Goblin Market

Im only 3 stories in but so far they are really good. Definitely similar to knifepoint horror, which is a compliment! My only critique is the narrator sounds like he has a really bad cold or is pinching his nose while reading and it’s distracting. Sorry i know thats kind of dickish but just trying to give my honest review. Im definitely going to listen to the whole collection.

Update: I had to pause partway through recently released, “Beach Body” bc the ep is that freaking good. The story is soooooo well told. and the dialogue is absolutely hilarious. This show slaps. OG Review If you’re a fan of any/all Soren Narnia work, The Other Stories, etc., then this will also be right up your creepy alley. Cerebral, slow & well delivered.

I'll start off by saying I have not been able to finish an episode yet. The stories seem like they'd be a good listen, but the narration and audio need some work. First is the pacing, it's like the narrator is trying to win a race, barely taking a breath between points of punctuation so much so that it starts to sound like one hour long run-on sentence (see Gatlinburg). I have noticed in more recent stories like Werewolves the natos trying to control it, but still slips into it. Then there is the use of music during the story. Again I'll reference Werewolves from 2023. The use of music or sound effects in a story can help convey the mood, but here it's like the music track is playing at the same level as the voice track. When it sounds like the narrator is fighting with the music to be heard, it creates a muddied aural experience for listeners. In short, if the narrator would focus first on cadence and then on mixing levels, I think the show could be great. Right now, it's a difficult listen.

This podcast has been hit or miss for a long time, but I really feel like the writing and narration have started to improve. Both the stories and the prose. The most recent episode “Haunt” I thought had a great tone to it and was genuinely unsettling. This style of audio drama—horror anthology with minimal production and stripped down narration is extremely hard to pull off. If it had been an episode of Knifepoint Horror it would not felt out of place to me. In fact, I might even rank it as one of the better ones. “A macabre Snapple fact” - that was the moment when I decided to start writing this review.