The Velvet Chapter: Late Night Storytelling
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.
Episodes
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 the spectrum of sight.
Step into the candlelit cabin, hear the testimony, and feel th...
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 tale to life in The Velvet Chapter. Late-night storytelling for those who find comfort ...
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, this episode lingers in stillness — soft, steady, and just a little unsettling.
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The Velvet Chapter is a late-night storytelling podcast featuring gothic, romantic, and uncanny short stories read in a calm, intimate voice. Hosted by Josh (Skika), it’s made for quiet nights and curious minds.
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