#englewood after dark

[englewoodafterdark]

It's us! Thanks for the shout out! We're so glad you're enjoying!

Season 2 is also right around the corner and our pilot episode is out if you'd like a sneak peak!

So, hey. Do you like fake crime podcasts framed as podcasts and radio shows? Do you like weird university rumours and urban legends? How about supernatural mysteries? Perhaps close m/f friendships with no chance of turning into a romance?

Do yourself a favour and check out Englewood After Dark. Twenty-three episodes averaging 30 minutes each (transcripts available).

[chemicallywrit]

Happy Audio Drama Sunday, here are some standouts I enjoyed!

☀️ HAVE you listened to Calling All Adventurers from @thetowerarray? Well why not?? This show is for fantasy and dnd fans and it’s delightful, funny, and something else too—as the Host recounts his adventures, you hear how unsettling it is to become a hero, how death becomes commonplace and godlike powers are no big deal. I am watching the Host’s slow characterization with interest.

👁️ Dungeons and Daddies is definitely one of my favorites, one of the few actual plays I don’t just like, I love. This episode in particular hits for me because of the direction Anthony Burch is taking Francis’ character. Francis has been a powertripping kid with a gun for so long, but confronted with the consequences of doing whatever you want in the form of his father, he is realizing he needs to have more purpose. And the form which this takes is terrifying and eldritch of course, shoutout to horror and gore, but I am fascinated to see where it goes.

🔪 Englewood After Dark has broken my heart. I’m very interested to see how this new development affects our heroes—they are both too stubborn to give up the hunt for the truth under normal circumstances, but this last blow might be enough to break at least one of them. I’m interested to see who.

🎡 Mayfair Watcher’s Society is doing a series including some old recurring favorite characters, and maybe that’s why this episode made me gasp audibly. Their usual creepy fare will get you, but this had me on the edge of my seat.

🌛Cytochrome Hear, a show that does little-known classical adaptations, posted The Man in the Moone, and I love the way they set this up as a sort of lecture, complete with context that would have been lost on me about a whimsical 17th century novel. Oliver Morris is a great choice for our narrator as well, and the amount of scholarship and skill on display through the story is stupendous. If you’re a Re: Dracula girlie, go check out Cytochrome Hear.

🫀 The second episode of @thegospelofhaven was just as gross as the first, and I am loving this exploration of like, the endpoint of a practice of glorifying a body. What if body horror was your livelihood, your god, your religion? It’s fascinating and horrid and such a good show. I love the music especially, and B. Narr and Janine Bower are killing it.

🍔 Along with the Gospel of Haven came a trailer for another new show, Fresh Meat, and I had to check that out too. I love a found footage investigation, I love fake true crime with a supernatural twist, and I love anything Daisy McNamara gets his hands on, she’s so skilled.

That’s it for me! If you feel like giving me a tip (or buying an Inn Beween sticker! I have those!) I’d be much obliged.

See you next week!

[englewoodafterdark]

Help Us Make Season 2!

I know, I know, you're probably sick of us by now. But, this time we come bearing beautiful art from our artist Tahoe_51!

Please consider supporting the Indiegogo, we only have five days left!

[pod-bird]

I just realised that one of my favourite niche (?) settings in audio drama is Platonic M/F Duo Investigate Stuff and Get Into Shenanigans

[rubedeckillerofficial]

STARTED THREE IMPECCABLE AUDIO DRAMAS TODAY!!

Hi Nay - The best supernatural procedural since The X-Files. Has me HOOKED! The lore, the characters, the amazing cultural influences. I just wanna get a knife and fork and eat it.

Dead West - WEIRD WEST, MY BELOVED! Amazing music, great writing, impeccable vibes that capture the appeal of both westerns and folk horrors. Can’t wait to listen to more.

Englewood After Dark - Amazing slice of academic horror. There was a scare in the first prequel short that genuinely gave me chills, and some truly vile twists and turns for the second. If the warm up shorts are this good, the rest is gonna kill me.

[cobalt-knave]

Fiction Podcasts Formatted as Nonfiction Podcasts Recs

I do love an audio drama where the format is a nonfiction podcast, it must be said. Lots of friendship in these because I am a sucker for a good friendship.

The BookMarks

Two best friends, Mark and Marquelle Bookerson (no relation), have a podcast where they review books in an increasingly-wacky-and-fun fantasy alternate modern day. Improvised comedy. The worldbuilding gets weirder with every passing episode, and I love that for it.

Englewood After Dark

Two best friends, Eve and Finn, have a true crime podcast where they unpack cold cases. The pair are college students at a university popularly (and correctly) thought to be haunted. Believer/skeptic dynamic. Horror.

Shelterwood

Nick's sister went missing years ago, leaving a note referencing a town, Shelterwood. When he comes across this strange suburb where time doesn't flow right, Nick follows his lead to find his sister while sending audio back to the normal world to his best friend Solomon to hopefully edit into a full podcast. Hopefully, he can find his sister without being trapped forever in the alluring comfort of Shelterwood. Horror. Warning for kids' toys/cartoons used for horror. (A trope I personally dislike and find very rarely warned for.) Not my favorite on this list, but I love Solomon especially in terms of characters, and I did listen to the full season, actively engaged if not always enjoying it per se.

Rabbits (season 1 only)

Rabbits season 1 follows a journalist, Carly, trying to find her best friend, Yumiko, who went missing while participating in a dodgy ARG. To find her, Carly tracks down and begins to play the ARG, known only as the Game, being pulled deeper and deeper into the reality bending world it entails and creating a shaky allegiance with a fellow player with whom she shares a surprising amount of backstory. Horror, multiverse thriller. Season 1 is incredibly engaging and has a very satisfying plot, and I love Carly's ally Jones so much. If you enjoyed the tv show The OA, especially its second season, you will enjoy this.

DO NOT LISTEN TO SEASON 2. You will be tempted to listen to season 2, but it is not only very bad in terms of characters, plot, and worldbuilding, but it will also kneecap the beats of the first season. Resist temptation. Stick to season 1! Which is good! Warning for unreality, especially the fact that the character has the name name as the actor, and the podcast company is the same as in the fiction.

[skyfullofpods]

Happy audio drama Sunday, friends! I'm back! Here's a roundup of 16 fiction podcasts I listened to while my blog was on hiatus! My regular Sunday posts will resume next week!

[nightmareofthelake]

I found a new hobby in the form of making keychains/phone charms of podcasts I really like

the first one I ever made. It's based on Ep. 34: Anatomy Class of The Magnus Archives. The only one that has a prototype (only because I was waiting on material to arrive and really wanted to see if it would look good)

another based on the Magnus archives. The four tapes are for Jon, Martin, Sasha, and Tim and the eye is for Elias/Jonah

my first keychain (because I either didn't really look at the sizes or misread something and the tarot cards arrived bigger than expected). It's inspired by Englewood After Dark and the cards are for Finn (the fool) and Eve (the tower). The "blood drops" are for Jessica, Angela, and Laura. The three victims of Professor Schmidt.

I plan to add other characters if I have the fitting charms.

Really love this one.

the only non-fiction podcast here. I actually never planned on making a This Paranormal Life phone charm but I found the bigfoot charm while browsing and decided that this has to be a sign.

It's the OG logo of the podcast with an added rocket as a reference to the Galactic 12.

[englewoodbeforelight]

[knaveofheartsad]

Spotlight: Englewood After Dark

I am happy to share on the Before The Tone feed the first episode of Englewood After Dark! I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys found footage horror, central friendship, & riffs on the believer-skeptic dynamic. Give it a listen!

@englewoodafterdark

[field-cryptobotanist]

How much I adore women that are disproportionately mean for absolutely no reason about not believing in the supernatural and will literally look a ghost in the face and tell it it's not real is honestly concerning

I love them, they're mine. They're my favorite women in media

Their ability to look at evidence in the face and deny them has captured me idk

And then believe it when it's waaayy too late

I need more of them

[theholmwoodfoundation]

FEED SWAP!

Whilst we continue our Kickstarter Campaign, we would love to highlight trailers from likeminded shows!

Englewood After Dark ( @englewoodafterdark ) is a horror audio drama. College students Finn Nightingale and Eve Pemberly run a true crime conspiracy podcast from their university’s drama department. Their town, Englewood, is a hotbed of unsolved gruesome crimes and urban legends just ripe for the discussing. Their most recent case, diving into the legend surrounding The Murder Farm, pushes them to investigate the past of a long-dead serial killer professor at their university. But as they dig up more clues, they soon discover the roots of a conspiracy that stretches through history to the founding of Englewood. Some secrets are best kept hidden, and when they attract the attention of the powers that be on their campus, they are forced to rely on their wits to survive. Englewood After Dark is released Tuesdays at 3 pm (CT) every week.

Created by Hannah Brown, Dennis Ortman and A. Rose.

Find out more on their website: http://Englewoodafterdark.com.

You can also find links to all your favourite podchasers here: https://englewoodafterdark.podbean.com/

[chemicallywrit]

I love the characterization on Englewood After Dark. Eve and Finn are FRIENDS and they share a lot of love and mutual respect, but there are so many secrets and so much stubbornness and there is no room to budge for either of them. It’s such a poetic way to build conflict. I love it.

[englewoodafterdark]

Season 2 Crowdfund is Live Now!

Hey there intrepid mystery lovers!

Have you been enjoying Season 1 of Englewood After Dark? Did you listen to Episode 19: Like Lambs yet and hear Dennis talking about the crowd fund?

Well I’m here to talk to you about Season 2 of Englewood After Dark: Disclosures. Our campaign just went live! Head on over to our IndieGogo to check out our rewards and support if you are able!

We are also going live on Twitch for the first time today if you wanted to head over and hang out with Dennis and I and talk all things Englewood. And we have plenty more to look forward to this month, including:

[pod-bird]

May I present, Chronically Online Finn Nightingale

[boombox-fuckboy]

So, hey. Do you like fake crime podcasts framed as podcasts and radio shows? Do you like weird university rumours and urban legends? How about supernatural mysteries? Perhaps close m/f friendships with no chance of turning into a romance?

Do yourself a favour and check out Englewood After Dark. Twenty-three episodes averaging 30 minutes each (transcripts available).