This is my first experiment with what I call audio fiction upgraded: narrated stories enhanced with a composed musical score and sound design.

I find it pretty effective experience. This format will be the primary way I share my next stories—which I’ll add to this podcast feed. Most of them will be experiments in horror that I promise will scare you shitless… as I work towards Grimoire, which I’m developing as a longform, novel-length version of this audio concept.

Thoughts, ideas, feedback on the story, mix, music?

Leave them in the comments.

Maker. Writing, narration, score, sound recordings and design by Cosmo Wallace, 2022.

Musical score encorporates the excellent Spitfire Audio VSTs Contemporary Drama Kit and Albion Tundra.

Sound Recorded on my Tascam DR-40X around Northern Denmark: crows and birdsong near Humlebæk Railway Station, wind and forest sounds in Nivå Harbour and Krogerup Forest. Narration recorded on a Blue Microphones Yeti.