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Harker’s Variations

Harker’s Variations

Written by: Timothy Merlin
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A serialized fiction podcast of uncanny tales.

In a modern Britain haunted by its own history, Harker’s Variations follows two reluctant guardians navigating strange encounters with miskept relics, supernatural hungers, and faith that refuses to stay buried. Haunted bookshops, submerged archives, and dangerous rituals surface in ordinary streets, cafés, and cathedrals, revealing how old faiths continue to shape the present in ways both subtle and volatile.

These stories explore what happens when sacred things are handled without care—and what it costs to keep them without letting them consume the people who love them.

New episodes release on Tuesdays (with occasional interludes on Saturdays).

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Episodes
  • The Keeping of Relics

    The Keeping of Relics
    Mar 24 2026

    Tonight's story begins in a crowd that cannot decide whether it is celebrating or praying. And with a relic that remembers a church older than empire and far less interested in being useful to power.

    It is a tale about what we keep, what we borrow, and what is lost when care is mistaken for control.

    Welcome to our season finale.
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    34 mins
  • Not How It Happened: An Interlude

    Not How It Happened: An Interlude
    Mar 21 2026

    What follows isn’t a story in the usual sense. It’s closer, quieter, and more personal — a moment that slipped between chapters and didn’t ask to be kept.

    This interlude includes intimate and sensual material, treated with care rather than spectacle. If that isn’t what you’re in the mood for just now, you may wish to return to it another time.

    Otherwise, it may be worth stopping for a moment. Some things ask for your full attention.
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    12 mins
  • The Unbitten Fruit

    The Unbitten Fruit
    Mar 17 2026

    This story begins with a hesitation - the kind that feels harmless in the moment, and only later reveals itself as the hinge on which everything turns.
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    38 mins
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