Lost in the catacombs of the Gnome Mountains, Lizzie finds a friend and discovers the power of heart stone. Undertow: The Well is a Realm production created by Fred Greenhalgh. Listen away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're there! Listen to this episode ad-free by joining Realm Unlimited or Realm+ on Apple Podcasts. Subscribers also get early access and exclusive bonus content! Visit realm.fm/unlimited Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTo...
Jul 07, 2023•36 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast A friend helps Lizzie and Kyle fight a cockatrice, but this help comes with a high price: Lizzie must steal a wyvern’s egg. Undertow: The Well is a Realm production created by Fred Greenhalgh. Listen away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're there! Listen to this episode ad-free by joining Realm Unlimited or Realm+ on Apple Podcasts. Subscribers also get early access and exclusive bonus content! Visit realm.fm/unlimited Follow us on Instagram, Tw...
Jun 30, 2023•39 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Lizzie and her new friend, Kyle the talking goat, have found a portal to the magical land of Fae. Unfortunately this has put them right in the darkest depths of the ghoul tree forest. Undertow: The Well is a Realm production created by Fred Greenhalgh. Listen away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're there! Listen to this episode ad-free by joining Realm Unlimited or Realm+ on Apple Podcasts. Subscribers also get early access and exclusive bonus ...
Jun 23, 2023•43 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Lizzie returns to her family’s ancestral farmhouse in rural Maine and discovers tapes in the attic that reveal a chilling family secret. Undertow: The Well is a Realm production created by Fred Greenhalgh. Listen away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're there! Listen to this episode ad-free by joining Realm Unlimited or Realm+ on Apple Podcasts. Subscribers also get early access and exclusive bonus content! Visit realm.fm/unlimited Follow us on ...
Jun 16, 2023•36 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Teenager Zelle finds herself introduced to her family’s tradition – and amazing power – to hold audiences with the dead. But when she learns the costs of this incredible power, she's forced to make a dangerous decision. Keeper of the Dead is written by Marguerite Croft. Performed by Maiya Koloski, Shannon Campbell, Christine Marshall, Chris Price, Joe Bearor, Casey Turner. Produced by Casey Turner and Karlyn Daigle. Directed by Casey Turner. Engineered, Edited, Sound Designed by Karlyn Daigle. E...
Jun 09, 2023•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joanna, her brother Oliver, and her dad are all trapped in the upstairs of their house, with a bear prowling downstairs. However, as her father plows deeper into a bottle of whisky, it becomes clear that human beasts may be the most fearsome of all… Meanwhile, the stage is set for the grand finale of the Dark Tome. In the hands of the Parabellum agents, Cassie seems helpless to stop the summoning of a great evil. Can the young enchantress use what she’s learned about the book to stop it? Underto...
Jun 02, 2023•37 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Cassie finds herself trapped with several other women in a monstrous situation imagined by a twisted doctor in post-WW1 England. This is the world of "Sing Me Your Scars," by Damien Angelica Waters. In this chilling treatise on subservience and bodies, we meet Victoria, a woman torn between her desire for freedom, and her desire not to rot away. Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're there! Fol...
May 26, 2023•40 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Mr. Gussy returns, but what he finds on the other side was not what he expected. We venture to the salt-sprayed shores of New Brunswick, where time has been hard on Sammy. But the promise of three square meals and the hunt for a sea monster makes him believe there might be such a thing as second chances. We head out to sea in search of the Nennorluk, in this sea-splattered adaptation of the short story of the same name by Chris Tarry. Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For m...
May 19, 2023•41 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Cassie faces a choice, and who better to help her understand the importance - and power - of choices than Sudha, a Vishakanya, or poison maiden, a female assassin whose very touch is deadly? NYT-Bestselling Author Roshani Chokshi retells the death of Alexander the Great in "The Vishakanya's Choice." This is a story about whose point of view tells the story; told from the POV of a woman who has never had a Choice, as they are a most precious thing, thought only to be the domain of kings. Undertow...
May 12, 2023•36 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Today we follow Point Mystic's second (and final) part of their investigation into the tragic death of Dr. Joseph Ricci, the destruction of his research into doors to other worlds, and of the disappearance of one of the most infamous books in occult history - the Dark Tome. Part 2 of 2 Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're there! Follow us! On Instagram @RealmMedia_ On Twitter @RealmMedia Chec...
May 05, 2023•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Liber Tenebris - aka The Dark Tome - remains an object of great speculation and mystery within occult circles, until now. n a special crossover episode with the podcast Point Mystic, we take a look into the legacy of Professor Joseph Ricci and the disappearance of some of the most important research ever conducted into supernatural doorways. Part 1 of 2 Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're th...
Apr 28, 2023•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cassie returns to her high school guidance teacher's office, looking for answers. Mr. Carter tells his story, about how he first encountered the Dark Tome, and the terrible effects it had on his life. Now, Cassie faces a choice of grace consequence. Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're there! Follow us! On Instagram @RealmMedia_ On Twitter @RealmMedia Check out our merch at: merch.realm.fm Fi...
Apr 21, 2023•30 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Cassie's transported to a Caribbean island in the near-future, where a devastating 'duppy tide' caused utter devastation… And has led to a new, perverse form of tourism. But the tourists are in for more than they bargained for when they learned of the mutated fauna in this home that gave birth to zombis. Buckle in for a tour of the underwater Caribbean in "Inselberh," by Nalo Hopkinson. Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up ...
Apr 14, 2023•34 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Kim and Cassie hide away at a rich family's home in a neighborhood on the outskirts of town. But, Kim isn't letting Cassie go without learning some of her secrets… And what Cassie reveals, may be as much as Kim can handle. In the world of BIRDS OF AZALEA STREET, by Nova Ren Suma, a monster lurks behind closed doors... A monster tolerated by the sweet neighbors, who will turn a blind eye to monstrosity if it'll help keep property values in check. Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen ...
Apr 07, 2023•35 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Cassie's saved by a friend, but learns that her world has changed more than she could have imagined while she's been gone. Worlds gone wrong turns out to be a theme, when she goes on her next trip, to the world of THE BACCHAE, by Elizabeth Hand. In a world where environmental destruction has poisoned life to a breaking point, what consequence will fall on those who were implicit in its demise? Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and s...
Mar 31, 2023•39 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast "I'm not a ghost!" -- "All ghosts say that." Cassie is flung to a world where body modifications are routine and one daughter of a Chinese immigrant is prepared to make an unbelievable sacrifice to save her own skin. This is the world of Alyssa Wong's NATURAL SKIN, a harrowing tale of distorted ideas of beauty in a near-future dystopian Toronto, Canada. Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're th...
Mar 24, 2023•28 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast "Everybody whose grown up in Faulkesville, well, they’ve always guessed there’s something wrong with the woods on the edge of town, the ones that border Willowhill, something people don’t like to bring up in polite company." Teenage Samantha keeps her nose in her books and her head in the clouds - in lands far beyond the borders of the small town of Faulkesville where she's grown up. It's not just boredom Samantha's escaping - Willowhill is where her parents mysteriously died two years ago, and ...
Mar 17, 2023•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gussy and Cassie learned they've "Gone sideways" - the Dark Tome has returned them to the world, but not *their* world. As Cassie struggles to understand the predicament the book has put her in, Gussy recounts the heartbreaking tale of how he got his hands on the Dark Tome, and the cost the book has caused him. Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're there! Follow us! On Instagram @RealmMedia_ O...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Young Lettie can see things through her magic eye - things that might be better if she not see. Grownup's secrets. Grownup's true intentions. But when she learns of her brother's unjust arrest and sham trial, it's her seeing eye - and some conjure magic from her Mama - that may help change the fate of her big brother. We experience the flip side of folk magic in "Trial Day," by Tananarive Due. Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and s...
Mar 03, 2023•56 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Cassie returns from her traumatic trip to a haunted - and haunting - family reunion. As she attempts to re-align her world, Gussy stumbles out of his and into the world of Jonathan Maberry's INK. Gerald 'Monk' Addison is a skip-tracer and P.I. on Boundary Street, down the hill from where the good people go. He’s on the side of the angels, but he’s not very nice. Most of Monk’s clients are bail bondsmen and bad lawyers, but every now and then he takes a special case. He’s hired by the ghost of a ...
Feb 24, 2023•59 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Cassie returns home after the wondrous night at the prom and instead finds her dreams shattered. She splits, and seeks refuge in Mr. Gussy's bookshop... and the Dark Tome. This time, the book calls out for her. She finds herself outside a foggy farmhouse alongside an estranged son returning home. But the homecoming is replete with family secrets, and the demons the father sought to hide will make themselves known. Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, ...
Feb 17, 2023•52 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Quick witted but unlucky in love, Jana is dragged by her friend Erin to attend an 'eye gazing party,' a new age phenomenon run by a couple of hucksters on the far edge of a small Texas town. Jana's skepticism turns to confusion when Erin - and all the girls at the party - are entranced by an unremarkable man "Thirteen." As part of "Dark Duets," mojo storyteller Joe R Lansdale paired up with his daughter, Kasey Lansdale, to pen this tale of a monster whose power is through the eyes. Featuring a s...
Feb 10, 2023•52 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast "Sleep is dying, and has been for a long time now, through uncounted ticks of clocks and the flickers of thousands of too-brief candles." It's the night of the Senior Prom, and rather than show up awkwardly, Cassie has decided to stay home with the Dark Tome. But, she soon meets a mysterious stranger with an invitation to a masquerade ball wicked and mysterious, far stranger than any rites of spring. What she learns there will reshape her thoughts on dance, if she can ever make it back. Be dazzl...
Feb 03, 2023•40 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Being a miner is like playing Russian roulette every day of your life. Any morning you might wake up, and find the chamber with the bullet. Tommy - the youngest in a long proud line of West Virginia coal miners - finds out what it feels like to have your card be up when an explosion traps him and a dozen other souls two miles beneath the earth. With oxygen growing thin, their only prayer might come from an old ghost story. Undertow: Dark Tome is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows li...
Jan 27, 2023•55 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Cassie knows better but can't escape the temptation to return to Mr. Gussy's bookshop. She finds the old man frustrated that he can't make the magical book work. It's take someone younger - someone for whom the walls between this world and the next are a little thinner. They catch a whiff of fresh bread, and are transported to the world of Catherynne M. Valente's fable "The Bread We Eat in Dreams," where a certain personable demon named Agnes will recount the story of her ejection from hell and ...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast We meet teenager Cassie Pinkham, who grudgingly is reading books for the cantakerous bookkeeper, Mr. Gussy, as he recovers from surgery. Gussy sends Cassie back to his bookstore, warning Cassie that there is a particular book - The Dark Tome - that is not to be opened. Cassie, naturally, decides to open up the cover and see what it's all about. This flings Cassie into the world of acclaimed writer Joe Hill's chilling fable, "The Devil on the Staircase," narrated by a man who walks crooked steps ...
Jan 13, 2023•56 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast We transition from the Blood Forest to the world of the Dark Tome via an apocryphal internet essay written in 1999 by a rare book specialist in Simpson Falls, Maine. We learn all about the Dark Tome's strange origins, its connection with lycanthropy, and its weird journey from Mesopotamia to rural Maine. Undertow is a Realm production. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're there! Follow us! On Instagram @RealmMedia_ On Twitter @RealmMe...
Jan 09, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Young, bored, and with a penchant for mischief, Emma and her friends made their own entertainment in a seaside town in Maine. They got up to things that any crew of teenagers would...up until the night things went too far, and what started as a harmless prank had deadly consequences that would last decades. Now, fifty years later, Emma is returning to the Blackout Point lighthouse — the site of a horrific tragedy — to settle things once and for all. Written by Shawn French. Produced by Rhoda Bel...
Jan 06, 2023•47 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast We've heard the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - but what of his wife? How does she feel about being the prop piece in an endless trial of virtue? For this winter’s solstice, Undertow presents the Dagaz Media production of Kat Howard's short story "The Green Knight's Wife". Voices by: Moira Driscoll, William Dufris, Stephen McLaughlin, and Thomas Campbell. Sound design by Rory O’Shea with music by Blue Dot Sessions, Mind’s Eye Productions, & AudioJungle. Produced and Directed by Fred Gr...
Dec 30, 2022•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast There are reckonings in the Pelletier silver mine. Frank faces the truth about himself, and Eva makes a fateful choice that will decide Langeley’s future and her own. Created by Fred Greenhalgh and written by Emma J. Gibbon, Robert LeBlanc, Shawn French, Morgan Sylvia, and Fred Greenhalgh. Produced by Fred Greenhalgh, Marco Palmieri, and Hayley Wagreich. Executive producers: Molly Barton, Julian Yap, Marci Wiseman, and Jack Falahee. Starring Jack Falahee, Bree Klauser, Lynn Milgrim, Katie Chonac...
Dec 23, 2022•33 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast 
