Darker Pastures

Home for the holidays and for a break from her troubled life, a young woman rediscovers an old passion... and is discovered in turn.

***Content Warning: Episode deals with themes of severe depression.***

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A visit from a traveling salesman makes for an idyllic Christmas, 1957.

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A person living on the margins of a tiny rural community is witness to increasingly disturbing developments in their neighbors, and their loved ones.

***Content warning: Episode touches upon themes of enbyphobia, queerphobia, bullying, familial estrangement, and contains some gore. Listener discretion is advised.***

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Every bird has its day...

***Content Warning: Episode contains irreverent humor, explicit language, and gore, and is not for the meleagrisphobic.***

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When the charismatic ministry of Asa Donague swept into the little prairie community of Homer, Kansas in late 1923, no one could have foretold what would follow.

 ***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of antisemitism, racism, and anti-Catholicism, as well as disturbing and violent imagery. Listener discretion advised.***

 “Old-Time Religion”, performed by the Criterion Quartet, arranged by Charles Davis Tillman, recorded 1920. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, , and included under fair use.

Cover image provided courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USW3-033945-D (b&w film neg.)

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A chance encounter in a small Western town on All Hallows' Eve, 1873 proves that nothing stays buried.

***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of alcoholism, murder, and exploitation of minors. Listener discretion is advised.***

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A young man, returning to his hometown for the first time since starting college, finds that it is not quite the community that he remembers – and that perhaps even his memories cannot be wholly trusted.

***Content Warning: Episode contains explicit discussion of depression and suicide. Listener discretion advised.***

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Fleeing from his troubles, a man forced by chance to shelter in a site of historical atrocity finds that the evils of the past are both very real and undying.

***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of exploitation of minors, misogyny, and the abuse and murder of Indigenous people. Listener discretion is strongly advised.***

Cover image adapted from:  St. Joseph's Indian Normal School © 2012 by  Chris Light , licensed under  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 

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In 1901, a mysterious man arrives in rural North Dakota, summoned by a family in need with no one else left to whom they can turn. Yet awaiting him is something far more malignant than even he, gifted with esoteric expertise, could ever anticipate.

***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of antisemitism, genocide against Indigenous peoples, and child abuse. Listener discretion advised.***

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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.

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