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The Velvet Chapter is a podcast of romantic, gothic, and sensual storytelling — tales told in a calm, intimate voice designed for quiet nights. Each episode is a complete story, from timeless classics to haunting short fiction, chosen to soothe, intrigue, or stir something deeper. Whether you seek a gentle companion before sleep or a story that lingers in the dark, you’ll find it here — one velvet chapter at a time.
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Lost in the endless passages of Mammoth Cave, a lone traveler’s dying torch leaves him swallowed in total darkness. As silence closes in, something begins to move toward him — soft footfalls, breathing, and the unmistakable sense of being hunted. In this claustrophobic tale from H. P. Lovecraft, a desperate fight for survival uncovers a horror far …
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In this chilling episode of The Velvet Chapter, Josh — known to many as Skika — reads Ambrose Bierce’s The Damned Thing, a haunting story of a frontier inquest and a creature invisible to the human eye. Through a coroner’s questioning, a witness’s trembling confession, and the lost diary of Hugh Morgan, the truth emerges: some horrors exist beyond …
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In 1859, long before H. G. Wells imagined The Invisible Man, Fitz-James O’Brien wrote a story that dared to ask: What happens when you feel something that isn’t there? In tonight’s reading, two men rent a house in New York rumored to be haunted — and discover a creature they cannot see, only touch. Join Skika as he brings this gothic, unsettling ta…
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In tonight’s story, we step into a quiet room where sunlight trembles against the walls — and reason trembles with it. The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892, is a slow descent into isolation, imagination, and the dangerous beauty of the mind when it’s left alone too long. Read in the intimate style of The Velvet Chapter,…
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