Southern Gothic Horror Fiction in New OrleansFrom Tongue of the Serpent, this Southern Gothic horror story descends into a haunted New Orleans masquerade where time itself repeats beneath the gaslight. Renard Blackwood finds himself trapped in Lucifer’s endless waltz, a dance where truth is the only way out, and every step draws him closer to revelation.✦ Midnight Masquerade continues Season Two of Tongue of the Serpent, a gothic horror podcast written and narrated by Loveday Funck, exploring myth, memory, and the haunted heart of New Orleans.🎭 Featuring:Wilson Reveille as Lucifer MorningstarJared Savoy as Renard Blackwood

Southern Gothic Horror Fiction in New OrleansIn New Orleans, some books don’t want to be read.When Lucien Devereux opens an ancient tome, something answers, something hungry.The Tome continues Tongue of the Serpent Season Two: a Southern-Gothic horror podcast where mirrors breathe, names bite back, and the past never stays buried.🔮 Subscribe for new dark tales Loveday Funck is the narrator and creatorWilson Reveille voices Lucien DevereuxMiranda Funck voices Sister Mercy

Southern Gothic Horror Fiction in New OrleansBeneath New Orleans, something ancient is stirring. Roots split the cobblestones. Shadows whisper Evelyn’s name. The Rootheart Awakens, the haunting premiere of Tongue of the Serpent Season Two, a Southern-Gothic audio drama where love, memory, and myth entwine in the dark.Loveday Funck is the narrator and CreatorWilson Reveille is the voice of Lucien Devereux

After Evelyn reveals the truth of who she is and what her grief has awakened beneath New Orleans, Lucien Devereux is left alone with a confession of his own. He has spent a lifetime collecting dangerous stories from the safe side of the counter, calling curiosity by prettier names. But with something ancient stirring under the city and old debts beginning to sharpen, Lucien must finally admit the truth: he has never only been a witness. And Season Two will demand more from him than watching.This retelling of Season One is presented in a richer, more immersive style, closer to an audiobook than a traditional full-cast production, making it an ideal place to begin the story from the start.If you love:dark fantasygothic fictionsupernatural bargainshaunted shopsghost storiesoccult New Orleansaudiobook-style fantasy podcaststhen step deeper inside.#TongueOfTheSerpent #DarkFantasy #AudioDrama #GothicFantasy #NewOrleans #FantasyPodcast #OccultFiction #GhostStoryNarrated by Loveday FunckWilson Revelle is Lucien Devereux

When New Orleans grows too heavy with unspoken grief, the Last Midnight Café appears in an alley that wasn’t there before. There, Evelyn finally speaks the oldest truth she carries: that the first sin was not fruit, but choosing safety over love. And when a confession that ancient is spoken aloud in this city, names travel downward, hooks catch, and something beneath New Orleans begins to wake.If you love:dark fantasygothic fictionsupernatural bargainshaunted shopsghost storiesoccult New Orleansaudiobook-style fantasy podcaststhen step deeper inside.#TongueOfTheSerpent #DarkFantasy #AudioDrama #GothicFantasy #NewOrleans #FantasyPodcast #OccultFiction #GhostStoryNarrated by Loveday Funck

Dr. Adrian Cross has built a career debunking hauntings with cameras, measurements, and careful skepticism. Then he rents a furnished house on Royal Street where clocks strike thirteen, windows show impossible gardens, and furniture moves exactly two inches at a time. What waits inside is not a ghost but an appetite, and the more Adrian studies it, the more the house learns how to keep him.If you love:dark fantasygothic fictionsupernatural bargainshaunted shopsghost storiesoccult New Orleansaudiobook-style fantasy podcaststhen step deeper inside.#TongueOfTheSerpent #DarkFantasy #AudioDrama #GothicFantasy #NewOrleans #FantasyPodcast #OccultFiction #GhostStoryNarrated by Loveday Funck

When a strange blackout swallows the alleys, courtyards, and hidden seams of the French Quarter, something ancient begins speaking from the dark. It claims Mardi Gras, demands tribute, and grows stronger every time frightened people repeat its name.If you love:dark fantasygothic fictionsupernatural bargainshaunted shopsghost storiesoccult New Orleansaudiobook-style fantasy podcaststhen step deeper inside.#TongueOfTheSerpent #DarkFantasy #AudioDrama #GothicFantasy #NewOrleans #FantasyPodcast #OccultFiction #GhostStoryNarrated by Loveday Funck

Historian Gerald Finch comes to New Orleans chasing vanished streets and impossible addresses, only to step into a lost district that exists outside ordinary time. In the Lantern Parish, gas lamps burn, carriages pass, and the city repeats itself in loops that grow more dangerous the longer you’re seen inside them. To get out, Gerald must trust a lantern from the Krewe of the Morningstar and learn the one rule every lost place respects: run when the light turns blue.This retelling of Season One is presented in a richer, more immersive style, closer to an audiobook than a traditional full-cast production, making it an ideal place to begin the story from the start.If you love:dark fantasygothic fictionsupernatural bargainshaunted shopsghost storiesoccult New Orleansaudiobook-style fantasy podcaststhen step deeper inside.#TongueOfTheSerpent #DarkFantasy #AudioDrama #GothicFantasy #NewOrleans #FantasyPodcast #OccultFiction #GhostStoryNarrated by Loveday Funck

Madame Claudette has spent forty years speaking with the dead, but on the night of her final séance, something answers that is not ghost, memory, or mercy. As the candles die and the room tightens around its own hunger, Lucien Devereux realizes the darkness has come not to speak, but to be witnessed into shape.If you love:dark fantasygothic storytellingsupernatural bargainsmasked ballsoccult fictionNew Orleans atmosphereaudiobook-style fantasy podcaststhen step inside.#TongueOfTheSerpent #DarkFantasy #NewOrleans #AudioDrama #FantasyPodcast #GothicFantasy #OccultFictionNarrated by Loveday Funck

An angel statue appears overnight in St. Roch Cemetery, its wings stained a deep rust-red, and before long the grieving begin treating it like a shrine. Lorraine Beaumont, who has carried her husband’s death for five long years, goes to the angel with no interest in miracles and leaves with something she cannot explain. But mercy, in New Orleans, can become dangerous when too many people mistake relief for absolution.If you love:dark fantasygothic storytellingsupernatural bargainsmasked ballsoccult fictionNew Orleans atmosphereaudiobook-style fantasy podcaststhen step inside.#TongueOfTheSerpent #DarkFantasy #NewOrleans #AudioDrama #FantasyPodcast #GothicFantasy #OccultFictionNarrated by Loveday Funck