Mike Bennett Podcast


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“This is the way horror audio should be done: Mike Bennett's podcast storytelling is an exceptionally generous free treat for the ears and the mind.”

Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Proverbs for Monsters


This is the all-in-one podcast feed. Here you’ll find all Mike’s public podcasts, starting with the multi-Parsec Award-winning podcasts Underwood and Flinch, and its sequel, Blood and Smoke; the thriller, One Among The Sleepless; the short story collection, Hall of Mirrors: Tales of Horror and The Grotesque; the zombie novella, After The Plague, and also Mike’s readings of classic stories by authors like E.F. Benson, Saki, and 18 stories by H.P. Lovecraft, including Mike's award-winning recording of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Mike's current podcast is Season Three of Underwood and Flinch, which draws from episodes that premiered at Patreon.

The Underwood and Flinch Series

Underwood and Flinch Saga

“If you think that Vampire tales are a worn out genre, Underwood and Flinch will shock and delight you.”

Walt Kolenda.examiner.com

Parsec Award Winner Parsec Award winner 2012, 2013, 2014

Underwood & Flinch Saga

All David Flinch ever wanted was a normal life. But when you're a member of the Flinch family, normal has never been easy.

For hundreds of years, the eldest male Flinch has been servant and guardian to the vampire, Lord Underwood. While the Flinches have changed through the generations, Underwood has remained eternal. David had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family's lord and master, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain by his dying older brother, he knows his luck has run out. After fifty years of slumber, Underwood is to be resurrected from the grave in a ritual of human sacrifice, and David, by right of succession, is to be his resurrector. But there is another Flinch, one who craves the role of guardian to the vampire: David’s sister, Lydia. It’s a job she means to have, even if it means making David’s the first blood shed in this new age of Underwood and Flinch.

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Volume 1 - Underwood and Flinch

Underwood and Flinch

“One of the best podcasts ever.”

Walt Kolenda.examiner.com


All David Flinch ever wanted was a normal life. But when you're a member of the Flinch family, normal has never been easy.

For hundreds of years, the eldest male Flinch has been servant and guardian to the vampire, Lord Underwood.

While the Flinches have changed through the generations, Underwood has remained eternal. David had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family's lord and master, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain by his dying older brother, he knows his luck has run out.

After fifty years of slumber, Underwood is to be resurrected from the grave in a ritual of human sacrifice, and David, by right of succession, is to be his resurrector. But there is another Flinch, one who craves the role of guardian to the vampire: David’s sister, Lydia. It’s a job she means to have, even if it means making David’s the first blood shed in this new age of Underwood and Flinch.

Winner of the Parsec Awards in 2012 and 2013.

Volume 2 - Blood and Smoke

Underwood and Flinch

The adventure of Underwood and Flinch continues in this first sequel to the original story.

Having returned to the Flinch family house in Spain, David Flinch uncovers old audio interviews between his father, Arthur, and the vampire, Lord Underwood. Through these recordings, David learns what happened to Underwood when he and Matthias Flinch sailed on from where we left them in 1719. A voyage that sees Underwood face new dangers, make new allies, and discover more about the creature of darkness he has become.

Blood and Smoke won the Parsec Award in 2014 for Best Novella.

Disturbing the Devil - A Stand-Alone Story

Disturbing the Devil

It's February 1863, and the newly opened Metropolitan Railway is the toast of London. Among the travelers tonight are the vampire, Lord Underwood, and his guardian, Ben Flinch.

But they aren't traveling alone, for Underwood and Flinch have been discovered by a group intent on their destruction.

Disturbing the Devil is a journey into the smoky depths of the Victorian Underground; a stand-alone short story in the Underwood and Flinch universe, written and read by four-time Parsec Award-winning author Mike Bennett. Expect blood.

Volume 3 - Underground

Underwood and Flinch

David Flinch returns to England where he is drawn into the hunt for a serial killer whose methods earn him the title: The London Vampire.

Could the killer be a real vampire? Detective Inspector Claire Redmond thinks so, and she should know, for vampire hunting runs in her family.

Underground is the third novel in the Underwood and Flinch Saga. A 60-episode Patreon-only exclusive podcast that expands the U&F universe with new revelations, new locations, and new characters - not all of them human.

To continue the adventure, click here to go to Mike Bennett’s Patreon.

One Among the Sleepless

One Among the Sleepless

“A tale that’s harder to put down than a delicious bad habit.”

Walt Kolenda.examiner.com


One Among the Sleepless

A killer has come to town. The victims are connected; each pointing to the next, as if in answer to the question: Who is The One?

Is it Peter Reynolds: mild-mannered office clerk pouring petrol through his neighbour’s letterbox in the middle of the night?

Is it Wayne Dolan: a man whose sexual fantasies about his neighbour spiral into dangerous obsession when he learns of her secret life as a dominatrix?

Or is it Gaz: leader of three friends who love nothing more than sex, weed and partying? All women are easy prey for his charms. All except Sally. And the one who doesn’t want him, is the one he has to have – whether she likes it or not.

Mick Nixon has to find the connection, because people are disappearing - and if he and Sally are ever going to share more than just lunch, he’d better hurry up, or they could be next.

A dark, funny, and at times horrific ride, One Among the Sleepless is a thriller set just below the surface of suburban existence. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll throw it through your neighbour’s window tied to a house brick!

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Yule Among the Sleepless

Yule Among the Sleepless

Yule Among the Sleepless

A podcast mini-series sequel to One Among The Sleepless. It's Christmas time, three years after the events of the original novel, and Wayne Dolan has just decided what he wants to wake up to on Christmas morning.

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Hall of Mirrors

Hall of Mirrors

“This is the way horror audio should be done: Mike Bennett's podcast storytelling is an exceptionally generous free treat for the ears and the mind. Listen to the Hall of Mirrors, and you'll feel his dark and twisted imaginations fingering their way into your ear canals, his remarkable voice prying into your brain in the most creepiest and unforgettable of ways. Hall of Mirrors is a refreshingly fun experience, that's well worth downloading -- you'll love every strange and grotesque moment!”

Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Proverbs for Monsters


Hall of Mirrors

From award-winning author, Mike Bennett, comes The Collected Edition of Hall of Mirrors.

In these pages you’ll find stories of Hell and damnation, ghosts, madness, murder, vampires, bizarre hair restoration disasters, and... pigeons, among other things.

Hall of Mirrors is a collection of modern gothic tales with a nail of dark humour hammered through its heart.

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After the Plague

After the Plague
Parsec Award Winner Parsec Award winner 2016

After the Plague

A hotel on the outskirts of London in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. A brutal couple, Lee and Mandy, arrive in a van with two captive women. Lee and Mandy think the hotel is abandoned, a place to find food and shelter. However, Terry, a former employee who has made the hotel his own, has other ideas.

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Dracula

Dracula

Dracula

All 27 chapter episodes of Bram Stoker's classic novel read by Mike Bennett. A complete and unabridged free podcast.

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Vault of Lovecraft

Vault of Lovecraft
Parsec Award Winner Parsec Award winner 2013

Vault of Lovecraft

Enter The Vault of Lovecraft and cross over into a nightmarish world of spine-chilling horror from one of the Twentieth Century's greatest masters of the macabre.

This unabridged collection includes many of H.P. Lovecraft's best known works: short stories like The Statement of Randolph Carter, Dagon, Cool Air, and longer stories like The Colour out of Space, Herbert West: Reanimator, and Mike Bennett's Parsec Award-winning recording of The Shadow over Innsmouth.

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Mike Bennett

Novelist and podcaster, Mike Bennett, reads his own work (including the double Parsec award winning vampire thriller, Underwood and Flinch) and the works of classic authors like H.P. Lovecraft. He lives in Wexford, Ireland.

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