On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Tales From the Cracks #62–65

00:00 – Intro

01:30 – The Red Motel PART 1

19:36 – The Red Motel PART 2

34:51 – The Devil Shaman Curse PART 1

53:39 – The Devil Shaman Curse PART 2

1. The Red Motel PART 1: Sam and Molly are travelling to pay their last respects to Molly's dad who is dying from cancer. They lose their bearings and end up wrecking their car when something is mysteriously thrown in their path. Molly feels it is sinister and deliberate. Sam feels she is just stressed out and thinks nothing of it. They get a ride from a dodgy old man to a motel a few miles away, which is a Halloween haunted house one month out of a year. It is in a bad state, and they are the only people there. The couple becomes very suspicious when they stumble upon the personal belongings of previous occupants stained with blood shoved underneath the bed.

https://youtu.be/QGKXeCM8iEI?si=QQH-0XZgUveeUDTi

2. The Red Motel PART 2: Sam and Molly are travelling to pay their last respects to Molly's dad who is dying from cancer. They lose their bearings and end up wrecking their car when something is mysteriously thrown in their path. Molly feels it is sinister and deliberate. Sam feels she is just stressed out and thinks nothing of it. They get a ride from a dodgy old man to a motel a few miles away, which is a Halloween haunted house one month out of a year. It is in a bad state, and they are the only people there. The couple becomes very suspicious when they stumble upon the personal belongings of previous occupants stained with blood shoved underneath the bed.

https://youtu.be/KQCR7QSI2q0?si=j_vFxw4yf9y_USEJ

3. The Devil Shaman Curse PART 1: Brandon and Phoebe are in a rush to get home, but on the way they run over a young woman. Confused and frightened, they leave her there to die and speed away. But in a quick turn of conscience, they track her down to ER, to air their guilty conscience and hoping that she survives. But she dies. Her father, a shaman invokes curses on the whole town that took her away from the spiritual circle. The hit and run couple thinks nothing of it, until strange and inexplicable things begin to happen… things that may prove fatal for a lot of people. Will they escape the curse of the Devil Shaman?

https://youtu.be/yEAyWp8FMXE?si=5-O483NsMKzIa_RA

4. The Devil Shaman Curse PART 2: Brandon and Phoebe are in a rush to get home, but on the way they run over a young woman. Confused and frightened, they leave her there to die and speed away. But in a quick turn of conscience, they track her down to ER, to air their guilty conscience and hoping that she survives. But she dies. Her father, a shaman invokes curses on the whole town that took her away from the spiritual circle. The hit and run couple thinks nothing of it, until strange and inexplicable things begin to happen… things that may prove fatal for a lot of people. Will they escape the curse of the Devil Shaman?

https://youtu.be/1qLIZavCulk?si=RAEaAcnXngUOHzVz

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On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Tales From the Cracks #58–61

00:00 - Intro

01:15 - The Garage

25:06 - The Vow of Silence

34:35 - The Demon's Rapture

1. The Garage: Alone at home one night, and accompanied by someone only known as his "roommate"–wearing his same clothes and face–a man is tormented by someone (or something) on his front stoop, knocking and posing as a policeman. He will have to make a final payment for the peace of mind he needs, and those left behind will be forced to pick up the pieces from the wall of his shattered psyche.

https://youtu.be/4lA79gWVcUc?si=PXwyBDJaaxQEd5N7

2. The Vow of Silence: A man racked with guilt, and mourning the loss of two loved ones in his life, takes a vow of silence on a fateful night. In addition to seeking to heal from his misdeeds, he has a more pressing motive: to contact the spirits of those he wronged. The following story is a script transcribed in full from Stephen Culling's Amazon Alexa Device recordings and presented here as a record of the mysterious events that followed

https://youtu.be/UtVehEwoz14?si=7a_or89Rwpeguw_X

3. The Demon's Rapture Parts 1 & 2: Jesus Christ appears before Raymond and tells him he will have to suffer through the apocalypse in a matter of 24 hours. Jesus disappears. Raymond finds that his wife and kids have been raptured. He goes outside and his area is in total chaos with fire and people dying in the streets. He will have to fight for his eternal life for the next 24 hours against demons trying to claim his soul.

https://youtu.be/aXEDdBFG6pQ?si=_dY_tx4x6gGw9iPC

https://youtu.be/w6Z9UUl64jU?si=ZN0WVx5Loe_GhN1K

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On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Tales From the Cracks #55–57

00:00 - Intro

01:40 - The Loose Ends Part 1

13:59 - The Loose Ends Part 2

33:26 - The Loose Ends Part 3

1. The Loose Ends Part 1: Three criminals meet in an abandoned warehouse to discuss an upcoming heist—a perfect crime to steal priceless family heirlooms buried at a local cemetery. There's only one problem: two of the men don't want to kill the guard, but the crux of the group leader's scheme is to bury the only witness with the corpse after stealing the goods. And now he may have to stack up two more loose ends inside the grave.

https://youtu.be/eFiDeKkinm8?si=okIQgx-o26m4FpZw

2. The Loose Ends Part 2: Three criminals meet in an abandoned warehouse to discuss an upcoming heist—a perfect crime to steal priceless family heirlooms buried at a local cemetery. There's only one problem: two of the men don't want to kill the guard, but the crux of the group leader's scheme is to bury the only witness with the corpse after stealing the goods. And now he may have to stack up two more loose ends inside the grave.

https://youtu.be/hsiXbsxvIh8?si=rSbHY_HNAXxlye_x

3. The Loose Ends Part 3: Three criminals meet in an abandoned warehouse to discuss an upcoming heist—a perfect crime to steal priceless family heirlooms buried at a local cemetery. There's only one problem: two of the men don't want to kill the guard, but the crux of the group leader's scheme is to bury the only witness with the corpse after stealing the goods. And now he may have to stack up two more loose ends inside the grave.

https://youtu.be/KCo6bAoyt5o?si=B1Tt-NaF1BhOlpA3

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On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Tales From the Cracks #51–54

00:00 - Intro

00:41 - The Count

12:43 - The Campground

30:54 - Helsing and the Count Part 1

46:53 - Helsing and the Count Part 2

1. The Count: The notorious Pin and Needle serial killer has struck again, but this time on the road, leaving a trail of bodies to indicate the bloody trail he'd blazed across the United States. He picks up a hitch-hiker on the last leg of his journey, who may have worse intentions than the killer himself...

https://youtu.be/rhkinmaZk_I?si=rAIAi-Kes_NX9Ixy

2. The Campground: Paul believes that he was born a killer, and in his obsession of understanding the meaning of death, he will dish it out himself—if only he can transition from his self-promoted job of cutting down trees to hunting the most-dangerous game. First, he must invite her to his "campground" in the woods.

https://youtu.be/qAWQDiSPnGE?si=7qRWsI-uxkaPCvn0

3. Helsing and the Count Part 1: The notorious Pin and Needle serial killer is hiding in plain sight as the embalmer at a local funeral home—taking care of the very victims he left for the police and media to find. One police man is hot on his tail, and he will use one of the killer's failed victims as bait to draw him out of the shadows and into the cast of his siren lights.

https://youtu.be/cSrR9yUJ6f0?si=z5U2QSkMOIfVvj80

4. Helsing and the Count Part 2: The notorious Pin and Needle serial killer is hiding in plain sight as the embalmer at a local funeral home—taking care of the very victims he left for the police and media to find. One police man is hot on his tail, and he will use one of the killer's failed victims as bait to draw him out of the shadows and into the cast of his siren lights.

https://youtu.be/kt_NDOT_KEM?si=I5Jm_aF1R3v5s3DF

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On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Tales From the Cracks #48–50

00:00 - Intro

01:13 - Deer Season

23:30 - "Bloody Mary, I Am Your Child!"

37:43 - I Dream in Black and Light

1. Deer Season: A man is forced to seek out a new hiking trail when his usual haunt is closed for deer season. His first mistake is venturing into a restricted area not found on any map, his second is helping the trapped, crazed man on the trail, and his third is entering the man-man maze where a blind monster sniffs out and hunts down any rat unfortunate enough to stumble into its domain.

https://youtu.be/i3mantyNIrU?si=b7NrytB11Tr7YGOa

2. "Bloody Mary, I Am Your Child!": A simple game of "Bloody Mary" opens a floodgate of traumatic events when Mary's friend Jonie and Mandy are harassed at the same time every night by a transparent specter dripping blood. Jonie snaps and murders her friend, and when the police take her in, she tries to warn the cops standing guard that Bloody Mary visits her every night at 10 PM on the dot...

https://youtu.be/pf0-oeS3Iu4?si=bnPUp8-fRlWfNgkg

3. I Dream in Black and Light: In this one-man play, our protagonist narrates the last minutes of his life, after his entire world has diminished to a single stage that he is the main player on. He has come to the conclusion that his life is a dream, and he is being hunted by something in the dark that wants to snuff him out like all the rest of the players in this final play on Earth.

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©2024 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.

On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Tales From the Cracks #45–47

00:00 - Intro

01:38 - "Bloody Mary, You Have My Child!"

14:56 - The Loose Ends

24:08 - It Came Out of the Sky

1. "Blood Mary, You Have My Child!": A simple game of "Bloody Mary" opens a floodgate of traumatic events when Mary's friends Jonie and Mandy are harassed at the same time every night by a transparent specter dripping blood. When Jonie's house mysteriously goes up in flames with her parents in it, Mary's family takes her in, but she won't sleep anywhere but the basement, which is the only room without a mirror.

https://youtu.be/K307kxTTU-0?si=_s2DOMjZPFrB6UYO

2. The Loose Ends: Three criminals meet in an abandoned warehouse to discuss an upcoming heist—a perfect crime to steal priceless family heirlooms buried at a local cemetery. There's only one problem: two of the men don't want to kill the guard, but the crux of the group leader's scheme is to bury the only witness with the corpse after stealing the goods. And now he may have to stack up two more loose ends inside the grave.

https://youtu.be/bjwRiBXbij8?si=Ty2i5oPjx-yboFMD

3. It Came Out of the Sky: Two friends meet in the desert in the middle of the night for their annual camping trip, but one friend is rattled by something he encountered on the trail on his way to the site. After recounting his story of a black creature spying on him from the trees, they will have to mentall prepare themselves for the next encounter: a pulsing, multi-colored light that descends on them from the sky and had already invaded their minds.

https://youtu.be/dDJ6cubMPpk?si=Z45oejBwVaZJv0ZN

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©2024 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.

On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Tales From the Cracks #42–44

00:00 - Intro

00:48 - Hardly Working

11:41 - Kill All Your Darlings

25:44 - The Collector

1. Hardly Working: A man has a strange case of narcolepsy: Every time he falls asleep, his dreams pick up right where he left off. During a chance encounter with a police officer in a public park, the man's life will be thrown into chaos as two boys find the cop's gun in the grass and put him to sleep—seemingly murdering the poor man in a series of unfortunate events.

https://youtu.be/6CP6zrUlVmA?si=8Dfd8YCabKkaQOVJ

2. Kill All Your Darlings: Roger notices that his friend's house is over cluttered with paintings, unsold and covered with sheets. His friend claims they depict images too terrifying to look at and that they carry with them an indescribable curse, but when Roger finally musters the courage to look under one of the sheets, he knows that he should have heeded his friend's warning, as it may not be his friend's head that is in danger but his own.

https://youtu.be/bqFQKqyzLMo?si=ImxrutIjEQstIocm

3. The Collector: Levitt leaves on a fortunate trip and comes back to find his hometown ravaged by a hurricane and his father's farmhouse missing. Worst of all, his most prized possession is missing along with the house, and he's sure he knows the culprit: Death. Set to reclaim his prize from the other side, he ventures into the expansive woods behind his father's land in search of the final collector of souls—less than confident that he will come away with his own.

https://youtu.be/r2NPwR7x7oY?si=ftEAgcCcpVYQMbUd

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On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Parts 1–3 of the novella "There're Giants in Those Mountains!".

00:00 - Intro

00:35 - Part 1: "There're Giants in Those Mountains!"

16:37 - Part 2 - "There's a Giant Out My Window!"

29:47 - Part 3 - "There're Giants in the Lake!"

Part 1: Two friends buy raw, treacherous land in Alaska for a cheap price. One friend disappears into the mountains in search of the mythic "green doors", protected by the giants, that will provide him access to their un-improved seven acres. When the narrator doesn't hear back from his friend Trevor, he checks the satellite images online to see that a massive structure has been built on their land, seemingly overnight, and it is guarded by a dark figure at the edge of their lake. The narrator will brave the brutal elements of the wild to prove that his friend is alive, and he will challenge his known world when confronted by the awe-inspiring terror of the unknown...

https://youtu.be/qaLj_eLLtQs?si=2xn548mIxz0KGh9J

Part 2: Two friends buy raw, treacherous land in Alaska for a cheap price. One friend disappears into the mountains in search of the mythic "green doors", protected by the giants, that will provide him access to their un-improved seven acres. When the narrator doesn't hear back from his friend Trevor, he braves the brutal elements of the wild to prove that his friend is alive, only to find an empty cabin, strange lights constructing wooden structures in the night, and a midnight visitor that is far too tall to be his friend...

https://youtu.be/I_E7NyaIk5g?si=NB3BVlVY6R9H9TyA

Part 3: Two friends buy raw, treacherous land in Alaska for a cheap price. One friend disappears into the mountains in search of the mythic "green doors", protected by the giants, that will provide him access to their un-improved seven acres. The narrator will brave the brutal elements of the wild to prove that his friend is alive, even if that means learning the forgotten magic of the green doors and establishing contact with any lost souls on the other side. Before he can heed his friend's SOS message from the fourth dimension and rescue him, he has one chance to trap the pyramid-headed giant haunting their land and send him back to his godless realm, but he may have to be the bait.

https://youtu.be/kEkIize3fhE?si=D_3xatMHouTBdhPI

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©2024 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.

On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from my published short stories, Tales From the Cracks #36–38.

00:00 - Intro

00:48 - Key or Quandry

18:34 - Renfield and the Count

37:17 - Darkness Bends Back

Key or Quandry: An unnamed student discovers a gift on his kitchen table in the middle of the night: a box full of tangled cobwebs and pieces of string. He knows that the death cult he'd escaped is now calling him to perform one last task. Following the coordinates delivered inside the box, he will have to save one man's life or become the willing sacrifice for a beast that lives in the forest of "Key and Quandry." Now that his life depends on it, he must collect or be spun...

https://youtu.be/86t7EkoXLvM?si=NuDljb3nLJv9ZIwP

Renfield and the Count: Paul's unhealthy fascination with a high school friend's (Tom's) macabre interest in death and killing is rekindled as soon as they both reach adulthood and Paul learns about the Pin and Needle Killer wreaking havoc in Texas. Certain that his childhood friend has finally achieved his dream of becoming an infamous serial killer, Paul will seek him out in a deadly game of cat and mouse, to either join Tom in his horrible play or put a stop to it—if he can prevent himself from becoming the next victim, of course.

https://youtu.be/eowDBvPFJ6E?si=9LuyIjxmdf7TdhjS

Darkness Bends Back: A crooked, unprepared cop confronts his old high school friend on a deserted train platform in the middle of the night, catching him red-handed after committing his most recent serial murder. He may not be able to pin him for the four murders he's already committed in other parts of the state, but he can finally put this serial killer away...or will his decision to take the law into his own hands mean the difference between life and death on this fateful late-night rendezvous?

https://youtu.be/x7mPH15FpNw?si=hi3qkZpLBKaUdhiz

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On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from my published short stories, Tales From the Cracks #33–35.

00:00 - Intro

01:06 - The Morning People

14:01 - Moon's Majesty

39:24 - Too Much Sleep

The Morning People: Peter meets an eccentric stranger on a midnight train and is given $200 to help him fill a hole on the beach. Discovering that the hole is the entrance into a vast underground network of tunnels, Peter ignores his better judgment to brave the risks of the unknown within the criminal underworld.

https://youtu.be/NrFSgGuRzfE?si=Jpzpqienr9w35ZFR

Moon's Majesty: Walker, an alchemist, protects the king's daughter from a war-mongering plot devised by a corrupt kingdom. Cornered at the end of the world, the two of them must make their final stand against the king's army, but an alternate Walker from a futuristic world threatens to shatter his archaic reality.

https://youtu.be/gjhtjc1fq7E?si=JWvmJwYSS606CkU1

Too Much Sleep: One man has retreated from the world to find a simpler life within his grandpa's cabin, but the local woman across the lake is his last connection to the world. After meeting the spirit of his grandfather, he knows there's a reason his lover hasn't returned from across the lake, and he must leave his safe haven to save his lover from the darkest spirit of them all.

https://youtu.be/W5SEhEPuajs?si=R8mVbC1hxNoO98K6

#audiobook #creepypasta #slenderman #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #novella #independentartist #ironage #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast #luciddreams #bloodymaryeditaudio #radioshow #survival #vampires #grimreaper #dystopianfuture #dystopian #supernatural #superhero #superpower

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