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Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier status abroad. Welcome to the Nightmare magazine Story Podcast, your new source for horror and dark fantasy fiction in the audio sphere.

Nightmare magazine is published by creeping hemlock press and edited by John Joseph Adams.

The stories are produced by Skyboat Road Company, Inc., which is spearheaded by the

Audie and Grammy Award-winning narrator, Stefan Rudnicki, and these productions are in association

with Rajan Kana. I'm your host, Jack and Cade, who's going to take you straight to the story.

Our next offering for the February issue is Blackbirds by Norman Partridge. The story's

read for you by Stefan Rudnicki.

Publishers Weekly called Norman Partridge's Dark Harvest Contemporary American writing at its finest and chose the novel as one of the 100 best books of 2006. His fiction includes horror, suspense,

crime, and the fantastic, sometimes all in one story, says his friend writer Joe R. Lansdale.

Author of five short story collections, Partridge's novels include Saguaro Riptide and the 10-ounce siesta,

plus The Crow, Wicked Prayer, which was adapted for film.

Partridge's compact, three-minute style has been praised by Stephen King and Peter Straub,

and his work has received multiple Bram Stoker awards.

And so ends this week's intro, so without further ado, let's have a nightmare.

Blackbirds by Norman Partridge.

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