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Non-stop distortion-defeating action in tonight's episode!

"Don’t be mistaken. I’m not offering you a deal this time."

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has aD unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

New episodes uploaded twice-weekly.

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“You can’t see their Distortions? But, that has to mean all the villagers have
Psychoment according to our theory so far…”

Our intrepid trio are drawn further in to Quercus village's rituals.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has aD unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers w...

"A period of celebration… A closed village and unique customs. Not a good
combination. Things like this usually follow a formula. And the formula
usually ends with creepy cannibalism ceremonies or cultic carnage parties."

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has aD unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fi...

They're baa-aack.... 

“…You’ll see once you enter the village. Your work is to investigate the
place and draw a cogent conclusion from it. Afterwards, report what
happened in the village to the Association.”

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has aD unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other...

The collected chapters of the first half of Distortion Detective for your listening enjoyment. Tom's Terror Trove will embark on part two (chapter 22) from next week.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has aD unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

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In which loose ends are tied up, wounds are licked, and a new phase of the adventure begins.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has aD unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

New episodes uploaded twice-weekly.

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Can Ezra gain the upper hand, as the vicious fight against the implacable Vespa continues?

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has aD unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

New episodes uploaded twice-weekly.

Original Webnovel Chapter Release Date...

Caught once again by the sinister (and enormously powerful) Vespa, Moses and YuRia seem to have finally reached the end of the line. Is there any hope of escape? Find out on tonight's episode of The Distortion Detective!

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has aD unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of...

Moses and YuRia dive further into the depths of Fei's despair. One of the most momentous episodes of The Distortion Detective to date!

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has aD unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

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"This would get my mind as wet as a drowned rat." In exchange for Zhang's help with Vespa, Moses agrees to investigate the case of the Distorted Daughter.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.<...

In desperation, Moses, Ezra and YuRia enlist some rather shady help in order to combat Vespa.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

New episodes uploaded twice-weekly.

Original Webnovel Chapter Release...

"And who could that taboo-breaking idiot be?"

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

New episodes uploaded twice-weekly.

Original Webnovel Chapter Release Date: July 13th, 2020

Written by Kim Ji-hoon<...

Ezra, Moses and YuRia lick their wounds in the aftermath of the momentous Tae-Young Produce Company expedition, while YuRia explains her research into the so-called 'Psychoment'.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

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YuRia suffers a (hopefully) temporary loss of self, a mysterious - and sinister - figure makes an appearance. Moses and her crew are forced to retreat in order to lick their wounds. Plus, y'know, teddies!

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers...

In this episode of The Distortion Detective, Moses must do the unthinkable in order to save Ezra.... or kill her.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

New episodes uploaded twice-weekly.

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Moses desperately races to save YuRia and Ezra, only to be confronted by an old friend (or enemy?).

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

New episodes uploaded twice-weekly.

Original Webnovel...

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Giant insects, human batteries, bloodfruit and flamepipes pervade THIS weeks episode of The Distortion Detective!

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at...

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Deep in the bowels of Tae-young produce company, a sinister plot is revealed as Moses and co. face their toughest foe yet. Can the combined forces of Ezra's brawn and YuRia's brains pull through?

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power...

This audio recording is not endorsed or authorised by Project Moon.

Episode 8. YuRia and Ezra are NOT getting along, as the agency takes on a company case in which a seemingly obliging manager is hiding something monstrous, and a former colleague may be in trouble.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power...

This audio recording is not endorsed or authorised by Project Moon.

Episode 7. “I’ll be your assistant. I want to watch you from up close. I’ll make gear and equipment just for you. I want to be of help to you. All so you can open up
your heart to me.”  Really putting the 'yuri' in YuRia, there...

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progr...

This audio recording is not endorsed or authorised by Project Moon.

Episode 6. Our probing pair are followed into a dark alleyway. This can't end well...

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses...

This audio recording is not endorsed or authorised by Project Moon.

Episode 5. The brutal reality (and unreality) of high-pressure examination laid bare in mass-distortion. How will Moses and Ezra get out of this one? Read - er, 'hear' - all about in the latest episode of Distortion Detective Narrated.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically...

This audio recording is not endorsed or authorised by Project Moon.

Episode 4. The office of the Distortion Detective is visited by an antagonistic personage from the past, who has a job for Moses. Even Ezra gets riled up, and a tragic incident that our investigators have tried to put behind them rears its ugly head.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion...

This audio recording is not endorsed or authorised by Project Moon.

Episode 3. "And I simply remember"... Moses and Ezra investigate a distorted building, and the powers get a bit of a workout.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other...

This audio recording is not endorsed or authorised by Project Moon.

Let's really start the ball rolling with two chapters in quick succession!
Episode 2, in which we meet Ezra, and a none-too-sanitary 'chef'. 

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of t...

This audio recording is not endorsed or authorised by Project Moon.

Set in the sprawling world of The City, at the heart of Project Moon, Distortion Detective is a mystery webnovel that follows Moses (the titular DD) who has a unique ability to see the progression of the Distortion Phenomenon in others before they physically manifest. With this power, she works to prevent Distortions from forming with the assistance of the other Fixers who work under her at Moses' Office.

Episode 1 features merfolk and balloon people (trust me, it's a lot more sinister...

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Another deep dive into the doleful denizens of Limbus Company's bus. Although in this case we are dealing with a feverishly cheerful and multifarious (I have a feeling I'm going to abuse that adjective) individual, set free from their mind body and spirit-bindings. Let's not forget Sonya, hy0umon of negotiable affection-flipped freedom fighter. Let us cling to the needles that pierce the flesh of our shared reality.

Narrated and produced by Thomas Barker

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"If anyone’s doing the heavy lifting, it’d be us... Hey! Manager Bud! More incoming!"

In this episode, I take a look at suffering and redemption in The Metamorphosis, philosophical pessimism, and how Gregor in Limbus Company might be Georg Bendeman, the happiest Gregor yet, or even Kafka himself. Reincarnation is a heck of a thing.

Plus of course the traditional (I've done it three, now it's definitely a tradition) interlude dub!

Narrated and produced by Thomas Barker

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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 turn to?

Part 10 of a 10-part dark fantasy full-cast audio drama.

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 the Golden Boughs of Limbus Company, particularly looking at the book of the same name by Sir James George Frazer, and the Aeneid, by Vergil.

Plus of course the traditional (I've done it twice, now it's a tradition) interlude dub!

Narrated and produced by Thomas Barker

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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, impenetrable darkness.

A rumination on the nature of evil, and the ability to see things FROM BEYOND, courtesy of a groundbreaking writer of dark fantasy. This story was first published in 1919.

Narrated and produced by Thomas Barker

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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 some scholarship, a coupla wikis and my own general knowledge to pull together some additional information about the beasts, and what they mean, beyond what we are shown in the narrative thus far.

Plus I have a go at dubbing said interlopers!

References:
https://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/

https://worldofdante.iath.virginia.edu...

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:

A little out of my usual subject matter, but we'll resume our regular programming next month.

See you in 2026! Take care. It's a scary world out there.

Narrated and produced by Thomas Barker

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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 Botur

Two lovers with not long left to live put aside a portion of paradise, creating their own country while the planet rots -- though of course, holding onto nature isn't easy. In fact, managing wildlife becomes life-or-death difficult...

Michael Botur is an award-winning Auckland/Northland writer of horror and 'dirty realism' screenplays and fiction. 

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"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 might go to in order that they might... sustain a life.

A gruesome tale from New Zealand.

Story featured with kind permission from the author: Jane Percival (https://heni-irihapeti.com/)

Narrated and produced by Thomas Barker

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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 the recluse Henry Akely, will lead to a series of cosmically horrifying revelations.

Turn your lights down low, put your headphones on, and tune in to the penultimate episode of Tom's Terror Trove Season 2.

Narrated and produced by Thomas Barker

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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. Created by Wyllis Cooper, later in the run it was helmed by the brilliant (and eccentric) Arch Oboler.

I was spoilt for choice in picking an episode to recreate (it came down to this one and Chicken Heart).

Unlike usual episodes of Tom's Terror Trove, this Hallowe'en special makes use of a full palette of foley sound effects.<...

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 title gives perhaps a scintilla of a clue as to the contents of the story.

Good gross-out pulpweirdfiction stuff.

Eat up!

Narrated by Thomas Barker

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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 horrifying story to tell.

B  O  D  Y  H  O  R  R  O  R

Narrated by Thomas Barker

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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 else has so sure a touch in mixing the mysterious atmosphere in which horror darkly breeds".
I think that is certainly true of tonight’s story. There are some grotesquely comical elements to it, fitting for a narrative that takes place in the 18th century. I can see almost all of these characters comi...