This week on the House of Hesed Podcast Michael James Brown reads from a short horror story that is included in Wesley's book, "The Shepherd King". This story is called "Haunted By God" and is based off of 1st Samuel 4-6. This story is in the form of bonus chapters at the end of Wesley's book, so it does not have anything to do with the main plot points of the book. "The Shepherd King" is more of a fantasy adventure whereas this short story is more of a horror fiction.
You can purchase "The Shepherd King" on Amazon, and if you'd like to learn more about the book you can go to wesley.logiudice.com
Music -
Falling Rain by Myu
Miles to Go by Joey Pecoraro
The ominous music that is in Yashane's dream with Dagon and the Ark is a splicing together of some sounds from space that NASA has released. NASA took the wavelength of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) of the universe that is believed to be radiation left over from the big bang and converted it into sound waves. They have also done a similar but different process where they used the gas surrounding a black hole in the Perseus galaxy and did some editing magic to create the "sound" of a blackhole. I got my degree in Chemistry not Physics, so if I am off on the explanations of any of this stuff, I apologize in advance, also feel free to reach out and correct me on it.
In this scene of Shane's dream, he is in the presence and throne room of Yahweh and I've used these sounds to represent Yahweh's characteristics. Let me explain, in the Bible, Yahweh's name denotes what kind of God He is, many people will translate the name "Yahweh" as "I am who I am". So He is the God of "being", "existence", and really "everything". It is only fitting, then, to use sound that was generated from the background radiation (CMB) of our universe, which is, to my knowledge, microwaves that permeate the entirety of space and existence as we know it.
I used the black hole sound because Yahweh's presence is somehow above (Exodus 25:17-22) and (as I have written it) inside of the shadow underneath the cherubim's wings. It's like this shadow houses Yahweh's very presence (which is infinite) and becomes a "blackhole" of sorts. Additionally, a black hole is something that is dangerous, infinitely dense, and unseeable; character traits which are shared by Yahweh and which I thought were apt to emphasize in this scene.
