As the sunlight fades to darkness and the frightful tails creep into your mind, it's

time to give in to your fear, because tonight there will be no sleep.

Welcome to this special bonus edition of the No Sleep Podcast. I'm the producer David Cummings.

This special episode is being released on June 13, 2012, and that means it's the one-year anniversary of the No Sleep Podcast.

Yes, it was June 13, 2011, when the first episode of the fledgling podcast was released to the sounds of this introduction.

For the dark hours when you dare not close your eyes, it's the No Sleep Podcast featuring stories from reddit.com's No Sleep Forum.

Join us as the sleepless hours take the past.

One year and 25 episodes later, we celebrate our first anniversary.

I'd like to do something a little different for this anniversary episode.

Rather than dwell on the past year in the life of the No Sleep Podcast, I thought I'd make our listeners aware of the other horror story telling podcasts that are available on the internet.

After all, it's a small fraternity of us out there.

One of the oldest and most respected horror podcasts is Sudopod, which features top-notch fiction writers and professional narrators crafting outstanding horror tales.

Make sure you check them out at sudopod.org.

Another great place for outstanding horror fiction is the Fear on Demand Podcast, found at fearondemand.com.

Sydney Williams is the host and producer of the shows, and he is a member of a close-knit community of horror and suspense authors.

The stories on Fear on Demand are very high quality in terms of both writing and narration.

In fact, I was in contact with Sydney a number of months ago and volunteered my services as a narrator.

Sid was kind enough to include me in the show, and I had the pleasure of reading a story that would be featured in the next episode of Fear on Demand, as soon as the show marks its return in the coming weeks.

I asked Sydney if I could include the story I read for his podcast on this bonus episode of the No Sleep Podcast, and he graciously gave me his permission.

So it's with a friendly tip of the hat that I thank our friends at Fear on Demand, and present to you this episode's Loan Story.

The story I will read for you is written by a pair of authors, M.F. Corn, and David Matthew.

This collaborative team have individually had over 800 published pieces of fiction and nonfiction, and 15 novels, with many of those novels making some of the year's best lists.

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