Gallery of Curiosities

Survivors of an apocalyptic war rebuild their world to a Roman Ideal, which includes being outnumbered by their genetically altered slaves. Wulf Moon narrates.
Content note for adult situations. 
Author Irene Punti lives in Badalona (Catalonia) with her partner. Before that, she lived for a decade in Tarragona, the former capital of a Roman province and the city which inspired this story. Irene's stories have appeared in Gaslandia: a Dieselpunk Anthology and the NonBinary Review, among others.
Narrator Wulf Moon feasted on fantasy as a child when he lived with his Chippewa grandmother. He begged stories from her every night—fireside tales that fired his imagination. If Moon had a time machine, those are the days he would go back to. Since he doesn’t have a time machine, he tells stories. Learn more at driftweave.com.
Full show notes at GalleryCurious.com
 

A rural town bars itself in every night. But why won't they tell the tourists why? Vic Mullin narrates a scary story for the Halloween season. 
Author David A. Riley writes horror, fantasy and SF stories. His first professionally published story was in the 11th Pan Book of Horror in 1970. He has had stories published by Doubleday, DAW, Corgi, Sphere, Roc, Playboy Paperbacks, Robinsons, etc., and in magazines such as Aboriginal Science Fiction, Dark Discoveries, Fear, Whispers, and Fantasy Tales.
Narrator Vic Mullin is a 40 something scotsman who is usually surrounded in a cloud of vapour from constant e-cig usage.  He is generally found spending time editing youtube videos or lazing around in New Babbage pretending to build something.
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina
Osgoode’s Chorus: Cheap Horror Fullmix Downtempo/Pond5.com
Almost in F, Long Note Two by Kevin MacLeod/incompetech.com

A pilot gets a strange warning on a dark and stormy night. CB Droege narrates.
Author Marlin Bressi is the author of Hairy Men in Caves: True Stories of America's Most Colorful Hermits (Sunbury Press, 2015) and creator of the paranormal website Journal of the Bizarre. He was also the runner-up in the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference national horror fiction contest.
Narrator CB Droege is an author and voice actor from the Queen City living in the Millionendorf. His most recent book is Peacemaker and Other Stories. His voice can be heard in commercials, cartoons, video games, and audiobooks. He is also the host of the weekly Flash Fiction Podcast from Manawaker Studio.Learn more at CBDroege.comFacebook: facebook.com/CBDroegeTwitter: twitter.com/CBDroege
We're taking submissions until October 21st. Read the guidelines at http://gallerycurious.com/fiction

Two sisters take in a handsome lodger. But why does he have a cage? A dark tale of mystery and romance set in Belle Epoch Russia. Maria Rose narrates.
William Burton McCormick is a Nevada native and Hawthornden Castle Fellowship winner, has lived ten years in Ukraine and visited Odessa, the setting of “Kutsenko’s Cage” numerous times. The story’s protagonists, sisters Tasia and Eleni Karadopoulina, debuted in the Derringer Award-nominated story “The Antiquary’s Wife” in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, March 2013.
Maria Rose is a graphic designer, writer, astrologer, classicist. Sometimes saturnine, mostly eccentric. You can hear her audiobook narration work in "Messengers of the Right" from University of Press Audiobooks.
Music:
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina/devmmusic.com
Osgoode's Chorus: Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod/incompetech.com
The Forest and the Trees, Plaint, Procession of the King, Long Note Two, A Singular Perversion by Kevin MacLeod/incompetech.com
The Winter is Inside Us by Ilya Marfin from Fugue
October is submissions month. We're accepting manuscripts until the 21st.

H.P. Lovecraft month concludes. There will be pie.  Wulf Moon narrates.
Author Sebastien Mantle is a Canadian-born fantasy and sci-fi fanatic with a penchant for the dark, twisted, and occasionally silly. When not working on a novel or churning out short stories, he reads anything from swords and sorcery to military history.
Narrator Wulf Moon feasted on fantasy as a child when he lived with his Chippewa grandmother. He begged stories from her every night—fireside tales that fired his imagination. If Moon had a time machine, those are the days he would go back to. Since he doesn’t have a time machine, he tells stories. Learn more at driftweave.com.
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina
Full show notes at gallerycurious.com

An archeologist excavates a meteor crater that appeared during a Civil War battle, what could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, because HP Lovecraft month continues.  CB Droege narrates.
Author Shane Halbach lives in Chicago, where he writes software by day and avoids writing stories by night. His fiction has appeared in Analog, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and all four of the Escape Artists podcasts, among others. He blogs at shanehalbach.com, or can be found on Twitter @shanehalbach
Narrator CB Droege is an author and voice actor from the Queen City living in the Millionendorf. His most recent book is Peacemaker and Other Stories. His voice can be heard in commercials, cartoons, video games, and audiobooks. He is also the host of the weekly Flash Fiction Podcast from Manawaker Studio. Learn more at CBDroege.comFacebook: facebook.com/CBDroegeTwitter: twitter.com/CBDroege
Story Music:
Space by Ilya Marfin from Fugue
Vibrion Phonetica No.3 by Max Sergeev from Fugue
The Release by Crust from Fugue
A Singular Perversion by Kevin Macleod/incompetech.com

It's Lovecraft month, but that doesn't mean you have to put away the pretty dresses. Elizabeth Chatsworth narrates.
Author Emma Whitehall is a writer, editor and book reviewer from the North East of England. Her work has been published in the UK, USA, Mexico and Ireland, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Fish Flash Fiction Award. You can follow her at @Hire_Emma.
Narrator Elizabeth Chatsworth is a professional voice actor and a member of SAG-AFTRA. She prefers voice acting to on-screen work as in a voice-booth no-one can see your fuzzy bunny slippers. Her interests include cosplay, PC gaming, and writing. Find out more at www.elizabethchatsworth.com
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina
Story Music:Dangerous Roulette, Martian Cowboy, Monkeys Spinning Monkeys, Danse Morialta, Gagool, The Chamber, by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Are you a Second Life gridhopper? Visit the 7th annual Lovefest, August 17-26. We'll be there on the 20th for a special inworld streamed episode.  https://lovefest.wordpress.com/

You think your in-laws have a few skeletons in the closet? This family has an entire catacomb. CB Droege narrates. 
Author Eric Cline is a writer living in Maryland with his wife and Greyhound (a dog, not a motorized vehicle). He has a Masters degree in English. His works have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Galaxy's Edge (edited by Mike Resnick), Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, the Writers of the Future anthology (volume 29) and other places. His story “Elizabethtown” was nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History (Short Form) in 2015.
Narrator CB Droege is an author and voice actor from the Queen City living in the Millionendorf. His most recent book is Peacemaker and Other Stories. His voice can be heard in commercials, cartoons, video games, and audiobooks. He is also the host of the weekly Flash Fiction Podcast from Manawaker Studio.
Learn more at CBDroege.com
Facebook: facebook.com/CBDroege
Twitter: twitter.com/CBDroege
Theme song- Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina
Osgoode's Chorus- Dangerous Roulette by Kevin MacLeod/incompetech.com
Story music- Clean Soul, Serene, & A Singular Perversion by Kevin Macleod/incompetech.com
Curiosities #3 is out now in digital & trade paperback formats. Buy a copy (or five) and help keep the Gallery open. https://gallerycurious.com/store/ 

An elderly mother attempts to reconstitute her son after retrieving his remains from Gettysburg. Karen Bovenmyer narrates. 
Author Ann Stolinsky is the founder and owner of Gontza Games, an independent board and card game company. Her website is www.gontzagames.com. She is also a partner in Gemini Wordsmiths, a full-service copyediting and content creating company. Visit www.geminiwordsmiths.com for more information and testimonials. Several of her stories have been published in the last few years.
Narrator Karen Bovenmyer earned an MFA in Creative Writing: Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine. She has narrated for Cemetery Pod, Escape Pod, Far Fetched Fables, Gallery of Curiosities, Pseudopod, Silver Blade Magazine, StarShipSofa, and Strange Horizons. http://karenbovenmyer.com/
Theme song - Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina
Osgoode's Chorus - Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod/incompetech.com
Story Music - End of the Era, Fantastic Dim Bar, Ghost Processional, and Ghost Dance by Kevin MacLeod/incompetech.com

It's an alt-history double feature! Wulf Moon and CB Droege narrate. 
The Questionable Redemption of Thomas Alva Edison
By day, Author Evan Dicken studies old Japanese maps and crunches data for all manner of fascinating medical experiments at The Ohio State University. By night, he does neither of these things. His audio fiction has most recently appeared in: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Pseudopod, and Escape Pod, and he has stories forthcoming from publishers such as: Chaosium, The Overcast, and Cast of Wonders. Feel free to visit him at: evandicken.com.
Narrator Wulf Moon feasted on fantasy as a child when he lived with his Chippewa grandmother. He begged stories from her every night—fireside tales that fired his imagination. If Moon had a time machine, those are the days he would go back to. Since he doesn’t have a time machine, he tells stories. Learn more at driftweave.com.
This story was adapted for audio by Kevin Frost.
Distressed wax cylinder effect by Izotope Vinyl.
The Gettysburg Paradox
Author Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He currently lives in Utah.
Narrator CB Droege is an author and voice actor from the Queen City living in the Millionendorf. His most recent book is Peacemaker and Other Stories. His voice can be heard in commercials, cartoons, video games, and audiobooks. He is also the host of the weekly Flash Fiction Podcast from Manawaker Studio. Learn more at CBDroege.com Facebook: facebook.com/CBDroege Twitter: twitter.com/CBDroege
Music:
Theme Song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina
Osgoode's Chorus: Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod/incompetech.com
Story Music and Sound Effects:
Long Note Two, Bittersweet/Incompetech.com
Battle Civil War/Pond5.com
Civil War Drummer/SoundBible.com
Lonesome Cajun Fiddles - Full/Pond5.com