Aurelian Ashmore

Gothic Whispers - Emma Steel Refuse to look away from either glory or the horror of reality. Limited Edition Book, Postcard & Bookmark. Available now!

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#Poet #Poetry #poetrycommunity #Writer #IndieAuthor

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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.

Rauhnacht has arrived.
Stories for the nights between years.
†
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#audiobook #bandcamp #ritual #grimm #fables #rauhnacht #dark

Coda Okkult X: The Fall

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

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

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.

#Rauhnacht ended.
Twelve readings, one for each day.
Stories by selected authors and #Grimm.
Listen: cicadacult.substack....
#fables #myth #horror

Waiting for the man A poem by Jane Dougherty. Read by Ashmore.

Waiting for the man

A hollow wind blows. A reading of Jane Dougherty.

Listen/Read:
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#poetry #darkbeauty #apocalypse #darkpoetry #spokenword

Dirge without music A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, read by Ashmore.

Dirge without music.
#Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Read by Ashmore.

Listen, feel her words:
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#darkpoetry #poem #ritual #transmission

The only one
who doubts me
is me.
The others are
distraction.
†

The Last Fräulein A Berlin Ghost Story about Inheritance and Liberation

The Last Fräulein
A Berlin ghost story.
A woman. A ghost. A refusal.
Nobody died who wasn’t dead before.

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#GhostStory #UnquietWorld #horror #ghost

YouTube video by Aurelian Ashmore Apocalyptic News I: The Empire Unhappy with Elections

Today’s hellish news:
The Empire is unhappy with the elections.
·†·
Important message from our sponsors:
Protect the sacred order of suffering.
†

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#elections #empire #darkfiction #newyork #dystopiansatire

YouTube video by Aurelian Ashmore AI versus Ashmore

Speak, Machine.
Can your artificial lungs breathe?
Can you bleed?
Mortals—decide.
Choose your winner.
†

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#ai #narration #texttospeech #art #horror #aivoice #posthuman #futureofart #airart

You'll go, then I'll go Descent to Nowhere

"You'll go, then I'll go."
Apocalyptic/Sci Fi Flash fiction:
cicadacult.substack.com/p/youll-go-t...

Or:
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#scifi #horror #ritual #apocalypse #post #booksky 💙📚🪐

The Demon Talks, by Ashmore 7 track album

The Demon Talks

A demonic audiobook of ritual monologues.
Seven voices. One breath.

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#horror #audiobook #ritual #darkfiction #booksky

A crow is sitting on a tree. Text with poetry around it.

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 Demon VII: Written by Aurora Garmourtian, read by Ashmore

"I Am The Demon Of The End"
Written by Aurora Garmoutian, read by Ashmore.

Listen if you dare

#ritual #horror #audiobook #bookstack

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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

We are very close to issue number one of BIG FAT TOAD. 31 Haiku und short poem are waiting for you!

#poetry #haikus

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.

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#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 Okkult VI: One wing a swan. One a goose.

Bloodwing walks.
From ash, from bone, from unasked birth.
Okkult VI — Bloodwing born.

cicadacult.substack.com/p/bloodwing

#boosky #horror #ritual #poetry

A Week In Substack Poetry #28 10 new poets with their poem from Substack from the 18th August to 24th August!

A Week in Substack poetry Issue 28 is out! Read 10 poems from independent writers!

#Poet #Poetry #PoetrySky #poetrycommunity #Writer #writingcommunity #AuthorSky #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Cult of Ashmore Gode. Skald. Bearer of Ritual. Chronicler of Echoes. Writer of Rites. †

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.
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#horror #writing #nazi #memorial #history

Nailday Last day of Winter

Nailday.
Last day of winter.
Witness.
cicadacult.substack.com/p/nailday

#horror #ritual #witness #booksky

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 Okkult IV.: Blood Sacrifice

Unholy Duality began as a wound.
Now it is ritual. The pain became part of Okkult.
Some of you will still recognize the wound.
†

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#darkpoetry #ritual #transformation #poetry #booksky

Poem with a gray picture of leaves in the back

The wind blows down
leaves from a tree—
often old, always weak.
Sometimes—sadly—
young and green.
†

#ashmore #ritual #leaves #cicadacult #death #pain