Knifepoint Horror

A young man’s strange natural gift evolves to wield a disturbing influence. MUSIC: ‘Atmo’ by Jamie Bathgate. All rights reserved. Listen ad-free on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this story originally written for the Halloween 2024 episode of Kevin Lane’s Spill Your Guts podcast to accompany a few Knifepoint Horror tales interpreted by other actors, a man of science relates an encounter with a mysterious desert legend. Written and narrated by Soren Narnia. Patreon subscribers listen ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

A story of desperate men, bad decisions, terrible timing, and unexpected faces in the dark. Additional narration by Charlotte Kulak. Music: “Om Bath” by Yotam Agam and “When the Tide Breaks Free” by James Forest. All rights reserved. Patreon members listen ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally heard on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is the final recording of a man whose chosen profession finally bit back hard. With Amy Paonessa of The Bloodlust podcast. All stories on Knifepoint Horror are written by Soren Narnia. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia  Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings. The Campfire Radio Theater podcast has...

In this ghost story of the Southern Gothic, a new landowner is rapidly submerged in a relative's murky past. Music: “Deja Reve” by DaniHaDani, “Effoliation” by SEA, and “The Racer” by Tristan Barton, all rights reserved. Patreon members listen ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally heard as ‘Q & A With a Vampire Killer’ on the Alexandria Archives podcast, this is a former college student’s reflection on an unusual glimpse into a dangerous world.   All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia  Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings. Learn more about your ad cho...

Ask people in the Cleveland area about The Ron Tanglethorn Show and you might get a few nods here and there. Never the most popular late-night offering on the AM band, it's remembered by diehards mostly for the rather unusual way it signed off the air for good. Music: "Salience Bias" by Art Against Agony, all rights reserved. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia...

A youthful lark across the states takes a man into the heart of an awful anomaly. Music: “Outside Your Grace” by Denhollander, all rights reserved. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written, produced, and edited by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theate...

Opening statements in what would come to be considered one of the strangest trials in the history of New York state. Jessica Holt-Ivers: Emma Fradd All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written, produced, and edited by Soren Narnia. Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia   Patreon supporters listen ad-free and have access to many unreleased offerings. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

When two colleagues in crime come together again after years apart, one reveals a looming threat more awful than incarceration… or even capital punishment. Music: “Soft Lights” by Kyle Preston and “Turn for the Worse” by Jordan Hatfield, all rights reserved. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghos...

A dark October country road, a driver, a hitchhiker... and a strange, strange story told across cold, lonely miles. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' 'Campfire Radio Theater,' 'Tag Till We're Dead,' and others. Patreon: www.pa...

An educator's watch of the winter skies sets him in anxious motion to shelter the innocent. Music: “Cicada Killer” by idokay, “The Heir” by Emmanuel Jacob, “Meeting the Goddess” by Kyle Preston. All rights reserved. Interview with Ila Patton, Galax, Virginia, from the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/009), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. All stories on the Kn...

Five shorter tales… and just a smidgen more. Intro music by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror Podcast. "Hallowed World" by E J R M, all rights reserved. Additional voice: TheFinalGirly. Photo by Diana Siedel. Prologue: Purcell the Creator, Part 1  1. novelty  2. screen-share  3. sleeperette  4. jarprechaun  5. tempt  Epilogue: Purcell the Creator, Part 2    All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podc...

The 19th-century reign of the mysterious Buth Sugo was detailed only in this one ugly, bloody, regrettable record.   Music by Dave Lahn, and also by Emma Fradd of the Sibling Horror Podcast Ad-free listening on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many people who hear things behind their walls suspect their house is haunted, but can’t prove it. Maybe they’re failing to ask one very simple question: How did those walls even come to be? Additional narration by Charlotte Kulak Music: 'Earth' by Doug Reed / Study of Sound, from the album Musica Mundana. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s always a small element of worry that comes when you leave a stranger to watch your property, children, or pets. Even if you’re fully trusting, here comes that gnawing sense that you yourself may have created a problem, because you didn’t quite bring yourself to tell the sitter... everything. Thea Lapp is played by Mig Windows. Ad-free listening on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarn...

Always go very, very slowly through your radio dial, especially late at night. You never quite know when a faint signal will offer something a little unexpected.   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the user reviews of the real-life bar at the center of this story are exactly what you’d expect for a well-liked local business. But then, such reviews are not the medium to express everything that one might feel or sense when the hour grows late, and the lights get low.   Ad-free listening on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

A snowy walk reveals the beginnings of a mystery that grows weirder with each passing hour. Music: “Mercury” from Study of Sound / Doug Reed. All rights reserved.   Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the dead of winter, an old-fashioned ghost story set in a hot and humid place. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the hurting streets of Claysmith, Connecticut, a hideous comedy of errors engulfs the innocent and guilty alike. The cast (in order of appearance) Barb Solomon: Linda Wojtowick Sheriff Pat Solomon: Richard Werner Mitzi from the Detention Center: Beth Abdallah Sharon, Kev’s S.O.: Mig Windows Glen, creative writer: C.S.W.  Mr. Lersch, pharma exec: Wilson James Randall  Donny from the woodshop: Br...

It seemed like a simpler time, and the problems faced by the people in that small rural town seemed simpler too... or maybe it was a dreadful blindness that just made it appear that way. Ad-free listening on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia       Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's usually a moment as you drive alone late at night on a long, desolate country road when you succumb to a brief bleak thought of all that can happen to you out there. Maybe you become nervous about your sudden total dependence on your machine to get you safely back to the world of light. And maybe your surroundings start to seem genuinely scary. This is a story for those who start feeling t...

For sale by Baltimore County: 3 BR, 2 BA single family dwelling on 1/3rd acre in residential section of Seven Bells. Demolition arrangements offered by county at no cost to buyer. Strict confidentiality agreement must be signed by all interested parties before property is viewed or terms discussed. The streaming voices, in order: Frank Schumpert, Amy Paonessa, Richard Werner, and Corey N. Patreon:...

In a suspiciously quiet and unspoiled setting, three friends are beckoned by the liberation found within their darkest impulses. Music: “Flare Star” by Michael Vignola, all rights reserved.   Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices