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.

Okkult X: The Fall

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.

A poem by Jane Dougherty. Read by Ashmore.

A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, read by Ashmore.

A Berlin Ghost Story about Inheritance and Liberation

YouTube video by Aurelian Ashmore

YouTube video by Aurelian Ashmore

Descent to Nowhere

7 track album

Demon VII: Written by Aurora Garmourtian, read by Ashmore

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

10 new poets with their poem from Substack from the 18th August to 24th August!

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

Last day of Winter

Okkult IV.: Blood Sacrifice

Demon IV. Written by Edward Marlo Ruiz, read by Ashmore.

Demon III. Written By J. R. Phillips, read by Ashmore.

It is bitter. Bitter.

Rotten words and unburied rites from ancient worlds. For those marked by the grey one’s left eye— or the left ones who still seek to hide. Gode ritual. Skald words. Cicada calls. Click to read Cicada ...

Demon II. Written By Saint-Lazare, read by Ashmore.

Okkult III.: A blade born from grief.

Demon I. Written by Bradley Ramsey, read by Ashmore.

Okkult II.

Act.

Not a story. I summon you.

Gleichschaltung–a German word.

A short story by E.M.R, read by Ashmore.

A memory fragment from 1993