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Darker Pastures is a biweekly 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.
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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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.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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***In loving memory of Manfred von Katzstein, darkling prince of felinity.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.
A house that has long stood as a silent monument to past hardship becomes the locus of a new disquiet.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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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.***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.
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. ***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.
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