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Original Fiction - Haunted (Patreon)

Published:
2025-12-23 16:00:11
Imported:
2025-12
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“Haunted” was written, read and scored by Chad Fifer, with the generous participation of Heather Klinke.

Happy Holidays to the listeners of Strange Studies of Strange Stories!

Expect more original fiction in the new year… when you least expect it!

Comments

Lord Rancid

Nice bonus to save for working Xmas eve... Happy Holidays to all the SSOSS crew!

Noah August

This was wonderful! Thank you so much Chad! This is such a unique, funny, and dare I say, haunting, piece of work. Definitely going to be studying this strange story!

Oleh R

I read somewhere that the original title was going to be “Haunted or, Why You Shouldn’t Bring Empty Pie Tins Home from the Beach.”

Matt Shank

That was terrible, which I mean as the highest form of praise. Listening to it bothered me on a deep level. Loved the choice of a pie in the face as the inciting incident. A really great piece on loneliness and how hard it can be to reach out.

Jason Uresti

Enjoyed this piece. Humorous and containing a healthy dose and appreciation of the often absurd and inexplicable nature of life, but also touching on the sad and painful ways so many of us self isolate and suffer alone, trapped by our own insecurities and shame. I look forward to potentially more original fiction in the new year.

Tara Murphy

Poor Terry needed some female friends. We would talk the crap out of that scenario.

Aaron La Vene

I love the use of a pie. Something so dumb it’s impossible to take it seriously… unless your Terry…. The use of anything else. Anything remotely dangerous would be taken far more seriously …. I think you picked the perfect prop . Genius really. Really well done. And If it weren’t for the perfect choice of a whipped cream pie, the story wouldn’t have the same effect. Bravo

anfearglas

Nice story. Making something mundane so unsettling reminded me of George RR Martin’s The Pear-Shaped Man. Cheesies are creepy!

DR

Funny and sad and funny again. Theres a storyline in the suicide squad comic where characters keep getting hit with pies and one character even faked getting hit and is found out but then really is hit and is afraid people will think he did it again. In the end it turns out to be Captain Boomerang who hit himself with a boomerang pie to throw off suspicion.

The Spider Incident

Well done! I'm looking forward to hearing more original fiction from you

REO Jackwagon

Heh. That was a really neat way to do that. Nice work!

Jeremy Impson

Haven't listened yet, but want to wish you guys a merry christmas!

Alan Ricks

I’ve really missed your original fiction. I remember when you did “One Small, Valuable Thing” and I wished you made a whole collection. I still wish that! This story would make Aickman proud.

Nathan Wunner

But how was pie? I jest- and I know Chris would say that the true mark of a great weird fiction tale is that you can't explain the pie. If you did it would be lame. Merry Christmas, hope you all are well!

S Jayne Bradley

The strangest things occur in dreams And nothing's ever what it seems Until the day that you will die You'll wonder who had thrown that pie

Jim Cannon

That last line is uncomfortably ambiguous. You have set up that years have gone by, but I don't get the impression that poor Terry died of old age.

Jim Cannon

That imaginary conversation *killed* me.

Daniel Restione

Excellent work Sir! A worthy follow up to One Small Valuable Thing years ago… and Children in Heat. A very nuanced representation of life: you are alone and are baffled/haunted by the mystery of why you are here.

nils hedglin

Great story, I love how the horror was both the weird home invasion, but also how lonely he was and he had no one to share the experience with and confirm with him that it definitely was weird.

Our old pal Brendan Gardiner

Great story Chad. Good job getting it done. I really like the way you just let the event be, without any ultimate explanation, and how you made the story play out all in the reaction. Reminded me of the story-within-a-story in the Cohen Brothers movie A Serious Man, where a rabbi counsels the troubled main character by recounting how another member of the community, a dentist, came up against a supernatural set of circumstances in the course of his work that defies any kind of logic and accountability. At first, the dentist’s life is turned inside out, his entire sense of order threatened to the point of collapse, but then one day he just decides to accept it and go on living. The story is offered as a comfort to someone in a tangle with an inscrutable God. What we don’t see is the end of that character‘s life. Maybe the acceptance of the mystery is a gloss that falls away in the final moments, when the disruption to reality re-emerges to once again confound and dominate.

Robby Haentze, a consumer of silliness

Wow, good job with this one. I really liked that we don't get an explanation for the pie. I think this is a glowing example of a "capital-W" Weird tale.

Cailleach

The ending - so good! So good! I FINALLY got to finish listening to this story on New Year’s Day, and now I want to re-listen, beginning-to-end, all in one go. What a delightfully chilling way to round out the end of 2025 and ring in 2026. Thank you!

Allison Albright

This was great! I really like the absurdity of the pie in the face as the unexplained incident leading to a sort of horrified, lifelong wtf

Mooncubus

This went from being so silly and ridiculous to very sad and relatable. It's so good! Although the most horrifying part was the wet socks 😭

Runninghead

Such a strong premise. I can see how this story just had to be written! To follow along as one small seed of an idea blossomed into such a funny, disturbing and interesting tale was wonderful. 👏

Bryony Marsh

The truly great initiating incident in this story caused me to have a very interesting discussion with a nonhuman intelligence (by which I mean Google Gemini: there was nobody else available in the wee small hours) on the theme of the supernatural and the supermundane. And what is a story for, if not to make you think?