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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.
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The son of a Texas ranching dynasty returns from the battlefields of 1918 France to develop newly discovered oil wells on his inheritance, and discovers that his home is irrevocably changed… as is he. **Content Warning: This episode touches upon themes of combat-related PTSD, substance abuse, mental illness, 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 r...
Few could ever hope to understand the events that transpired in the autumn of 1888 on the Černik homestead, nestled in the gently rolling Bohemian Alps of southern Nebraska. Those who could forever maintained a stubborn silence. ***Content Warning: This episode contains themes of familial abuse and child illness. 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 t...
An elderly couple finds their new neighbor troublesome and strange, but they could never guess what dark secrets lie in wait so near to their home. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of the abuse and genocide of Indigenous people, as well as animal cruelty. 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 li...
In the heart of the country, a traveling couple find themselves encountering a persistent shadow of the past – one that just might follow them home. ***Content Warning: This episode touches upon the history of American eugenics, and contains frank depictions of racism and sexual 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...
Returning home to deal with her estranged father's estate, a young woman discovers a strange survival. ***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of parental abuse, familial estrangement, substance abuse, and hoarding, and contains explicit descriptions of decomposition. 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 m...
A tragic 1984 fire continues to haunt one of the survivors in a manner most unnatural. ***Content Warning: Contains repeated and descriptive references to deadly house fires.*** 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.buzzspr...
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 ...
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....
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!
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 o...
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...
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, <www....
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 ...
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 ...
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 l...
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 c...
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 darkerpasturesp...
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 darkerp...
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...
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@g...
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Man these stories are REALLY good, I really like this show, just kinds stumbled into the pasture, I’m from Nebraska and it IS a dark place full of insane people who don’t know any better, a void of despair…. Don’t get me started!!! Kool podcast