Independent horror. An unmistakable voice.
Otis Jiry’sMidnightTransmission
The signal gets stranger after dark.
Turn the lights down. Settle in. Otis Jiry is at the microphone with stories that get under your skin—and stay there.
Free to listen. Listener supported. Best after dark.
From the other side of midnight
The transmissions
Latest transmission / 21 min
Out of Thread
For twenty-four years, a tired highway worker believed his job painting the stripes on Route 99 was just mundane labor. But when his supply of a strange, government-mandated paint begins to run dry, he discovers the glowing yellow line is the only thing binding an ancient, planetary terror beneath the asphalt. If the line breaks, the world unravels.
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From the archive / 21 min
The Devonian Catch
A disgraced marine biologist comes home to a dying Maine harbor to count the catch and finds the boats landing fish that have been extinct for three hundred million years. The town is eating them. So is he.
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From the archive / 25 min
The Promise
Two hunters take shelter from a mountain storm in a cabin nobody seems to own, with a lamp lit and two cups set out. By morning one of them has made a promise he did not understand, and it follows him home.
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From the archive / 24 min
Long Time Dead
A dying man refuses every comfort: the doctor, the prayer, the hymn book his mother keeps pressing into his hand. But something in the room has started paying attention, and it is waiting for the moment his back is turned.
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A voice you know.
A darkness you don’t.
There’s a reason you remember an Otis Jiry story. The measured pause. The warmth that makes you lean in. The moment you realize you probably shouldn’t have.
Midnight Transmission is a new chapter in independently produced horror fiction, with Otis at the heart of every telling.
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