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Listen to eldritch stories and poems from the public domain, amended to be gender-inclusive, read to you by Maika, and bedecked in unearthly music by The Parlour Trick and eerie atmosphere by Meredith Yayanos.

Liminal Flares Episode 10:
“One need not be a Chamber
to be Haunted”
by Emily Dickinson

You know how a song or fragment of a song can get stuck in your head? It plays on repeat, whether you like it or not, a personal soundtrack that no one else can hear. I tend to have a number of things haunting my mind at any given time – music, poetry, lines from […]

Liminal Flares Episode 9:
“Dracula’s Guest”
by Bram Stoker
(part 2)

Did you know that Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the 1897 Gothic horror novel, not the swoonworthy 1992 Coppola film) originally began with a chapter that was cut from the book before it was published? That lost chapter was posthumously published as a short story entitled “Dracula’s Guest.” And today we bring you part 2 of our […]

Liminal Flares Episode 8:
“Dracula’s Guest”
by Bram Stoker
(part 1)

Time to lose ourselves in the wintry wilds of Gothic horror courtesy of the one and only Bram Stoker. Nothing says cozy winter listening (or cool summer listening, for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere) like gender-inclusive Gothic fiction. If you like your hygge haunted, haunting, and NOT heteronormative, then you’re already home. Use your […]

Liminal Flares Episode 7:
“Goblin Market”
by Christina Rossetti

Time to switch gears from cosmic horror to cautionary fairy tale. What’s better than a fervently sensuous Victorian gothic poem with queer subtext? A fervently sensuous Victorian gothic poem that swaps that subtext for beautifully open queerness. Welcome to an unabashedly sapphic AND gender-inclusive rendition of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market. This is a truly singular […]

Liminal Flares Episode 6:
“The Yellow Sign”
by Robert W. Chambers
(part 4)

Have you found the Yellow Sign?Have you found the Yellow Sign?Have you found the Yellow Sign? Let’s hope you never do. But we do know two people who have. And they are about to realize it themselves, not that that will do them any good. Welcome to the terrifying conclusion of “The Yellow Sign,” where […]

Liminal Flares Episode 5:
“The Yellow Sign”
by Robert W. Chambers
(part 3)

When it comes to stories in the cosmic horror genre it often feels as though characters are doomed from the start, even if you aren’t sure why, subject as they are to the incomprehensible whims and machinations of unfathomable powers. Sometimes, however, there are instead clear points of no return within a story when characters’ […]

Liminal Flares Episode 4:
“The Yellow Sign”
by Robert W. Chambers
(part 2)

Are you ready for another perilous dip into the realm of early cosmic horror? It’s all the fun of cosmic dread without the dreadful heteronormative exclusion: Part 2 of “The Yellow Sign” by American author Robert W. Chambers. If you’re enjoying Liminal Flares, please help it grow by sharing us with others who might enjoy […]

Liminal Flares Episode 3:
“The Yellow Sign”
by Robert W. Chambers
(part 1)

Time to immerse ourselves in some early cosmic horror courtesy of American author Robert W. Chambers. It’s all the fun of concentrated cosmic dread and none of the dreadful heteronormative exclusion! Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is the night where […]

Liminal Flares Episode 2:
“The Raven”
by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” but make it gender-inclusive. Surprise! Because our first episode is so different from what we’ll be sharing on a weekly basis, we’re dropping episode 2 now for an early taste of Liminal Flares proper. What can be said about one of literature’s most famous poems that hasn’t already been said? […]

Liminal Flares Episode 1:
A Prelude at the Threshold

And now for something completely different. A personal story before eldritch story time officially begins: an introduction of myself, your narrator, and an illustration of why I created this show in the first place. I created Liminal Flares because I know how much it would’ve meant to me to find this while growing up as […]

Liminal Flares: Otherworldly Gender-Inclusive Bedtime Stories

What if there were a place where you could listen to haunting tales bedecked in unearthly music without ever smacking into language that breaks the spell of the story by pretending that people outside the gender binary don’t exist? You’ve found that place. And I’m so glad you’re here. This is Liminal Flares – otherworldly […]