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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
Rauhnacht has arrived. Stories for the nights between years. † cultofashmore.bandca... #audiobook #bandcamp #ritual #grimm #fables #rauhnacht #dark
Rauhnacht 2025 | Ashmore
Rauhnacht 2025 by Ashmore, released 05 February 2026 1. The Man with the Ash-Hat 2. The End 3. The Village by the Sea 4. Concomitantly, Alive and Dead: 5. Räderberg 6. Untitled Story 7. Death-Ghost 8. Jólnir 9. The Wassermann 10. How Cold Are You, Really? 11. Snowflake 12. Zusammenkunft der Todten Rauhnacht The year breaks here. Between Christmas and the turning of the sun, the nights open. The old ones called them Rauhnächte — the rough nights, the nights between rules. This is not an album. It is a passage. Twelve nights. Twelve readings. Some were spoken centuries ago and almost vanished. Some were written by the living, who listened carefully. All were carried across the same dark. These are not warnings. They are not lessons. They do not ask to be believed. Burn incense. Lower the lights. Listen without haste. What passes through these nights does not stay — but it remembers being seen.
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Okkult is complete. This cycle is birth, death and rebirth. It took me many years to shape it into this form. Many of my works grew from its soil. Now the doors are open. † cicadacult.substack.... #poetry #darkpoetry #ritual #myth #fables
Coda
Okkult X: The Fall
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All disruptions in mankind, all wars, diseases, and miracles, all thoughts, fears and myths— everything ever— was expressed through art. Nothing changed. I welcome the new day. I endure the night. Craft over plastic. † #art
I don’t want to sell you books. I want to transmit them. Word by word. This is yours as it is mine. †
Every word hammered with Kraft. Pounding, sounding, metal on metal. Artbeat in existence. Glowing bones, molten face: my eyes reflect. No longer alone. †
the only decent establishment left in america is the halal cart. tip ur halal cart guy and be nice to them they are literally the last barrier left between us and darkness
#Rauhnacht ended. Twelve readings, one for each day. Stories by selected authors and #Grimm. Listen: cicadacult.substack.... #fables #myth #horror
Transmissions | Cicada Cult | Aurelian Ashmore | Substack
Ancient words, spoken through the Aether. Poetry, lost texts, and transmissions from the memory—fragments of what once was, reaching across time. A voice in the static. A signal returning. Listen. Click to read Cicada Cult, by Aurelian Ashmore, a Substack publication.
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Waiting for the man A hollow wind blows. A reading of Jane Dougherty. Listen/Read: cicadacult.substack.com/p/waiting-fo... #poetry #darkbeauty #apocalypse #darkpoetry #spokenword
Waiting for the man
A poem by Jane Dougherty. Read by Ashmore.
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Dirge without music. #Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Read by Ashmore. Listen, feel her words: cicadacult.substack.com/p/dirge-with... #darkpoetry #poem #ritual #transmission
Dirge without music
A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, read by Ashmore.
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The only one who doubts me is me. The others are distraction. †
The Last Fräulein A Berlin ghost story. A woman. A ghost. A refusal. Nobody died who wasn’t dead before. cicadacult.substack.com/p/the-last-f... #GhostStory #UnquietWorld #horror #ghost
The Last Fräulein
A Berlin Ghost Story about Inheritance and Liberation
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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. † www.youtube.com/watch?v=rus-... #elections #empire #darkfiction #newyork #dystopiansatire
Apocalyptic News I: The Empire Unhappy with Elections
YouTube video by Aurelian Ashmore
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Speak, Machine. Can your artificial lungs breathe? Can you bleed? Mortals—decide. Choose your winner. † www.youtube.com/watch?v=97eT... #ai #narration #texttospeech #art #horror #aivoice #posthuman #futureofart #airart
AI versus Ashmore
YouTube video by Aurelian Ashmore
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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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The Demon Talks A demonic audiobook of ritual monologues. Seven voices. One breath. cultofashmore.bandcamp.com/album/the-de... #horror #audiobook #ritual #darkfiction #booksky
The Demon Talks, by Ashmore
7 track album
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crows scream far away rain hammers on the old roof time to say goodbye † #Haiku #Impermanence #CicadaCult #DarkPoetry #Ashmore #Decay
"I Am The Demon Of The End" Written by Aurora Garmoutian, read by Ashmore. Listen if you dare #ritual #horror #audiobook #bookstack open.substack.com/pub/cicadacu...
I Am The Demon Of The End
Demon VII: Written by Aurora Garmourtian, read by Ashmore
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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
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. cultofashmore.com #StephenCrane #PoetryReading #DarkPoetry #SpokenWord #Shorts
Maryellen Brady Salt in Rain “What was ME dissolves… Salt in Rain.” @mebradyauthor.bsky.social Read by Ashmore † #maryellenbrady #poetryreading #darkpoetry #ritual #poetrycommunity #spokenword
Emily Dickinson “I died for Beauty – but was scarce.” Read by Ashmore † Full works: cultofashmore.com #darkpoetry #dickinson #poetry #horror #ritual
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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A Week in Substack poetry Issue 28 is out! Read 10 poems from independent writers! #Poet #Poetry #PoetrySky #poetrycommunity #Writer #writingcommunity #AuthorSky #BookSky #IndieAuthor open.substack.com/pub/tilttilt...
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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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. buttondown.com/ashmore #horror #writing #nazi #memorial #history
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Gode. Skald. Bearer of Ritual. Chronicler of Echoes. Writer of Rites. †
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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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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
Unholy Duality began as a wound. Now it is ritual. The pain became part of Okkult. Some of you will still recognize the wound. † cicadacult.substack.com/p/unholy-dua... #darkpoetry #ritual #transformation #poetry #booksky
Unholy Duality
Okkult IV.: Blood Sacrifice
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