Part 1 of the full-cast illustrated audiobook, free: about 12 minutes, with sound design and a horror score. The rest of the story is in the book. Harlan Wade walks into the winter high country alone for one more elk hunt, and the mountain is not empty.
Credits
Story:Old Man On The Mountain by Jason Collier. Part 1 is free. The rest of the story is in the book. The narrator reads the narration and the characters speak their own lines.
Voices: the narrator and Harlan's voice with Chatterbox TTS by Resemble AI (MIT); the other characters generated with the Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model (Apache-2.0) via kokoro-onnx (MIT). Pictures: AI-generated illustrations made for this audiobook.
Field recordings: National Park Service, Yellowstone Sound Library (public domain; recordings by NPS & the MSU Acoustic Atlas), including elk, wolves, coyotes, ravens, fire, wind and axe work; and a wolf-howl recording by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons). All music, the score, the creature and the other sound effects were synthesized for this production.