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Episode 7. “I’ll be your assistant. I want to watch you from up close. I’ll make gear and equipment just for you. I want to be of help to you. All so you can open up
your heart to me.”  Really putting the 'yuri' in YuRia, there...

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery we...

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Episode 6. Our probing pair are followed into a dark alleyway. This can't end well...

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this powe...

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Episode 5. The brutal reality (and unreality) of high-pressure examination laid bare in mass-distortion. How will Moses and Ezra get out of this one? Read - er, 'hear' - all about in the latest episode of Distortion Detective Narrated.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (...

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Episode 4. The office of the Distortion Detective is visited by an antagonistic personage from the past, who has a job for Moses. Even Ezra gets riled up, and a tragic incident that our investigators have tried to put behind them rears its ugly head.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that ...

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Episode 3. "And I simply remember"... Moses and Ezra investigate a distorted building, and the powers get a bit of a workout.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before ...

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Let's really start the ball rolling with two chapters in quick succession!
Episode 2, in which we meet Ezra, and a none-too-sanitary 'chef'. 

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phen...

This audio recording is not endorsed or authorised by Project Moon.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fix...

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Another deep dive into the doleful denizens of Limbus Company's bus. Although in this case we are dealing with a feverishly cheerful and multifarious (I have a feeling I'm going to abuse that adjective) individual, set free from their mind body and spirit-bindings. Let's not forget Sonya, hy0umon of negotiable affection-flipped freedom fighter. Let us cling to the needles that pierce the flesh of our shared reality.

Narrated ...

"If anyone’s doing the heavy lifting, it’d be us... Hey! Manager Bud! More incoming!"

In this episode, I take a look at suffering and redemption in The Metamorphosis, philosophical pessimism, and how Gregor in Limbus Company might be Georg Bendeman, the happiest Gregor yet, or even Kafka himself. Reincarnation is a heck of a thing.

Plus of course the traditional (I've done it three, now it's definitely a tradition) interl...

New friends are made, and the true magnitude of the trials ahead begins to manifest, as the pilgrims arrive at the ancient and forbidding City. But with sickness and potential conspiracy threatening their safety, is there anyone left they can turn to?

Part 10 of a 10-part dark fantasy full-cast audio drama.

• Andrew Winson as Fork-in-the-Road, Dream Voice
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• Thomas Barker as Athamas
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Mysterious, tree-like branches with the power to actualize the feelings, wishes, and psyches of people. The primary objective of the LCB is to gather them up.

In this episode, I nearly get over my skis in examining the literary origins of the Golden Boughs of Limbus Company, particularly looking at the book of the same name by Sir James George Frazer, and the Aeneid, by Vergil.

Plus of course the traditional (I've done it twice, now ...

He stooped to laugh again, and his mirth was yellow-toothed -- menacing.
“Have no fear!”  he reiterated, and with that stretched his hand toward the wall, there came a click and we were in black, impenetrable darkness.

A rumination on the nature of evil, and the ability to see things FROM BEYOND, courtesy of a groundbreaking writer of dark fantasy. This story was first published in 1919.

Narrated and produ...

Limbus Company begins with Dante (our clock-headed manager-protagonist) beset by three sinister individuals known as Wolf, Panther and Lion. These characters have parallels in the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri.

In this episode, I draw upon some scholarship, a coupla wikis and my own general knowledge to pull together some additional information about the beasts, and what they mean, beyond what we are shown in the narrative thus far.

Pl...

To round out Season Two of TTT (though, seriously - I'm on hiatus right now!), and to say thank you to everyone who's tuned in during 2025, I've put together a little sampler of sinners.

Features excerpts from:

• Moby Dick
• Don Quixote
• The Metamorphosis
• The Odyssey
• The Stranger
• Demian
• Wuthering Heights

A little out of my usual subject matter, but we'll resume our regular programming next month.

See you in 2026! Take care. It's a scary ...

Tom's Terror Trove is still technically on a little Summer break, but that doesn't mean I don't have a few pressies to hand out before the end of the year!

Short story by Michael Botur

Two lovers with not long left to live put aside a portion of paradise, creating their own country while the planet rots -- though of course, holding onto nature isn't easy. In fact, managing wildlife becomes life-or-death difficult...

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"I never eat pork. It's not that I'm vegetarian, or Jewish or Muslim, it's all to do with something that happened in the 70's, when I was fifteen years old."

So begins a tale of innocence lost, buckets of blood, and the lengths someone might go to in order that they might... sustain a life.

A gruesome tale from New Zealand.

Story featured with kind permission from the author: Jane Percival (https://heni-irihapeti.com/)

Narrated and pro...

In the late 1920's, folklorist and assistant professor at Miskatonic University Albert N. Wilmarth investigates the ominous events that occured in the wake of the historic Vermont Floods.

His ill-advised delving, and correspondance with the recluse Henry Akely, will lead to a series of cosmically horrifying revelations.

Turn your lights down low, put your headphones on, and tune in to the penultimate episode of Tom's Terror Trove Sea...

Two unsuspecting ambulance attendants get far, FAR more than they bargained for, in this disgusting story from 1938.

Running from 1934 to 1947, Lights Out was an old-time radio program devoted to stories of horror and the supernatural. Created by Wyllis Cooper, later in the run it was helmed by the brilliant (and eccentric) Arch Oboler.

I was spoilt for choice in picking an episode to recreate (it came down to this one and Chicken He...

We are once again adrift on dark and inhospitable waters this week, as, arriving hot on the heels of ferocious storms in New Zealand, Tom's Terror Trove is proud to present this newly-recorded version of The Brain-Eaters, from 1932.

The title gives perhaps a scintilla of a clue as to the contents of the story.

Good gross-out pulpweirdfiction stuff.

Eat up!

Narrated by Thomas Barker

If you'd like to chip in a couple of dollars to help wi...