A Quick Quintet of Terror
Added 2024-08-20 15:00:08 +0000 UTCThree 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 Fradd of 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. jarprechaun (46:35)
5. tempt (1:09:18)
Epilogue: Purcell the Creator, Part 2 (1:27:21)
Released everywhere else next week.
photo by Diana Siedel
Comments
Aw that’s a fascinating idea that I hadn’t considered! Or, like, a pony in a field but it’s a Vigo the Carpathian pony that is haunted and alive and simply drives a person mad. Like Pickman’s Model vibe maybe. It’s just a great device to work the imagination, loved the story and thanks for responding!
Josh
2025-03-14 00:26:49 +0000 UTCI recall that as I was writing the story, for a moment I imagined the photo was of nothing more than a pony in a field--but there was something about the nature of the type of person who would intentionally seek out the most disturbing picture in the world that morphed the image inside their minds into something that sought out their deepest fears and brought them raging upwards into their consciousness...
Soren Narnia
2025-03-14 00:03:53 +0000 UTCI loved these stories! And was particularly intrigued by the screen-sharing one. Like, what could the image be? That has such a strong impact on folks? Is it an image of the depths of a hopeless hellscape? Is it human bodies just all mangled up? That doesn’t seem like it would be enough to cause what happened. This is an old post so not sure if anyone will see this, but what are we thinking the picture was of?!
Josh
2025-03-13 23:53:18 +0000 UTCThanks. I've been around a long time so I'm sure I listened to it but my memory's been around a long time too and I'm sure I've forgotten it. I'll give it a re-listen. Maybe. He's so creepy...
Jill E Merrill
2024-09-05 20:05:36 +0000 UTCAdmittedly, I would love to watch a skit entitled “Whatcha doin’?” I laughed just thinking about tapping on random peoples windows and shouting that. Thank you for these Soren. They are real treasures.
Kayley Grissom
2024-08-31 08:15:27 +0000 UTCThank you
Sean Herlihy
2024-08-28 00:43:07 +0000 UTCLoved all of these. I'd really like to see (hear?) a more expanded world of the guy in sleeperette. I also got a laugh out of the guy looking up facts about the jarprechaun on National Geographic (also the callback to 'colony,' one of my favorite stories!).
Tanya S.
2024-08-26 21:47:38 +0000 UTCI had to go watch Sleeperette and Server Unknown after this…
David
2024-08-26 18:43:19 +0000 UTCReally loved this one! I always like these short story anthologies so this was a treat to listen to this month.
Audrey Riddell
2024-08-24 21:56:25 +0000 UTCMight want to check out “excursion” from 8/7/2020…
K. Lem
2024-08-24 12:56:22 +0000 UTCBucket list. Or not.
Lori K.
2024-08-23 18:55:16 +0000 UTCI have not!
Soren Narnia
2024-08-23 18:44:20 +0000 UTCThank you for the nod to “The Hammer” as the hometown of poor doomed Ms Finch! Have you been?
Lori K.
2024-08-23 17:11:31 +0000 UTCBravo 🙌 Your quintet inspires. (Seems Mozart & Bizet have company 😉)
buddhapugz
2024-08-23 02:24:49 +0000 UTCNice drop! Thanks Soren!
Daniel Greene
2024-08-22 23:00:57 +0000 UTCI came here to say this but knew in my heart it had already been said. I love the small ties to other stories especially ones like this where we got a full background of the baker’s origins. Now if we could get a more in depth story about the meanderings of our dear confidant, father hall!
Daniel Greene
2024-08-22 22:58:02 +0000 UTCIt’s nice to see that when some villains are unceremoniously exited from the playoffs, they dust themselves off and begin baking for next year’s tournament.
Ryan Fahey
2024-08-22 22:13:52 +0000 UTCI think it’s ceruse; has that whole Elizabeth the 1st ginger thing going on
Lori K.
2024-08-22 11:13:45 +0000 UTCNow available over the counter under the brand name Zingoflerm
Soren Narnia
2024-08-22 01:05:49 +0000 UTC"So it’s only been a month but we’re connecting in a way that makes me feel really seen. You know? It's like you understand parts of me I didn't even know existed. I usually run away from vulnerability, but with you it feels so natural. Have you tried lagoon?”
Jason Treit
2024-08-22 01:03:36 +0000 UTCJust awesome, second listen inbound! Thank you for these 👍🏼
Lee Wilkins
2024-08-21 22:52:23 +0000 UTCWhoa- The Baker’s backstory!!! I love it.
K. Lem
2024-08-21 22:28:42 +0000 UTCI remember that one!
Soren Narnia
2024-08-21 18:15:28 +0000 UTCWife coming home to husband and jarprechaun https://images.app.goo.gl/9GB2k841uqU53jn56
Thomas Schryver
2024-08-21 17:50:32 +0000 UTCLoved it, I have listened to it twice already
Jennifer Gatlin
2024-08-21 17:27:49 +0000 UTCIt’s a pretty insular community; they definitely all know each other.
Soren Narnia
2024-08-21 17:15:43 +0000 UTCFor a second I thought screen-share was getting “inside-baseball” on the brokerage mentioned way back in photographs
Cole B
2024-08-21 17:08:28 +0000 UTCSo frightening and funny and enjoyable. Thank you for these! Re: jarprechaun, the alternative, final sentence that immediately came to my less sophisticated mind: “***k that ***t.” But I prefer your style! Thanks, again…
Scott Lloyd
2024-08-21 13:28:13 +0000 UTCThat lady baker, she gets around. I'll keep my eye out for her here, in Southern Oregon. °○°
Hilde Marciniak
2024-08-21 12:38:53 +0000 UTCYes indeed, that’s the Baker….
Soren Narnia
2024-08-21 10:37:25 +0000 UTCYeah, that’s essentially the “sleeperette” video… and yes, the way-too-subtle implication is that the blind psychic “sees” things (“not helpless, not at all”), but after a couple of previous sentences illuminating this were cut for time, maybe that phrasing is just a wee bit too ambitious…
Soren Narnia
2024-08-21 10:36:52 +0000 UTCWhat the…? 😜
Soren Narnia
2024-08-21 10:33:35 +0000 UTCOh my gosh the jarprechaun is both hilarious and actually really really terrifying to me. Just hearing where it was gave me horrible chills but oh my gosh the conversation they have is hilarious and the way it talks reminds me of Nathan Fielder
Kiri
2024-08-21 07:53:22 +0000 UTCFavorite new episode in months — great job!
Jonathan Goldstein
2024-08-21 04:54:37 +0000 UTCWow! Perfect end to my day! Thank you!
Firelink Shrine
2024-08-21 02:45:41 +0000 UTCThe image https://images.app.goo.gl/ssmf7PfvSpimd6X36
Jeffrey Young
2024-08-21 02:45:02 +0000 UTCGuess maybe you changed your mind about the airport section during your flight...
Jill E Merrill
2024-08-21 02:28:38 +0000 UTCQuestion 2. The baker was the same baker from "the crack," right? I love that story. I must have listened to itl twenty times or more. Not sure why, but I find it very calming when I'm anxious. What can I say? I'm weird. Anyhow thanks so much for this collection. Took my mind completely off the pain of badly bruised ribs gotten while almost falling out my kitchen window while cutting some encroaching vines. If the vines were sentient it might have made a good story...
Jill E Merrill
2024-08-21 02:25:09 +0000 UTCI loved these. Really cool combination of stories. A couple of questions. 1 . Was that story really the text of the silent (except for ambient sounds) video of "sleeperette"? I have to watch it again. I loved it but never quite understood it. The only part of the story I didn't understand was how some hangers could be there last thing a blind man ever saw? Sorry if I missed your already answering this. Guess he saw it psychically?
Jill E Merrill
2024-08-21 02:15:07 +0000 UTC"Five by five" 😘 Faith, Buffy The Vampire Slayer
buddhapugz
2024-08-21 00:21:45 +0000 UTCAndronicus Super Cat and the Boys!!!
Thorne Russell
2024-08-20 23:58:46 +0000 UTCWell that definitely made the ride home easier! Great to watch the accompanying videos too. Nice to see you experimenting with flash fiction. “It learned to eat!” But is it allergic to shellfish?
Mike M.
2024-08-20 22:51:31 +0000 UTCMulti story posts are like Christmas every time
Noelle
2024-08-20 22:49:12 +0000 UTCYaaahhh perfect to listen to in a lonely hotel room in spain at 00.30...
Lee Wilkins
2024-08-20 22:24:33 +0000 UTCReal house, real trees, I’m real, you’re not!
Soren Narnia
2024-08-20 20:52:22 +0000 UTCHoly shenanigans, that artwork! Is that a real house? Are those real trees? Are you real? Am I real? I need more pizza.
Christopher Helton
2024-08-20 20:49:49 +0000 UTCA case of delay of gratification for me. Could listen now while I'm packing but nope going to wait until lights down trolley gone seatbelt sign on and a lovely way to pass a 3 hour flight. Tanx Soren the timing couldn't be better.
Volt Ninebanger
2024-08-20 20:28:41 +0000 UTCIt’s a gloomy eerily misty post-Ernesto day here. Perfect timing. Thank you, Soren.
Lori K.
2024-08-20 16:47:15 +0000 UTCFantastic, just what I needed for my commute home later! Many thanks!!!
Mike M.
2024-08-20 16:13:46 +0000 UTCAlways look forward to these notifications 📢 🤩 …new nightmare fuel ! Woot!
Cameron Ulam
2024-08-20 15:52:25 +0000 UTCLiterally just finished the Three for Halloween from a few years back. Incredible timing
Chad Talboom
2024-08-20 15:39:06 +0000 UTCBabe wake up, new nightmare fuel just dropped!
Michael B. Jordan B. Peterson
2024-08-20 15:11:33 +0000 UTCNow just need to wait for the sun to set!
Charles Pickering
2024-08-20 15:04:16 +0000 UTC
