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Darker Pastures is a biweekly horror fiction anthology, set in the very heartland of the North American continent: the vast and rugged landscapes of the Great Plains. The austere beauty of this open country is home to all manner of dreadful monstrosities, of both the everyday and the otherworldly variety, lurking in each shadow and sometimes even waiting in the full daylight. If you dare to join me, let us wander these darker pastures together. All stories written, narrated, edited, and scor ...
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A brief announcement on a coming change when we return to darker pastures in August. Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com.By Lars Mollevand
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In the conclusion of the season two finale, the assembled survivors of the plague-devastated land come at last to the end of their long road. Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com.…
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Many paths converge, and for a time, refuge is found, and darkness and fear are left behind. But the evils of the world always find a way in. ***Content warning: Episode deals with themes of traumatic loss, catastrophic fire, and automobile accidents. Listener discretion advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any f…
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A teenage girl, irrevocably separated from the family of her birth, finds a new one. But too late she learns the price of belonging. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious indoctrination and past sexual trauma, and contains some gore. Listener discretion advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you ha…
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Two traumatized young men, a boy from Cheyenne and an ex-soldier, bear witness to the depths of human depravity. Meanwhile, the true inheritors of the earth look on from afar, patient and inscrutable. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of sexual slavery and violence, involuntary mater ity and pregnancy-related death, mass murder, pa…
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In the wake of unbelievable calamity, a woman encounters both wonder and living nightmare on her long journey home. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of disease, pandemic, social upheaval, and the threat of sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback …
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A prairie schoolteacher experiences purest terror and loss during the tragic Children's Blizzard of 1888. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial loss, missing children, and children in peril. Listener discretion is advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding th…
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Two strangers approach a small town we have visited once before, and something follows close behind them. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of misogyny, bigotry, unwanted sexual contact and the threat of sexual violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any f…
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A small band of cowboys, chasing outlaws upon the southern Plains, happens upon a dubious sanctum. Despite their disparate life experiences, not a one of them is prepared for that which awaits them within. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon the realities of slavery, racism, and Indigenous genocide. Listener discretion is advised.*** Send…
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Unable to escape the horrific recollections of his Civil War service even in the remoteness of the Dakota Territory, a surgeon finds his nightmares bleeding into reality. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare, substance abuse, and associated psychological trauma, and contains both gore and body horror. Listener discretion is…
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Two wanderers, tossed adrift by the desperation of the Great Depression, encounter something strange and hellish on the benighted plains. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial abandonment, poverty, and genocide. Discretion advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries reg…
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The events of Halloween, 1973 scar a boy’s psyche so profoundly that he finds himself returning to their locus decades later, in the hope of finding resolution. But the mystery he finds waiting for him is darker still. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial estrangement, child death, suicide, racist violence, and murder. Lis…
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In October of 1989, a well-to-do farmer, ruled by his voracious appetites, reaps the ultimate fruit of his labors. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of familial loss, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and psychological abuse. Listener discretion advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedb…
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After a loss few seem to understand or even notice, a young woman learns that both love and grief can manifest in the most uncanny of ways. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of pet loss, and may be upsetting for some listeners. Discretion advised.*** In loving memory of Manfred von Katzstein, darkling prince of felinity. Send us a …
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A house that has long stood as a silent monument to past hardship becomes the locus of a new disquiet. Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com.By Lars Mollevand
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Against her wishes, a young student is transferred into a new and unwelcoming school. But what is happening there proves so much more sinister than she anticipates. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious and psychological abuse, homophobia, and discrimination against non-binary people. Listener discretion is advised.*** Sen…
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Something wicked grows in the fields near Umber, Nebraska. But it grows only under the most diligent care, and its like can be found throughout this fair land, and beyond. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of misogyny, racism, nativism, religious trauma, depression, and mass gun violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***…
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A troubled farming family living in 1940s Colorado falls victim to a gruesome, if altogether too common, accident. But they will soon learn that this is only the beginning of their changing fortune. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical and emotional abuse, ableism, and contains gore and body horror. Listener discretion is …
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An embittered and lonely man, whose life lies in shambles and who has fallen fully under the sway of his worst impulses, stumbles upon a terrible secret—and the further into it he delves, the more it threatens to swallow him and all he knows. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of alcohol dependency, familial estrangement, and the ab…
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The self-styled curator of a museum of horrors finally attains the masterpiece for which he has long yearned, but does not find quite the fulfillment that he expects from completing his collection. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of objectification of and violence against women, and true crime fetishization. Listener discretion i…
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During the deadly winter of 1886-1887, which would end the era of the open range, a ranch hand seeks to escape the crushing solitude and boredom of his isolated station in the merciless vastness of the Wyoming Territory. *** Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of cruelty and harm to animals. Listener discretion is advised. *** Send …
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A weary office worker learns that sometimes, a few words are all it takes to unravel the pattern of a carefully ordered life. ***Content warning: This episode contains body horror and sexual content. Listener discretion is advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please f…
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A child of Swedish immigrants living in northwestern Dakota Territory in the 1880s becomes convinced that a dreadful entity from whispered tales stalks the hills near their homestead. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of racism toward Indigenous peoples, familial loss, child mortality, depression, and suicide. Listener discretion i…
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A girl from a troubled home finds solace in her friendship with a new neighbor and her pet. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical and psychological familial abuse, racism, and cruelty to animals. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquirie…
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Exhausted and unable to trust his own perceptions, a former bushwhacker wanders the plains of a wounded country, haunted by both past and present horrors as he tries to flee that which cannot be escaped. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare and sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Than…
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Living on his uncle's farm at the turn of the century, a young boy begins to suspect that something nameless dwells under the surface. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical spousal and child abuse. Listener discretion is advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regar…
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A community in rural Montana is terrorized by a new and relentless menace – but no one realizes how existential the threat truly is. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial estrangement and domestic terrorism, and contains descriptions of violence and gore. Listener discretion advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for…
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A teenage outcast finds strange succor on Halloween night. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of homophobia, bullying, and familial loss, and may be triggering for some listeners. Discretion advised.*** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop…
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A woman who has spent her entire adulthood traveling from one city and one contract to another settles into the house left to her by a late relative, and slowly comes to realize that one of her new neighbors possesses a little too much holiday enthusiasm. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of transphobia and familial loss, and may b…
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A housewife and caretaker feels overwhelmed by the events in her life, and by the recent hardship of her community. But there is something far more threatening just over the horizon. ***Content warning: This episode contains scenes pertaining to age-related cognitive disease, as well as numerous references to insects, and may be triggering for some…
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A young and troubled man, drawn involuntarily back to the country and the life he tried to escape, is soon snared by a far darker mystery. Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com.…
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An insidious but devastating evil visits itself upon a small-town family... perhaps not for the first time. Who can say how many lives it has touched, or how long it has wandered these darker pastures? ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of child victimization, familial violence, and suicide, and contains scenes with gun violence. Li…
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Two soon-to-be college freshmen, torn between hope and anxiety for their shared futures, meet terror on the road. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of misogyny, racism, exploitation of and violence against women, and contains some gore. Listener discretion is advised. *** Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have…
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These are the darker pastures of America... Send us a Text Message. Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com.By Lars Mollevand
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