A demon wrote a book. Two investigators want it.
A Walk In Darkness is horror fiction staged as the in-world show of Wally Fitch and Sutton Blackhill, who recount their hunt for the demonic testament, a book authored by a demon. Profane, bickering conversation sits beside formal readings from in-world texts, including one that recasts the commandments as God's instruments of control.
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A Walk In Darkness is a serialized supernatural thriller from Boozehound Entertainment, and it tells its story from inside the investigators' own show. Wally Fitch and Sutton Blackhill are hunting the demonic testament, a book authored by a demon named Surath. Episodes find them catching listeners up on whatever has happened since the last recording, which is rarely good news. That framing keeps the surface loose. The pair interrupt each other, swear, trade jokes and argue, and one episode urges listeners to pour an adult beverage or simply bring the whole bottle. Underneath, the mythology is dense. The testament, as read aloud, starts in a time before the Great War when every soul went to heaven and sin did not yet exist. Another passage recasts the commandments as God's instruments of control, aimed at Jesus's teaching and at free will, with the seven deadly sins added once those failed. In that telling, it takes Lucifer playing the evil one before God's will finally prevails. Almost nobody around the two leads deals straight with them. By their own account, Surath is manipulating them toward releasing his book, figures called Guno and the Viking hint at a big decision without explaining it, and Lucifer's creepy monkey-crow minions keep watch around the clock. A guardian angel named Elec, who also appears in God Failed, a book credited to Ariel Langford and promoted in the show's ads, claims God made him human so he could fight a demon. A confession attributed to Surath, read from a Lost Bible, has the demon hiding in the Kirkbride Asylum with a boy's stolen soul. Not every scare is cosmic. A creepy baby doll hops onto a child's stool, stares in silence, and is gone by morning. Wally's past comes out under questioning, too: training at seminary, a priesthood, and teachings that never squared with what the investigations had already shown. Titles such as 'Souls Of The Damned (Episode 16)', 'Death Notice (Episode 17)' and 'The Two Deaths (Episode 29)' show how steadily the story circles mortality and what happens to souls afterward. Several episodes end on a jolt, whether a text from Father Murray saying it's going down or a shout of Wally's name, before a nudge to follow the investigation on Instagram and Twitter. 'Good And Evil Walk Into A Bar (Episode 39) Series Finale' recounts Sutton crashing into the studio bleeding from red marks across her body, has Wally hypnotize her by candlelight until she sees a red door, and gives a speaker who names Elec as second in command a promise of a new universe that knows neither good nor evil. The result is horror fiction that is part bar-room argument, part apocrypha.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants serialized horror fiction built on a dense, revisionist Christian mythology of angels, demons and damned souls, and who is comfortable with strong language and grim material mixed in with the jokes.
What sets it apart: The horror arrives as the investigators' own show, so the story comes as recaps, arguments and documents read aloud. Profane banter runs up against a scripture-toned demonic mythology that reworks the commandments, Lucifer and free will.
Wally Fitch and Sutton Blackhill fight apostles of the demonic, the Church, and the dead to find a book written by a demon named Surath.
Twelve bodies disappear from a death house, and your case-file brain immediately asks for the officer logs.
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