Macabre Miscellanea

by Alex Thorn

13 Skinwalker Encounters | Dark Posts | Macabre Miscellanea

Thirteen accounts of something that copies — a coworker, a voice, a dog, a face — close enough to pass, and only ever off by the one detail nobody thinks to check until it's too late. Collected confessions from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without explanation. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 1:12 My Coworker Started Wearing My Clothes 4:45 My Girlfriend's Voice Came From Two Places at Once 7:15 My Patient Keeps Asking When Her Daughter Is Coming Back 11:01 My Husband Keeps Asking Permission to Come Inside 13:45 My Neighbor's Dog Keeps Perfect Time 18:05 The Dog That's Been Watching From the Tree Line 22:24 My Nephew Keeps Correcting the Way I Walk 26:37 My Wife Has Been Replacing Parts of Herself 30:23 My Grandmother Keeps Walking the Hall — She Died Three Weeks Ago 33:35 The Ranch Hand Who Calls Me By the Wrong Name 37:51 My Dog Keeps Bringing Back the Same Rabbit 40:53 My Roommate's Been Wearing My Face Better Than I Do 44:17 My Nephew Keeps Bringing Back the Wrong Teeth 47:31 Outro Collected confessions from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without explanation. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

Aug 6, 2026

49:13

The Masque of the Red Death | Edgar Allan Poe | Classic Horror Reading | Macabre Miscellanea

A prince seals a thousand friends inside a fortified abbey to wait out a plague that's killing everyone outside the walls. He has music, wine, seven candlelit chambers, and a clock that won't stop interrupting the party. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 0:43 The Pestilence Without 1:26 The Prince Withdraws 2:38 A Ball of Unusual Magnificence 4:16 The Seventh Chamber in Black Velvet 5:37 The Gigantic Clock Strikes 9:58 Midnight on the Clock 11:45 The Grave-Habiliment Stranger 14:27 The Prince Gives Chase 15:35 Dominion 16:04 Outro Classic horror readings from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without reassurance. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

Aug 5, 2026

17:18

Winged Shadow | Original Horror Story | Macabre Miscellanea

A detective has run the same four-step workflow since his first year on the job: Charge. Measure. Seal. Purge. It keeps the work clean. It keeps the cost from accumulating. It keeps him from looking too closely at where the steps came from — and what else might be running them. When a series of ritual killings in the Chapel district pulls him into something older than the department, older than the law, and considerably more patient, he discovers that predisposition is not coincidence. He was not chosen at random. He was observed. Measured. And recognized. Original horror fiction from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without comfort. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

Apr 20, 2026

53:15

Real Magic | Dark Posts | Macabre Miscellanea

Eight confessions from people who discovered something had already been using them. Salt arranged in patterns by hands that don't remember doing it. A playing card that passes through flesh. A symbol a child draws on strangers and calls the waiting shape. Rituals performed backward and wrong — that keep working anyway. The lesson was already in progress before anyone asked. Collected confessions from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without explanation. Macabre Miscellanea delivers weekly Dark Posts, Classic Horror readings, and Original Horror Fiction — without comfort and without reassurance. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

Apr 17, 2026

30:22

A Dream of Red Hands | Bram Stoker | Classic Horror Reading | Macabre Miscellanea

Jacob Settle is a solitary man — careful with people, kind in small ways, and unable to sleep past midnight. The same dream comes every night: a gate, a white robe, and hands that will not come clean. He has never told anyone what put the stain there. Tonight, he does. A reading of Bram Stoker's short story, originally published in 1894. Classic horror readings from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without reassurance. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

Apr 15, 2026

29:51

Cold Calls | Original Horror Story | Macabre Miscellanea

He makes cold calls for a living. His quota is 5,475 contracts. He signed his in blood, and he has been working it down, one call at a time, ever since. Clinton Forrest owes Faust and Sons fifteen years of work in exchange for fifteen years he should have spent in a federal facility. Tonight he is on the phone with Esther Johns, eighty-seven years old, fixed income, and harder to close than he expected. He operates under two rules: the sale is not over until the customer says no three times, and he cannot tell a direct lie. The gray area around the definition of a lie is his to inhabit entirely. Original horror fiction from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without comfort. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

Apr 13, 2026

21:43

6 Doppelgänger Encounters | Dark Posts | Macabre Miscellanea

Six people filed accounts of meeting a version of themselves. In each case the encounter was brief, the other version was calm, and the people closest to them either didn't notice or couldn't explain what they had seen. In two cases, the family never realized anything had changed. The doorbell footage still exists. Collected confessions from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without explanation. Macabre Miscellanea — dark, curated, without comfort. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

Apr 10, 2026

46:34

Young Goodman Brown | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Classic Horror Reading | Macabre Miscellanea

Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith at the door one evening and walks into the forest. He tells himself he will return before morning. He does not anticipate what waits for him in the dark — or how many familiar faces he will find there. Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 story is a slow dismantling of faith, community, and the comfortable idea that the people closest to you are not what they appear. What Brown witnesses may have been real. It may have been a dream. Hawthorne does not decide for you. Classic horror readings from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without reassurance. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

Apr 9, 2026

39:11

The Phone Booth | Original Horror Story | Macabre Miscellanea

Jack Mercer is a historian who documents abandoned payphones — the kind bolted to walls no one visits, on lines that haven't carried a voice in years. He has labeled boxes. He has forty-seven hours of field recordings. He has a system. He finds a booth behind a dead strip mall, on a phone with no power, on a line that was physically disconnected years ago. It rings. He answers it. The voice on the other end knows about the six minutes in his recording he cannot account for. It knows what he thought in private before he ever left the house. It has been keeping his file for considerably longer than he has been keeping its. Original horror fiction from Macabre Miscellanea — every week, without comfort. Original horror storytelling for those who prefer their nightmares well-documented. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@macabremiscellanea All platforms: https://macabremiscellanea.com

Apr 6, 2026

48:07

Bigfoot: Petty, Personal, and Deeply Inconvenient Encounters

Seven accounts of something very large and apparently very deliberate. It copies whistles in the dark. It follows people home through city parks at ten-thirty on a Tuesday. It steals a deer from a hunter mid-field, drags it into the trees like a correction, and leaves the man's orange hat tucked under a strip of freshly peeled bark as a parting thought. The mythology insists Bigfoot is elusive. The archive disagrees. A collection of firsthand encounters from people who are still not entirely sure what they saw — and who are managing, with varying success, not to think about it too hard.

Apr 3, 2026

40:56

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