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A genre-bending audio drama of character-driven adult dark fiction, thrillers, horror & suspense. Each story is fully dramatized with exceptional actors and sound so vivid, you’ll feel like a witness.
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Ominous Thrill is a multi-award-winning, twice Ambie Award-nominated anthology created by the acclaimed sound designer and director Jeff Schmidt, the creative force behind the vivid, immersive sounds of fiction-podcast thrillers Blood Ties and Aftershock, and the true-crime mega-hit Dr. Death.
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HER HORRORWEEN - When the Motherf**ker Just Won't Die
Our month long celebration of women authored horror concludes with this fierce transgressive take on the masked killer and final girl tropes. Every woman in her family has faced him. Now, she contains him. But will she contain what boils wi
HER HORRORWEEN - We Are But Conduits
I do not remember what I was before; I cannot fathom what has been made of me. To cheat death is to create monsters. Genre: Gothic body horror / Supernatural Content warning: Body horror, death, disturbing imagery Written by H. Marin https:
HER HORRORWEEN - You Are in the Heart of the Corn Maze
Every October you come back here. Every October you face the same decision. Choose. Genre: Folk horror / Second person Content warning: Supernatural horror, psychological horror, ambiguous ending Written by Abra Staffin-Wiebe http://www.asw
HER HORRORWEEN - Stella in the Belly of the Beast
The nightmares haunting Stella since she was a kid are beginning to spill into daily life. Does anyone but her cats see what she can? And what's with all the missing person posters going up around town? Genre: Supernatural horror, Indigenou
HER HORRORWEEN - Placentophagy
Elizabeth's placental encapsulation business is interrupted when a mysterious pregnant woman arrives demanding a solution to a maternal curse. Genre: Body horror Content warning: Body horror including amputation, cannibalism, reproductive l
HER HORRORWEEN - Watcher of the Wisps
When college lurker Levi answers a bizarre personal ad posted by his latest crush, he finds himself drawn into a ritual of blindfolds, midnight road trips, and a goddess who’s been waiting for a man like him. Genre: Folk horror / Feminist h
HER HORRORWEEN - The Lycanthropy Is Not a Metaphor
Channing falls for the mysterious new redhead she meets at the university coffee shop and soon discovers both women share a secret about who they become during the full moon. Genre: Coming of age / queer supernatural romance Content warning
HER HORRORWEEN - Gray Rock Method
A psychiatrist seeks out an unorthodox solution to help a client with a triggering traumatic history. Genre: Psychological horror / Supernatural Content warning: Psychological manipulation, body horror, death of narrator Written by Lauren C
HER HORRORWEEN - Brown Widows
An unlikely cult member with an unsettling lineage races to recover an escapee before an ancient, otherworldly plan is disrupted. Genre: Dark comedy / Cosmic horror Content warning: References to ritual violence, adult themes, mild body hor
HER HORRORWEEN - The Weight
You wake up, bound, in a place you don't recognize. A woman shrouded in darkness asks, do you remember me? Genre: Allegorical second person horror Content warning: Violence against women, body horror, disturbing imagery Written by Allison C
HER HORRORWEEN - Maternity Leave
Three weeks postpartum. No sleep. No help. New mother, Erica's grip on reality slips, and something lurks outside her window. Genre: Postpartum horror / Dark comedy Content warning: Postpartum psychosis, self-harm ideation, violence, infant
HER HORRORWEEN - The Three Deaths of the Blue Moon Ripper
A serial killer who turns beastly by moonlight discovers his past victims aren’t as powerless as they seem when his latest kill flips the hunt inside-out. Genre: Transgressive horror / Supernatural Content warning: Violence, sexual violence
HER HORRORWEEN - Fill The Pot
Four women. One apartment. A man upstairs who has hurt one of them and will never face consequences for it. A modern coven performs a bold spell to hold their male enemies accountable. Genre: Supernatural horror / Dark comedy Content warnin
HER HORRORWEEN - Nailbed
She found something under her skin that shouldn't be there. She’ll need to take care of this herself. Genre: Absurdist Body horror / Dark comedy Content warning: Extreme body horror, graphic self-surgery in supernatural context, blood and b
HER HORRORWEEN - The Solitude Of Birds
Tormented by dark visions, a woman must piece together memories about what happened to her before the shadows claim her forever. Genre: Literary horror / Ghost story Content warnings: Implied sexual violence, self-harm imagery, death. Writt
HER HORRORWEEN - Chase The Dark (poem)
This dark tone setting poem invites you into the dark murky world of Her Horrorween Genre: Horror Poetry Written by Tiffany Michelle Brown https://tmbwrites.com/ Performed by Donna Frank Moore Created, produced, directed, sound designed by
Welcome to HER HORRORWEEN!
Start here for a quick introduction to Ominous Thrill's HER HORRORWEEN - a 15 story celebration of what horror can do when women are its authors and its subject. OminousThrill is for mature audiences, so please check the episode notes for c
OMINOUS THRILL: HER HORRORWEEN Trailer
Beginning October 1, a new season - Ominous Thrill: Her Horrorween 15 fearsome tales from the feral minds of fearless women. Her Horrorween celebrates women authored horror with 15 stories spanning dark comedy, literary, body, folk, transgr
THE PATIENT - JANE DOE
When dedicated night-shift nurse Claire is assigned to monitor a mysterious nameless patient, she finds her professional detachment shattered as the boundaries between reality and waking nightmare blur. Story by MATTHEW SHAW Adapted for aud
MOTHER LINE - Part 4 of 4
What began as a nightmare on a dark road ends here, in the place where Brooklyn's Mother Line was born, where it has always known how to finish what men start. Content warnings: gun violence; sexual harassment and coercion; domestic abuse i
MOTHER LINE - Part 3 of 4
With Brooklyn bound and pushed to her limit, Alex escalates, pulling Zane across lines he never thought he'd cross. But the land this house sits on remembers who Brooklyn is, even when she's forgotten. And in the forest, someone else hears
MOTHER LINE - Part 2 of 4
As the party rages and the drinks keep flowing, Zane turns conflict with Brooklyn into a performance for the room. Brooklyn flips the script and leaves the group shaken with the weight of her history. But the ride home is about to put their
MOTHER LINE - Part 1 of 4
When Brooklyn and Zane become the target of a radicalized federal agent, the night of terror drives Brooklyn to finally embrace the ancestral power she has always kept at arm's length - her Mother Line. Part ONE of FOUR Ep 2 release: June 1
INK - Part 4 of 4
🌶️🌶️🌶️ Be advised - this episode contains scenes which are sexually explicit, and may not be suitable for all listeners. Time skips, jumps, and stops. Mya is everywhere now… too close, too hungry, threatening to devour Kaylee’s entire wo
INK - Part 3 of 4
🌶️🌶️🌶️ Be advised - this episode contains scenes which are sexually explicit, and may not be suitable for all listeners. Mya has returned to Kaylee, and their reunion is intense, visceral, and blissful. But there’s something else… just u
INK - Part 2 of 4
Aura delivers on her promise, giving Kaylee, Liv & Syd an audience with Markos. But things do not go as planned, and now Kaylee finds herself drawn into a mysterious world where nothing is as it seems, and a broken heart tattoo mysteriously
INK - Part 1 of 4
One year after losing her wife, Mya, to violence, Kaylee travels to New Orleans with friends Liv and Syd to mark the unbearable anniversary. But Syd is fixated on finding Markos… local artists rumored to practice ancient inking rituals that
SAFE SPACE - Part 2 of 2
After their frightening discovery Kat and Logan take drastic measures to escape what seems to be a deadly trap. Part TWO of TWO. Written by Hannah Mescon Produced, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt ominousthrill@gmail.com Featuri
SAFE SPACE - Part 1 of 2
Kat and Logan seek healing from a recent infidelity at a Costa Rican retreat where the mysterious guru Iris is ready with bizarre therapy. Part ONE of TWO. Written by Hannah Mescon Produced, Directed, and Sound Designed by Jeff Schmidt omin
KARMA
A psychic reading in New Orleans delivers bad news for Lexi's impending marriage to Bill, but will she accept a dark deal to make things right? Written by Alexandra Segel http://www.alexandrasegel.com/ If you enjoyed this episode, I strongl
