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October Falls

by Philip James

October Falls is a gothic horror anthology podcast — a place where the fog never quite lifts and the past never stays buried. Each season tells a complete, standalone story, set in its own town, its own era, its own particular flavor of dread, but every one shares the same slow-burning, character-first approach to horror: real people, real relationships, and the patient, creeping sense that something has always been just slightly wrong.Season One, "Dead End on Wexler Street," follows nine-year-old Nathaniel Thorne through one unforgettable autumn in 1968 Cedar Hollow, Pennsylvania.

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  1. Epsiode 5: What It Cost For the Last One

    Fall, 1968. Everybody who dies leaves something behind. So why is there nothing of Nathaniel’s grandfather anywhere in the Thorne house? Eli warns him to be careful, but Nathaniel climbs into the attic anyway. Under the far eave he finds a locked trunk and a bundle of letters that were never…

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  2. Episode 4: The Postmaster's Door

    Fall, 1968. A teacher finds Nathaniel behind the toolshed, talking to no one at all, and for the first time he has to lie to protect his friend. Then Eli disappears for three days. When he comes back, a name rises out of him like a word left over from a dream, and frost forms in a ring at noon....

  3. Episode 3: His Father's Silence

    Fall, 1968. Nathaniel Thorne has started asking about the grandfather no one will name, and his father’s silence says more than any answer could. An old photograph turns up with a face that won’t stay in the past. A neighbor leans in with one question too many. And in the churchyard, a man stands...

  4. Episode 2: What the Living Don’t See

    Cedar Hollow, Pennsylvania. Autumn, 1968. Nathaniel Thorne has a friend nobody else can see. Now something else has started to see him. A woman stands in the church aisle where she shouldn’t be. A shape waits at the foot of Nathaniel’s bed, and even Eli won’t say its name. And at half past two in...

  5. Episode 1, "The Friend Nobody Sees"

    Fall, 1968. Nathaniel Thorne is nine, lonely, and the only one who can see the boy behind the toolshed. Eli warns him which way to walk home, and the one day Nathaniel doesn't listen, the alley behind Corrigan's Hardware goes cold, a dog stops barking mid-bark, and the town bully's eyes turn the...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

October Falls is a gothic horror anthology podcast — a place where the fog never quite lifts and the past never stays buried. Each season tells a complete, standalone story, set in its own town, its own era, its own particular flavor of dread, but every one shares the same slow-burning, character-first approach to horror: real people, real relationships, and the patient, creeping sense that something has always been just slightly wrong.Season One, "Dead End on Wexler Street," follows nine-year-old Nathaniel Thorne through one unforgettable autumn in 1968 Cedar Hollow, Pennsylvania.

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October Falls is a gothic horror anthology podcast — a place where the fog never quite lifts and the past never stays buried. Each season tells a complete, standalone story, set in its own town, its own era, its own particular flavor of dread, but every one shares the same slow-burning,...

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