Dr. Ross Rayburn does his best to ignore the pleas of the patient’s heart monitor. He cuts deeper, his scalpel searching for the source of the bleed. But Dr Rayburn will soon find out what happens when one cuts too deep into Bleakwood's past.

A Darkened Lodge of Uncertain Address was written by Dexter McLeod and read by Paul Stephenson.

Dexter McLeod resides in western Kentucky, where he writes in the darker shades of Southern Gothic, folk and cosmic horror, science fiction, and the New Weird. His work has been published by or forthcoming from Air and Nothingness Press, Dark Moon Books, The Horror Tree, KJK Publishing, TDotSpec, and the Hugo Award finalist/European SF Award-winning magazine, Sci Phi Journal. His stories have also been performed in a half-dozen volumes of Hawk & Cleaver's award-winning horror and science fiction podcast series, The Other Stories and is forthcoming from Dissonance Media's Gothic horror podcast series, After the Gloaming. Visit linktr.ee/dextermcleod to connect with him online.

Paul Stephenson writes pulp fiction for the digital age. His first novel series – the indie-published apocalyptic Blood on the Motorway trilogy – has been an Amazon bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. A former journalist, he holds a diploma in Creative Writing at Oxford University. His stories have been featured on the chart-topping horror podcasts, The Other Stories and The Night’s End. His ebook serial The Sunset Chronicles, is a dystopian sci-fi thriller that will delight and terrify fans of science fiction and horror alike. His latest novel is Darkness Come Alive, book one of the vampire epic Darkness Rises, and is available now from all good bookshops.

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