The Ghosts on This Road
Using her own horror prose as an eerie foundation, writer Linda Wojtowick collaborated with fellow author Soren Narnia on this lo-fi conversational podcast series. In the first volume of 25 episodes (2020-2022), they play anonymous paranormal researchers calling back and forth from the road to report on mysterious phenomena. In the second volume of 15 episodes (beginning October 2023), they play very different unnamed characters: strangers attempting to piece together hazy shared memories of a faraway used bookstore that may never have existed. In both volumes, short and subtle tales of terror link hours of observations on fear, memory, obsession, and the wonder...
Mon, December 11, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 15: Petroglyphs
“I guess I just wish that the space we found, whatever ground or field, extended to wider lands… to countries barely known.” End of Volume 2.
Fri, December 08, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 14: Beach, Fence, Prince
“I think I have learned to dream big, because that sometimes feels like my only act of engagement or enchantment.” Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Tue, December 05, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 13: Disinter
“There’s nothing at all on the back cover but the name and logo of the press: Frostmarch Books of Montreal."
Sat, December 02, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 12: Ore
"It's been very eerie here on the train... I haven't been able to get much sleep at all." Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Wed, November 29, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 11: Ape
Another four years later: “I just don’t trust my read on things anymore.” Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Sun, November 26, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 10: Field Notes
“Maybe in telling these stories of the road, we’re going to be all right now… this time, it’s got to be different.” Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Thu, November 23, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 9: Lost and Found
"I know it's ridiculous to think 'reincarnation,' but... is it my imagination, or somehow is her prose style yours too?" Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Mon, November 20, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 8: A Cat Walks Into the Dark
“The eyes--I don’t know what to tell you about them. They’re beyond my world.” Fiction by Linda Wojtowick. Additional text by Soren Narnia.
Fri, November 17, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 7: Tender
“The children seemed to cope with countering the monster by strategies that followed basic pathways: combat, taming, and being engulfed.” Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Tue, November 14, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 6: Ground Bird
Four years later: “We’re all just one event away from feeling we’re suddenly back at square one.” Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Sat, November 11, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 5: Have You Seen
"I'm just not sure where we can go now with this store thing..." Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Wed, November 08, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 4: A Preserve
"So I found this weird piece of masking tape..." Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Sun, November 05, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 3: Canyons
"I looked down and thought: Did someone move these rocks in the middle of the night...?" Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Thu, November 02, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 2: Other Horrible Workers
"Do you remember anything about the people who worked there? The staff?" Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
S2 E1 · Mon, October 30, 2023
Volume 2, Episode 1: Where You Are
“I’m so glad someone responded to my ad.” In this second volume of 15 episodes, strangers attempt to piece together hazy shared memories of a faraway used bookstore that may never have existed. Fiction by Linda Wojtowick.
Wed, May 11, 2022
Echoes
"So it's up to you... Does it happen exactly how they said, the end of the world? Or is it so much worse than we could ever know?"
Sat, April 02, 2022
Companions
"I say a person, but it’s really just the shape of one... I don’t know what it is."
Fri, February 25, 2022
Vessels
"What is just as perplexing is not what was found on board, but what was no longer there."
Tue, January 25, 2022
Reflections
"If you wish to enter here, you'll need to clear your mind."
Fri, December 17, 2021
Spirits
"Once upon a time, there was a little old bar on a little old street in a little old town."
Tue, November 30, 2021
Dimensions
"It wasn’t until she put the dollhouse in the closet that she got scared."
Fri, October 29, 2021
Hunger
"I couldn’t stand it. The greed. The cooking fires. The stews and roasts. The... taste."
Fri, October 15, 2021
Harvest
"It ate the things I brought. But it wasn't enough."
Fri, October 01, 2021
Composites
"It was all wrong. The face. It didn't make any sense."
Fri, September 17, 2021
Outposts
"The town had a thing that scared."
Thu, September 02, 2021
Fathom
"The men were torn apart and pieces of them were strewn like gory toys over the decks."
Fri, August 20, 2021
Spill
"It was already soaking out under the carpets and floorboards and rolling off the panels of stairs." Listen to "Wolf Stories", an audiobook by Linda Wojtowick: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-ebnhu-b8b1f0
Mon, April 05, 2021
Hijinks
"There was a monster in the back seat."
Sun, March 21, 2021
Exhibits
"Every time a murder is discussed on the air, a murder takes place in the studio."
Sat, March 06, 2021
Deterrents
"Being scared is supposed to make you real.
Sun, February 14, 2021
Archives
"They would lie awake at night, feeling the soft crackle and crunch of their paper souls."
Sun, January 31, 2021
Gifts
"Looking back later- when one was alive and one was dead- this was the time they built their effigy, their wicker man."
Sun, January 17, 2021
Bloom
"He started finding hacked portions of a raw meat buried in the pitch-colored grass...
Sun, January 03, 2021
Byway
"This way, the road doesn't have to stop. It can go on and on and on." Listen to "Wolf Stories", an audiobook by Linda Wojtowick: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-ebnhu-b8b1f0
Sat, December 19, 2020
Visitant
"They were like... vultures in the desert. Circling round.
Sun, December 06, 2020
Switch
"I'm not human, even. I'm... I'm from the woods."
Sun, November 22, 2020
Beast
"He worried about his imagination. Was it finally just running wild, feeding on his heart?"
Mon, November 09, 2020
Reel.
"There were sounds that didn't make sense."
Sat, October 31, 2020
Trespass
"It's the loneliest thing in the world, recognizing a ghost."
Sun, October 25, 2020
Shore
"A beach town in autumn is an eerie thing."
loading...