The Wyrd Side

1. The Lion and the Adder - Minisodes - Casting Call INTRODUCTION Monstrous Productions are now casting for their new audio drama, The Lion and the Adder. The Lion and the Adder is a 1920s detective story set in a world where magic is a fact of life. It...

✨CASTING CALL - PAID ✨

We are now casting three roles in our new show, The Lion and the Adder, a supernatural detective story set in 1920s London! 🔮

We’re looking to make 3 minisodes ahead of our crowdfunding campaign, and need to cast one principal role and two supporting roles - details below ⬇️

Congratulations, that's amazing! 🎉

Photograph taken from a moving car, in it a full moon rises, slightly hidden by distant trees. Bare winter hedgerows in the foreground. Sky is pale pink at the top of the photo, fading to a dusky blue on the horizon.

Under the watchful eye of the recent wolf moon, we spent New Years writing the latter end of season 2. Not long to go now before we're back in the recording studio!

A HUGE thank you to everyone who listened and supported the show in 2025, we can't wait to share what we've been working on! ❤️

The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!

If we don't hit our goal (which is looking increasingly likely), we cannot make season two.

Even if you can't donate, a share or review goes so far. This is a project Fio and I are so proud of, and we really want to see it through to the end.

Season one is already available for free online!

BONUS: Samhain Shenanigans Podcast Episode · The Wyrd Side · EP4 · 18m

Happy Halloween, All Hallows Eve and/or Samhain!

If you’re after something on theme for this stormy evening, have a listen to last year’s bonus episode: Samhain Shenanigans!

When David puts out the Samhain bonfire a vengeful spirit emerges to terrify the party…

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The burning dumpster from the show art, with new text over the fire. STEP 9: BURN IT ALL DOWN

The season 1 finale of TWO THOUSAND AND LATE is here!!!

STEP NINE: BURN IT ALL DOWN. SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION (THROUGH ARSON). OVERTHROW MANAGEMENT (LITERALLY). FACE DOWN ANOTHER DEMON FROM HELL...wait, what?

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Coming soon: The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!

THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION SEASON 2 KICKSTARTER PRE-LAUNCH IS NOW LIVE!

Find us at the link below! Click the "Notify Me" button for updates, and to be notified when the Kickstarter goes live in October.
Please do share the link wherever you can!

Photograph of the Wolf359 10 year reunion panel at the London Podcast Festival.

Photograph of a stage with the cast of Wooden Overcoats standing behind microphones. Projected on the screen behind them is the Wooden Overcoats logo, a coffin in a blue circle

Rounding out the evening with a seriously nostalgic, insightful panel from #Wolf359, and an exceptional performance from @woodenovercoats.bsky.social at @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social… What an #AudiodramaSunday!

Happy 10 years to both the shows, with many, many relistens still to come! 🎉

A photograph of the London Podcast Festival logo projected on a white wall

A photograph of the cover art for Camlann: A post-apocalyptic Audio Drama projected behind a stage, with 3 microphones in front.

Blurry pics, but BRILLIANT live show from @camlannpod.bsky.social at @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social. What a fantastic start to the day! Epic fantasy audiodrama indeed 👏 could not recommend the show more!

Wandering around near Kings Cross/Coal Drops for the London Podcast Festival, trying to secretly suss out the audiodrama fans… lesson I’m learning is we all need more merch 👏

TODAY

It’s fiction domination day at the London Podcast Festival!

Camlann! Crowley Time! Wooden Overcoats with a new episode! And the Wolf 359 reunion panel!

And it’s not too late to get a ticket, or to stream the shows from anywhere in the world, whenever you want for up to 7 days!

Yes please!

So excited to be going to listen to and celebrate these amazing shows as a long-time listener and huge fan! 🎉 Can’t think of a better way to spend an #audiodramasunday

We're doing a live show! @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social on Sunday 7th September at 2pm, right before our friends at @woodenovercoats.bsky.social at 7pm the same day.

Tickets are available for £11 now. Spread the word and see you there!

Our website is currently undergoing a major renovation as we update and improve the site… so please bear with us if you can’t access it for the next day or so!

WYRD SIDE S2 UPDATE
We currently have 7 episodes written and a few more to come! We’re patching plot holes, removing some rather long winded research deep dives, exploring some fascinating folklore, and generally giving Kitty and Aiden a hard time. All in the name of a good story! 🎉

Absolute pleasure to announce that we’ve just passed the 100 review mark on Spotify… Thank you so much! Reviews really help us work out what people like about the show (so we can do more of that stuff!), improve our outreach to new listeners and they also makes us feel warm and fuzzy ❤️ thanks!

Actually having a little time over the bank holiday weekend has lead down the deeply humbling road of trying to remaster and remix the first few episodes of @thewyrdside.bsky.social and gosh, have we learned a thing or two since we put those out!

Somehow, while we’ve been busy writing season 2, downloads have been ticking over and we are less than 100 away from 50 000?!? You amazing listeners! ❤️

Englewood After Dark: Disclosures - an Audio Drama Raising funds for a haunted prequel to the horror/mystery audio drama Englewood After Dark. | Check out 'Englewood After Dark: Disclosures - an Audio Drama' on Indiegogo.

It's #AudioDramaSunday on week 2 of our crowdfunding campaign! If you want to support us we'd love you to check out our page:

That moment when you see a local legend and folktale, take a deep dive into it, visit the location, and it all weaves into a character's story so perfectly.

Trying the best we can to get on with season two of the wyrd side as Alex and I are obsessed with the journey these characters are going on (read: trauma), both in this season and our plans for later ones. Roll on a fateful encounter in the woods and a character we can't wait for you to meet!

If there is any podcast out there deserving of your support - it’s Hi Nay - a brilliant queer indie horror podcast with a Filipina protagonist, superb writing and lore-building. Please go check out the show and the fundraiser, and if you are able, support the show!

A promo image with golds and browns. On top, it reads HI NAY in gold text. Below, it reads MINI-FUNDRAISER, funding Hi Nay Act 3. Below that is a QR code which leads to the link https://ko-fi.com/hinaypod/shop Below that it reads in gold text, $4K goal, $5k stretch Behind the text is a closeup image of a beautiful brown woman with dark brown hair and golden eyes - Mari, the protagonist of Hi Nay.

An image of the fundraiser goal bar on Ko-Fi. It reads "Hi Nay Mini Fundraiser" and has a share button. The gray bar, partly green, reads 5% of $4000 goal. Below that, text reads: Fundraising for the continued production of Hi Nay Act 3! We never hit our original goal so this is one way we can keep going after our hiatus!

On a blue and black gradient background, it reads: In gold text: Hi Nay, literally translated to “Hi Mom”, is a supernatural horror audio drama about Filipina immigrant Mari Datuin, whose babaylan family background accidentally gets her involved in stopping dangerous supernatural events in Toronto — alongside two supernatural detectives, her 6’2 strong-armed lesbian neighbor, and a celebrity conman guru with real magic powers. In white text: Season 1 of Hi Nay follows their mission to stop the Elders, a group of early 1900s rich immortal occultists, from terrorizing innocent people with cursed objects called Foci — especially their mysterious leader, The Benefactor, who is so powerful that nobody is able to remember his face or name.

A list of the fundraiser's goals: On the left: A square graphic with Hi Nay art in the background. The text in front in gold and white reads: $1k - Pandanggo Mari dances the candle dance with her crush in grade school, and meets ghosts at the theatre and convenience store. $2K - Coppelia A diary entry from the Puppetmaster, Drosselmeyer, chronicling their observations about Lori's power getting stronger in the winter. $3k - Snow Village Years ago, a drunk Donner & Murphy accidentally destroyed a snow village in a heated argument. Secrets are revealed and forgotten. $4k - HI NAY resumes in 2025 On the right: A square graphic with Hi Nay art in the background. The text in front in gold and white reads: $5K - BONUS EP, DANNY & CORNELIUS Danny Boyd meets Cornelius on the streets of Toronto, and invites him to walk the Distillery District's Winter Market with him. When Danny gives him a Christmas gift, Cornelius returns the kindness. Later, Mari finds herself in Danny's cafe, and finally meets the man that made an elder FEEL again. STRETCH GOAL HI NAY ACT 3

✨🔥THE HI NAY FUNDRAISER IS NOW LIVE!🔥✨

Hi Nay is a queer indie HORROR podcast about a Filipina immigrant in Toronto battling supernatural threats and rich immortal 1920s occultists.

Now at 5% goal! PLEASE SHARE SO WE CAN CONTINUE IN 2025!

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#HorrorPodcast #AudioDramaSunday

A handy guide

My post from Tumblr which reads: I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too. I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

You may have seen this post circling talking about how important it is to tell creators when you appreciate what they do.

The irony is it's MY post from Tumblr stolen by someone else. Please reskeet THIS post & NOT the stolen one bc we support creators making their own work on bluesky.

Thanks for the mention! 🎉

Time for #audiodramasunday

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Congratulations! 🎉👏

Anyone can make a great fiction podcast. All you need is a Blue Yeti, some friends who are willing to speak nonsense into the record, some free editing software, a willingness to enter into a Faustian bargain with the dark presence in the lands beyond the shadows, and the gumption to make min 6 eps.