A story about a love spell gone wrong. In “Heartache,” a pair of friends try to cast a love spell with disastrous results.

Episode 53: Heartache

A story about camping. In “A Dream in the Forest,” a man goes to sleep in his tent

Episode 54: A Dream In The Forest

A story about something found on the lakebed. In “A Rusty Blade,” a man finds an old knife.

Episode 55: A Rusty Blade

This month, a story about a breakup, and some voicemails. In “Message,” a man leaves several voicemails on an ex-girlfriend's phone to gloat.

Episode 56: Message

A story about eating. In “The Hunger at the Center of Everything,” a teenager tries to each his fill, and so does a isolated place in the plains.

Episode 57: The Hunger At The Center Of Everything

Two stories of intruders, in two very different meanings of the word. In one, "I'm Not Laughing," a man hears his wife laughing in their bedroom down the hall, and in the other, "An Infinite Rope," a strange object disrupts the usual business of a city square.

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Episode 01: Intruders

A single story, in two parts. In “This House is Not a Home,” a mother discovers that her new house might not be so welcoming to new guests.

Episode 06: This House is Not a Home

Two stories of things that bump in the night. In the first, “The Cat with No Legs,” a family deals with the death of a pet cat. In the second, “Dark at Night,” the stars stop shining.

Episode 10: Nighttime

Two ghost stories. In the first, “Fever Dreams,” a man recounts a childhood illness during which he almost died. In the second, “In the Static,” a man obsessed with numbers stations hears something else buried in the static.

Episode 12: Ghost Stories

This month on Death, Dying, and Other Things, two stories of dreams and their consequences. In the first, “Beyond the Lucid Dream,” a man ventures too far into his own dreams. In the second, “The Strange Dream of Mr. Bartlet,” a man’s recurring nightmare starts to affect his appetite.

Episode 16: Dreams

Two stories of weather and what comes with it. In, “The Raincaller,” a drought causes a group of farmers to take justice into their own hands. In, “Oligach, Who Came From the Fog,” two newcomers to a small mining town share one too many secrets.

Episode 17: Weather

A single story, told in fifty three voicemails. In “Cold as Hell,” a man has an issue with the heater in his new apartment.

Episode 18: Cold as Hell

Episode 19: Eight Hauntings

Two stories: one that ends, and one that starts, in a grave. In the first, “Resurrection Men,” a pair of body snatchers dig up a corpse. In the second, “The Spiraling Grave,” a woman wakes up in a coffin.

Episode 20: Two Graves

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A single story, revisiting a theme. In, “Dreams of Dead Energy,” a man struggles with his work, the effect of leisure, and his insignificance in the face of an uncaring universe.

Episode 21: Dreams of Dead Energy

A single story. In “Parlor Trick,” a magician uses a mirror, for magic trick.

Episode 23: Parlor Trick

Two stories about bodies and bodies of water. In “It Spoke,” a corpse in a riverbed says a few words. In “The Watermen of Drag Lake,” a local legend is born.

Episode 27: Bodies and Bodies of Water

A single story. In “Unfathomable Depths” an experiment in a secret facility goes horribly wrong.

Episode 28: Unfathomable Depths

A single story about puberty. In “One Red, One Green, One Blue,” a teenager’s very reality starts changing, as he grows up.

Episode 30: One Red, One Green, One Blue

Two stories about things you weren’t supposed to hear. In the first, “The Desert Rose,” a traveler hears breathing in walls of his motel room. In the second “A Stab of Air,” a curse uttered in one town is heard in another.

Episode 32: Things You Were Never Meant To Hear

A story about a field of wildflowers. In “What Lives in the Wildflowers?” a teenage boy asks his little brother that exact question.

Episode 33: What Lives In The Wildflowers?

A story about an antique cabinet. In “A Cabinet, a Bone, and Two Pieces of String,” a woman finds something in her new antique store find.

Episode 34: A Cabinet, A Bone, and Two Pieces Of String

A story about a basement. In “Holding Together the World,” two adult children grapple with a secret their parents have left for them.

Episode 35: Holding Together the World

A story about an in-group, and an individual. In “Shibboleth,” an individual finds others like him, but not exactly.

Episode 38: Shibboleth

A story about a flight. In “Airborne,” a woman, terrified to fly, sees fears realized in an unexpected way.

Episode 39: Airborne

A story about a dream and its lingering. In “Audio Notes on a Hidden Moon,” a recurring dream has an interesting side-effect on a man’s mind.

Episode 40: Audio Notes On A Hidden Moon

A story about earthquakes and other kinds of moving earth. In “Groundswell,” secretive strangers arrive in a small town and set up a mysterious operation.

Episode 41: Groundswell

A story about an accident and its aftermath. In “Freak Accident,” a boy loses his two front teeth.

Episode 43: Freak Accident

A story about books. In “Two Dozen Shelves,” you learn to meditate at an early age.

(This episode also co-hosted by the relentless birds outside of my window.)

Episode 44: Two Dozen Shelves

A nursery rhyme about a monster. In “The Ralgorat,” a boy sees something in his closet.

Episode 45: The Ralgorat

The conclusion of a story about a man on a journey for an answer. In “The Ghosts of the World, Part 3,” a man’s journey comes to a close.

Episode 48: The Ghosts Of The World, Part 3

A story about a dog and its owner. In “A Story About a Dog,” a dog’s mystery injury, and the aftermath.

Episode 49: A Story About A Dog

In “Mom I’m Scared,” a little girl is right to be scared. And in “Barely Going to Make It,” a man headed home for the holidays meets one obstacle after another.

Episode 50: Told Ya So

In “Floating Upside Down,” a family has a close encounter of a third kind.

Episode 51: Floating Upside Down

A story about a broken arm. In “Another Left,” a man breaks his arm.

Episode 52: Another Left

Death, Dying, and Other Things is a weird fiction podcast. On the first Thursday of every month, host Justyn Buske brings a set of stories meant to scare, spook, and unsettle.

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