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Darker Pastures
Darker Pastures is a monthly horror fiction anthology, set in the very heartland of the North American continent: the vast and rugged landscapes of the Great Plains. The austere beauty of this open country is home to all manner of dreadful monstrosities, of both the everyday and the otherworldly variety, lurking in each shadow and sometimes even waiting in the full daylight. If you dare to join me, let us wander these darker pastures together.
All stories written, narrated, edited, and scored by Lars Mollevand, unless otherwise noted.
For all inquiries and feedback, please contact me at darkerpasturespodcast@gmail.com.
Episodes
39 episodes
The Return
When the charismatic ministry of Asa Donague swept into the little prairie community of Homer, Kansas in late 1923, no one could have foretold what would follow. ***Content Warning: Contains frank depictions of antisemitism, racism,...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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53:14
Wanderers
A chance encounter in a small Western town on All Hallows' Eve, 1873 proves that nothing stays buried.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of alcoholism, murder, and exploitation of minors. Listener discretion is advised.*...
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Season 3
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39:49
Serenity
A young man, returning to his hometown for the first time since starting college, finds that it is not quite the community that he remembers – and that perhaps even his memories cannot be wholly trusted.***Content Warning: Episode conta...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:28:51
Buried
Fleeing from his troubles, a man forced by chance to shelter in a site of historical atrocity finds that the evils of the past are both very real and undying.***Content Warning: This episode deals with themes of exploitation of minors, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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49:11
Gatherings
In 1901, a mysterious man arrives in rural North Dakota, summoned by a family in need with no one else left to whom they can turn. Yet awaiting him is something far more malignant than even he, gifted with esoteric expertise, could ever anticip...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:01:32
Announcement
A brief announcement on a coming change when we return to darker pastures in August.
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Corvidae (Part V)
In the conclusion of the season two finale, the assembled survivors of the plague-devastated land come at last to the end of their long road.
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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35:14
Corvidae (Part IV)
Many paths converge, and for a time, refuge is found, and darkness and fear are left behind. But the evils of the world always find a way in.***Content warning: Episode deals with themes of traumatic loss, catastrophic fire, and automob...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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43:24
Corvidae (Part III)
A teenage girl, irrevocably separated from the family of her birth, finds a new one. But too late she learns the price of belonging.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious indoctrination and past sexual trauma, a...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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58:14
Corvidae (Part II)
Two traumatized young men, a boy from Cheyenne and an ex-soldier, bear witness to the depths of human depravity. Meanwhile, the true inheritors of the earth look on from afar, patient and inscrutable.***Content warning: This episode dea...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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44:08
Corvidae (Part I)
In the wake of unbelievable calamity, a woman encounters both wonder and living nightmare on her long journey home.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of disease, pandemic, social upheaval, and the threat of sexual violen...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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47:23
Whiteout
A prairie schoolteacher experiences purest terror and loss during the tragic Children's Blizzard of 1888.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial loss, missing children, and children in peril. Listener discretion i...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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45:45
Strangers
Two strangers approach a small town we have visited once before, and something follows close behind them.***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of misogyny, bigotry, unwanted sexual contact and the threat of sexual violenc...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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37:14
El Sepulcro
A small band of cowboys, chasing outlaws upon the southern Plains, happens upon a dubious sanctum. Despite their disparate life experiences, not a one of them is prepared for that which awaits them within.***Content warning: This episod...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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54:18
Sawbones
Unable to escape the horrific recollections of his Civil War service even in the remoteness of the Dakota Territory, a surgeon finds his nightmares bleeding into reality.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of warfare, sub...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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59:58
Beasts
Two wanderers, tossed adrift by the desperation of the Great Depression, encounter something strange and hellish on the benighted plains.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of familial abandonment, poverty, and genocide. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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25:52
The Old Cottonwood
The events of Halloween, 1973 scar a boy’s psyche so profoundly that he finds himself returning to their locus decades later, in the hope of finding resolution. But the mystery he finds waiting for him is darker still.***Content warning...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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53:34
Harvest
In October of 1989, a well-to-do farmer, ruled by his voracious appetites, reaps the ultimate fruit of his labors.***Content warning: This episode touches upon themes of familial loss, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and psychologi...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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41:40
Invitation
After a loss few seem to understand or even notice, a young woman learns that both love and grief can manifest in the most uncanny of ways.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of pet loss, and may be upsetting for some lis...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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36:02
Habitation
A house that has long stood as a silent monument to past hardship becomes the locus of a new disquiet.
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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48:15
Spiritual Nourishment
Against her wishes, a young student is transferred into a new and unwelcoming school. But what is happening there proves so much more sinister than she anticipates.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of religious and psyc...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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51:00
Cultus
Something wicked grows in the fields near Umber, Nebraska. But it grows only under the most diligent care, and its like can be found throughout this fair land, and beyond.***Content warning: This episode deals with themes of misogyny, r...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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50:32
Marvel
A troubled farming family living in 1940s Colorado falls victim to a gruesome, if altogether too common, accident. But they will soon learn that this is only the beginning of their changing fortune.***Content warning: This episode deals...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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