Nova Nightwood's Obscura Archive

Nova Nightwood
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Broadcasting from the far side of midnight on Channel 13, Nova Nightwood's Obscura Archive is a premium horror anthology podcast dedicated to strange disappearances, impossible places, unsettling encounters, and the mysteries that refuse to stay buried. Each episode opens a new case file from the archive—a collection of stories gathered from the shadows between folklore, urban legend, psychological horror, and the unexplained. Guided by the enigmatic Nova Nightwood, listeners will venture down abandoned roads, step through forbidden doors, and uncover secrets that were never meant to be found. Inspired by classic late-night radio, vintage horror hosts, and modern audio drama, Obscura Archive blends atmospheric storytelling, immersive sound design, and unforgettable characters into a world where every transmission reveals something stranger than the last. The archive is always expanding. The signal is always waiting. And some stories are still looking for someone to listen. Welcome, Night Owls. The broadcast is about to begin.

Episodes

  1. Oct 30

    FILE 007: Blood Among the Marigolds

    Halloween Special • Season One Finale Lucía Morales returns to her hometown in Mexico for the first Día de los Muertos celebration since her father’s death. With her boyfriend, Mateo, beside her, she hopes to find comfort among familiar faces, candlelit offerings, and streets bright with marigolds. Then a beloved local is found dead behind his bakery—with strange wounds and almost no blood. Some insist they’re looking for a human killer. Others whisper a familiar name: El chupacabra. As panic spreads through the festival, Lucía and Mateo discover how quickly a night of remembrance can become a desperate fight for survival. Keep your loved ones close. Enter a tale of creature horror, family, and courage in the Halloween finale of Nova Nightwood’s Obscura Archive. MORE HALLOWEEN HORROR Two bonus stories from two classic horror writers of another era will be available on Halloween night exclusively for Nightwood Society members on Patreon. Join The Nightwood Society for these additional Halloween tales, ad-free episodes, and member extras. THE NEXT TRANSMISSION This episode concludes Season One of Nova Nightwood’s Obscura Archive. Season Two arrives in early 2027, bringing frightening new works from a variety of authors—and more unsettling discoveries from the Archive. In the meantime, Nova will continue releasing print editions of her short stories, with many coming soon that haven’t been shared on the show. Thank you for helping establish this strange little broadcast. Every listen, subscription, recommendation, and contribution has helped give the Archive a home. We look forward to taking it further next year. JOIN THE BROADCAST Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you enjoy your podcasts. Stay subscribed for updates, new releases, and Season Two announcements. Prefer a little atmosphere while you listen? Visit Nova Nightwood on YouTube for this episode’s themed Nova’s Studio background. Support the show and enjoy ad-free episodes and member extras through The Nightwood Society. Which moment from Season One stayed with you after the lights came on? Share your favorite with us—and stay curious, Night Owls. Written and produced by Nova Nightwood and Nightwood Studios. “Blood Among the Marigolds” written by Nova Nightwood. This is a work of fiction. Any names, references, or visual similarities to real people or events are completely coincidental. Additional music and sound design created with licensed and original production resources. Audio narration, music, and visual production are currently created using AI tools and Adobe Creative Cloud resources. If you’re interested in learning more about these tools or using them for your own creative projects, please refer to the affiliate and referral links below. Qualifying purchases or sign-ups may provide a commission or referral benefit that supports the show. ElevenLabs — Audio narration: https://try.elevenlabs.io/novanightwood Artlist.io — Select licensed sound effects and music: https://artlist.io/referral/9717734d-84c9-458d-a9aa-75a3ad63860b Suno — Select music created under the name Nightwood Studios: https://suno.com/invite/@nightwoodstudios Visual production resources: OpenArt.ai https://tolt.link/novanightwood Adobe Creative Cloud Visit https://NovaNightwood.com for show details, official merchandise, and more. © 2026 Nightwood Studios. All rights reserved. CONTENT NOTES This episode contains creature horror, violent attacks, descriptions of blood loss, bite wounds, serious injuries, and death. It includes a person being captured and dragged away, confined spaces, gunfire, a child in danger, and intense scenes of pursuit and physical struggle. Themes include grief, the death of a parent, bereavement, and fear of losing loved ones. Listener discretion is advised.

    FILE 007: Blood Among the Marigolds

  2. Oct 18

    FILE 006: The Red Silo

    Surveyor Owen Braddock arrives in Dunlow to inspect a parcel of land before it goes up for auction. It should be a routine assignment—until he discovers a towering red silo that appears nowhere in the paperwork. The locals want the property left alone. A boy offers a peculiar warning. And when Owen tries to leave, the trouble begins. One instruction keeps finding him: Don’t look up. Enter a tale of rural dread, psychological terror, and cosmic horror from Nova Nightwood’s Obscura Archive. JOIN THE BROADCAST Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you enjoy your podcasts. Prefer a little atmosphere while you listen? Visit Nova Nightwood on YouTube for this episode’s themed Nova’s Studio background. Support the show and enjoy ad-free episodes and member extras through The Nightwood Society. What do you think is waiting beyond the silo? Share your theories with us—and stay curious, Night Owls. Written and produced by Nova Nightwood and Nightwood Studios. “The Red Silo” written by Nova Nightwood. E-book available through popular retailers and library apps: Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Fable, Smashwords, Tolino, Vivlio, and more. Availability varies by retailer and library. This is a work of fiction. Any names, references, or visual similarities to real people or events are completely coincidental. Additional music and sound design created with licensed and original production resources. Audio narration, music, and visual production are currently created using AI tools and Adobe Creative Cloud resources. If you’re interested in learning more about these tools or using them for your own creative projects, please refer to the affiliate and referral links below. Qualifying purchases or sign-ups may provide a commission or referral benefit that supports the show. ElevenLabs — Audio narration: https://try.elevenlabs.io/novanightwood Artlist.io — Select licensed sound effects and music: https://artlist.io/referral/9717734d-84c9-458d-a9aa-75a3ad63860b Suno — Select music created under the name Nightwood Studios: https://suno.com/invite/@nightwoodstudios Visual production resources: OpenArt.ai https://tolt.link/novanightwood Adobe Creative Cloud Visit https://NovaNightwood.com for show details, official merchandise, and more. © 2026 Nightwood Studios. All rights reserved. CONTENT NOTES This episode contains cosmic and psychological horror, body horror, graphic descriptions of bodily distortion and injury, blood, apparent death, missing persons, threatening imitations of familiar voices, claustrophobic situations, disorientation, isolation, and intense scenes involving a teenager in danger. It also includes themes of parental illness following a stroke, caregiving, grief, and sacrifice, along with sudden sounds and sustained suspense. Listener discretion is advised.

    FILE 006: The Red Silo

  3. Oct 2

    FILE 005: The Visitors

    FILE 005: THE VISITORS Beyond Earth, thirteen-year-old Magnolia Salazar calls the S.S. Bridge home. The former mining platform near Mars has its familiar comforts: homework, warm meals, and her father’s voice coming down the hall. But Magnolia knows little about the work taking place beyond her apartment—or what the mission has uncovered. When something unfamiliar appears outside her window, an ordinary evening becomes a struggle to understand what has arrived, what it wants, and where she can hide. Settle in, Night Owls, for a science-fiction horror story about first contact, dangerous discoveries, and the terrifying distance between home and help. For ad-free episodes and author notes, join The Nightwood Society: https://www.patreon.com/cw/NightwoodSociety Stay curious, Night Owls. Written and produced by Nova Nightwood and Nightwood Studios. Audio narration designed by Webster Walker. “The Visitors” written by Nova Nightwood. E-book available through popular retailers and library apps: Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Fable, Smashwords, Tolino, Vivlio, and more. Availability varies by retailer and library. This is a work of fiction. Any names, references, or visual similarities to real people or events are completely coincidental. Additional music and sound design created with licensed and original production resources. Audio narration, music, and visual production are currently created using AI tools and Adobe Creative Cloud resources. If you’re interested in learning more about these tools or using them for your own creative projects, please refer to the affiliate and referral links below. Qualifying purchases or sign-ups may provide a commission or referral benefit that supports the show. ElevenLabs — Audio narration: https://try.elevenlabs.io/novanightwood Artlist.io — Select licensed sound effects and music: https://artlist.io/referral/9717734d-84c9-458d-a9aa-75a3ad63860b Suno — Select music created under the name Nightwood Studios: https://suno.com/invite/@nightwoodstudios Visual production resources: OpenArt.ai https://tolt.link/novanightwood Adobe Creative Cloud Visit https://NovaNightwood.com for show details, official merchandise, and more. © 2026 Nightwood Studios. All rights reserved. CONTENT NOTES This episode contains science-fiction horror, threatening alien creatures, invasion, physical violence, blood, death, descriptions of bodies, hiding and pursuit, claustrophobic situations, isolation, grief, and intense scenes involving a child in danger. It also includes sudden sounds and sustained suspense. Listener discretion is advised.

    FILE 005: The Visitors

  4. Sep 19

    FILE 004: The Watcher's Debt

    Municipal zoning auditor Grace Decker arrives in Gorse Hill expecting boundary disputes and routine paperwork. Instead, she finds a town frozen in fear—and learns that every night, someone must watch the hill. Tonight, it’s her turn. Left alone beneath a full moon with only a lantern, a folding chair, and one impossible instruction—don’t look away—Grace discovers that Gorse Hill’s oldest tradition hides an ancient and deadly debt. File 004 of Nova Nightwood’s Obscura Archive is a small-town creature feature about isolation, inherited guilt, and what happens when the Watcher finally steps down from the hill. Written and produced by Nova Nightwood and Nightwood Studios. Audio narration designed by Webster Walker. “The Watcher’s Debt” written by Nova Nightwood. E-Book available through popular retailers and library apps: Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Fable, Smashwords, Tolino, Vivlio and more. Link to BNN: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-watchers-debt-nova-nightwood/1151333784?ean=2940197106254 Link to Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-watcher-s-debt-1?sId=2c2b47a4-90a3-403a-91eb-607cf1262e70&ssId=zRfI8NX5YL04DGE4FdWDt&cPos=1 Link to Fable: https://fable.co/book/the-watchers-debt-by-nova-nightwood-9798237461862 Link to Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/2104208 This is a work of fiction. Any names, references, or visual similarities to real people or events are completely coincidental. Season One theme: “Let’s End This Conversation Now” by CTRL S. Additional music and sound design created with licensed and original production resources. Audio narration, music, and visual production are currently created using AI tools and Adobe Creative Cloud resources. If you’re interested in learning more about these tools or using them for your own creative projects, please refer to the affiliate links below, which support the show with a commission if you choose to use them: ElevenLabs Audio Narration: https://try.elevenlabs.io/novanightwood Select sound effects and music licensed through Artlist.io: https://artlist.io/referral/9717734d-84c9-458d-a9aa-75a3ad63860b Select music created with Suno under the name Nightwood Studios: https://suno.com/invite/@nightwoodstudios Visual production resources: OpenArt.ai Adobe Creative Cloud Visit NovaNightwood.com for show details, official merchandise, and more. LilyLuxcraft is available to shop on Etsy. This partnership is not a paid promotion. https://www.etsy.com/shop/LilyLuxcraft?ref=shop_sugg_market © 2026 Nightwood Studios. All rights reserved. CONTENT NOTES This episode contains small-town and wilderness horror, threatening creatures, stalking and pursuit, involuntary confinement and abandonment, coercion, physical violence, blood, death, body horror, transformation imagery, references to past deaths, and intense scenes involving danger and survival. It also includes sudden sounds and sustained suspense. Listener discretion is advised.

    FILE 004: The Watcher's Debt

  5. Sep 5

    FILE 003: The Mirror Cracked First

    File 003: The Mirror Cracked FirstRain has a way of softening New Orleans. Inside Maison de Verre, it only makes the mirrors listen more closely. Celeste Duval has built her salon on care, tradition, and the quiet rituals passed down through the women in her family. When social media influencer Mara Strickland arrives with her phone raised and an audience waiting, she treats Celeste’s work, culture, and generosity as material for her next performance. One cruel livestream turns kindness into humiliation—and leaves something broken that cannot simply be swept away. Soon, Mara’s reflection begins smiling without her. It watches from bathroom mirrors, dark television screens, shop windows, and rainwater. As every polished surface becomes another place for something to look back, Mara is drawn toward the salon she publicly mocked—and the truth waiting inside its oldest mirror. A Southern Gothic horror story about vanity, online cruelty, cultural exploitation, inherited power, and the dangerous difference between seeking justice and surrendering to vengeance. Not all reflections are yours to keep. CONTENT WARNINGS Racist and xenophobic microaggressions targeting Haitian identity; mockery and commodification of Vodou and cultural traditions; online harassment, bullying, and public humiliation; supernatural and psychological horror; stalking and the sensation of being watched; mirrors and distorted reflections; unsettling facial imagery and mild body horror; shattered glass; minor injury and blood; physical restraint, abduction, and confinement; implied death or disappearance. New transmissions arrive every other Friday. Next transmission: September 18, 2026. Visit NovaNightwood.com for information about the show, exclusive merchandise, and The Nightwood Society on Patreon. Follow @NovaNightwood on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky. Join The Nightwood Society on Patreon for bonus content, ad-free episodes, private broadcasts, and other materials from inside the Archive: https://www.patreon.com/cw/NightwoodSociety Night Signal Ambience on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nightsignalambience Stay curious, Night Owls. CREDITS & RIGHTS Written and produced by Nova Nightwood and Nightwood Studios. “The Mirror Cracked First” written by Nova Nightwood. Season One theme song: “Let’s End This Conversation Now” by CTRL S. Select sound effects and music licensed through Artist.io. Select music created with Suno under the name Nightwood Studios. All visual and written materials © 2026 Nightwood Studios. All rights reserved. These materials may not be reproduced or distributed without prior written permission.Mentioned in this episode: The Watcher's Debt Pre-Order The Watcher's Debt available for pre-order now. Releases September 17th.

    FILE 003: The Mirror Cracked First

  6. Sep 5

    FILE 002: The Other Children

    Some towns bury their secrets. Cutter’s Hollow leaves offerings for them. After the death of her mother, Arden returns home to Cutter’s Hollow—a quiet, snowbound town surrounded by forests and old traditions no one is willing to explain. Among the trees, the locals leave ribbons, toys, and carefully wrapped bundles for mysterious residents they call the Other Children. No one agrees on what they are. No one will say what happens when the offerings stop. As Arden searches through what her mother left behind, she begins to uncover the truth about the forest, the town’s long-held secret, and her own connection to the children waiting beyond the tree line. Some homecomings are reunions. Others are invitations. Nova Nightwood opens File 002: “The Other Children,” a supernatural mystery about grief, inherited secrets, and the things a town will do to keep its darkest traditions alive. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains themes of grief and parental loss, supernatural horror, disturbing imagery, violence, injury, death, and frightening situations involving children. Listener discretion is advised. FROM THE ARCHIVE File 003 is available now. New transmissions arrive every other Friday. Next transmission: September 18, 2026. Visit NovaNightwood.com for information about the show, exclusive merchandise, and The Nightwood Society on Patreon. Follow @NovaNightwood on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky. Join The Nightwood Society on Patreon for bonus content, ad-free episodes, private briefings, and other materials from inside the Archive: https://www.patreon.com/cw/NightwoodSociety Lily's Craft Supply on ETSY https://www.etsy.com/shop/LilysCraftSupply Stay curious, Night Owls. CREDITS & RIGHTS Written and produced by Nova Nightwood and Nightwood Studios. “The Other Children” written by Nova Nightwood. Season One theme song: “Let’s End This Conversation Now” by CTRL S. Select sound effects and music licensed through Artist.io. Select music created with Suno under the name Nightwood Studios. All visual and written materials © 2026 Nightwood Studios. All rights reserved. These materials may not be reproduced or distributed without prior written permission.

    FILE 002: The Other Children

  7. Sep 5

    FILE 001: The Weight of Silence

    Some secrets stay buried. Others wait for someone to start listening. In 1989, Thomas Whitlock believed silence would protect him. But when the past begins watching from the shadows, every passing headlight, unanswered question, and familiar voice draws him closer to a truth he thought he had escaped. Nova Nightwood opens the Obscura Archive with a psychological horror story about obsession, guilt, and the terrible patience of revenge. The signal is live. The first file is waiting. Trigger Warning: This episode contains themes of stalking, violence, death, and psychological distress. Listener discretion is advised. File 002 & File 003 are available now. New transmissions arrive every other Friday. Next transmission: 9/18/2026 Visit NovaNightwood.com for information about the show, cool merch and information about The Nightwood Society on Patreon. Follow @NovaNightwood on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky. Join The Nightwood Society on Patreon for bonus content, ad-free episodes, private briefings, and other materials from inside the Archive. https://www.patreon.com/cw/NightwoodSociety Stay curious, Night Owls. CREDITS & RIGHTS Written and produced by Nova Nightwood and Nightwood Studios. “The Weight of Silence” written by Nova Nightwood. Season One theme song: “Let’s End This Conversation Now” by CTRL S. Select sound effects and music licensed through Artist.io. Select music created with Suno under the name: Nightwood Studios All visual and written materials © 2026 Nightwood Studios. All rights reserved. These materials may not be reproduced or distributed without prior written permission.

    FILE 001: The Weight of Silence

  8. Season 1 Trailer

    Preview Transmission: File 001 — The Weight of Silence

    The signal is live. Before the archive officially opens its doors in Fall 2026, Nova Nightwood invites listeners to tune in for a special preview transmission from Channel 13. In this introductory broadcast, you'll meet the curator behind the Obscura Archive and receive an exclusive preview of File 001: The Weight of Silence—the first recovered case file and the story that inspired the archive's search for stranger mysteries. Every story in the collection begins somewhere. A forgotten road. A voice in the dark. A secret that should have remained buried. This one began with silence. Subscribe now and join the Night Owls before the first official case files arrive this fall. Nova Nightwood's Obscura Archive launches Fall 2026. The archive is expanding. The signal is waiting. CreditsThis show, including graphics, sound design, and The Weight of Silence, is created and hosted by Nova Nightwood, ©2026. Select sound effects and music provided via licensing from Artist.io. Outro Song: Let's End This Conversation Now by CNTRL S. Follow for future transmissions and updates as new files are recovered from the archive.

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Broadcasting from the far side of midnight on Channel 13, Nova Nightwood's Obscura Archive is a premium horror anthology podcast dedicated to strange disappearances, impossible places, unsettling encounters, and the mysteries that refuse to stay buried. Each episode opens a new case file from the archive—a collection of stories gathered from the shadows between folklore, urban legend, psychological horror, and the unexplained. Guided by the enigmatic Nova Nightwood, listeners will venture down abandoned roads, step through forbidden doors, and uncover secrets that were never meant to be found. Inspired by classic late-night radio, vintage horror hosts, and modern audio drama, Obscura Archive blends atmospheric storytelling, immersive sound design, and unforgettable characters into a world where every transmission reveals something stranger than the last. The archive is always expanding. The signal is always waiting. And some stories are still looking for someone to listen. Welcome, Night Owls. The broadcast is about to begin.

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