Undertow: Narcosis
Undertow is Realm’s premier horror podcast channel, showcasing original works of elevated audio horror. Hosted by audio horror pioneer and creator, Fred Greenhalgh.
Veronica West never planned to come back to Sinclair. But when her estranged childhood friend goes missing at sea, Veronica returns to the remote island to lead a dangerous recovery dive – only to find herself trapped in a series of underwater tunnels with her oxygen dwindling. But that’s the least of her problems. There’s something unspeakable down there with her. Something the mainlanders don’t want her to find…
Narcosis was created by Fred Greenhalgh and Chris Bernier. Written by Chris Bernier, Additional Writing by Fred Greenhalgh. Directed by Fred Greenhalgh. Produced by Fred Greenhalgh and Rhoda Belleza. Executive Producers: John Brooks and Molly Barton. Production Manager Devin Shepherd. Production Coordinator Angela Yih
Voices by Molly Hager, Shalini Bathina, Eian O'Brien, Zoe Glick, Erin Neufer, Matthew Jaeger, Jonathon Buckley, Kimberly-Sue Murray, Kenny Myles, Kristolyn Lloyd, Christina Telesca, Rey Goyos, Woody Fu, Gina Vitori, Jeannie Bolet, Josh Cole, Allen Enlow, Robert Younis, and Masayuki Yonezawa.
Casting by Sunday Boling Kennedy and Meg Morman
Dialogue editing by Cory Barton. Sound Design and Mixing by Rory O’Shea.
Original music by Marcus Bagala and Sam Bagala.
Narcosis is a Realm Original Production.
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Dark Tome, E11
"Cassie's saved by a friend, but learns that her world has changed more than she could have imagined while she's been gone. Worlds gone wrong turns out to be a theme, when she goes on her next trip, to the world of THE BACCHAE, by Elizabeth Hand. In a world where environmental destruction has poisoned life to a breaking point, what consequence will fall on those who were implicit in its demise?"
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Dark Tome, E10
"""I'm not a ghost!"" -- ""All ghosts say that."" Cassie is flung to a world where body modifications are routine and one daughter of a Chinese immigrant is prepared to make an unbelievable sacrifice to save her own skin. This is the world of Alyssa Wong's NATURAL SKIN, a harrowing tale of distorted ideas of beauty in a near-future dystopian Toronto, Canada."
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The Floodgates of Willowhill
"""Everybody whose grown up in Faulkesville, well, they’ve always guessed there’s something wrong with the woods on the edge of town, the ones that border Willowhill, something people don’t like to bring up in polite company."" Teenage Samantha keeps her nose in her books and her head in the clouds - in lands far beyond the borders of the small town of Faulkesville where she's grown up. It's not just boredom Samantha's escaping - Willowhill is where her parents mysteriously died two years ago, and where her Uncle Ted and buddy Hank Jedsoe are about to discover the real horrors that lurk in the haunted woods."
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Dark Tome, E9
Gussy and Cassie learned they've "Gone sideways" - the Dark Tome has returned them to the world, but not *their* world. As Cassie struggles to understand the predicament the book has put her in, Gussy recounts the heartbreaking tale of how he got his hands on the Dark Tome, and the cost the book has caused him.
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Dark Tome, E8
Young Lettie can see things through her magic eye - things that might be better if she not see. Grownup's secrets. Grownup's true intentions. But when she learns of her brother's unjust arrest and sham trial, it's her seeing eye - and some conjure magic from her Mama - that may help change the fate of her big brother. We experience the flip side of folk magic in Trial Day, by Tananarive Due.
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Dark Tome, E7
Cassie returns from her traumatic trip to a haunted - and haunting - family reunion. As she attempts to re-align her world, Gussy stumbles out of his and into the world of Jonathan Maberry's INK. Gerald 'Monk' Addison is a skip-tracer and P.I. on Boundary Street, down the hill from where the good people go. He’s on the side of the angels, but he’s not very nice. Most of Monk’s clients are bail bondsmen and bad lawyers, but every now and then he takes a special case. He’s hired by the ghost of a murder victim to solve their untimely death and exact justice. But hiring Monk comes with a price, even for the dead.
56 min
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Dark Tome, E6
Cassie returns home after the wondrous night at the prom and instead finds her dreams shattered. She splits, and seeks refuge in Mr. Gussy's bookshop... and the Dark Tome. This time, the book calls out for her. She finds herself outside a foggy farmhouse alongside an estranged son returning home. But the homecoming is replete with family secrets, and the demons the father sought to hide will make themselves known.
48 min
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Dark Tome, E5
Quick witted but unlucky in love, Jana is dragged by her friend Erin to attend an 'eye gazing party,' a new age phenomenon run by a couple of hucksters on the far edge of a small Texas town. Jana's skepticism turns to confusion when Erin - and all the girls at the party - are entranced by an unremarkable man ""Thirteen."" As part of ""Dark Duets,"" mojo storyteller Joe R Lansdale paired up with his daughter, Kasey Lansdale, to pen this tale of a monster whose power is through the eyes. Featuring a special performance and selections of music by Kasey Lansdale.
47 min
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Dark Tome, E4
It's the night of the Senior Prom, and rather than show up awkwardly, Cassie has decided to stay home with the Dark Tome. But, she soon meets a mysterious stranger with an invitation.
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Dark Tome, E3
Being a miner is like playing Russian roulette every day of your life. Any morning you might wake up, and find the chamber with the bullet. Tommy - the youngest in a long proud line of West Virginia coal miners - finds out what it feels like to have your card be up when an explosion traps him and a dozen other souls two miles beneath the earth. With oxygen growing thin, their only prayer might come from an old ghost story.
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Dark Tome, E2
Cassie knows better but can't escape the temptation to return to Mr. Gussy's bookshop. She finds the old man frustrated that he can't make the magical book work. It's take someone younger - someone for whom the walls between this world and the next are a little thinner. They catch a whiff of fresh bread, and are transported to the world of Catherynne M. Valente's fable ""The Bread We Eat in Dreams,"" where a certain personable demon named Agnes will recount the story of her ejection from hell and the little hamlet that grew up around her.
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Dark Tome, E1
We meet teenager Cassie Pinkham, who grudgingly is reading books for the cantakerous bookkeeper, Mr. Gussy, as he recovers from surgery. Gussy sends Cassie back to his bookstore, warning Cassie that there is a particular book - The Dark Tome - that is not to be opened. Cassie, naturally, decides to open up the cover and see what it's all about. This flings Cassie into the world of acclaimed writer Joe Hill's chilling fable, ""The Devil on the Staircase,"" narrated by a man who walks crooked steps for a living, before discovering a door that leads him straight to hell.
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Curious History of the Dark Tome
We transition from the Blood Forest to the world of the Dark Tome via an apocryphal internet essay written in 1999 by a rare book specialist in Simpson Falls, Maine. We learn all about the Dark Tome's strange origins, its connection with lycanthropy, and its weird journey from Mesopotamia to rural Maine.
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Return to Blackout Point
Young, bored, and with a penchant for mischief, Emma and her friends made their own entertainment in a seaside town in Maine. They got up to things that any crew of teenagers would...up until the night things went too far, and what started as a harmless prank had deadly consequences that would last decades. Now, fifty years later, Emma is returning to the Blackout Point lighthouse — the site of a horrific tragedy — to settle things once and for all. A new original horror thriller by Shawn French - a Maine based horror writer from our previous season, BLOOD FOREST.
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The Green Knight's Wife
We've heard the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - but what of his wife? How does she feel about being the prop piece in an endless trial of virtue?
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Blood Forest, E10
There are reckonings in the Pelletier silver mine. Frank faces the truth about himself, and Eva makes a fateful choice that will decide Langeley’s future and her own.
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Blood Forest, E9
Even as Langeley comes to grips with recent tragedy, another devastating loss rocks the town, and Sheriff Cardiff confronts Clyde over an attack that hits close to home.
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Blood Forest, E8
As Langeley’s high school seniors celebrate the end of school, Frank’s past and present blur together, and Eva is at the center of a bloody massacre.
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Blood Forest, E7
Eva confronts her bully. Frank confronts Clyde. Marie tries to convince Eva to change course.
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Bonus: Meet the Wolfpack
Why werewolves? Why Maine? What’s really going on in Langeley? Meet the creative team behind Blood Forest as five Mainers and a New Yorker walk into a Zoom...
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Blood Forest, E6
Frank’s past continues to haunt him, and Cardiff recruits him for a bloody task. Eva receives an impossible visit and confronts Frank about the truth behind Remy’s death.
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Blood Forest, E5
As the death toll rises, Frank and Alex seek out old knowledge, and Frank finds evidence that can no longer be ignored.
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Blood Forest, E4
Another death, and this one strikes at Langeley’s heart. Sheriff Cardiff puts Frank in an impossible position, and Eva receives some unexpected attention.
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Blood Forest, E3
Frank sees Marie performing a strange ritual while Eva’s bullies get more aggressive. And the night is broken by two more violent deaths.
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Blood Forest, E2
Frank helps Sheriff Cardiff investigate the cattle mutilations, while local podcast host Alex has her own theories. Later, something inhuman attacks a man outside the Roadhouse bar.
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