From office romances to vengeful fairies and laundromats to lunatic asylums, via kleptomania and commuting bears, we've a tasty selection of seductive stories for you to enjoy from our Valentine's Eve special! Listen on your own or share with a loved one (or two, or three ... MIX & MATCH RUNNING ORDER Introduction - Host Liam Hogan "Thrill" by Georgina Sims, read by Gloria Sanders "An Evening at the Faeling Cafe" by Charlotte Davis, read by Sophie Morris-Sheppard "The Sea Captain and the Mad Doctor" by Lianne Warr, read by Tony Bell "What Was and What Is" by Kathryn Sharpe, read by Katy Darby "Somebody" by Lanay Griessner, read by Lucy Mabbitt "Silver Lining" by Ricardo Visinho, read by Paul Clarke Director & Editor - Katy Darby

The Liars' League Christmas Special, HEARTH & HOME, is a stocking stuffed full of brand-new festive fiction for you to enjoy over the winter holidays. Our six specially-written short stories will whisk you to snowy postwar Berlin, a brooding Victorian mansion, and the worst pub in Ireland, and introduce you to Welsh witches, secret base-jumpers and an alcoholic reindeer. You can even play along with our fiendish seasonally-themed quiz at the interval ... RUNNING ORDER "Tripping the Light Fantastic" by Matt Barnard, read by Stephen Butterton "The Visit" by Marta Patiño. read by Carrie Cohen (Most Valuable Player [Actor] 2023) "Red Nose" by Rhys Timson (Most Valuable Player [Author] 2023), read by Zach Harrison INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ "Looking for Matti" by Grace Andreacchi, read by Sarah Barlex "Aelwyd" by Lianne Warr, read by David Mildon "Donkey Tom" by David McGrath, read by Jamie Laird MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

In honour of the darkening season, LL presents professional actors reading tales of Caribbean monsters, ghostly queens, psychotic cats, murderous whales, headless women & a deadly game of hide-and-seek, from our shadow-haunted Halloween special! STORIES for DOOM & GLOOM (in running order) "Be Lucky, Girls" by Hannah Downes, read by Lucy Mabbitt "Come Find Me" by Pat Black, read by Lisa Rose "The Whale, in Six Parts" by Maria Kyle, read by Thomas Delacourt * INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ * "Skinning the Cat" by Lanay Griessner, read by Silas Hawkins "By the Flower, not the Axe" by Leila Murton Poole, read by Clareine Cronin "When Duppy does come, who are you?" by Clarissa Angus, read by Sophie Cartman

Our seventh annual celebration of female-authored fiction, with actresses reading brand new short stories by women writers of wolves, motherhood, seaside surrealism and more ...

Five fantastic actors read five new short stories of shadow-haunting monsters, heroic henchmen, epic wrestling battles, Guyanese bandits and how to save the world (maybe) ... ORDER OF STORIES FOR HEROES & VILLAINS Four Barrels of Ale by David Klotzkin, read by Tony Bell Henchmen Wanted by Rhys Timson, read by Lisa Rose The Greater Good by Marc-Anthony Hurr, read by Jeremiah O'Connor INTERVAL & INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ! The Man Downstairs by Renesha Dhanraj, read by Anoushka Deshmukh The Grappler by S. Tierney, read by Clive Greenwood Host: Liam Hogan Director: Katy Darby

2023 sees the first UK Coronation in 70 years ... so our April event was themed on Royalty & Revolution - political, sexual, scientific & more. Our fantastic actors read brand new stories of murder PR, royal/rustic romance, grieving Queens, how to poison a tyrant & the political protest to end them all ... or will it? STORY RUNNING ORDER The Princess & the Kennel-Girl by Fiona Mossman - read by Patsy Prince Heads of State by Richie Jones - read by Nathaniel Ashley A Queen Cannot by Joseph Surtees - read by Lin Sagovsky INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ The King's Potatoes by Jerome McFadden - read by Paul Clarke We Accept Your Demands by Oliver Bussell - read by Sarah Feathers Hosted by Liam Hogan, directed by Katy Darby. Recorded live at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London on Tuesday 11th April 2023

Six short stories, sexy & sad, frank & funny, riding the highs & lows of love, lust & everything in between. Meet agony aunts, lost loves, AI relationship mediators, singletons going spare, pill-popping avant-garde artists, mothers in despair & horny Victorian teens. RUNNING ORDER for AGONY & ECSTASY Introduction by Liam Hogan - Interview at the RSA by Sarah Richardson, read by Andrea Hall - Starfish by Donna Tracy, read by Linda Shannon - Meedy by Will Conway read by Rich Keeble - Mushroom by Melanie Carvalho, read by Katy Darby - Not Raven But Drowning by MJ Lee, read by Keleigh Wolf - Dear Miss Maguire by Amy Eddings, read by Oliver Yellop & Caroline O'Mahoney Hosted by Liam Hogan, directed & recorded by Katy Darby at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London on Tuesday 14th February, 2023.

Hopes! Fears! Drunks! Turkeys! Skulls! Cats! Divorce! ... and all the other things that make Christmas so special! For December's edition we've stuffed your stocking with Hollywood noir, skull-stealing students, escapologist turkeys, cats up chimneys, and quietly tragic YouTube instructional videos. Pour yourself a mulled wine, pull up a mince pie, and enjoy! HOPES & FEARS STORIES: Running Order "Tinseltown" by Niall Boyce, read by Keleigh Wolf "How to Build your Dreamhouse" by Rhys Timson, read by Paul Clarke "A Cranium for Christmas" by E. P. Henderson, read by Lucy Mabbitt THE INFAMOUS FESTIVE BOOK QUIZ - PLAY ALONG! "Dear Puss" by Donna Tracy, read by Lisa Rose "Trimmings" by Mark Barlex, read by Sarah Barlex

Avast! We've a scurvy sackful of swashbuckling stories for you this month, to chill your blood and shiver your timbers in time for Hallowe'en. There's sea-swept ghosts, grave-robbing, meat-smuggling, heart-eating, demonic middle-management, skulls, bones, vampires, zombies and of course PIRATES! STORY RUNNING ORDER FOR SKULL & CROSSBONES Kaleidoscope Girl by Sarah Richardson, read by Lucy Mabbitt Pirate Meat by Ken Towl, read by Andrew Baguley Skulduggery by Maria Kyle, read by Stephen Butterton *INTERVAL & HORRIFIC BOOK QUIZ!* Convivial by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, read by Caroline O'Mahoney One Last Hurrah by Madison McSweeney, read by Silas Hawkins Widespread and Unnecessary Unrest on the Astral Plane by Mark Barlex, read by Keleigh Wolf

Our sixth annual ladies' night, where all stories are written and read by women, was a WOW! We had flying mums, snake-haired Gorgons, content-mill drones, horror from the loch, and an (after)life lived through fridge magnets, all performed live on Tuesday 9th August at The Phoenix, near Oxford Circus, W1. Here's the line-up. WOMEN & GIRLS RUNNING ORDER Introduction: Katy Darby (Host) - A Profile Shot of the Country by Rebecca Lee, read by Lois Tucker - Lifendelich of the Loch by Jennifer Gaboury, read by Carrie Cohen - Up Yours Gravity by Charlotte Turnbull, read by Claire Lacey INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ - Medusa Takes a Bath and Becomes a Monster by Mina Ma, read by Grace Cookey-Gam - The Keepsake by Renee Agatep, read by Orchid Ayers