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A Thousand Glistening Threads

“*Never thought I’d see* you *again.”*

The ninth story in the Neverglades Series: Volume Three.

The Inspector’s consciousness has been scattered across dimensions. As he tries to pull his corporeal form together, he travels back and forth through a series of familiar worlds and histories – coming face-to-face with an old enemy in the process.

## Characters

* The Inspector
* The Semblance
* Atlas
* Celeste
* Polaris
* The Creator of All Things
* Olivia Marconi

## Settings

* The Shadow Prison
* Venice, Italy
* Great Rift Valley, Kenya
* The Creator’s Library
* Boston, Massachusetts
* Tombstone, Arizona
* Dresden, Germany

## Notes

* Humanity’s near extinction event (in which all but 55,000 members of the human race were wiped out by the Inspector’s presence), as mentioned in “Purple Moon” and witnessed by Marconi in “In the Beginning,” is depicted in this story from the Inspector’s point of view.
* The history of the Semblance and the Inspector and the events that led to the Semblance’s imprisonment are finally revealed. Despite the Semblance’s arguments to the contrary, the Inspector believed that it orchestrated many of the events of World War II, which finally prompted him to seal it away.
* The Creator of All Things, whom the Inspector alludes to in “Purple Moon,” makes their first appearance in this story.
* This is the second story in the Neverglades series to be narrated by the Inspector himself, the first being “Fallen Night.”
Catalina

**Catalina** (sometimes referred to as the **Flower Woman**) is the widow of Doug and the brief lover of Marigold. Catalina used to be a stage actress before the fatal sunburst virus swept across the world. When her husband becomes ill with the virus, Catalina discovers she is immune. She ends up offering services to "clients" after Doug's death, sharing intimacy and closeness with sunburst victims who are about to die.

Eventually Catalina meets and falls for Marigold, a new client who also used to be an actress. They decide to pretend they're engaged and visit Marigold's mother, Shelly, to share the news. Shelly warns Catalina not to get Marigold's hopes up, as they all know she doesn't have long to live. Marigold ends up dying in her sleep after the two lovers share a passionate night together. Catalina leaves Shelly's house in the dead of night, but not before stopping to take a marigold flower from Shelly's garden to remember her love by.

She appears in "Little Death."
Garrett

**Garrett** was one of the three teenagers who discovered the door to Room 325 in the woods. The leader of the trio, he decides to investigate the room and conduct experiments on the properties of objects inside it. He tries to reason with Ben when the other boy is sucked in by the room's illusion, but Ben clocks him on the head with a hammer and leaves him to bleed out. Garrett is still inside the room when the door closes and disappears.

He appears in "Room 325."
Tourist Trap

“*Here in the Neverglades, you never know what kind of strange phenomenon you’ll see. Lights in the sky, cryptids in the woods, maybe even a zombie or two!*”

--

The ninth story in *The Neverglades: Multiverse Chronicles*, co-written by guest author Paul Stefani and David Farrow.

Has Pacific Glade always been a tourist hotspot? Mark Hannigan is alarmed when his peaceful town is overrun by visitors looking find evidence of the paranormal. Something sinister is meddling with the fabric of reality, and if Mark and the Inspector can’t stop it, those unsuspecting tourists may wind up with more proof of the supernatural than they bargained for…

## Characters

* Mark Hannigan
* The Inspector
* Olivia Marconi
* Ellory Pickett
* The Sightless

## Settings

* Pacific Glade
* The Rift

## Notes

* The original version of this story was selected as a runner-up in the Neverglades Multiverse contest.
* This universe’s main point of divergence was a legion of time-eaters messing with the past on a massive scale, completely altering the history of Pacific Glade. Mark and the Inspector retroactively never met as a result of this change.
* This timeline’s version of Pacific Glade is decimated by the Inspector’s dark counterpart (The Sightless), establishing him as a dangerous multiversal threat.
Dark Side of the Moon

“*Our world ended a long time ago,” he said. “But yours still has a chance*.”

The eighth story in the Neverglades Series: Volume Three.

Ruth and Atwater have just arrived in a world that has been destroyed beyond recognition. It’s a world with no Inspector, no society, no one to keep them safe from the monsters that roam the streets – no one, that is, except an all too familiar face from their past.

## Characters

* Ruth Hannigan
* Zachary Atwater
* Mark Hannigan (Moonverse)
* Rory Hannigan (Moonverse)
* Stephen Hannigan
* The Ferryman
* The Lurkers

## Settings

* Pacific Glade (Moonverse)
* CAPRA Headquarters (Moonverse)
* The Hanging Rock (Moonverse)

## Notes

* The Moonverse timeline diverged from the main timeline during the events of “Devour,” in which the Inspector sacrificed himself to seal the rift instead of Mark. This failed, and with no Inspector to contain the entities slipping through the rift, the world fell into chaos, and most of the main cast perished. Mark and Rory became nomads who traveled the country together, fighting off monsters when necessary and trying to keep the Inspector’s spirit alive.
* This is the second and final Neverglades story to be narrated by Ruth Hannigan, the first being “A Neverglades Halloween.”
Dying of the Light

“*Ordinarily, the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year. The night holds dominion over the world, and then light creeps back in, the days growing longer with each flip of the calendar. But I have a feeling that’s all about to change.*”

--

The twelfth and final story in the Cruelest Months series.

Landon Truesdale is surprised and frightened when he receives an invitation to the Blackstones’ winter solstice celebration, at which he will be ritualistically sacrificed to keep the world from ending. Landon has no intention of attending the ceremony, but the Blackstones have other plans… and the consequences for trying to escape could be catastrophic.

## Characters

* Landon Truesdale
* Regina Blackstone
* Robert Blackstone
* Sarah Winters

## Notes

* This story was originally posted to r/nosleep under the title “I barely survived the winter solstice, but the end of the world is coming - and it’s all my fault.”
* This is the December story in the Cruelest Months series. The subtitle for this story is -renewal-.
Journey's End

“*Everything else is a book I closed a long time ago*.”

The tenth and final story in the Neverglades: Volume Three, and the last story in the Neverglades series.

It’s been a long, strange journey since the Inspector first set foot in Pacific Glade. But every journey must come to an end one day…

## Characters

* Mark Hannigan (Moonverse)
* Rory Hannigan (Moonverse)
* The Inspector
* Olivia Marconi
* Ruth Hannigan
* Zachary Atwater
* Stephen Hannigan
* Lola Velasquez
* Norman Clancy
* The Ferryman

## Settings

* The Moonverse
* Locklear Cemetery
* The Hanging Rock
* Marconi’s House

## Notes

* The title of this story is a reference to a quote from Shakespeare's *Twelfth Night*, as well as a prominent line used in Shirley Jackson's *The Haunting of Hill House*: "Journeys end in lovers meeting." It also refers to the end of the Neverglades series.
* Just like the first story, “Lost Time,” the very last story in the series is narrated by Mark Hannigan.
Ralph Mason

**Ralph Mason** was the leader of the Greater Orlando Escapists, a group of prominent escape room enthusiasts. The Escapists split up after Ralph suffered an asthma attack in a Virginia escape room and sued the owners for their delayed medical response. Months later, the group reunited when they were challenged to complete Elias Shade’s famous House of Doorways. During their stay in the House, the group was trapped in a bizarre clock tower and pursued by a horrific entity known as the Ringmaster. Ralph eventually gave up his friend Rachel Booker to try and strike a deal with the Ringmaster and save his own life, but the Ringmaster refused and killed him.

He appears in “House of Doorways.”
The Exorcism of Lucy Sable

“*Bear witness to your devastation. It will not be the last you wreak upon this world, but it is the last you will ever wreak upon my home*.”

The second bonus story in the Inspector Investigations.

Two priests are called to the Sables’ farmhouse in Kansas to exorcise their daughter Lucy, who’s been exhibiting odd behavior. In their journals, they describe the strange goings-on at the farmhouse and their efforts to cleanse Lucy, who is definitely possessed - but by something far worse than a demon.

## Characters

* Lucy Sable
* Father Theo Broderick
* Father Chester Dawson
* Marybeth Sable
* Seward Sable
* Theresa Sable
* Pastor Thomas Everly

## Settings

* Harmonia, Kansas
* Church of the Blessed Harmony
* The Sable Farmhouse

## Notes

* The entity possessing Lucy seems similar in nature to the Apocryph in “Transcripts from the Mount Isolation Radio Outpost.”
Mike Hannity

Matheson (dog)

Growly (dog)

**Mike Hannity** is the town constable in Atlantic Dale, Florida and a counterpart to Mark Hannigan from the Neverglades series. Together with Sheriff Libby Lombardi and the oddball Detective Stephen Smith, he investigates a string of strange murders that lead the group to a methed-up alligator and a crazed local that Smith calls "Florida Man."

Later, Mike wins the lottery and leaves his ex-wife, Ruby Herringbone, to go party in the Bahamas.

He appears in "The Everglades Mysteries" and is mentioned in "An Everglades Christmas."
Киевстайл

**Киевстайл** — особый шуточно-анархистский стиль ~~набухивания~~ поведения в подземных объектах, при котором участники похода выпивают и начинают творить мракобесия на объекте — срать, ссать, орать, фоткаться в обнажёнку и так далее. Из-за этого часто критикуется адекватными диггерами, в ответ на это киевстайлеры объясняют свои действия особым взглядом на мир. Правда, некоторые участники киевстайла зачастую такими и являются — они просто ведут себя так, как считают нужным, а именно веселятся в полную меру, давая всем 379 чакрам открыться.

Киевстайл, как ни странно, стал популярен в конце 2000-ых, поэтому был назван в честь лихого киевского диггерского движа.

Известные практиканты киевстайла: vidik, zozik, Ascold.
Josephine Young (Story)

“*you’ll do it. because deep down, a part of you wants it even more than me.*”

"**Josephine Young**" (stylized as "**josephine young**") is the sixth chapter in the gallows hill series.

College professor and Hartford historian Josephine Young flees west at the urging of a mysterious message in her inbox. But Josephine is harboring a dark secret, and soon her path will cross with Mirror Face and his prisoner in a shocking confrontation…

## Characters

* Mirror Face
* Nephilos
* Josephine Young

## Settings

* The Dataspace
* Chicago, Illinois

## Notes

* Josephine Young is revealed to be a “witch” who survived the Hartford witch trials and traded her soul for immortality. The entity she bartered with, Nephilos, is revealed to be Mirror Face’s prisoner.
Independence Days

"*We all like to think we’d sacrifice ourselves for the ones we love, but sometimes the survival instinct is just too strong*."

The seventh story in the Cruelest Months series.

Roger and Tara Bentham were hoping to reconnect with some childhood friends at their Fourth of July barbecue. But when a dead face from the past shows up at the party, the Benthams find themselves forced into a waking nightmare.

## Characters

* Roger Bentham
* Tara Bentham
* Adrian Dembreaux
* Jessica Dembreaux
* Melanie Bentham
* Fred Bentham

## Settings

* Pacific Glade
* The Nightmare World

## Notes

* This story was originally posted on r/nosleep under the title "My grandfather showed up at our Fourth of July barbecue. He died in Vietnam."
* This is the July story in the Cruelest Months series. The subtitle for this story is -*bifurcation*-.
* The towering entities in the sky in the Nightmare World seem related to the Inspector or the empathic giant.
* The Nightmare World and its monstrous denizens reappear in the Neverglades story "On the Fringe of What We Know."
Nico Sanchez

**Nico Sanchez** was a member of the Pacific Glade police force and the former boyfriend of police recruit Abigail Shannon.

## Overview

### Zombie Radio

* Nico is the officer who brings Mark Hannigan's attention to the Harvey Jackson case. When Jackson's corpse comes to life and tries to strangle Mark, Nico attempts to fight back, but Mark is saved by the Inspector.

### The Wendigo

* Nico joins Mark and the Inspector in interviewing a distraught Janine Zimmerman when Sheriff Olivia Marconi goes missing. He remains skeptical of Janine's claims about a wendigo stalking the forest and ultimately leaves the rescue efforts to Mark and the Inspector.

### Devour

* Nico is in the police station when the quake hits Pacific Glade. He helps take a wounded Abigail to the hospital in the midst of all the chaos.

### Fallen Night

* In the months following the quake, Nico helps drive Abigail to work after her injury, and the two form a close friendship.

### A Neverglades Halloween

* Nico and Abigail have since started a relationship, and they attend the Inspector's Halloween party together. Nico is the first to confront the Semblance when it appears in the guise of Mark Hannigan. When he tries to stand up to the entity, the Semblance makes his prop lumberjack axe real and buries it in his chest, killing him.

### Family Plot

* Nico is reanimated by the Semblance to terrify Abigail down at the police station. The Semblance refers to him as a "preview of coming attractions," hinting at the imminent zombie uprising.
Gallows Hill

“*what do you see?*”

**“Gallows Hill”** (stylized as "**gallows hill**") is a series by David Farrow, posted on r/NoSleep under the username nephilos\_.

It’s been almost thirteen years since college film students Shaun Sanford and Tom Johnson created their documentary on the Hartford Witch Trials, a film that unintentionally revealed the existence of the supernatural. Thirteen years, but the entity featured in that video hasn’t forgotten. It resents the boys for opening a door, and it resolves to close that door, no matter the cost.

What follows is a story told in and out of cyberspace, a hunt to silence anyone who viewed the fateful video. Through found footage, blog posts, emails, text messages, tweets, and more, a narrative takes shape, and a dark history is revealed. The hunt is on, and no one is safe – not even the readers of NoSleep.

## Chapters

* the hartford witch trials
* mirror face
* swing by your neck
* dudleytown
* the little village of middlebury
* josephine young
* melon heads
* the witch is dead
* nephilos
* vessel

## Characters

* Shaun Sanford
* Tom Johnson
* Missy Kendall
* Connor Rathburn
* Staci Gamble
* Kris Poulier
* Josephine Young
* Haruki Saito
* Mirror Face
* Nephilos

## Settings

* Hartford, Connecticut
* The Dataspace

## Notes

* Mirror Face is a similar entity to the Semblance from the Neverglades series, in that it’s capable of taking on many human appearances. Josephine Young also seems to be aware of the thinness of the rip in Pacific Glade and heads there with the apparent intent to get help from the Inspector.
* Shaun Sanford and Tom Johnson (also known as Weird Brothers) become a team of paranormal investigators that appear in multiple Farrowverse stories, including “Checking Out” and “Seven Photographs from the Storm’s End Tavern.”

## Link

* gallows hill 1 // the hartford witch trials
Ethan Hogan

**Ethan Hogan** was the sick son of Jean Hogan and a reluctant patient of Dr. Crawford. During his treatments with the doctor, Ethan crosses over the brink of death and reemerges with a horrific entity possessing his body. The entity uses Ethan to destroy Crawford House and send it tumbling into the ocean.

He appears in "The Crawford Experiment."
Charlie Baker

**Charlotte "Charlie" Baker** is the daughter of Marjorie Baker and Randall Baker. As a child, Charlie was hated by her mother for her youth and beauty, and the years of abuse and neglect led to her cutting herself. Marjorie eventually abandoned the family to pursue her dream of becoming a cabaret star, leaving Charlie to grow up without her mother.

Years later, Charlie invites Marjorie to come with her while she looks at potential colleges in Jefferson, Rhode Island. She finds her mother in a drug-induced stupor in the hotel hallway, and ultimately decides to pack her things and leave when she realizes her mother will never change. Her whereabouts after this incident are unknown.

She appears in "Liminal Spaces."
E Pluribus Unum

“*Exposing him hadn’t been enough. If I wanted to take down this monster, I’d have to think like a monster.*”

--

The tenth story in *The Neverglades: Multiverse Chronicles*.

Journalist Norman Clancy is terrified to learn that a popular presidential candidate is a shapeshifting entity from another dimension. He sets out to tank the candidate’s political career, but in a world where public opinion can change on a whim, that may be easier said than done…

## Characters

* Norman Clancy (Journalist)
* Marcy McKenna (Editor)
* Olivia Marconi (Survivor)
* Tim Lancaster (Show Host)
* Allen MacReady
* Cate Morrigan
* The Semblance

## Settings

* Pacific Glade
* Washington, D.C.

## Notes

* This universe’s main point of divergence was the Semblance running for the office of President of the United States. Despite Clancy’s best efforts, the entity wins the presidency in its role as Cate Morrigan.
* President Semblance is later recruited by Meta Mark to take on the Sightless in “Blood Moon.”
The Wendigo (Character)

The **Empathic Giant** (mistakenly referred to as a **Wendigo** by Janine Zimmerman) was an entity responsible for the deaths of several campers in Pacific Glade. It was killed by Olivia Marconi.

## Overview

### Pre-Neverglades Series

* The empathic giants were the first beings to cross the rift between realities on their own. When they began to feed on humans and wreak havoc in this dimension, the Inspector gave himself a human body and entered our world to fight the creatures and exterminate them.

### The Wendigo

* After being let into our universe by the scientists from CAPRA, the Empathic Giant stalked the trees of Catamount Forest and harvested several young campers to feed on, placing them in small pocket universes constructed from their worst fears. The Inspector, Mark Hannigan, and Janine Zimmerman traverse these subdimensions in order to rescue the missing Olivia Marconi. Although the Inspector is defeated in his weakened state, Marconi is able to kill the Empathic Giant by sending it blasts of courage (the antithesis of what it feeds on), causing it to fall backwards into a chasm and die of impalement. With their creator dead, the pocket universes then begin to disintegrate.

### On the Mountain of Madness

* Mark believes he sees the same Empathic Giant that Marconi killed crawling through the tunnels underneath Mount Palmer Insane Asylum. (Like Janine, he refers to it as a Wendigo.) Because the reality of the events that took place in Mount Palmer is murky, it is unclear whether there was another empathic giant in the asylum or if the sighting was a figment of Mark's unstable mind.

## Appearance and Attributes

* The Empathic Giant was a towering entity with a vaguely humanoid shape, although Mark Hannigan was unable to distinguish many other defining details about it; he refers to it as "darkness made solid." It has a misshapen head which consists mostly of a glob of bloodshot human eyeballs.
* Like other beings of its kind, the Empathic Giant fed on human emotions. This particular entity favored the taste of fear, and its pocket universes were meant to draw out the fears of its prey.
Folklore

“*Here, in town, we tell stories of a gentler kind*.”

First featured on the Creepy Podcast.

A group of townsfolk enter the forest to track down a local cryptid, who has been glimpsed in the trees for centuries but never seen in full. Coming face to face with the entity forces them to make a difficult and deadly choice.

## Characters

* Lance Graves
* Simon Chen
* Linda Chen
* The Skulker

## Notes

* An audio version of this story was first released on the Creepy Podcast, while a text version was later released on the author’s personal subreddit, r/DavidFarrowWrites.

## Links

* Folklore (Creepy Podcast narration)
* Folklore (text)
The Ringmaster

**The Ringmaster** is an otherworldly entity who feeds on blood and attention. Stage magician Elias Shade owes his fame and success to a deal struck with the Ringmaster at the start of his career. However, Shade grew scared of the Ringmaster’s intense hunger, and decided to offer him one last sacrifice to free himself from the deal. The entity hunted down and killed the members of the Greater Orlando Escapists during their visit to Shade’s House of Doorways. When group leader Ralph Mason tried to strike a similar deal, the Ringmaster refused it and killed him.

He appears in “House of Doorways.”
Peter Lambrecht

**Peter Lambrecht** was a resident of Pacific Glade and the father of Ruth Hannigan. He was killed in a hit-and-run accident by Vera Hanscomb.

## Overview

### Lucid Dreams

* As a younger man, Peter moved to Pacific Glade to raise his family and fell in love with the place, becoming one of the locals. He was killed in 2017 by a runaway driver and buried with his trusty walking stick. At his wake, both Mark and Rory Hannigan hallucinate Peter's suited figure standing outside the window of the funeral parlor. He is one of the many illusory figures Mark sees when he and the Inspector are swimming through Lake Lucid.

### Family Plot

* Peter's corpse is reanimated by the Semblance in an effort to kill Ruth Hannigan. He returns to death when the Semblance is defeated by Olivia Marconi and Zachary Atwater.
The Brain Sucker

The **Brain Sucker** (in the guise of **Lester Barlow**) was an entity responsible for causing outbreaks of madness throughout Pacific Glade. It was killed by Olivia Marconi.

## Overview

### On the Mountain of Madness

* After being pursued by Mark Hannigan and Olivia Marconi, the Brain Sucker flees up Mount Palmer in a stolen car. It manages to crash Mark's cruiser against the asylum walls but sustains a head injury in the process. While Mark is wandering the halls of the asylum, Marconi finds Barlow stuck inside his car and plants three bullets in his head, killing the Brain Sucker inside him.

### Lucid Dreams

* Lester is one of the many figures Mark hallucinates while swimming through Lake Lucid. Mark believes he sees Lester (along with the other victims) because he couldn't save him.

## Appearance

* Like the Time-Eater, the Brain Sucker can only manifest in our world by possessing a human vessel. It can be identified by the spinning orange discs in its eyes while it is feeding. When he's trapped in the asylum, Mark Hannigan becomes paranoid that the Brain Sucker is hopping hosts, as he can't see the eyes of the others in the asylum (Dr. Renfield has thick glasses, Sister Martha wears a veil, and Deacon is blind).
Josephine Young

**Josephine Young** was a professor of colonial studies and a "witch" who escaped persecution during the Hartford witch trials. In colonial times, she summoned many entities from beyond the rift to grant herself powers and curse her enemies. She made a pact with the entity named Nephilos to gain immortality, and later sealed him away to use his powers for herself.

In the present day, Josephine teaches at a college in Hartford, Connecticut. She becomes an ally of Shaun Sanford and Tom Johnson when an entity known as Mirror Face begins stalking them on campus. She orders Nephilos to kill it and save the boys, thinking (mistakenly) that Mirror Face is dead.

Later, Mirror Face recovers and is able to steal Nephilos from under Josephine's control. Trapped in the dataspace, Nephilos is eventually able to send a message to Josephine warning her that her life is in danger and suggesting a plan to take down Mirror Face once and for all. This backfires, and Josephine is just barely able to escape.

Josephine heads across the country to Lyonsville, Washington, where she hopes to travel north to Pacific Glade and recruit the help of a powerful entity to confront Mirror Face. However, she is killed by Mirror Face before she can reach the town, and Nephilos is unable to keep himself from taking her soul.

She appears in the "gallows hill" series.
Vera Hanscomb

**Vera Hanscomb** was a resident of Pacific Glade and a mother of two children. She was the runaway driver who struck and killed Peter Lambrecht. She herself was killed during the Semblance's assault on Pacific Glade.

## Overview

### Lucid Dreams

* In a moment of distraction, Vera accidentally hits Peter Lambrecht with her car and fatally wounds him. She flees the scene out of fear but is quickly brought in by the police. In the chaos following the scene, Vera's sick infant fails to get the medical attention they need, and they die at the police station.

### Fallen Night

* Vera's husband is killed in the Pacific Glade quake, making her a widowed mother of two. When her kids go off to school, she sometimes retreats to her infant's old room and rocks their crib, wishing she could go back to before her life fell apart.

### Fear No Evil

* Vera is one of the many victims of the Semblance's assault on Pacific Glade. She calls the police station about a door appearing in her pantry, saying that a demonic child entity has crawled through (reflecting her fear of her child's death). The entity kills her before the police can arrive.
Lance Graves

**Lance Graves** was a paranormal investigator who visited an undisclosed rural town in order to capture evidence of their local cryptid, the Skulker. He is described as always wearing tight black t-shirts and has a habit of bossing everyone around as if they were members of his film crew. He also carries a gun with a polished silver grip.

When Simon Chen goes missing, Lance joins the town's search party, but brings his film crew to document the journey in case they run into the Skulker. He plans to shoot the cryptid once Simon is found in its cave, but is shot in the head by the town sheriff instead. The townsfolk then brutally murder Lance's crew to make sure the footage of his death doesn't go public.

He appears in "Folklore."
Rising Heat

*“There was nothing I could do. I couldn’t stop the chaos I’d created. I could only get away before causing any more damage than I already had.”*

The sixth story in the Cruelest Months series.

After experiencing a series of debilitating hot flashes, Ramona King moves with her husband to Alaska, where she hopes the cooler climate will help her find relief. But when the entire town starts going through an unprecedented heat wave, Ramona begins to wonder if her own hot spells are a symptom of something much, much worse.

## Characters

* Ramona King
* Laramie King
* Timothy Lancaster
* Dean Kaspbrak
* Joanna Kaspbrak
* Deborah Gale

## Settings

* Pacific Glade
* Tingenek, Alaska

## Notes

* This story was originally posted on r/nosleep under the title "I just moved to a small town in Alaska. It's been getting hotter and hotter by the day."
* This is the June story in the Cruelest Months series. The subtitle for this story is -*calefaction*-.
* Ramona appears to be an unknowing participant in a Rosen Corp human augmentation trial, which gave her the ability to produce fire.
Dylan McAllister

**Dylan McAllister** is a drug addict and former patient at the Mount Palmer Psychiatric Institute. His innate abilities were recognized by Rosen Corp and he was abducted from the institute to become part of the Tulpa Project. Under John Peregrine, Dylan was forced to repeatedly read a book on other dimensions in the reading room beneath the Theodore Holbrook Memorial Library. He was rescued by Julianna Park, but was later recaptured by agents of Rosen Corp.

He appears in "The Staircase in the Library."
Rachel Booker

**Rachel Booker** was a member of the Greater Orlando Escapists, a group of prominent escape room enthusiasts. After the group first broke up, she joined a non-profit animal rescue organization, but eventually rejoined the group to tackle Elias Shade’s House of Doorways. During their stay in the House, the group was trapped in a bizarre clock tower and pursued by a horrific entity known as the Ringmaster. Rachel was killed when Ralph Mason pushed her into the Ringmaster’s path in an effort to strike a deal with the entity and save his own life.

She appears in “House of Doorways.”
Lacey Benedict

**Lacey Benedict** was a shy student from Dalton Springs, Nevada who received the ability to make others see things from a Rosen Corp medical trial. Lacey becomes friends with Jason McTeague in order to get close to her tormentors, Meredith Lake and Julia Maxwell, and lure them into a trap at Glendale House. She tricks Meredith into a believing she stole her grandmother's necklace, leading to a scuffle in which Meredith suffers a fatal injury. Lacey also leads Julia into a basement full of mirrors that reflect the ugliness inside of her. She locks Julia in the basement and leaves her to starve to death.

She appears in "Skin Deep."
Fallen Night

*"Picture, if you will, a quiet day in the Neverglades."*

The final story in the Neverglades Series: Volume One.

The rift has been sealed. CAPRA has been stopped. The earthquake has come and gone, and the people of Pacific Glade are picking up the pieces. In this elegy, the Inspector reflects on the friends he lost that day, and marvels at the strength of this little town that has survived so much.

## Characters

* The Inspector
* Olivia Marconi
* Vera Hanscomb
* Ruth Hannigan
* Stephen Hannigan
* Nico Sanchez
* Abigail Shannon
* Janine Zimmerman
* The Ender

## Settings

* Locklear Cemetery
* Marconi's House
* The Rift

## Notes

* This is one of two stories in the Neverglades series to be narrated by the Inspector himself, the other being "A Thousand Glistening Threads." It is also the only Neverglades story to be told largely in third person.
* As of this story, the surviving Hannigans are now living with Marconi and Janine.
* This story marks the beginning of a partnership between the Inspector and Marconi, which will continue into Volume Two.
Keisha Travers

**Keisha Travers** is one of the co-owners of the Storm’s End Tavern in New Orleans with her husband, Hugo Travers. Unlike her husband, she is more receptive to the paranormal phenomena occurring in the Tavern and supports the investigators who come out to study it. She believes that the Tavern, and New Orleans as a whole, is haunted by the ghost of Hurricane Katrina itself.

She appears in “Seven Photographs from the Storm’s End Tavern.”
Can You Hear Me?

“*I wish I could tell you who I am, but I’m not even sure I know the answer*.”

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The eleventh story in *The Neverglades: Multiverse Chronicles*, written by guest author Hunter Souvannarath.

Mark Hannigan has a problem. He’s become self-aware of his existence as a fictional character, but he’s unable to change the outcome of his story, no matter how many times he attempts to deviate from the script. He knows his death is slowly approaching, but is there anything he can do to stop it? And who’s the unknown figure writing his story, anyway?

## Characters

* Meta Mark Hannigan
* The Chronicler

## Settings

* The Neverglades: Volume One
* The Void

## Notes

* The original version of this story was selected as the first-place winner in the Neverglades Multiverse contest.
* Meta Mark’s self-awareness is later revealed in “Blood Moon” to be a result of the Chronicler tampering with his story to see if it’s possible to change the outcome. The Chronicler offers him a chance to escape his prison if he helps them recruit the strongest beings from across the multiverse to take on an omnicidal threat (the Inspector’s dark counterpart, the Sightless).
Green Light

“*Every time I closed my eyes, all I could see was green*.”

The second story in the Neverglades Series: Volume Three.

A small earthquake rumbles through Pacific Glade, bringing back traumatic memories from those who survived the quake years ago. Lola Velasquez can’t help but think back to how the fateful event drove away the rest of her family, especially when a mysterious child with a green flashlight appears in the woods behind her house… a child who looks exactly like her son.

## Characters

* Lola Velasquez
* Diego Velasquez
* Junior Velasquez
* Kevin Barkley
* Abigail Shannon
* Olivia Marconi
* The Inspector
* The Ferryman

## Notes

* Lola flashes back to the events of “Devour,” in which Pacific Glade experienced an earth-shattering quake that destroyed much of the town.
* The titular “green light” refers to the guiding orb carried by the Ferryman, but it is also a reference to the beckoning green light from *The Great Gatsby*.
* This is the only story in the Neverglades series to be narrated by Lola Velasquez.
Temple of the Moon

“*DOES A GOD WALK AMONG US?*”

The fifth story in the Neverglades Series: Volume Two.

Stephen is going off to college, and Ruth, Marconi, Janine, and the Inspector all fly out to support him on his first day at his new school. But St. Dominic’s is harboring a dark secret, and when the bodies start dropping, a startling revelation about the Inspector will come to light…

## Characters

* Olivia Marconi
* The Inspector
* Ruth Hannigan
* Stephen Hannigan
* Janine Zimmerman
* Richard Temple
* Tony Ruggieri
* Lloyd Harper
* The Data Entity

## Notes

* The photographic evidence of the Inspector posted on the Temple of the Moon website references several of the Inspector Investigations, including “Parts Unknown,” “Transcripts from the Mount Isolation Radio Outpost,” and “Seven Photographs from the Storm’s End Tavern.”
* Richard Temple also appears in the story “The Mount Palmer Exposé,” in which he tries to cover up the subjects of Rosen Corp experimental trials that are being housed in the Connecticut branch of the Mount Palmer Psychiatric Institute.
* "Man of the Law" reveals that the FBI is well aware of the Temple website and uses it as their main source of intel on the Inspector's whereabouts. Norman Clancy relies on the site to trace the Inspector's footsteps in his journey to Pacific Glade.
Hugo Travers

**Hugo Travers** is the co-owner and proprietor of the Storm’s End Tavern in New Orleans, Louisiana. He opened the Tavern with his wife, Keisha Travers, following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Even though it started out as a cozy place for locals to gather, the Storm’s End quickly became a hot spot for unusual sightings following the death of Leonard Jones, much to Hugo’s chagrin. He tolerates the paranormal researchers who come to investigate the place, but is reluctant to discuss any sightings himself.

He appears in “Seven Photographs from the Storm’s End Tavern.”
Fear No Evil

“*That was one door I’d never be able to close*.”

The ninth story in the Neverglades Series: Volume Two.

Strange doors are opening around town and letting through all sorts of nightmares. The Semblance has launched an all-out war against the Inspector, and the citizens of Pacific Glade are getting caught in the crossfire. It’s up to Marconi and her team to infiltrate the nightmare world, track down the Semblance, and put an end to its reign of terror – or die trying.

## Characters

* Olivia Marconi
* The Inspector
* Ruth Hannigan
* Zachary Atwater
* Abigail Shannon
* Lola Velasquez
* Janine Zimmerman
* Vera Hanscomb
* The Semblance
* The Centipede Man

## Settings

* Pacific Glade Police Station (Temporary)
* The Netherwastes
* The Ghost Highway

## Notes

* The doors summoned by the Semblance previously appeared in “A Neverglades Halloween” and “Black Valentine.” As of the end of this story, all the doors have disappeared except for the one in CAPRA headquarters. Similar doors appear in the short story "House of Doorways" in the titular escape room attraction.
* This is the end of the Semblance’s story arc in Volume Two.
Purple Moon

*"Sometimes you close your eyes to a nightmare, and sometimes you wake up to one."*

The fifth story in the Neverglades series.

Detective Hannigan wakes up in a nightmarish version of Pacific Glade, where the world has turned purple and all the people have been replaced by dripping orbs of light. Lost and confused, he has to navigate this strange world and save Sheriff Marconi, who's also found herself trapped in this place. But there's a sinister entity roaming the streets who wants to snuff their lights... and the Inspector is nowhere to be found.

## Characters

* Mark Hannigan
* The Inspector
* Olivia Marconi
* The Ender

## Settings

* The Rift
* The Hannigan Home
* Pacific Glade Police Station
* Marconi's House

## Notes

* Hannigan and the Inspector go their separate ways in this story, a hiatus that lasts until "Lucid Dreams."
* The near-extinction event that the Inspector describes in this story is depicted in the Volume Two story "In the Beginning," where Marconi witnesses the event for herself.
* The Inspector's true form is seen for the first time in this story. Similar larger-than-life entities who may be related to the Inspector appear in "Lights in the Sky Over St. Anders, Iowa."
* The Prior family in "Parts Unknown" find themselves in a similar purple world while on vacation in Stonepier.
* The Inspector mentions having stepped into the role of humanity's protector when Earth was abandoned by its creator. He later encounters that same Creator (whom he refers to as the Creator of All Things) in the story "A Thousand Glistening Threads."
The Backwards Woman

Illustration by Chris Bodily

**The Backwards Woman** is an entity of unknown origin who has been seen frequently around the Cerulean Shores Hotel and the surrounding area. She always appears in a dripping blue dress with her back to the viewer. If one approaches her, she moves forward to keep the distance between them constant, even if this means passing through doors or other solid objects. She was presumably killed by Olivia Marconi.

## The Neverglades Series

### Checking Out

* The Backwards Woman appears to Marconi the same night that she and Ruth Hannigan check into the Cerulean Shores Hotel. She traps the two women in a red lobby full of doors that lead to nightmarish pocket dimensions. Thanks to the help of the Weird Brothers, Marconi and Ruth are able to trap the Backwards Woman in a loop long enough for Marconi to throw her off a ledge. Her presumed death causes the dimensional lobby to dissolve.

## Other Appearances

### Every Grain of Sand

* The Backwards Woman appears on the endless beach below the Cerulean Shores Hotel, where she leads Janice and Craig to their deaths.
Marigold

**Marigold** was the daughter of Shelly and a victim of the sunburst virus. She used to be a stage actress before the virus swept across the world. After her illness progresses, Marigold decides to seek out the services of Catalina, who offers intimacy and closeness to those about to die. The two women form a quick connection and eventually decide to visit Marigold's mother, Shelly, to pretend they're engaged. Shelly sees through the ruse, but plays along for her daughter's sake. Marigold's illness worsens overnight, and she dies in her sleep after sharing a passionate final night with Catalina.

She appears in "Little Death."
Howard Smith

Sam Lance (partner, former)

**Howard Smith** is a private investigator that works with the Pacific Glade police force. He appears in the fan series Neverglades: Sunspot.

## Appearances

* Nice to Meet You Mr. Earthling!
* The Midnight Channel

## History

Prior to his arrival in in Pacific Glade, not much is known about Howard's past. However, he does seem to be aware of The Rift, or at the very least, creatures from there. He mentions Sam Lance as his former partner, though it is unknown what happened to them and why they're no longer affiliated.

Nice to Meet You Mr. Earthling!

* Howard faces one of his strangest cases to date and meets the Detective. He becomes the Detective's go-to contact for the case and (unwillingly) baits out the time-eater so the Detective can take it down.

The Midnight Channel

* TBA

## Trivia

* Howard sleeps roughly 12 hours a day, assuming he isn't called out on a case.
* On that note, he rarely leaves his house unless it's for a grocery run.
* His favorite pastimes is stargazing and watching the rain fall.
On the Mountain of Madness

*“I suppose, given time, all madmen find their way to our doors.”*

The sixth story in the Neverglades series.

Detective Hannigan has inexplicably found himself hurtled back in time, trapped in a corrupt insane asylum. When familiar monstrous faces rear their heads, Hannigan begins to wonder if he may be going mad himself. With a shaky grip on reality and no Inspector to turn to, it's going to take everything he's got to escape the asylum and make it back to the present day in one piece.

## Characters

* Mark Hannigan
* Olivia Marconi
* Lester Barlow
* Dr. Renfield
* Sister Martha
* Deacon
* Meghan Rosenberg

## Notes

* This story introduces the Mount Palmer Psychiatric Institute, which is a prominent recurring organization in the Farrowverse. Mary Ellen from "Mary Ellen's Eyes" is an escapee from the institute. Rosen Corp also draws inmates from Mount Palmer for some of their human augmentation studies.
* "On the Fringe of What We Know" offers a potential hint as to the nature of the events at Mount Palmer. The asylum that Mark finds himself in may be a pocket universe, described by the Ferryman as "a half-world," populated by the memories of a "lost dreamer" (which might be Deacon or Mark himself).
* This is one of the only Neverglades stories in which the Inspector does not appear.
Josiah Campbell

**Josiah Campbell** was a resident of St. Anders, Iowa and the main perpetrator in the Cofield Farm attack. Josiah expressed vocal resentment toward the out-of-towners, both online and in person. While under the influence of the mysterious lights, he orchestrated the deadly massacre at Cofield Farm. He was shot and killed by Tomas Cristobal.

He appears in "Lights in the Sky Over St. Anders, Iowa."
Sammy Vance

**Sammy Vance** is a longtime rival of Detective Stephen Smith and a counterpart to the Semblance from the Neverglades series. Sammy tormented Smith at the Monster Hunter academy for years before graduating and joining up with ARPAC (the Associated Ring of Professional Anti-Cryptids). Disguised as Mike Hannity, they infiltrate Libby Lombardi's Christmas party to get information about Smith out of Ruby Herringbone. They then dress up as Krampus to terrorize the party and lead Smith on a wild goose chase. Ruby and Smith are able to apprehend Sammy and get the truth out of them, but they escape, only to be seen later at the party disguised as a beautiful woman.

Like their counterpart, the Semblance, Sammy is prone to disguising themself as other people, although their disguises are always flimsy and only seem to fool Detective Smith.

They appear in "An Everglades Christmas."
In Bloom

"*Send your men in there, do what you have to do. I’d be thrilled if she came home. But I think she’s part of the forest now.*"

The third story in the Cruelest Months series.

Spring is around the corner, but Heather Tate is hardly celebrating the season. Her daughter's been behaving erratically ever since she found a bizarre purple flower in the woods. Now Heather is beginning to worry that she's losing her daughter to whatever ancient evil lurks among those trees...

## Characters

* Heather Tate
* Juniper Tate
* Zachary Atwater
* The Forest Entity

## Notes

* This story was originally posted on r/nosleep under the title "I'm a cop. A local woman told me the strangest story about her missing daughter."
* This is the March story in the Cruelest Months series. The subtitle for this story is -*photosynthesis*-.
Twelve-and-a-Half Hour Precipice

The first Neverglades spoof story, written using the generative text programs from botnik.org.

## Story

I had just wandered off the trail when Marconi turned around and fired three shots at the wendigo. “Something funny with the shadows,” I said.

“There's no time to talk, honestly,” she replied. “Jackson’s friends flushed out the light.” She surveyed the darkness with her eyes, like a statue of a thousand-kilowatt camera.

The Inspector frowned and stared thoughtfully across the Neverglades. “Hell, maybe this whole case was just another dimension,” he said. Neither of us had seen anything suspicious. Voices drifted toward us like someone crushing a couple of smoke rings.

“What happened tonight?” Marconi asked.

“I couldn’t have missed that guttural shriek,” I said. “If Marcy had already drifted through the windshield, then she wasn’t under the porch swing.”

The Inspector grappled with the government. He rose from behind the greenhouse and rolled backwards across the leafy branches. Ellory scrabbled against the tiles and began to disintegrate. The body itself seemed strangely vulnerable as it heaved and slapped the ground.

Janine yanked me back into the forest. She arched her eyes and peered up at the radio station. “Oh, help!” Three shots later, a pair of bronzed rifles sat beneath our hands. Wisps of purple fire spread outward into the night. My investigation was going to require some research.

“This time, I know humanity because I’m the Inspector,” the Inspector said. “Compared to me, listeners without any sense had already gone extinct.”

The vibrating hum grew crisper. Murder wasn’t in the air for me. I swore again and recited the darkness made physical. The light shimmered; the portal spilled over with some weird shit. Then something dark and dangerous inside the TV set flew through the frame. It disturbed me.

I reached down into the precipice, like a priest issuing a sudden substance. I watched as a wailing fire spread outward from its monstrous form. The Inspector glided up to me and knelt by the sunrise. “You can possibly fathom the darkness, but otherwise: memories,” he said. Neither voice matched the sports announcer.

The Sequoia Lodge was looking over the fallen tower. My wife answered the call. I knew, that night, I had forgotten Marcy McKenna. I shook my pistol at the memory and tried to strangle the body.

Twelve and a half hours after, the Inspector stepped aside warily and stared down into the trees. “I’m a good enough protection,” he replied. Marconi and I realized the Inspector was slouched and even less human. He strode into the forest, his slender form flashing with a strange disappearance. Then he was gone.

## Characters

* Mark Hannigan
* The Inspector
* Olivia Marconi
* Ellory Pickett
* Janine Zimmerman
* Marcy McKenna

## Notes

* This story was posted to NoSleep in March 2018 as part of its Purge event, in which all subreddit rules were removed for three days.
Greta Baines

**Greta Baines** was a resident of St. Anders, Iowa and one of the two people left behind in the Truth Hunters' mass exodus. She was very receptive to the influence of the lights in the sky and believed her town was chosen for some special purpose. After the Cofield Farm attack, Greta brought a casserole and a few bottles of wine to the tourist camps as a gesture of goodwill. She and Rebecca Tremont survived the lightning strikes of the beings behind the lights and found shelter in Tomas and Katerina's storm cellar. The Inspector presumes both women starved to death, as he was unable to locate them in his visit to the abandoned St. Anders.

She appears in "Lights in the Sky Over St. Anders, Iowa."
Jack

**Jack** is one of the three teenagers who discovered the door to Room 325 in the woods. The cameraman of the trio, he reluctantly films their investigation into the strange room. He catches Ben striking Garrett on camera and witnesses the entity that lives in the room before turning to run. He is the only one of the three to escape the room before the door closes and disappears.

He appears in "Room 325."