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NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS : dark tales, both old and new, performed by voice artist Kristin Holland

NOCTRANS Ep 222 [TRANSMISSMAS 2025] - 'HOW FEAR DEPARTED FROM THE LONG GALLERY'

NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS : dark tales, both old and new, performed by voice artist Kristin Holland

SpectreVision Radio

Fiction

4.8695 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

MERRY TRANSMISSMAS gentle listener. This is our final episode of 2025 and we're kicking it 'old school' with E. F. Benson's 'HOW FEAR DEPARTED FROM THE LONG GALLERY' We hope you enjoy it. See you next year. ---   NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly podcast featuring inspired performances of short horror stories, both old and new, by voice artist Kristin Holland.   ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.nocturnaltransmissions.com.au⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   You can support us (and access lots of exclusive content) by becoming a patron at Patreon.com: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/nocturnaltransmissions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ___ NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is proud to be a part of the SpectreVision Radio podcast network. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We're a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It can happen to any one of us at any time. A crack appears in the world around us, small at first,

0:09.7

but it's enough for us to get a glimpse, enough for us to see that beyond all this is something

0:17.0

else. But what? Against our better judgment, the lure of the unknown draws us to peek

0:25.2

through, and once we do, there's no turning back. Because that crack inevitably begins to expand

0:33.2

until you're no longer looking through it, or even at it.

0:38.3

You are in it.

0:40.4

And the place you started, the world you knew, it's so small that the idea you'd ever be able to get back to it,

0:48.1

well, I don't need to say anymore.

0:51.3

So what is this place?

0:53.4

It depends who you are. But one thing is the same for everyone.

0:58.0

Peaking behind the curtain of forbidden knowledge in this way, it shatters your sense of yourself,

1:05.0

of reality, and that is a very dark place to be. I invite you to be a tourist and step into the minds of those people lost to the unknown,

1:16.6

and the scarce few who found a way out, to hear their terrifying stories.

1:23.6

But I must warn you, once you climb inside, I can't promise that you won't end up counting yourself among them.

1:31.3

What they have to say will change you, bring near what should be kept far, far away.

1:39.3

Because there are things we're not meant to know.

1:46.5

We're not meant to know an anthology of horror, now transmitting from Spectorvision Radio.

1:54.1

Thank you.

2:12.6

Merry transmismus.

2:15.6

We did it. Another lap of the sun, all but done. Thank you for listening to us in 2025.

2:25.5

We humbly hope we managed along the way to bring you a little joy and a little dread.

2:34.6

Before we get to our final dark offering of the year,

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