Weird pulp, horror talk, loose wires.
The Skinner Co. Network is a mixed feed of Flashpulp stories, horror viewings, and informal roundtable conversation. Its fiction runs on occult battles, collapsing worlds, strange guardians, and hard turns from melancholy to carnage.
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The Skinner Co. Network presents itself as a network feed, and the recent excerpts support that shape. Flashpulp is the strongest recurring identity. Those episodes offer serialized pulp fiction with a taste for occult machinery, post-collapse landscapes, military experiments, mythic titles, and sudden physical danger. The Outsiders: Social Animals follows a multi-part thread involving Miss Atlas, Molly Blackhall, Paige, Ruby, Sour Thistle, drones, bionics, animal swarms, and a hostile tower. The Insiders: Battle of the Abbadon Mall Food Court shifts the action into shopping-center carnage, cultists, Nivis, Bunny, a spiderkin, a banshee, and an armed arrival by the achievers. The style is dramatic and packed. It can move from grief to tactical detail in the space of a breath. A character may be trapped in the shell of a body, then the next image is a cable screaming through the air like a weapon. That is the fiction lane: weird, violent, mournful, and energetic. The network also carries conversational material. NFC001 - I Heart Windsor is not framed like the fiction; it is a raw group conversation with Jessica May, Pope, Mornul, and Gerd, moving through a restraining order, doxing, workplace rumors, Detroit, and jokes about whatever succeeds the Flashcast. The OCT31 entries form another lane, built around horror-film reactions. The Poughkeepsie Tapes discussion is openly negative and focused on disgust, gratuitousness, found-footage framing, and true-crime packaging. The Day of the Triffids discussion is lighter, with VHS, older European horror, angry plants, blindness, alcoholism, and the question of whether the film still works as horror. Across these modes, The Skinner Co. Network favors odd intensity over polish. It is fiction-forward, but not fiction-only. It leaves room for credits, Creative Commons notes, sound-effect acknowledgments, personal grievance, horror nerdery, and jokes that sound like they wandered in from a private room. The appeal is the collision: elaborate dark pulp beside scrappy, candid commentary. Its best fit is a listener who wants a feed that can tell a story about spiderkin and then argue about a bleak found-footage film without smoothing out the edges.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants serialized weird fiction with occult battles, post-collapse danger, and horror-adjacent conversation in the same feed. Best fit for someone comfortable with abrasive jokes and dark subject matter.
What sets it apart: The feed stands apart by pairing authored Flashpulp fiction with looser network conversations and horror-viewing reactions. It feels like a story archive sharing space with the people and arguments around it.
Brought to you by http://skinner.fm, Flash Pulp is an experiment in broadcasting fresh pulp stories in the modern age - five to ten minutes of fiction brought to you Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays.A recurring cast of characters appear in both one off and serial tales, - classically styled weird, fantasy and adventure stories, for your eyes or podcast feed.
A hungry green creature or Cobra's Christmas toy plot: pick your kind of strange evening.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A disorderly return turns online menace, civic confusion, and workplace fallout into dark improvised comedy.
The episode turns a messy return into a tight knot of civic panic, online threat, and workplace fallout. Jessica May lays out police contact, rumors at work, a restraining order, doxing, and the accidental involvement of the wrong school board, while Gerd, Pope, and Mornul keep…
Tiny debates, treated with heroic seriousness.
Flashpulp special episode 58, “All Creation,” follows sixteen-year-old Delphine after a pregnancy scare, a breakup with Paul, and the discovery of a green six-legged creature in a forest near a blueberry-picking site.
The hosts of Crononaut Cinema Reviews discuss the G.I.
Crononaut Cinema Reviews examines Mr.
George and Jessica May describe a 10-year restraining order sought after a young woman they welcomed into a household was stalked and threatened.
In this episode of Flashpulp, the story 'The Outsiders: Social Animals' concludes as Miss Atlas recalls a traumatic memory triggered by her own scream.
In part 3 of 4, The Outsiders face a maniac with HIV and a flood of animal meat, learning the power of friendship amidst a plague-ravaged countryside.
In this episode of Flashpulp, the story 'The Outsiders: Social Animals, Part 2' continues as Paige, who is dead, experiences sleep for the first time since her death.
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A discussion about the 1962 film The Day of the Triffids, focusing on its horror elements, low budget, and the hosts' reactions to its plot and ending.
A podcast host and guest discuss their negative reaction to the 2007 found footage horror film The Poughkeepsie Tapes, criticizing its gratuitous violence and lack of plot.
The hosts of Crononaut Cinema Reviews discuss the G.I.
Four hosts provide a humorous commentary on the Halloween episode of the Ace Ventura animated series, discussing its dated and problematic elements.