THE GHOST MODERNIST
Serialized Horror. Each episode builds upon the one before. For new listeners, please choose either The Baroness (season two) or The House Unsettling (season one) and start with chapter one! Join me, every week, to hear another chapter. Remember, there are two types of people in this world. The Haunters and the Haunted. Which one are you? Follow me for updates! @theghostmodernist
Episodes
50 episodes
SUMMER 2023 - UPDATE
Just a little soul sharing. Love you all.Remember, there are two types of people in this world.The Haunters and the Haunted.Which one are you?Follow me for updates!@theghostmodernist...
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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7:58
TRAILER
THIS IS THE GHOST MODERNIST.Show updates! A limited edition season is forthcoming. Details coming soon!This is serialized horror fiction podcast, with every episode building upon the one before. Each season is novel length...
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Season 3
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1:26
The Baroness (Chapter Twenty-One)
Chapter Twenty-One: "The lido deck was filling up again, with once eager vacationers milling around the deck. Coming down from the bridge, Chad Stafford thought, without the torn and bloodied clothing, without the limping, the scene looked just...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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30:05
The Baroness (Chapter Twenty)
Chapter Twenty: "But now, hearing his shoes splashing across the Lido deck of the Baroness, and the footsteps of those pursuing him, Chad felt the weight of knowing how out of options he was. He’d ducked in, around and behind, weaving through t...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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22:07
The Baroness (Chapter Nineteen)
Chapter Nineteen: "Wives had poisoned husbands, husbands smothering or strangling their wives. Drunken friends got into fist fights, breaking noses and necks. Knives were slipped into handbags and the pockets of sport coats to be used in the mi...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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27:28
The Baroness (Chapter Eighteen)
Chapter Eighteen: "On the lido deck, the knuckles on Donnie’s Fredericks left hand were stark white as he throttled the railing. He clutched the radio in his opposite hand with the same strength. Once, twice, he depressed the talk button, but l...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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25:18
The Baroness (Chapter Seventeen)
Chapter Seventeen: "Teresa watched her husband pull the pistol out from his waistband, and hover it above Austin’s face. Marie’s attention shifted, and Teresa knew Chad wasn’t trying to scare her, rather giving her a not so subtle hint that the...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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19:57
The Baroness (Chapter Sixteen)
Chapter Sixteen: "Marie heard it as she stood up. A tapping. Soft, rhythmic, like morse code. Something intentional. The woman clutched the cart’s handle and searched her immediate vicinity, expecting to find one of Donnie’s lunatic followers c...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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31:37
The Baroness (Chapter Fifteen)
Chapter Fifteen: "When the intercom cut out, the only sound was heavy rain pattering the waves and the soft whistle of wind through the sliding glass door. The blessed crispness of the ocean breeze was combatting the scent of raw construction m...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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23:19
The Baroness (Chapter Fourteen)
Chapter Fourteen: "None of the group had said a word until they were safely behind the long glass counter. Teresa eased herself down to the carpet, wincing, groaning, the rush of their hurried escape catching up with her. Her husband crept arou...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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21:37
The Baroness (Chapter Thirteen)
Chapter Thirteen: "When they had reached the waterfall, they heard gunshots. The first sounded like a firecracker, then two more. Screams. Glass breaking. The whole situation was foreign, like Greg was watching someone else’s life. Someone brav...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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27:25
The Baroness (Chapter Twelve)
Chapter Twelve: "Just under a foot tall, the stone sculpture was washed in a sickly green shade like oxidized copper. The passage of time, of being submerged in seawater, or buried in the sand, of changing hands, had eroded the sharp points of ...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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14:13
The Baroness (Chapter Eleven)
Chapter Eleven: "Oh, I’m just fooling about,” Donnie said. “Forgive me, I don’t want to take up much of your time, but alas, this needs to be said. Many of you have come to me or to one of my many underlings with wild accusations or totally mis...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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36:02
The Baroness (Chapter Ten)
Chapter Ten: "In that moment, Chad realized how profoundly little he knew about his and his wife’s safety aboard the ship. How little most people probably knew. And on the converse, how much trust they were putting into complete strangers. They...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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29:15
The Baroness (Chapter Nine)
Chapter Nine: "The State of Wisconsin, especially in brutal winter months, felt like living on the moon. Not known for its mountain ranges, the area which many of his friends from other parts of the US called “lower Canada,” was redundant, one ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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16:11
The Baroness (Chapter Eight)
Chapter Eight: "During his many years of civilian medicine, especially in the emergency room, he saw the aftermath of car accidents and the slow devastation of long terminal illness. He’d seen the drunken naivety of trying to assert dominance o...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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31:02
The Baroness (Chapter Seven)
Chapter Seven: "The Baroness had begun her journey.They were underway.Maybe it was this subtle rumble that woke her, pinioning from beam to girder, traveling up pipes and conduit, through kitchens and staterooms and suppl...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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41:44
The Baroness (Chapter Six)
Chapter Six: "After the rush died down, and most of the cordoned off tables had been populated, a woman came hurrying through the main entry doors, looking a bit flustered, and it took Greg only a second to register her face. The Librarian. He ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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29:26
The Baroness (Chapter Five)
Chapter Five: "While Austin felt stuck, imprisoned by the secret conversation, yet his body was moving. Like muscle memory, or a subconscious need to flee, he was wriggling he of the tight space between plastic chair and the video game’s glass ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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31:43
The Baroness (Chapter Four)
Chapter Four: "The idea of a curse is nothing new. The covered bridge or the condemned barn, doors falling from the hinges, on the outskirts of your home town. The patch of woods where, supposedly, a witches coven met their violent end, or grou...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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27:39
The Baroness (Chapter Three)
Chapter Three: "This wasn’t the couple’s first cruise, and they were passed the point of being awed by the sheer enormity of the floating city, but the hallways on the stateroom floors were something Chad had never gotten used to. His door, num...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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28:20
The Baroness (Chapter Two)
Chapter Two: "Celebration Vacations obviously kept whatever information it had confidential, as they didn’t want to metaphorically sink their multi-billion dollar flagship before her second voyage. Most of all, the cruise ship and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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25:32
The Baroness (Chapter One)
Chapter One: "Now, here they were, about to board Celebration Vacations’ flagship, The Baroness of the Open Waters, taking a one-off repositioning journey, from Cancun to Venice, dubbed, “Love on the Waves.” The description in the emai...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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28:33
The House Unsettling (Chapter 27)
Chapter Twenty-Seven: "This was the woman Denny had married, had misquoted song lyrics to on a beach in Florida. The woman he’d spent twelve hour days studying with, preparing for exams, who he’d escaped from a one percenter biker bar in Cheyen...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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16:32
The House Unsettling (Chapter 26)
Chapter Twenty-Six: "After centuries of watching humans bumble around, fearing and fighting against their eventual demise, the entity had begun realize that the fragility of the tiny human mind was incapable of accepting their insignificance, t...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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6:02