'bominable 'bominations
Hello, and welcome to ‘bominable ‘bominations, a podcast currently disgorging The Crawling World, an original dark fantasy/sci fi, full cast audiodrama.
Earlier episodes are something of a potpourri, I’ve serialised some of the classics of turn-of-the-20th-century horror, and who knows what else. I’m Thomas, a voice-actor (+ an occasional writer and musician), and I’m delighted to have you join me for this week’s episode.
Episodes
36 episodes
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
"Pigeons from Hell" by Robert E. Howard | Hometown Horrors
An ancient evil festers in the heart of a small community, and though the original perpetrators may be gone, traces of their misdeeds linger on. Also, it's never a good idea to stay the night in a seemingly abandoned mansion, even if you are on...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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1:23:40
"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. Part 3 (of 3) | Last Gasp of the Gothic
In our final instalment of this perplexing and perturbing story, (see episode 34 for part two). Things reach a fever pitch at Bly manor with multiple manifestations, disappearances, and a possible breakdown. Of reality, or of sanity? You be the...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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1:34:35
"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. Part 2 (of 3) | Last Gasp of the Gothic
In part two (see episode 33 for part one), tension mounts, apparition encounters increase, and the governess at Bly begins to lose the plot.Narrated by Thomas Barker
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:15:00
"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. Part 1 (of 3) | Last Gasp of the Gothic
The ceremony of innocence is drowned in this, most ambiguous ghostly novella from 1898 by renowned Anglo-American writer Henry James.A governess is given charge of two young children in the countryside manor of Bly, only to find (or doe...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:59:12
"The Thing in the Hall" by E. F. Benson | A Stable for Nightmares
If you open the doors of perception too far, who knows what might come knocking? An eminent physician is drawn into a dangerous occult scheme by a longtime colleague, with horrific results.The Thing in the Hall displays the authors characte...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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36:57
"The House on the Borderland" by William Hope Hodgson | A Precursor to the Mythos
A remote house, a decaying journal. Two friends on a holiday in remote Western Ireland uncover a tale of wonders (and terrors), and an unfathomable abyss that will leave them forever changed. This unusual, and poignantly haunting novella from 1...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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6:40:07
"The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long | A Tale of the Cthulhu Mythos
Upon rediscovering a drug used centuries ago to expand the consciousness of mystics, eccentric author Halpin Chalmers hopes (along with the aid of certain, esoteric mathematical formulae) to utilise it in an experiment. An experiment in TIME TR...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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42:06
"Dagon" by H. P. Lovecraft | The Mythos Stirs
One of the first stories written by Lovecraft as an adult, the story was inspired in part by a dream he had. "I dreamed that whole hideous crawl, and can yet feel the ooze sucking me down!" he later wrote.The earliest elements of the Ct...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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18:42
"The House of the Worm" by Mearle Prout
Two friends embark on what was to be an innocent hunting trip, but which soon leads to decay, degredation, and a chilling secret that gnaws at the heart of the world.This somewhat obscure story, first published in 1933, contains many in...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:00:27
"What Was It?" by J. S. Le Fanu
Described by M.R James as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories", Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873) created gothic and macabre tales that, more than a century hence, have not lost their power to make the flesh cr...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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33:35