Selene

If the letter the postman delivered was correct, in a few short days he would be a groom. No amount of licking his hands and smoothing down his hair would suffice - he would need to acquire a tophat and tails for his big day.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.

Miss Suitor, Charity.. The results were horrific, we even pulled the sketch artist out of the tunnel as it was sheets of burnt carnage. I couldn’t sleep the night I read that report, so thank you for that. I feel for her in her loneliness and I would love to bring her some kind of satisfaction, but we’re not going to reopen old wounds to chase a ghost. 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 Old Oak sat not far from the edge of the road and loomed over a smooth green field that stretched flat into a small grove on the horizon. That old oak, like the last of an ancient race, its long branch tendrils snaking out, creating a cover that could have been an empire to itself and held the autumn mist as it rolled the field as if embracing a plume of smoke within its arms to dew the leaves and whisper secrets into each dark knot that lead down to the mossy earth imps that listened from deep within the deadfall. 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.

There is a lantern at the center of Selene. But It wasn't not always at the center. Originally at the entrance to the port sat a tower of granite with a glass flame at the top, and in it, the fires flickered to announce to ships they had arrived. In those days, the print shops pressed pamphlets out by hand. They would send runners out to the lighthouse to wait for any news as the ships came in from afar...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.

A reading of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven - A spell to summon the shadows through the dark season. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Felicity Founders Penthouse apartment, the partygoers had run out into the streets on a scavenger hunt and those left behind were entangled in a murder mystery. Felicity's body laid on the library floor and the apartment was filled with puzzles to unlock the guests dirty secrets. 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.

It is essential for any host to make sure during the spooky season to keep your guests inebriated, entertained, and stuffed full of sweet treats as they play out their games and tricks. Let us open the annual periodical to help support these festivities. The Bogie book tells us that there is apt to be a lull after the refreshments have been served. A few stunts will liven up the party. Felicity Founders, our hostess, was fantastic at stunts. 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.

Felicity Founders was dead and a murderer on the loose inside her penthouse apartment. Who among this group was the killer, what dark secrets are held between pairs, and what kind of twisted game are they playing at this season’s Bogie Party?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.

Next door at Lavendula the Walker family and their manservant Pumble dragged themselves up the front walk. They stopped for a moment to watch the messenger and Sesserin exchange, and then walked in the front door of Lavendula bedraggled, soaking wet, and covered in filth. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They risked the Funhouse and out the other side, lost their friend Jules in the excitement. Cornelia went looking and only found Madame Lenore to read her a bold fortune gifting her a star. Pumble who had run out of egg phosphates, was finding Madame Viola more difficult to manage. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They’d taken Madame Viola to the celestial seaside amusement park for the day to get away from some new construction and Cooper had just experienced a rush she’d never felt before, having an imaginary flower from a cute clown, and almost floating into the funhouse with her sister Cornelia and boisterous friend Jules. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jules pointed to a big, bright sign hand-painted with a map illustrating the entire park - from the entrance the path lead them through the new innovation exhibitions, down to the sideshow and acrobatic tents and food midway, past the funhouse then on closer to the water with the mermaid water show and diving tank and then the imposing face peeler roller coaster that swung out over the water. Then past a floating barge with a boxing ring exhibition sponsored by Duncan’s Matches And then at the end of the pier, a giant aeronautical balloon made of canvas in bright colors netted and tethered at the pier side for a lucky few random raffle winners to ascend into the clouds at dusk to see the expanse of the city, the illuminated Vega’s light wheel and Celestial park in all of its radiant brilliance. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What’s in a face? The literal features that shape so much of how the world receives us and also the ones we manufacture to compliment the physical, reflected in various distortions. How exhausting to maintain a visage so separate from our internal face, to show the world only a small portion of who we really are, or one fabricated completely. If given the choice, would you swap faces with someone else? Would you peel yours away and start fresh?A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can sanguine hearts mitigate the suffering of those less fortunate? A crushing loss for Temperance, and a close to one chapter, and opening another. As quickly as the drawer for The Sotto Voce closed, the one for The Sotto Witch opens, as Masie tracks her old friend across the city wherever she may frighten.A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why is it so difficult to demolish the ancient temples dedicated to our dark fouls? Anchored deep in previous cruelty and malice? What festering remnants of past lives do we leave behind as we try to hide, vanishing into calm, dark nights? The Sotto Voce resists, no man nor machine can pull down its walls, tempered by the satisfaction of mocking the Overland Dust Company Landlords and the absent Baron of Music, the Maestro Domenico Fontana.---A Clever Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sotto Voce, the house of whispers, created from the remnants of a ghost ship, employed in an opera by a maestro that slowly went mad. Four neighborhood children were trapped inside. Three little girls had been chased to the basement, by an old musical feind, but now having crept back up the stairs, they peered through a crack and realized their troubles had tripled. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Enocke Green, the runaway boy was somewhere in the house, but the three girls. Temperance, Antigone, and Masie were calming in the temporary safety of the dark stairwell, lit only by matchlight. Temperance and Antigone couldn't hear the house scream, but helped Masie limp along to compensate for her vertigo. Three monstrous trucks drove around the pond edge to the end of the road in front of the Park Row mansions. Trailing a short distance behind was an old carriage carrying four old, bent men wiping the condensation from the windows so they could see. The trucks arrived, the first carrying a crew of heavy laborers that had agreed to triple wage for an intense overnight shift, to quickly make work of demolishing the old Maestro’s house, The Sotto Voce. The second held something under heavy rain cover and the third truck had a load of tethered barrels. A Clever > Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three monstrous trucks drove around the pond edge to the end of the road in front of the Park Row mansions. Trailing a short distance behind was an old carriage carrying four old, bent men wiping the condensation from the windows so they could see. The trucks arrived, the first carrying a crew of heavy laborers that had agreed to triple wage for an intense overnight shift, to quickly make work of demolishing the old Maestro’s house, The Sotto Voce. The second held something under heavy rain cover and the third truck had a load of tethered barrels. A Clever Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.thanhttps://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was a gloomy morning at the edge of Parvum Pond. The early mist had not dissipated, but instead climbed up the slight incline, engulfing the vanguard of the park row mansions and mixing with the slight drizzle from the grey sky. Four old buzzards in capes and top hats, sat hunched in an undecorated coach as it pulled up past The houses of Lavendula, Mulberry, Halite, and beyond a thick, overgrown hedge filled with dark thorns, bramble, and tiny poisonousness berries. A Clever Than Production. www.cleverthan.comInstagram: @clever.than Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Show must go on. Max and company spared the reputation of Madame Mustaches, Max pre-sold tickets to real opening of Pharaoh and booked in an entire season of acts to the stage, including a new magician's act featuring a spirit cabinet. Bennet interrogated Rudy Valerio at Needle street with some of the other inspectors. Charity thanked Max for his hospitality but set off into the city once again, a copy of The Lantern newspaper in her hands and a job circled in pencil. A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hope’s fingers wrapped around Charity’s neck, her thumbs pressing hard on her trachea. Charity had just slipped from consciousness just behind the curtain in the dark stage of the variety theater Madame Mustache’s. The audience had breached the doors, slowly streaming in and taking their seats. The house a murmur of rumors of the murder that had taken place on that very stage the night before. One slight tug on the curtain rope and the audience would be witnessing the second murder on that very spot and open the show to the one night only Murder Follies. A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Word had spread about the playwright Arthur’s murder. Inspector Bennet from Needle Street had been inside the theater all day, interrogating witnesses and looking for clues. Although, why he was currently crammed inside a small corridor on his hands and knees under the stage in complete darkness he didn’t know. But his companion, The Curio Maise Myeres, had felt something amiss and wanted to show him what she’d found….A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maximillian didn’t want to benefit from his friend Arthur’s demise, but he had to bridge the news of the murder and refocus everyone on the stars and performances of the theater. Arthur’s body was carried away, a final dramatic act for the stage, his first ever role outside of playwright. A paranoia had settled in among the cast and crew, everyone moving too fast to stop and accept what had happened, but in the back of their minds knowing there was a killer on the loose. ------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Arthur Penmoomb was dead. A playwright and sometimes short story writer, the scribe of Madame Mustache's had been murdered the night before the opening of their most ambitious production to date The Curse of the Pharaoh. Was it the Pharaoh's curse? Or did something reach out from Arthur's past?------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Where do the lost dreams of Selene escape and smear into colored streams, flowing into gutters with the rain? where does promise rise and unfurl with the thick red velvet of a curtain? What exactly is a show and how do you draw the line of a stage? A distraction from ourselves, an intoxication, a slight promise. Are we all not actors from moments as we awake?------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We take comfort that someone is maintaining these wonderful lairs like the Duchess. Like the sound of Vincent’s typewriter spilling words on the page or the sound of a cocktail shaker pouring out the first round as Lloyd tries out a new concoction on Cecil at The Carousel Bar. As Thurston prepares a new soup of the day at The Galliard, as Winston checks in another guest. You can rest assured, there’s always a room available for you at The Duchess.------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bankers, artists, mavens and magicians, actors and titans and models and musicians, society and even a criminal or two, at the Wormwoord Revelry at the Duchess Radiance Ballroom. The event of the season, where all the decadence on display at the Duchess hotel decorated resplendent in emerald for today. ------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonight’s the night, the event of the season, the hotel is bright, lit up like a beacon for the Wormwood Revelry. Everyone is dressed so fine, for a bite and night of absinthe and wine and champagne and glorious treats of confection and …flesh.  Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. ------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Up on the 13th floor of The Duchess hotel - a poisoners card game, Victor's ennui and a Kitchen Quandry. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. ------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What’s a hotel but a place for the wayward shadows of Selene. A place where you can satisfy every indulgence and you don’t have to clean. Steal all the towels and eat soup in bed, play a card game with a Duncan and a poisoner named Fred. The Duchess hotel was built with a dream, and that dream is a dark one where every floor is thirteen.  Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. ------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A few days a few nights, some debaucherous fun. Get away from your mundane life and go on the run. At the carousel bar with lights and painted fauna, or deep in the Mollycoddle spa where you can take a steam and a sauna. A fandango or foxtrot at The Radiance Ballroom, up the shakey elevator like a wandering tomb.  So come listen again for this new season of Selene, come for a stay at the Duchess hotel, where every floor is thirteen. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. ------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A birthday party, an odd gift, and a history lesson. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Digging up family secrets and putting something to rest. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Viola tours Ludlow and Maise deals with some hard labor. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Viola gets some bad news. Charity's morning after and Maise is thrown deeper into a nightmare.Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Needle street turns up a lead for Viola. Edmund reveals his surprise and Masie meets a nightmare. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A visit to Mr. Pedigree's Doll Hospital. Madame Viola asks Hughes to look for something lost. A smoke-filled nightmare. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An ash cloud evolves into something scary, Edmund Greene has a surprise and a Baron's daughter breaks something precious. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll------A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The finale of The Black Pond - A rare warm winter night in the park, Charity and Edmund have a date with a wooden cask. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Edgar Allen Poe – City in the SeaRimbaud - Is she an Almah?...------A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The history of Duncan's Matches, Madame Viola pays the ransom for Plum and Constable Hughes stumbles on an underground dice game. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Selene History: Duncan's MatchesSelene Slang: Better ask Lenny. Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea------A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pumble drowns and we learn the history of Owen McCleary. Charity trapped in a wardrobe and a ghost in Lanula Park. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Selene history bit: The Death of Owen McClearyEdgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea------A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inspector Bennet and Hughes visit Wegg in the morgue with a surprise Curio guest. Madame Viola's daughters Cornelia and Cooper arrive in to help in the search for Plum. Enocke gets a visit from phrenologist Dr. Quade and a new dental mystery. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Selene Recipe: Lavender ViolaSelene Mini-Mystery: Dental ConundrumEdgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea------A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Needle street Interrogations, was Enocke the killer? Stir up some tomato bisque, and help solve a mini-mystery: The Piano Murder. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Selene slang: It all goes to Lisa. Selene Recipe: Eleanor's Scarlet BisqueEdgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea------A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A strange city with a quiet park in winter. The broken ice of a black pond. A hunt for a missing boy and the ransom for an exotic bird. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References:Edgar Allen Poe – City in the SeaRimbaud – A Dream for Winter------A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy.https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthanwww.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.