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Dead Belt: True Tales of the Gasping Frontier

Dead Belt: True Tales of the Gasping Frontier

By: Shawn Drake
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 Dead Belt: True Tales of the Gasping Frontier is a space-folk horror anthology podcast of strange happenings on the fringe of settled space. Close encounters, weird happenings, narrow escapes, and lonesome deaths far beyond the stars we know. Drawing on old mariner's tales from the oceans of Earth, filk tradition, and the superstition and ghost stories of the American West, Dead Belt is written for those that know that when we push out among the darkness between the stars, sometimes it pushes right on back. Dead Belt is inspired by the tabletop RPG of the same name by A Couple of Drakes.Shawn Drake Science Fiction
Episodes
  • Episode 13: Telltale

    Episode 13: Telltale
    Aug 2 2025

    You know, I hate to hear about folk on the float turning on each other when the turning of the verse gets cruel. But I sometimes love a good balancing of the scales. This one's a bloody tale of revenge. Bless y'all's heart.
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    28 mins
  • Episode 12: Ghostlight

    Episode 12: Ghostlight
    Jul 15 2025

    This here's a big fish story I got from Harlan "Dusty" McGraw, the oldest Gashound I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. Now, I typically discount the kind of stories that Dusty tells me out of hand when they come from anyone else, but I learned young and well to listen to folks who grow old in professions where most folk die young. Maybe y'all should, too.
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    25 mins
  • Episode 11: Pearshaped

    Episode 11: Pearshaped
    Jul 1 2025

    Y'all may not know it, but I've got a job out here beyond just jawing. I'm not necessarily a search and rescue kind of guy, but every so often I gotta work for a living. And when I gotta work for a living, y'all best believe someone is having a bad day. I had misgivings about making this one public, but I think maybe y'all want to hear about a baby Belter having a rough day.

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    32 mins
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