
The Keeping of Relics
Tonight's story begins in a crowd that cannot decide whether it is celebrating or praying. And with a relic that remembers a church older than empire and far less interested in being useful to power. It is a tale about w

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Hosted by Timothy Merlin · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 11 episodes
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A serialized fiction podcast of uncanny tales. In a modern Britain haunted by its own history, Harker’s Variations follows two reluctant guardians navigating strange encounters with miskept relics, supernatural hungers, and faith that refuses to stay buried. Haunted bookshops, submerged archives, and dangerous rituals surface in ordinary streets, cafés, and cathedrals, revealing how old faiths continue to shape the present in ways both subtle and volatile. These stories explore what happens when sacred things are handled without care—and what it costs to keep them without letting them consume the people who love them. New episodes release on Tuesdays (with occasional interludes on Saturdays).
Timothy Merlin hosts Harker’s Variations, a fiction show with 11 episodes published.

Tonight's story begins in a crowd that cannot decide whether it is celebrating or praying. And with a relic that remembers a church older than empire and far less interested in being useful to power. It is a tale about w

What follows isn’t a story in the usual sense. It’s closer, quieter, and more personal — a moment that slipped between chapters and didn’t ask to be kept. This interlude includes intimate and sensual material, treated wi

This story begins with a hesitation - the kind that feels harmless in the moment, and only later reveals itself as the hinge on which everything turns.

This story reminds us that sometimes we do not mean to invite something in. But once it is welcomed - even accidentally - structures have a way of deciding it belongs.

This story is about transcendence — what it promises, what it costs, and the subtle moment when becoming more begins to mean becoming less. It follows a retreat that offers healing without force, peace without doctrine,

This episode travels north to a place where grief was meant to be endured, and discovers that endurance is not the same thing as care.

This story is about good intentions, poor timing, and the quiet damage done when care is offered without consent.

What follows isn’t a story in the usual sense. It’s closer, quieter, and more personal — a moment that slipped between chapters and didn’t ask to be kept. This interlude includes intimate and sensual material, treated wi

This episode takes place on an island, where certain feelings have been politely endured for far longer than is healthy. Before we begin. This episode carries an explicit label due to a single moment of strong language,

This story concerns authority, access, and the long British habit of mistaking stewardship for ownership.

This story begins, as many do, with a conversation that seems unimportant until it very much isn't. Before we begin. This story includes sensual and intimate description-language that lingers in the body and in desire, t
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Harker’s Variations is hosted by Timothy Merlin. The show is categorised under fiction (science) and has published 11 episodes.
Harker’s Variations has published 11 episodes.
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