The Dark Verse
By M. Amanuensis Sharkchild
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Description
Short stories of occult, metaphysical, and fantastical horror that will follow you to the visions of your sleep. THE DARK VERSE is a multiverse of Lovecraftian terror written and narrated by M. Amanuensis Sharkchild. For more information, visit www.thedarkverse.com. To become a patron of the podcast and give monthly support, go to www.patreon.com/thedarkverse. The Dark Verse, Vol. 1 ebook is FREE to download in the iTunes Store!
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CleanTDV 99: It Concludes In A Receptacle | Crisp, colorful, autumn leaves crunched beneath my footsteps as I walked through the tree archways of my neighborhood on a brisk, overcast afternoon. Every few moments, a gust of wind whistled above me, sending leaves to the whim of the hibernating world. | 11/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 98: Spirit Dispersion | You will be with me forever,” Mother of a Thousand Minds whispered into the ear of the man she held within her arms. She pressed herself against him tightly and released us. Go, my little ones, she said in thought as I and thousands of her minds became | 10/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHalloween Greeting 2016: Cat Parasite | -- | 10/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 97: The Kids Go First | Ding-dong. The doorbell rang. I hesitatingly placed a bookmark in my afternoon read, pulled myself up from the couch, and lurched towards the front door. When I got there, I pressed my eye to the peephole to scout the visiting presence. Barely within view | 10/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 96: The Lantern And Its Book | While vacationing with friends and family in a remote and beautiful range of densely-forest-covered mountains, I made the bold decision to backpack alone into the wilderness for a night; no one else had the desire or equipment to join me. Being an adventu | 9/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 95: The Midnight Magician | The Secronomus, its face and body of black shards jutting forth and its eyes of red crystal, impartially watched from its throne as I performed an act of transmogrifying juggling. Simple, smooth balls of silvery metal effortlessly circled into the air fro | 9/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 94: The Ruination Die | There were palm readers, fortune tellers, and clairvoyants, but I was nothing like them. Where others saw auras and energies, I saw numbers. Each and every person that ever entered my view was accompanied by a number—a number that could not be known by | 8/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 93: Little Angels | The pig brain swelled. Fluids popped and hissed from its folds and grooves. Dr. Mayoris slightly increased the temperature inside the incubator containing it. “So are you still set on the placement of your angel?” he asked me. His black and white houn | 8/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 92: Infernobot | Technology had connected the universe, making space suitable for recreational and residential dwellings, travel between livable planets acceptable in duration, and old age such a slow onset that populations overran worlds. Death was still the unknown, and | 7/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPromo: The Dark Verse, Vol. 1 Hardcover Reprint | Help me bring back THE DARK VERSE, VOL. 1 hardcover book! I am currently running a crowdfunding campaign to reprint The Dark Verse, Vol. 1 hardcover book. I printed 1,000 copies back when I first published the book in 2009, and five years later, at the | 1/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 91: Costumes Of Reality | Outside, frogs croaked by the hundreds. The recent rains had swelled the nearby creek allowing for a brief metropolis of amphibian prolificacy. They had never before caused me much delay when it came to falling asleep, but this evening their raucous sound | 11/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHalloween Greeting 2015: Choose Your Prize | -- | 10/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 90: The Essence Of All-Sight | The steps leading up to the century-old stronghold were like rotting teeth, fragmented and disgustingly whittled. The passageway at the pinnacle of these steps—tucked between the swooping, gnarly trees of the Battlemance Forest—lay open for any foolis | 8/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 89: Omnipotent Ingenuity | Darilandria Alrindce Syabeltel.” That was all the gargantuan visitor said after it arrived through a fissure in space and abruptly appeared in the middle of the world. A portal, not so different than a mirror in the sky, appeared without warning, reflec | 2/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHalloween Greeting 2014: Twist Your Head | -- | 10/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 88: The Protean Birth Enigma | Although I slept and although I dreamt, I was not at rest. My muscles perpetually flexed while the blood surging through my veins heated my damp, rank flesh. My eyes jutted beneath their lids, absorbing an orange light that radiated heat upon me and into | 10/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPromo: The Spirit Collectors (A Novel by Sharkchild) | In the world of Awya, where cities are scattered across isles in a seemingly endless ocean called the Black Waters, an umyn boy by the name of Amory Demshen is unable to suppress the insatiable longing to explore Tempertime Cemetery—a place forbidden to | 7/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 87: The Apocalypse Bringers | A destroyed moon lay dispersed across the sky. Its fragments reflected a pale, red light. In front of these debris, a great multitude of meteors reached the atmosphere, raining across the land in streaks of flame. Concussions resounded in every direction | 5/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Searing Tongue 2 | -- | 3/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 86: Dominance By Devouringness | On an early afternoon as I sat on a bench in Stebly Park reading the book, The Itinerant Life of Triach, and as the glow of sunlight amplified the surroundings—the freshly manicured lawns, the crisp hedges, the brilliant daisy fields, and the flourishin | 3/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 85: A Random Game Of Vitriolage | Who sings this?” my grandmother asked as I placed needle on spinning vinyl, bringing to life an aura of music. A soothing and charming voice stirred the heart above a movement of catchy melodies and rhythmic bass. The way the voice careened from lyric t | 6/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 84: Rainsaw | My son looked so innocent and full of happiness. His wavy, golden brown hair bounced softly while he hunted the red ball that continually evaded his uncoordinated efforts of collection, and the slightly oversized, brown, suede jacket encasing his figure o | 3/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 83: D.M.V. (Dream Magic And The Vessels) | I called my house the Old Souls Orphanage—a haven for the elderly without a place to call home. Those in the latter years of life who had not the funds or family to be given the living quarters of comfort and peace that were deserved came to my abode to | 11/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 82: The Wrong House Of Worship | His play of the piano was remarkable. The way his fingers careened along the keys was like a swift and gentle stream that invoked the serenity and beauty of nature’s kiss. His melodies, with their masterful fermatas and crescendos, called out in prayers | 11/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHalloween Greeting 2012: The Doomed Souls Chorus | -- | 10/31/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 81: Killing Tools (The Glove Of Wires) | There was nothing wrong with my childhood that should have ever attracted the blackness that arose at the age where toy robots, slingshots, and water guns were the apple of my eye—I played, I fought, I got hurt, I got in trouble, and I learned. Despite | 8/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 80: Age Of Thaumaturgics | With sweaty, trembling hands, I entered the floor of Candure Stadium. Each and every sound of my bodily existence was muted by the humming ruckus pulsating between expectant members of the critical audience. My breaths were hollow, my steps were unheard, | 5/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Unlike Light (Remastered) | Indulge in the remastered edition of The Unlike Light. The Ravener has joined the dark forces of this track to bring the best in audio horror fiction to your ears. Click here to download TDV Remastered Episode | 4/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHalloween Greeting 2011: Cyanide Suicide | -- | 10/31/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 79: The Pendulum Role | I emerged from the dark halls of my house and entered the only fully lit arena therein: a kitchen with wide, tall windows that welcomed the rising sun. I sat down at a small wooden table where scrambled eggs and toast waited for me on a dull, silver plate | 10/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 78: The Rotting Moments Ending | Seven demonized humans turned vile creations from wounds inflicted by diseased, unreasoned, and inexplicable time struck an inert man repeatedly with their fists in the corner of the nineteenth floor of a glistening high-rise. In unbreakable specificity, | 4/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 77: The Changer Box | The air was musty and smelled of a compound of fruit and charcoal. A veil of haze shrouded what distances I could see and those distances—that were not of much distance at all—contained the walls, ceiling, and floor of my current world; I stood in the | 2/1/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 76: The Image Of Odd Transaction And Collection | Head down this way,” I motioned with my arms, directing the couple before me into the stairway leading down into the basement of my house. “This will be the most exquisite collection you have ever seen. I promise you,” I added. “Very good,” a ma | 1/11/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Searing Tongue 1 | -- | 12/16/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 75: The Truncation Of Being By Folding Flesh | Words hold power of times before, to come, and times unknown. They can exist in form or invisible space. They can exist in colorful sight or invisible sound. Words create and words destroy. They convert the weak and overthrow the wise. It was words that i | 12/10/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 74: The Cry Of The Crooked | Upward I climbed, foot over foot, and hand over hand. Blood pounded at my temples while I strained to maintain strength and focus. Beads of sweat rolled off of my forehead and fell the depths of my course. My sight was set on nothing but the path I had al | 11/27/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 73: Entering Weightlessness | The cool, still water embraced me as I jumped into it and submerged within it, leaving the sounds of laughter behind. The water wrapped its ever-changing arms around my shape and held it perfectly. I exorcized air—one quick blast to balance my buoyancy. | 11/10/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 72: Names: Vaucifyr (The Unreasoned Voice) | Metek, Alaya, Sturge, and Crim sat anxiously on hard wooden chairs around a wooden table in the basement of the Abandoned House in Semtar’s Forest. The basement was lit by candle-flame, but the moonlit, night sky peeked through holes and cracks in the f | 11/5/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHalloween Greeting 2010: Demon’s Prayer | -- | 10/31/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 71: Names: Craytick | Death is but a tangent of existence, for I have lived many different lives in different worlds through death—death being the medium through which I reached these lives. There are different layers of afterlives. They are each unique, and they do not blen | 9/25/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 70: Names: Dietchelnin, Dietchellin | The castle of the Lord Brasher stood as it always had—sharply cut black stone jutting upward to create halls and chambers and towers and spires. The front gate, before which I stood, eerily hung open as like a gaping wound run dry of blood. No one forei | 9/10/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 69: The Demise Sequence | I understand many things about life, how it comes and goes and how it exists in the present—in thought and in the unseen. I have the guide of perfect discernment—an immaculate compass of the ages etched into my bone and burned into my breath by a crea | 7/1/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 68: Filling The Empty Throne | I thought I had told the Doctors nothing but the truth regarding my wounds, yet their doubt in my words led me to not wholly believe in those insects of memories crawling behind my eyes. They wanted to know how the rings of flesh were once missing at the | 5/27/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 67: The Summit And The Sacrifice | I found the perfect summit to erect the altar for my sacrifice. It was sunken down in a valley surrounded by mountains of tremendous size. Instead of aiding in the formation of the valley, this mountain housing the summit I eyed stood independent within t | 5/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 66: Knave (Part 2) | There is such a thing as the chaos of fate—an endless-fingered glove, a maze of only dead-end paths. And there is such a thing as living separated from life—not by the escaping of death, but by the living outside of life in a place where its wholesome | 4/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 65: That Which Makes Up The World | The articulate sound of the school bell’s conclusive note awoke me from my hazy hell. It came as if with swift reckoning—a domino effect to my distant self that lived the same moment fractions of seconds earlier and fractions of seconds later. Perhaps | 3/25/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 64: There They Freeze | The Cantlebrin Bridge was high up and made of ice. It connected one side of the Rezlinought Canyon to the other, a railless pathway joining opposing caves that nested thirty yards down from the canyon’s ridges. Although made entirely of ice—ice partia | 3/12/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 63: Blood Host Authentication | The blood determines the majesty of the host. For most, the constituents of blood are—in order of greatest volume—plasma, red blood cells, and then white blood cells. But for those I served, these typical figures were not so. The Templars Aryiglen had | 2/24/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 62: The Thief Of Timeworn Lives And His Fortress | I sat beside my grandmother, who lay calmly and quietly within her bed. Nothing but her shallow breaths penetrated the atmosphere of her room. I intently watched her chest as it rose and fell. Only by the visual motion could I even discern and align the s | 2/12/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 61: Knave (Part 1) | I once had in my possession a unique thermometer I called the Gapetha. Using the buoyancy of five silver circlets in liquid contained in a tall, slim, clear cylinder, it determined temperature. If the temperature was to reach a very specific reading, down | 1/28/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 60: The Stone House | From the letter addressed to the Strong, written by the hands of Tinus Perpentin: There is an immovable place at the edge of a far-off, isolated cliff (this is all I can divulge with regards to location). On the outside it is but an enormous rock, seizing | 1/15/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 59: The Power In A Father | It was a fare as ripe as an appetite had ever known. Its short, curly brown hair bobbed innocently. Its blue eyes blinked unabashedly. Its smile cut space curiously. The cheer of its mouth lit the atmosphere with the chorus of purity while it held the han | 12/31/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 58: The Long Travel | There is a hidden labyrinth of pathways linking the worlds of things that can be seen. It can be found with the use of elementary magic. A rune, spoken as a beseecher to the fabric of life, is all it takes to beckon forth the portal and gateway to this la | 12/16/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 57: What The Water Means | On the top of a thirty-two foot long counter, I lived amongst a population of two-hundred and forty-three—a civilization wrought by the hands of man in the age of his illustrious prime. Our kind was called humids—life forms birthed from a mixture of D | 12/3/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 56: A Lonely, Imprisoned Stranger | I had an aunt who lived in the house beside my own; she was a very peculiar woman. The very nature of her peculiarity allowed me only rare opportunities to see her, although she was never more than a couple room lengths away. She called the inside of her | 11/19/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 55: In Placing The Titan’s Emotion | I sat back in my rocking chair and subdued my thoughts with the gentle swaying of my bones. The chair, as well as my body, creaked with the tender noise of old age. In my vision, flames within the fireplace communed with one another and my son and daughte | 11/5/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHalloween Greeting 2009: Cutting Game | -- | 10/30/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 58 | CleanVideoThe Dark Verse, Volume I Product Video | Here is a product video I just put together for From the Passages of Revenants (The Dark Verse, Volume I). The video quality is not quite grand, but I did the best I could! | 10/28/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 54: Soul Divided | I stood behind a black, baby grand piano. The instrument was unfamiliar to me and its keys, both black and white, held reflections that heightened their alluring appearance. As I looked upon it, I longed to hear a sweet melody. Surrounding the piano, two | 10/22/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 53: The First Innovation | If the stars were maps of history, then my heart would have been their maker. If there were a way to look within the earliest light still traveling upon the edges of the universe, then my face would have been the subject there discovered. Bittersweet were | 10/8/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 52: When Eyes Have Seen Too Much | My squad and I were at the end of our assignment. A brigade of three heavily armored vehicles and twenty-four exhausted, anxious men raced through the canyon of Nazlit. Dust churned behind us in wellsprings of the fleeting memories we hoped to leave behin | 9/24/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 51: No More Resistance | I taped her entire body with thick, clear packing tape—every inch. I taped her fingers and toes to one another. I taped her legs together and her arms to her sides. I ran tape from her head to her shoulders, locking it in place. Her eyes were taped open | 9/10/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 50: The Concomitant | I was an ancient navigator. My mission was to collect data from the universe and pass it on into the vibrations of existence—stars, planets, moons, meteors—where there it would be embedded for the millions of years it would take until its presence rea | 8/27/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 49: The Man Of Letters | Words were my masters. Their colloquial voices chattered in my mind, enlivening an unconventional form of command. They had agendas and hate and disgust, all of which brought about a tumultuous ocean of demands within my head, so vast that I drifted upon | 8/13/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 48: Severing The Lost | I once had a best friend; I liked to call her Dime. The name came to me when I found a dime in my pocket during a time of need. She was always there for me; she was the “dime” in my pocket. Our relationship was brilliant. We shared secrets, experience | 7/30/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 47: Nigh Outlasting The Fear Of Death | Tears from the heavens bore death like cannonballs ignited under the misery of hate. Like meteors sentenced to the fate of the world, these burning embers fell—fist-sized, amorphic masses of light ripping through plane. They poured through the hull and | 7/16/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 46: The Ilks Of Devotion | Grand castles full of cities and heavy, luscious woods lined the horizon. Their mixtures of grays and greens flooded my sight with thick promise. It was Alvershiven’s Den; the long journey was finally over. “Are you going to do it?” Ten-Men asked wh | 7/2/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 45: Names: Chillanthon | The chillanthon was waiting for me outside of my house, calling to me with its unsettling voice, tearing through my heart with its restlessness. I could hear its arms whip across its torso as they swiveled back and forth from shoulder sockets detested wit | 6/18/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 69 | CleanVideoThe Dark Verse, Volume I Book Promo | Here is a promo video John F. Stifter put together for Sharkchild’s book, The Dark Verse, Volume I: From the Passages of Revenants available now at SharkchildsRemains.com. The music was composed by Sharkchild. | 6/10/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 44: Names: Apherdane | On the dull road called Mayberry Lane, I stood at the turn of the evening. I had just flicked a cigarette at a passing vehicle, watching as its cinder flashed into the night. In front of me stood the Cursory—a name given to a house because no one ever g | 6/3/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 43: The Hunt | An army of ghastly forms waited listlessly at the gates of life. Each entity was unrestrained and raw—knowledge had yet to enter, conform, and orchestrate a platform of thought and personality for its cloudy mind. Step by step, they were pushed forward | 5/21/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 42: Thirteen Door Roulette | I was handed a small, round cage; I curled two of my fingers around the s-hook fastened to its apex. The cage had a minute door fixed with a comparably insignificant latch. It did not—by sound and feel—seem to have anything within its grasp, although | 5/8/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 41: Symptoms Of The Astral | Just get inside!” my mom yelled. “But please, let me—” I tried to explain. “No! I don’t want to hear about it. Just go to your room. I’ll let you know when you can come out.” I climbed out of the minivan and went into the house. My body tr | 4/22/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Changing Feyth (Complete) | This is the all-in-one version of The Changing Feyth series, pulling together parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 from the previously published episodes. | 4/13/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 40: The Changing Feyth (Part 4) | A body fell from the opening above me. It fell so fast there was no way to tell if it was living or dead. It crashed upon the stone floor, bones cracking and flesh splitting. And then another fell. And another. And another. And another until thirteen bodi | 4/9/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 39: Stumbling Upon Preterition | There are dismissed places—not forgotten or invisible—but ignored without refrain. The devils of these domains are so vibrant that beings of any awareness trick their minds to see right through them, or around them—anything to succeed with avoidan | 3/26/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 38: The Taking Of Hallowed Creation | The precious silver hovered over the menacingly heated embers. Its surfaces glimmered and sparkled with the reflection of flickering ash. Every curve and groove of this magnificent creation completed in shape to form the perfect fork—the Serpent’s For | 3/10/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 37: The Deviations | The dreams I had while I slept in the unsanctified darkness of the Slanterhorn Estate mansion’s attic were never pleasant. As I stared up into the ancient rafters, letting my body and mind be overcome by sleep’s oblivion, I sensed that the world of tw | 2/27/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 36: Confronting The Formless | The infinite regions within divisibility were my home. I existed in the distances of space—space void of finite ends. In these unfathomable places there was only emptiness; it was all that I had ever known. No matter where I traveled, I could find nothi | 2/12/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 35: A Megacosm’s Secret Initiation Of Members | Have you ever looked over the edge of the world?” asked the young girl sitting beside me on the train. At the time, we were passing by mountains strewn with large boulders, but my attention was on the features of the girl. Her hair was dark and her skin | 1/29/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 34: The Song Of Dusty Hearts | When I was young, my grandfather often brought me to the burial grounds of the nethpa, and every time he led me over some barren hill, or down some hidden trail, or through some thick forest, he would share with me how I might find such a rare and extraor | 1/15/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 33: The Road Show | Step right up. Come see what ya’ve been waiting for—things ya could never dream of!” The man who spoke these words with such easy excitement was a haggard looking, traveling salesman. His brown, greasy hair was parted to the right and his pants sagg | 12/30/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 32: Pathway For The Dead | There was a path that led to all places, but it grew weak. As a canyon of only slight width, spreading through the horizons of the universe, it fought to exist between the gargantuan pressures of surrounding landscapes. These landscapes, formed of all thi | 12/18/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 31: Mantis, Malevolent | I vividly remember those things I did on the day of the coming of the Purpose Giver. I was chopping wood in the back of my cabin, preparing ahead of time for the oncoming winter. My arms felt strong as they led the ax through the wood with single strokes. | 12/4/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 30: The Changing Feyth (Part 3) | My greatest ally and most infernal enemy is time. It can change history and efface memories. It can create life and it can take it away. And to the immortal, time is the ultimate instrument of both plague—the uncanny curse of centuries of wisdom and kno | 11/20/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 29: The Fragmented | Pieces here, pieces there—it was one sick, twisted mess. I had never before seen such an awful and visually tormenting way to die. It looked like some almighty hand of gargantuan size had grabbed the poor man along with the ground, the chair he was sitt | 11/6/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHalloween Greeting 2008: Candle-Drip | -- | 10/31/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 28: Playgrounds Never Wondered About | I awoke in a strange place—a land of repulsive architecture and grim colors. All I had with me were the clothes on my back and my cracked, fragmented mind. When I first opened my eyes, they rested upon a structure similar to that of a monument. The buil | 10/23/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 27: The Clock’s Many Hands | My hands were always true. I relied on their dexterity for manipulation, their sturdiness for strength, and their gentleness for care. With hands, I led myself forward through the galaxies of all things. Just as an insect’s wings are its salvation from | 10/22/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 26: The Something Beyond Silence | The sound of a heartbeat is distinct. It is a ticking of time—a lifeline encroaching upon an end. Sometimes slow, sometimes fast, this ever-sustaining frequency pulsates towards the boundaries of the unknown. It represents knowledge—whether of reality | 9/25/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 25: Character Feast | There were many sitting around the table in the dining room at Neverlaster’s Inn. All together, there was the blind man, the ruler, the temptress, the demon, the thief, the philosopher, the jester, the card man, the hunter, the seer, the warlord, the gh | 9/11/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 24: The Coming Of The Unexpected | There were always so many people on the beaches those days of the summer’s heat. They came with umbrellas and coolers and inhabited small squares of sand for the duration of several hours. Together, their grids of spaces collaborated into a small metrop | 8/28/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 23: The Skulker | It came from the distance with patience and dedication. From a point of origin lost beyond the seas of matter, it traveled, setting out upon a path to reach the destination of which it chose—ages before knowledge was an aspect of existence. Once the pat | 8/14/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 22: Finding The Host That Sustains | I walked through the truculent sands for many days without end. Their color glistened and appeared to shine brighter with each new dawning of the sun—a sun that radiated and shown power beyond the means of natural, un-orchestrated things. I could feel t | 7/30/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 21: Names: Feltfoldhart | The creations of the artisan were always magnificent. Every detail, contour, and finish orchestrated a perfection of visual embrace. The way his completed works mesmerized the most critical of art and the most cynical of achievement proved his worthiness | 7/16/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 20: Names: Tillalel | By a very early age, I had learned the seriousness of sanctity—as far as it goes in relating to things unbound by the compass of the solvable. I knew, in other words, about the astringent potency of belief: what it was capable of and how it controlled a | 7/2/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 19: Names: Unsonselvitzsol | An amount of seasons befell me that I could not count before I became free. And surely it was an amount less than I would have thought, for time lingered awfully slow within the cool, decrepit cell of my prison holding. I did not mark the days and I did n | 6/17/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 18: Normal Faces | My sister and I happened upon the variable of existence by chance. It might have been the way we walked in ghostly indifference under the setting sun’s light, or perhaps it was the way we stared disjointedly across the endless horizon. Nevertheless, we | 6/4/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 17: The Science Of Faith | On the softest of days, when the splinters of time bowed to uncanny sounds, I heard the ringing. It came from some region just closer than what could be called distant. As if drifting on a river of sustaining sound, the ringing reached my ears, tickling t | 5/21/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 16: Time Into Death | One drop, three drops, twenty drops—then it was steady. The glass window facing the driveway fogged under my breathing as I watched the rain begin its exotic descension upon the glum spread of concrete and blood. My skin tingled while severe emotion sho | 5/6/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 15: Bringing Back The Unordinary | The Movie Man found me at an awards banquet. It was for my swim team, and it was the last place I expected to meet someone who would change my life. When his greeting occurred, all of the awards and speeches had been given and made, and things had just be | 4/22/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 14: The Captive Inside | There were certain shops that had no seizing affects outside of a planned visit, and then there were certain shops that quite brutally tortured if their magical, if not haunting, space was not investigated. Alluring displays, unorthodox merchandise, and t | 4/7/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 13: The Missing Come Home | I awoke to the severe beating of my heart, which drove throbbing percussions through my temples. Beneath me, a sick, cold sweat lined the sheets. My hands were trembling and my throat was raw. I quickly rose from the bed in disgust and discomfort and stoo | 3/24/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 12: Fate | Was I the wish of a demented god? Or was I a god? Or was I the pinnacle abhorrer of malformation? My beginnings were not in my memories and my abilities were not in my mind as an aspect of learning—as I existed, so they existed. The only truths within m | 3/10/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 11: Sounds Of The Deliverer | The cracking voice of the mild singer brought me back from the depths of a bizarre subconscious. I looked around at the rest of Dim Lit Coffeehouse. Spots of green hovered in my sight while my eyes got accustomed to the ambiance. Everyone else appeared to | 2/25/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 10: The Changing Feyth (Part 2) | While others sleep, the feyth do not. While others dream beautiful and terrifying visions, the feyth always stir in the unrest of consciousness, never to experience the small pleasure of an escape or diluting respite. Memories, emotions, longings, regrets | 2/11/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Augur’s Scroll: Remnant IV | Through my eyes are the peoples of the world. I see them, at night, lying in their beds within the structures that spread over the earth. As if transparency were the walls containing them, I can find them, isolate them, and extract them in my mind, plucki | 2/3/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 9: The Chambers of Nature’s Machines | I would lie in the middle of Turnby Road on those days when the wind would explain the seasons and the cold and the feelings quickly lit and quickly dampened. The leaves from elderly oak trees would carve their sacred fates between the airs, arousing the | 1/28/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Augur’s Scroll: Remnant III | A noble came to me the other day. She was adamant about being released from a turmoil she could not plainly describe. When she arrived, her hair was a mess and her eyes were red and dry; she looked as if she had not slept for days. Before she even explain | 1/21/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 8: The Phoenix Imago | I had heard the sound of a key many times—the way it clicked when it slid into place; the way it, whether softly or quickly, depending on the hand which guided it, crashed into the perfection of angle and craftsmanship of its make. It was the sound of p | 1/14/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Augur’s Scroll: Remnant II | I have seen the woman dressed in violet. She came to me, suddenly, in my mind, and devoured my intelligence of judgment. With movements soft as slow moving water, she turned me against myself, indulging my nightmares with the promiscuity of the nations. I | 1/7/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 7: Between The Corridors | My life started to deteriorate in the absence of sensible things. I was a child, and so to me such remedies against the imaginative should never have been necessary. But when the world crashed and became the inferno of death, it could not be associated, h | 12/31/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Augur’s Scroll: Remnant I | I witnessed the star fall in the distance. I saw how it dropped low on the horizon, disappearing beneath the ocean before curving back around and out for but an instant, then vanishing away forever. There was nothing like it; nothing could be more surreal | 12/23/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 6: The Bearer Of All That Can Be Felt | Touch—I felt all ways of it. I felt light moving silk, soft fitting cotton, and elegant velvet; I knew the embrace of satin and the weave of polyester. Upon me danced the colors and shapes of the universe. Those hands that pressed and brushed against me | 12/17/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHeartist Carnival: Remnant V | The playground of sympathetic spirits—listen to their words: Your eyelashes, I rip them out. Your eyelids, I pull them back. White fury bulging forth, black beads expanding out— No veins to carry what the heart cannot bear. Stare back, oh eyes of murd | 12/9/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 5: The Changing Feyth (Part 1) | I have turned against my brethren and entered a fate that cannot be altered. All that I have been taught—all that I have been trained for—is now the vessel of my retribution. My existence has become a granule glowing amongst the blackness of a lost wo | 12/3/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHeartist Carnival: Remnant IV | The playground of sympathetic spirits—listen to their words: Be wise with all endeavors of the heart. Stand firmly against the unyielding allure of the persuasive dawn. With the stone-written beliefs of your faith, you cannot fail. And if you have none, | 11/25/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 4: Gift Of The Crossroads | As soon as I shouted into the vicinity of my home, the outlandish noises in the kitchen ceased. It was nothing more than the slight scuffle of feet, but it was disturbing beyond the sudden sinking of my heart. My breath became short and my hands trembled. | 11/19/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHeartist Carnival: Remnant III | The playground of sympathetic spirits—listen to their words: VERSE I Give of your heart To the solstice of your soul, When the goblins dance And sing in soothing seething. Leave for the dead All of withered wonders past While you tread through the black | 11/11/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 3: What The Flesh Cannot Keep | The Haunter Behind Space was there when I opened the back door and stepped out into the fading light of the sun’s decent. The air was shallow, almost brittle, and I felt its coarseness claw at my lungs in breath. Around me, paleness seized the atmospher | 11/4/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHalloween Greeting 2007 | -- | 10/31/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHeartist Carnival: Remnant II | The playground of sympathetic spirits—listen to their words: Be generous with all endeavors of the heart. Though the transgressions of the damned extend beyond the reaches of remorse, its cavity of fruitful gestures erases all mortiferous debt. Ask and | 10/28/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 2: Becoming The Sky | When we are, we are nothing, and when we are nothing, we are still nothing. We are the in-between, the space unkempt, and the space unseen; we are the vast and the knowing—we are the sky.” These were the words I read every night before I went to sleep | 10/22/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHeartist Carnival: Remnant I | The playground of sympathetic spirits—listen to their words: Be brave with all endeavors of the heart. It is your guide into the unknown and your guardian amongst the eminent. Only but its voice of unceasing song can cradle the lurid dissonance of disco | 10/12/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTDV 1: The Unlike Light | From the very day we first breathed the dusty air of the keep, I knew doom would plague the innocence of our souls. The sweet, effervescent smell that spread amongst us gave the horrid sensation of life when despair was its true insinuation. Hard floor be | 10/7/2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Strangely Enjoyable
After going through all of the Lovecraft audiobooks, this is exactly what I was looking for to keep my mind occupied. Truly a great podcast of the strange worlds between fantasy and reality. Stories like these me me question what it means to have a Happy Ending.
Goes the extra mile!!
I have to say, I am impressed by the quality of these podcasts. Though the first few are the weakest in terms of prosady, the author's visual ingenuity is frankly fascinating. The writing quality improves by the positively breathtaking fourth piece (Gift of the Crossroads), as Sharkchild cuts out some of the unessential prepositional phrases that somtimes clutter the first three pieces. The author's vocal performance is highly enjoyable, as are the eerie musical accompaniments. My wife and I just drove around the city, listening to twelve of these remarkable podcasts, and we look forward to many more. Sharkchild needs an editor at times, but who doesn't?
Nifty!
Good fraggin' stuff here! Listen to this podcast, I command it. Buy the author's book, for this too I command. I almost want to call this a great blending of the styles of Lovecraft, Poe, and The Twilight Zone, however, there is a more undefineable aspect about this. Maybe it is the fact that there are all these odd, creepy stories are prefaced by the west coast accent of an author who seems pretty down to earth and cool. Cheers Sharkchild! Keep them coming!
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