One More Before Sleep

Hill Country Writer
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One More Before Sleep is a short fiction podcast for late nights and low lights. Each episode features a standalone story drawn from horror, science fiction, and the strange in between, meant to be heard just before you turn out the light. These are quiet stories, unsettling ones, where dread builds slowly and lingers long after the last line.

Episodes

  1. Mars Is Hungry

    5D AGO

    Mars Is Hungry

    Mars used to mean wonder and possibility. Now, for Addison, it means boredom. Thanks to faster space travel, Mars is no longer a dream—it's a job site. Lacking ambition, discipline, or a college degree, Addison ends up on the Red Planet as a janitor, sent there by his billionaire father to stay out of trouble and out of sight. Life on Mars is dull, predictable, and safely uneventful… until Addison sees something impossible. He isn't alone. Hidden deep below Mars, Nix has been watching humanity for years, waiting for the right moment to make contact. When she finally does, Addison becomes part of a first encounter that is nothing like humanity imagined. Because Mars is not a dead world. It has its own gods. And Mars is hungry. Written by: Ryan ⁠Stephenson⁠ Narrated by: ⁠Jaivuc⁠ Intrro Narrated by:⁠Jaivuc⁠⁠

    18 min
  2. The 13th Step

    JAN 30

    The 13th Step

    There are only twelve steps to the basement. Except for the night a brother and sister count thirteen. What waits beneath the extra step is not a basement, but a vast, torch-lit cavern where wind screams, darkness hunts, and something pulls them apart. Written By: Hill Country Writer Narrated By: Andrew Attanasio Intro Narrated by Jaivuc

    12 min
  3. The Tattie Bogle

    JAN 29

    The Tattie Bogle

    Rowena plans a quiet weekend alone in the woods. Two nights by a creek, far from roads, noise, and other people. She knows the old stories her grandmother used to tell. Warnings about the Tattie Bogle, folklore meant for children and places that no longer matter.But the woods remember. As night falls, small details begin to feel wrong. Straw where it should not be. A presence on the hill that refuses to move. The growing sense that some warnings are not metaphors at all. The Tattie Bogle is a quiet folk horror story about isolation, inherited fear, and the cost of ignoring old names for old things. It lingers like something standing just out of sight, waiting to be noticed. Written By: ⁠Ryan Stephenson⁠ Narrated By: ⁠Madsparrow⁠ Intro Narrated by ⁠⁠Jaivuc

    15 min
  4. I Love You Daddy

    JAN 15

    I Love You Daddy

    An annual desert hike meant to prove he still has it turns into a nightmare beneath the Arizona desert. Injured, lost, and cut off from help, a lone hiker stumbles into a place where something has been hunting for years. Trapped underground, he must face whatever waits in the dark before it decides he’s next. Written by: Hill Country Writer Narrated by: Jaivuc Intro Narrated by: Jaivuc

    20 min
  • 4 Episodes

About

One More Before Sleep is a short fiction podcast for late nights and low lights. Each episode features a standalone story drawn from horror, science fiction, and the strange in between, meant to be heard just before you turn out the light. These are quiet stories, unsettling ones, where dread builds slowly and lingers long after the last line.

Information

  • Creator
    Hill Country Writer
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Hill Country Writer
  • Show Website
    One More Before Sleep