Keeping the Bones Folk Process

A 2021 news report from Shanghai prompts Jesse to pick up where his uncle left off in investigating the brutal cult of the Great Old Ones and their high priest Great Cthulhu. What he finds adds up to true cosmic horror, in this final episode of Season One of Keeping the Bones.
This episode was inspired by The Call of Cthulhu, Part 3: Madness from the Sea, by H.P. Lovecraft, which you can read here: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx
Voice performers:
Jing BeecherArthur BeecherJesse KellerHeidi DotimasNicolas GalvanteDeborah BranhamKamajhia

In 2007, a Florida sheriff’s deputy disrupts a gruesome cult gathering – and recognizes the faces of some of the cultists. When his investigation is stymied, he seeks out Jesse’s uncle, anthropologist George Gammell Angell, to make sense of the cult’s monstrous idol.
This episode was inspired by The Call of Cthulhu, Part 2: The Tale of Inspector Legrasse, by H.P. Lovecraft, which you can read here: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx
Voice performers:
Ron Christopher JonesOsama MezgouriDeborah BranhamCarr Cavender

In late 2020, while dreaming of a massive city and an ominous, omnipresent voice, a young artist makes a sculpture in her sleep – a sculpture of a monstrous creature and what appear to be letters. In an effort to decipher them, she consults a professor – who just happens to be Jesse’s uncle, and who died in 2023 under strange circumstances.
This episode was inspired by The Call of Cthulhu, Part 1: The Horror in the Clay, by H.P. Lovecraft, which you can read here: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx
Voice performers:
KamajhiaDavid McGrevyLaura Gracie-CorralAbby WattNate FergusonDan DePrez

In an unearthed recording from his college days, Jesse interviews his roommate Ben Tranh about a disturbing experience Ben has just had, as a hiking trail in Southern California somehow seems to have mysteriously transported him to Vietnam two decades in the past.
This episode was inspired by the short story A Tale of the Ragged Mountains by Edgar Allan Poe, which you can read here: https://poemuseum.org/a-tale-of-the-ragged-mountains/
Voice performers:
Alexander NguyenJohn PolakJesse Keller

In the early days of Covid lockdowns, two friends roam the abandoned streets of Manhattan, where they stumble on a mysterious private club full of recognizable faces.

A music producer and the singer he’s recording are having unsettling and similar dreams, which seem somehow to be connected to a pale church watchman and the infamous book, The King in Yellow.

This episode was inspired by the short story The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers.

Voice performers:
Luis Meraz
Luna Camitan
Kameron Derkatz
Jesse Keller

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