Death by Inches

EPISODE 34 — THE END

This is it. The final message.

Halloween night reaches its conclusion in Part 34 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage.

Ryan’s long ordeal inside the isolated mansion finally reaches the answers behind the haunting, the missing time, the occult mysteries surrounding the house—and the trunk that has waited at the center of so many questions.

Yes: we finally see what is inside.

This is the conclusion of the complete 34-episode immersive horror audio drama, bringing together Gothic horror, psychological terror, supernatural mystery, occult dread and the consequences of Ryan’s tragic past.

No cheap non-ending. No “maybe none of it happened” escape hatch.

The answers are here.

If you’re new, start with Part 1.

If you’ve made it all the way here:

Thank you for listening.

Created, performed, written and edited by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

Ghosts are bad. There are worse things.

It’s been a long Halloween.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 33 — PART 33

Ryan is alone in the dark.

He is trapped.

And whatever is with him is not human.

Part 33 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage is the penultimate chapter of the complete supernatural horror audio drama.

Halloween night has become a final struggle inside the mansion as psychological horror gives way to an increasingly immediate and otherworldly threat. The story’s haunted-house mystery, occult elements, guilt, memory and supernatural terror are finally colliding.

One episode remains.

If you have somehow arrived here first, stop. Go to Part 1.

For everyone else:

The end is waiting.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 32 — PART 32

Halloween night continues.

So does Ryan’s nightmare.

Part 32 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage carries the finale forward as the old mansion becomes the setting for the answers—and horrors—the entire series has been building toward.

Ryan is trapped inside a story involving supernatural forces, missing memories, old guilt and something far stranger than the ghost story he might once have preferred.

This is the second movement of the extended finale. The mystery is now deep in spoiler territory, so we’ll leave it there.

Listen from Part 1.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 31 — PART 31

The beginning of the end.

It is Halloween night, and Ryan’s ordeal is entering its final stage.

The questions that have haunted Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage from the beginning can no longer remain safely unanswered. The house, the supernatural threat surrounding Ryan and the guilt buried in his past are converging.

Part 31 launches the multi-part finale of this immersive horror audio drama, blending Gothic terror, psychological horror, occult mystery and analog-horror-style recorded storytelling.

Do not start here unless you enjoy being magnificently confused.

Begin with Part 1.

Created, performed, written and edited by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 30 — PART 30

Everything has been leading toward Halloween.

Now Halloween has arrived.

Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage Part 30 begins the story’s extended climax as Ryan’s ordeal inside the mansion reaches a new level of intensity and the mysteries surrounding the house, his missing time and his own past demand answers.

This longer chapter pushes the immersive horror audio drama toward its final confrontation, combining Gothic haunted-house terror, psychological horror, occult mystery and supernatural dread.

If you’ve come this far, you know better than to expect an easy night.

Start with Part 1 if you’re new.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 29 — PART 29

Halloween is nearly here, and Ryan is still trapped inside the isolated mansion with terror, unanswered questions and a past that refuses to stay buried.

Part 29 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage accelerates toward the finale as the story’s psychological and supernatural threads begin pulling tighter around him.

Told through answering-machine messages with immersive sound design, the series mixes haunted-house horror, Gothic mystery, occult dread, paranormal terror and a deeply personal story about guilt and consequence.

The end is close.

New listeners: go back to Part 1. You’ll want the whole story.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 28 — PART 28

The mansion is closing in.

So is the past.

With Halloween almost here, Ryan’s recorded messages have become the chronicle of a man trapped between the supernatural horror surrounding him and the personal history he has spent trying to survive.

Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage Part 28 drives the story deeper into its endgame, where Gothic haunted-house terror, psychological horror, occult mystery and something increasingly otherworldly begin converging.

There will be answers.

First, Ryan has to live long enough to reach them.

Start with Part 1.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 27 — PART 27

Ryan has spent October confronting an impossible house.

Now the story is beginning to demand that he confront himself.

Part 27 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage carries the supernatural horror serial toward its Halloween conclusion as Ryan faces mounting terror, deepening isolation and the consequences of a past he cannot simply leave behind.

A complete immersive audio drama blending Gothic horror, paranormal mystery, psychological terror, occult forces and answering-machine-style found audio.

The final stretch has begun.

Listen from Part 1 for the full story.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 26 — PART 26

There is less and less distance between Ryan and whatever is waiting for him.

Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage Part 26 moves deeper into the final stretch of his ordeal as supernatural danger, isolation and the weight of his own past tighten around him.

Told through recorded messages left from inside an old mansion, the series combines psychological horror, Gothic haunted-house terror, occult mystery and analog-horror atmosphere.

The answers are coming.

So is Halloween.

This is one continuous story. Start with Part 1 before entering the endgame.

Created by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.

EPISODE 25 — PART 25

The house has its horrors.

Ryan brought some of his own.

After the revelations and emotional wounds surrounding his past, Part 25 of Death by Inches: Emotional Baggage continues pushing the story toward the point where personal tragedy and supernatural terror can no longer remain separate.

Ryan is still isolated. The mansion is still holding its secrets. Halloween is getting closer.

This serialized horror audio drama blends psychological horror, haunted-house mystery, Gothic dread, the occult and immersive experimental sound.

New listeners should begin with Part 1.

Created, performed, written and edited by Walt Batycki / Creative Genus Audio.

This episode and all the others rely heavily on music and sound effects from freesound.org and it's generous audio artists. Imagery, video, and sound assets for various multimedia versions of Emotional Baggage utilized art and sound assets from pexels.com and pixabay.com as well. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this, please let me know! Share and spread the word and maybe I'll make more! ;) The end credits music was A Grim Horror Atmosphere For Video Games And Movies by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/702863/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story contains Halloween themes of horror, hauntings, the paranormal, ghosts, demons, magic, and dramatic tragedy.