Jude Lacroix came to New Orleans with a guitar, a hard road behind him, and just enough talent to survive. Then he finds a hidden music shop and an impossible harp made of bone-white curves and silver strings. Overnight, the city begins listening to him in a way it never has before. But some instruments do not want to be played. They want to be fed.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

In New Orleans, favors are never as small as they sound. Renard Blackwood has started selling handwritten notes that nudge luck in a person’s direction, just enough to open a door, tip an outcome, or make the world briefly cooperative. But when those little debts begin waking something older and hungrier, the cost of “someone owes you” becomes far more literal than anyone intended.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

When strange bells begin ringing somewhere beneath New Orleans, people stop mid-step and walk silently into the night, never to return. Musician Silas hears the call and barely escapes it, only to discover the bells have learned his name. Desperate and running out of time, he turns to the Krewe of the Morningstar, where Lucien offers one terrible bargain and Evelyn suggests an even worse alternative: follow the bells and find out what is calling.This retelling of Season One is presented in a more intimate, narrated form, closer to an audiobook than a traditional full-cast production, making it the perfect place to begin if you’re new to the series.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

Cemeteries in New Orleans are not quiet. They are organized.In this episode of Tongue of the Serpent, Marcus Badeaux makes his usual rounds through St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 and finds a crypt that should not exist, a veiled widow who speaks like a storm, and the first hints of an old bargain buried beneath the city itself. Some graves keep secrets. Some collect them.Some bargains aren’t meant to be understood. Only endured.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

Some places in New Orleans are thinner than they should be.In this episode of Tongue of the Serpent, we follow Sister Mercy as she walks the city’s hidden fault lines, sealing doors that were never meant to open. But when something begins stirring beneath a cypress tree in a ruined courtyard, the work becomes personal. Memory fractures. Old vows return. And something in the dark speaks her name like it has been waiting a very long time to say it.The Veil still stands. But not every door stays closed forever.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

Charlie Boudreaux boards an old streetcar thinking he’s just drunk, lost, and unlucky. But the car that arrives at midnight does not follow the city’s ordinary routes, and by the time Charlie realizes he’s been counted, the passengers are too still, the conductor knows too much, and Lucien Devereux is the only reason he may step back into the living city at all.This retelling of Season One is presented in a more intimate, narrated form, closer to an audiobook than a traditional full-cast production, making it the perfect place to begin if you’re new to the series.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

A journalist named Jack Landry receives a letter that smells like soot and roses and leads him straight into the Quarter on the wrong kind of night. When black rain begins to fall and the storm starts speaking in voices that know far too much, Jack discovers that in New Orleans, even the weather can become a confession.This retelling of Season One is presented in a more intimate, narrated form, closer to an audiobook than a traditional full-cast production, making it the perfect place to begin if you’re new to the series.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

Before Lucien Devereux became the elegant keeper of the Krewe of the Morningstar, he was a strange and watchful boy in a haunted house that listened more closely than it loved. Born under a blue moon that was never supposed to be there, Lucien grew up in the Maison des Murmures, the House of Whispers, where mirrors judged, watches ran backward, lockets remembered the wrong people, and the city itself seemed to be waiting for him.In this episode, we follow the early life of Lucien Devereux through old New Orleans, cursed objects, dangerous beauty, and the night he reached a crossroads that did not belong to any map. There, a man in a white suit offered him forever, and the price was not what Lucien thought it would be.This is the story of how Lucien was found. Of how the house vanished. Of how the Krewe of the Morningstar was born. And of how some bargains do not give you power so much as teach your loneliness better manners.This retelling of Season One is presented in a more intimate, narrated form, closer to an audiobook than a traditional full-cast production, making it the perfect place to begin if you’re new to the series.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

A mysterious preacher appears in Jackson Square, speaking a language no one can identify and too many people begin to hear in their dreams. When Dr. Alice Renault, a linguist who studies dead languages, realizes this voice may not be human at all, she turns to Lucien Devereux for answers. But some languages are more than words. Some are doors.In New Orleans, even a sermon can become a haunting.This is The Seven-Tongued Saint, a gothic supernatural tale from Tongue of the Serpent.That blurb is built around the preacher’s impossible language, Alice’s linguistic background, and Lucien’s explanation that language itself can loosen reality enough to let something through.This retelling of Season One is presented in a more intimate, narrated form, closer to an audiobook than a traditional full-cast production, making it the perfect place to begin if you’re new to the series.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

Welcome to Tongue of the Serpent, a dark fantasy set in New Orleans, where old bargains still breathe, hidden hungers wait behind locked doors, and nothing supernatural comes without a price.In Episode 2: The Devil’s Masquerade, Lucien Devereux receives a mysterious invitation to a glittering masked ball deep in the French Quarter. Inside, the music feels alive, the guests are playing for keeps, and the Devil is collecting old debts. When Evelyn arrives, the game turns sharper, and Lucien is forced to bargain for what remains of himself.This retelling of Season One is presented in a more intimate, narrated form, closer to an audiobook than a traditional full-cast production, making it the perfect place to begin if you’re new to the series.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