Lost in the endless passages of Mammoth Cave, a lone traveler’s dying torch leaves him swallowed in total darkness. As silence closes in, something begins to move toward him — soft footfalls, breathing, and the unmistakable sense of being hunted. In this claustrophobic tale from H. P. Lovecraft, a desperate fight for survival uncovers a horror far more human than expected.

Welcome back to The Velvet Chapter. Tonight, we step into the dark… and find something waiting.

In this chilling episode of The Velvet Chapter, Josh — known to many as Skika — reads Ambrose Bierce’s The Damned Thing, a haunting story of a frontier inquest and a creature invisible to the human eye. Through a coroner’s questioning, a witness’s trembling confession, and the lost diary of Hugh Morgan, the truth emerges: some horrors exist beyond the spectrum of sight.

Step into the candlelit cabin, hear the testimony, and feel the unseen terror that moves through the tall grass.

In 1859, long before H. G. Wells imagined The Invisible Man, Fitz-James O’Brien wrote a story that dared to ask: What happens when you feel something that isn’t there?

In tonight’s reading, two men rent a house in New York rumored to be haunted — and discover a creature they cannot see, only touch.

Join Skika as he brings this gothic, unsettling tale to life in The Velvet Chapter. Late-night storytelling for those who find comfort in the uncanny.