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Aurelian Ashmore
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I write dark fiction. I shape poetry.
Sometimes, I record echoes.

Read. Listen. Remember:
https://cultofashmore.com
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The Last Fräulein
A Berlin ghost story.
A woman. A ghost. A refusal.
Nobody died who wasn’t dead before.

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#GhostStory #UnquietWorld #horror #ghost
The Last Fräulein
A Berlin Ghost Story about Inheritance and Liberation
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November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Today’s hellish news:
The Empire is unhappy with the elections.
·†·
Important message from our sponsors:
Protect the sacred order of suffering.
†

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#elections #empire #darkfiction #newyork #dystopiansatire
Apocalyptic News I: The Empire Unhappy with Elections
YouTube video by Aurelian Ashmore
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November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Speak, Machine.
Can your artificial lungs breathe?
Can you bleed?
Mortals—decide.
Choose your winner.
†

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#ai #narration #texttospeech #art #horror #aivoice #posthuman #futureofart #airart
AI versus Ashmore
YouTube video by Aurelian Ashmore
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October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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"You'll go, then I'll go."
Apocalyptic/Sci Fi Flash fiction:
cicadacult.substack.com/p/youll-go-t...

Or:
cultofashmore.com/inked-echoes...

#scifi #horror #ritual #apocalypse #post #booksky 💙📚🪐
You'll go, then I'll go
Descent to Nowhere
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October 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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The Demon Talks

A demonic audiobook of ritual monologues.
Seven voices. One breath.

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#horror #audiobook #ritual #darkfiction #booksky
The Demon Talks, by Ashmore
7 track album
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October 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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crows scream far away
rain hammers on the old roof
time to say goodbye
†

#Haiku #Impermanence #CicadaCult #DarkPoetry #Ashmore #Decay
A crow is sitting on a tree. Text with poetry around it.
September 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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"I Am The Demon Of The End"
Written by Aurora Garmoutian, read by Ashmore.

Listen if you dare

#ritual #horror #audiobook #bookstack

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I Am The Demon Of The End
Demon VII: Written by Aurora Garmourtian, read by Ashmore
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September 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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William Blake — The Sick Rose

“O Rose, thou art sick.
The invisible worm
That flies in the night…”

Read by Ashmore †

Full works and transmissions: cultofashmore.com

#WilliamBlake #TheSickRose #PoetryReading #DarkPoetry #SpokenWord #Shorts
September 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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We are very close to issue number one of BIG FAT TOAD. 31 Haiku und short poem are waiting for you!

#poetry #haikus
September 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Stephen Crane’s poem “In the desert,” read as ritual by Ashmore.

“In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial”

† Ashmore remembers.
† Ritual readings of poetry, fragments, and myth.

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#StephenCrane #PoetryReading #DarkPoetry #SpokenWord #Shorts
September 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Maryellen Brady
Salt in Rain

“What was ME dissolves… Salt in Rain.”
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Read by Ashmore †

#maryellenbrady #poetryreading #darkpoetry #ritual #poetrycommunity #spokenword
September 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Emily Dickinson
“I died for Beauty – but was scarce.”

Read by Ashmore †
Full works: cultofashmore.com
#darkpoetry #dickinson #poetry #horror #ritual
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Bloodwing walks.
From ash, from bone, from unasked birth.
Okkult VI — Bloodwing born.

cicadacult.substack.com/p/bloodwing

#boosky #horror #ritual #poetry
Bloodwing
Okkult VI: One wing a swan. One a goose.
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September 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A Week in Substack poetry Issue 28 is out! Read 10 poems from independent writers!

#Poet #Poetry #PoetrySky #poetrycommunity #Writer #writingcommunity #AuthorSky #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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A Week In Substack Poetry #28
10 new poets with their poem from Substack from the 18th August to 24th August!
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August 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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While carving words set in the grim times of World War II, I felt something was wrong. So today I walked through a KZ memorial.

Devastating.

The story of this walk will be told, but only on the secret list.
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#horror #writing #nazi #memorial #history
Cult of Ashmore
Gode. Skald. Bearer of Ritual. Chronicler of Echoes. Writer of Rites. †
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August 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Nailday.
Last day of winter.
Witness.
cicadacult.substack.com/p/nailday

#horror #ritual #witness #booksky
Nailday
Last day of Winter
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August 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Every inch of land
grows its fables in mud.
Rootlike fingers—
dig deep, hold tight.
Look, up high—
young birds everywhere.
Summer is for dreaming;
winter cleans the sky.
Who remembers roots?
Ancient.
Still alive.
†

#ritualpoetry #darkpoetry #mythicpoetry #ancientroots #pagan
July 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Unholy Duality began as a wound.
Now it is ritual. The pain became part of Okkult.
Some of you will still recognize the wound.
†

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#darkpoetry #ritual #transformation #poetry #booksky
Unholy Duality
Okkult IV.: Blood Sacrifice
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July 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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The wind blows down
leaves from a tree—
often old, always weak.
Sometimes—sadly—
young and green.
†

#ashmore #ritual #leaves #cicadacult #death #pain
Poem with a gray picture of leaves in the back
July 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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On this day I again heard the many voices of RUIN:
Ashmore has known them since his first breath.
I have torn out my eyelids, so that I might never sleep.
I witness RUIN:
Hear what was summoned by E.M. Ruiz.

cicadacult.substack.com/p/ruin

†

#horror #narration #demon #ritual #darkpoetry
RUIN:
Demon IV. Written by Edward Marlo Ruiz, read by Ashmore.
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July 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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The law of the stars:
What seems meaningful
is a rotten apple in the sun.
What seems fruitless
may yet change the young.

†
#ancient #wisdom #darkverse #ritual #poetry #transformation #mythic
Stairs from the depths to the surface, blurry. Poem written on the stairs
July 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Do not wait to be summoned.
Stand ready at the edge of rage.
Blódfest kommt.
There, the demons talk.
Soon.
Follow the mark:
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†

#horror #audiobook #narration
Audio | Ashmore
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July 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Kasra of the Cracks nearly took me.
Three blue demons now speak; red and gray remain.

Listen/Read for free:
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#horror #booksky #reading #narration #darkfiction
Kasra of the Cracks
Demon III. Written By J. R. Phillips, read by Ashmore.
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July 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Desert Wind.
It is bitter. Bitter.

An echo to Crane's "In the desert".
Read for free:
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#poetry #fiction #horror #writing #booksky #fiction #supernatural
Desert Wind
It is bitter. Bitter.
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July 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Water over my skull.
Washing away sorrow,
cleaning me of mold.
Preparing me for the stars.
I am ready for the shift.
Let me go.
†

#deathpoem #ritual #poetry #darkpoetry #fiction
(Photo: Polina Kuzovkova / Unsplash, modified by Ashmore)
Dark cliffs in the background, poem in front.
July 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM