Keeping the Bones – Details, episodes & analysis

Keeping the Bones is a new podcast that reimagines and remixes classic weird tales and horror fiction into found-footage stories set today. Each episode is presented in the guise of a contemporary, highly produced audio documentary, but the stories are all inspired by classic works of dark fiction. Episodes in this first season are drawn from such sources as the weird tales of H.P. Lovecraft, the ghost stories of M.R. James, and the gothic horror of Robert W. Chambers. Season One premieres Tuesday, February 6th!

• Molly Maslak – https://www.mollymaslak.com
• Laura Keller
• Jesse Keller

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 Beecher
• Arthur Beecher
• Jesse Keller
• Heidi Dotimas
• Nicolas Galvante
• Deborah Branham
• Kamajhia

• Nate Ferguson
• George Yé
• Jesse Keller

• Abby Watt
• Caroline Amiguet - https://carolineamiguet.com
• Jesse Keller

A rail fan YouTuber interviews an overworked railroad signal maintainer, who confesses to having seen strange things at sunset at the mouth of a well-known train tunnel.

This episode was inspired by the short story The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens, which you can read here: https://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Charles_Dickens/The_Signal_Man/The_Signal_Man_p1.html

Voice performers:

• Brendan Cahalan
• Dave Rivas - https://www.daveyboyproductions.com/voice-over.html
• Jesse Keller

• Luis Meraz
• Luna Camitan
• Kameron Derkatz
• Jesse Keller

• https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
• https://freesound.org/people/miastodzwiekow/
• https://freesound.org/people/logancircle2/
• https://freesound.org/people/tourner/

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.

This episode was inspired by the short The Lost Club by Arthur Machen, which you can read here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Shining_Pyramid_(collection)/The_Lost_Club

Voice performers:

• Zephyrus Miller
• Ayla Schierholt
• Jesse Keller

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 Nguyen
• John Polak
• Jesse Keller

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:

• Kamajhia
• David McGrevy
• Laura Gracie-Corral
• Abby Watt
• Nate Ferguson
• Dan DePrez