Jack and David bring in the season with the last two episodes of “Saint” Nick and the Big F*ck Up written and performed by Phil Rickaby and the Scare Fighters 3 Holiday Special- Solitary Place of Residence, written by Max Brown and Produced by Joe Wilkinson!
Jack is once again solo and feeling a seasonal cold as he tries to bring in another season with “Saint” Nick and the Big F*ck Up is a hilarious, heartbreaking, and heartwarming Christmas audio drama with the first four of six episodes about a part-time mall Santa’s ability to mess everything up, written and performed by Phil Rickaby.
This week Jack is running solo catching up on a bunch of projects he brings us a trilogy of comedy-terror with Hannahpocalypse! Meet Hannah, the last zombie well after the apocalypse has come and gone. She’s so very happy you’re hear, listener… Meanwhile, many miles away Cali speeds her hovering Land Spinner home towards the Golden Gate settlement. And it all begins with episodes 1,2 and 3 because it’s AUDIO DRAMA TIME!
This week David Ault hosts alone as Jack is off taking some time in his cabin. But the horror features continue this week with the first two episodes of Mocking Manor. Mockery Manor is a theme park where people disappear, and it’s up to a pair of chaotic teenage twins to catch a killer! If you have enjoyed Stranger Things, Friday the 13th, and Black Mirror than this double-bill is for you! After all, it’s AUDIO DRAMA TIME!
Jack and David bring episode one from Malevolent! Arkham Private Investigator Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory of who he is or what has happened, only a nameless, eerie voice guiding him through the darkness. Blind, terrified, and confused, his journey will lead him towards a series of mysteries in the hopes of understanding the truth of what has transpired. As cosmic horrors seep into the world around, Arthur must ask himself whether this entity truly seeks to help him, or are its intentions more… and now Part 1 “The Dark World”!
Re-Imagined Radio has celebrated the anniversary of “The War of the Worlds” several times by re-telling the story. This year, on Devil’s Night and the occasion of its 84th anniversary, Jack and David play their explorations into the radio storytelling that may have influenced Orson Welles’s radio adaptation of the 1898 novel by H. G. Welles. In addition to samples from these earlier radio stories, interviews with Welles provide additional insight for this episode, “The War of the Worlds: Possible Influences.”
Jack and David continue the horror this month with The Sheridan Tapes #1. In 2018, famed horror writer Anna Sheridan disappeared, leaving behind only a box of mysterious cassette tapes and for their second feature one of the anthology episodes from Wrong Station with “A Walk in the Park”. She was walking home on one of the snowiest nights of the year, she tells me. She kind of loses track of time, and eventually comes to this park. A place she’d never heard of, and one she was never able to find again. That big park, with that little house right in the middle of it.
Jack and David begin this haunted episode with a remake of the classic “The Shadow” from No Soap Radio with “The Silent Avenger” to be followed by a second feature from Badlands Cola… A haunting manifesto tape. A town built on dinosaur bones. Radio stations have gone awry. Has Sunny’s latest private investigation case brought them to the sleepiest place in Canada, or have they stumbled upon something terrifying in the Badlands?
Jack is by himself as he makes his way to meet up with David and brings along with him “The Milkman of St. Gaff’s” episodes one and two! Lovecraft meets Kafka in this serialized fantasy/horror podcast about Howie, a troubled young man who joins the milkmen on the island of St. Gaff’s, only to discover that the milkmen harbor a dark and dangerous secret!
David finds the spooky gardening shed and announces our two features from The Nightlight, winner of best fiction podcast featuring creepy stories written by and performed by black actors. This week we have episode 101: Letters from Home by Justina Ireland, and the bonus episode Stories of Love and Revenge.