Wrong Station

Pledge Drive #19 - The Sword

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//A CHANCE DISCOVERY //A BLOODY PAST //NOT ALL SUBURBS ARE QUIET //SOMETIMES THE SCREAMS ARE JUST MUFFLED "THE SWORD" A NEW FAIRYTALE FROM WRONG STAT...

Pledge Drive #18 - A Little Bit of Company

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//A WEALTHY GENIUS, A RUINED MARRIAGE, AND A TERRIBLE CREATION //WHAT REMAINS FROM A LIFE YOU CAN’T MAKE YOURSELF REGRET? //AND WHAT SINS WILL YOU C...

Pledge Drive #17 - The Pit

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//THE GREATEST HARDCORE SHOW THIS TOWN HAS EVER SEEN //WILL BE VISITED BY SOMEONE //UNUSUAL //DISCOVER WHO MOSHES AMONG US IN... "THE PIT" A NEW EPIS...

Pledge Drive #16 - Monoculture

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//A RESPITE FROM APOCALYPSE //HUMANITY’S FINAL HOPE //A BILLIONAIRE AND HIS 100 GENETICALLY PERFECT CLONES //WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? “MONOC...

121 - Commissions Are Now Closed

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//CAN AN ANONYMOUS COMMISSION CHANGE THE LIFE OF ONE ARTIST? //AND IF IT DOES... //WILL IT BE FOR THE BETTER //OR WORSE? "COMMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED"...

Pledge Drive #14 - Darts

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//SALT FLATS, DESERT HEAT, A NOT-QUITE-ABANDONED GAS STATION //SOMETIMES YOU GOT TO STOP FOR DARTS //SOMETIMES YOU COME AWAY WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE “...

Pledge Drive #13 - Black Dove

14 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//AN ORDINARY AFTERNOON AT THE CAFE //WHEN YOU REALIZE THE WORLD IS SUBTLY BROKEN //WHO WOULD BOTHER LOSING THEIR MIND, //OVER SOMETHING SO UNIMPORTAN...

Pledge Drive #12 - Angular Diameter Distance

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//THERE COMES A POINT //WHERE EVEN PERSPECTIVE LOSES PERSPECTIVE //IF YOU GAZE THAT DEEP //WHAT THEN SHALL YOU SEE? “ANGULAR DIAMETER DISTANCE” A...

Pledge Drive #11 - This is What I've Been Training My Body For

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//SEEKING DISTRACTION //ONE FINDS NEW PURPOSE //IT MAY SEEM LIKE TOO MUCH, BUT... "THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN TRAINING MY BODY FOR" A CAUTIONARY TALE, FR...

Pledge Drive #10 - Scheele's Green

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//A FORBIDDEN COLOUR //A FATEFUL GIFT //YOU CAN LIVE WITH A LOT //BUT YOU'VE DONE SO MUCH MORE //TOUCH THE CRUMBLING PAINT IN... “SCHEELE'S GREEN”...

Pledge Drive #9 - Rhino

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//THANKSGIVING, WITH THE WHOLE FAMILY //AN UNCLE JUST RETURNED FROM FOREIGN LANDS //AND GODDAMN HE'S BROUGHT SOMETHING BACK WITH HIM WHAT YOU KILL KE...

120 - Vermis

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//A WEALTHY GERMAPHOBE //AN UNTHINKABLE TROPICAL DISEASE //THE CLEAN AND THE UNCLEAN //ARE A WHITE SERPENT DEVOURING ITS OWN TAIL PERHAPS OUR MOST VI...

Pledge Drive #7 - Dogs

08 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//A REMOTE ISLAND //THERE'S HOWLING IN THE WOODS AT NIGHT //AND THESE AREN'T JUST ORDINARY... “DOGS” A NEW EPISODE OF WRONG STATION --Written by...

Pledge Drive #6 - .999

07 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//A RING FOR A WEDDING //POINT 999% PURE //BUT SOME IMPURITIES CAN STAIN EVEN ELEMENTAL GOLD “.999” A LESSON IN METALLURGY, FROM WRONG STATION. ...

Pledge Drive #5 - BITEFORCEQUOTIENT

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//THE RUINS OF A THRIVING WORLD //A LONE WANDERER WITH ALLOY TEETH //IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU HAVE A PURPOSE //AS LONG AS YOU HAVE… “BITEFORCEQ...

Pledge Drive #4 - Meeting Minutes

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//THE BOARD MEETS //TO DICUSS CHALLENGES FACING THE COMPANY //CHALLENGES THAT CANNOT BE IGNORED //NOT EVEN FOR A MOMENT //OR ELSE "MEETING MINUTES" A...

Pledge Drive #3 - He's My Friend

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//A NEW FRIEND, IN THE STRANGEST OF PLACES //DISGUST, DECAY, DESPAIR //COMPANIONSHIP WHERE YOU CAN FIND IT "HE'S MY FREIND" A NEW EPISODE OF WRONG ST...

Pledge Drive #2 - Cable

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//TELEGRAPHY CABLES, DEEP UNDERSEA //SPAN THE OCEAN DARKNESS LIKE A SINGING NET //BUT WHAT SHALL THEY CATCH? “CABLE” A NEW EPISODE OF WRONG STATI...

Pledge Drive #1 - Candy Tampering

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

//HALLOWEEN //A MORAL PANIC //RAT POISON IN THE RAISINS //AND ONE MOTHER WILL GO TO ANY LENGTH TO PROTECT HER CHILDREN “CANDY TAMPERING” A NEW EP...

A Second Patreon Sampler Pack, Again Putrescent

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

// TOENAILS: THE DEVIL'S FINGERNAIL? // A FATEFUL MEETING // THE GREAT MARTIAL CONTEST OF OUR TIME // Three unusual tales pulled straight from the hig...

DARK ANNUNCIATIONS: Season 8 /PLUS/ A Nasty Little Surprise

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Something is Wrong. Some signal builds upon the aether, worse than ever before. This October, stay tuned for a new episode of Wrong Station, every sin...

Wrong Station Interviews - Stephen Graham Jones

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you enjoy stabbing/being stabbed, this is the interview for YOU! Stephen Graham Jones is the modern standard-bearer for slashers and all things sla...

Wrong Station Interviews - Brandon Cronenberg

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're very lucky to have horror filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg on the show! The writer and director behind the wonderfully disturbed "Antivira...

Wrong Station Interviews - Trevor Henderson

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The first in a new Summer series of interviews with some fine folks in the horror space! We kick things off with the prince of putrescent portraiture:...

119 - Goblin Blade

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

She walked alone. Maybe she knew she wasn’t supposed to, in a part of town like this; and maybe she’d been raised to think it improper for a Young...

118 - The Tower

29 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

My anxieties were not reflected in the other men. You had to be a little bit crazy to walk those beams. I recognized myself in many of them—my pre-f...

117 - Nephilim

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

People like me were lucky enough to live inside the fences. I, for example, was lucky enough to be born a slave. I know how that sounds... But in the ...

116 - Nithing

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rob shook his head, sighing, wiping his face with his hands. “Well isn’t that just somethin’. Jesus Chris. Never even occurred to me they wouldn...

115 - Rashers

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At the sight of the great grey hog, the girls all squealed and rushed forward to rub her meaty flanks and pet her furrowed, piggy brow. All except Ann...

114 - April Ghouls: I Never Quite Knew What To Make of That

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You know? I never quite knew what to make of that. --Written by Alexander Saxton, Jacob Duarte Spiel, and Anthony Botelho. Support The Wrong Station ...

113 - Seven Yellow Pins Through the Skull of a Dove

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

She loved to get lost in those films. The colours, strange music, grainy texture of black-gloved hands pressing into smooth bare flesh. The bright, su...

112 - Run Him Down

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"If we wait nobody’ll ever catch him, what with all his army training. The Mountie station is two days ride in the other direction. By then the trac...

111 - Stakes

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“There are ways of making this more interesting, you know.” He licked dry lips. “Go on.” “You’re not supposed to bet on the games. You can...

110 - Fallow Ground

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dozens of mounds erected to the dead: all slightly pointed, all silent under the low thick sky. The air still within this cul-de-sac of stone; the dra...

109 - Janissaries

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mihail leaned forward. The red light of the candle bled up over both our faces. “Well then I’ll keep speaking your language, if you’ll survive. ...

108 - Falling, White, Like Death

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Those white… flakes, they fall down. On this winter night, this cold, cold winter night, the White drifts gently down to blanket me. Each inhalation...

107 - Eloise Kestrel: Artist, Oracle, Mystic

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“The Oracle of Canada.” One of the great guiding lights of Canadian contemporary art. Tragic figure. Welcome to the self-guided audio tour for the...

106 - Mannequins

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It had to be some sort of boutique. A specialty shop. Secret, hyper-exclusive, a speakeasy of lingerie. That light on every night, and the changing si...

105 - Cutman

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A cutman isn't really a doctor, and it’s not really medicine. On the contrary; you’re patching your guy up so you can send him out there to get hu...

104 - Halloween After Halloween

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Holidays shift and change over time, evolve, mutate one might say. Halloween is no different. --Written by Alexander Saxton, Anthony Botelho, and Jaco...

103 - The Line

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Jane,” she said, “when the next train comes, you will check to make sure it’s normal, and then you will get on it.” Normal? But the man- “...

102 - Agony

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Finally, after a few weeks, Saul posted about his condition in the general board. It was a short post, written without capitalization, almost like he ...

Wrong Station: Podcasting 2.0

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Season 7 is here. The future of podcasting... is here. --Written by Alexander Saxton, Anthony Botelho, and Jacob Duarte Spiel Support The Wrong Statio...

A Pustular Party Pack Patreon Sampler

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Some scraps to tide you over amidst this horrible, truly horrible Summer famine. Support The Wrong Station by subscribing at www.patreon.com/thewrong...

101 - The Witch Machine

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For the last few rounds, the Witch Machine had been making a slight groan. But now that groan turned into a whine and an ominous rattle. We all recoil...

100 - Gold

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Three stories. Three worlds. One truth. Featuring "NAM-LU-GAL, which means KINGSHIP," "The Crack in Everything," and "Manna From Heaven." --Written by...

99 - The Dweefs

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Mr Carter,” he began, tossing down a manila file folder. “Do you know who I am and why I’m here?” “You’re the Shrink.” Carter didn’...

98 - DO YOU NEED? DO YOU NEED?

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I turned off the light on my phone and sat there, down in that space. In the utter blackness, in the cool, hidden from the pressures of the world. The...

97 - Recording Angels

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Sleipnir,” I said. It was the name of the Ghost Ship we were out there trying to find. “Sleipnir. I’m not sure I like it.” “Your instinct...

96 - The Blade, The Chain

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rip, peel, puncture... Wrench, boil, burn... When Fado worked, the troubling dreams - if they were dreams - seemed to vanish.  So Fado, the greatest ...

95 - Productivity

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

‘Welcome to Dastra, Let’s get you organized.’I hit ‘next’.‘Allow Dastra to access your other devices?’I chewed my lip. I didn’t like t...

94 - The Hunting of the Lathe Worm: Part 3

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Like a Goddess of the sea, she raised her pearled hand, and with her gesture came a rising wave that darkened as it grew until it hit the shore and b...

93 - The Hunting of the Lathe Worm: Part 2

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The fog grew thick, and soon his only guide through the white void was the sound of running water up ahead. And now his foot rang not against soft loa...

92 - The Hunting of the Lathe Worm: Part 1

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a place like this the fog might thicken in a minute, and then could last for days or months, or never end at all. How many others had set off with ...

91 - We Have No Choice But To Do This To You

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“I’d like to wake up please," she said. "How do I wake up? I don’t like how this feels.” “It’s normal to feel a little bit off at first," ...

90 - Silver Bells, and Other Short Snips Celebrating the Birth of Jesus

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Just listen to those bells. They ring for peace. They ring for glad tidings. They ring for pushing the pain down, deep down, and for leftover sausage ...

89 - The Dagger or the Poisoned Chalice

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was in the Maestro’s studio, all lit up golden and dark with the golden-hour light that streamed through its wide-arched window, that the Maestro...

88 - The Sea Provides

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It sat there, under the light. The Egg. Huge, murky and amber. It seemed firm, but still sagged just a bit where it sat. Whatever was inside—if ther...

87 - The Harlequin

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I knew then that it didn’t matter that the black mask gave no indication, no inkling of any emotion. The Harlequin was aware of my presence and, in ...

86 - Nasty Little Halloween Snips For Nasty Little Childs

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We've got sad ghost, mad ghost, not-a-child, big-ass skeleton, and *horrible* German man. Everything you need at this time of year. And nothing you wa...

85 - King's Yellow

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He held up a jar containing a chunk of stone the colour of yellow pollen. Out of it grew a crystal like sunset or ruby grapefruit; striking in colour,...

84 - Just the Usual Crowd

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One of those nights, huh? Sorry to pry; it just looks like there’s a lot on your mind. And typically when someone’s sitting at the end of the bar—...

Wrong Station: The Legally-Mandated FOIA Episode

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It didn't have to be like this—we could have gotten the big old Wrong ball rolling with Season 6 right away—but you vultures just couldn't leave w...

83 - Moderation

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Something strange happened during this rewatch. I started to cry. And it wasn’t for the sake of the man in the video. Like I told you: I’d seen hi...

82 - The Lazarite

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

He told me he was a type of Latin called a Frank, and that he had sworn his life to the Knights Hospitaller, and within them, to the Order of St. Laza...

81 - Pinkerton

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was morning when we got there, barely past dawn, and we had a little surprise waiting for us right there on the road into town. Now, they said that...

80 - The Better Craftsman

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“You mean a contest,” he said. A slow, crazed smile spread across Practical’s yellowed teeth. He glanced around the room, as if to reassure hims...

79 - Exodus

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The monster knew nothing. And then, to a chorus of gasps, it was born. Its flesh - once rigid, tall, and wooden - had been transformed into thickly-co...

78 - My Darling Little Cat

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"No, altogether, people didn’t care too much for young Madeleine Graves, and though I don’t believe I would have much enjoyed spending an evening ...

77 - The Inductor

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It began with a deep hum somewhere in the wall behind Samo, and then a tingle of static in the air. “Sail away, sail away, hah...” Doctor Martel s...

76 - In the Valley at High Noon

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“There is no escape from the Valley.” That’s what they say, isn’t it? I see how you could believe that. Whatever direction you look, there’s...

75 - Sweets

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Of course, a denture carved fully from ivory is perfectly serviceable. Even one carved from the harder sorts of wood might suffice for a mere shopkeep...

74 - When the Water Come Up

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How deep could that water be? Calf-deep? Knee-deep? Certainly not much more than that, with all those rocks and jags of rusted metal scraping the unde...

A Wronge Q&A Special: Hijinks, Hoilidays, and Herzogs

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Your questions answered by our team--NOT recorded under duress or threat of Punishment--in this first ever Q&A special. Learn more about your ad choic...

73 - The Workshop

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tommy jolted awake. His heart started pounding. There was something, someone up there. He saw the faint glow of a bright red light—could it really b...

72 - Red Bodhisattva

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You could be forgiven for being afraid, Kaisen thought, as she walked alone through the Hall of Bodhisattvas.  She would never have admitted to such ...

71 - Sharps

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

He sat up, thinking about the syringes, the figure in the alley, the strange dream with… that thing. It was all too much. He put his hands over his ...

70 - Notes From a Hunter

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When I began this life I didn’t muse on each hunt for as long as I now do. The morality, the greyness, or the consequences of my actions. Speed was ...

69 - Snips Most Horrid; Snips Most Foul

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Good evening, you sweet little eggs. Tonight we will be reading from the Great Tome of All Hallows' Eve Snippets, Most Horrid and Most Foul: a collect...

68 - Cape Spear

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I had the overwhelming sense that the threads of my life had permanently snarled together, a tangle of knots and frayed ends that sat between my throa...

67 - Pollo Rojo

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you remember the first job you ever had? I imagine you probably do; in no small part because your first job, if you’re like most people, was a sh...

66 - Snake Medicine

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

He’d slept less than four hours. It was the fifth night in a row. He squeezed his eyes shut. His jaw ached and his throat felt raw, as if he had be...

Wrong Station: An Oral History

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's the arcane knowledge you neither wanted nor asked for. In celebration of an unspecified number, or measure of that number, of Wrong Stations (tm ...

65 - Unbridled

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"Fur, fins, scales, wings, legs: they all popped from the surface of the inert matter, as if testing the environment to see what adaptation would be m...

64 - The Candle

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The candle sputtered as bits of badly-rendered fat crackled in the burning tallow. Exhausted from the day’s work, he sat back on his cot, watching t...

63 - Blood in the Golden Aspens

11 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As a child, I’d loved this forest; maybe because it was where I went to get away from the cottage, and the dark, brooding pressure of my Grandfather...

62 - Brumaire

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"Year... II? Yes, it must still be. Brother! The pocket watch tells me it is now Prairial, which is strange, one because it is broken, and two, becaus...

61 - Come Down To Us

13 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“I have done what you forced me to do,” he said. “I have initiated The Final Snow.” Even dampened by the snow, she could hear the outraged cry...

60 - April Ghouls: Just a Series of Normal Exorcism Stories With No Unifying Theme

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nothing specific about this episode, no no, not at all, oh no no my friends... --Written by Alexander Saxton, Anthony Botelho, and Jacob Duarte Spiel....

A Very Special Self Isolation Episode

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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59 - The Door

16 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“Here’s the place,” she said, and then loitered by the door, impatient for us to get out. The apartment was a little grimy: she hadn’t cleaned...

58 - Early Frost

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“I guess I always wanted to be a farmer.” I expected laughter, but instead the silence plunged deeper. “No,” said the farmer. “You don’t. ...

57 - Horses

17 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“Sorry, Hannah,” he said. “I forgot you liked horses so much, and didn’t want to hear about them getting lit on fire until their bones showed ...

56 - Achille Belanger And the Case of the Open Secret

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

They arrived at the crime scene, a gorgeous space: plasterwork ceilings illuminated by broad sash windows. A floor of unsurpassed versailles parquetry...

55 - A Tale of Andalusia

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A pair of guards bowed low on the other side, and though their weapons were sheathed, he felt a spike of alarm, and nearly struck them with his sword,...

54 - The Badalisc

06 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Badalisc is an Epiphany-time tradition, a creature that visits towns and gives a comedic speech where it talks about the town gossip and reveals p...

53 - Auld Tup

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“That… play,” I said. “What did it represent?” He frowned at me and tilted his head. I repeated the question, but it seemed he’d understoo...

52 - Roses

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

At four in the morning, I awoke writhing in pain. It was a hunger like nothing I’d felt up to that point. Like a force of nature. A vacuum needing t...

51 - The Initiation

25 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“Your son must be initiated,” said the shaman, Shiao-Duun. “For his sake and yours. You are all too young to remember the hard times, the cold t...

50 - Convergence

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“We just sail through.” And so we did. No flash, no psychedelic effects, it was like walking through a door. On one side, we left behind the world...