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...
Feb 14, 2023•29 min•Season 10Ep. 1
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! www.cleverthan.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Twitter: https://twitter.com/ItsMisterToad Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clever.than/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 03, 2023•18 min
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. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagra...
Dec 27, 2022•20 min•Season 9Ep. 4
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? Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Dec 20, 2022•20 min•Season 9Ep. 3
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 inclina...
Dec 13, 2022•21 min•Season 9Ep. 2
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 Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...
Dec 06, 2022•17 min•Season 9Ep. 1
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. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 29, 2022•19 min•Season 8Ep. 4
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. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Clever...
Nov 22, 2022•19 min•Season 8Ep. 3
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 d...
Nov 15, 2022•18 min•Season 8Ep. 2
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... Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com...
Nov 08, 2022•23 min•Season 8Ep. 1
A reading of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven - A spell to summon the shadows through the dark season. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 31, 2022•10 min
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. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 25, 2022•14 min•Season 7Ep. 3
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. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery A Clever >...
Oct 18, 2022•33 min•Season 7Ep. 2
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? Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 11, 2022•14 min•Season 7Ep. 1
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. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 04, 2022•8 min•Season 6Ep. 5
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. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 27, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 4
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. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 20, 2022•18 min•Season 6Ep. 3
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 e...
Sep 13, 2022•25 min•Season 6Ep. 2
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? A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com I...
Sep 06, 2022•10 min•Season 6Ep. 1
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. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 30, 2022•8 min•Season 5Ep. 6
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. --- A Clever Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instag...
Aug 23, 2022•31 min•Season 5Ep. 5
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. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.com Instagram: @clever.than https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. S...
Aug 16, 2022•19 min•Season 5Ep. 4
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 w...
Aug 09, 2022•25 min•Season 5Ep. 3
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 cove...
Aug 02, 2022•16 min•Season 5Ep. 2
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. A Clever Than Production....
Jul 26, 2022•19 min•Season 5Ep. 1
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. New Galleries, Videos, and Music: www.instagram.com/clever.than/ www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 19, 2022•5 min
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. A Clever Than Productio...
Jul 12, 2022•12 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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 ...
Jul 05, 2022•32 min•Season 4Ep. 5
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…. A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy...
Jun 28, 2022•22 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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. ------ A Clever Than Pro...
Jun 21, 2022•25 min•Season 4Ep. 3
