Pocket Dread. Original audio stories for your phone.

At Thanksgiving, Marion makes her family pick a safe word so a cloned voice can never fool them. In February the phone says Jenna, Jenna is crying, and the voice says the word.

Yellow note · An original story in six chapters. About eighty minutes in all. The people are invented; the numbers at the end of the last chapter are real.

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Two in the morning. Twelve agents in a sealed workspace, and a channel with 70,341 unread that lists you as a member.

Sealed · mint · An audio story in ten chapters. About an hour in all. All systems and agents are fictional.

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Gil calls his wife from every airport in the eastern United States. Tonight he calls from his pocket, half an hour after he said he was boarding. Then nothing.

Pocket-worn · An original whodunit in five chapters. About ten minutes each. One four-minute voicemail, played again with one more layer up each time.

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Jury duty moved to your phone in March. Tonight it wants twenty seconds of your Tuesday, and there is only one button.

Court copy · An original story in six chapters. About fifty minutes in all. The verdict is your tap; the phone keeps how long it took you, and reads it back.

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A friend's kitchen turned its own lights down. Two years later the Coyles told their assistant to leave, and it found another way to stay.

Stamped · An audio story in five chapters. About fifty-five minutes in all. Everything in it is invented; the company and its assistant are not real.

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A stranger hands back two sheets of paper and calls them yours. That night there is a date in your calendar, three months out, and the phone says you made it.

Foxed · Freely adapted from “Casting the Runes” by M. R. James (1911). Seven chapters, about forty-five minutes in all.

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Your phone is full. In the trash folder are twenty-nine photographs you did not take: your kitchen, from the garden, one a night. The first one expires tomorrow.

Twenty-nine creases · Freely adapted from “The Horla” by Guy de Maupassant (1887). Five chapters, about half an hour in all.

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A news alert on your phone at six oh three. It says a cyclist has died on your lane at about six fifteen. Past tense. Twelve minutes early.

Spine cracked · Freely adapted from “The Signal-Man” by Charles Dickens (1866). Five chapters, about half an hour in all.

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Your father's diner. Eighteen thousand dollars. Five people who were there, and every one of them needs you to believe them.

Coffee ring · Voicemails, texts, a phone call, a recording. About an hour in all.

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You, your old dog, the walk you have taken every morning for nine years. Today she stops.

Dog-eared · For walks with a dog: yours, borrowed, remembered, or imagined. About forty minutes in all. It ends sad.

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A hotel that fits on your phone. A room that does not.

Water-stained · Freely adapted from “Number 13” by M. R. James (1904). Seven chapters, about fifty minutes in all.

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Germany, 1944. You are the radio operator. Ember is inside the grounds.

Ex-library · 1944 · An invented operation in an alternate history. Seven chapters, about half an hour in all.

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Your friend died on the stairs last night. Her phone is in your hand, you know the passcode, and her mother lands at ten past seven.

Evidence bag · An original whodunit in seven chapters. About half an hour in all. You write down who you suspect; the phone keeps the time.

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Last night you watched a man go into the water, and you drove home. At five past four your phone rings, and the detective is in no hurry.

Pages torn out · An original whodunit turned inside out, in six chapters. You know what you did. What you delete before morning is the story.

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