A classic novel takes on frightening significance for an inexperienced reader. MUSIC: "Cold in Your Bones" by Kyle Preston, "Hallowed World" by E J R M, "Wait" by Free Walking Trio, "Pentecost (Reworked)" by Christopher Galavan, all rights reserved. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia The Campfire Radio Theater podcast has posted their ambitious radio play re-imagining of the Knifepoint Horror story Paranormal Appraisal 151. https://campfireradiotheater.podbean.com/e/paranormal-appraisal-151/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Someone you passed on the street this month was not quite who they appeared to be. And for one in a million people you pass, the self is just a cheap wire frame they dangerously abandoned long ago. Adapted video clip for Spotify originally created by Peter Fowler. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A father and son confront the impossible phenomena that wait patiently to strike from within terribly familiar places. MUSIC: “Duality” by Kyle Preston, “Blue Echoes” by Norvik, “The Horizon” by Maya Belsitzman and Matan Ephrat, all rights reserved. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A horror-lite excursion into my foggy memories of real moments when things suddenly didn't quite add up... and the unknown asserted itself just enough to make me feel around for the anti-supernatural spray I always keep by my bedside. - S.N. New original story coming November 7. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia What a strange world we live in when there's an official Knifepoint Horror merchandise shop! 25% of all proceeds will be donated to the National Alliance to End Homelessness. knifepointhorror.dashery.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Here’s an off-the-record, completely unserious Halloween palate cleanser for when you just can’t take doofuses like me trying to scare you anymore. MUSIC: “From Above” by Dan Mayo, “O.R.C.” by Aviad Zinemanas, “Did You Hear That” by Peter John, “Eyes on You” by Young Lords, “Black Hole” by Stephen Keech, “Odd Numbers” by Curtis Cole, “Finger Paint” by Elijah Aaron, all rights reserved. Whaddya know, there’s a Knifepoint Horror merchandise shop: knifepointhorror.dashery.com 25% of all proceeds will be donated to the National Alliance to End Homelessness. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After all these years, a light seems to have been turned on inside that weird old house on the corner--so maybe it's better to stay in tonight. Here are some stories for that. 1. Prologue: traditions, part 1 2. straightaway 3. spillage 4. caveat 5. Epilogue: traditions, part 2 Music by Dave Lahn Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia What a strange world we live in when there's an official Knifepoint Horror merchandise shop! 25% of all proceeds will be donated to the National Alliance to End Homelessness. knifepointhorror.dashery.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No homeowner's policy in existence covers everything. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Walk through most neighborhoods, and you get at least a general sense of people’s back yards. But where the truly wealthy live on enormous gated parcels of land, you quickly notice it’s almost impossible to either see or know what’s going on back there. With all that space and total anonymity, it really could be… anything. Music: Michele Nobler, 'Choral Prelude in F Minor' by Johann Sebastian Bach, all rights reserved. The National Alliance to End Homelessness will receive 25% of all sales in the Knifepoint Horror shop through September: knifepointhorror.dashery.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Even after museum hours ended that day, some people walked out to the waterside and just looked at the object silently for several minutes, not knowing what to think, or what to feel. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Memories of one very, very strange winter's day in the life of a weary public servant. Additional narration by Linda Wojtowick of 'The Ghosts on This Road' podcast. Music: "Winter Snow" by Zac Nelson, all rights reserved. Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the moody late hours at The Cask & Pear, an all-night dive bar and diner on the edge of the city, some of the stories patrons tell definitely lean toward the unusual. MUSIC: “Hear Me When I Call” by Higher Land, “Ugly So” by Roger Rivas, “Look at You” by The Satellite Station, and “7 Answers” by Kazuya, all rights reserved. Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A young man’s strange natural gift evolves to wield a disturbing influence. MUSIC: ‘Atmo’ by Jamie Bathgate. All rights reserved. Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this story originally written for the Halloween 2024 episode of Kevin Lane’s Spill Your Guts podcast to accompany a few Knifepoint Horror tales interpreted by other actors, a man of science relates an encounter with a mysterious desert legend. Written and narrated by Soren Narnia. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A story of desperate men, bad decisions, terrible timing, and unexpected faces in the dark. Additional narration by Charlotte Kulak. Music: “Om Bath” by Yotam Agam and “When the Tide Breaks Free” by James Forest. All rights reserved. Patreon members listen ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Originally heard on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is the final recording of a man whose chosen profession finally bit back hard. With Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast. All stories on Knifepoint Horror are written by Soren Narnia. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings. The Campfire Radio Theater podcast has released an ambitious full cast re-imagining of this story; check it out here: https://campfireradiotheater.podbean.com/e/paranormal-appraisal-151/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this ghost story of the Southern Gothic, a new landowner is rapidly submerged in a relative's murky past. Music: “Deja Reve” by DaniHaDani, “Effoliation” by SEA, and “The Racer” by Tristan Barton, all rights reserved. Patreon members listen ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Originally heard as ‘Q & A With a Vampire Killer’ on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is a former college student’s reflection on an unusual glimpse into a dangerous world. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ask people in the Cleveland area about The Ron Tanglethorn Show and you might get a few nods here and there. Never the most popular late-night offering on the AM band, it's remembered by diehards mostly for the rather unusual way it signed off the air for good. Music: "Salience Bias" by Art Against Agony, all rights reserved. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A youthful lark across the states takes a man into the heart of an awful anomaly. Music: “Outside Your Grace” by Denhollander, all rights reserved. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written, produced, and edited by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theater,' 'Tag Till We're Dead,' 'Garden of Terrible Blooms,' and others. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings, including Soren's own narrations of several earlier podcast stories originally voiced by others; 'traces,' an audio story that creepily revisits the sites of Knifepoint Horror tales many listeners know very well; the 'Unchallenging Campfire Tales' collection for those who like their horror goofy sometimes; a (massive) PDF of the show's transcripts; other original short audio stories plus narrations of some classics by well-known authors; and most recently, a new recording of the story 'possession'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Opening statements in what would come to be considered one of the strangest trials in the history of New York state. Jessica Holt-Ivers: Emma Fradd All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written, produced, and edited by Soren Narnia. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When two colleagues in crime come together again after years apart, one reveals a looming threat more awful than incarceration… or even capital punishment. Music: “Soft Lights” by Kyle Preston and “Turn for the Worse” by Jordan Hatfield, all rights reserved. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theater,' 'Tag Till We're Dead,' and others. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Patreon supporters have access to many unreleased offerings, including Soren's own narrations of several earlier podcast stories originally voiced by others; 'traces,' an audio story that creepily revisits the sites of Knifepoint Horror tales many listeners know very well; the 'Unchallenging Campfire Tales' collection for those who like their horror goofy sometimes; a (massive) PDF of the show's transcripts; and other original short audio stories plus narrations of some classic ones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A dark October country road, a driver, a hitchhiker... and a strange, strange story told across cold, lonely miles. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theater,' 'Tag Till We're Dead,' and others. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings, including Soren's own narrations of several earlier podcast stories originally voiced by others; 'traces,' an audio story that creepily revisits the sites of Knifepoint Horror tales many listeners know very well; the 'Unchallenging Campfire Tales' collection for those who like their horror goofy sometimes; a (massive) PDF of the show's transcripts; other original short audio stories and narrations of some classic ones; and most recently, Soren's recitation of eleven dark and disturbing poems by great writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An educator's watch of the winter skies sets him in anxious motion to shelter the innocent. Music: “Cicada Killer” by idokay, “The Heir” by Emmanuel Jacob, “Meeting the Goddess” by Kyle Preston. All rights reserved. Interview with Ila Patton, Galax, Virginia, from the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/009), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theater,' 'Tag Till We're Dead,' and others. Ad-free listening on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Five shorter tales… 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. Additional voice: TheFinalGirly. Photo by Diana Siedel. Prologue: Purcell the Creator, Part 1 1. novelty 2. screen-share 3. sleeperette 4. jarprechaun 5. tempt Epilogue: Purcell the Creator, Part 2 All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theater,' 'Tag Till We're Dead,' and others. Ad-free listening on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 19th-century reign of the mysterious Buth Sugo was detailed only in this one ugly, bloody, regrettable record. Music by Dave Lahn, and also by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror Podcast Ad-free listening on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Many people who hear things behind their walls suspect their house is haunted, but can’t prove it. Maybe they’re failing to ask one very simple question: How did those walls even come to be? Additional narration by Charlotte Kulak Music: 'Earth' by Doug Reed / Study of Sound, from the album Musica Mundana. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There’s always a small element of worry that comes when you leave a stranger to watch your property, children, or pets. Even if you’re fully trusting, here comes that gnawing sense that you yourself may have created a problem, because you didn’t quite bring yourself to tell the sitter... everything. Thea Lapp is played by Mig Windows. Ad-free listening on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Soren can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theater,' 'Tag Till We're Dead,' and others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Always go very, very slowly through your radio dial, especially late at night. You never quite know when a faint signal will offer something a little unexpected. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
All the user reviews of the real-life bar at the center of this story are exactly what you’d expect for a well-liked local business. But then, such reviews are not the medium to express everything that one might feel or sense when the hour grows late, and the lights get low. Ad-free listening on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A snowy walk reveals the beginnings of a mystery that grows weirder with each passing hour. Music: “Mercury” from Study of Sound / Doug Reed. All rights reserved. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
