Masquerade of Shadows: Your Storybook Listening Guide
- Mickey Fingers
- Feb 4
- 4 min read
Updated: Feb 6
Masquerade of Shadows is a 34-track gothic musical wrapped in a 300-page illustrated storybook — a tale of masks, ghosts, and glitches in the script of fate. The full art book is coming soon, as we put the final touches on the pages and layout.
This post is your secret map: direct links to every Masquerade zine and how to hear the music. When you’re ready to dive deeper into the lore and behind-the-scenes spells, scroll down for our companion blog posts on Velvet Umbrella Records
Listen To The Full Album
Every track. Every ghost.
All 34 songs in sequence... from the flicker of the first flame to the final broken mirror.
Whether you listen on the chaise longue, on a midnight drive, or in your ritual bath of glitter and defiance, this is the complete Masquerade.
1.Delightful Delusion. 2:10
2. Picnic For The Wicked 2:49
3. Threads To Untangle 2:06
4. The Stitch and Bitch Society 3:20
5. Puppet Strings 1:55
6. Step Right Up (The Puppet
Master’s Lament) 3:41
7. The Puppet Leaves The Tent. 1:43
8. Charity Ball 2:53
9. Reflection 2:59
10. Mirror, Mirror (On The Ceiling) 2:47
11. Smudged 2:48
12. Tea with the Dead 3:02
13. Beneath The Rug 2:07
14. Boom, Boom, Boom 2:59
15. Where The Nails Went In. 3:15
16. Masquerade Of Saints 2:14
17. Sanctum To Silence 1:32
18. Lullaby For The Lost 3:38
19. The Crown Beneath The Veil 3:47
20. Meant For Me 4:22
21. Milk On My Lips, Thorns In
My Hand 3:59
22. A kiss goodnight. 1:35
23. The Stolen Lullaby 3:35
24. We Took Our Seats 3:13
25. Complicit Is As Complicit Does 4:10
26. Now You See 2:34
27. Inheritors March 2:06
28. Ash March 2:10
29. Velvet Escape 4:01
30. Curtain interlude 2:44
31. Final call, Everybody Lies 4:34
32. Say it Again 4:06
33. The curtain doesn’t close 2:50
34. Twin Flame waltz 2:45
📖 A Glimpse Behind the Velvet Curtain
Exclusive zine-style previews of the Masquerade storybook.(Click To View Or Download!)
📖 Updated Story Sections (Zines)
More about each zine, from Masquerade Of Shadows. (full Story Below, Listed In Order)
1. The Playbill
📕 Meet the Cast + Creative Team
Link: [CLICK HERE]
Step through the velvet curtain and meet the Promise Circle, the fallen Queen, the Ghost Girls, the Puppet Master, and the humans behind the magic. This is the official Masquerade bill — cast, credits, roles, and the strange, beautiful crew who built this dark fairytale cabaret.
2. Prelude in Velvet
📘 Read the Pre-Story
Link: [CLICK HERE]
Where the story cracks open: a dream, a loss, a tent lit by impossible shadows. Before the music begins, before the masks slip — this is the hush before the first heartbeat. The velvet remembers everything.
3. Main Story – Part One (Tracks 1–16)
📙 Read Part One
Link: [CLICK HERE]
From the Dreamkeeper’s Spell to the séance behind the curtain, follow the first day of the Masquerade — the picnic, the stitch-and-bitch, the Charity Ball, and the ghosts that crack the mirror. Every track matched to its scene, exactly as the book presents it.
4. Main Story – Part Two (Tracks 17–33)
📙 Read Part Two
Link: [CLICK HERE]
The unraveling. The reveal. The inheritance. The uprising.
This is where the strings snap — and history tries to repeat itself.
Follow the second half of the Masquerade, including the séance fallout, the mirror shards, the new Queen, and the tent where the Puppet Master waits.
5. The Final Thread — Post-Story
📙 Read the Post-Story
Link: [CLICK HERE]
What remains when the lights go down.
A poetic, myth-threaded closing to the Masquerade — mirrors cracked, masks removed, truths named, strings cut, and the Twin Flame Waltz echoing through the quiet. Hope, healing, and free will take center stage.
6. The Libretto – Full Lyrics (34 Tracks + Characters)
📗 View Full Lyrics
Link: [CLICK HERE]
Every lyric, every whisper, every overlapping voice. Characters labeled, scenes numbered, refrains highlighted — this is the full musical text exactly as it appears in the square 8.5×8.5 book layout. A true libretto, not the DistroKid version.
7. Symbolism Cabinet – Spoiler Archive
📓 View the Cabinet
Link: [CLICK HERE]
A gothic archive of meaning: mirror shards, blood-thread puppets, saints, masks, tokens, relics, and lore across the Masquerade world. Every symbol decoded. Every thread explained. Handle with care — major spoilers lurk inside.
8. Character Stories | What We Know
📓 Read the Character Stories
Link: [CLICK HERE]
The Promise Circle, the ghosts, the Queen, the congregation, the men, the mothers, and the monstrous things that shaped them.
“What the town knows” ...
vs. “What the Puppet Master knows.”-(In Sunday With The Puppet Master)
A dossier-style archive for lore lovers.
9. Sunday With the Puppet Master – Final Chapter
📓 Read the Chapter
Link: [CLICK HERE]
The moment the story turned into a mirror.
Part journal, part haunting, part possession, part revelation — this is the Puppet Master’s chapter, the metafictional hinge of the entire Masquerade.
Includes “The Ledger of Strings,” “Artifacts Left Behind,” and the forbidden Sunday entry.
10. Listen to the Full Album
🎶 Masquerade of Shadows
Link: [CLICK HERE]
The album that the book is built on — 34 tracks of dark cabaret, shadow work, ghosts, mirrors, and the truth beneath the velvet..... Or Click The Cover To Read Or Download!
Playbill Video
This isn’t just a title sequence ...
It’s a conjuring.
A flicker of candlelight…
The curtain drawn back just enough to tempt you forward.
We wanted it to feel like the record storybooks of our childhood ... with shadow puppets, flickering text, and a whisper of danger.
Behind the Scenes:
📰 Mickey’s Corner: Making of Masquerade of Shadows
📰 Mickey’s Corner: of Shadows: Main Story (Part One) + The Symbolism Cabinet
🎭 Step Inside the Velvet Tent…
Explore the full world of Masquerade of Shadows - the music, the storybook zines, the behind-the-scenes blogs, character secrets, streaming links, and more... all gathered in one enchanted place.
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Clickable Albums
🎵 Masquerade of Shadows (Full Album)
🎵 Singles: Picnic for the Wicked, Mirror Mirror (On the Ceiling), Boom Boom Boom
(Album covers embedded, each one clickable.)
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