Town With a Tranquil Name: an audiobook (Patreon)

A cryptic family album hiding a mystery 170 years old; a lonely cemetery revealing disturbing patterns no one will acknowledge; a dreaded knock at the door on a night of deserted streets, hushed voices, and villagers cowering by candlelight. These are a few of the elements of this tale of slowly mounting dread, in which an anguished mystery writer explores the secrets of a strange and ominous town beckoning her from the past. Abridged from the novel. 

Additional narration by Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast.

Music: “The Sea of Nothing” by Aquartos and “The Loner” by Pete Kneser, Getty Music.

I’ll leave it to listeners to suggest which podcast this story is best suited for—Knifepoint Horror or maybe the other fiction archive, Those Snowy Nights You Read to Me, They’ll Never Be Forgotten, the repository of audiobooks which wander in other directions than pure horror.