Dead Letter Bureau - Delta Green

Made in partnership with Hand on the Door.

Patrick G - Handler and co-writer

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

When a disgraced former agent surfaces at a university library to photograph a fake manuscript, Delta Green sends in a team to determine if he’s a senile old man or a genuine threat.

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Kimmy is from a Delta Green actual play podcast called Black Flare, played the android: T.A.M.M.Y (Talking, And, Moving, Machine, Yeah)

Charlie is from This Line Isn't Secure and played Mikhail Orlov

Jeremy (spacechef), who played Nikolai, would love you to join his Recipe Club Discord

Zero hope. When the crew of the Rimor 89 is violently ripped from cryo-sleep, they find themselves not in orbit, but entombed in a flooded, rusted submarine at the bottom of an alien ocean. Surrounded by parasitic abominations and the calcified mistakes of a...

If you're out there searching the dark for the best Delta Green podcast, well, pull up a chair, Constant Listener. Sometimes the worst horrors don't come with fangs and claws—sometimes they come wearing a cheap suit and a silenced pistol. We've got a haunted mechanic turning wrenches to drown out the paranoia, and a slick fixer learning the hard way that poking around in black-budget aerospace companies can get your family smothered right on their own couch. It's all leading down a long, dusty road to El Paso. This is Delta Green Actual Play that gets right under yo...

Mark Stone as Ben Kirk from Stories & Lies. Give their recent run of God's Teeth a listen now!

Max from 9MM Retirement Radio as Gavin Ross.

Welcome to the Season 1 Finale.

Down in a Texas pasture, a man is trying to spell his own name using a makeshift Ouija board painted on a piece of plywood. The catch? He's wearing about a thousand pounds of cowhide and hooves, and all he can do is chew the cud and wait. That's just the start of this Delta Green Actual Play nightmare.

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The Handler returns, wearing surgical booties and carrying a silencer, turning a motel room into an interrogation cell. The hierarchy is re-established not with paperwork, but with the cold logic of a predator corralling its prey.

In this psychological Delta Green Actual Play, the bond between agents dissolves into paranoia. One is whisked away to a storage unit to teach a madman a song that breaks reality, while another stands under a hot shower and watches her own flesh disassemble a lead slug atom by atom. The Fixer secures her place in the food chain, and we...

Gavin Ross, played by Max of 9mm Retirement Radio.

In the battle to become the best Delta Green podcast for deep conspiracy and visceral horror. We open in the sterile halls of power, where the "Architects" trade human lives for the keys to the kingdom and apologies are made in burn bags. Back in the sweltering present, the survivors of the bunker face a new kind of predator: a woman in a pantsuit with a smile like a foxglove and a glovebox full of incriminating photos.

In this high-stakes Delta Green Actual Play, a tire...

We step away from the blood and into the light of a new day, where the monsters wear pantsuits and carry skeleton keys. A letter taped to the underside of a porcelain throne becomes a testament to a legacy of madness. In the chemical dark of a development room, the truth is exposed frame by frame: the geometry of the impossible caught on Kodak.

While a lost soul screams silently behind the flat, black eyes of a grazing beast, trapped in a prison of leather and instinct, a trap is baited with cheese, crackers, and Southern hospitality...

We descend into the cold earth to read the ledger of our own betrayal. In a room smelling of ozone and old blood, the paper trail proves that the monsters we fight were invited in by the hands that feed us.

There are fates worse than death; there is the silence of the jar, and there is the thunderous, dull rhythm of a heart that is not your own. While one soul is exiled into a fortress of leather and chewing cud, staring blankly at the stars, the survivors below uncover the architecture of a fifteen-year lie.<...

Read by Max of 9MM Retirement Radio.

The Cats of Ulthar

By H. P. Lovecraft

It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroë and Ophir. He is the kin of the jungle’s lords, and heir to...

Gavin Ross, played by Max of 9mm Retirement Radio.

Some debts aren't paid in cash, and some secrets aren't buried deep enough. The sun rises on a cabin in the swamp, but the morning light only illuminates the cracks in the team's trust. A shared breakfast turns into a confrontation, and a ritual intended for liberation summons something far worse than judgment. When the sky tears open and the payment comes due, we learn that the cost of knowledge is always flesh, and the only thing heavier than a weapon is the weight of a friend you...

There are lies we tell with our tongues, and there are lies we tell with our bodies—dragging ourselves through the mud to feign a salvation we do not deserve. Inside the sanctuary, the laws of biology have been repealed. A feverish hunger demands a sacrament of brass and fire, a hot casing swallowed to silence the singing in the veins. We peel back the skin of the mission to find the rot of betrayal waiting in a fifteen-year-old photograph. The healer descends into the earth to sleep, leaving the patients to wonder if the cure is simply a sl...

Read by Jordan

Written by Nick Sayers

Memory is a complex thing. Do you remember something, or do you remember someone telling you about the thing? And does it matter? I don’t think anyone told me about these memories. Some things carry a weight that is hard to shrug off.

Like any true American horror story, it starts off in healthcare. My mother had colitis. Colon cancer.

My dad would drop my sister and me off at our great-grandma's and disappear for hours or days. We’d play Uno, watch blac...

Special guests: Gwen and Wyatt.

Human throats cannot sing some songs, melodies that require the snapping of bone and the reshaping of the soul to articulate truly. We find ourselves at the intersection of medicine and monstrosity, where a dying man seeks a cure in the geometry of the unnatural.

To survive the swamp is to accept its infection. A pact has been offered in the static. A hollow jar waiting to be filled, a tapestry demanding one final, terrible thread. The lines between the healer, the patient, and the disease have dissolved. What remains...

In this episode of Dead Letter Bureau, the hosts introduce Delta Green and guide new players through gameplay mechanics. The narrative unfolds as players explore a dark and mysterious world filled with moral dilemmas and unexpected twists. The story follows two characters, Barone and Emmett, as they navigate a series of investigations, uncovering secrets and facing challenges. The atmosphere is thick with tension, and the players must work together to solve the mysteries that lie ahead. As they navigate through the horrors of the past, they grapple with their sanity and the moral implications of their actions.

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Silas played by Caius of 9MM Retirement Radio.

The night is thick with the promise of violence and the fellowship is broken in the dark. One man speaks a forbidden tongue to the uncaring stars and is answered by a terrible birth. Another is broken and carried bleeding to a house of false sanctuary where a doctor with a crooked spine offers a salvation made of mercury and pain. The blood is spilled and the metal is swallowed and the road narrows to a single point of suffering.

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Read and performed by Max from 9mm Retirement Radio, go give them a listen now!

Nyarlathotep By H. P. Lovecraft

Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . .

I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that...

Read by Bill Rafferty (billrafferty5811)

Ex Oblivione By H. P. Lovecraft

When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim’s body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

Once when the wind was soft and scented I heard the south calling, an...

They went looking for answers in the dark, but the darkness was already inside them. A seemingly mundane dinner quickly turns peculiar when one agent develops a disturbing appetite. Following this unsettling omen, the team attempts a low-profile night mission into the local swamp, seeking signs of the strange gatherings they previously uncovered. The truth is out there, but this time, it came with teeth.

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Dr. Thorne, played by Liv from Sorry, Honey, I Have To Take This.

The agents find a fragile sanctuary at a decaying roadside motel, but the swamp's influence has followed them. While one agent tends to a festering, unnatural wound, another's mind begins to fray, consumed by a new, frantic obsession with the artifacts recovered from the bog. Paranoia takes root as they analyze their grim trophies—a severed finger, an ancient text, and a mummified brain in a sealed, alien cylinder. As they await a mysterious runner and plan their return to the black water, a te...

Stolen Dreams by Loluan/Lukas of 9MM Retirement Radio.

The leaves made a crunchy sound as they cracked under my boot. The sound cut deep into the surrounding night and felt as unnatural as what we pursued. With baited breath, we moved forward, trying to calm our nerves. It was only the two of us, me and Agent Serena, and we both felt as if we weren’t up for the task.

Our shaky hands held the submachine guns as we moved ever closer to our target, our sounds masked by the running river close by...

By Caleb Stokes

Read by Fae Kells

The following is the first chapter of Performance, a novel set in the world of Red Markets: A Game of Economic Horror.

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When the tired joke of the zombie apocalypse clawed its way out of the subconscious and into terrifying reality, society's cultural obsession killed as many as it saved. After the chaos finally subsided, the apocalypse ended up unevenly distributed... just like everything else. The world is now more divided than ever: haves and have-nots, living and dead, The Re...

Drawn by the memory of an unholy hymn and an impossible craft seen at sunrise, the agents push deeper into the swamp's suffocating gloom. Their pursuit leads them to a site of recent ritual, where a trail of degenerate, human-like tracks disappears into the black water. When the agents brave the murky depths, the swamp does not give up its secrets.

Cast

Nick Sayers... Writer, Handler, and Editor

Kristina... Agent Ryan

Ryan... Agent Barone

Jordan... Agent Del

Podcast art by Studio Janie

Music and Sound...

Written by Rhys Aled Owen

Read by Ryan Murphy

Check more of Ryhs work on his SolumProtocol Substack.

The Hand of Glory Cycle by PC Bilbee.

prologue

murder's lost meaning;

i've realized my potential...

in this form.

my evolution awaits.

it is but my death away.

fit, the first: vellum

i scrive my soul's deed,

both with word and with action;

this fresh vellum fills both roles.

it holds fast the pact,

and seals it with unborn life...

i...

The Tailypo: A Ghost Story

Read by Jordan Railsback

Told by Joanna Galdone

Illustrated by Paul Galdone

Tailypo is a North American folktale about an old man who cuts off the tail of a strange creature, cooks and eats it, and is then haunted by the creature demanding its "tailypo" back.

Published by Clarion Books, a Houghton Mifflin Company imprint, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003. Text copyright © 1977 by Joanna Galdone. Illustrations copyright © 1977 by Paul Galdone. All rights reserved.

The agents push deeper into the primeval gloom of Boggy Depot, following a trail of incongruous, barefoot tracks through the suffocating humidity. The path leads them to a shunned chapel at the heart of a ghost town, a place sealed against a decay that seems to emanate from within. As a strange, psychic pressure begins to exert its influence on the team, one agent's investigation into a fungal anomaly culminates in a terrifying, ecstatic communion with a vast and hungry intelligence. When night falls, an unholy hymn rises from the bog, a lover's desperate call to a silent, watching...

The Idiot God by Nick Sayers

I used to be the type of person who nonchalantly said, "The only time I feel lonely is when I'm with other people." I’d refuse any entreaty to dent my thick shell with curiosity and be on my way. I can’t say I'm the same after the colorless cloud Ryan and I found in the woods.

Hometowns feel like a tomb to the college-bound, but I always regretted leaving. It was never a tomb to me. Not until it was. Back home, Ryan and I would spend an e...

The agents push into the black water of Boggy Depot, a primeval landscape where the air is heavy with the weight of things left to rot. One of them feels it first: a gaze without eyes, the unnerving sense that the land itself is aware of their intrusion. The trail is a paradox of old decay and new trespass, leading them to the bones of a forgotten town and a single, sealed building that even the desperate souls haunting this place have left untouched. Breaking the seal, they don't find a monster, but something far more insidious: a presence...

The desert is behind them. The black water awaits. A new operation sends the agents to the swamps of Oklahoma on the trail of an ex-MAJESTIC scientist. But the swamp has its own secrets—a ghost town where an entire community vanished without a trace. The hunt for Dr. Karras begins now.

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In the shadow world, some operations are too sensitive for the official channels. When a rival black-ops program, MAJESTIC, makes a move to transport a piece of recovered alien technology, a deniable asset team is activated. They are not agents; they are scalpels, deployed when the official instruments of power have failed or gone rogue. From the belly of an AC-130 gunship, this three-man team is dropped into the Arizona desert with a single, clear objective: intercept the convoy. Their handler gives them the choice of engagement—an ambush on the open desert highway where there is no cover, or...

The agents walked out of the mine and into the hard light of a world that no longer looked the same. The trail led them back to the town and to a lawman who carried ghosts of his own from a war fought in a jungle half a world away. He spoke of men with a certain tattoo who moved like smoke and dealt in a kind of violence that left no clean wounds, and in his words, the agents saw the shape of the enemy they now faced. The lawman gave them a name and a place on...

Out in the waste, a rifleman watched from the rocks. But the real trial was not under the sun, but in the deep dark of the earth, where they found what they were looking for, and learned that some secrets are best left to the silence of the stone.

Sniper played by Max of 9mm Retirement Radio!! Thank you, Max.

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After discovering Arthur Finch's ransacked apartment, Agents Ryan and Dell know their target's secrets are on a hard drive at a local internet cafe. As night falls on the haunted town of Jerome, they take a surreal detour on a ghost tour before launching a late-night B&E to recover the data. But are they not alone, and more importantly, will they make it out of Jerome alive?

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In 1998, a whisper on the early internet drew two agents to Jerome, Arizona, a ghost town clinging to a mountainside. They are an unlikely pair—one a man of technology, the other a man of instinct—sent to eras...

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Welcome to the Dead Letter Bureau. This season, we start deep in the sun-scorched deserts of Arizona, where two parallel operations collide in a storm of cosmic horror and black-ops violence.

It begins with a whisper...