The Screaming Skull—Part Two by F. Marion Crawford
“Think of having boiling lead poured into your brain. Think of it. She was dead before she could scream.” Does that make you shiver? Me, too. Listen o...
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Dark Softly Tales is a weekly podcast of horror, suspense and dark fantasy stories written, produced and narrated by Mav Skye. The podcast will host dark fiction by guest authors and occasional interviews. Eventually, we will add additional weekly episode of true tales of the supernatural and fantastic.
The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford
An old sea captain shares a tale of murder and revenge with a supernatural twist in The Screaming Skull by the fantastic F. Marion Crawford. This is t...
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
We celebrate our 100th episode with a gothic classic from the “saintly days of yorn.” The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is a chilling piece of literature t...
Quickie!
A slight pause between our Summer Bites and autumn kick off. Next week, I'm excited to see you all again in our 100th episode: The Raven by Edgar Alla...
Waste Land by Madison Julius Cawein
Welcome to the Waste land, a place where nothing survives except the grief of dreams. Fun little fact: Madison Julius Cawein's poem Waste Land was pub...
Nothing Gold Can Stay and other poems by Robert Frost
Silence is like a canvas for sound to glide across, and no one shows this better than Robert Frost’s dark, moody prose where wind calls to window flow...
The Truth of Intercourse by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The cruellest lies are often told in silence." Robert Louis Stevenson delivers an interesting viewpoint on silence, expression and speech. After our ...
Silence—A Fable by Edgar Allan Poe
They say the devil spins the best yarns. Edgar Allan Poe puts that theory to the test in his chilling short story, Silence—A Fable. Music: Something D...
Stars in the Rifts, poems by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling leads us into another form of silence within the bounds of the jungle where elephants run for their freedom and metamorphosis turns wo...
Silence by Edgar Lee Masters
Listen in this week as Edgar Lee Masters explores the silence spaces between young and old, country and city, war and peace, man and woman and all the...