🎙️ The Ides of April The Shot Heard Around the World — Part I

Chapters 1–3: “The Heir of an Empire,” “A City on Edge,” “Europe in Tinder”

He was born to rule an empire he never truly believed in.Archduke Franz Ferdinand — heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, reformer, romantic, and the man whose death would ignite the modern age.

In this sweeping first part of The Shot Heard Around the World, Branden Morgan traces the improbable life of the Archduke, the fragile peace of Sarajevo, and the continent teetering on the edge of disaster. From his forbidden marriage to Sophie Chotek to the volatile web of alliances that bound Europe in mutual paranoia, this is the story of how one city — and one bullet — became the hinge upon which the twentieth century turned.

Through vivid storytelling and sharp historical insight, The Ides of April brings to life the world that existed just before the fall — a world too confident to imagine it could end.

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The rise and decay of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

The secret societies plotting revolution in the Balkans

The chain of alliances that made peace impossible

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🎙️ THE DEVIL’S LEDGER October 13, 2025 — “The Autumn Gate”

This week in the Evio Creative universe:
As the nights grow longer, the stories get darker.

On The Devil Within — a classic returns.
In anticipation of the MGM+ docuseries Let the Devil In, we’re revisiting one of the most haunting tales from Season One: “Acquainted With the Night — REDUX.”
A remastered version of the episode that first defined the series — now with new commentary, archival audio, and never-before-heard material from the original investigation.

On The Ides of April — the world takes a wrong turn.
A new two-part event begins: “The Shot Heard Around the World” — the story of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, his doomed love affair, and the single moment that ignited World War I.
Narrated and written by Branden Morgan, this is where history’s fuse was lit.

And on Taboo Treasures — the countdown to Halloween begins.
An eerie introduction to the season of masks, monsters, and hidden meanings — tracing the origins of our darkest traditions and the artifacts they inspired.

Finally, The Ledger rounds up what’s new in horror this week — including The First Omen’s streaming debut, a chilling trailer drop for The Conjuring: Last Rites, and the limited theatrical release of The Devil’s Bath, a psychological descent from filmmaker Veronika Franz.

🩸 This Week’s Highlights

🎧 The Devil Within: “Acquainted With the Night — REDUX” (MGM+ companion episode)

🕯 The Ides of April: “The Shot Heard Around the World” (Part I)

🕸 Taboo Treasures: “Halloween: An Introduction”

🎬 Horror Watch: Trailers, premieres, and releases across the genre.

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This Week on The Devil’s Ledger (October 13th)
The Evio Creative network unites for a chilling October lineup:

The Devil Within: “Acquainted With the Night — REDUX” (in support of Let the Devil In on MGM+)

The Ides of April: “The Shot Heard Around the World” (Part I)

Taboo Treasures: “Halloween: An Introduction”
Plus, the week’s latest in horror movie news, trailers, and releases.

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🎙️ THE DEVIL WITHIN

The Road Not Taken: REDUX — Part Two

In Support of the MGM+ Original Series “Let the Devil In”

In The Road Not Taken: REDUX — Part Two, host Branden Morgan continues his deep dive into the life, faith, and fatal choices of Tommy Sullivan — exploring how the path he thought would save him ultimately became the one that damned him.

While Robert Frost’s poem asks what might happen when we choose one road over another, Tommy’s story reveals what happens when the roads converge — when the sacred and the profane meet in the same place.

Before Tommy ever found Satanism, it was the Church itself that first taught him about it. The sermons, the scripture, the whispered warnings of evil that surrounded his childhood became his earliest introduction to darkness. It was from the pulpit, not the shadows, that he first heard the Devil’s name.

And when he finally witnessed a Black Mass — that forbidden inversion of everything he’d been taught to fear — it didn’t horrify him. It intrigued him.

Where the Church made him feel guilt, the ritual made him feel power. Where faith demanded obedience, blasphemy offered agency. And for a young man searching for meaning, the Devil was the first to offer him a choice.

In this episode, Branden unpacks how Tommy’s encounter with that ritual — its symbols, sounds, and seductions — became a mirror of everything the Church had warned him about… and everything he secretly longed to become.

By the time he reached Clinton Road, Tommy wasn’t lost. He was following the only path that had ever made sense to him.

🕯️ In This Episode

    •    The Church’s role in introducing Tommy to Satanic ideas

    •    The psychological allure of forbidden rituals and the Black Mass

    •    The symbolism of Frost’s The Road Not Taken as Tommy’s spiritual crossroads

    •    The events that set the stage for The Red Wagon

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🎙️ THE DEVIL WITHIN

The Road Not Taken: REDUX

Part One of Two — In Support of the MGM+ Original Series “Let the Devil In”

In this REDUX edition of The Devil Within, host Branden Morgan revisits one of the most haunting chapters in the Tommy Sullivan story — The Road Not Taken.

This time, we take a deeper look at Robert Frost’s famous poem and how its quiet meditation on choice and consequence mirrors Tommy’s descent into darkness. What begins as literary analysis soon opens into a meditation on fate — the roads we choose and the ones that seem to choose us.

But this episode also widens the lens. Branden traces the real-world shadows behind Frost’s metaphor — through the Mafia’s violent history in North Jersey, a landscape where the mob once turned quiet woodlands into burial grounds. The same woods where, decades later, the legend of Clinton Road would take root.

The Road Not Taken: REDUX connects the poetry of Frost to the brutality of the underworld — and to the final, irreversible turn Tommy Sullivan made that winter night. A choice between curiosity and caution… faith and fear… light and shadow. A choice that could have led him anywhere — except home.

🕯️ In This Episode

    •    A literary and psychological breakdown of The Road Not Taken

    •    How organized crime shaped North Jersey’s hidden history of violence

    •    The parallels between Robert Frost’s symbolism and Tommy Sullivan’s fate

    •    A preview of next week’s conclusion — when the poem becomes prophecy

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🎙️ THE DEVIL’S LEDGER — A New Weekly Segment from The Devil Within

Every Monday, the gates open early.

Introducing The Devil’s Ledger, a brand-new weekly segment from The Devil Within, hosted by Branden Morgan.
Every Monday morning, we take stock of what’s to come: new stories, dark histories, and sinister discoveries from across the Evio Creative Network — plus the latest chills from the wider world of horror.

From The Devil Within’s latest investigations to The Ides of April’s turning points through history, and the forbidden fascinations inside Taboo Treasures, The Devil’s Ledger is your essential guide to everything lurking in the week ahead.

We’ll also preview what’s happening across the genre — from new horror films and streaming series to true crime documentaries, conventions, and the kinds of headlines that sound a little too close to home.

Think of it as your Monday morning séance — a pulse check on the dark and the divine, the infamous and the inexplicable.

🕰️ In This Week’s Ledger

What’s next on The Devil Within — a brand new case that blurs the line between possession and psychology.

The Ides of April explores the assassination that changed the modern world forever.

Taboo Treasures digs up the strange history of the world’s most cursed objects.

Plus, what to watch this week in horror: new theatrical releases, hidden gems on streaming, and the conventions where nightmares come to life

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Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening: REDUX (Part Two)

The darkest night of the year. A chilling poem by Robert Frost. And a teenager walking into the woods of Jefferson Township, never to return the same.

In this REDUX edition of The Devil Within, we return to Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening, exploring how Frost’s poetry of solitude and dread became an eerie mirror for the life and death of Tommy Sullivan. With added commentary and deeper analysis, Branden Morgan traces how the winter solstice, ancient folklore, and occult historyconverged in the Pine Barrens—and how one boy’s story still resonates nearly four decades later.

This re-release comes in support of the MGM+ documentary series Let the Devil In, currently the #1 show on the platform, expanding the story of Season One into a chilling new visual dimension.

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Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening: REDUX (Part One)

The darkest night of the year. A chilling poem by Robert Frost. And a teenager walking into the woods of Jefferson Township, never to return the same.

In this REDUX edition of The Devil Within, we return to Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening, exploring how Frost’s poetry of solitude and dread became an eerie mirror for the life and death of Tommy Sullivan. With added commentary and deeper analysis, Branden Morgan traces how the winter solstice, ancient folklore, and occult historyconverged in the Pine Barrens—and how one boy’s story still resonates nearly four decades later.

This re-release comes in support of the MGM+ documentary series Let the Devil In, currently the #1 show on the platform, expanding the story of Season One into a chilling new visual dimension.

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The Ides of April: The Assassination of Julius Caesar (Part II)

In the conclusion of our two-part story on the fall of the Roman Republic, host Branden Morgan of The Devil Withincontinues the saga of Julius Caesar’s last days and their aftermath.

This episode covers the final three chapters:

    •    The Fallout — Mark Antony seizes the moment, and Rome’s streets erupt in chaos.

    •    Judgment of History — Brutus and Cassius, hailed by some as liberators and condemned by others as traitors.

    •    The Death of the Republic, Birth of the Empire — How Caesar’s assassination closed one chapter of Rome and opened another that would last for centuries.

The knives ended Caesar’s life, but they could not stop the tide of empire.

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Spring and Fall to a Young Child: REDUX

We return to one of the most haunting chapters of The Devil Within—this time with new commentary and deeper insights.

In this REDUX edition, we explore Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem Spring and Fall to a Young Child, a work whose meditation on loss and innocence casts a chilling light on the story of Tommy Sullivan. Alongside the poem, we examine Tommy’s life as a young wrestler in Jefferson Township, New Jersey—a world of pressure, discipline, and hidden struggle.

You’ll also hear newly added clips from an interview with Jefferson Township resident and former wrestler Dave Esposito, who helps us understand the intensity of the sport, the culture it creates, and what that meant for a boy like Tommy Sullivan

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This re-release is part of our REDUX series, updated to support the MGM+ documentary Let the Devil In, which brings the story of Season One to television with gripping new detail and perspective.

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Spring and Fall to a Young Child: REDUX

We return to one of the most haunting chapters of The Devil Within—this time with new commentary and deeper insights.

In this REDUX edition, we explore Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem Spring and Fall to a Young Child, a work whose meditation on loss and innocence casts a chilling light on the story of Tommy Sullivan. Alongside the poem, we examine Tommy’s life as a young wrestler in Jefferson Township, New Jersey—a world of pressure, discipline, and hidden struggle.

You’ll also hear newly added clips from an interview with Jefferson Township resident and former wrestler Dave Esposito, who helps us understand the intensity of the sport, the culture it creates, and what that meant for a boy like Tommy Sullivan.

This re-release is part of our REDUX series, updated to support the MGM+ documentary Let the Devil In, which brings the story of Season One to television with gripping new detail and perspective.

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