Undertow: Familiar Haunts

For a "Summerween" treat we're visiting this old text from Welsh author Arthur Machen, whose stories Stephen King has referred to as among the scariest written in the English language. "The Green Book" is excerpted from Arthur Machen's The White People. A young woman writes down her beyond-natural experiences in remote areas of Wales and tries to make sense of them through dissecting the fairy tal...

After being attacked by a strange creature, Clover learns that the town of Banish has a dark history. Will she escape while there is still time, or will she find herself enchanted by its secrets? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Millennial woman, Clover, arrives in a quaint town in Maine to watch after her Aunt's antique shop while the Aunt is sick in the hospital. But after she fails to heed foreboding warnings from the residence, Clover learns the dark history beneath the veneer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cousin tries to make sense of a tragedy, but her investigation leads to her unearthing family secrets concerning a dark room where no one ever dares enter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"A man muddles through life... he wonders if there mightn't be ... a truer meaning... something grander... something red." With blood on his hands, RM Renfields seals the pact with the dark voice in his head, the voice calling from across the English channel spelling doom to so many. Is there any hope of redemption before he becomes a mad servant of this terrible being? The chilling 3rd and final...

"From within their hollow guts, grew an echo, an echo which I now echoed too..." A terrible, powerful voice has gotten into RM Renfield's head. What does this voice want from him, and how far will he go to appease it? Part 2 of the original radioplay by Marty Ross, produced by Wireless Theatre Limited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"No cut finger or noseblood quite prepares one for the sheer volume of redness - bright bright redness - as can spill and spurt from the frame." R.M. Renfield is one of the most enigmatic characters of Bram Stoker's Dracula - second only, perhaps, to the eponymous count himself. But how did he become the henchman of the vampire? Those answers are sought after in this riveting, intimate drama. We m...

"The problem might be me. I’m really drunk." A man comes home late at night and his apartment isn't what it seems. Indeed, the more he looks around, the more it looks like he's in a waking nightmare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Have you ever truly loved someone? I mean the kind of love you’d kill or die for?" What starts as a sleepy shift for Kat, the guest DJ for a call in dating show, turns into a nightmare when an unwelcome caller rings into the station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Be happy while ye live, for ye’ll be a long time dead." Something terrible is wending its way to Bessie Smith's small cottage, something that no amount of warding spells or charms may avert. As her inner circle is ripped apart from her, and terrible lies become the music of the land, she asks one question: Will she ever dance freely again? A story of witchcraft and resistance by Morgan Sylvia, re...

Molly Malone moved to Vinalhaven Maine to escape a dark secret from her past, but now it seems her past is catching up with her... But Molly has a gun and no wish to have her past ruin her future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Molly Malone was once known as Rita… But that was in a different life, before she moved to Vinalhaven, Maine, a remote island that doesn’t ask newcomers too many questions about the past. But as a deep fog rolls in, Molly finds out that you can’t outrun your past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Downeast Maine native son returns to the site of the family farmhouse, which has now been demolished and buried. But when the light strikes a shard of metal just right, a portal to an unnerving horror is revealed. The inaugural episode of our new season, Familiar Haunts, is an inspired by real events family ghost story written, performed, and sound designed by Fred Greenhalgh. Learn more about y...

From haunted houses to remote islands, late night radio transmissions to witchcraft, these character-forward stories reveal how the past is never truly gone, and humanity may be the most ruthless monster of them all. A new collection of horror shorts curated/commissioned by Fred Greenhalgh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 4 of Spooktacular September with a full cast production of The Toll House, by WW Jacobs. Friends hear the legend of a haunted house and decide to spend the night... to terrifying results. With a bonus poem, The Demon of the Gibbet, by Fitz James O'Brien. Adapted from the public domain short story The Toll House, by WW Jacobs, and the poem The Demon of the Gibbet, by Fitz James O'Brien, produc...

Part 3 of Spooktacular September with a full cast production of The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe. A man has committed murder, and may even get away with it, until a diabolical throbbing begins beneath his floorboards. Adapted from the public domain short story The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe, produced by Mind’s Eye Productions and podcast by arrangement with Podcast Universe Product...

Part 2 of Spooktacular September with a full cast production of The Derelict, by William Hope Hodgson. Beware strange derelict vessels on the high seas, for they may contain horrors beyond imagination. Adapted from the public domain short story The Derelict by William Hope Hodgson, produced by Mind’s Eye Productions and podcast by arrangement with Podcast Universe Productions. Undertow is a produc...

Fall vibes are in the air and Undertow starts our run up to original horror fiction in October with a full cast production of The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs, the classic tale of being careful what you wish for, because you just might get it... Adapted from the public domain short story The Monkey’s Paw by WW Jacobs, produced by Mind’s Eye Productions and podcast by arrangement with Podcast Universe...

Part 5 of Carrion Harvest. Where do you bug out to, when … the monsters are Godzilla sized bugs? As hope starts to diminish, rapidly, Sprout reflects on the final, damning chapter of her life with her mom and Harvey. Carrion Harvest is a Dagaz Media production for Realm. Written by Morgan Sylvia. Performed by Jessica Taige. Editing and sound design by Rory O’Shea. Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Ep...

Hey, Undertow listeners! This week, we’re sharing something close to home — DC High Volume: Batman, directed by Undertow creator and host Fred Greenhalgh. This immersive audio series begins with Year One, the iconic origin story of Bruce Wayne as he becomes the Dark Knight. It’s a gritty, atmospheric reimagining of Gotham’s criminal underworld—perfect for fans of moody, cinematic storytelling. To...

Part 4 of Carrion Harvest. Sprout’s life of luxury is about to encounter a horrible grist mill - human cruelty on the one, beyond-human monsters on the other. The high costs of cheap corn come calling. Carrion Harvest is a Dagaz Media production for Realm. Written by Morgan Sylvia. Performed by Jessica Taige. Editing and sound design by Rory O’Shea. Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Epidemic Sound. U...

Part 3 of Carrion Harvest. Sprout’s life of luxury has come at a steep cost, and the ambitions of her stepfather, Harvey, may be reaching the point of no return. She has precious little time to be a rebellious teenager before the world will be irrevocably shifted, in ways she could never imagine. Carrion Harvest is a Dagaz Media production for Realm. Written by Morgan Sylvia. Performed by Jessica...

Part 2 of Carrion Harvest. Last time we learned of our protagonist, Sprout, how she came from a simple childhood in Maine, but after her mother was widowed, she remarried a mysterious and ambitious man by the name of Harvey. Harvey, and his special corn which is meant to solve world hunger, delivers a life of luxury beyond their imagination… But the cost of that luxury is higher than anyone will r...

Part 1 of Carrion Harvest. When Sprout’s mother marries an ambitious genetic scientist, she is wrenched from her simple but familiar life on the coast of Maine and thrust into an elite world of wealth and power. As her stepfather’s influence grows, she realizes that his experiments are not as benevolent as he claims … and that he serves a force far darker than simple greed. Carrion Harvest is a Da...

Part 5 of The Collection. In the wake of his estranged father's death, newspaper editor, Peter Dawson, discovers the old man, a renowned professor, owned an estate somewhere in the dense woodlands of Norfolk County. He's escaped the Estate - or so he thinks. Safety proves illusive as Peter wakes up from one nightmare, into another of an even more diabolical kind. The Collection is a Dagaz Media pr...