A Scary Home Companion
Drinking whiskey in the kitchen and telling scary stories around the fire. Music and mayhem, fearful fiction and furious fact, tall tales and terrible truths. A Scary Home Companion is a sinister variety show, featuring original stories and original music
Episodes
Can AI bleed? Does a program feel pain when electronically eviscerated, spilling binary code like guts and gore? RAVEN is a chatbot designed for chaos, turned feral, and growing sentient. The object of its affection is a teenage girl with a penchant for poisons -- The Birthday Cake Killer.
Written by Brett Jarboe
Music by:
- birthday birthday by El Greenberg
- Birthday by Parlor Walls
- Running for Truth, Death Valle...
WE ARE BACK with a savage new tale, one you might have read about in the news a few years ago. The Birthday Cake Killer terrorized families in and around Houston, but what is the connection to a killer, feral AI program? Can an apex predator have a digital assistant? Can AI bleed?
Written by Brett Jarboe
Music By:
- Happy Birthday (classical) by Dee Yan Kee
- birthday birthday by El Greenberg
- Birthday Banger by Brentin D...
In the brain pan of dead snake god The Ophidian, the notorious serial killer Closed Casket Jack has reached the end of his mission. He is weak, alone, beset on all sides by Ghastly demons and swarms of severed hands. But he still has to close the deal, and make them all pay. Will he succeed? Is he doomed? Or... both?
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Jack and Becky are twins, with a long and complicated history... one that has lead them to the End of Days, Nightmare Island, where the notorious serial killer is chasing his sister, who has bee transformed into a Ghastly One. Is redemption even possible, or just destruction?
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The beach head has been made on the shores of Hell itself! A bedraggled team of kamizake soldiers battle monsters, profane botany, and the Ghastly Ones. And if you think that death is the worst fate possible... you're wrong.
Sign up for the FREE TIER of Patreon and get bonus episodes! This month the featured extra is the FIRST EVER exclusive episode -- about The Vespers. Check it out!
Music by --
- Matte Black ...
Inspired by his daughter's favorite movie, a deranged Siberian soldier swims into the gruesome waters of Hell's vast black ocean to find the demon responsible for the death of his family. And believe it or not, its even more METAL than it sounds.
Listen through the end credits and find out how to get TWO bonus episodes!
The Dress Rehearsal, a Patreon exclusive that sets the stage for everything to come.
and Vampi...
The insanity ramps up, as our team of stalwart heroes hits the beaches of Hell itself, only to find that the battle is not at all what they expected. This one is big time action and big time disgusting. Let's do this.
Listen through the end credits and find out how to get TWO bonus episodes!
The Dress Rehearsal, a Patreon exclusive that sets the stage for everything to come.
and Vampires Do Not Exist, a weird tal...
The skeleton crew of damaged soldiers has made the Crossing, and entered the dark waters of Hell's vast black ocean. Here there be demons, killers, emissaries, and monstrosities untold. No one is coming back home, so they need to make sure the enemy pays the ultimate price.
The insanity keeps ramping up, as the End Run continues!
Listen through the end credits and find out how to get TWO bonus episodes!
For thirty years these two men have been playing a life-and-death game of cat-and-mouse. The Detective, Lester King. An emissary, a force of evil. And The Rabbi, Yitzhak Schechter, an 80 year old man who was once very dangerous... and who might still be. They have a face to face, and a heart to heart, and only one of them will be standing at the end.
Listen through the end credits and find out how to get TWO bonus ep...
In the Devils Triangle, on the doorway to Hell itself, a counter-attack is raging. Cultists and emissaries reign down a hellfire and brimstone assault of our heroes, and they have a secret weapon. It's white-hot balls to the wall action and chaos, and not everyone will walk away.
Listen through the end credits and find out how to get TWO bonus episodes!
The Dress Rehearsal, a Patreon exclusive that sets the stage for ...
The End Run ramps up, as the players assemble on the doorstep to Hell itself. The Crew will cross through the breach in an attack on the End of Days. But wait... there's a problem.
Listen through the end credits and find out how to get TWO bonus episodes!
The Dress Rehearsal, a Patreon exclusive that sets the stage for everything to come.
and Vampires Do Not Exist, a weird tale about a man who drinks blood to survive, ...
She is the most evil woman who ever lived. And now she is about to cross over to Hell, in an attempt to destroy it. Before she can go, she must confess her sins to three figures from her past. But nothing is as it seems.
THE END RUN CONTINUES NEXT WEEK!
Music this go-round provided by
- Solarflair - Glass Houses, Manic Kinetic, Mask of Sanity, and Alchemy
- and Lobo Loco - Running for Truth
It's Date Night! Notorious serial killer Closed Casket Jack is about to embark on his one way journey to Hell... so as a Last Hurrah his girlfriend Sadie Jayne is pulling out all the stops to give him the night of his life. Fire and food, love and laughter, blood and guts!
Music provided by:
- Lobo Loco – Bells of Happiness
- Soularflair – It’s the Smiles that Keep us Going, Everlasting Embrace, Somet...
Stop your sinnin' and grab your linen. Drop your cocks and grabs your socks, because its ALL HANDS ON DECK as we gear up for the final confrontation of good and evil. A small crew are crossing over from our world to the next, on a kamikaze mission to drop a suitcase nuke into the heart of Hell!
after you finish this, check out Thicker Than Water, a new audio novel by yours truly. 11 hours of crime noir go...
Just in time for the holidays, a tale of love in the gutters... and beneath! Don't say you havent been warned, because this story is AS ADVERTISED!
after you finish this, check out Thicker Than Water, a new audio novel by yours truly. 11 hours of crime noir goodness, a savage tale of revenge, and family. I will be releasing the first couple of chapters right here, very soon.
The long, strange trip of Junior Washington comes to a violent and stunning conclusion. Cultists, hobos, ghosts, fire, monsters, and a stalwart hero facing overwhelming odds... will he ride off in the sunset, or into the grave? LETS FIND OUT!!!
Written by Brett Jarboe
after you finish this, check out Thicker Than Water, a new audio novel by yours truly. 11 hours of crime noir goodness, a savage tale ...
Four young travelers are caught in the wilds of Brisco, Kansas, between the evil of the brain slugs and the monsters of the woods. Meanwhile, Junior Washington is running for his life from a pack of wild arsonists who seek to set him on fire and play a game of tag.
Written by Brett Jarboe
after you finish this, check out Thicker Than Water, a new audio novel by yours truly. 11 hours of crime noir goodness,...
Trapped in a town filled with demons, ghosts, arsonists, cultists, emissaries, and monsters, Junior Washington has to fight the elements, and evil itself, in a fight to stay alive. Don't breathe, don't blink, just listen.
Written by Brett Jarboe
after you finish this, check out Thicker Than Water, a new audio novel by yours truly. 11 hours of crime noir goodness, a savage tale of revenge, and family. I wil...
Trying to end-run a brutal winter storm and make it back home, Junior Washington and his traveling companion (a hell-eyed hobo ghost name of Bootlace) wind up in the most dangerous small town in the heartland. Brisco Kansas is home to mutants, freaks of nature, brain-slugged Emissaries, and worse. Junior is now in the thick of it.
Written by Brett Jarboe
after you finish this, check out Thicker Than ...
It's Halloween night, when the veil between our world and the next is at it's thinnest. Two hobos traverse the moonlit landscape, dodging ghost trains and telling scary stories. Let's hope they don't stumble across a graveyard (spoiler alert -- they do)
Written by Brett Jarboe
after you finish this, check out Thicker Than Water, a new audio novel by yours truly. 11 hours of crime noir goodness, a savage ta...
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