The Gothic Podcast

Secrets are finally coming into the light on Wednesday Station as Axel and Jules hunt for the manipulators who brought horrors to the station, and as Maisie continues to try to escape before it's too late. But all is not as it seems here  in Season Three of the Gothic Podcast -- because we're playing the Alien RPG! This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle as the GM; Sharon Gollery-LaFournese as Macie;...

Things aren't going so well for the crew of the Deep Space Salvage Vessel Pescado Malo. In fact, things could hardly be going any worse. Or could they? Yeah, they probably can, because here in Season Three of the Gothic Podcast we're playing the Alien RPG! This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle as the GM; Sharon Gollery-LaFournese as Macie, Ray, and Patience; Jesse Baldwin as Axel, Dr Laura, and Lar...

In the bowels of Tricae, Dr Laura faces her fate alone, as does Lars on the Pescado Malo. This is Season Three of The Gothic Podcast, where we play the Alien RPG to tell our ongoing story! This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle as the GM; Sharon Gollery-LaFournese as Macie, Ray, and Patience; Jesse Baldwin as Axel, Dr Laura, and Lars; and Richard Southard as Jules, Wild Bill, and Bosco. Season Three...

In Episode 10 we join our planetary science expedition as they delve deep into the heart of the strange planet, Tricae, searching for one of their own who has gone missing. While on Wednesday Station, the LOLs, Jules and Macie, pursue separately their own agendas that will, soon enough, bring them back together...to face a terrible danger brewing on the station. This is Season Three of The Gothic...

In Episode 9 of this season, we return momentarily to Macon, Missouri, Monster of the Week, and the Contemporary Now, where we'll find out a little bit about our Hunters' early encounters with the supernatural and with each other, even as deadly danger presses them in their present. This is Season Three of The Gothic Podcast! This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery-LaFournese, Jesse B...

In Episode 8 of this season, we check in with all three of our ongoing storylines. On Wednesday Station, Axel and the Little Old Ladies must decide what to do with the what they've just seen; on the strange planet Tricae, the science team heads out from their crashed ship to try and find a way in to a mysterious structure; and on the salvage vessel Pescado Malo, the horrors just keep escalating. T...

On the belabored salvage ship Pescado Malo, the crew searches for a missing crew member while that crew member faces horrors they could not have imagined. This is Season Three, Episode 7 of The Gothic Podcast, where we play the Alien RPG! This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery-LaFournese, Jesse Baldwin, and Richard Southard. Season Three of the Gothic Podcast uses rules from the Alie...

In the depths of the layered and woven world of Tricae, the away team fights for their lives in the Wapiti shuttle--both against their alien foe and against the forces of gravity. The Alien RPG continues to be merciless to our would-be survivors. This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery-LaFournese, Jesse Baldwin, and Richard Southard. Season Three of the Gothic Podcast uses rules from...

In the darkened bowels of Wednesday Station, Axel, Maisie, and Jules have difficult decisions and difficult realities to face. On the Pescado Malo, though, things are quiet...until they aren't. This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery-LaFournese, Jesse Baldwin, and Richard Southard. Season Three of the Gothic Podcast uses rules from the Alien RPG , published by Free League Publishing,...

On Wednesday Station, young Axel finds more than he bargained for when he follows a blood trail into a series of darkened access tunnels, while on the strange planet Tricae, the scientific expedition fights for their lives against vicious alien lifeforms. Join us, won't you, for Episode 4 of Season Three of The Gothic Podcast? This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery-LaFournese, Jesse...

After a technical delay, we give to you Episode 3 of Season Three: Guns and Salvage. In this episode we return to the planet Tricae, where the science team has made an important, and deadly!, discovery. We also visit our space truckers as they bicker among themselves and try to recover some very interesting salvage. Join us, won't you, as we explore the wonder ... and the horror ... of a dark, Got...

In this second episode of Season Three, we finally get to find out what system we'll be using. Here's a hint: it mostly comes out at night. Mostly. That's right, we're delving into our most complex game system to date, the Alien RPG! To make things even more complicated, we'll be following three stories: one onboard the salvage vessel Pescado Malo, one on the decommissioned science vessel Wednesda...

Season Three is finally here! In this first episode of our new season, Doctor Grace, LJ, and Nathan Winters return to the House after their harrowing adventures in The Horror of Elk Island, only to find that the world isn't as they left it. In fact, a Horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, rides across the fields and moors of Macon, Missouri, released by the Nyx Collective to inflict plague upon...

On Krampusnacht 2021, the gang broke out the Dead of Night rules one more time to play a special holiday horror one-shot: Cruise Ship to Terror! Join us as C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery-LaFournaise, Jesse Baldwin, and Izaak Southerland take to the high seas for some horror and hijinks (and if you want to watch the LIVE version, check out our YouTube version at https://youtu.be/EypAtAgSA2I  ) D...

It's Halloween! That means it's time for The Gothic Podcast Halloween Special 2021! Join us as we play through a session of the 'roleplaying game of tragic horror, Ten Candles, in a kernel of terror we call "The Corn Maze Massacre!" Tonight, our fun-loving sorority and fraternity sisters and brothers head over to Sauvie Island to have a mixer in the 'world's largest corn maze'. But things soon tur...

Join the cast of Season Two as we drink a variety of alcoholic beverages (drink responsibly, Sojourners!) and chat about the Season Two story arc. And hey, if you haven't finished Season Two of the Gothic Podcast yet, don't listen to this episode: there are spoilers! But if you HAVE finished all of Season Two, don't fret, because we've got our holiday specials coming up at Halloween and Krampusnac...

Here we are, sojourners, the last episode of the Elk Island story arc! Our surviving inheritors have had a rough time getting to this point, but having fought their way across the rope bridge, they still must face their greatest challenges. No one will be left untouched by what is to come. This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery LaFournese, Jesse Baldwin, and Richard Southard, with gu...

In the penultimate episode of Season Two of The Gothic Podcast, our Inheritors must fight their way through a blizzard and across a dangerous bridge in order to get to the lighthouse, which may ... or may not ... offer them passage down to the ancient caves below. This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery LaFournese, Jesse Baldwin, and Richard Southard. The Gothic Podcast is an actual-p...

In Episode #19 of Season Two of The Gothic Podcast, we find ourselves back at the ancestral Caine manor on Elk Island. It is time to hear some secrets from the mouth of one of those ancestors, for who is it that waits for our Inheritors in the library? Lazaro Caine and his dead cat, that's who. This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery LaFournese, Jesse Baldwin, and Richard Southard. Th...

In Episode #18 of Season Two of The Gothic Podcast, our Inheritors do a little shopping in scenic downtown Elk Island. Then they meet some old friends. Cue the diabolical music. This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery LaFournese, Jesse Baldwin, and Richard Southard. The Gothic Podcast is an actual-play horror-and-humor audio drama recorded from our cobbled together studios in Portland...

Episode #17 of Season Two finds our Inheritors on a tugboat/houseboat at the docks in Spirit Bay. As they try to make sense of the discoveries they've made, they also mourn the loss of a friend ... and then must also contend with the dark forces that wish them ill here on Elk Island. The Horror of Elk Island continues to lurch toward its conclusion in this episode of The Gothic Podcast! This episo...

In Episode #16 of Season Two of the Gothic Podcast, secrets begin to be exposed to the sunlight, like driftwood washing up onto the shore. This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery LaFournese, Jesse Baldwin, and Richard Southard. The Gothic Podcast is an actual-play horror-and-humor audio drama recorded from our cobbled together studios in Portland, OR and around the globe. For this sec...

[EDIT: The intro quote in this episode has been updated to be what it was SUPPOSED to be--Crimson Peak (the novelization) by Nancy Holder--rather than a repeat of "The Hearse Song" by Alvin Schwartz. Sorry 'bout that--eds] In Episode #15 of Season Two of the Gothic Podcast, the Inheritors on Elk Island must deal with the fallout of what has happened to them on this most terrible of days. Those who...

In Episode #14 of Season Two of the Gothic Podcast, we return to the Contemporary Now as Haven Harrow and her companions attempt to escape from the strange mines outside of Macon, Missouri, and LJ and Dr Grace come face to face with an old friend. Or is it? This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery LaFournese, Jesse Baldwin, and Richard Southard, with special guest star, Kirstin Valerie...

In Episode #13 of Season Two of the Gothic Podcast, things worsen for our Inheritors as some of the terrible secrets of Elk Island are revealed. Also: Patrick gets cursed at a lot. This episode stars C. Patrick Neagle, Sharon Gollery LaFournese, Jesse Baldwin, and Richard Southard. The Gothic Podcast is an actual-play audio drama recorded from our cobbled together studios in Portland, OR and aroun...