Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]Season 23 Movies & Stories  1. Sinners (2025) Story: “The Music of Erich Zann,” H. P. LovecraftMusic becomes a weapon, a barrier, and an opening into something beyond the human world. Complete YouTube reading 2. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)Story: “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel HawthorneA scientist transforms his daughter into something beautiful, deadly, and isolated from ordinary human intimacy. The created woman is treated simultaneously as experiment, daughter, monster, and possible lover.Complete YouTube reading 3. Ready or Not (2019) Story: “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard ConnellWealthy predators turn the hunting of a human being into sport and tradition. Complete YouTube reading 4. Blade II (2002) Story: “The Room in the Tower,” E. F. BensonA recurring nightmare leads to a room occupied by a ravenous female vampire. Complete YouTube reading 5. Obsession (2026)Story: “The Birth-Mark,” Nathaniel HawthorneLove curdles into the conviction that another person must be altered and perfected. Complete YouTube reading 6. RoboCop (1987) Story: “The Man That Was Used Up,” Edgar Allan PoeA celebrated military hero is gradually revealed to be an assemblage of manufactured replacement parts. Prosthetic reconstruction, militarism, masculine propaganda, and brutal satire.Complete YouTube reading 7. Johnny Mnemonic (1995) Story: “A Logic Named Joe,” Murray LeinsterInformation technology becomes dangerously helpful, invasive, and impossible to contain.Complete YouTube audiobook 8. Strange Days (1995) Story: “The Crystal Egg,” H. G. WellsA mysterious device allows its owner to watch another world—and may allow that world to watch him. The voyeurism, addictive looking, and technologically mediated experience.Complete YouTube reading 9. Brainstorm (1983) Story: “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham,” H. G. WellsA wealthy old scientist finds a way to transfer his consciousness into a young man’s body. It turns recorded experience and technological immortality into an intimate identity nightmare.Complete YouTube reading 10. Burst City (1982)Story: “The Machine Stops,” E. M. ForsterA society has surrendered its bodies, relationships, and environment to an enormous technological system.Complete YouTube reading 11. Neo Tokyo (1987) Story: “The City of the Singing Flame,” Clark Ashton SmithA traveller discovers a magnificent alternate city whose alien music and architecture exert an increasingly irresistible pull.Complete YouTube reading 12. Total Recall (1990)Story: “The Defenders,” Philip K. DickHumanity’s understanding of its war and surrounding reality has been deliberately manufactured.Complete YouTube reading 13. Sorry to Bother You (2018)Story: “The Business Man,” Edgar Allan PoeA self-satisfied entrepreneur explains his increasingly violent career as though criminal ingenuity were merely sound business practice.Complete YouTube reading 14. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)Story: “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” H. G. WellsA mild collector brings home an exotic plant that proves predatory. Carnivorous botany, human loneliness, and the inability to recognize danger until it is wrapped around your throat.Complete YouTube reading 15. Slither (2006)Story: “The Derelict,” William Hope HodgsonAn explorer returns from an ancient ruin carrying something that has taken root inside his body.Complete YouTube reading 16. Swiss Army Man (2016) Story: “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost,” H. G. WellsA lonely, ineffectual dead man cannot remember how to leave the living world, and an overconfident living man attempts to help him. Complete YouTube reading 17. Happy Death Day (2017) Story: “The Clock That Went Backward,” Edward Page MitchellA clock literally carries its characters backwards through time.Complete YouTube reading 18. The Gorge (2025) Story: “The People of the Pit,” A. MerrittAn isolated travel