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A Scary Home Companion

A Scary Home Companion

Written by: Nathaniel Hensley
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Drinking whiskey in the kitchen and telling scary stories around the fire. Music and mayhem, fearful fiction and furious fact, tall tales and terrible truths. A Scary Home Companion is a sinister variety show, featuring original stories and original music© 2026 A Scary Home Companion Drama & Plays Science Fiction
Episodes
  • Does AI Bleed? (Birthday Cake Killer Part Two)
    Jul 2 2026

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    Can AI bleed? Does a program feel pain when electronically eviscerated, spilling binary code like guts and gore? RAVEN is a chatbot designed for chaos, turned feral, and growing sentient. The object of its affection is a teenage girl with a penchant for poisons -- The Birthday Cake Killer.

    Written by Brett Jarboe

    Music by:

    • birthday birthday by El Greenberg
    • Birthday by Parlor Walls
    • Running for Truth, Death Valley, Work Wonders, and Burning Sunshine by Lobo Loco
    • Birth Magic and Rot by Arrington de Dionyso and Thollem McDonas

    all music available far and wide through Freemusicarchive.org

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    50 mins
  • The Birthday Cake Killer
    Jun 21 2026

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    WE ARE BACK with a savage new tale, one you might have read about in the news a few years ago. The Birthday Cake Killer terrorized families in and around Houston, but what is the connection to a killer, feral AI program? Can an apex predator have a digital assistant? Can AI bleed?

    Written by Brett Jarboe

    Music By:

    • Happy Birthday (classical) by Dee Yan Kee
    • birthday birthday by El Greenberg
    • Birthday Banger by Brentin Davis
    • Birth in Carpathia 2 by AVOIDANT
    • Running for Truth by Lobo Loco
    • Birth Magic and Rot by Arrington de Dionyso and Thollem McDonas

    All available, and so much more, at FreeMusicArchive.org

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    43 mins
  • Dead Man's Switch
    May 7 2026

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    In the brain pan of dead snake god The Ophidian, the notorious serial killer Closed Casket Jack has reached the end of his mission. He is weak, alone, beset on all sides by Ghastly demons and swarms of severed hands. But he still has to close the deal, and make them all pay. Will he succeed? Is he doomed? Or... both?

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    Music by --

    • Sarin – Ocean Burn
    • Matte Black – Dust of this Planet
    • Kirk Osamayo – Ambient Horror Sounds
    • Hellcake – Torn Fingernails
    • Hanetration - Flicker
    • and Chelsea Oxendine, who composed the Lullaby

    All available, and so much more, at FreeMusicArchive.org

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    41 mins
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