How should you react if you wake to find a giant dragon cramped into your room, unable to stretch without sinking its talons into everything, unable to yawn without incinerating the entire building?After today's story, new music called "Graveyard Procession."Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/curioushunter-39794777/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=8363331" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Curious Hunter</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=8363331" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pixabay</a>

Heart of Fire - Graveyard Procession

Where things are headed in Episode 1. It's NOT okay.

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How do you find your purpose when you've wandered off the road?

How far would you go to help a friend discover the true meaning of life? If the story doesn't leave you unsettled, the music just might.Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/thedigitalartist-202249/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pete Linforth</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pixabay</a>

Going Home - Eldritch

A tribute to Ambrose Bierce

Two tales today from a master of short horror fiction, none other than Ambrose Bierce:The Boarded Window delves into death on the frontier, and An Inhabitant of Carcosa covers the aftermath of a nasty illness.&nbsp;Then stick around for some new music from the maestro, a piece called "Pandemonium 3."

The Boarded Window - An Inhabitant of Carcosa - Pandemonium 3

Mythology and Mayhem!

Three tales today! Golden Apples, about a Norse goddess with some tasty recipes. Selkie crosses the North Sea to a remote point in Scotland: try the haggis! The Gorgon takes a familiar tale and sets it firmly on...er...its head. Clsing out the show, new music from Tim called It's Getting Closer. Art by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/mertozbagdat-5469929/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4802219" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mert Özbağdat</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4802219" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pixabay</a>

 Golden Apples - Selkie - The Gorgon - It's Getting Closer

What if life really is a game?

Guest author Maurice Forrester steps up, rolls the bones and throws us a tale called A Need for Disorder. After the story, stick around for new music from Tim, "Midnight Visit."

A Need for Disorder - Midnight Visit

A little feel-good, motivational advice never hurt so much.

A tribute to all those people who fill our lives with feel-good, empty platitudes. Plus a track from the maestro with a more industrial grind.

Life Coach - Shake My Bones

A holiday treat packed full of ear worms, plus some diabolical music to chase the worms away.

A Sinister Minutes tribute to the season and all its wrappings, brought to you by the very corporations who profit from every aspect of human endeavor, from cradle to grave, ready to dispense joy and misery. Plus "Lady in White," lovely disturbing music from the maestro. Happy holidays!

Hell of a Holiday - Lady in White

Sometimes the gift is bigger than the box containing it

Bridging the gap between holiday sentiment and Friday the 13th horror with a bit of unboxing: In A Box of Hope, a woman considers the thrill of December bridge jumping. In Delightfully intense, a young lad is left in charge of a very important opening. Finally, Tim's added a horrifyingly lovely musical composition called "Why is the Cellar Door Open?" that might just make you think about the boxes you've got stored down there in the dark.

Box of Hope - Delightfully Intense - Why is the Cellar Door Open?

It's NOT okay

An amalgamation of dark fiction and disturbing music in podcast form. Horrific, fantastic, dystopian, but always tinged with a bit of sinister darkness. Got a minute or two? We have a way- to make it NOT okay. Sinister Minutes features the dark narratives of writer and storyteller Kurt Hohmann, backed&nbsp;by the macabre musical musings of Tim Parker.

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