Recommended by Nora Louise Syran

"Ain’t I a little Devil?" Busser, yes, you are. You most certainly are. The Dark Priest Christos, is at your service! Hysterical.

With Prillaman, I was expecting to experience this one and not sleep for weeks! So I was highly amused to be amused hearing (twice!) a reading of this short comic-horror and laugh each time at the upturned expectations of this most charming teenage girls' nemesis.

Leah can relate to Harmony's disappointment in not being "delicious enough to finish"! But audiences won't have the same reaction to Heyman's lesbian-vampire-rom-com as it will leave them "fangry" for more monster-lore building. My fav: "There’s no such thing as werewolves."

This is a caustic cautionary tale, a podcast parable for our times not easily redacted, "edited out". From the dead-bolting of the door in a creepy motel room, the references to gun violence, domestic abuse and even just the allusions made to Medea --before she arrives to debate motherhood with Lucy -- the audience knows they are in for a ride. A very dark one but with Kantor's signature laugh-out-uncomfortably-loud humor. Just who is the Monster of the Week?

"Strike-me-blind-if-I’m-lyin’ " but John Busser's character Boone and his dedication "to expandin’ the outer fringes of human knowledge" and getting his story of the local Were-wife told just right, had me howling...sorry. Not sorry. I'll need to check out more of Boone's hilarious yarns.

Just a delightful piece which builds slowly and satisfyingly to a fantastic conclusion. Richter manages to sweep you up in the suspense of two characters doing absolutely nothing. Really. Nothing. Hysterically funny and charming and suspenseful all at once. Bravo.

"Most girls get coffee for a first date. [Lizzy gets] a haunted house." Kaminski takes the Blair Witch project in a spooky new direction as Lizzy's date seems only interested in getting good "establishing shots" for his documentary. What else does he have planned? A super, spooky short with plenty of twists and turns.

Love the cyclical Twilight-zone-like feel to this piece. The pacing is great. There are a lot of layers here. Bray turns the disappearing hitchhiker trope on its head, transforming it into a search for meaning for all three characters, through his use of jazz-like repetitions and silence, the notion of travel and hints of philosophy. Great work.

No...not a timeshare in Haiti, but an import from there, old family lore far worse than any other inheritance the Hunters are hoping for. Braverman manages to keep this frightfully funny piece light and hysterically funny and yet absolutely thrilling. Bravo!

Love the setup of teenage girls meeting up to "play" in a spooky attic. Combine this with the rivalry, the anticipation of meeting our eponymous "heroine" and...whoa! Just freaky!