The Supernatural City

**"The Supernatural City"** is a radio play by J.P. Leck and is the nineteenth installment (twenty-first, chronologically) in his Endless Elsewhere multimedia meta-narrative. It is the seventh Endless Elsewhere radio play. It originally aired on a local Indianapolis radio station on October 31, 2017.

## Synopsis

The latest call-in episode of *Circle City Supernatural* attracts some of the city's stranger citizens.

### Post-Credits

A mysterious and nameless operative enters the water tower after Bailey has gone. His handler, communicating by walkie-talkie, instructs him to bring Dashler's body and secure the site, dissuading him from the young agent from killing Bailey as it is implied he has already done with the Professor.

## Characters

* **Ray Kadera** - the host of *Circle City Supernatural* and, as is revealed, the brother of Rex Benton.
	+ *Ray Kadera is voiced by **Timothy Renshaw**.*
* **Peter 'Griff' Vandergriff** - a metal detectorist who encounters a Skin-Walker at Old Scratch Creek.
	+ *Peter Vandergriff* *is voiced by **Hans Leck**.*
* **The Professor** - an educator in the Anthropology Department at Circle City University whose discovery of evidence of a race of giants has attracted unwanted attention.
	+ *The Professor is voiced by **Lindsay Leck**.*
* **Emily** - a Circle City resident who, along with her friends, has a chance encounter with a foundling.
	+ *Emily is voiced by **Lycia Taylor**.*
* **The Prophet** - a drunk soothsayer who preaches Circle City's doom on Kadera's airwaves.
	+ *The Prophet is voiced by **J.P. Leck** in an uncredited cameo.*
* **Violet** - a 'merely mortal' fighter of the supernatural reaching out to Kadera as a means of seeking help to stop a coming evil.
	+ *Violet is voiced by **Mindy Wesson**.*
* **The Trucker** - a cross-country semi-driver passing through Circle City, much to his chagrin.
	+ *The Trucker is voiced by **Jack Draga**.*
* **Bailey** - the owner of a curio shop who stumbles upon something sinister after bidding on a suitcase at an auction.
	+ *Bailey is voiced by **Jordan Leigh Wheatley**.*
* **The Operative** - a low-level enforcer for a top-secret organization sent to clean up the messes left in the wake of the Halloween broadcast of *Circle City Supernatural*.
	+ *The Operative is voiced by **Bob Mallison**.*
* **The Handler** - the Operative's immediate supervisor, mapping his movements and instructing his work.
	+ *The Handler is voiced by **David Dumas**.*

### Referenced Characters

* **The Non-Man** - a creature who can alter his appearance... as long as it's not in a photograph.
* **Rex Benton** - Violet's departed predecessor and alleged brother of Ray Kadera.
* **Ryan Tolliver** - a former groundskeeper who had previously called in to *Circle City Supernatural*.
* **Carolyn Pelfrey** - a former cultist who set something in motion that Violet needs Ryan's help to stop.
* **Frank Dashler** - an architect responsible for the construction of the listening station in the Circle City water tower, where he would eventually be found shot in the head.

## Locations

* **WNTS radio station** - Ray Kadera's place of employ and the station from which *Circle City Supernatural* is broadcast.
* **Old Scratch Creek** - the location of Griff's encounter with a Skin-Walker.
* **Circle City University** - the local community college in Circle City where the Professor teaches Anthropology.
* **Circle City Train Station** - the recently-closed train station where Bailey purchases her mysterious suitcases.
* **Circle City Water Tower** - a covert listening post hidden in plain sight at the center of downtown Circle City.

## References

"The Supernatural City" contains references to the following Endless Elsewhere tales:

* *The Tremendously Endless*
	+ The remains of the giant which is stolen from the Professor bears a striking resemblance to the remains seen in the Cabal's bunker museum.
	+ The rocket that leaves the Elsewhere World on a trajectory path to earth is said to take 112 years to reach our planet. From 1948, the year *The Tremendously Endless* takes place, it will reach earth in 2060, meaning that this is the interstellar object being tracked in the water tower listening station.
* "The Infernaleers"
	+ Violet overtly references the Infernaleers recording during her call, though Kadera brushes it aside as an Orson Welles-style radio play.
* "The Pollydores"
	+ Emily speaks about the Non-Man, who first appears in "The Pollydores," and even references the little girl persona of which it seems to be most fond.
* *The Lantern*
	+ Violent references Ryan Tolliver as one of Ray's "former callers," which we see in *The Lantern.*
* "The Red Mass"
	+ Violet tells Ryan to meet her where he first saw her, which recalls "The Red Mass," where the two meet at the grave of Rex Benton.
* "The Gãrgolas"
	+ The Trucker mentions seeing a horde of bat-like creatures flying toward Circle City, not unlike those initially encountered by Violet and the True Welievers in this story.
* "The Goners"
	+ The Prophet references the raising of the dead and mentions that the residents of Circle City are all "goners."
* *The Ex-Pat*
	+ The Prophet references the ensuing apocalypse to be localized to Circle City, which *The Ex-Pat* mentions as being the reality of the situation.

"The Supernatural City" is further referenced in the following Endless Elsewhere stories:

* "The Invoked"
	+ Ryan mentions having heard Violet's call into *Circle City Supernatural* and meets her, as she requested, at the grave of Rex Benton.
* "The Unclosing Eye"
	+ At the graphic novel's beginning, Keith is seen tracking a Skin-Walker near Old Scratch Creek, the same place where Griff encounters it in "The Supernatural City."
* *The Devil Doll*
	+ Both Emily and Bailey are referenced in *The Devil Doll*. Emily works with Carolyn Pelfrey at a coffee shop, while Bailey owns the antique shop haunted by a devil doll.
* "The Non-Man"
	+ Margo references having heard Emily on *Circle City Supernatural* and even gets Emily to show her the photo she took of the Non-Man.