His New Office Had a Fan, a Bad Chair and Spiders Creeping in the Vent and His Skin | Horror Fiction

A stressed-out new office worker's encounters with increasingly massive spiders takes a deeply disturbing turn when the creatures start following him home.

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FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: If creatures with eight legs wig you out, the hairs of your body are going to stand straight up when I tell the story from Jonathan Byrd called “The Spiders Under Your Skin. But first, I’ll start with a short one. It’s written by Melody Grace, and it’s called “There’s Something Off About The Lights Next Door”.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:10.579 = There’s Something About The Lights Next Door (Fictional Story)
00:07:12.147 = Spiders Under Your Skin (Fictional Story) ***
00:32:36.771 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“There’s Something Off About The Lights Next Door” by Melody Grace for Thought Catalog: (site no longer exists)
“The Spiders Under Your Skin” by Jonathan Byrd for Thought Catalog: (site no longer exists)
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Originally aired: May 14, 2020

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