Tom's Terror Trove
Hello, and welcome to Tom's Terror Trove, a podcast currently disgorging The Crawling World, an original dark fantasy/sci fi, full cast audiodrama. I also narrate classics and little-known gems of horror fiction: Mid 19th - early 20th century a speciality.
New episodes every Friday, 9am NZ Time.
I’m Thomas, a voice-actor (+ an occasional writer and musician), and I’m delighted to have you join me for tonight's episode.
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Episodes
47 episodes
"The Unspeakable Betrothal" by Robert Bloch | A Tale of the Cthulhu Mythos
What if the otherworldly entities of the Cthulhu Mythos aren’t truly evil or malevolent, what if they are simply alien in the most profound sense of the word?This story from 1949 about a dreamy young woman named Avis Long, maint...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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42:50
"The Vanderlark" by Margaret St. Clair | In Space, No One Can...
Deep space. Two jumpy chancers. And the aching, endless hunger of the void.The Vanderlark was published in 1952, and written by prolific speculative fiction author Margaret St. Clair. It's the first 'pure' sci fi story for TTT. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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27:17
"Lazarus" by Leonid Andreyev | Existential Dread
Published in 1906, this lush, vivid and grim story paints a picture of the post-resurrection life of Lazarus not as a miracle to be celebrated, but an abomination to be abhorred.The author, Leonid Andreyev, lived from 1871 to 1919, and t...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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1:02:31
Tom's Terror Trove Trailer
Hello, and welcome to Tom's Terror Trove, a podcast currently disgorging The Crawling World, an original dark fantasy/sci fi, full cast audiodrama. I also narrate classics and little-known gems of horror fiction: Mid 19th - early 20th century a...
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"Pickman's Model" by H. P. Lovecraft | Dark Corners of the Earth
The madness and monstrosity lay in the figures in the foreground—for Pickman’s morbid art was preëminently one of daemoniac portraiture.In this classic short story by H. P. Lovecraft, the narrator, Thurber, describes his encount...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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43:54
"Out of the Deep" by Walter de la Mare | Last Gasp of the Gothic
Walter John de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was a prolific writer of fiction, and a crafter of finely tuned psychological horror. Lumping this particular story in with the 'gothic' subgenre is a little crude, but it shares a fair some...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:20:52
The Crawling World. Episode 8: Frying Pan, Fire
Wes, Lithee and Garm contend with a monstrous interloper, as the pilgrims near the end of their journey through the mountain.Their troubles are far from over, as they now face the vast, fetid swampland of The Grey Grease.Part 8 of...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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13:09
"The Judge's House" by Bram Stoker | Last Gasp of the Gothic
In this story: RATS!Seeking solitude in which to study mathematics for his upcoming tripos (it's a Cambridge university thing), a fresh-faced undergraduate takes lodgings at an ill-omened country house. Could this possibly end well?<...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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48:32
Double Feature! The Outsider, by H. P. Lovecraft & The Landlady, by Roald Dahl | Creepy Cozy
Have you ever been out in the cold, yearning for the warmth of a crackling fire, and the company of kind humans?Well, tonight's double-feature will satisfy that unnatural yearning, as both tales concern the subject of companionship, alth...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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45:20
"Inferno" by Dante Alighieri (translated by A. S. Kline). Part 2 of 2
The descent continues. Through fire, into ice. The deep, dark hell of frozen shades recount their heinous acts to our narrator and his spectral guide.The kaleidoscopic imagery and boundless, morbid imagination of Dante Alighieri is fully...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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2:08:03
"Inferno" by Dante Alighieri (translated by A. S. Kline). Part 1 of 2
ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE.Narrated by Thomas Barker
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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2:05:54
The Crawling World. Episode 7: A Light from the East, A Bell from Below
Another temporary shift. Away from the pilgrims and their murky problems, to a lighter sphere, at least at first glance. A place of grand palaces and ancient lineages. The roots of nobility are buried deep in this plane, but long rotted, and fi...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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16:27
The Crawling World. Episode 6: The Best Way Out, Is Always Through
The group makes its way through the tunnels underneath the mountain, towards the marshes of the Grey Grease. Wes and Lithee are isolated from the main group, and encounter strange phenomena. Garm goes to investigate. Huw, Ra and Asher share a s...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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10:23
The Crawling World. Episode 5: The Pain of Awakening from Sleep, Through the Mountain, Big Day Tomorrow
The pilgrims regroup to assess their situation, given the catastrophe that has befallen them. Asher begins to assert himself, and faultlines are revealed, but there are moments of bonding too. Will they make for the city and an uncertain fu...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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7:59
The Crawling World. Episode 4: Trapped in the Dark
We rejoin the pilgrims in the aftermath of an attack by the Child of Iachtanabas. Trapped within the cave they fled to for safety, they set to in order to dig themselves out of trouble, literally. Huw enlists Wes and Lithee to search for the lo...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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7:21
The Crawling World. Episode 3: A Parallel Narrative Unfolds
Our narrative swerves, temporarily, and we find ourselves under a merciless sun, atop shifting sands, in an unknown time and place. Connections to our main story, the sunken realm and its imperilled pilgrims, will become apparent in due course....
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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11:10
The Crawling World. Episode 2: When the Spawn of Gods Attack, Further Mysteries Revealed
With no time to further understand the strange world he has been thrust into, the erstwhile sleeper and the small group that accompanies him flee for their lives. In the brief moments of respite during their flight, introductions are made.<...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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6:48
The Crawling World. Episode 1: Eyes Open, Now
Behold, The Crawling World. A thickly huddled mass. Dark-hued, folded in on itself a thousand, nay ten thousand times over. From your vantage point beyond the veil, you can dimly make out vast oceans, a tumult of mountains honeycomb-riddled wit...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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5:39
"Worms of the Earth" by Robert E. Howard | Dark Corners of the Earth
Sword and Sorcery clashes with the Cthulhu Mythos in this thrilling tale of the Pictish king Bran Mak Morn, by Robert E. Howard (a contemporary and correspondant of HP Lovecraft and creator of Conan the Barbarian). In order to bring justice to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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1:31:32
"The Shambler from the Stars" by Robert Bloch | A Tale of the Cthulhu Mythos
The first in a sequence of three stories (The Shambler from the Stars, The Haunter of the Dark and The Shadow from the Steeple), this gruesome narrative involves a burgeoning writer who, in the desire for occult knowledge, purchases a forbiddin...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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32:34
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce | Hometown Horrors
This famous story (regarded by Kurt Vonnegut as the best short story in American literature) describes (in a style that today might be described as Lynchian) a moment in time. A man, condemned, and a dreamlike escape.Narrated by Thomas ...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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29:03
"Hell Screen" by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa | Monogatari Macabre
Narrated by a (somewhat) impartial court observer, this reworking of a much older tale, concerns the obsessive artistry, and terrible downfall of the painter Yoshihide. First published in 1918 in serial form, the author is considered the father...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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1:09:18
"The Mezzotint" by M. R. James | Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
It was a seemingly ordinary mezzotint*, unremarkable except for the unusually high price, and the half-missing attribution on the back. Until the changes began. For the curator of a university art museum, a most unexpected, and shocking series ...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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30:56
"The Haunter of the Dark" by H. P Lovecraft | A Tale of the Cthulhu Mythos
Robert Blake is a hunted man, only he does not know it yet.A young writer with an interest in the occult, Mr Blake becomes fascinated by a distant church, the spire of which he can see from his garrett window. A furtive exploration unco...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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1:14:41
"Wailing Well" by M. R. James | A Stable for Nightmares
Warning! Tonal whiplash incoming. This delightful (and delightfully creepy) short story by master of the genre Montague Rhodes James is a sort-of Billy Bunter meets the contents of a Breugel the Elder painting. Hopefully that doesn't give too m...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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27:53