As the first pale promise of sunrise touched the waters of Little Raccoon, Richard rode his black horse down the lane and out through the grove to the turnpike... Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for The Final Episode Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) The End... This has been The Dark Fantastic Written by Margaret Echard, Directed,...

Judith thought, "He must be stopped. Else he'll leave tonight" Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 27 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) James Seabrook (Dr. Caxton) Garret Odle (Will Tomlinson) Sam Sprunger (Jessie Moffat)

There was a first and second supper table at Timberley that evening, for among the people who had come out from Woodridge were a number to whom the Tomlinson hospitality was a matter of course. John Barclay, Dr. Caxton, Doc Baird, and the loquacious war veteran, Mitch Rucker, were among those who put their legs under the long table that night. Mitch declared he had not seen anything since Bull Run to equal the day's excitement. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF:...

The torment of the bricks began again the next day. Judith was seated at her dressing table in nightgown and wrapper, when she heard the unmistakable thud in the room below. She had slept late that morning. The rest of the family were already at breakfast. She hurried downstairs to investigate, and as she passed the open dining-room door she called excitedly, "It's begun again," and sped down the hall to the south bedroom to view the brick. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @...

Judith's screams brought Richard's mother hurrying down the hall. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 24 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London Moss (Thorne aka Cricket) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) James Seabrook (Dr. Caxton)

It was several days later that Richard came upon Thorne dragging a small hair trunk out of the back hall closet. He had been out in the fields all day and his boots were mired with spring mud, so that he entered the house through the kitchen and went straight to the back closet for dry shoes. There he found Thorne shoving and pushing at the trunk. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode...

From an upstairs window Judith watched Otis Huse drive away and knew that her hope in the quarter had failed. He had spent a night at Timberley; he had witnessed her discomfiture, but he had not come to her support. If this shrewd, not disinterested attorney had failed to see anything on which to base an accusation of Thorne, there was nothing left to Judith but her fear. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST...

Prayers were over. The fire was low, the backlog covered with ashes for the night. Candles brought from the kitchen waited in a row upon the table to light the way to bedrooms. In the corner near the alcove a feminine caucus was being held. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 21 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard...

The Square in Woodridge was a sea of mud. Wagons and buggies, mired to the hub, crept sluggishly. Horses and mules, flat-eared and streaming, stood resignedly at hitching posts. The host spell had broken with an equinoctial storm. It had rained for a week. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 20 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch...

It was the hottest summer in years: the greatest corn weather, the most bountiful harvest since the war. It seemed to Judith that she never saw her husband any more. He was out of doors from daybreak till dark and at night he was asleep, from sheer healthy exhaustion, as soon as he touched the bed. She grew to hate the summer before it was over. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode...

The new year was well into February before Judith achieved her purpose of giving a party at Timberley which should be something other than a family reunion. Twice she has postponed her date, first during the holiday season, when an annoying irritation of her throat had prompted Dr. Caxton to prescribe a few days in bed. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 18 Valerie Moss (Narrator &...

One of our main cast, Joseph Muranyi Jr, also runs a podcast, The Wars and More all about Star Wars, celebrating over 200 episodes with his cohost Doug. This short montage left me wanting more from these two guys with their banter, antics and all round great personalities...check them out! Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast Follow The Wars and More Facebook @ Joseph Muranyi Podcast Instagram...

Thorne was at last reconciled to the passing of summer. Not by anything that had happened, but by the simple change of season that told her it was gone. There had been frost on the ground for a month now, and one or two light shows had fallen. The corn was gathered, the hogs were butchered, the potatoes were dug. In the kitchen houseflies dropped dead from the ceiling and ice crusted the basins in the early mornings. The children had put on their Long underwear, and showed and stockings once...

Seasons were reversed in the country. Winter, the period of greatest activity in town, was the farmer's time of relaxation. Judith had been well aware of this fact when she insisted upon a fall wedding. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 16 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London Moss (Thorne aka...

It was the prettiest wedding even seen in Woods County (so the Woodridge Sentinel reported), and the prettiest things in the wedding was Thorne (which the Sentinel did not report). From the moment Judith saw her in the tulle dress she realized it has been a mistake to dress Thorne up. With her curls caught in a band of pink ribbon and a little flower basket on her arm, she looked like one of her own roses. No doubt it was her old training in stagecraft that taught her to walk with that slow...

One of our main cast, Kylee Morgan (aka Judith Amory) also runs a podcast, Cryptic Soup, here's a clip! Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast Follow Cryptic Soup Pod Website @ Cryptic Soup Pod

The news of Richard's forthcoming marriage was received with shocked relish everywhere but in his immediate family. The Tomlinsons maintained a discreet attitude, taking their cue from Miss Ann, whose only comment was, " You are old enough to know what you are doin, Richard. I hope you are happy." Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 14 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Ava...

Far from being the unsuspecting dolt that Thorne would have had him, Richard was perfectly aware of the purpose in Judith's note. The little strategy by which he was reminded that he has a rendezvous, come autumn, amused him In the security of his resolution he was flattered rather than alarmed, For he had quite made up his mind that he was not going to marry again. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for...

The summer following Abigail's death was the happiest Thorne had ever known. She woke each morning, expectantly, to the crow of a very young rooster. Always before she had protested the cockcrow and the enforced early resin of the farm. But now she strange joyously from bed, as though the summer day were not long enough to hold all of the delight it promised. Sometimes she was dressed and roaming the woods before Millie had her breakfast fire started. Berries were ripe now and nothing, to...

The funeral of Abigail Tomlinson was an event of widespread interest. Every family in the district we represented. School was closed for three days because Richard was a township trustee. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 11 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Ava Eames (Cutie Lutie) David Boisvert (Lucious Goff) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch...

She could not have told at the time why she had concealed it. Why she had kept silent while everything in the house was searched except the personal belongings of the school mistress. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 10 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) Kylee Morgan (Judith Amory) Rafe Telsch (Richard Tomlinson) London...

The Christmas season was upon them. Under ordinary circumstances the house would have been filled with company and much time and thought devoted to the festivities for which Timberley was noted. But this year there were eight guests nor merrymakings. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 9 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) Sam Sprunger...

Jessie Moffat's tongue could not be bridled. Before sundown of the next day every man, woman and child from Timberley to Woodridge had heard of the mysterious death of Henry Shook's cow and how Thorne Tomlinson had drawn milk from a cucumber named Flossie. They had learned about a doll she had made and dressed in a scrap of Abigail Tomlinson's wrapper. They heard how the sick women had been seized with a violent illness when she discovered pins stuck into the doll's body. Follow...

A strange hat on the hall table indicated that the doctor had arrived. Hushed illness behind the closed door of the sickroom warned that the patient had been given a sedative and was not to be disturbed. Judith went back to the dining room. Follow Project DF Podcast Instagram @ Project DF: The Mystery Website @ ProjectDFPodcast CAST for Episode 7 Valerie Moss (Narrator & Producer) Carole Senn (Ms. Ann Tomlinson) Sam Sprunger (Jesse...