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The women who come to Sun Society keep getting better. Smoother. Younger. And a lot hungrier.

Summer 1985. Dawn is twenty-two and working the desk at a new tanning salon in a dying strip mall. The pay is bad, the sessions are free, and the owner buys her bulbs froma supplier with no return address. Dawn notices everything that's wrong with the place — she just keeps deciding it's fine.

An original horror story written and narrated by Carman Carrion.

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Verlie Pike has kept the house on Sorrel Bend Road since before the sweetgum tree got tall. She lets the light in every morning. She counts the six doors in the upstairs hall every afternoon. And she stays out of the kitchen after dark — because something else lives under this house, down in the crawl where the sun has never been, and it borrows voices to call children to the pantry door.

When the Skeen family moves in, Verlie tries to warn them. Burnt sugar. Letters on the icebox. A message in a fogged mirror.

But the warnings keep coming out in her own handwriting — from nights she can't remember. And the only person in the house who can see her is a nine-year-old girl who looks at her the way you look at something you feel sorry for.

An original Southern gothic horror story about the thing under the floor, the woman who keeps the house, and how long it takes to notice which one you are.

Story by Carman Carrion.

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Four ridersleave Sturgis on the last day of the rally and take a shortcut that isn't onany map. A blown tire strands them beside a sinkhole full of bones — and whenone of them reaches down and takes a souvenir, the road stops letting themleave. Every lap, the bones at the bottom get a little fresher.

A originalhorror story set in the Black Hills, where the land remembers exactly what itwas built to do.

🖤 Written & narrated by CarmanCarrion

⚠️ Contains: horror, death, disturbingthemes. Listener discretion advised.

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After losing his wife in a devastating car crash, Marcus Hale returns home with nothing left to live for. Then, one rainy night, he hears the familiar click of paws across the kitchen floor.

Standing in the darkness is Buster... the faithful golden retriever Marcus buried thirty years ago.

The dog looks exactly the same. He never ages. He never sleeps. And he'll do anything to protect the boy who loved him.

When the people responsible for Marcus's suffering begin disappearing without a trace, investigators find only one clue at every scene: muddy paw prints leading intothe darkness... and never back out.

Some promises outlive death.

Some good boys never stop protecting their owners.

And some things should never be allowed to come home.

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The drought took Cormorant Lake down eleven feet. Then nineteen. Then a number they stopped putting on the news — because the water had finally dropped far enough to givethe drowned town of Harlow back. Everyone came to see the steeple. Nobody should have gone out onto the mud.

They're still down there, standing in the cut, facing the deep. And when one of them turns to look at you, it will know your name. It will know your first dog, and the summer you broke your arm, and the thing you're ashamed of that you'venever told a living soul. It will have all of you — smooth, complete, nothing missing.

That's how you know it isn't your dead come home. That's how you know what's really wearing their faces.

A brand-new original tale of folk horror, grief, and the things a rising lake was built to hold down. Some rules get handed down for a reason.

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Keep your water high.

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The wind behind the old Granger place didn't howl. It talked.

That was the thing nobody could explain, the thing that made grown men in Bellefontaine go quiet at the gas station and find somewhere else to look. Wind is supposed toroar, or moan, or rattle a screen door. The wind off those pines did something worse. It murmured. Long, low, patient — the cadence of a voice that has all the time in the world and only one thing left to say.

Folks said the woods were alive. They didn't mean it the way the nature shows mean it, all root-networks and quiet cooperation. They meant it the old way. Alive. Breathing. Listening.

Waiting.

But you can't sell waiting to a seventeen-year-old. Eddie Marsh had a six-pack his cousin bought him, Tina Caldwell had a flashlight and zero patience for ghost stories she'd outgrown, and Ricky Boone had a knot in his stomach hecouldn't talk anybody out of. So on a thick June night when the air hung wet enough to drink, the three of them cut across the Caldwells' back field toward the half-collapsed house at the edge of the trees, and not one of them said thething they were all thinking, which was that the woods had gotten closer to the road than they remembered.

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When Hannah and Eli bring their daughter home, they expect the ordinary terrors of new parenthood—the sleepless nights, the endless feedings, the bone-deep fear that they have no idea what they're doing. What they don't expect is the voice that comes through the baby monitor in the small hours, humming softly beneath the lullaby. A voice that is not Hannah's. A voice that knows the baby's name.

At first it keeps its distance, somewhere out past the edge of the nursery. But each night it comes a little closer to the crib. And it is learning—learning the lullaby, learning the baby's coo, learning to wear the voices of the people Hannahloves.

What waits in the nursery? What has it been cultivating in that old house, behind the freshly painted walls? And why does it sing as though it has every right to be there?

"The Nursery" is a story about the softest room in the house, and the patient, hungry thing that decides to move in beside the crib. Some houses come with history. Some come with a tenant who was here long before you, waiting for something small and warm to call its own.

Check the monitor. Count the breaths. And whatever you do—don't hum along.

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For three weeks, Elliot slept better than he had in years. He'd stopped fighting the thing that jolted him awake at 3 a.m. every night and started welcoming it—sitting alone by candlelight in the dead, quiet hour our ancestors oncecalled the watch.

Before electric light, people didn't sleep in one unbroken stretch. They slept twice, waking on purpose in the black middle of the night. They had prayers for that hour. They had rules. Elliot was certain the rules were just quaint, fearfulsuperstition.

He was wrong about why they kept the watch. He was wrong about what the watching is for. And by the time he understood that the sleeping are safe precisely becausetheir eyes stay shut—that only the waking can see what moves through every house, every night—the tall, patient thing in the hall had already learned his name.

A slow, intimate descent into folk-historical dread, told first-person from inside the candlelight. Some comforts are doors. And some doors don't stay shut.

Sleep well.Keep the watch.

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