reality even less scientific and more fictional than his own. Special thanks to Andrew Orvedahl for playing the main character, Phillip K. [CENSORED].

The monkeys of Monkey World live on a planet a lot like our own... except its got monkeys on it. Now that's good Sci-Fi.

Based on the Cookie Revolution of 1959.

There's only one thing Tommy Doyle loves more than fire, and that's edged weapons. 

A mother's greatest fear is letting her child have too much fun. Toys combined with sugary treats push these Mothers to the very brink of their very patience.

A young lady strives to cross the finish line first, as the city she grew up in the fields outside of falls into ruin behind her. Oh and that young lady is a HORSE! Brothers feuding etc. 

The world awaits for the greatest artist to ever do any kind of art, to do his art. Which happens to be stealing from them and getting away with it. 

A man finds out for himself whether or not time travel is a good basis for a scary story.

A middle-American family just like your family, or my family, or the family that lives in the identical house in between our two families. Tune in every Wednesday at a reasonable hour for more stories of a family just like your family, except the house is bigger, and nobody works, and everyone is happy all the time.   

Julie must decide between staying with her somewhat boring husband, or murdering the innocent in the name of Satan and John Coltrane.

Can a small newspaper stand up to competition and big government??? Will internal struggles rip them apart????? Whats black and white and read all over? Hopefully the paper, or maybe not?

Gladys is as happy as can be! She has the perfect home, the perfect life, the perfect husband. That is of course, until she discovers he has a secret: He’s been messing around on the side… with eating people! Which is very messy.