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.
If you'd like to buy me a ko-fi, I have a page for that!
Episodes
63 episodes
The Crawling World. Episode 10: Dreaming Spires
New friends are made, and the true magnitude of the trials ahead begins to manifest, as the pilgrims arrive at the ancient and forbidding City. But with sickness and potential conspiracy threatening their safety, is there anyone left they can t...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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15:15
Whither the Boughs? The Origin of Limbus Company's MacGuffin
Mysterious, tree-like branches with the power to actualize the feelings, wishes, and psyches of people. The primary objective of the LCB is to gather them up.In this episode, I nearly get over my skis in examining the literary origins of...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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25:01
"Unseen - Unfeared" by Francis Stevens
He stooped to laugh again, and his mirth was yellow-toothed -- menacing.“Have no fear!” he reiterated, and with that stretched his hand toward the wall, there came a click and we were in black, impenetrabl...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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49:18
Wolf, Panther, Lion; who are they really? An enquiry into the beasts of Limbus Company's Dark Forest
Limbus Company begins with Dante (our clock-headed manager-protagonist) beset by three sinister individuals known as Wolf, Panther and Lion. These characters have parallels in the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri.In this episode, I draw upon ...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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17:00
The Sinners of Limbus Company (In Their Own Words) | A Tom's Terror Trove NYE Special
To round out Season Two of TTT (though, seriously - I'm on hiatus right now!), and to say thank you to everyone who's tuned in during 2025, I've put together a little sampler of sinners.Features excerpts from:Moby Dick
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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14:19
"Wild@Heart" by Michael Botur
Tom's Terror Trove is still technically on a little Summer break, but that doesn't mean I don't have a few pressies to hand out before the end of the year!Short story by Michael BoturTwo lovers with not long left to live p...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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37:43
"The Mysterious Mr Montague" by Jane Percival | From the Land of the Long White Cloud
"I never eat pork. It's not that I'm vegetarian, or Jewish or Muslim, it's all to do with something that happened in the 70's, when I was fifteen years old."So begins a tale of innocence lost, buckets of blood, and the lengths someone mi...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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46:34
"The Whisperer in Darkness" by H. P. Lovecraft | A Tale of the Cthulhu Mythos
In the late 1920's, folklorist and assistant professor at Miskatonic University Albert N. Wilmarth investigates the ominous events that occured in the wake of the historic Vermont Floods.His ill-advised delving, and correspondance with t...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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3:16:28
"The Dark" by Arch Oboler | Hallowe'en Special | Lights Out
Two unsuspecting ambulance attendants get far, FAR more than they bargained for, in this disgusting story from 1938.Running from 1934 to 1947, Lights Out was an old-time radio program devoted to stories of horror and the supernatural. Cr...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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28:30
"The Brain-Eaters" by Frank Belknap Long | Dark Corners of the Earth
We are once again adrift on dark and inhospitable waters this week, as, arriving hot on the heels of ferocious storms in New Zealand, Tom's Terror Trove is proud to present this newly-recorded version of The Brain-Eaters, from 1932.The t...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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41:30
"The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson | A Precursor to the Mythos
Tonight, Tom's Terror Trove returns to one of the most original minds in Weird Fiction, the pioneering William Hope Hodgson. The Voice in the Night concerns a lonely ship in the middle of the Pacific, and a grotesque interlocutor with a horrify...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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42:27
"Mr Justice Harbottle" by J. S. Le Fanu | Last Gasp of the Gothic
A tale of debauchery, depravity, and pestiferous perukes!E F Benson (whose "The Thing in the Hall" I recorded in May 2024) said of Le Fanu, that his “best work is of the first rank, while as a 'flesh-creeper' he is unrivalled. No one...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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1:27:26
Double Feature 2: The Three Marked Pennies, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman & Cats of Ulthar, by H. P. Lovecraft | Creepy Cozy
Antithetical in life, in death I can make these authors share equal billing, muhahahaha!Ahem. Tonight, Tom's Terror Trove is proud to present a story of a sadistic contest that grips a quiet southern town, PLUS a quickie about the myster...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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35:54
"The Lovely House" by Shirley Jackson | Existential Dread | Last Gasp of the Gothic
Renowned author of mystery and gothic horror Shirley Jackson weaves a dreamlike tale of doublings, echoes, and (in the words of ST Joshi) "exemplifies the 'quiet weird tale' at its pinnacle".Published in 1950, the story follows Margaret ...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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1:03:27
"The Human Chair" by Edogawa Ranpo | Monogatari Macabre
We return to the Land of the Rising Sun this week, for a tale in which no overt harm is ever done, nor threatened. Yet this might (by certain metrics) be one of the grossest stories I've had the distinct pleasure to record.An eminent wri...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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53:37
The Crawling World. Episode 9: The Swamp and the Storm
As secrets and lies threaten to break apart the pilgrimage during their trek through the treacherous mire of The Grey Grease, a danger they thought they had escaped emerges from the clouds. Can Huw deploy what little magic he possesses to prote...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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15:32
"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