Dust & Echoes
About Dust & Echoes
A Cinematic Audio Experience
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Dust and Echoes is not just a podcast. It is a growing collection of cinematic stories—wholly original, immersive, and unforgettable—that explore the strange, the dark, and the unknown.
Each episode is a short-form audiobook told with the emotional depth of a film. These are not casual listens—they are crafted experiences. Some stories frighten. Some disturb. Some provoke. But every one of them lingers, because they come from a place deeper than fear.
Created by filmmaker and Indigenous storyteller James Cawley,
Dust and Echoes is the product of a lifetime of cinematic discipline and cultural memory. Every story draws from land, lineage, and myth—shaped by silence, survival, and the need to remember. These are stories that are felt as much as heard.
Here, horror meets folklore. Mystery meets memory. Dread meets beauty. Whether the story unfolds in a forgotten desert, a decaying city, or an ancestral dreamscape, the effect is the same: you step inside a world that feels sacred, dangerous, and real.
Episodes are available in multiple formats:
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As audio experiences on all major podcast platforms
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As cinematic visual editions on YouTube
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As collectible books and artwork for those who want to hold the story in their hands
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Each story stands alone. But if you listen closely, you’ll begin to hear the echoes—recurring symbols, forgotten names, and connections that reveal a larger world beneath the surface.
Dust and Echoes is for those who crave atmosphere, mystery, and emotional weight. For those drawn to spiritual unease and haunted landscapes. For those who believe fiction can still be dangerous.
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The archive is open.
Start your first story now.
And don’t look back.
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THE AUTHOR AND HOST
JAMES CAWLEY
James Cawley is a filmmaker, writer, and Indigenous storyteller whose work bridges cinematic precision with the ancestral pull of oral tradition. He is the creator and voice behind Dust and Echoes, a cinematic audio fiction series delivering original stories of mystery, fear, and mythic weight—crafted to feel as personal as a whispered legend and as immersive as a film.
James grew up in the high desert of the American West, where distant AM radio signals crackled through the night and the voice of Art Bell carried stories of the strange and the unexplained. Campfires lit his childhood, while shadows moved in the tree line—shaggy, matted things with the smell of death on their breath and silence in their eyes. He spent those nights imagining what waited just beyond the firelight. It was there, in the quiet dread of the desert, that James first discovered the
paperbacks of Stephen King—tales of terror and survival that became blueprints for his own battles against darkness. He began writing his own stories at age five, drawn to the power of myth, fear, and the resilience of the human spirit. In time, that passion led him to the world of film, where he honed his craft as a visual storyteller—learning how sound, light, and silence can speak louder than words.
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Today, James brings that lifetime of storytelling home through Dust and Echoes. Each episode is a self-contained narrative artifact, born of land and lineage, carried on the wind like a signal from somewhere just beyond the real. His work draws influence from ancestral stories, survival horror, speculative fiction, and the unknowable thing that still drips in the hallway when the house is quiet.
In addition to Dust and Echoes, James is a recognized creative director, cultural technologist, and descendant of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. His work spans film, VR, and immersive experiences that center Indigenous voices and narratives with both reverence and innovation.
These are stories crafted from memory, dream, and the sound just past hearing.
This is storytelling that survives.