A horror poetry podcast and film series: gothic and cosmic horror poems, each performed in character by the thing that would eat you. A vampire retells The Tell-Tale Heart, a gargoyle argues the devil must exist, something polite comes up through the pipes, the Snake Man, the Fusion Master, the Stoker, the Quanta, the Coffin Knocker and OSCILLUM, the Spectrum. Written and performed by Nathaniel Perry, a poet and voice actor in Charlotte, North Carolina. Studio stereo for headphones, recorded on a Sennheiser MKH 416 through Universal Audio. Season One: Dark Corners of the Interior. Season Two: The Signal. Season Three: The Legion of Blood Harvesters. Every door is free at nathanielperry.me/poem-cast.
Lie still. You can't. Something is humming in the wood, the glass, the bed, the bone. Then another face rises out of the dark, and another, until the dark is full of them, all shaking in time. Season Three, Door II: OSCILLUM, the Spectrum, the thing that vibrates into your soul. Contains rapid shaking and flashing light. Best with headphones.
5 Nov 2026
Episode 1 — The Coffin Knocker
You wake in the dark, six feet down. You knock three times. Something knocks back, from the box beside you. Season Three, The Legion of Blood Harvesters, opens with the Coffin Knocker. Best with headphones.
31 Oct 2026
Episode 4 — The Quanta
The fourth door of Season Two opens on a room of a thousand screens. Somewhere among the numbers, one of them is watching you. A Poem Cast film, written and performed by Nathaniel Perry. Headphones on. Every door is free at nathanielperry.me/poem-cast.
26 Oct 2026
Episode 3 — The Stoker
You think the lights come from the river. They come for you. Under the city, someone keeps the furnace. Every night you lie awake and burn a little: the worry, the want, the name you never said. Everyone gets the same terms: burn bright and be done by spring, or burn low and last a lifetime. Read by the Stoker, who is what's left when the fire is finished with a man.
26 Oct 2026
Episode 2 — The Fusion Master
Beneath the Andes, past the oldest stairs, lie a hundred eighty billion boxes, each holding a mind still dreaming. From every one, a single amber thread, knotted and braided into an orb of minds that burns without a sun. It drinks them in, then pours them back, until there is no skin, no wall, no "me." You taste the salt a widow wept in Lima. Read by the Fusion Master, whose face is mostly light.
26 Oct 2026
Episode 1 — The First Signal
No curse was carved above the door. They looked; they swore there wasn't one. Season Two begins with the descent below the Hall. Read by the Snake Man, the first of the drinkers.
7 Aug 2026
Episode 3 — Intricacies of the Mind
Something arrives in the village of Marrow through the plumbing, and it is unfailingly polite. It pours the tea. It tells you not to mind the key. There is no blood anywhere in this poem and nobody dies — the village simply stops being several people and becomes one. Mind the gurgle in the night.
7 Aug 2026
Episode 2 — Dark Corners of the Mind
Without the dark, no candle earns its name. An argument that the devil is load-bearing — not evil as a villain, but evil as the friction a climbing thing requires. Set, Ahriman, Tiamat, Loki, and the heretics burned for knowledge's sake. Read by a gargoyle, who has been outside for six hundred years and has had time to think about it.
7 Aug 2026
Episode 1 — Recesses of the Mind
A retelling of Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart in which the thing under the floorboards is a phone. A boy tells his parents he lost it, scuffing it on the driveway first so it will look dropped. His mother hugs him. Would a crazy person have gotten the hug? Read by a vampire, who has watched a great many people be undone by an appetite they refused to give up.
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