Selene

Maude Minvera stood in the penthouse of the Minerva tower, blue lotus drops circulating in her veins keeping the black worm parasite subdued. She was drinking in the ostentatious figure that was her grandmother Miriam Minerva, unknown to her her entire life. It would have been difficult to take in the room, her grandmother and the great lie she’d been told with a clear head, let alone filled with diluted blue lotus.Happy New Year!!This season features Bach's Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor--Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productioncleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A winter story inspired by the original tale by Hans Christian Andersen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Temperance bounced down the stairs with a rare smile, she was dressed in a draped  top and harem pants gathered at the ankle, with matching sequined slippers. her platinum hair was up in a bun, held in place not with the decorative comb her mother had bought her, but a simple wooden pencil. She spent all day getting her outfit right, and the pencil with the name facing outward at just the correct angle took most of that time.  It was the last full length pencil in the house, one with the name Duncan proudly stamped into the wood. This season features Bach's Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor--Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productioncleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shiner came to on the cellar floor of the Tannery House. His hot cheek pressed on the cold stone, his mouth and throat extended, a dark puddle before him, and a dead black worm parasite in its last throes of miserable life.  This season features Bach's Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor--Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productioncleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s time for A Bit of the News – hot tips from around Selene!Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Countess, a magician, a baron, and a country lass - a trip on the Fata Morgana, in the upper class. A night train journey enjoying the comfortable cabins and delightful cuisine. They’ve all stumbled into some trouble on this season of Selene.Part of the Rusty Quill Network: https://rustyquill.com/show/selene/This season features the song Creation by David FesliyanCast for The Fata Morgana season:SJ Harris - The Countess & JJ GadsbyJohn Kennard - Baron Kovach & Vincenzo The MagicianJeremiah Dalton - PendletonAndi Dawson - Train PorterMike Hall - The Waiter & other voices--Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productioncleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Fata Morgana a train blazing through the night. What spirits can brave The Wilds and all its whispers and all its frights? Poor Jane Gadsby is on the hunt for a countess who’s never been – will she figure it out before they arrive in Selene?This season features the song Creation by David FesliyanCast for The Fata Morgana season:SJ Harris - The Countess & JJ GadsbyJohn Kennard - Baron Kovach & Vincenzo The MagicianJeremiah Dalton - PendletonAndi Dawson - Train PorterMike Hall - The Waiter & other voices--Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productioncleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Fata Morgana, the night train to Selene - a comfortable dinner and a Countess who's gone missing. A panicked servant and a group of travelers gather, huddled in the hallway to see what’s the matter.This season features the song Creation by David FesliyanCast for The Fata Morgana season:SJ Harris - The Countess & JJ GadsbyJohn Kennard - Baron Kovach & Vincenzo The MagicianJeremiah Dalton - PendletonAndi Dawson - Train PorterMike Hall - The Waiter & other voices--Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productioncleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Countess, a magician, a baron and a country lass - a trip on the Fata Morgana, in the upper class. A night train journey enjoying the comfortable cabins and delightful cuisine, they’ve all stumbled into some trouble on this season of Selene.This season features the song Creation by David FesliyanCast for The Fata Morgana season:SJ Harris - The Countess & JJ GadsbyJohn Kennard - Baron Kovach & Vincenzo The MagicianJeremiah Dalton - PendletonAndi Dawson - Train PorterMike Hall - The Waiter & other voices--Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productioncleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A collection of Minerva's Solutions before the cold season sets in. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Poe special for this Halloween - The pale, blue eye and strange love. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To celebrate Spooky Season please take some time to rate and review Selene on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If you want a Tokens of Esteem pack with a rare Lenny Penny and glow in the dark stickers, join our Patreon: www.patreon.com/CleverthanSelene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryA Clever > Than Production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s time for A Bit of the News – hot tips from around Selene!Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The game has finished, but there's one leftover. She takes a swing at the marionette and we learn how to make The Sawdust cocktail. This season features the The Ghost Song by White Ghost Shivers, vocals by Jeremy SlemendaSelene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sawdust plays a game of Bogie's Useless Head the party game you should never play at home...This season features the The Ghost Song by White Ghost Shivers, vocals by Jeremy SlemendaSelene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time for this year's spooky Bogie party! Did you get an invite? Grab your favorite cocktail and burn some shoe leather, this year we have a surprise guest and he's got some fun games he wants to play! This season features the The Ghost Song by White Ghost Shivers, vocals by Jeremy SlemendaSelene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s time for A Bit of the News – hot tips from around Selene!Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh my we left things in quite a situation. How could we possibly imagine such a gruesome scenario even by some tea leaf divination. The Lotus Eaters Salon in room number eleven following clues as a team, up at the Duchess hotel where every floor is thirteen. A finger, some feet a dead waiter and now this? A locked wardrobe foreboding a singed sulfur bliss. Perhaps not look, perhaps leave it be, there’s no need to follow every clue of the lost finger mystery. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Lotus Eaters were gathered in their café for dinner, and dinner was served. Not Oysters Rockefeller or Lobster Thermador or Beef Wellington. No Chicken Ala King, wouldn’t that be nice? Instead the surly waiter served them two chopped human feet, sitting in a large block of ice. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Where did we end? It was a little conundrum with a finger on a table and a puzzled consortium of intellectual punsters of wily wit, of Parker and Sebastian of the Lotus Eaters git.Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh would you look at the time it’s flown by so fast, it’s been far to long since we payed a visit to The Duchess Hotel, at last. Grab your best and primp and preen, for The Duchess Hotel where every floor is thirteen.Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A collection of Minerva's Solutions while Masie recovers. Why don't you go look for clues or something. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Selene is a narrated supernatural mystery and horror series of connected stories with over 60 characters across the city. The show encompasses ghost stories, murder mysteries and horror - all with dark humor. Every episode has a vintage parody ad from Minerva’s solutions as well as mini-mysteries, puzzles, riddles and recipes.Join us on Patreon for music, art and more. https://www.patreon.com/CleverthanA Clever > Than Production www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The finale to The Standing Corpse. Masie confronts Mister Pedigree, but Brittleteeth has a trick up her sleeve. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Curios Log – Masie Meyers.  The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated, or perhaps premature – the night is still young. My recorder is a bit waterlogged, so hope this works.  Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I was pacing in the mud at Black Pond, Fitz and I had just barely escaped the killer from Pedigree's new candy factory. Brittleteeth had pulled the bones of Owen McCleary from the pond depths and now was keeping his skull in the office. What did Brittleteeth need with the bones of an inventor? Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trapped in my own bones in Mister Pedigree’s candy factory, staring at a black skull. The name Owen McCleary repeating in my head and someone’s coming through that door.Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The killer left a pile of candy wrappers and a handbill to a new candy factory on the river. A big flashy showcase for all the girls and boys. Last thing this city needs is more sugar, more distraction. The Stix are about to revolt and the division is going to tear this city in half.Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My name is Masie Meyers – Curio for the Department of Curiosity. To whoever hears this, this recording will be my last, because I have been murdered...Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Teddy Duncan stood in the Duncan’s Union headquarters overlooking the sunken district of The Stix, the working class neighborhood under the Lethe river. A grey late morning with a clear view out his window to the rail lines and steam cranes on the docks. Seagulls circling, the boat nets hauled with giant hooks, hoists pulling crates onto train car platforms roped down for the journey to the warehouses. Foreman shouting to crews echoed over the rooftops with leaky water towers and the odd pigeon coop. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the city of Selene, as you walk the streets, if you ever see a penny in a crack in the sidewalk, walk on by without giving it a second look. Everyone knows this - why you may ask, well this this is due to the well known stuck penny curse and the sad story of a woman named Nora.Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can you see out in those streets, do you see those piles? That’s The Stix rejecting all their new baubles, the rubber tires and electric stoves, cast off vanities. We’ve built walls from that discard – blocked the bridges so that no more motorcars or no powerlines or no more Minerva’s Starlings go riding down here. We do no need it! Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Unfortunately, it was not a great time on the streets of Selene,  there had been several high-profile murders throughout the city. The killer had left letters with the bodies that somehow made it to the Lantern Paper and were published. The killer, calling themselves The Rattletrap, claimed to be from the Stix and was moving uptown to kill the wealthy while taunting them. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sesserin was tall and sinewy with defined muscles from his intensive fencing workouts. He maintained them in his late middle age – believed in a vigorous daily routine, built a gymnasium into a floor at Halite, and had a long steam before sliding into one of his tailored suits.Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryFeaturing compositions by Chopin Theme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The three Duncan brothers - Teddy, Remy, and Lenny found themselves in an empty room with a dirt floor, under the main stairs just below street level. Their parents had left in the night, while the boys slept on a small, worn rug. The three of them under the age of six, huddled on a crate together in the damp cold. They had rumbling bellies and no shoes, but an empty room that was paid through the end of the month.Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryFeaturing compositions by Chopin Theme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Across the Stye stone bridge, a crumbling bridge as old as anyone can remember, the last gaslight lamp marking the end of the city, two gents push a rickety wooden cart through the green fog for some nefarious business. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryFeaturing compositions by Chopin Theme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As a storm rolled into Lanula Park and covered the mansions of Park Row, a pretzel boy stood out on The widow's walk of Lavendula. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryFeaturing compositions by Chopin Theme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A stormy night for a reunion at Bridewell House. Madame Viola Walker is chained to the parlor table, whilst Brianna her discarded and bitter sister, hovers over her with a dirty shovel. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryFeaturing Chopin's Nocturne in E Minor Op.72 No.1Theme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Voldat sisters Viola and Vivienne (Ve Ve for short) grew up wealthy in the folds of the affluent but oft-troubled Voldat family. Young Vivienne was sent away to the asylum Ludlow, and due to her defiant nature, Vivienne was given aggressive treatments. Viola, in contrast, grew up in luxury and society and married Leopold walker and he built for her the purple house of park row, Lavendula, but the Voldat curse caught up with her as well...Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryFeaturing Chopin's Nocturne Op.9 No.1Theme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the other Curio reports, it sounds as if the sleepwalker activity has reduced in the city. I don't know why it started in the first place. I don't know why it has subsided, but my hunch is going forward that they will come in and flow out like a tide whenever whoever is controlling them needs to advance their plans. Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryFeaturing Chopin's Nocturne Op.9 No.1Theme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I’m sorry for the restraints Mr. Goodman. I know you just want to go home, but you’ve been sick. And we need to run a few tests before we let you leave. I’m going to have them remove your gag, as long as you promise not to scream...Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryFeaturing Chopin's Nocturne Op.9 No.1A portion of this episode recreates an experiment by John C Lilly. Theme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why did I come in here? I was, was looking for…..Why did I come in here? I was in the other room and then I came in here to get something….What was it? Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryFeaturing Chopin's Nocturne Op.9 No.1A portion of this episode recreates an experiment by John C Lilly. Theme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Millie Minerva had taken over the duties of brewing the crabapple cider from her fasting sister Mercy, the shame eater. It was sweet with a sharp tang that woke up the tongue and provided a lovely light buzz like a spring breeze. Millie’s wasn’t as quite as good as Mercy’s used to be, but only the family could tell and they couldn’t keep the bottles stocked fast enough.Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mercy Minvera, a fasting girl, had quickly been monikered The Shame Eater for her ability to pull the shame from people and provide relief with her touch. The Minerva sisters - enterprising young girls, started selling cider, and homemade soaps to those standing in line waiting for a visit with Mercy. Any guilt about exploiting their sister's ability slowly washed away with the dreams of buying the neighboring plots of land and re-establishing the Minerva family crabapple orchards.Selene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Minvera family lived in a fine two-story home, with a wraparound porch, scalloped wood trim like fish scales, a short round tower with a cone roof, and a tiny balcony off the second-story bedroom. It was an inheritance leftover from what was once the family house that looked over a great orchard, but now it sat on a small, uneven plot of land fenced in on each side over time by different neighbors so that each section of property fence ended in odd places with odd alleys between them...This episode features the poem In Praise of Shame by Lord Alfred DouglasSelene - A Narrated Supernatural MysteryTheme Song by Matt Vanacorohttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan A Clever > Than Productionwww.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A spoiler-filled overview of the mysterious spirits and places of the city of Selene as well as a recap of seasons one through nine. There Be Dragons! www.cleverthan.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/CleverthanTwitter:  https://twitter.com/ItsMisterToadInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/clever.than/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The parasites are spreading, making everyone act wild. The sleepwalkers are hunting Curios, something immolated an Overland Dust partner. There are roving clowns stealing faces, witches crawling out of music boxes, and a coal and ash man stealing children. Corruption and poisoners and now murderous sleepwalkers and something is sending wooden casks out into the city. A falling knife has no handle. Selene - a narrated supernatural mysteryA Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The nights in winter are longer, and colder and darker from the chill. The tracks we follow in the snow, the ones dusted into oblivion, where do they go? Who wandered out into the cold and into the nothingness of the dark? What hunts in that dark? What subverts its own safety to brave that cold? Selene - a narrated supernatural mysteryA Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The brownstone mansions of Park Row were impressive in their lavishness and the seeping bright colors of pinks and lavenders and shades of indigo. The Bridewell House sat at the end of the lane, trying to hide its institutional shape with strategically placed elm and red oak trees and a high, manicured hedge. The Brickwork that formed the bulk of the structure was a deep, rich red, and its thick paned windows held with iron latches seemed to ready for troubled spirits that might have the inclination to flee. This episode features the poem Dreamland by Lewis Carroll Selene - a narrated supernatural mysteryA Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who wants to see some more magic? Tonight we’ve guessed what's in your pockets, and summoned spirits to write on chalkboards. you’ve seen levitation, you’ve seen water run backward, and you’ve seen a woman change outfits in a shower of silver leaves from an umbrella....But you haven’t seen anything like thisSelene - a narrated supernatural mysteryA Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.