Selene

A Strange City Lying Alone.

Selene is an immersive supernatural, mystery and horror audiodrama.

Listen in and explore a strange city lying alone. A city filled with supernatural mysteries and horrors, shrouded in a dark emerald haze. Inspired by the art of the early twentieth century, the city of Selene is in transition: between gaslights and lightbulbs, carriages and motor cars.

Selene is a city of great change, where technology challenges the dark supernatural underpinnings of the city itself, and contains a populace dedicated to hedonism and vice designed to numb themselves to the horrors in the fog.

In this narrated fiction podcast a myriad of connected stories and a range of characters spread across the city. The show features moments of immersive audio with ghost stories, murder mysteries and horror – all with a dash of dark humour and a range of vintage parody ads.

Selene is written, produced and performed by Aaron J. Reardon.

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Season 20

The Dodo- Episode Ten

In 1806 we find the first mention of the term cocktail in The Balance and Columbian Repository it defines the cocktail thusly:
“Cock tail, a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters,…it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.

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The Dodo - Episode Nine

Felicity teaches a lesson in proper spa etiquette.

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The Dodo - Episode Eight

I touched it!

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The Dodo - Episode Seven

Ever drink from a unicorn horn?

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The Dodo - Episode Six

A warehouse and the ol' seagull trick.

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The Dodo - Episode Five

Clock ticks in a wisteria room. Some tea and cakes, and an unexpected suggestion from Mister Pumble.

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The Dodo - Episode Four

A slight apology paired with the just right flowers will get you to the stoop.

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The Dodo - Episode Three

Evan heads to The Nightshade Cafe, to get some bread to feed the ducks and lends a hand hunting a pond monster.

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The Dodo - Episode Two

Felicity and Evan visit Lanula Park, but Lavendula isn't receiving visitors.

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The Dodo - Episode One

A new year and a new story for Selene - we return to the narrated roots with an adventure for two noted insomniacs, and it all begins at the Grandiloquent Stacks.

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Season 19

Telling the Bees

Near death, Inspector Braxton tests his faith and gets help from unexpected places.

Featuring the voice talents of:
John Kennard - Inspector Braxton
Tali Hamilton - Sister Thea

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The Baron's Bogie Bash

Every year in Selene the annual Bogie Party celebrates the spooky season. Felicity Founders has some new competition ever since The Spirits Baron Mizra Kovach arrived in town and built his palace The Revels on the shores of Parvum Pond. While his grounds swell with revelers - we join this party in the VIP, Mizra’s underground dungeon.

Featuring the amazing talents of:
Mizra & Braxton - John Kennard
Pendleton - Jeremiah Dalton
Charity - Aubrey Akers
Jane - SJ Harris
Bennet - Alister Cado
Jules - Tali Hamilton

Original song ‘Once’ written by John Kennard and AJR

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Admiring The Filigree (teaser)

An Edmund and Charity kerfuffle -

Charity - Aubrey Akers
Braxton - John Kennard
Bennet - Alister Cado
Jane - SJ Harris
Newsboy - Tali Hamilton

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A Bit of the News - Poison at The Palace

Hot tips from around Selene!

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Masie's Mystery - The Choreographer's Last Dance

And a Mister Fitz's Figment!

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The Pins - The Case of Sleeping Beauty

It’s the premiere of Zuka as Prima Ballerina in the Sleeping Beauty ballet at The Palace Theater. The Pins are en-route to investigate a series of creepy letters threatening Zuka’s life if she dare take the stage the night of her performance.

This episode features the amazing acting talents of:
Tali Hamilton as Zuka Ivanova
John Kennard as Inspector Braxton/Mizra Kovach
Aubrey Akers as Charity Suitor / Daphne Wegg
SJ Harris as Jane Gadsby
Jeremiah Dalton as Pendleton
Alister Cado as Inspector Bennet

Featuring music from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.
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Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty - Musical Theme

Musical preview of upcoming episode

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Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty Op. 66 - Dasante

Musical preview of upcoming episode

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The Boat Ride (Teaser)

A teaser for the upcoming episode of The PINS.

This teaser features the talents of:
Boat Guard - John Kennard
Inspector Bennet - Alister Cado
Talkative Prisoner - Jamie Petronis (From the fantastic audiodrama The Cellar Letters: https://www.thecellarletters.com/)

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A Bit of the News - Hey Cutie, Why Ya Snoozing?

Summer news, weather, trivia, and new horrorscope!

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The Dance of the Octopus

Her name was Zuka. Her earliest memory of her father was of him sharpening his knife while she played with the river trout he had brought home fresh from the market.

This episode of Selene features the talents of Tali Hamilton in the role of Zuka/Inessa

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HP Lovecraft - The Outsider

A reading of HP Lovecraft's - The Outsider

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Musical Interlude

Please enjoy this short musical interlude with a fresh mix of The William Tell Overture

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Masie's Mystery - The Two Man Act

You might want to partner up for this mystery.

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A Bit of the News - Screams of Delight!

Springtime news, weather, trivia, and new predictions from The Great Coswald!

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The Pins - The Case of Stuttering Peter

Can Inspector Braxton deliver an informant to Needle Street before the Duncan's get their mits on him? This city moves faster, but the shadows still lurk underneath it. Everyday in Selene - a new story, a new ending.

This episode includes the talents of:
John Kennard - Inspector Braxton/Stroud
Andi Dawson - Stuttering Peter/ Duncan's Goon

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Masie's Mystery - The Rotten Ear

These mysteries will really grow on you.

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Ballad of The Child Eater

*Trigger Spider Warning

He walked a little funny from a stiff leg. He was an older, bent man with a shuffle. He smoked loosely rolled, bent cigarettes to the nub and his name during the day was Coulson.

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Minerva's Collection V

Save Your Regrets for Tomorrow!

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Masie's Mystery - The Candle Snuffed

Another wax conundrum and a Mister Fitz's Candle Figment

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A Bit of the News - Our Crypts are Sealed

Hot tips from around Selene.

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The Pins - The Case of the Melted Wax

The Catacombs of Selene, recently uncovered. No one knew it was there until a group of festering feral felines began caterwauling in the night. Igniting the curiosity of a couple intrepid archeologists from Selene’s historical society as they made their way down the stone stairs, into the vault.

This episode includes the talents of:
John Kennard - Inspector Braxton/Stroud/Tombs
Andi Dawson - Archeologist/Cabbie
SJ Harris - Jane Gadsby

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Masie's Mystery - The Vanishing Butcher

A Butcher's Ledger and a assistant's assault!

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A Bit of the News - Murderer in Pigtails

Hot tips from around Selene.

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The Pins - The Case of the Butcher's Bill

Squeals in the night, a buzzsaw, a blade. A glance, or some perfume, a seduction is made. Can The Pins find the missing husbands of Pig Alley or did a witch steal them away and add them to her dark tally.

This episode includes the talents of:
John Kennard - Foreman / Judge Tombs / Alley Resident
SJ Harris - Jane Gadsby/Lavinia

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Masie's Mystery - The Baked Epitaph

Another baker conundrum and a Mister Fitz's Graveyard Figment

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A Bit of the News - Pearls Before Swine

Hot tops from around Selene!

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The Pins - The Case of the Odd Baker

A haunted oven in The Gaslight District of Old Selene. Inspector Braxton sniffs out the good sourdough with some help from Wegg and Charity.

This episode includes the talents of:
John Kennard - Inspector Braxton/Prisoner
Mike Hall - Hambershim
Ren_ (https://twitter.com/Ren_cant) - Shop Girl -
SJ Harris - Jane Gadsby

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Season 18

Minerva's Collection - IV

A collection of Minerva's Solutions in the winter chill.

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A Bit of the News - Rug Pull at The Pond

It’s time for A Bit of the News – hot tips from around Selene!

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The Corpse Flower - Episode Three

Maude Minvera stood in the penthouse of the Minerva tower, blue lotus drops circulating in her veins keeping the black worm parasite subdued. She was drinking in the ostentatious figure that was her grandmother Miriam Minerva, unknown to her her entire life. It would have been difficult to take in the room, her grandmother and the great lie she’d been told with a clear head, let alone filled with diluted blue lotus.

Happy New Year!!

This season features Bach's Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor

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The Corpse Flower - Episode Two

Temperance bounced down the stairs with a rare smile, she was dressed in a draped top and harem pants gathered at the ankle, with matching sequined slippers. her platinum hair was up in a bun, held in place not with the decorative comb her mother had bought her, but a simple wooden pencil. She spent all day getting her outfit right, and the pencil with the name facing outward at just the correct angle took most of that time. It was the last full length pencil in the house, one with the name Duncan proudly stamped into the wood.

This season features Bach's Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor

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The Corpse Flower - Episode One

Shiner came to on the cellar floor of the Tannery House. His hot cheek pressed on the cold stone, his mouth and throat extended, a dark puddle before him, and a dead black worm parasite in its last throes of miserable life.

This season features Bach's Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor

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Season 17

A Bit of the News - Parvum Pond Gets Petunias

It’s time for A Bit of the News – hot tips from around Selene!

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The Fata Morgana - Episode Three

The Fata Morgana a train blazing through the night. What spirits can brave The Wilds and all its whispers and all its frights? Poor Jane Gadsby is on the hunt for a countess who’s never been – will she figure it out before they arrive in Selene?

This season features the song Creation by David Fesliyan
Cast for The Fata Morgana season:
SJ Harris - The Countess & JJ Gadsby
John Kennard - Baron Kovach & Vincenzo The Magician
Jeremiah Dalton - Pendleton
Andi Dawson - Train Porter
Mike Hall - The Waiter & other voices
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The Fata Morgana - Episode Two

The Fata Morgana, the night train to Selene - a comfortable dinner and a Countess who's gone missing. A panicked servant and a group of travelers gather, huddled in the hallway to see what’s the matter.

This season features the song Creation by David Fesliyan
Cast for The Fata Morgana season:
SJ Harris - The Countess & JJ Gadsby
John Kennard - Baron Kovach & Vincenzo The Magician
Jeremiah Dalton - Pendleton
Andi Dawson - Train Porter
Mike Hall - The Waiter & other voices
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The Fata Morgana - Episode One

A Countess, a magician, a baron and a country lass - a trip on the Fata Morgana, in the upper class. A night train journey enjoying the comfortable cabins and delightful cuisine, they’ve all stumbled into some trouble on this season of Selene.
This season features the song Creation by David Fesliyan
Cast for The Fata Morgana season:
SJ Harris - The Countess & JJ Gadsby
John Kennard - Baron Kovach & Vincenzo The Magician
Jeremiah Dalton - Pendleton
Andi Dawson - Train Porter
Mike Hall - The Waiter & other voices
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Season 16

Minerva's Solution Collection III

A collection of Minerva's Solutions before the cold season sets in.

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Halloween Special - Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

A Poe special for this Halloween - The pale, blue eye and strange love.

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A Bit of the News - Dust Up Decorates with Devastation

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Bogie's Useless Head - Episode Three

The game has finished, but there's one leftover. She takes a swing at the marionette and we learn how to make The Sawdust cocktail.

This season features the The Ghost Song by White Ghost Shivers, vocals by Jeremy Slemenda

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Bogie's Useless Head - Episode Two

Sawdust plays a game of Bogie's Useless Head the party game you should never play at home...

This season features the The Ghost Song by White Ghost Shivers, vocals by Jeremy Slemenda

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Bogie's Useless Head - Episode One

It's time for this year's spooky Bogie party! Did you get an invite? Grab your favorite cocktail and burn some shoe leather, this year we have a surprise guest and he's got some fun games he wants to play!

This season features the The Ghost Song by White Ghost Shivers, vocals by Jeremy Slemenda

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Season 15

A Bit of the News - Restful Sleep for the Weary

It’s time for A Bit of the News – hot tips from around Selene!

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The Frog Battery - Episode Four

Oh my we left things in quite a situation. How could we possibly imagine such a gruesome scenario even by some tea leaf divination. The Lotus Eaters Salon in room number eleven following clues as a team, up at the Duchess hotel where every floor is thirteen. A finger, some feet a dead waiter and now this? A locked wardrobe foreboding a singed sulfur bliss. Perhaps not look, perhaps leave it be, there’s no need to follow every clue of the lost finger mystery.

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The Frog Battery - Episode Three

The Lotus Eaters were gathered in their café for dinner, and dinner was served. Not Oysters Rockefeller or Lobster Thermador or Beef Wellington. No Chicken Ala King, wouldn’t that be nice? Instead the surly waiter served them two chopped human feet, sitting in a large block of ice.

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The Frog Battery - Episode Two

Where did we end? It was a little conundrum with a finger on a table and a puzzled consortium of intellectual punsters of wily wit, of Parker and Sebastian of the Lotus Eaters git.

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The Frog Battery - Episode One

Oh would you look at the time it’s flown by so fast, it’s been far to long since we payed a visit to The Duchess Hotel, at last. Grab your best and primp and preen, for The Duchess Hotel where every floor is thirteen.

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Season 14

The Standing Corpse - Episode Six

The finale to The Standing Corpse. Masie confronts Mister Pedigree, but Brittleteeth has a trick up her sleeve.
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The Standing Corpse - Episode Five

Curios Log – Masie Meyers. The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated, or perhaps premature – the night is still young. My recorder is a bit waterlogged, so hope this works.
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The Standing Corpse - Episode Four

I was pacing in the mud at Black Pond, Fitz and I had just barely escaped the killer from Pedigree's new candy factory. Brittleteeth had pulled the bones of Owen McCleary from the pond depths and now was keeping his skull in the office. What did Brittleteeth need with the bones of an inventor?
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The Standing Corpse - Episode Three

Trapped in my own bones in Mister Pedigree’s candy factory, staring at a black skull. The name Owen McCleary repeating in my head and someone’s coming through that door.
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The Standing Corpse - Episode Two

The killer left a pile of candy wrappers and a handbill to a new candy factory on the river. A big flashy showcase for all the girls and boys. Last thing this city needs is more sugar, more distraction. The Stix are about to revolt and the division is going to tear this city in half.
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The Standing Corpse - Episode One

My name is Masie Meyers – Curio for the Department of Curiosity. To whoever hears this, this recording will be my last, because I have been murdered...
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Season 13

The Two Penny Hangover - Episode Seven

Teddy Duncan stood in the Duncan’s Union headquarters overlooking the sunken district of The Stix, the working class neighborhood under the Lethe river. A grey late morning with a clear view out his window to the rail lines and steam cranes on the docks. Seagulls circling, the boat nets hauled with giant hooks, hoists pulling crates onto train car platforms roped down for the journey to the warehouses. Foreman shouting to crews echoed over the rooftops with leaky water towers and the odd pigeon coop.
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The Two Penny Hangover - Episode Six

In the city of Selene, as you walk the streets, if you ever see a penny in a crack in the sidewalk, walk on by without giving it a second look. Everyone knows this - why you may ask, well this this is due to the well known stuck penny curse and the sad story of a woman named Nora.
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The Two Penny Hangover - Episode Five

Can you see out in those streets, do you see those piles? That’s The Stix rejecting all their new baubles, the rubber tires and electric stoves, cast off vanities. We’ve built walls from that discard – blocked the bridges so that no more motorcars or no powerlines or no more Minerva’s Starlings go riding down here. We do no need it!
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The Two Penny Hangover - Episode Four

Unfortunately, it was not a great time on the streets of Selene, there had been several high-profile murders throughout the city. The killer had left letters with the bodies that somehow made it to the Lantern Paper and were published. The killer, calling themselves The Rattletrap, claimed to be from the Stix and was moving uptown to kill the wealthy while taunting them.
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The Two Penny Hangover - Episode Three

Sesserin was tall and sinewy with defined muscles from his intensive fencing workouts. He maintained them in his late middle age – believed in a vigorous daily routine, built a gymnasium into a floor at Halite, and had a long steam before sliding into one of his tailored suits.
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The Two Penny Hangover - Episode Two

The three Duncan brothers - Teddy, Remy, and Lenny found themselves in an empty room with a dirt floor, under the main stairs just below street level. Their parents had left in the night, while the boys slept on a small, worn rug. The three of them under the age of six, huddled on a crate together in the damp cold. They had rumbling bellies and no shoes, but an empty room that was paid through the end of the month.
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The Two Penny Hangover - Episode One

Across the Stye stone bridge, a crumbling bridge as old as anyone can remember, the last gaslight lamp marking the end of the city, two gents push a rickety wooden cart through the green fog for some nefarious business.
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Season 12

The Widow's Walk - Episode Three

As a storm rolled into Lanula Park and covered the mansions of Park Row, a pretzel boy stood out on The widow's walk of Lavendula.
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The Widow's Walk - Episode Two

A stormy night for a reunion at Bridewell House. Madame Viola Walker is chained to the parlor table, whilst Brianna her discarded and bitter sister, hovers over her with a dirty shovel.
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The Widow's Walk - Episode One

The Voldat sisters Viola and Vivienne (Ve Ve for short) grew up wealthy in the folds of the affluent but oft-troubled Voldat family. Young Vivienne was sent away to the asylum Ludlow, and due to her defiant nature, Vivienne was given aggressive treatments. Viola, in contrast, grew up in luxury and society and married Leopold walker and he built for her the purple house of park row, Lavendula, but the Voldat curse caught up with her as well...
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Season 11

The Fainting Couch - Episode Three

From the other Curio reports, it sounds as if the sleepwalker activity has reduced in the city. I don't know why it started in the first place. I don't know why it has subsided, but my hunch is going forward that they will come in and flow out like a tide whenever whoever is controlling them needs to advance their plans.
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The Fainting Couch - Episode Two

I’m sorry for the restraints Mr. Goodman. I know you just want to go home, but you’ve been sick. And we need to run a few tests before we let you leave. I’m going to have them remove your gag, as long as you promise not to scream...
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The Fainting Couch - Episode One

Why did I come in here? I was, was looking for…..
Why did I come in here?
I was in the other room and then I came in here to get something….
What was it?
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Season 10

The Shame Eater - Episode Three

Millie Minerva had taken over the duties of brewing the crabapple cider from her fasting sister Mercy, the shame eater. It was sweet with a sharp tang that woke up the tongue and provided a lovely light buzz like a spring breeze. Millie’s wasn’t as quite as good as Mercy’s used to be, but only the family could tell and they couldn’t keep the bottles stocked fast enough.
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The Shame Eater - Episode Two

Mercy Minvera, a fasting girl, had quickly been monikered The Shame Eater for her ability to pull the shame from people and provide relief with her touch. The Minerva sisters - enterprising young girls, started selling cider, and homemade soaps to those standing in line waiting for a visit with Mercy. Any guilt about exploiting their sister's ability slowly washed away with the dreams of buying the neighboring plots of land and re-establishing the Minerva family crabapple orchards.
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The Shame Eater - Episode One

The Minvera family lived in a fine two-story home, with a wraparound porch, scalloped wood trim like fish scales, a short round tower with a cone roof, and a tiny balcony off the second-story bedroom. It was an inheritance leftover from what was once the family house that looked over a great orchard, but now it sat on a small, uneven plot of land fenced in on each side over time by different neighbors so that each section of property fence ended in odd places with odd alleys between them...
This episode features the poem In Praise of Shame by Lord Alfred Douglas
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Season 9

The Spirit Cabinet - Episode Four

The parasites are spreading, making everyone act wild. The sleepwalkers are hunting Curios, something immolated an Overland Dust partner. There are roving clowns stealing faces, witches crawling out of music boxes, and a coal and ash man stealing children. Corruption and poisoners and now murderous sleepwalkers and something is sending wooden casks out into the city. A falling knife has no handle.
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The Spirit Cabinet - Episode Three

The nights in winter are longer, and colder and darker from the chill. The tracks we follow in the snow, the ones dusted into oblivion, where do they go? Who wandered out into the cold and into the nothingness of the dark? What hunts in that dark? What subverts its own safety to brave that cold?
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The Spirit Cabinet - Episode Two

The brownstone mansions of Park Row were impressive in their lavishness and the seeping bright colors of pinks and lavenders and shades of indigo. The Bridewell House sat at the end of the lane, trying to hide its institutional shape with strategically placed elm and red oak trees and a high, manicured hedge. The Brickwork that formed the bulk of the structure was a deep, rich red, and its thick paned windows held with iron latches seemed to ready for troubled spirits that might have the inclination to flee.
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The Spirit Cabinet - Episode One

Who wants to see some more magic? Tonight we’ve guessed what's in your pockets, and summoned spirits to write on chalkboards. you’ve seen levitation, you’ve seen water run backward, and you’ve seen a woman change outfits in a shower of silver leaves from an umbrella....But you haven’t seen anything like this
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Season 8

The Crooked Lantern - Episode Four

If the letter the postman delivered was correct, in a few short days he would be a groom. No amount of licking his hands and smoothing down his hair would suffice - he would need to acquire a tophat and tails for his big day.
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The Crooked Lantern - Episode Three

Miss Suitor, Charity.. The results were horrific, we even pulled the sketch artist out of the tunnel as it was sheets of burnt carnage. I couldn’t sleep the night I read that report, so thank you for that. I feel for her in her loneliness and I would love to bring her some kind of satisfaction, but we’re not going to reopen old wounds to chase a ghost.
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The Crooked Lantern - Episode Two

The Old Oak sat not far from the edge of the road and loomed over a smooth green field that stretched flat into a small grove on the horizon. That old oak, like the last of an ancient race, its long branch tendrils snaking out, creating a cover that could have been an empire to itself and held the autumn mist as it rolled the field as if embracing a plume of smoke within its arms to dew the leaves and whisper secrets into each dark knot that lead down to the mossy earth imps that listened from deep within the deadfall.
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The Crooked Lantern - Episode One

There is a lantern at the center of Selene. But It wasn't not always at the center.
Originally at the entrance to the port sat a tower of granite with a glass flame at the top, and in it, the fires flickered to announce to ships they had arrived. In those days, the print shops pressed pamphlets out by hand. They would send runners out to the lighthouse to wait for any news as the ships came in from afar...
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Season 7

The Bogie Party - Episode Three

In Felicity Founders Penthouse apartment, the partygoers had run out into the streets on a scavenger hunt and those left behind were entangled in a murder mystery. Felicity's body laid on the library floor and the apartment was filled with puzzles to unlock the guests dirty secrets.
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The Bogie Party - Episode Two

It is essential for any host to make sure during the spooky season to keep your guests inebriated, entertained, and stuffed full of sweet treats as they play out their games and tricks. Let us open the annual periodical to help support these festivities. The Bogie book tells us that there is apt to be a lull after the refreshments have been served. A few stunts will liven up the party. Felicity Founders, our hostess, was fantastic at stunts.
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The Bogie Party - Episode One

Felicity Founders was dead and a murderer on the loose inside her penthouse apartment. Who among this group was the killer, what dark secrets are held between pairs, and what kind of twisted game are they playing at this season’s Bogie Party?
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Season 6

The Face Peeler - Episode Five

Next door at Lavendula the Walker family and their manservant Pumble dragged themselves up the front walk. They stopped for a moment to watch the messenger and Sesserin exchange, and then walked in the front door of Lavendula bedraggled, soaking wet, and covered in filth.
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The Face Peeler - Episode Four

They risked the Funhouse and out the other side, lost their friend Jules in the excitement. Cornelia went looking and only found Madame Lenore to read her a bold fortune gifting her a star. Pumble who had run out of egg phosphates, was finding Madame Viola more difficult to manage.
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The Face Peeler - Episode Three

They’d taken Madame Viola to the celestial seaside amusement park for the day to get away from some new construction and Cooper had just experienced a rush she’d never felt before, having an imaginary flower from a cute clown, and almost floating into the funhouse with her sister Cornelia and boisterous friend Jules.
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The Face Peeler - Episode Two

Jules pointed to a big, bright sign hand-painted with a map illustrating the entire park - from the entrance the path lead them through the new innovation exhibitions, down to the sideshow and acrobatic tents and food midway, past the funhouse then on closer to the water with the mermaid water show and diving tank and then the imposing face peeler roller coaster that swung out over the water. Then past a floating barge with a boxing ring exhibition sponsored by Duncan’s Matches And then at the end of the pier, a giant aeronautical balloon made of canvas in bright colors netted and tethered at the pier side for a lucky few random raffle winners to ascend into the clouds at dusk to see the expanse of the city, the illuminated Vega’s light wheel and Celestial park in all of its radiant brilliance.
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The Face Peeler - Episode One

What’s in a face? The literal features that shape so much of how the world receives us and also the ones we manufacture to compliment the physical, reflected in various distortions. How exhausting to maintain a visage so separate from our internal face, to show the world only a small portion of who we really are, or one fabricated completely. If given the choice, would you swap faces with someone else? Would you peel yours away and start fresh?
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Season 5

The Sotto Voce - Episode Six

Can sanguine hearts mitigate the suffering of those less fortunate?
A crushing loss for Temperance, and a close to one chapter, and opening another. As quickly as the drawer for The Sotto Voce closed, the one for The Sotto Witch opens, as Masie tracks her old friend across the city wherever she may frighten.
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The Sotto Voce - Episode Five

Why is it so difficult to demolish the ancient temples dedicated to our dark fouls? Anchored deep in previous cruelty and malice? What festering remnants of past lives do we leave behind as we try to hide, vanishing into calm, dark nights? The Sotto Voce resists, no man nor machine can pull down its walls, tempered by the satisfaction of mocking the Overland Dust Company Landlords and the absent Baron of Music, the Maestro Domenico Fontana.
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The Sotto Voce - Episode Four

The Sotto Voce, the house of whispers, created from the remnants of a ghost ship, employed in an opera by a maestro that slowly went mad. Four neighborhood children were trapped inside. Three little girls had been chased to the basement, by an old musical feind, but now having crept back up the stairs, they peered through a crack and realized their troubles had tripled.
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The Sotto Voce - Episode Three

Enocke Green, the runaway boy was somewhere in the house, but the three girls. Temperance, Antigone, and Masie were calming in the temporary safety of the dark stairwell, lit only by matchlight.
Temperance and Antigone couldn't hear the house scream, but helped Masie limp along to compensate for her vertigo.
Three monstrous trucks drove around the pond edge to the end of the road in front of the Park Row mansions. Trailing a short distance behind was an old carriage carrying four old, bent men wiping the condensation from the windows so they could see. The trucks arrived, the first carrying a crew of heavy laborers that had agreed to triple wage for an intense overnight shift, to quickly make work of demolishing the old Maestro’s house, The Sotto Voce. The second held something under heavy rain cover and the third truck had a load of tethered barrels.
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The Sotto Voce - Episode Two

Three monstrous trucks drove around the pond edge to the end of the road in front of the Park Row mansions. Trailing a short distance behind was an old carriage carrying four old, bent men wiping the condensation from the windows so they could see. The trucks arrived, the first carrying a crew of heavy laborers that had agreed to triple wage for an intense overnight shift, to quickly make work of demolishing the old Maestro’s house, The Sotto Voce. The second held something under heavy rain cover and the third truck had a load of tethered barrels.
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The Sotto Voce - Episode One

It was a gloomy morning at the edge of Parvum Pond. The early mist had not dissipated, but instead climbed up the slight incline, engulfing the vanguard of the park row mansions and mixing with the slight drizzle from the grey sky. Four old buzzards in capes and top hats, sat hunched in an undecorated coach as it pulled up past The houses of Lavendula, Mulberry, Halite, and beyond a thick, overgrown hedge filled with dark thorns, bramble, and tiny poisonousness berries.
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Season 4

The Murder Follies - Episode Six

The Show must go on. Max and company spared the reputation of Madame Mustaches, Max pre-sold tickets to real opening of Pharaoh and booked in an entire season of acts to the stage, including a new magician's act featuring a spirit cabinet. Bennet interrogated Rudy Valerio at Needle street with some of the other inspectors. Charity thanked Max for his hospitality but set off into the city once again, a copy of The Lantern newspaper in her hands and a job circled in pencil.
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The Murder Follies - Episode Five

Hope’s fingers wrapped around Charity’s neck, her thumbs pressing hard on her trachea. Charity had just slipped from consciousness just behind the curtain in the dark stage of the variety theater Madame Mustache’s. The audience had breached the doors, slowly streaming in and taking their seats. The house a murmur of rumors of the murder that had taken place on that very stage the night before. One slight tug on the curtain rope and the audience would be witnessing the second murder on that very spot and open the show to the one night only Murder Follies.
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The Murder Follies - Episode Four

Word had spread about the playwright Arthur’s murder. Inspector Bennet from Needle Street had been inside the theater all day, interrogating witnesses and looking for clues. Although, why he was currently crammed inside a small corridor on his hands and knees under the stage in complete darkness he didn’t know. But his companion, The Curio Maise Myeres, had felt something amiss and wanted to show him what she’d found….
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The Murder Follies - Episode Three

Maximillian didn’t want to benefit from his friend Arthur’s demise, but he had to bridge the news of the murder and refocus everyone on the stars and performances of the theater. Arthur’s body was carried away, a final dramatic act for the stage, his first ever role outside of playwright. A paranoia had settled in among the cast and crew, everyone moving too fast to stop and accept what had happened, but in the back of their minds knowing there was a killer on the loose.
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The Murder Follies - Episode Two

Arthur Penmoomb was dead. A playwright and sometimes short story writer, the scribe of Madame Mustache's had been murdered the night before the opening of their most ambitious production to date The Curse of the Pharaoh. Was it the Pharaoh's curse? Or did something reach out from Arthur's past?
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The Murder Follies - Episode One

Where do the lost dreams of Selene escape and smear into colored streams, flowing into gutters with the rain? where does promise rise and unfurl with the thick red velvet of a curtain? What exactly is a show and how do you draw the line of a stage? A distraction from ourselves, an intoxication, a slight promise. Are we all not actors from moments as we awake?
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Season 3

The Duchess Hotel - Episode Six

We take comfort that someone is maintaining these wonderful lairs like the Duchess. Like the sound of Vincent’s typewriter spilling words on the page or the sound of a cocktail shaker pouring out the first round as Lloyd tries out a new concoction on Cecil at The Carousel Bar. As Thurston prepares a new soup of the day at The Galliard, as Winston checks in another guest. You can rest assured, there’s always a room available for you at The Duchess.
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The Duchess Hotel - Episode Five

Bankers, artists, mavens and magicians, actors and titans and models and musicians, society and even a criminal or two, at the Wormwoord Revelry at the Duchess Radiance Ballroom. The event of the season, where all the decadence on display at the Duchess hotel decorated resplendent in emerald for today.
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The Duchess Hotel - Episode Four

Tonight’s the night, the event of the season, the hotel is bright, lit up like a beacon for the Wormwood Revelry. Everyone is dressed so fine, for a bite and night of absinthe and wine and champagne and glorious treats of confection and …flesh.
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The Duchess Hotel - Episode Three

Up on the 13th floor of The Duchess hotel - a poisoners card game, Victor's ennui and a Kitchen Quandry.
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The Duchess Hotel - Episode Two

What’s a hotel but a place for the wayward shadows of Selene. A place where you can satisfy every indulgence and you don’t have to clean. Steal all the towels and eat soup in bed, play a card game with a Duncan and a poisoner named Fred. The Duchess hotel was built with a dream, and that dream is a dark one where every floor is thirteen.
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The Duchess Hotel - Episode One

A few days a few nights, some debaucherous fun. Get away from your mundane life and go on the run. At the carousel bar with lights and painted fauna, or deep in the Mollycoddle spa where you can take a steam and a sauna. A fandango or foxtrot at The Radiance Ballroom, up the shakey elevator like a wandering tomb. So come listen again for this new season of Selene, come for a stay at the Duchess hotel, where every floor is thirteen.
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Season 2

The Doll Hospital - Episode Seven

A birthday party, an odd gift, and a history lesson.
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Episode References:
Remember by Christina Rossetti
Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll
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The Doll Hospital - Episode Six

Digging up family secrets and putting something to rest.
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Remember by Christina Rossetti
Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll
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The Doll Hospital - Episode Five

Viola tours Ludlow and Maise deals with some hard labor.
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Remember by Christina Rossetti
Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll
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The Doll Hospital - Episode Four

Viola gets some bad news. Charity's morning after and Maise is thrown deeper into a nightmare.
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Remember by Christina Rossetti
Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll
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The Doll Hospital - Episode Three

Needle street turns up a lead for Viola. Edmund reveals his surprise and Masie meets a nightmare.
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Remember by Christina Rossetti
Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll
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The Doll Hospital - Episode Two

A visit to Mr. Pedigree's Doll Hospital. Madame Viola asks Hughes to look for something lost. A smoke-filled nightmare.
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Remember by Christina Rossetti
Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll
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The Doll Hospital - Episode One

An ash cloud evolves into something scary, Edmund Greene has a surprise and a Baron's daughter breaks something precious.
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Remember by Christina Rossetti
Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll
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Season 1

The Black Pond - Episode Six (Remastered)

The finale of The Black Pond - A rare warm winter night in the park, Charity and Edmund have a date with a wooden cask.
Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky.
Episode References:
Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea
Rimbaud - Is she an Almah?...
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The Black Pond - Episode Five (Remastered)

The history of Duncan's Matches, Madame Viola pays the ransom for Plum and Constable Hughes stumbles on an underground dice game.
Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky.
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Selene History: Duncan's Matches
Selene Slang: Better ask Lenny.
Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea
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The Black Pond - Episode Four (Remastered)

Pumble drowns and we learn the history of Owen McCleary. Charity trapped in a wardrobe and a ghost in Lanula Park.
Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky.
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Selene history bit: The Death of Owen McCleary
Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea
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The Black Pond - Episode Three (Remastered)

Inspector Bennet and Hughes visit Wegg in the morgue with a surprise Curio guest. Madame Viola's daughters Cornelia and Cooper arrive in to help in the search for Plum. Enocke gets a visit from phrenologist Dr. Quade and a new dental mystery.
Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky.
Episode References:
Selene Recipe: Lavender Viola
Selene Mini-Mystery: Dental Conundrum
Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea
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The Black Pond - Episode Two (Remastered)

Needle street Interrogations, was Enocke the killer? Stir up some tomato bisque, and help solve a mini-mystery: The Piano Murder.
Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky.
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Selene slang: It all goes to Lisa.
Selene Recipe: Eleanor's Scarlet Bisque
Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea
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The Black Pond - Episode One (Remastered)

A strange city with a quiet park in winter. The broken ice of a black pond. A hunt for a missing boy and the ransom for an exotic bird.
Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky.
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Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea
Rimbaud – A Dream for Winter
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Extras

New Show: Plant Murder (Teaser)

New from Clever > Than - Plant Murder unearths the deadly intersection of plants and true crime. Did a Roman Emperor really die from a mushroom? Why did the Victorians invent a deadly pear? Who in the Borgias brandished Belladonna? Teaser for upcoming episode - Claudius vs The Death Cap Mushroom
Was a powerful Roman emperor really murdered by a tiny mushroom?

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Vivaldi Summer - Selene reprise

Enjoy some classic Vivaldi on the stifling summer nights.
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Selene - RQ Promo

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Selene - The Pins of Needle Street

A new beginning for Selene and the Paranormal Investigators of Needle Street. Braxton, Bennet, Hughes, Jane and Wegg get their first assignment, but first they need to do a little cleanup at Needle Street. We've opened up so many dark doors, we must make efforts to close them.

Selene - A Narrated Supernatural Mystery
Theme Song by Matt Vanacoro
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Winter Special - The Little Duncan's Match Girl

A winter story inspired by the original tale by Hans Christian Andersen
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The Fata Morgana - Trailer

A Countess, a magician, a baron, and a country lass - a trip on the Fata Morgana, in the upper class. A night train journey enjoying the comfortable cabins and delightful cuisine. They’ve all stumbled into some trouble on this season of Selene.

Part of the Rusty Quill Network: https://rustyquill.com/show/selene/

This season features the song Creation by David Fesliyan
Cast for The Fata Morgana season:
SJ Harris - The Countess & JJ Gadsby
John Kennard - Baron Kovach & Vincenzo The Magician
Jeremiah Dalton - Pendleton
Andi Dawson - Train Porter
Mike Hall - The Waiter & other voices
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Selene - A Narrated Supernatural Mystery
Theme Song by Matt Vanacoro
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Selene - Rate and Review Spooky Season

To celebrate Spooky Season please take some time to rate and review Selene on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If you want a Tokens of Esteem pack with a rare Lenny Penny and glow in the dark stickers, join our Patreon: www.patreon.com/Cleverthan

Selene - A Narrated Supernatural Mystery
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Minerva's Collection

A collection of Minerva's Solutions while Masie recovers. Why don't you go look for clues or something.
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Selene - Trailer

Selene is a narrated supernatural mystery and horror series of connected stories with over 60 characters across the city. The show encompasses ghost stories, murder mysteries and horror - all with dark humor. Every episode has a vintage parody ad from Minerva’s solutions as well as mini-mysteries, puzzles, riddles and recipes.
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Selene Overview and Season 1-9 Recap - The Past is Prologue

A spoiler-filled overview of the mysterious spirits and places of the city of Selene as well as a recap of seasons one through nine. There Be Dragons!
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The Raven - Halloween Special

A reading of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven - A spell to summon the shadows through the dark season.
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Selene - A Thank You and a Warning

I wish to extend gratitude to you and take a moment to gently remind you to make sure to follow where you can, and please rate and review these unnerved ramblings on whatever portal or platform you utilize. Please help to share and spread the word as much as you can, as we grow, as the city of Selene expands.
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