Episode 249 – Halloween Horrors! Intensive Care by Aural Stage/FinalRune and Damned Godzillas…

Intensive Care Horror Radio dramaIt is HALLOWEEN my freakish audio fan folks, and to celebrate we have a positively gushing font of blood and chills this year. Fresh off the mixing deck, I’m proud to release the new collaboration of Aural Stage Studios and FinalRune Productions – Intensive Care by James Comtois.

The show involves Alex, a young man who finds himself in a run-down New England hospital following a car accident. Strange conversations from patients and staff make Alex realize that no one ever seems to make it out of the hospital alive… time is running out for him to make his escape. And where the hell is his girlfriend Elizabeth?

Following this spooktacular new work, we have another special treat: from the special collection of Richard Fish, we have an episode of Sci Fi Channel’s gone but not forgotten Seeing Ear Theatre (wonderfully eulogized by SFF Audio). The show, written by none other than J. Michael Straczynski and starring Steve Buscemi, is called “The Damned are Playing at Godzilla’s Tonight,” which asks the essential question… What IS it truly worth sacrificing to live out your dreams?

We also give a shout-out to our much-loved producer David Accampo of Wormwood, who is working on a new graphic novel called Sparrow and Crowe.

Listen, and shriek! A special bonus Episode 250 goes with today’s trick or treat.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 249

Episode 215 – FinalRune Sees the World Get Cleansed

Witch Hunter ChroniclesHooool-ey, mol-ey, folks. After months of anticipation we’re eager to finally have our sweaty paws on a copy of FinalRune’s remastered podcast-safe edition of The Cleansed – Episode Zero. This thing is crazy!

On Halloween, 2038 the world is a precarious place. We’re running dangerously low on oil and the electric grid is down on most of the East Coast. The National Guard maintains a state of martial law and food supplies are precarious. A group of soldiers is ready to kick back and enjoy a leisurely night of – what a concept! – radio drama. It’s the 100th anniversary of “War of the Worlds” and a group of university students want to re-create it before the captivated crowd.

Stephen King‘s own rock n’ roll radio station, WKIT, prepares the live broadcast to a desperate public. But this time, it’s not Martians that threaten the demise of humanity – but ourselves.

So begins The Cleansed, a massive post-oil audio epic that FinalRune has been working on for years. They’re aggressively fundraising now and hope we can get your support to keep more episodes coming as they go into production this fall. More importantly, they want you to tell your friends!

And, speaking of kick-ass audio drama, we Captain Radio‘s splendid review of 1918, a new larger-than-life audio serial that explores the question of: how would World War 1 be different if advanced alien weapons were available?

Don’t miss this episode of the ‘pod.

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 215

Episode 195 – FinalRune Returns with a Dark Passenger and Cruel Confession

Dark Passenger Audio HorrorThis week we continue our Halloween fright fest with tales of terror sure to curdle your blood… Close your ears to make the horror stop!

We’re on a westward train of Transcontinental Terror that will culminate on All Hallow’s Eve with a 6-hour festival of fear that runs from 5pm to 11pm EDT. This week our featured artist is my own FinalRune Productions, with two original dark tales set in the rugged rural landscape of Downeast Maine.

In Dark Passenger, two teenage friends discover the evil lurking in an old sea captain’s house. In Blind Man’s Confession, we learn why you should never, never drive recklessly late at night on the Blacks Woods Road…

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Radio Drama Revival – Episode 195

Episode 185 – The War on Poverty and the Entry to Moloch

Last Harbinger by Crazy Dog Audio TheatreThis week we feature two more delicious bits of audio – a new original five-minute audio short by FinalRune Productions called “The War on Poverty.” After so many successful wars on ideologies, America decides to fight its most entrenched evil – poverty.

Followed by a redux of The Last Harbinger, the chilling and darkly satirical story of Moloch by Roger Gregg. In light of all the madness in our world today, it seemed about time to feature the show again. Part 1 of 5.

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Episode 184 – Troll Story Wraps up with a Farewell to Rio

ZBS and FinalRune MashupThings are not quite over in the Troll of Stony Brook… the troll didn’t make out so well, last we heard, but Jamie is dedicated to honoring him and while on a mountain hilltop, encounters some magical things he never expected.

And, in another “sweet sorrow to part” moment, we heard the end of Tom Lopez’s Fallen Angels that Bounce. Begging the answer to the question – what will Little Leroy do with his cockroach army?

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Episode 183 – Troll Story Showdown and More Brazilian Antics

ZBS and FinalRune MashupIn the action-packed climax of FinalRune’s tall tale, the Troll of Stony Brook, the troll and Jamie are on the run, desperately searching for a way out of civilization before dawn breaks. But the police are fast, houses are everywhere, and someone dammed up the brook.

Meanwhile, we hear some more installments from Tom Lopez’s excellent Fallen Angels that Bounce. What will happen when Little Leroy is set on the trail of Flo? Will Eddie be enough to save her? And what the heck is going to happen in New York with Flo’s evil alter ego?

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