Eira Major, Hanging Sloth

So how are we feeling gang? Excited for the Season One Finale “To The Lighthouse” on the 19th? 👀

We’ve loved watching the reactions. If you’re enjoying the season, please do be sure to review and share your love for it across social media and if you can review or rate on your podcatcher to do so.

A graphic with fairy lights, a teapot, flowers and a book. The text reads, "Cosy means comfort - but whose comfort, precisely?"

This week on the blog, I'm chewing over why I find it hard to get along with a lot of cosy fiction (hypocritical, I know!) and ask whose comfort is being centred in these kinds of stories.

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@theholmwoodfnd.bsky.social featured again today, this time on the NQD feed. Now we're getting close to the end of the season! Ah! I relished saying 'it's the show with the dismembered head on the cover' just as much as I did the first time.

Congratulations! Not Quite Dead has made the following top listener chart on Goodpods: #14 in the Top 100 Indie Audio Drama All time chart [Goodpods 'Top 50 Podcast' Badge]

Oh damn, NQD was doing well in the monthly charts and now it's climbing up the All Time Chart too! Lotta people chewing on these vampires right now. Live live bite, you delightful weirdos 🩸

if you are a cat, it is apparently very exciting that I am still sitting downstairs this late at night. thrilling. zoomies-inducing.

me: [sitting around, writing scripts late at night, minding my own business]

my cat: [runs full pelt into the door, despite there being an open doorway right next to it]

cat: MEWLP

me: alright there, mate?

cat: MRAAAAH

cat: [scurries away scooby-doo style]

Twelvelms Visit the post for more.

There's gonna be more announcements about Twelvelms later this month but the show does already have its own site with a bunch of Lore on it!

twelvelms.wordpress.com

I’ll pitch my own podcast @theholmwoodfnd.bsky.social (found footage Dracula sequel) but also Not Quite Dead & anything really by @hangingsloth.bsky.social and Ella’s @camlannpod.bsky.social & of course @redracula.bsky.social & last but not least @killjamxxx.bsky.social for a bit of spice/variety!

Remnants 🦋💀🗝️ | Dramatized dark fantasy thriller audio fiction A dark fantasy thriller audio drama following an Apprentice who learns to read the life stories embedded in seemingly ordinary objects. Guided by Sir, he must judge each remnant, not knowing the conse...

Oh wow! Remnants is now an Official Fan Favourite over on @theendupdates.podvibes.co.ap.brid.gy!

That's very cool. It's great to hear that people enjoy my work, even better to see people talking about how it felt when the mystery of the show began to click for them.

www.theend.fyi/shows/remnants

Hanging Sloth News - August 2025 | Hanging Sloth Get more from Hanging Sloth on Patreon

Brand new August 2025 edition of Hanging Sloth News!

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The middle, though, has to bridge the gap between these things. It re-examines that groundwork established in the beginning and then develops it, twists it, evolves it. It allows to get your first glimpse at the shape of the whole.

Every part of a story's construction has its own difficulties. The beginning needs you to establishe the world, its rules, the tone, the characters. Everything is brand new.

The end has to wrap everything up in a way that feels satisfying but leaves the story room to breathe in some ambiguity.

repeating pattern of red moths, broken by pale blue moths, upside down. the words 'remnants: an audio drama by eira major' also disrupts the pattern, and 'season two is coming 6th October 2025'

Remnants is gonna be a trilogy of series, so when S2 kicks off in October this year, it'll be dropping you right into the centre of the story.

Blood spattered image with the words 'Not Quite Dead, a show about vampires'. A pair of fangs emerge from a splash of blood.

'Monsters are hunting him, his job is a drag, and his boyfriend wants to eat him'. As an A&E nurse, Alfie deals with horror everyday, but almost being killed by a walking corpse and being saved by a vampire takes things a bit far, even for him. The vampire is Casper, and he’s hundreds of years old, and Alfie can’t seem to leave him alone, despite both of their best efforts. The more Alfie learns about Casper and his world, the more he finds himself inescapably drawn deeper into both. Despite Casper’s misgivings about his kind, the relationship between vampires and humans is more complicated than just predator and prey, and his own relationship with Casper is a heady, carnal blend of horror, hunger, love and lust.

Not Quite Dead started airing on Halloween in 2022, and was initially conceived as a series of short stories. It's the third audio drama by Eira Major, who voices both Alfie and Neige in the show. The show is intended to be an exploration of the vampire as a monstrous other; of the intimacy of violence; of the violence of intimacy. It uses vampires as a lens to explore discomfort with divergent bodies and ways of being, drawing on lived experience and huge amounts of research to draw a modern portrait of the vampire as a figure which is inherently queer and other. 'A show about vampires you can sink your teeth into'

'Live, laugh, Bite. All 55 episodes of not quite dead are available to listen to on all major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. networked with Rusty Quill. Eira Major's Hanging Sloth. Powered by Acast.'

Have you had a taste of Not Quite Dead yet?

This show about vampires is now complete with 55 episodes you can sink your teeth into, and a bonus minisode coming later this year, plus spin-off content coming to Patreon in August.

Live, laugh, BITE.

You'll also get to listen to up-coming Patreon-exclusive NQD spin-off 'Vampires on Vampires', which will be kicking off in August. 'Vampires on Vampires' will feature the boys from NQD engaging with existing vampire media, starting - of course - with Twlight.

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If that sounds fun, and you wanna help support me making my work; get ad-free access to ALL of NQD; get early access to new releasing shows; get BTS content; get bonus stories; consider signing up for my Patreon from just £2 pcm.

There are notes on *all* episodes of S4 of NQD on Patreon, and I have plans to go back and make some for earlier seasons, starting some time later in this year! I'm hoping to run this as a sort of 'book club', where I'll be encouraging discussions between fans and we'll go over the show bit by bit.

Creator's Notes on NQD Episodes 53-55 (Part One) | Hanging Sloth Get more from Hanging Sloth on Patreon

Folks on Patreon just got Creator's Notes on NQD Episodes 53-55. This time, I'm breaking the notes up into two parts, each focusing on a different theme of the show.

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It'd be a tight fit to binge all of Not Quite Dead in a week, but you could
And then you could join in on the Q&A; some suggestions of mine are "😭 whyyyyyyyy", "how could you!?", and "how am I supposed to recover from this?"

you shall have to wait a week for the Not Quite Dead S4 QnA to open because I am siiiick

It is VERY weird that Not Quite Dead is done

Blood spattered image with the words 'Not Quite Dead, Last Episode'. A pair of fangs emerge from a splash of blood.

cover art for 'Not Quite Dead, Episode LV: Acts of Will & Mercy, or the Wake' on a larger, blood speckled background

'In the final instalment, Alfie risks everything to put an end to bonham’s work once and for all. What he finds is more - and less - than he bargained for. Sometimes the greatest horror is not a thing we witness or endure, but something we choose, of our own free will.'

'Live, laugh, Bite. All 55 episodes of not quite dead are available to listen to on all major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. networked with Rusty Quill. Eira Major's Hanging Sloth. Powered by Acast.'

Not Quite Dead's Big Finale just dropped...

in hopes of negating another Neige situation, I was in this finale three times 😅

The comments on this episode on Spotify are making me EMOTIONAL <3

Screenshot of an email with the goodpods logo up top. the rest of the text: Congratulations! Not Quite Dead has made the following top listener chart on Goodpods: #4 in the Top 100 Indie Audio Drama Monthly chart Goodpods Badge [Claim your badge button] (Please DM us on Twitter if you add this badge to your website as we’re featuring on our app and website many of the podcasts that do! 😀) Not Quite Dead has also made the following leaderboards on Goodpods: #4 in the Top 100 Indie Audio Drama Monthly chart #10 in the Top 100 Indie Horror Monthly chart #10 in the Top 100 Indie Horror Monthly chart #14 in the Top 100 Indie Audio Drama All time chart

happy finale day NQD 🎉

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Blood splattered cover art for 'vampires on vampires, with the title in the centre, under the words 'part of the Not Quite Dead Universe: Things About Vampires'. At the bottom, in a pool of blood, it says '1: Vampires React to Twilight'

Did you know you can listen to the whole of NQD ad free over on Patreon? There's also gonna be some shiny new vampire content over there in August, Vampires on Vampires, in which the boys respond to vampire media, starting with Twilight. Bc of course that's where I'm starting that.

close up of an anatomical drawing, too close to tell really what it is. cross sections of tissue and vein are labeled with letters and numbers. over top, it says 'Not Quite Dead. Episode LV: Acts of Will and Mercy. OR, The Wake.'

This episode was a rollercoaster to make, and I'm sure it's a rollercoaster to listen to, too! Clocking in at just over an hour long, it was a mammoth to edit, but it all came together really nicely. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed putting it together. Live, laugh, bite 🖤

My heart. It's so full and so broken.

Very hard to be normal after putting that episode out tbh