The Dark Tome

Open the Book; Unlock Imagination

Episode 4 – Murdered Sleep, by Kat Howard

“Sleep is dying, and has been for a long time now, through uncounted ticks of clocks and the flickers of thousands of too-brief candles.”

It’s the night of the Senior Prom, and rather than show up awkwardly, Cassie has decided to stay home with the Dark Tome. But, she soon meets a mysterious stranger with an invitation to a masquerade ball wicked and mysterious, far stranger than any rites of spring. What she learns there will reshape her thoughts on dance, if she can ever make it back.

Based on the short story, “Murdered Sleep,” by Kathleen Howard. Originally published in Apex Magazine. Adapted for audio by Fred Greenhalgh. Produced by Fred Greenhalgh and William Dufris. Directed by William Dufris.

CAST:

Lilly Thorne – Cassie

Tim Sample – Mr. Gussy

Casey Turner – Kim

Tess Van Horne – Kora

JennyWren Walker, Ian Carlsen, JP Guimont, William Dufris – Ensemble Voices

CREW:

Recorded at Mind’s Eye Productions in South Portland, Maine.

Dialogue Editing – Fred Greenhalgh

Sound Design – William Dufris

Original Music – Peter Van Riet

Additional Music – Mind’s Eye Productions

The Dark Tome is a creation of Dagaz Media.

Episode 3: Breathe My Name, by Christopher Golden

Being a miner is like playing Russian roulette every day of your life. Any morning you might wake up, and find the chamber with the bullet.

Tommy – the youngest in a long proud line of West Virginia coal miners – finds out what it feels like to have your card be up when an explosion traps him and a dozen other souls two miles beneath the earth.

With oxygen growing thin, their only prayer might come from an old ghost story.

Based on the short story, “Breathe My Name,” by Christoper Golden. Adapted for audio by Fred Greenhalgh. Produced by Fred Greenhalgh and William Dufris. Directed by William Dufris.

CAST:

Lilly Thorne – Cassie

Tim Sample – Mr. Gussy

Ian Carlsen – Tommy

Ensemble – Emily Myshrall, Rebecca Myshrall, Christopher Holt, Dalton S Kimball, Michael Kimball, Anna Gravel, Nyana Greenhalgh, Caitlyn Miles, Jay Piscopo, Christopher Price.

CREW:

Recorded at Mind’s Eye Productions in South Portland, Maine.

Dialogue Editing – Fred Greenhalgh

Sound Design – William Dufris

Original Music – Peter Van Riet

Additional Music – Mind’s Eye Productions

The Dark Tome is a creation of Dagaz Media.

Episode 2 – The Bread We Eat in Dreams, by Catherynne M. Valente

In Episode 2 of the Dark Tome, Cassie knows better but can’t escape the temptation to return to Mr. Gussy’s bookshop. She finds the old man frustrated that he can’t make the magical book work. It’s take someone younger – someone for whom the walls between this world and the next are a little thinner.

They catch a whiff of fresh bread, and are transported to the world of Catherynne M. Valente’s fable “The Bread We Eat in Dreams,” where a certain personable demon named Agnes will recount the story of her ejection from hell and the little hamlet that grew up around her.

Based on the short story, “The Bread We Eat in Dreams,” by Catherynne M. Valente. Adapted for audio by Fred Greenhalgh. Produced by Fred Greenhalgh and William Dufris. Directed by William Dufris.

CAST:

Lilly Thorne – Cassie

Tim Sample – Mr. Gussy

Tootie Van Reenan – Agnes

Anna Gravel – Townswoman

Janice Gardner – Townswoman

Marie Stewart Harmon – Townswoman

Christine Marshall – Lady Sazarin

Corey Gagne – Husband

Ian Carlsen – Pastor 1

Bill Duffy – Pastor 2

Erik Moody – Pastor 3, Goodman Mather

CAST:

Recorded at Mind’s Eye Productions in South Portland, Maine.

Dialogue Editing – Grace Waldron

Sound Design – Matthew J Boudreau

Original Music – Peter Van Riet

Additional Music – Mind’s Eye Productions

The Dark Tome is a creation of Dagaz Media.

Episode 1 – The Devil on the Staircase by Joe Hill

Episode 1 of the Dark Tome introduces us to Cassie, who is forced to read books to Mr. Gussy – an old crank who runs a bookshop of the strange and the weird – as penance for pulling a girl’s hair out at school. Mr. Gussy has warned Cassie of a book among books – The Dark Tome – and Cassie decides to open up the cover and see what it’s all about.

This flings Cassie into the world of acclaimed writer Joe Hill’s chilling fable, “The Devil on the Staircase,” narrated by a man who walks crooked steps for a living, being discovering a door that leads him straight to hell.

Based on the short story, “The Devil on the Staircase” by Joe Hill. Adapted for audio by Fred Greenhalgh. Produced by Fred Greenhalgh and William Dufris. Directed by William Dufris.

CAST:

Lilly Thorne – Cassie

Tim Sample – Mr. Gussy

Brent Askari – Narrator

Ian Carlsen – Man

Jalen Weiss – Boy

Anna Gravel as Lithodora

Erik Moody – Friend, Soldier

Jay Piscopo – Friend, Soldier

Tom Alexander – Hell Voice

CREW:

Recorded at Mind’s Eye Productions in South Portland, Maine.

Dialogue Editing – Grace Waldron

Sound Design – Rory O’Shea

Original Music – Peter Van Riet

Additional Music – Mind’s Eye Productions

The Dark Tome is a creation of Dagaz Media.