While hosting a popular late-night radio segment called "Tell Me a Story," author Joel Farrelly encounters a vast array of different callers from all walks of life, each with their own unique and often terrifying tale to tell. This is a collection of the show's most memorable segments as well as a memoir of how it all went horribly wrong when, at the height of his success, a mysterious caller forced Joel to recount a disturbing story from his own past... The one story Joel hoped he would never have to tell.

Hidden away in New Orleans' exclusive Garden District is the home and headquarters of the man known as "Dead Things Mikey: " Collector of haunted artifacts, connoisseur of the macabre, and expert on every bump in the night. To describe Mikey in his own words, he is "the world's only gay, libertarian ghost whisperer." His card says "paranormal tech support" and his rate isn't cheap. But if you're an oil baron and your operation just awoke a dormant Kraken in the Gulf of Mexico or you're an Internet porn tycoon who simply wants to stop receiving dismembered bodies via a fleet of mysterious...