October Falls

Fall, 1968. Nathaniel Thorne has started asking about the grandfather no one will name, and his father’s silence says more than any answer could.

An old photograph turns up with a face that won’t stay in the past. A neighbor leans in with one question too many. And in the churchyard, a man stands with his shadow falling the wrong way. He doesn’t turn around until he knows he’s being watched.

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Content note: this episode contains family secrets, grief, and supernatural menace.

Written by Philip James.

Cedar Hollow, Pennsylvania. Autumn, 1968.

Nathaniel Thorne has a friend nobody else can see. Now something else has started to see him.

A woman stands in the church aisle where she shouldn’t be. A shape waits at the foot of Nathaniel’s bed, and even Eli won’t say its name. And at half past two in the morning, his mother lies wide awake, already certain that something walked through her house that night.

October Falls is a gothic horror anthology. Every season, a new town. Season One: Dead End on Wexler Street.

Fall, 1968. Nathaniel Thorne is nine, lonely, and the only one who can see the boy behind the toolshed. Eli warns him which way to walk home, and the one day Nathaniel doesn't listen, the alley behind Corrigan's Hardware goes cold, a dog stops barking mid-bark, and the town bully's eyes turn the color of standing water. That night, Nathaniel's mother burns his shirt in the backyard without a word.

Episode 1 of Dead End on Wexler Street, a prequel to The Midnight Mailman by Philip James.

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Content note: this episode contains childhood fear, bullying, and supernatural menace. Best enjoyed with the lights low.

Written by Philip James.