Theodore McCombs | Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women

NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)

John Joseph Adams

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.2 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Mill—a charmer and a rake of no respectable talent whatever—insinuated himself into the home of the widow Annie Holcomb and her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alice. But Mrs. Holcomb turned him out, once she realized he’d been gallanting Alice as much as her. Mill spent the next four nights chanting obscene tirades under her window and left a dead rat in the mail slot on the fifth. Night patrols chased him off park benches; friends robbed him. Sleepless and humiliated, he broke into the house and strangled Mrs. Holcomb with her tin necklace, and when it snapped, with a pajama cord. Narrated by Claire Benedek. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	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. I'm your host, Jack and Kate. Nightmare magazine is edited by John Joseph Adams and Wendy Wagner. The stories of this podcast are produced by Skyboat Media, directed by Stefan Rednicki and Gabrielle DeCure, in association with Jim Freund.
1:28.7	And for this episode, yours truly.
1:31.1	Our first offering for the February issue is, Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable
1:35.4	Women by Theodore McCombs.
1:37.8	The story's read for you by Claire Bloom Benedict.
1:40.6	Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women is copyright 2018 by Theodore McCombs.
1:46.3	Theodore McCombs is a writer in Denver in a 2017 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop.
1:53.1	His fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Gernica, in Shenandoah, and his essays, in Lit Hub and Electric Literature, among others.
2:02.5	He is a co-editor and regular contributor at the Speculative Literary Blog Fiction Unbound,
2:07.8	and he tweets as MRB-R-U-F-F.
2:12.3	And so ends this week's intro.
2:15.0	So, without further ado, let's have a nightmare.
2:25.3	Six hangings in the land of Unkillable Women by Theodore McCombs.
2:33.3	1899, January 20th, Sydney Lewis Mill, 36.
2:40.9	Vengeance
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