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Halloween in Burg, West Virginia.A body turns up on Mill Hollow with no coat and no explanation. The police write it off before the coroner even arrives. Days before Halloween, two teenagers go missing.Then there's the five-story mansion at the end of the road, where someone has opened a haunted attraction. Just days earlier, a dead body was found at the end of that same driveway.Five dollars. Three for the little ones.Private investigator Rayne Shadow works the case the way she works all of them: alone, off the books, and beyond the point where the law stops asking questions.Something Wicked Wears a Smile is a standalone Halloween special of The Shadow Record, an original crime thriller audio drama from Twisted Tranquility Productions. ⚠️ NEW LISTENERS WELCOME! This special is fully standalone, so you don't need to have heard the previous episodes to follow the story. However, it is canon and may contain spoilers for earlier episodes. Be sure to check the case note below. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 LISTEN AND FOLLOW Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4AdSNGW3BWQZdMqfi6Ce9f?si=qe86Cv8qSIKM81_hyWIuVw Full series playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqGFGElYTJ9IvnDQCXrqrqx1mjca_jUUv&si=9Z3iwAci-IuWNfmf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twistedtranquilityproductions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twistedtranquilityproductions Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/twistedtranquility.bsky.social Support the show: https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedtranquility ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝓒𝓡𝓔𝓓𝓘𝓣𝓢" The Shadow Record: Something Wicked Wears a Smile."Written, Directed, and Produced by: 𝓒𝓸𝓭𝔂 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐰: 𝐑𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰: 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝗟𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻: 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗛𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘾𝙤𝙥 1: 𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝐂𝐨𝐩 𝟐: 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 / 𝐄𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧: 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤 𝗪𝘆𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗯𝗯𝘀 / 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁-𝗠𝗮𝗻: 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘅 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝘆 𝟭 (𝗝𝗮𝘆) / 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝘆: 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗯 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝟏 & 𝟐: 𝐀𝐲𝐚 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐲𝐞𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝟑: 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢 𝐏𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥: 𝐗𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐕𝐀 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗵 𝗟𝗮𝘅𝗲𝗻 𝙀𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙇𝙖𝙙𝙮: 𝙍𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙝 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝘾𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠: 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙄𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙖 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⬇ 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗦: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗: ⬇ ⚫"Sable Rose Collective."-A modeling agency used as a front for a trafficking ring operated by Zariah Vale. ⚫"Zariah Vale."-The series primary antagonist and the queenpin Rayne is pursuing. At the end of Season 1, Zariah escapes Rayne by using a body double, setting the stage for a hunter to pursue her later. ⚫"The Ash Veil Killer."-The name Zariah Vale gives Rayne at the end of Season 1, identifying her as a serial killer operating in Burg. ⚫"A Serial Killer in Burg."A sarcastic, self-aware jab from Rayne at her own expense. She knows there's a serial killer operating in Burg because she's the one taking them out. It's her way of acknowledging what she is while making a snarky remark about herself. ⚫"The Equalizer / The Ash Veil Equalizer"-Names adopted by Rayne's supporters on subreddit forums. By the end of Season 1, the identity behind the legend has come to light. Higher authorities refer to her as the Ash Veil Killer, while Rayne and those who know what she truly represents use the Equalizer or the Ash Veil Equalizer. ⚫"The Treat-Man"-Also known as Wyatt Cobbs, a serial killer and the primary antagonist of this Halloween special. 🔴"Red Dot Files"-The files Rayne keeps throughout the series to remind herself that, in her eyes, there was no other option.

The Darken Realms returns with a feature-length dark fantasy audio drama: a standalone Halloween special about a king, a cursed warrior, and the price of undead magic.He walked into the underworld, and came back wrong.It's All Hallows month, when the veil between the living and the dead runs thin. King Corvus is offered a chance to speak with an ancestor who once ruled as he does... and pays a price he doesn't understand. Miles away, Tristian Grimwald fights a hunger the Blades of the Undead carved into him, while the people he swore to protect begin to fear what he's becoming.Two men. One soul split by choice, one taken piece by piece. And a thing wearing a dead king's armor, lit with a light that isn't its own.A full-cast Halloween story from The Darken Realms, an ongoing dark fantasy audio drama series. If you love immersive audiobooks, horror podcasts, gothic fantasy, and vampire fiction, this one was made for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CREDITSThe Darken Realms: A Soul Divided Wears No CrownWritten, Directed, and Produced by: 𝓒𝓸𝓭𝔂 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵 Cast and Crew* Mithun MK: King Corvus/Thalrock Bloodseer/Vessel Of The Damned*RJ Green: Corvane The Great.* Secrix: Tristian Grimwald/Grim *Christian Menza: Garrick Alden *Brian Brundage: Kael' Theron *Maria Corcobado: Selendra Darkveil *Random Guards: Dontae Majors ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Cover Artwork: Olesia Bezuhla ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 LISTEN AND FOLLOWFull series playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twistedtranq... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twistedtran... Support the show on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedtranq... Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/twistedtranq...

Enjoy the show? Support The Shadow Record here: buymeacoffee.com/twistedtranquility This is the 8th installment of The Shadow Record:He doesn't kill at random. He kills in sequence, and Rayne Shadow just found the pattern.In this episode of The Shadow Record, Rayne uncovers a chilling method behind a string of murders in Burg, WV, forcing her to get ahead of a killer who thinks several steps in advance. As bodies stack up in twos, the line between justice and obsession gets thinner than ever.The Shadow Record is a full-cast Crime Thriller audio drama following Rayne Shadow, a private investigator and dark avenger who metes out justice the system won't. If you're into Dexter, Jessica Jones, or The Punisher, this is your next fix.

If you enjoyed this and want to help fund what we do, every little bit helps: https://buymeacoffee.com/twistedtranq...▃▃▃▃▃▃▃This is the 6th installment of The Darken RealmsThe king has risen. And he is hungry.Corvus walks again, and his first act is to birth an army of the damned. Tristian wakes broken and caged, dangling between two dusk elves who cannot agree on whether he is dinner or something far more precious. And Elara uncovers the truth about the Darkium... only to glimpse her lover through enchanted waters. Alive. Healing. And far too close to someone else.Three realms. Three fates. One magic tearing them all apart.A dark fantasy audio drama with a full cast, immersive sound design, and zero AI. Every voice, every word, every sound is human made.▃▃▃▃▃▃▃CASTTristian Grimwald - SecrixElara Ashwood - Allie JonesCorvus / Thalrok - Mithun MKSelendra Darkveil -Maria CorcobadoKael'Theron - Brian BrundageSeraphias Kar'Dan -Jenny AndersonVorrath Kar'Dan - Gabe CharlesRandom Servants - Justin Stewart ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃CREDITSWriter/Director - Cody Hall (Twisted Tranquility Productions)Co-Producer - Mithun MKCo-Casting Director - Rebecca Olivia HodgesMix/Master - Twisted Tranquility ProductionsMusic - Licensed royalty-free/no-copyright

A stranger comes to Burg, and PI Rayne Shadow learns the hard way that some doors are better left unanswered. The Mystery Man is the next chapter of The Shadow Record — a serialized noir crime drama where the line between hunting monsters and becoming one keeps getting thinner. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Produced/ Written/ Directed by: Cody Hall/TTPCast and Crew: Holly Painter- Rayne ShadowRebecca Olivia Hodge- Lacey StatenMithun MK- Troy Maddox

In Episode 6 of The Shadow Record, Rayne Shadow follows a cold lead that burns hotter than she expected. What starts as a missing persons case peels back into something darker, something deliberate and someone doesn't want her finding the bottom of it.

The One Way Trap pulls Rayne Shadow even deeper into the rot of Burg, West Virginia.In Episode 5 of The Shadow Record, the pressure closes in, the danger gets tighter, and every move feels like it could be the last. What starts as another step forward turns into something far more dangerous, a trap that doesn’t leave much room to breathe, much less escape.The Shadow Record is an original crime-noir vigilante audio drama from Twisted Tranquility Productions, following private investigator Rayne Shadow as she navigates corruption, violence, and the cost of becoming the kind of monster this town created.If you’re into dark thrillers, female antiheroes, psychological suspense, crime noir, vigilante justice, and stories with Dexter, Jessica Jones, and Punisher-style energy, this series is for you.Subscribe and step deeper into the case.

Burg was supposed to forget what happened at the river. Piles of bodies, a vanished guest list, and a queenpin with enough money to scrub every camera clean. Rayne Shadow was not supposed to be one of the survivors. Under A Mountain Of Bodies follows Rayne as she claws her way out of a nightmare no one will ever read about in the news. Bloodied, exhausted, and running on instinct, she has to decide what kind of monster she is willing to become to hunt the people who did this. The night pushes her past her limits, strips away the mask, and forces her to face what vigilante justice is really costing her. Back in Burg, the city keeps breathing like nothing happened. Predators still walk free. Names and organizations start to surface, hinting at a hidden network that goes deeper than one crime scene. Rayne makes a quiet promise in the dark. She is not done. Not by a long shot

The Shadow Record | Episode 3: Wolves In SilkIn Episode 3 of The Shadow Record, vigilante private investigator Rayne Shadow faces her most dangerous adversary yet. A trafficking queenpin is tightening her grip on Burg, and every move Rayne makes puts Lacey, Harper, and her own secrets at risk.As Rayne closes in on the truth, Zariah Vale turns an elite masquerade style event into a gas filled killing floor. Wolves in silk, masks, poison, and panic turn the night into chaos and ash. Expect betrayal, moral ambiguity, and the kind of dark, grounded storytelling that defines this series.New to The Shadow Record?Start with Episode 1: The Stansberry File so you can follow Rayne's story from the beginning. ▃▃▃▃▃▃ Full cast:Rayne Shadow - Holly PainterLacey Staten - Rebecca Olivia Hodges Harper Knox - Voice Of Grim Gas mask guard 2/3 - Mithun MKGas Mask Guard 1 / Over the phone goon / Random cop - Justin Stewart Limo Driver - Bernie HortonRandom Drunk Man - Ransom HaywoodRandom Woman Speaker - Tarrah G. Detective Ramsey - Nate Lodbrok Zariah Vale - Khassity SinClaire

The Darken Realms | Episode 5: Echoes of PowerThe cost of power finally comes due.Far below the shattered realms, Tristian Grimwald drags his broken body through a desolate ruin, haunted by echoing voices that sound a little too much like the people he failed to save. Every step pulls him deeper into the bond with the Blades of the Undead, and every heartbeat asks the same question. How much of himself is he willing to sacrifice to win this war.In Corvus’s castle, Thalrock Bloodseer tightens his grip on dark magic as the undead king feeds and grows stronger. Their experiments twist flesh and spirit, sending ripples of corruption across the realms that no one can ignore.Elsewhere, Elara Ashwood wakes broken and paralyzed after being hurled through forbidden magic. With her body weak and her power unstable, she is forced to rely on Vorrath Kar’dan and the Drakarim, even as she questions if their help comes with a price she cannot afford to pay.Echoes of Power pushes the story deeper into grimdark territory. Magic has consequences, loyalty is tested, and every choice carves scars into the realms themselves.If you enjoy:• Dark fantasy and lore heavy worldbuilding• Cursed weapons and the price of magic• Corrupted kings, undead armies, and realm spanning wars• Character driven storytelling with moral gray areasThen you will feel right at home in The Darken Realms.

Rayne Shadow follows a dangerous lead after Lacey Staten vanishes without a trace. What she finds beneath Camden Drive drags her deeper into Burg’s corruption and forces her into choices that blur the line between justice and something far darker.▃▃▃▃▃▃▃CAST & CREWCreated, Written, Directed, and Produced byTwisted Tranquility Productions / Cody Hall▃▃▃▃▃▃▃Starring:Rayne Shadow — Holly PainterLacey Staten — Rebecca Olivia HodgesTrisha Stagmer — Maldwyn GiannakodimosHarper Knox — Voice of GrimZariah Vale — Khassity SinClaireRandom Woman in Restroom — Maldwyn GiannakodimosRandom Guards 1 & 2 — Dylan FosterRandom Guard 3 — Dontae MajorsRandom Guard 4 — Justin Stewart▃▃▃▃

Welcome to The Shadow Record, a crime noir vigilante audio drama set in Burg, West Virginia a city where justice doesn’t wear a badge. In Episode 1, “The Stansberry File,” a routine stakeout turns into bloodshed when Rayne Shadow uncovers a murder-for-hire plot involving the Stansberry family. What should have been surveillance becomes something far more personal — and far more violent

Welcome back to The Darken Realms, a full-cast dark fantasy audio drama from Twisted Tranquility Productions, hosted by The Specter. In Episode 4: The Black Scrolls Of Fate, ancient words stir, destiny tightens its grip, and every choice drags a shadow behind it.Listen with headphones for the best experience.⭐ If you’re new here: start at Episode 1 so the lore hits harder.🔔 Subscribe for the next episode drop, shorts, and production updates.

In The Darken Realms — Episode 3: “Storm of Secrets,” Tristian returns to Garrick with a haunting revelation. Tune in and find out what Garrick and Elara think—because some truths refuse to stay buried.

In Episode 2: Resurrection of Darkness, the shadows deepen and the first sparks of magic begin to emerge. We follow the path of Tristian, a man scarred by fate and forever changed after the beheading of a king. This episode delivers an immersive journey of blood, betrayal, and destiny—brought to life through cinematic sound design and gripping performances.⚔️ Special Note: This episode also includes a special announcement from the lead producer about the season ahead.📖 Subscribe to Twisted Tranquility Productions for more episodes, lore, and behind-the-scenes content.🎨 Cover Art: @shredderdima🎶 Theme: “The Unkillable” by Nick Valerson👉 Don’t forget to like, comment, and share to help spread the darkness.▃▃▃▃▃▃▃Cast & Crew Credited:Written/Directed/Produced by: 𝒞𝑜𝒹𝓎 𝐻𝒶𝓁𝓁 Tristian Grimwald: SecrixElara Ashwood: Allie JonesKing Corvus: Mithun MkThalrock Bloodseer; Mithun MkGarrick Alden:/Male Townie 1/ Guard 1: Christian Menza Male Townie 2, Gaurd 1,34, Gate Gaurd, King Aleric, Father Holloway: Gregory DwyerFemale Townie: Sally Swift▃▃▃▃▃▃▃© TPP/Twisted Tranquility Productions/ The Darken Realms