Knifepoint Horror

Here’s an off-the-record, completely unserious Halloween palate cleanser for when you just can’t take doofuses like me trying to scare you anymore.

MUSIC: “From Above” by Dan Mayo, “O.R.C.” by Aviad Zinemanas, “Did You Hear That” by Peter John, “Eyes on You” by Young Lords, “Black Hole” by Stephen Keech, “Odd Numbers” by Curtis Cole, “Finger Paint” by Elijah Aaron, all rights reserved.

Whaddya know, there’s a Knifepoint Horror merchandise shop: knifepointhorror.dashery.com  25% of all proceeds will be donated to the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

Patreon...

After all these years, a light seems to have been turned on inside that weird old house on the corner--so maybe it's better to stay in tonight. Here are some stories for that.

1. Prologue: traditions, part 1

2. straightaway

3. spillage

4. caveat 

5. Epilogue: traditions, part 2

Music by Dave Lahn

Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

What a strange world we live in when there's an official Knifepoint Horror merchandise shop! 25% of all proc...

No homeowner's policy in existence covers everything.

Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Walk through most neighborhoods, and you get at least a general sense of people’s back yards. But where the truly wealthy live on enormous gated parcels of land, you quickly notice it’s almost impossible to either see or know what’s going on back there. With all that space and total anonymity, it really could be… anything.

Music: Michele Nobler, 'Choral Prelude in F Minor' by Johann Sebastian Bach, all rights reserved.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness will receive 25% of all sales in the Knifepoint Horror shop thr...

Even after museum hours ended that day, some people walked out to the waterside and just looked at the object silently for several minutes, not knowing what to think, or what to feel.

Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Memories of one very, very strange winter's day in the life of a weary public servant.

Additional narration by Linda Wojtowick of 'The Ghosts on This Road' podcast.

Music: "Winter Snow" by Zac Nelson, all rights reserved.

Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the moody late hours at The Cask & Pear, an all-night dive bar and diner on the edge of the city, some of the stories patrons tell definitely lean toward the unusual.

MUSIC: “Hear Me When I Call” by Higher Land, “Ugly So” by Roger Rivas, “Look at You” by The Satellite Station, and “7 Answers” by Kazuya, all rights reserved.

Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A young man’s strange natural gift evolves to wield a disturbing influence.

MUSIC: ‘Atmo’ by Jamie Bathgate. All rights reserved.

Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this story originally written for the Halloween 2024 episode of Kevin Lane’s Spill Your Guts podcast to accompany a few Knifepoint Horror tales interpreted by other actors, a man of science relates an encounter with a mysterious desert legend.

Written and narrated by Soren Narnia.

Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A story of desperate men, bad decisions, terrible timing, and unexpected faces in the dark.

Additional narration by Charlotte Kulak.

Music: “Om Bath” by Yotam Agam and “When the Tide Breaks Free” by James Forest. All rights reserved.

Patreon members listen ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally heard on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is the final recording of a man whose chosen profession finally bit back hard. With Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast.

All stories on Knifepoint Horror are written by Soren Narnia.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia  Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this ghost story of the Southern Gothic, a new landowner is rapidly submerged in a relative's murky past.

Music: “Deja Reve” by DaniHaDani, “Effoliation” by SEA, and “The Racer” by Tristan Barton, all rights reserved.

Patreon members listen ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally heard as ‘Q & A With a Vampire Killer’ on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is a former college student’s reflection on an unusual glimpse into a dangerous world.  

All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia  Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ask people in the Cleveland area about The Ron Tanglethorn Show and you might get a few nods here and there. Never the most popular late-night offering on the AM band, it's remembered by diehards mostly for the rather unusual way it signed off the air for good.

Music: "Salience Bias" by Art Against Agony, all rights reserved.

All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia  Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings.

<...

A youthful lark across the states takes a man into the heart of an awful anomaly.

Music: “Outside Your Grace” by Denhollander, all rights reserved.

All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written, produced, and edited by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theater,' 'Tag Till We're Dead,' 'Garden of Terrible Blooms,' and others.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/soren...

Opening statements in what would come to be considered one of the strangest trials in the history of New York state.

Jessica Holt-Ivers: Emma Fradd

All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written, produced, and edited by Soren Narnia.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia   Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When two colleagues in crime come together again after years apart, one reveals a looming threat more awful than incarceration… or even capital punishment.

Music: “Soft Lights” by Kyle Preston and “Turn for the Worse” by Jordan Hatfield, all rights reserved.

All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theater,' 'Tag Till We're Dead,' and others.

A dark October country road, a driver, a hitchhiker... and a strange, strange story told across cold, lonely miles.

All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theater,' 'Tag Till We're Dead,' and others.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia   Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings, including Soren's own narrations of several earlier pod...

An educator's watch of the winter skies sets him in anxious motion to shelter the innocent.

Music: “Cicada Killer” by idokay, “The Heir” by Emmanuel Jacob, “Meeting the Goddess” by Kyle Preston. All rights reserved. Interview with Ila Patton, Galax, Virginia, from the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/009), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet...

Five shorter tales… and just a smidgen more.

Intro music by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror Podcast. "Hallowed World" by E J R M, all rights reserved. Additional voice: TheFinalGirly. Photo by Diana Siedel.

Prologue: Purcell the Creator, Part 1 

1. novelty 

2. screen-share 

3. sleeperette 

4. jarprechaun 

5. tempt 

Epilogue: Purcell the Creator, Part 2 

All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghost...

The 19th-century reign of the mysterious Buth Sugo was detailed only in this one ugly, bloody, regrettable record.

Music by Dave Lahn, and also by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror Podcast

Ad-free listening on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many people who hear things behind their walls suspect their house is haunted, but can’t prove it. Maybe they’re failing to ask one very simple question: How did those walls even come to be?

Additional narration by Charlotte Kulak

Music: 'Earth' by Doug Reed / Study of Sound, from the album Musica Mundana. All rights reserved.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s always a small element of worry that comes when you leave a stranger to watch your property, children, or pets. Even if you’re fully trusting, here comes that gnawing sense that you yourself may have created a problem, because you didn’t quite bring yourself to tell the sitter... everything.

Thea Lapp is played by Mig Windows.

Ad-free listening on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Soren can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road...

Always go very, very slowly through your radio dial, especially late at night. You never quite know when a faint signal will offer something a little unexpected.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the user reviews of the real-life bar at the center of this story are exactly what you’d expect for a well-liked local business. But then, such reviews are not the medium to express everything that one might feel or sense when the hour grows late, and the lights get low.

Ad-free listening on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A snowy walk reveals the beginnings of a mystery that grows weirder with each passing hour.

Music: “Mercury” from Study of Sound / Doug Reed. All rights reserved.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the dead of winter, an old-fashioned ghost story set in a hot and humid place.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the hurting streets of Claysmith, Connecticut, a hideous comedy of errors engulfs the innocent and guilty alike.

The cast (in order of appearance)

Barb Solomon: Linda Wojtowick

Sheriff Pat Solomon: Richard Werner

Mitzi from the Detention Center: Beth Abdallah

Sharon, Kev’s S.O.: Mig Windows

Glen, creative writer: C.S.W. 

Mr. Lersch, pharma exec: Wilson James Randall 

Donny from the woodshop: Brian Lillie

Cy Dunker: Soren Narnia

Shay, pharma tech: Amy...

It seemed like a simpler time, and the problems faced by the people in that small rural town seemed simpler too... or maybe it was a dreadful blindness that just made it appear that way.

Ad-free listening on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's usually a moment as you drive alone late at night on a long, desolate country road when you succumb to a brief bleak thought of all that can happen to you out there. Maybe you become nervous about your sudden total dependence on your machine to get you safely back to the world of light. And maybe your surroundings start to seem genuinely scary. This is a story for those who start feeling these things the very first second that road begins to curve out of sight.

MUSIC: Josh McCausland, "A Town Called...

For sale by Baltimore County: 3 BR, 2 BA single family dwelling on 1/3rd acre in residential section of Seven Bells. Demolition arrangements offered by county at no cost to buyer. Strict confidentiality agreement must be signed by all interested parties before property is viewed or terms discussed.

The streaming voices, in order: Frank Schumpert, Amy Paonessa, Richard Werner, and Corey N.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a suspiciously quiet and unspoiled setting, three friends are beckoned by the liberation found within their darkest impulses.

Music: “Flare Star” by Michael Vignola, all rights reserved.

Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of Joel and Sammie, a young couple suddenly divided by something terrifying—and then bonded more strongly against a bizarre and inscrutable enemy.

With the voices of Caity Roberts of the Darkest Corners podcast and Robert Cantelmo.

Music: “Peaceful Meadow,” “Sci-Fi Communication,” and “Robot Factory” by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror podcast, “Come Back Home” and “Cloud - Strings Version” by Ardie Son, “A Town Called Dismal” by Josh McCausland, “Passing Hours” by Jupiter Sands, “Lightless Voids” by Kyle Preston, and “Journey” by Sid Acharya, all rights reserved.

http...

In the world of short-term rentals, the personalities bound to the transaction sometimes briefly clash. Ninety-nine percent of the time, there’s not enough there for anything to seriously ignite. The one percent is called 418 Ulmus Street.

Sadie: Currer Hathaway

Music: “Fog Machine” and “Mellow Heart” by Emma Fradd. All rights reserved.

Song lyrics from "I Ain't Got No Home" by Woody Guthrie, Copyright 1961 (renewed) and 1963 (renewed) by Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. & TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI)

Learn more about your ad choices...

Things were already tense inside a house in the middle of nowhere, and then at the wrong moment, there was a casual glimpse out the living room window.

MUSIC: 'Close' by Eleven Tales, all rights reserved.

https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a small town struggles to defend itself against cruel interlopers, the hour of vengeance draws ever closer.

MUSIC: "Hallowed World" by EJRM and "Advent" by Ben Winwood, all rights reserved.

https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Year by year, step by quiet step, a well-intentioned collective of great minds evolves into something to be feared.

MUSIC - ‘Through the Past’ by Michael Vignola, ‘Gazing Wide’ by Palm Blue, ‘Where the Wind Blows’ by Sean Williams, and ‘Coriolis Effect’ by Kyle Preston, all rights reserved.

https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eight very different stories for the season.

1. hitcher

2. Is It That Time Again?

3. prodigal

4. panophobe

5. legalese

6. contestants

7. A Bitter Pill

8. blueberries

'Is It That Time Again?' features Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror podcast and Beth Abdallah of the Twelve Chimes It's Midnight podcast. Watch the video adaptation on Soren Narnia’s YouTube channel.

'A Bitter Pill' features Currer Hathaway (www.currerhathaway.com) and Beth Abdallah.

There are reliable narrators, there are unreliable narrators… and then there are outliers like the one heard here. 'Clearly guilty of murder, he somehow remains committed to his narrative,' one journalist wrote of him. 'I wasn't sure whether to look at him with a strange kind of awe, or simply run screaming and never look back.'

Additional narration by Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast.

Music: 'Atmo' by Jamie Bathgate, all rights reserved.

https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

...

A filmmaker recalls the details of his darkest project: the people who endured it, the illusions he lost to it, and the horrific force that set it all in motion.

With:

Donald Kokoschka – John Jorgenson

Noah DiLeo – Corey N. (Rust Belt Gothic podcast)

Mayor - Beth Abdallah (Twelves Chimes It’s Midnight podcast and Odd Salon)

Bill Savoy – Teddy Ray Bullard

Mary Neary – Linda Wojtowick (The Ghosts on This Road podcast)

Lisa Whitelaw – Mig Windows (migwindows.com)

Officer Ekin...

Many is the band that wishes they could have a second chance at what turned out to be their final performance—maybe they could have brought more energy to that night, or savored it just a little more... and then there’s the terrible but unforgettable case of the celebrated rock group Waters Blue and Permanent (2003-2022).

Music (all rights reserved):

"Salve Regina - Violin & Piano" by Patrick Ussher, "El Faro" by When the Tide Breaks Free, "Fount" by Homely, "Everything" by The Days

Audi...

No one in attendance at the talk on that December night in New England, 2021, really knew what they would hear from the presenter, though they certainly knew his name. And while no video exists of his methodical dissection of the past, the audio recording alone seems more than enough. With additional narration by Robert Cantelmo, and Beth Abdallah of the Twelve Chimes It’s Midnight podcast.

Music: 'December' by Dear Gravity, all rights reserved.

Audio mastering: Les Lentz

www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Duration: 01:30:56

The tomb would soon sit unnoticed, perhaps forever, in the wild grass of the lonely cemetery. But on its first night of occupancy, one man would keep a careful watch over it. Just in case.

Wilhoit McCrail: Hugh Pierce

Music: “Submarine” by Morphlexis, all rights reserved. Audio mastering by Les Lentz.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You are invited to a place in the mountains where one man decided that no matter what the date, it will always, always be Halloween night.

(And after 'attraction,' keep listening to experience the very... well, ROUND terror of a campfire tale called 'sugary' - 39:40)

Music: “Mirrors” by Tom Goldstein, “Isolation” by Linus Johansson, “First Impression” by Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat, all rights reserved.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A documentarian’s celebrity puff piece takes a dark turn when her subject reveals the story of a friend’s haunting.

The documentarian Patricia Close : Mig Windows, www.migwindows.com

Music: ‘Mysa’ by Laurel Violet, all rights reserved.

Audio mastering: Les Lentz

www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a curious fact about the tiny railway station mentioned by the teller of this story that he would never know: Almost sixty years before the events he describes, the station was partially demolished in the night by someone or something unknown, and had to be rebuilt from the ground up. Unknown, yes, but there were indeed whispers--from the older folk mostly, people long dead by the time the weary and hungry narrator appeared in the mountains utterly by chance.

MUSIC: 'Forests' by Narvik; 'Vodohrai' by Smerichka; all rights reserved.

Someday, when you find yourself alone in a place like the one where this story occurred, take note of what happens to your footprints as the minutes tick by. As one of the narrators claims, the wind shifts things around fast--and it’s as if no trace of you ever existed.

The cast:

Anson, the seeker – Ebenezer Alasi, https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/ebenezerfunshoalasi

Eva, the penitent – Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast, thebloodlust.net

Lydia – Currer Hathaway, currerhathaway.com

James Del Norr – Reginald Baskervill...

What’s the shortest time you’ve ever lived somewhere before you left in frustration? What was the problem—bad neighbors, leaks, noise problems, lousy plumbing? Something worse?

Something mystifying?

The trashman: Benjamin Gilmour

Audio mastering by Les Lentz

Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Within every grandiose scheme, there lies the seed of possible disaster. Some of these disasters are loud, chaotic, and violent ... but sometimes they only sound like the wind sighing through haunted ruins.

Music: ‘Between the Noise’ by Kyle Preston, ‘Dreams of Light’ by Jacob Pavek. All rights reserved.

Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For Halloween, a tale of two people dwelling among the monsters who own the night.

Music: 'Altered Communications' by Emanuele Errante, and by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror podcast.

Listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The letters and diaries of several 19th century soldiers allude to “the terrible Demon of Moscow” that once haunted the city’s streets. One witness alone told the entire story of the ghostly force most still believe was not truly of this world.

Music: 'Balance' by Muted, 'Stratum' and 'December' by Dear Gravity. All rights reserved.

Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

'What about the forest where this terrible thing happened?' people sometimes ask when they hear the story of the small town that became so precariously balanced between true evil and unexpected hope. 'Is it still there?' The answer is yes... the forest is still there.

Music selections by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror podcast; end music by Anthony Sanders, cibolathecityofgold.bandcamp.com, used by permission, all rights reserved.

Sergeant Maura: Catherine Saraceno

Listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Each nighttime visitor to the tiny house in the country was more unwelcome than the one before ... but the fourth was truly unimaginable.

Music by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror podcast.

Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conflicting feelings about a banished relative lead to a visit a long time in coming … but each step toward her house reveals more warning signs.

The detectives: 1. Hugh Pierce and 2. Reginald Baskerville

Music by Federico Nardella, “Il Riflesso Opaco," all rights reserved. Federico’s works are available on Bandcamp at https://cremisi.bandcamp.com.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cremisi.music/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgTQOsXJe6FqlzBoH7jOk7g/featured

Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn mo...

A college professor has a mysterious story to tell to a prized student, but his timing and motive are no less cryptic.

With Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast, Linda Wojtowick, Elena Vega, and Cal Butera.

All music by Anthony Sanders, used by permission, all rights reserved. Check out some of his work at https://cibolathecityofgold.bandcamp.com/.

Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the people in a small town in upstate New York, what happened was just another sordid true crime story. But they would never know just how frightening and surreal things became in its aftermath, or what one woman chose to endure in the name of compassion.

Music: Bob Pokrzywa, from the album 'A Wounded and Prostrate Foe,' all rights reserved. https://bobpokrzywa.bandcamp.com/album/a-wounded-and-prostrate-foe    -and-  Anthony Brown, 'Evolving Ambient Soundscape,' Getty Music. All rights reserved.

Cast (in order of appearance):

Scholar: Eric...

The featured story of this brief trilogy imagines that perhaps, Earth's final confrontation between good and evil will take place so quietly you'll be able to hear a caterpillar crawl through the blood-soaked grass. Before this tale comes an appetizer ... and afterward, a little dessert.

1. dusk

2. extremity

3. project

Additional narration by Linda Wojtowick.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Ice Demon" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Listen ad-free on...

Nothing that has four walls and a roof can be eliminated as a possible breeding ground for the supernatural -- nothing.

Music: "Dream" by Jahzzar, SoundExpress, Getty Music.

"Mourning Song" and "Past the Edge" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Memories of three weird occurrences that cannot be explained merge for their living witness into a common theme.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man who insists on the existence of a relative no one else has ever seen delves dangerously into the swirling fog of his own youthful perceptions. Radio host played by Currer Hathaway.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man blinded by infatuation learns the object of his desire has intentions to become something from which he may have already missed his chance to escape.

Additional narration by Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast.

MUSIC: Lee Rosevere, from '10 Minute Meditations,' licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial License. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere AND by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com. 'Mesmerize,' 'Mystic Dark Background,' and 'The Dread' licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

...

Maybe your own town holds one: a folk tale, discredited and in many ways absurd, that nevertheless will not die. Here is a glimpse into one such tale ... and the rare destructive force it happened to carry with it. 

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Virtutes Instrumenti" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man in trouble, wanting only an escape from a crisis, stumbles across a mystery which leads to another... and yet another, demanding a return to a dangerous place and time.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Shadowlands 1: Horizon" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another tale of lands touched by both enigmatic beauty and dormant, uncategorizable cruelty. 

The narrator: Justy Gee

The poem reader: Jes Echo

Gail Greenlove: Amy Paonessa, The Bloodlust podcast

The truck driver: Cal Butera

Michael Spinell: Soren Narnia

Nadia Oliver: Susan Wallace

Ronald Garr: Brian Lillie

Poetry by Mia LeBemay

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) “Concentration” and “Smoother Move” licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

For the haunted, any calm explanation of a supernatural phenomenon is a comforting one, no matter where it comes from. But it is never more important than in that very moment to remain watchful and mistrusting.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Magic Forest" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man thrust onto the streets must navigate their disturbing sights and sounds, all the while living under the threat of a monster moving relentlessly through their shadows.

Music by David Temyik ("Afterlife" and "Mystic Dark Background"), Getty Music.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three tales of Knifepoint Horror.

1. thrifting

2. west

3. The Cleaver

John Graham: Jason Hill

Suzanne: Ariel Alexa Sullivan

Gillian: Amy Paonessa (of The Bloodlust podcast)

Father Walls: Teddy Ray Bullard

Therapist: Kalem Murray

Diane Fora: Susan Wallace

Mr. Loring: Brian Lillie

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Tempting Secrets" and "Gymnopedie No. 2" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

This e...

A boy growing up in post-Depression Kansas learns there are no truly innocuous objects as long as the human imagination can infuse them with fearsome properties.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Shadowlands 1: Horizon" and "Shadowlands 4: Breath" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Built as a place of solace for those who could no longer fully fend for themselves, the house should never have been disturbed or even noticed. But then one summer night, unfamiliar footsteps approached.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Additional music by Anonymous

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A conflict in memory between two brothers leads to a return to a place where childhood may have been hiding something too ghastly to retain in the mind.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). "Past the Edge" and "Mourning Song" licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These 10 stories were originally produced as video monologues for YouTube over the course of a year as a slight change of pace, and now mostly exist only in audio form.

1. boardwalk

2. forest

3. highway

4. cellar

5.  hiker

6.  car

7.  doppelganger

8.  graffiti

9. hometown

10.  photographs

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

...

In a mysterious, undefined era, a desperate foot journey traverses a winter wilderness that promises a lonely death--perhaps a natural one, but likely not.

With Kalem Murray, Teddy Ray Bullard, Melinda Kordich, and Jason Hill.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The next time you take a long country drive, look to your left and right as the scenery rolls by, the forgotten places where no footsteps tread for weeks, months, maybe years at a time. How long would it be before anyone noticed that such a place had become shelter for something unspeakable?

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

He was a teenager who suddenly had no place to sleep, no money, and no options. The world had quickly become a very scary place ... and then shelter appeared much too conveniently.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the space of minutes, a travel writer venturing alone in remote waters goes from a state of enviable tranquility to blinding terror.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Somewhere near your house it stands, one of those decaying places that people always whisper about as they pass by. For every day you age, it seems to age three. But it may well live beyond you, silently daring you each night at dusk to enter, coldly confident you'll always be too afraid.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There exists in this life a very real, horrifying phenomenon that science cannot yet extinguish. It strikes a surprising number of people, and none of us are safe. And if it comes for you, it will come at the most vulnerable moment you will ever know.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It seemed like such a simple deal, but it felt wrong from the very beginning--and led to a glimpse of a horror which, for those with even a little experience peering into the shadows, need not be named.

Watch Jordan Hale's film adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUyWJpc39Pc

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A comfortable suburban existence begins to fracture with a single sound. You may have heard it sometime yourself, but those who have surely possess no need for stories like these to haunt them.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

This story has been adapted for film several times:

Neighborhood Watch

The Thing From the Hallway

A Noise That Carries

Staircase

Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://w...

A tale made specifically for the campfire--a simple tale of the woods, long-buried secrets, and letting chances to escape terror slip agonizingly away.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some places are so remote that just to explore them is an invitation to the phantoms that know we're alone.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man attempting to solve a strange gap in his memory meets a man claiming to offer an answer--one too frightening for mere mortals to grasp.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Very few people had ever even heard of the Poldrict House, let alone investigated it. Surely the lack of fascination within the paranormal community was justified...

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cruel game of psychological brinksmanship among thieves breaks the sanity of its most dangerous competitor.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The unexpected phone call's origin raised many questions, but for a man anxious to discover real evidence of mysterious forces at work all around us, there was little question a journey was to be made.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another three tales roughly and tersely told.

1. bells

2. lighthouse

3. army

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Check out Jason Hill's narration of the third story of the group here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here are three stories that don't quite fit into the mold of those previously offered.

1. mountains

2. castle

3.  solitude

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

..... Many people have been thoroughly creeped out by the show's avatar--what IS that thing looking at us? Well, we finally have an answer, provided by 11-year-old Ethien Duckett. His story below is entitled "Ratbat." Talk about economy of storytelling!

One co...

The secluded castle, once rumored to harbor evil, had been redeemed by the influence of piety and innocence until something came through the forest to return it to true darkness.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A brief history of a brilliant creator slowly becomes a tale of shadows, footsteps, and terror when an awful irony reaches out to him with cold, lifeless hands.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether high school student Garrett Markish was truly evil or under the influence of forces he could not overcome did not matter to those who fell before his seething wrath.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two fugitives desperate to escape both the police and the elements become aware of a far greater horror lying between them and safety.

Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A knock at the door in the dead of night begins a mystery involving a gruesome crime and a vengeance that can only come in the beyond. 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A nighttime expedition to a sleepy town uncovers the truth behind seemingly groundless rumors.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

An alternative narration by Jason Hill is here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read by Neil Donnelly. In a previous episode, 'house', the psychic researcher Aramis Churchton makes reference to the notes his colleague Savid Doud has made concerning cases for potential investigation. Here is one of Doud's original audio recordings, recovered after his death, describing such a case of paranormal phenomena.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read by Neil Donnelly. In a previous episode, 'house', the psychic researcher Aramis Churchton makes reference to the notes his colleague Savid Doud has made concerning cases for potential investigation. Here is one of Doud's original audio recordings, recovered after his death, describing such a case of paranormal phenomena.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read by Dennis Smith. On a dark winter's night, a seeker of ghosts attuned to the strange energy within a remote haunted house underestimates its inhabitants' power to destroy.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Get Soren Narnia's alternate narration of the story on Patreon:

www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man's slow descent into depression and addiction opens up a world of once-hidden terrors, the worst of which awaits in a malevolent ghost's plan to devour his weakened soul.

Soren has performed a new narration of this tale on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read by Logan Masterson. Nine seconds was all it took to scar a subway rider for life when the flickering subterranean lights showed him the unimaginable.

Soren has performed a new narration of this tale on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read by Markham Anderson. The inability of two troubled teens to extricate themselves from the influence of a practitioner of witchcraft costs them everything as adults.

Listen to Soren Narnia's own narration of this story on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read by Mike Harris. Few considered the strange substance which spread through a small city to be anything more than a nuisance until the truth brought bloody horror to the entire world.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices