Notorious News, Freaky Features,
Creepy Commentary, and Macabre Mayhem
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Straight From the Dark and Bizarre World of Joe Townsel ...
"dreadtime stories" podcast
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NEWS
December 1, 2025
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Need a little nightmare to darken your dreams? These are Stories best told at Dreadtime ... and on your favorite podcast player! Your favorite YouTube series is now available as audio podcasts, including Apple, Spotfify, Audible, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and many others! Just visit the RSS.com page linked below, then click the "Listen on..." button for the complete list of players! Stay frightened, my friends!
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your guide to the
joe townsel multiverse
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NEWS
Updated December 1, 2025
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Multiverses are all the rage these days, and the Dark and Bizarre Works of Joe Townsel are no exception! Beginning with the publication of Anticipation in 2016, the groundwork was laid for an all-encompassing epic with interconnecting tales of horrific world(s) building. Get up to speed now, and check back here with each new published (and broadcast) story to see how it all comes together. Stay tuned faithful readers (and listeners)!
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HORROR SPRINGS ETERNAL
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FEATURE
December 1, 2025
Once upon an uncertain and unsettling time,
In countless worlds, and others such as these,
Parallel realities, not in concert but also strangely aligned,
Came a sinister man begat of evil who would rule with ease.
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The sinister man was once mortal, with human limits,
He held power as a mogul, but this was a faint whisper of true power,
He embraced the dark arts, resisted by others too timid,
He would preside over his kingdom from his ivory tower.
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JUST IN TIME FOR THE
HORRORDAYS
GIVE THE ENTIRE
JOE TOWNSEL LIBRARY
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NEWS
November 28, 2025
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Knocking your head against the wall, perplexed as to what would make the perfect gift for yourself or your fellow horror buffs? Wonder no more, dear reader! My entire library of horror and science fiction novels and collections are available in all major e-book formats and trade paperback! Wow, talk about your scary stocking stuffers!
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BUY: HORROR SPRINGS ETERNAL | HELL AND WELLNESS
MATE TO ORDER | FURY DUTY | THE UNFRIEND ZONE | ANTICIPATION
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While you're here, enjoy my always "up-to-the-minute" news and features on joetownsel.com!
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Home page, with video book trailers and social media links.
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New News, Features and Commentaries section.
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New weekly posts to my Webcast appearances.
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Easier ordering of your favorite Joe Townsel books.
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Enjoy your visit to JOETOWNSEL.COM
YOUTUBE SHORTS
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FEATURE
October 1, 2025
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Now enjoy YouTube Shorts on the go! One to three-minute highlights from "Joe Townsel's Dreadtime Stories," as well as his other Dark and Bizarre Works!
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SPOT-ON WEBCAST COMMERCIALS AND
BOOK TRAILERS
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FEATURE
July 15, 2024
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Your favorite Dark and Bizarre Author and his webcasting partner ... Capt'n John Webber of Webber Internet Thingy and SB-80 ... are creating a growing library of advertising spots, shown during their weekly webcasts! Check out the entire collection!
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part fiction/part memoir
hell and wellness
now available
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NEWS
November 15, 2023
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Hell and Wellness is an all-encompassing yet intimate novel, accompanied by one short story and three poems. All five works are related, and tell the horrifying ... and yet, life affirming ... Trials, Tribulations and Tests of Faith as experienced by a man, his mother, other family, and caregivers after his Taste of Hell and subsequent Road to Recovery.
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and still,
i await your return
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FEATURE
From Hell and Wellness
November 1, 2023
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You left us when we were unprepared
Your love and kindness remain treasures for which we yearn,
We miss the wisdom and humor you shared
And still, I await your return.
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The profound loss of you is universal
The fires of our love for you will forever burn,
To be reunited with you is a hope that springs eternal
So still, I await your return.
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The visitor at the door
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FEATURE
From Hell and Wellness
November 1, 2023
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My drowning pool is but the size of a grave,
Its waters engulf me, the killing tides cascade,
As I struggle against death, I wonder if I’m worthy to save,
But beyond the pool, as if on a distant shore,
I see the visitor at the door.
Beyond the drowning pool, there is a beckoning light,
My reach is gone, my arms paralyzed, adding to my fright,
I sink deeper into the dark unknown, permanent night,
But he remains with me, this man I cannot ignore,
He gives me strength, the visitor at the door.
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The end of smiles
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FEATURE
From Hell and Wellness
November 1, 2023
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Endangered.
Is it humankind itself, or the capacity to live?
Her soul and compassion are shielded from view.
His strength and humor are not to be seen.
For how long? Is it up to us?
Shrouded.
The mask hides another mask, lying beneath, less superficial.
The mask hides the malice of some, the kindness of others.
The mask is our savior. The mask is our jailer.
It is all of these things. It is none of these things.