Soren Narnia

coming in July

Origins time again!snatchers – A long time ago I had a vague idea for a story about a couple of criminals who try to follow the course of a major hurricane, looting businesses during the chaos, confident that they’re better prepared to navigate the floodwaters than the police. (I think this idea has probably been done a couple of times—wasn’t there a Christian Slater movie like that?) I ne...

snatchers

A story of desperate men, bad decisions, terrible timing, and unexpected faces in the dark.Additional narration by Charlotte Kulak.Music: “Om Bath” by Yotam Agam and “When the Tide Breaks Free” by James Forest. All rights reserved.Available everywhere else next week.In discussing several literary and cinematic depictions of the devil (including those in The Witch and Longlegs), video essay...

coming in June

P.S. If you’re the type of listener who likes a bit of visual atmosphere with your audio stories, SpectreVision has summoned some casual night-drive video accompaniment for deep, as well as a running on-screen transcript, and will likely do something similar for the next several new tales. Watch on YouTube (or on Spotify Premium): https://www.youtube.com/@SorenNarniaAnd now, dear reader, you loo...

deep

In this ghost story of the Southern Gothic, a new landowner is rapidly submerged in a relative's murky past.Music: “Deja Reve” by DaniHaDani, “Effoliation” by SEA, and “The Racer” by Tristan Barton, all rights reserved.Art by S. Patrick Brown,https://www.instagram.com/scalawagarts/Released everywhere else late next week.P.S. How long did it take you to see the face in this image?

A quick trilogy of 3 wildly unrelated tidbits

Howdy! Some stuff fresh off the haunted newswire:1. Artist Eamon Cowan has written and illustrated a free graphic novel adaptation of the 2024 story tempt (from A Quick Quintet of Terror)… check that out here:https://globalcomix.com/read/5a5f0ba0-7d6c-4960-85bd-e873e75f4234/1This one has a fun frame-by-frame feature; activate that and start reading by moving your cursor over to the right side of...

alternate narration: 'tunnel'... and what's coming in May

Another new narration is attached: 'tunnel', from the wayback archives (2010), originally voiced by Logan Masterson. This story takes me back to my DC days. I think the last time I was actually on Metrorail there, it was during the pandemic, and I had the surreal, creepy experience of travelling across the city with almost no one else on the train or the platforms... during evening rush ho...

postmarks

Ask people in the Cleveland area about The Ron Tanglethorn Show and you might get a few nods here and there. Never the most popular late-night offering on the AM band, it's remembered by diehards mostly for the rather unusual way it signed off the air for good.Art by S. Patrick Brown,https://www.instagram.com/scalawagarts/Music:"Salience Bias" by Art Against Agony, all rights reserved....

The Alexandria Archives Stories

While adding older episodes of the podcast to the Patreon feed this week, I thought I'd quickly stitch together and add a compilation of three stories you likely have already heard--these were written and performed some time ago for the funky and creative Alexandria Archivespodcast. I've re-recorded the first two but the text remains the same.Q & A With a Vampire Killer - 00:00Outcall - 19...

coming in April

Art by S. Patrick Brown,https://www.instagram.com/scalawagarts/Beware of taking advice from weirdo podcasters! But for those who have requested it, the attached file is a rambling, semi-coherent monologue in which I talk about my process of writing horror and suspense fiction—how I go about it in general, some creative beliefs I’ve tried to adhere to (plus a couple I’ve broken from), and a f...

stranglehold

A youthful lark across the states takes a man into the heart of an awful anomaly.Music: “Outside Your Grace” by Denhollander, all rights reserved.Released everywhere else on Friday.P.S. The latest version of the ongoing Knifepoint Horror transcript archive has been split into two PDFs to keep the file sizes manageable. Download this ghastly torrent of words, including the text of stranglehold,...

coming in March

P.S.The final audio versions of the stories from the Knifepoint Horror Discord Channel's2024 writing contest ("A Fan Trilogy of Horror") have been posted here, and the PDF of the works is here.1 - ⁠'glimpse' by Nick Marshall, narrated by Soren Narnia2 - '⁠favor' by Clayton Meadows, narrated by Sarah Anderson (starts at 32:00)3 - ⁠'traces' by Leith Ramage, ...

possession (2025)

With this new narration for upstanding Patreon folks, I resisted the dangerous creative urge to make any story “improvements” and instead just focused on better audio. The music is different as well, because of the difficulty of recovering the original sources.This version is longer not just because of slower pacing in general, but because I’ve stuck more closely to the original page text of...

Carried by Beasts

Opening statements in what would come to be considered one of the strangest trials in the history of New York state.Jessica Holt-Ivers: Emma FraddReleased everywhere else on Friday.

coming in February

And also in February, for Patreon supporters, a new recording ofOdilon Redon, The Chimera Gazed at all Things with Fear,1886

rory

When two colleagues in crime come together again after years apart, one reveals a looming threat more awful than incarceration… or even capital punishment.Music:“Soft Lights” by Kyle Preston and “Turn for the Worse” by Jordan Hatfield, all rights reserved.Available everywhere else on Sunday.Note:Certain events in this story, while referred to as being long in the past and not graphically...

Ears is for listenin'!

Now is the season for long drives under cloudy skies, or maybe deep red and purple ones as the sun sets on a cold stretch of highway that’ll take hours to traverse. Toward fortifying you for those lonesome hours when you may need all the audio you have room in your brain for, I’ve attached a couple of my narrations of the works of other writers.The first is called glimpse,by ‘Stilitana’--i...

coming in January

Art by S. Patrick BrownP.S. She who will not go away: Clearly pressing for some kind of endorsement deal, our old friend Karen from staircasehas taken to the screen again--this time in a creepy adaptation by Sagen Film, based in Sweden. It’s on YouTube here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTaPv3B2bNc&t=133sDoes your scorecard include the other three video versions of the story?Neighborhood Watch...

A Halloween freebie: The Vincents

The attached short tale, entitled The Vincents,is currently appearing on Kevin Lane’s Spill Your Gutspodcastas part of his Halloween story anthology, which also includes narrations of the Knifepoint Horror stories dusk, thrifting,and here performed by others. Give The Vincentsa listen if you get in the mood for a campfire vibe this week… which I figure you might be in all week. Holiday break i...

here

A dark October country road, a driver, a hitchhiker... and a strange, strange story told across cold, lonely miles.Released everywhere else next week.Also for download this month: A little Halloween freebie, only for Patreon folks. The attached recording "Eleven Eerie Poems"is my recitation of some well-known and not-so-well-known works by others that have haunted me over the years. In the...

coming soon

harbingers

An educator's watch of the winter skies sets him in anxious motion to shelter the innocent.Music: “Cicada Killer” by idokay, “The Heir” by Emmanuel Jacob, “Meeting the Goddess” by Kyle Preston. All rights reserved. Interview with Ila Patton, Galax, Virginia, from the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/009), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.Release...

coming soon

Art by S. Patrick Brown,https://www.instagram.com/scalawagarts/In other doings,Counterweight Theatre Lab plans to stage an adaptation of The Copper Cupin Colorado Springs from November 8-24. Those of you in the area can check out more details here:https://www.counterweighttheatre.com/current-upcoming

A Quick Quintet of Terror

Three stories adapted from the YouTube shorts 'Server Unknown', 'Sleeperette', and 'The Jarprechaun', plus two new originals, and just a smidgen more.Intro music by Emma Fraddof the Sibling Horror Podcast. "Hallowed World" by E J R M, all rights reserved.Prologue: Purcell the Creator, Part 1(00:02)1. novelty(00:37)2. screen-share(9:27)3. sleeperette(26:09)4. jarpre...

coming this month

Three of these tales are newly written first-person prose variants of three of my YouTube shorts (The Jarprechaun, Server Unknown, and Sleeperette). The other two are very recent ideas that are first seeing the light of day... On Amazon now:Knifepoint Horror, The Transcripts: Volume 8(containing rink, sideswipe, endgame,chains, traces,Devils Everywhere You Turn, detour, sabbatical,summoners, steps...

Soren Narnia's Unchallenging Campfire Tales! - The Collection

A collection of 8 horror stories on the sillier side. Written and narrated by Soren Narnia. (80 minutes) 0:00 bonding 11:37 smackdown 25:10 sugary 33:04 project 43:49 finlay 50:27 jerk 1:07:43 promises 1:14:08 blueberries

majesty

The19th-century reign of the mysterious Buth Sugo was detailed only in this one ugly, bloody, regrettable record.Music by Dave Lahn, and also by Emma Fraddof the Sibling Horror PodcastArt by S. Patrick Brown,https://www.instagram.com/scalawagarts/Released everywhere else next week.Thanks to Jeffrey Walker for including me in the recording of his latest tale, “Posthuman,” for the Acephale Horro...

Coming in July … plus, the final villain showdown.

Art by S. Patrick Brown,https://www.instagram.com/scalawagarts/And here we are finally,at the Super Bowl of Nasty People and Things That Don’t Really Exist (Probably). The winner of this last poll decides which villain is to be represented by an eight-foot, 1,500-pound marble statue positioned at the visitor’s entrance of the Knifepoint Horror Botanic Gardens and Reflecting Pool in Heber City,...

crannies

Many people who hear things behind their walls suspect their house is haunted, but can’t prove it. Maybe they’re failing to ask one very simple question: How did those walls even come to be?Additional narration by Charlotte KulakMusic: 'Earth' by Doug Reed / Study of Sound, from the album Musica Mundana.Released everywhere else on Friday. And coming soon... the Final Clash of the Knife...

The Villain Playoffs: Round 4—the last contenders!

Let’s conclude the preamble to July’s Final, Ultimate, Every-Evil-Must-Go Villain Showdownwith one last bunch of bads from which to pick your favorite to advance.I suppose Karen from staircase, having mostly coasted her way to a 3rd round victory, is off somewhere smirking confidently at all challengers--but is it just possible she’s actually the horror fiction equivalent of the 2007 New Eng...

The Knifepoint Horror Villain Playoffs, Round 3

Cast your vote! Looks like the Droditchjust barely made it into the Ultimate Villain Showdown (U.V.S.), which comes after the 4th round... and as of now, features no actual humanbaddies. We’re getting down to it now…. remember, if you don’t see the villain you’re most pulling for on these lists, chances are they just failed to submit their application and $15 processing fee on time.Art by ...