What if there was a book that literally opened up doorways to other worlds? Where would it lead, and could you handle what you found on the other side? Cassie, a teen that's having trouble fitting in at school, is about to find out. One day, after she wraps up community service at a local hospital, she stumbles out of the basement of a spooky bookshop and into a story set on a devil's staircase in a remote Italian village. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm.
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Equal parts "Mad Max" and "The Stand," this post apocalyptic saga is set in a world 15 years after the collapse of the world as we know it. A brother and sister grow up in rural Maine and unwittingly embark on a adventure to save the City from the religious zealots and ruthless military fight for control over the fallen world. An epic serialized audio drama adventure with 30+ actors, cinematic sound design and original music. Winner of Mark Time Award for sci-fi audio and finalist in Romania ...
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Lizzie (10) returns to her ancestral home in Maine to make an amazing discovery: the woods behind the farmhouse contain a doorway to the mystical realm of Faerie. But a dark storm looms over the horizon of Fae: Lizzie’s Great-Uncle Carlow has enlisted a goblin army to conquer the World Tree, and has set his sights set on our world after… All that stands in Carlow’s way is Lizzie and her unlikely friends: Kyle, a talking goat, and Garrett, a swashbuckling weasel. OF FAE & FIENDS is a Faerie T ...
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When a fierce tribe of woodland elves - the Wolfriders - are burned from their homes by hostile humans, their chief, Cutter, must tap every reserve of strength and will to lead his people to safety. Barely surviving brutal setbacks, the Wolfriders discover to their astonishment other elves - the Sun Folk - who exist in the world they thought was theirs alone. Now refugees, the hardship of losing their forest home proves small compared to the spirit-twisting trials that follow when Cutter exp ...
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The future is full of epic “what ifs." What if we could read minds? What if a hostile attack took down our nation’s power grid? In every episode of Hyperthetical, host Kerry Bishé asks one of these questions. Then, we explore that question two ways - through speculative science fiction, and through insight from the world’s most brilliant scientists…
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Leetah’s powers as a healer are sorely tested as one of the Wolfriders suffers a dire accident. But that challenge pales in comparison to her inner struggle – maintain her proud freedom? Or yield to the allure of Recognition? EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/elfquest Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more ab…
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A Journey with Strange Bedfellows, Part 4
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Hunter's quest may be at an end, when he overlooks a very haunted-looking castle in Romania. Is he prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for his true love? In collaboration with Forest Rose Productions, The Dark Tome Presents "A Journey with Strange Bedfellows," a project which melds together 6 lesser known, immortal short stories (with timeless,…
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As Cutter and Leetah continue to suffer the effects of resisting Recognition, a nearby volcano rumbles to life. Can the Wolfriders save the Sun Folk from a new peril that threatens to level their village? EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/elfquest Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. …
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A Journey with Strange Bedfellows, Part 3
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A phantasmagoric forest awaits Hunter Brown. What devils lurk in the woods of Europe? We'll find out soon... In collaboration with Forest Rose Productions, The Dark Tome Presents "A Journey with Strange Bedfellows," a project which melds together 6 lesser known, immortal short stories (with timeless, relevant themes) originally penned by strange li…
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Cutter and his chief-father Bearclaw track the murderous creature Madcoil to its lair. Now all the Wolfriders must rally for one final battle – which will have far-reaching consequences for the tribe, and for Cutter. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/elfquest Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your …
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A Journey with Strange Bedfellows, Part 2
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Confronted with the loss of his one true love, Hunter Brown heads to Paris to enlist support in his journey. But when things go awry at a Parisian drinking establishment, he's in a fight for his very life. In collaboration with Forest Rose Productions, The Dark Tome Presents "A Journey with Strange Bedfellows," a project which melds together 6 less…
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Awakened from nightmares of Cutter, Leetah follows the sound of wolf howls into the desert night. Hiding, she overhears the Wolfriders recount the tale of how a malignant swirl of dark magic came to terrorize the Holt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Realm
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A Journey with Strange Bedfellows, Part 1
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This harrowing, steampunky fantasy-horror series charts one man's journey in search of true love across a kaleidoscopic nightmare landscape of 19th century Europe. It's got devils and werewolves, spooky Bordellos in backstreets of Paris, mechanical robots and oh so much more! In collaboration with Forest Rose Productions, The Dark Tome Presents "A …
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The Trial of Hand, Head, and Heart pits Rayek and Cutter against each other as suitors to Leetah. Buy no matter who wins, the healer must still wrestle with the impossible choice between her lifelong friend and a barbaric outsider. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Realm
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Wolfrider chief Cutter leads a raid on the Sun Village to seize much-needed supplies. He gets more than he bargained for when he inexplicably abducts one of the villagers – much to the astonishment of both elves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Realm
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Tormented by betrayal and the scorching desert sun, the Wolfriders press desperately forward toward mountains dimly seen on the distant horizon. The elves cannot know what – or who – may lie beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Realm
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Beneath the blazing ruin of their woodland home, the Wolfriders meet King Greymung, monarch of the trolls, who promises them safe passage to a new, lush Holt. But what they discover is not what they expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Realm
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Driven from their ancestral forest home by humans wielding fire, Wolfrider chief Cutter and his elfin tribe must seek refuge from the inferno in the mysterious Caverns of the Trolls. But can the subterranean dwellers be trusted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Realm
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Listen to the first ten minutes of Episode One of ElfQuest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Realm
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Bonus Feature - The Elves of the World of Two Moons
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Meet Savah, Mother of Memory as she introduces the Wolfriders and the Sun Folk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Realm
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Introducing ElfQuest, a new podcast presented by Realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Realm
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Teenager Zelle finds herself introduced to her family’s tradition – and amazing power – to hold audiences with the dead. But do the town elders in this remote part of Idaho have Zelle and her mother's best interests in mind? Marguerite Croft is a writer, podcaster, and mother based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work whose leans towards the in…
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Today we feature a new, standalone post-apocalyptic audioplay - The Collective, by Asata Radcliffe. A major Catastrophic Event, known as the C.E. has left less than 10,000 people on the planet. The actual population of the world is not known. A group of humans, known as The Collective, decide to not have children as a way of saving humanity from th…
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A group of buddies goes hunting in the Maine woods and find an evil beyond imagination. This haunting story is penned by Morgan Sylvia -- a metalhead, an Aquarius, a beer snob, coffee addict, and a work in progress. A former obituarist, she is now a full-time freelance writer. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Pseudopod, Forgotten Realms, Wic…
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A Dark Tome exclusive short story reading of The Ding Ding, written and read by Judith Pancoast. It's the 1970s. A teenager accepts a babysitting job with a strange family because she's dying to scrape up a few bucks to buy records. But this job will prove the strangest she's ever taken when a haunted "Ding Ding" turns up in the middle of the night…
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A haunting original audioplay by Fred Greenhalgh and Jack Bowman. An interstellar traveler will stop at nothing to save his fiancée who is trapped on a troubled Europa Colony. But as realities start to mash into one another, the true underlying reality is more shocking than his mind can handle. A dark treatise on space colonialism, late-stage capit…
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This week a reading of the short story JANINE, a haunting tale of youth gone awry thanks to devils in the Maine woods. Story by Emma J Gibbon - Emma J. Gibbon is originally from Yorkshire in the U.K. and now lives in Midcoast Maine. She is a Rhysling-nominated speculative poet, horror writer and librarian. Her debut fiction collection, Dark Blood C…
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This week's story is the haunting GARGOYLES, by Stephanie Diaz Reppen. You heard Stephanie's work as Sonia in Dark Tome Undertow. Performing as Stephanie Diaz, she is an accomplished and versatile actress - as, as well as horror aficionado and writer. Stephanie's short story Gargoyles is a treatise on the dark rooms found in every home, and the mon…
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The great showdown between the Greenway clan and the cousins from the other side of the wood. Is there ever going home again?By Realm
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Lizzie faces a gruesome fate unless her friends are able to overcome their darkest fears and rescue her.By Realm
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Lizzie breaks a dark enchantment, which unfortunately gives Carlow the opportunity to launch an all-out assault on the World Tree.By Realm
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A strange tale of toys left to fend for themselves after a great disaster occurs to humans. Written by Alex Jennings, read by Kym Dakin, with sound design and music editing by Carter Wogahn. This episode brought to you by Function of Beauty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Lizzie and her friends reach the magical center of the Fae universe: The World Tree itself, and the Queen of Fae, who rules over it.By Realm
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Carlow uses a magic mirror to track down Lizzie and her friends.By Realm
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Lost in the catacombs of the Gnome Mountains, Lizzie finds a friend and discovers the power of heart stone.By Realm
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A friend helps Lizzie and Kyle fight a cockatrice, but this help comes with a high price: Lizzie must steal a wyvern’s egg.By Realm
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Lizzie and her new friend, Kyle the talking goat, have found a portal to the magical land of Fae. Unfortunately this has put them right in the darkest depths of the ghoul tree forest.By Realm
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Lizzie returns to her family’s ancestral farmhouse in rural Maine and discovers tapes in the attic that reveal an amazing family secret.By Realm
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Today, an original short story by Dark Tome creator Fred Greenhalgh, HENRY - a meditation on loss, and a study of the power of love to hold off the forces of darkness. Inspired by the steadfast heart of his late pet, Henry. Content warning: depicts pet mortality. This short story appears in the winter 2021 edition of Northern Frights: The Journal o…
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Lizzie invites you on a journey to the magical land of Fae - a place of spectacular wonders, but also monsters with sharp teeth. Fae & Fiends is an original dark faerie tale podcast by Fred Greenhalgh (Audible's Locke and Key, The Dark Tome). Free podcast episodes begin weekly starting March 23, 2021.…
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Curious History of the Dark Tome, Epilogue - An Essay by Mr. Gussy
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"I gotta give you a warning: there is no truth about the Dark Tome. If you think I can tell you anything certain about it, well, turn your computer off now and knock yourself in the head for the fool you are. What makes you think we can ever understand something so old?" A special episode featuring recovered tape of the author, Wilbur Gussy, readin…
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The Days of Flaming Motorcycles, by Catherynne M. Valente
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Caitlin no longer tracks days by the calendar - instead, it's by the theme covers of the journals she writes while she goes to work at the derelict Java Shack in Augusta, Maine. The themes of these journals, e.g. "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles," are both a useful counter of time and contain the truthful account of her observations of the zombie a…
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"The boys arrive with the changing of the weather, ushered in by winter’s cold. Once a year, at the beginning of December, those silly boys who think coming here means they are brave. All of them so eager to test their worth on the edge of my husband’s axe." For this winter's solstice, we dramatize a sharp (ha, ha) story by Kat Howard ( http://www.…
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The Curious History of the Dark Tome Pt. 2: Apocalyptic Endings
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Today we feature POINT MYSTIC's second (and final) part of their investigation into the tragic death of Dr. Joseph Ricci, the destruction of his research into doors to other worlds, and of the disappearance of one of the most infamous books in occult history - the Dark Tome. Part 2 of 2 Visit Point Mystic at: http://www.pointmystic.org/ Learn more …
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The Curious History of the Dark Tome Pt. 1: Storybook Beginnings
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Liber Tenebris, The Dark Tome, remains an object of great speculation and mystery within occult circles, until now. In a special crossover episode with the podcast Point Mystic, we take a look into the legacy of Prof Joe Ricci and the disappearance of some of the most important research ever conducted into supernatural doorways. Part 1 of 2 Learn m…
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Joanna, her brother Oliver, and her dad are all trapped in the upstairs of their house, with a bear prowling downstairs. However, as her father plows deeper into a bottle of whisky, it becomes clear that sapien beasts may be the most fearsome of all... Meanwhile, the stage is set for the grand conclusion of Season 2! In the hands of the Parabellum …
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S2E8: Sing Me Your Scars, by Damien Angelica Waters
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Cassie finds herself trapped with several other women in a monstrous situation imagined by a twisted doctor in early 1910s America. This is the world of SING ME YOUR SCARS, a chilling treatise on subservience and bodies, told by Victoria, a woman torn between her desire for freedom, and her desire not to rot away. Learn more about your ad choices. …
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Mr. Gussy returns, but what he finds on the other side was not what he expected. We venture to the salt-sprayed shores of New Brunswick, where time has been hard on Sammy. But the promise of three square meals and the hunt for a sea monster makes him believe there might be such a thing as second chances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega…
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S2E6: The Vishakanya's Choice, by Roshani Chokshi
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Cassie faces a choice, and who better to help her understand the importance - and power - of choices than Sudha, a Vishakanya, or poison maiden, a female assassin whose very touch is deadly? NYT-Bestselling Author Roshani Chokshi retells the death of Alexander the Great - a story that has become legend - through the perspective of a woman who has n…
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S2E5: Mr. Carter's Story, by Fred Greenhalgh
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Cassie returns to her high school guidance teacher's office, looking for answers. Mr. Carter tells his story, about how he first encountered the Dark Tome, and the terrible effects it had on his life. Now, Cassie faces a choice of grace consequence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Cassie's transported to a Caribbean island in the near-future, where a devastating 'duppy tide' caused utter devastation… And has led to a new, perverse form of tourism. But the tourists are in for more than they bargained for when they learned of the mutated fauna in this home that gave birth to zombis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega…
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S2E3: The Birds of Azalea Street, by Nova Ren Suma
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Kim and Cassie hide away at a rich family's home in a neighborhood on the outskirts of town. But, Kim isn't letting Cassie go without learning some of her secrets… And what Cassie reveals, may be as much as Kim can handle. In the world of BIRDS OF AZALEA STREET, a monster lurks behind closed doors... A monster tolerated by the sweet neighbors, who …
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Cassie's saved by a friend, but learns that her world has changed more than she could have imagined while she's been gone. Worlds gone wrong turns out to be a theme, when she goes on her next trip, to the world of THE BACCHAE. In a world where environmental destruction has poisoned life to a breaking point, what consequence will fall on those who w…
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