Debut Novel:
THE BUTCHERBIRD
As an Assistant State's Attorney, it's Elijah Burton's duty to uphold the law. But when Eli uncovers a murderer targeting the men who killed his son, can he bring himself to put this vigilante in cuffs?
One body's been found so far, with a concerning message that threatens of three more to come. And as evidence begins to point to Eli himself, Eli must prove he's not the masked vigilante or lose his mind (and his freedom) trying.
The Butcherbird is a love letter to crime fiction, with elements of horror and absurdism.
Short Stories & CreepyPastas
Short Story | Psychological Thriller | Award-Winning | Featured on The No Sleep Podcast “9-1-1; what’s your emergency?” said the woman through the phone.
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Flavor Penetration [Part 1]
Short Story | Horror My wife kissed me goodbye before she left for work...
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Flavor Penetration [Part 2]
Short Stories | Horror I saw it. I fucking saw it two days ago...
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I Went To The Lowest Rated Doctor On ZocDoc
Short Story | Horror Someone twenty years ago would be both astounded and horrified...
Vince has written a lot of terrible things over the years. Each week, Vince (and one unlucky guest) reads through an old short story, novel or script that should’ve never seen the light of day. It’s a lighthearted, funny and heartwarming look back at growing up, learning to write and developing a little personal character along the way. You’ll cringe. You’ll laugh. Vince will probably cry a little. Episodes released weekly.
The Waiting Room: a true-ish horror story I wrote in 2011, right after a night in the ER with my sister. She’d been throwing up for 15 hours, my mom drove two miles an hour under the speed limit to get her there, and I took notes on everyone in the waiting room. Then I went home, wrote it all down, and sent it to my sister. (I probably shouldn’t have.)
Actor, advocate and writer on Netflix’s Big Mouth, Brandon Kyle Goodman joins me to read every muscularly thick, flabby-armed line of it.
Plus: what a hospital actually smells like, Brandon’s ER nightmare on the set of Modern Love, our porn star names, why the Scrubs finale is sacred, and how my mom made me a writer.
Character Development is a comedy podcast where actors perform the stories I wrote years ago (mostly as a teenager), and we roast every word.
New episodes every Tuesday
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0:00 Welcome Brandon Kyle Goodman
2:00 The worst script Brandon ever read
4:00 Brandon vs. horror movies
6:00 The story begins
7:00 What does a hospital smell like?
10:00 Brandon’s ER nightmare on Modern Love
13:00 The waiting room
15:00 Scrubs, diabetes and Brandon’s aunt
16:00 The Scrubs finale is sacred
18:00 Reboots: Scrubs vs. Will & Grace
22:00 Still on page one
24:00 Our porn star names
26:00 “I wasn’t out as bi back then”
27:00 Muscularly thick
28:00 Back to the ER
30:00 Brandon’s urgent care regulars
36:00 Every line of this really happened
39:00 “2011 Vincent, you’re cooking”
45:00 The unnecessary hyphen
47:00 The “I Pooped Today” shirt
48:00 Screws, Peppy and Sir Enormous
50:00 Too many characters, not enough names
53:00 A traumatic childhood moment
55:00 Mommy issues, the episode
59:00 Patient number 727
1:02:00 Lost in the white hallways
1:04:00 The ending explained
1:05:00 Moving out of mom’s house
1:09:00 How our families dealt with grief
1:11:00 You can’t blame your parents
1:13:00 Writing as therapy
1:15:00 How my mom made me a writer
1:19:00 Brandon’s book
1:20:00 Thanks for listening
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Audio Fiction
How i Died
Forensic Pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why the strange town of Springfield boasts the highest unsolved murder rate in the country. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets… He can talk to the dead, for starters.
Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple Podcasts
The Patron Saint of Suicides
Haven Otomo spends her spare time saving people from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. But when a rash of suicides hits the city, and a detective spots a pattern, she must question the people she trusts most, and whether they are involved.
Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple Podcasts
Young's Infinity City
Rosalind Young is the most influential person on the planet. And she’s just gone missing. Now, with the world on the brink of war over water scarcity, Rosalind's wife and estranged son must enter an abandoned city to find her.
Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple Podcasts
Film & Specs
Three estranged family members and the creepy man living in their walls must evacuate the residents of a seaside town after discovering a creature that puppets those it kills.
Feature | Horror | Creature Feature | Lovecraftian
Chimeras
With ramping paranoia that threatens her reintegration at home, a serial killer survivor stabs her husband just moments before a detective arrives with a warning: Someone else is after her.
Feature | Psychological Thriller| Girl Power | Christmas
Three estranged family members and the creepy man living in their walls must evacuate the residents of a seaside town after discovering a creature that puppets those it kills.
Feature | Horror Comedy | Creature Feature | Lovecraftian
During public panic over a serial killer in 1919’s New Orleans, a young woman shoots a seemingly-innocent man. As her trial approaches, she and a Navy officer must piece together the truth about her victim, or face the disturbing realization that the killer may still be at large.
Feature | Psychological Thriller | Historical Fiction
The Feed
A wanna-be TikTok star who moves into a murder house gets more than he bargained for when he finds the girl who was supposedly killed alive and well.
Feature | Horror Comedy | Crime Fiction | Found Footage
About Me
Vince Dajani is the author & producer of many critically-acclaimed audio fiction works, including his flagship How i Died series.
Growing up in a haunted house in Baltimore sparked Vince's fascination with the intersection of crime and the supernatural, something he explores in his latest Marrow of Monsters novel and audiobook series. Despite the heavy nature of many of his works, Vince has a knack for injecting humor even in the darkest of stories, which he attributes to the birth of his two sons.
When Vince isn’t annoying his wife with “fun facts” about the TV series they’re currently watching, he’s probably annoying her by typing away at his latest script.
Vince’s first original series, which currently sits in the podcast top-50 charts, brought elements of popular television series to the scripted-podcast genre -- something not many people thought of at the time, apparently.
Now, he aims to turn his semi-successful podcast writing career into a semi-successful novel and film-writing career.
Reach out
I’m always happy to answer questions, meet fans or receive hate mail. Or, if your name is David Shore, yes, I’ll gladly join the team for your next medical drama, thanks for asking.