Darker Pastures
Darker Pastures is a monthly horror fiction anthology, set in the very heartland of the North American continent: the vast and rugged landscapes of the Great Plains. The austere beauty of this open country is home to all manner of dreadful monstrosities, of both the everyday and the otherworldly variety, lurking in each shadow and sometimes even waiting in the full daylight. If you dare to join me, let us wander these darker pastures together.All stories written, narrated, edited, and scored by Lars Mollevand, unless otherwise noted.For all inquiries and feedback, please contact me at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com.
S3 E9 · Tue, April 15, 2025
Carrion Wind
In the late 1870s, three souls will discover that the prairie winds sometimes carry dark and wicked things. ***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of genocide against Indigenous people and death by hanging. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S3 E8 · Fri, March 14, 2025
Immortalis
One cold night in the spring of 1963, the disparate threads of a darkly arcane narrative become interwoven upon the lonely plains of North Dakota. ***Content warning: Episode contains violent scenes and references to historical atrocities. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S3 E7 · Fri, February 14, 2025
Lovelorn
A lonely middle-aged woman tries to find love where she has never dared to look before. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S3 E6 · Wed, January 15, 2025
January Smiles
Home for the holidays and for a break from her troubled life, a young woman rediscovers an old passion... and is discovered in turn. ***Content Warning: Episode deals with themes of severe depression.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
Bonus · Tue, December 24, 2024
🔒 The Perfect Gift
Subscriber-only episode A visit from a traveling salesman makes for an idyllic Christmas, 1957. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S3 E5 · Sun, December 15, 2024
Headspace
A person living on the margins of a tiny rural community is witness to increasingly disturbing developments in their neighbors, and their loved ones. ***Content warning: Episode touches upon themes of enbyphobia, queerphobia, bullying, familial estrangement, and contains some gore. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
Bonus · Wed, November 27, 2024
🔒 Day of the Turkey
Subscriber-only episode Every bird has its day... *** Content Warning: Episode contains irreverent humor, explicit language, and gore, and is not for the meleagrisphobic .*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S3 E4 · Fri, November 15, 2024
The Return
When the charismatic ministry of Asa Donague swept into the little prairie community of Homer, Kansas in late 1923, no one could have foretold what would follow. ***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of antisemitism, racism, and anti-Catholicism, as well as disturbing and violent imagery. Listener discretion advised.*** “Old-Time Religion”, performed by the Criterion Quartet, arranged by Charles Davis Tillman, recorded 1920. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, , and included under fair use. Cover image provided courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USW3-033945-D (b&w film neg.) You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
Bonus · Wed, October 30, 2024
🔒 Wanderers
Subscriber-only episode A chance encounter in a small Western town on All Hallows' Eve, 1873 proves that nothing stays buried. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of alcoholism, murder, and exploitation of minors. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S3 E3 · Mon, October 14, 2024
Serenity
A young man, returning to his hometown for the first time since starting college, finds that it is not quite the community that he remembers – and that perhaps even his memories cannot be wholly trusted. ***Content Warning: Episode contains explicit discussion of depression and suicide. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S3 E2 · Sat, September 14, 2024
Buried
Fleeing from his troubles, a man forced by chance to shelter in a site of historical atrocity finds that the evils of the past are both very real and undying. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of exploitation of minors, misogyny, and the abuse and murder of Indigenous people. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** Cover image adapted from: St. Joseph's Indian Normal School © 2012 by Chris Light , licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S3 E1 · Wed, August 14, 2024
Gatherings
In 1901, a mysterious man arrives in rural North Dakota, summoned by a family in need with no one else left to whom they can turn. Yet awaiting him is something far more malignant than even he, gifted with esoteric expertise, could ever anticipate. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of antisemitism, genocide against Indigenous peoples, and child abuse. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
Trailer · Mon, July 15, 2024
Announcement
A brief announcement on a coming change when we return to darker pastures in August. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E17 · Tue, March 19, 2024
Corvidae (Part V)
In the conclusion of the season two finale, the assembled survivors of the plague-devastated land come at last to the end of their long road. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E16 · Tue, March 05, 2024
Corvidae (Part IV)
Many paths converge, and for a time, refuge is found, and darkness and fear are left behind. But the evils of the world always find a way in. ***Content warning: Episode deals with themes of traumatic loss, catastrophic fire, and automobile accidents. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E15 · Tue, February 20, 2024
Corvidae (Part III)
A teenage girl, irrevocably separated from the family of her birth, finds a new one. But too late she learns the price of belonging. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious indoctrination and past sexual trauma, and contains some gore. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E14 · Tue, February 06, 2024
Corvidae (Part II)
Two traumatized young men, a boy from Cheyenne and an ex-soldier, bear witness to the depths of human depravity. Meanwhile, the true inheritors of the earth look on from afar, patient and inscrutable. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of sexual slavery and violence, involuntary mater ity and pregnancy-related death, mass murder, pandemic and disease, and religious extremism. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E13 · Mon, January 22, 2024
Corvidae (Part I)
In the wake of unbelievable calamity, a woman encounters both wonder and living nightmare on her long journey home. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of disease, pandemic, social upheaval, and the threat of sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E12 · Tue, January 09, 2024
Whiteout
A prairie schoolteacher experiences purest terror and loss during the tragic Children's Blizzard of 1888. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial loss, missing children, and children in peril. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E11 · Tue, December 26, 2023
Strangers
Two strangers approach a small town we have visited once before, and something follows close behind them. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of misogyny, bigotry, unwanted sexual contact and the threat of sexual violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** Cover image adapted from original: NE50sNE8wRoadHills @ 2014 by formulanone , licensed and shared under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E10 · Tue, December 12, 2023
El Sepulcro
A small band of cowboys, chasing outlaws upon the southern Plains, happens upon a dubious sanctum. Despite their disparate life experiences, not a one of them is prepared for that which awaits them within. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon the realities of slavery, racism, and Indigenous genocide. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E9 · Tue, November 28, 2023
Sawbones
Unable to escape the horrific recollections of his Civil War service even in the remoteness of the Dakota Territory, a surgeon finds his nightmares bleeding into reality. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare, substance abuse, and associated psychological trauma, and contains both gore and body horror. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E8 · Tue, November 14, 2023
Beasts
Two wanderers, tossed adrift by the desperation of the Great Depression, encounter something strange and hellish on the benighted plains. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial abandonment, poverty, and genocide. Discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E7 · Tue, October 31, 2023
The Old Cottonwood
The events of Halloween, 1973 scar a boy’s psyche so profoundly that he finds himself returning to their locus decades later, in the hope of finding resolution. But the mystery he finds waiting for him is darker still. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial estrangement, child death, suicide, racist violence, and murder. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E6 · Tue, October 17, 2023
Harvest
In October of 1989, a well-to-do farmer, ruled by his voracious appetites, reaps the ultimate fruit of his labors. ***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of familial loss, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and psychological abuse. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E5 · Tue, October 03, 2023
Invitation
After a loss few seem to understand or even notice, a young woman learns that both love and grief can manifest in the most uncanny of ways. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of pet loss, and may be upsetting for some listeners. Discretion advised.*** Cover image adapted from: A Belgian Malinois male named Intrepid's Chase, sired by dog "Veni Van Balderlo". © 2005 by D. Williams is licensed under A Belgian Malinois male named Intrepid's Chase, sired by dog "Veni Van Balderlo". © 2005 by D. Williams licensed under CC BY 2.0 In loving memory of Manfred von Katzstein, darkling prince of felinity. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E4 · Tue, September 19, 2023
Habitation
A house that has long stood as a silent monument to past hardship becomes the locus of a new disquiet. You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E3 · Tue, September 05, 2023
Spiritual Nourishment
Against her wishes, a young student is transferred into a new and unwelcoming school. But what is happening there proves so much more sinister than she anticipates. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious and psychological abuse, homophobia, and discrimination against non-binary people. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E2 · Tue, August 22, 2023
Cultus
Something wicked grows in the fields near Umber, Nebraska. But it grows only under the most diligent care, and its like can be found throughout this fair land, and beyond. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of misogyny, racism, nativism, religious trauma, depression, and mass gun violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S2 E1 · Tue, August 08, 2023
Marvel
A troubled farming family living in 1940s Colorado falls victim to a gruesome, if altogether too common, accident. But they will soon learn that this is only the beginning of their changing fortune. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical and emotional abuse, ableism, and contains gore and body horror. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E13 · Tue, February 07, 2023
Offerings
An embittered and lonely man, whose life lies in shambles and who has fallen fully under the sway of his worst impulses, stumbles upon a terrible secret—and the further into it he delves, the more it threatens to swallow him and all he knows. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of alcohol dependency, familial estrangement, and the abduction and exploitation of children. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E12 · Tue, January 24, 2023
Collection
The self-styled curator of a museum of horrors finally attains the masterpiece for which he has long yearned, but does not find quite the fulfillment that he expects from completing his collection. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of objectification of and violence against women, and true crime fetishization. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E11 · Tue, January 10, 2023
Lonesome Heart
During the deadly winter of 1886-1887, which would end the era of the open range, a ranch hand seeks to escape the crushing solitude and boredom of his isolated station in the merciless vastness of the Wyoming Territory. *** Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of cruelty and harm to animals. Listener discretion is advised. *** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E10 · Tue, December 27, 2022
Putrefaction
A weary office worker learns that sometimes, a few words are all it takes to unravel the pattern of a carefully ordered life. ***Content warning: This episode contains body horror and sexual content. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
Bonus · Fri, December 23, 2022
Vargen
A child of Swedish immigrants living in northwestern Dakota Territory in the 1880s becomes convinced that a dreadful entity from whispered tales stalks the hills near their homestead. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of racism toward Indigenous peoples, familial loss, child mortality, depression, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E9 · Tue, December 13, 2022
Cats of Lothar
A girl from a troubled home finds solace in her friendship with a new neighbor and her pet. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical and psychological familial abuse, racism, harm to animals and animal death. Listener discretion is strongly advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E8 · Tue, November 29, 2022
Raider
Exhausted and unable to trust his own perceptions, a former bushwhacker wanders the plains of a wounded country, haunted by both past and present horrors as he tries to flee that which cannot be escaped. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare and sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E7 · Tue, November 15, 2022
Well
Living on his uncle's farm at the turn of the century, a young boy begins to suspect that something nameless dwells under the surface. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of physical spousal and child abuse. Listener discretion is advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E6 · Tue, November 01, 2022
The Bogeymen
A community in rural Montana is terrorized by a new and relentless menace – but no one realizes how existential the threat truly is. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial estrangement and domestic terrorism, and contains descriptions of violence and gore. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
Bonus · Sun, October 30, 2022
Gloaming
A teenage outcast finds strange succor on Halloween night. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of homophobia, bullying, and familial loss, and may be triggering for some listeners. Discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
Trailer · Wed, October 19, 2022
Halloween Special Announcement
In observance of the holiday, and in appreciation for my listeners, there will be a special episode forthcoming the Sunday prior to Halloween.
S1 E5 · Tue, October 18, 2022
Festive
A woman who has spent her entire adulthood traveling from one city and one contract to another settles into the house left to her by a late relative, and slowly comes to realize that one of her new neighbors possesses a little too much holiday enthusiasm. ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of transphobia and familial loss, and may be triggering for some listeners. Listener discretion advised.*** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E4 · Tue, October 04, 2022
Locusts
A housewife and caretaker feels overwhelmed by the events in her life, and by the recent hardship of her community. But there is something far more threatening just over the horizon. ***Content warning: This episode contains scenes pertaining to age-related cognitive disease, as well as numerous references to insects, and may be triggering for some listeners. Discretion is advised.*** Cover image adapted from: Arphia pseudonietana, Red-winged Grasshopper, red wings, ID Confidence: 98 © 2012 by Robert Webster is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E3 · Tue, September 20, 2022
Homestead
A young and troubled man, drawn involuntarily back to the country and the life he tried to escape, is soon snared by a far darker mystery. Cover image adapted from original: Abandoned Homestead @ 2012 by William Neuheisel , licensed and included under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license . You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E2 · Tue, September 06, 2022
Black Hole Eyes
An insidious but devastating evil visits itself upon a small-town family... perhaps not for the first time. Who can say how many lives it has touched, or how long it has wandered these darker pastures? ***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of child victimization, familial violence, and suicide, and contains scenes with gun violence. Listener discretion is strongly advised. *** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
S1 E1 · Wed, August 24, 2022
Butcherbird
Two soon-to-be college freshmen, torn between hope and anxiety for their shared futures, meet terror on the road. ***Content warning: This episode contains themes of misogyny and racism, the threat of sexual violence, and some gore. Listener discretion is strongly advised. *** You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
Thu, August 11, 2022
Teaser
These are the darker pastures of America... You can now text the show here with feedback or questions! Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any feedback or inquiries regarding the show, please feel free to drop me a line at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com . You can also support the show at patreon.com/DarkerPastures or at darkerpastures.buzzsprout.com , and receive special bonus content!
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