Episodes
![Red Cave Podcast Vol. 17: Minotaur Hybrids, Haunted Mirrors, & Living Nightmares [Horror Audiobook]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog18495236/7d85e06c2f77133ab230c9fc79332d93_300x300.jpg)
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Tales From the Cracks #48–5000:00 - Intro01:13 - Deer Season23:30 - "Bloody Mary, I Am Your Child!"37:43 - I Dream in Black and Light1. Deer Season: A man is forced to seek out a new hiking trail when his usual haunt is closed for deer season. His first mistake is venturing into a restricted area not found on any map, his second is helping the trapped, crazed man on the trail, and his third is entering the man-man maze where a blind monster sniffs out and hunts down any rat unfortunate enough to stumble into its domain.https://youtu.be/i3mantyNIrU?si=b7NrytB11Tr7YGOa2. "Bloody Mary, I Am Your Child!": A simple game of "Bloody Mary" opens a floodgate of traumatic events when Mary's friend Jonie and Mandy are harassed at the same time every night by a transparent specter dripping blood. Jonie snaps and murders her friend, and when the police take her in, she tries to warn the cops standing guard that Bloody Mary visits her every night at 10 PM on the dot...https://youtu.be/pf0-oeS3Iu4?si=bnPUp8-fRlWfNgkg3. I Dream in Black and Light: In this one-man play, our protagonist narrates the last minutes of his life, after his entire world has diminished to a single stage that he is the main player on. He has come to the conclusion that his life is a dream, and he is being hunted by something in the dark that wants to snuff him out like all the rest of the players in this final play on Earth.#audiobook #creepypasta #bloodymary #bloodymaryghost #bloodymaryeditaudio #luciddreams #luciddreaming #outofbody #outofbodyexperience #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #giants #novella #independentartist #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast #luciddreams #bloodymaryeditaudio #radioshow #survival #vampires #grimreaper #dystopianfuture #dystopian #supernatural #superhero #superpower ©2024 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.
![Red Cave Podcast Vol. 16: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Heists, & Alien Orbs [Horror Audiobook]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog18495236/b882dfddfd1ef0a17128e3e160d650d6_300x300.jpg)
Friday Dec 27, 2024
Friday Dec 27, 2024
On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Tales From the Cracks #45–4700:00 - Intro01:38 - "Bloody Mary, You Have My Child!"14:56 - The Loose Ends24:08 - It Came Out of the Sky1. "Blood Mary, You Have My Child!": A simple game of "Bloody Mary" opens a floodgate of traumatic events when Mary's friends Jonie and Mandy are harassed at the same time every night by a transparent specter dripping blood. When Jonie's house mysteriously goes up in flames with her parents in it, Mary's family takes her in, but she won't sleep anywhere but the basement, which is the only room without a mirror. https://youtu.be/K307kxTTU-0?si=_s2DOMjZPFrB6UYO2. The Loose Ends: Three criminals meet in an abandoned warehouse to discuss an upcoming heist—a perfect crime to steal priceless family heirlooms buried at a local cemetery. There's only one problem: two of the men don't want to kill the guard, but the crux of the group leader's scheme is to bury the only witness with the corpse after stealing the goods. And now he may have to stack up two more loose ends inside the grave. https://youtu.be/bjwRiBXbij8?si=Ty2i5oPjx-yboFMD3. It Came Out of the Sky: Two friends meet in the desert in the middle of the night for their annual camping trip, but one friend is rattled by something he encountered on the trail on his way to the site. After recounting his story of a black creature spying on him from the trees, they will have to mentall prepare themselves for the next encounter: a pulsing, multi-colored light that descends on them from the sky and had already invaded their minds.https://youtu.be/dDJ6cubMPpk?si=Z45oejBwVaZJv0ZN#audiobook #creepypasta #bloodymary #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #giants #novella #independentartist #ironage #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast #luciddreams #bloodymaryeditaudio #radioshow #survival #vampires #grimreaper #dystopianfuture #dystopian #supernatural #superhero #superpower ©2024 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.
![Red Cave Podcast Vol. 15: Narcolepsy, Cursed Paintings, & Near-Death Experiences [Horror Audiobook]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog18495236/cf46fd4674eab04f2b7f6fed5f29b697_300x300.jpg)
Friday Nov 08, 2024
Friday Nov 08, 2024
On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Tales From the Cracks #42–4400:00 - Intro00:48 - Hardly Working 11:41 - Kill All Your Darlings25:44 - The Collector1. Hardly Working: A man has a strange case of narcolepsy: Every time he falls asleep, his dreams pick up right where he left off. During a chance encounter with a police officer in a public park, the man's life will be thrown into chaos as two boys find the cop's gun in the grass and put him to sleep—seemingly murdering the poor man in a series of unfortunate events.https://youtu.be/6CP6zrUlVmA?si=8Dfd8YCabKkaQOVJ2. Kill All Your Darlings: Roger notices that his friend's house is over cluttered with paintings, unsold and covered with sheets. His friend claims they depict images too terrifying to look at and that they carry with them an indescribable curse, but when Roger finally musters the courage to look under one of the sheets, he knows that he should have heeded his friend's warning, as it may not be his friend's head that is in danger but his own.https://youtu.be/bqFQKqyzLMo?si=ImxrutIjEQstIocm3. The Collector: Levitt leaves on a fortunate trip and comes back to find his hometown ravaged by a hurricane and his father's farmhouse missing. Worst of all, his most prized possession is missing along with the house, and he's sure he knows the culprit: Death. Set to reclaim his prize from the other side, he ventures into the expansive woods behind his father's land in search of the final collector of souls—less than confident that he will come away with his own.https://youtu.be/r2NPwR7x7oY?si=ftEAgcCcpVYQMbUd#audiobook #creepypasta #slenderman #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #giants #novella #independentartist #ironage #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast #luciddreams #bloodymaryeditaudio #radioshow #survival #vampires #grimreaper #dystopianfuture #dystopian #supernatural #superhero #superpower ©2024 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.
![Red Cave Podcast Vol. 14: Giants, Green Doors, & the Number 19 [Horror Audiobook]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog18495236/00b70e38f3706024ee029060f481996f_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from Parts 1–3 of the novella "There're Giants in Those Mountains!".00:00 - Intro00:35 - Part 1: "There're Giants in Those Mountains!"16:37 - Part 2 - "There's a Giant Out My Window!"29:47 - Part 3 - "There're Giants in the Lake!"Part 1: Two friends buy raw, treacherous land in Alaska for a cheap price. One friend disappears into the mountains in search of the mythic "green doors", protected by the giants, that will provide him access to their un-improved seven acres. When the narrator doesn't hear back from his friend Trevor, he checks the satellite images online to see that a massive structure has been built on their land, seemingly overnight, and it is guarded by a dark figure at the edge of their lake. The narrator will brave the brutal elements of the wild to prove that his friend is alive, and he will challenge his known world when confronted by the awe-inspiring terror of the unknown...https://youtu.be/qaLj_eLLtQs?si=2xn548mIxz0KGh9JPart 2: Two friends buy raw, treacherous land in Alaska for a cheap price. One friend disappears into the mountains in search of the mythic "green doors", protected by the giants, that will provide him access to their un-improved seven acres. When the narrator doesn't hear back from his friend Trevor, he braves the brutal elements of the wild to prove that his friend is alive, only to find an empty cabin, strange lights constructing wooden structures in the night, and a midnight visitor that is far too tall to be his friend...https://youtu.be/I_E7NyaIk5g?si=NB3BVlVY6R9H9TyAPart 3: Two friends buy raw, treacherous land in Alaska for a cheap price. One friend disappears into the mountains in search of the mythic "green doors", protected by the giants, that will provide him access to their un-improved seven acres. The narrator will brave the brutal elements of the wild to prove that his friend is alive, even if that means learning the forgotten magic of the green doors and establishing contact with any lost souls on the other side. Before he can heed his friend's SOS message from the fourth dimension and rescue him, he has one chance to trap the pyramid-headed giant haunting their land and send him back to his godless realm, but he may have to be the bait.https://youtu.be/kEkIize3fhE?si=D_3xatMHouTBdhPI#audiobook #creepypasta #slenderman #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #giants #novella #independentartist #ironage #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast #luciddreams #bloodymaryeditaudio #radioshow #survival #vampires #grimreaper #dystopianfuture #dystopian #supernatural #superhero #superpower ©2024 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.
![Red Cave Podcast Vol. 13: Death Cults, Monsters, & Serial Killers [Horror Audiobook]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog18495236/a10f7d77f26bb6f94fc583d89fe68fc9_300x300.jpg)
Friday Aug 02, 2024
Friday Aug 02, 2024
On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from my published short stories, Tales From the Cracks #36–38.00:00 - Intro00:48 - Key or Quandry18:34 - Renfield and the Count37:17 - Darkness Bends BackKey or Quandry: An unnamed student discovers a gift on his kitchen table in the middle of the night: a box full of tangled cobwebs and pieces of string. He knows that the death cult he'd escaped is now calling him to perform one last task. Following the coordinates delivered inside the box, he will have to save one man's life or become the willing sacrifice for a beast that lives in the forest of "Key and Quandry." Now that his life depends on it, he must collect or be spun...https://youtu.be/86t7EkoXLvM?si=NuDljb3nLJv9ZIwPRenfield and the Count: Paul's unhealthy fascination with a high school friend's (Tom's) macabre interest in death and killing is rekindled as soon as they both reach adulthood and Paul learns about the Pin and Needle Killer wreaking havoc in Texas. Certain that his childhood friend has finally achieved his dream of becoming an infamous serial killer, Paul will seek him out in a deadly game of cat and mouse, to either join Tom in his horrible play or put a stop to it—if he can prevent himself from becoming the next victim, of course.https://youtu.be/eowDBvPFJ6E?si=9LuyIjxmdf7TdhjSDarkness Bends Back: A crooked, unprepared cop confronts his old high school friend on a deserted train platform in the middle of the night, catching him red-handed after committing his most recent serial murder. He may not be able to pin him for the four murders he's already committed in other parts of the state, but he can finally put this serial killer away...or will his decision to take the law into his own hands mean the difference between life and death on this fateful late-night rendezvous?https://youtu.be/x7mPH15FpNw?si=hi3qkZpLBKaUdhiz#audiobook #creepypasta #slenderman #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #novella #independentartist #ironage #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast #luciddreams #bloodymaryeditaudio #radioshow #survival #vampires #grimreaper #dystopianfuture #dystopian #supernatural #superhero #superpower ©2024 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.
![Red Cave Podcast Vol. 12: Catacombs, Dream Simulations, & Slender Man [Horror Audiobook]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog18495236/8eeb361c31e230e11d4ec7fb584b3c3f_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jun 14, 2024
Friday Jun 14, 2024
On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from my published short stories, Tales From the Cracks #33–35.00:00 - Intro01:06 - The Morning People14:01 - Moon's Majesty39:24 - Too Much SleepThe Morning People: Peter meets an eccentric stranger on a midnight train and is given $200 to help him fill a hole on the beach. Discovering that the hole is the entrance into a vast underground network of tunnels, Peter ignores his better judgment to brave the risks of the unknown within the criminal underworld.https://youtu.be/NrFSgGuRzfE?si=Jpzpqienr9w35ZFRMoon's Majesty: Walker, an alchemist, protects the king's daughter from a war-mongering plot devised by a corrupt kingdom. Cornered at the end of the world, the two of them must make their final stand against the king's army, but an alternate Walker from a futuristic world threatens to shatter his archaic reality.https://youtu.be/gjhtjc1fq7E?si=JWvmJwYSS606CkU1Too Much Sleep: One man has retreated from the world to find a simpler life within his grandpa's cabin, but the local woman across the lake is his last connection to the world. After meeting the spirit of his grandfather, he knows there's a reason his lover hasn't returned from across the lake, and he must leave his safe haven to save his lover from the darkest spirit of them all.https://youtu.be/W5SEhEPuajs?si=R8mVbC1hxNoO98K6#audiobook #creepypasta #slenderman #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #novella #independentartist #ironage #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast #luciddreams #bloodymaryeditaudio #radioshow #survival #vampires #grimreaper #dystopianfuture #dystopian #supernatural #superhero #superpower ©2024 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.
![Red Cave Podcast Vol. 11: Killer Rollercoasters, Serial Hitmen, & Revenge Plots [Horror Audiobook]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog18495236/bd94f1c12c34a8328feae334ac748aec_300x300.jpg)
Friday May 24, 2024
Friday May 24, 2024
On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from my own serialized unpublished novella [The Black Knight Ch. 1–6].Synopsis: Eight contest winners have free reign of a closed theme park to test-ride the new Black Knight Rollercoaster. One practiced killer will torture them for the night. Trapped hundreds of feet in the air in their safety restraints, the rollercoaster car becomes their coffin as they are picked off one by one. Only three of them will leave the park with their lives.00:00 - Intro00:39 - Ch. 1: The Chosen Few08:17 - Ch. 2: Nash and Garry18:51 - Ch. 3: Jeremy and Brock28:35 - Ch. 4: Kyle and Cody40:45 - Ch. 5: Ryan and Karen1:02:40 - Ch. 6: Roald Black and the Black Knight#audiobook #creepypasta #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #novella #independentartist #ironage #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast #luciddreams #bloodymaryeditaudio #radioshow #survival #vampires #grimreaper #dystopianfuture #dystopian #supernatural #superhero #superpower ©2024 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.
![Red Cave Podcast Vol. 1: Ghosts, Demons, & the Bermuda Triangle [Horror Audiobook]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog18495236/8171a0d3b10a738f420b5095905299fe_300x300.jpg)
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from my own collected creepypasta stories [Tales From the Cracks Ep. #1–3].00:00 - Intro00:56 - Ep. #1: The Thing on the Threshold19:10 - Ep. #2: A Conjuring for Lilith38:10 - Ep. #3: Between Wing and Water: A Bermuda Triangle MysteryThe Thing on the Threshold : Matilda works the graveyard shift alone, and she’s finally willing to share her headspace with a complete stranger for the night, using the Connect2 skull-to-skull technology, just to have someone to talk to. But on this seemingly normal night, she connects with John, a worker at a clandestine research institute with only one job: watch the empty cell at the end of the hall. They’ll both learn that John isn’t the only one with a bizarre job; that is, they’re about to realize the device in their brains is able to connect them to something far more terrifying than stories.https://youtu.be/F4EzR2NkS18?si=38O1jEnQyBD6SyX2A Conjuring For Lilith: An unknown narrator recounts his three-month experiment conjuring the gnostic demon goddess Lilith and the rude price he pays when he's forced to pause his sordid routine. It begins with footsteps in the empty apartment above his own as an unseen entity mirrors his every movement, step by step, and it ends with a creative plot to spot Lilith's reflection in a window, which he quickly regrets.https://youtu.be/stFnVyjflmM?si=OIwCxUyDqMmB9KIuBetween Wing and Water: Using actual radio transmissions from that fateful day, the story follows the designation of Flight 19, a group of five torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945. Told from the pilot instructor's point of view, the story interprets his final moments in this world (and perhaps the next).https://youtu.be/8jlCdlyS4ts?si=PwdvTR-C9IeTw-XtOriginal content released every week. Please Like and Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCboEZFGmF9n4LrkSgniFQlQ?sub_confirmation=1#audiobook #creepypasta #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #novella #independentartist #ironage #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast ©2023 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.Https://amazon.com/author/b_vervillehttps://goodreads.com/b_vervillehttps://twitter.com/red_cave_bookshttps://instagram.com/red_cave_books
![Red Cave Podcast Vol. 2: Reptilians, Backrooms, & UFOs [Horror Audiobook]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog18495236/801d864fcbe68ca17a37abab503168fc_300x300.jpg)
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from my own collected creepypasta stories [Tales From the Cracks Ep. #4–6].00:00 - Intro01:12 - "Every Time a Fictional Character Dies, a Reptilian Is Born"16:32 - Ghost Me: A Backrooms Story34:24 - Under Construction"Every Time a Fictional Character Dies, A Reptilian Is Born": Connor writes scary stories for his blog, but as his fans point out to him, his stories all have a central theme: the main character always dies at the end...and at the hands of an unseen predator. It isn't until he reads the fateful comment "Careful, every time a fictional character dies, a reptilian is born" that he dedicates himself to ridding himself of the unseen parasites plaguing his sleeping and waking hours.https://youtu.be/Ne8xSpx96Pc?si=x5bCm7nKIq7cChYJGhost Me: A Backrooms Story: When Alana is finally ready to confront the boyfriend who ghosted her—convinced that he's in trouble—she's met with a dilapidated house that no one's called home for years. The never-ending complex of empty rooms and hallways below ground uncovers more answers to her mystery than she was hoping to find in one day. She's soon confronted by one of the many lost souls down there, desperate to claim her phone as the only means of escape.https://youtu.be/XjQmPWG0DQg?si=zpgVAHMwB4sJW3CHUnder Construction: John is on his way up the mountain for a weekend of hunting and camping when he meets an impassable construction zone, manned by the strangest officer he's ever met, whose uniform, body shape, and accent change on a whim. As there doesn't seem to be any construction happening, he blows through the tape and enters an alien world, imprinted over his, and he's the stranger (enemy) in this new land; if only he can avoid the real residents.https://youtu.be/B17luvZq9Vk?si=mfcfjsQ7z1vfv6YuOriginal content released every week. Please Like and Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCboEZFGmF9n4LrkSgniFQlQ?sub_confirmation=1#audiobook #creepypasta #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #novella #independentartist #ironage #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast #backrooms #reptilian #alien ©2023 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.Https://amazon.com/author/b_vervillehttps://goodreads.com/b_vervillehttps://twitter.com/red_cave_bookshttps://instagram.com/red_cave_books
![Red Cave Podcast Vol. 3: Rituals, Zombies, & Doppelgangers [Horror Audiobook]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog18495236/13a1f803576189c100320bffdd2c60da_300x300.jpg)
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
On tonight's scary radio hour broadcast, we are reading from my own collected creepypasta stories [Tales From the Cracks Ep. #7–9.00:00 - Intro01:31 - The Sacrifice of a Sleepwalker19:15 - We Wear Our Sunglasses at Night37:28 - What Dark CreatureThe Sacrifice of a Sleepwalker: Afraid of what trouble he might get into in the night, Sam sets up cameras around his house to monitor his sleepwalking activity. The last thing he expects to see is that he has slept for three entire days, and two friends and an ATV are his only saving grace from the forest fire threatening his neighborhood. The cultists running the ghost town have another intention in mind, and they will see their sacrifice to the end.https://youtu.be/hn_9cahSVak?si=npuY0iiM_Q27xWV6We Wear Our Sunglasses at Night: In a world where a virus is spread through direct eye contact, a father and son venture into town on an errand and come into contact with their first aggressive "bright eye" infected individual. They are quickly faced with the harsh reality that the sunglasses protecting their eyes are the deadliest crutch they could wish to have in such a home-grown hell.https://youtu.be/1O3Zy1bbORI?si=CMsdbbXFGw9umFWZWhat Dark Creature: Two friends are haunted by an unseen entity that howls outside their windows, and their worst fear is not whether they summoned the creature but that it is somehow one of them.https://youtu.be/NBrlMUZWS2c?si=TH7BO3E7CwNHLEGYOriginal content released every week. Please Like and Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCboEZFGmF9n4LrkSgniFQlQ?sub_confirmation=1#audiobook #creepypasta #horror #shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #novella #independentartist #ironage #scarystories #horrorshorts #horrorstories #ghoststories #podcast #backrooms #reptilian #alien ©2023 by Brendan L. Verville. All rights reserved.Https://amazon.com/author/b_vervillehttps://goodreads.com/b_vervillehttps://twitter.com/red_cave_bookshttps://instagram.com/red_cave_books

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