#ghost wax

[arthur-lesters-glabella]

If I had a coin for every story I love that has the theme of “even if there wasn’t enough time, even if someone died or something ended in tragedy, it was still worth it. It was worth it and you have to keep on holding on for the joy and love and hope found in between” I’d have way too many coins and they’d burn in my pocket

[cranberrybogmummy]

Ghost wax headcanons

Ghost wax headcanon:

Why the heck do I get Occasional Bubble bath enjoyer vibe for Voncid ..like in a big ass claw foot tub, bubbles up to the rim, bath tray with maybe a glass (just a glass) of something and like a rubber duck. As Jinx watches horrified as all cats are that the human is willingly submerging themselves in Water? (WHY?!)

More headcanon: Rugen likes Scotch older and more expensive the better and gets it charged as business expense to the Order of Hamsa.

Added to this headcanon: People give Voncid bottles of booze all the time he's not sure why it's either this or like tie pins? He drinks maybe once or twice a year so He has quite the collection. Rugen has also given him Scotch with a tired joke of: "It's almost as old as you."

[moosha-mushroom]

Media I imagine different fiction podcasts in instead of the media of being a podcast.

TMA: A selection of volumes, relating to the fears, each with those removable covers. Those covers has a victim or two, and then underneath the cover is a really detailed cover. The paper is decoratively ripped, with a kind of scraggly font, and each has a foreword and ‘author’s note’ from Jonathan Sims.

Malevolent: A really gritty graphic novel with deadly detail in each panel, and very little color. Maybe a trinket on each important character has a color? Like Arthur’s eyes being yellow or Oscar’s collar having a blue sheen to it. The novels are long, dramatic, and intimate in a visceral way.

Welcome to Night Vale: Local 58 bullshit. A broadcast on television with low quality images and audio, tacky music, and a kind of 80’s aesthetic. Each episode the words WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE zoom onto the screen, the purple eye behind them. And each weather segment is an animated short by a different artist.

The Penumbra(Juno Steel): A webcomic. Hours spent scrolling downward a comic that has so much color and GEOMETRIC design. Juno and his curvy jaw, brown pie slice eyes, a cartoonishly high collar for his investigator jacket. Nureyev and his sharp square jaw, shimmering jewelry, and stick legs. Characters sticking out of the panels, fonts changing constantly, a little blue Juno that does his narration and *guitar theme plays* each time he appears.

Wolf 359: A classic comic. Issues month by month. Different special covers of the characters in extra dramatic poses or scenes. Even MORE panel breaking than Juno Steel. So MUCH onomatopoeia, even for small things like the clink of a panel or the disapproving hiss of Hilbert in the background. Geometric designs like Juno Steel, but less colorful. Like the superhero art style mixed with a more stylized look.

Midnight Burger: You pull up the Midnight Burger website. They have a hidden page that has a sort of script-comic thing going on, where the art is next to the writing. Small coded in notes from Leif sometimes pop up if you hold your arrow over the art. Links are attached to the parts where Effie and Zebulon play music, linking you to the music so you can listen to it while you read.

Desert Skies: An animated show. Indie, something you’d find on YouTube. The animation is bouncy and incorporates 3D animation alongside the 2D. Maybe the Sphere Movers have 3D models and the staff don’t? The credits are short because it was made by one guy. People are complaining about it on Twitter /j. People are making content farms about it. Everyone is pissed at Corson like they’re pissed at Jax.

The Amelia Project: A sort of simulation video game. You play as Arthur. You listen to their stories and draw pieces of the tale to invent their death. Every once in a while the game transitions to a point and click suspense game where you solve puzzles as Cole and Haines. Maybe there should even be an Operation-esque part of it where you work as Kozlowski.

Ghost Wax: A novel with a lot of pictures spliced in it. The stories are all in a single book, though the book is through Luca’s perspective— so he picks up on the ghost’s body language and Voncid’s reactions. The pictures are tarot cards with each victim as a card. Some are repeat cards— Lorem does not have a card at the end of the story. Nor does Our Home or Evening at the Ardent. The pictures are only white with black line art. No color whatsoever.

Kakos Industries: A company newsletter. Not a broadcast. A newspaper that arrives at your door and has big bold letters with the main story and pictures of the events that happen in the story as it goes. And the Sunday Comic page is full of employee shenanigans. Some innocent… some not.

I am losing my mind.

[stained-glass-cicada]

okay went back thru my ghost wax tag just to be sure i didn't make exactly this post but I have and I still wanna make it again

midnight snacks has to be in my top three favorite episodes

however Marcus Hansley is definitely my favorite of the reclaimed

he Knows this is all sketchy, his first thought is that this app is bad news, he even has the sense to say no to crocodile eye's when they first invite him in

but ultimately he needed the money too badly

he's just such a person it makes me sad. he never deleted the app even after he decided it was too dangerous bc what if he needed the money

and in the end he did and he recognizes that he died for a thousand dollars which is less than he'd even made his first night delivering for midnight snacks

[yamikakyuu]

I made this for Malevolent but it applies to many others. Feel free to use.

[themostdearofspaghettis]

Hiya! Based on your tags you have listened to A Lot of audio drama and I'm always looking for some expertise to help with my decisions making process sooo- What's your Top 5? The MUST listen to list iyo? (and a bit of why if you're so inclined)

Boy I sure do listen to A Lot of audio drama. Here’s my top five!! (Ranked in overall composition terms, not necessarily on How Much I Love the Characters or Plot— let me know if you want plot description???? I’m mostly ranking from an overall level rn).

1. The Silt Verses. 5/5 stars. Beautifully written, excellently executed. The characters and plots are all immersive and all realistic. Sound design on point (especially later). It’s the only podcast that has a 5/5 rating for me. I’m a huge fan of both character building and lore, and these feature heavily in this story. Jon and Muna produce wonderful work, and I sincerely think that whatever their next project looks like, though it will be different from TSV and their previous project I am in Eskew, it will be no less thoughtful or well-executed.

2. Red Valley. 4.5/5 stars. Speaking of character-centric work, this podcast is hugely character focused. Atmospheric, dealing with many of the ethical qualms The Silt Verses does in a wildly different way. More humorous than horror, no less bleak at times.

3. Old Gods of Appalachia. 4.5/5 stars. Huge fan of the deep work Steve and Cam do here on creating a rich narrative that has a cavern of family history and lore. I really enjoy the folklore of this area, and I really enjoy the anthology aspect of this show that slowly weaves together to create a delicate web as the podcast goes on.

4. Midnight Burger. 4.5/5 stars. Funny, humorous on purpose, which makes it a standout on this list because most of them are more serious horror centric ones. Character focused, but also so so clever, Joe creates just a caring environment for his fans and for the characters. It celebrates the weird, celebrates the combination of fiction and physics and comedy and philosophy. Hopeful, human, lovely.

5. The only other 4.5s on my list that I have to make a combo of, I’m sorry I’m not sticking to the technical limit of five!

-Malevolent: Produced, written, and acted by one man, contains some of my favorite tropes and makes Lovecraft fun for me.

-The Magnus Archives (not Protocol): You can’t avoid TMA on tumblr audio drama spaces, so I’m sure its presence is unsurprising. At the time I listened, it was my first exposure to anthology work in an audio drama medium. If I listened to it now, who knows! But I had to stay true to my rankings.

-Ghost Wax: Hugely original concept written by passionate and creative creators. Anthology once again, with more complex lore and thoughtful composition.

-SCP: Find Us Alive: I think the character work draws me most strongly to this show.

Honorable mentions: Ethics Town and Camlann.

[xilo-core]

Have these little podcasts fellows for your travels

[noxcorvorum]

Dreamers, fear the strangers in your midst. Travel is not advised. Alas, it was to none but me, ah, but I call it love. This is Spines. Note to future Nyx. There is a curse upon my every waking breath, and I cannot escape the darkness. A god must feed. A god must be fed. Why are there no stars? I call the only road's end, the last gasp of light's breath. Good night, Night Vale, statement ends.

[boombox-fuckboy]

Hi!

I have been following this blog for a while now and I love using it to find new podcasts. I was wondering, if you have time, what you think is the scariest podcast you've listened to or what your favorite horror podcasts might be? Thank you, and I hope you have a great day :)

I'm so glad to have helped you find new shows!

I don't really get scared by horror podcasts (not sure why. It isn't some "I'm tough" thing, I get startled by the toaster, and it's not like I never feel unsettled or concerned or icked out at podcasts, just not scared) so I'm not sure I can give you a good answer on that one, but I'll gladly give you ten of my personal favourites instead:

Alice Isn't Dead: The podcast that got me into podcasts. A truck driver travels the USA looking for her wife, who until recently, she had thought was dead. Along the way she has all manner of strange encounters, and sees a side to the world that few truely comprehend.

Archive 81: A young archivist takes a job at a remote outpost organising and digitising a collection of tapes. On the tapes is a series of interviews and investigations made by a social worker in the 90s as she becomes familiar with a bizzare apartment building. The archivist, naturally, has an increasingly bad time. Each season is part of the same story, but they're all a bit different.

Ghost Wax: Recorded interviews conducted by the last surviving necromancer, and various people who died under seemingly otherworldly circumstances.

Hello From The Hallowoods: Supernatural and cosmic horror. A powerful and dramatic entity visits your nightmares to relay stories of the people (to varying degrees of both human and alive) who inhabit the beautiful and deadly Hallowoods. What start off as individual stories quickly connect to a larger narrative.

Hi Nay: A supernatural horror following a young woman named Mari, who's babaylan (shaman) family background draws her into helping people with various horrific supernatural problems around Toronto. Formatted as phone calls to her mother telling her what's happened.

I Am In Eskew: Often-horrific stories from a man living in something that very much wishes to be a city, and a private investigator who was, in her words, hired to kill a ghost. Many people seem to agree this one is scary.

Janus Descending: A xenoarcheologist and a xenopaleontologist are sent to investigate and sample the ruins of a long-dead alien city, and discover more than they anticipated. The format for this one is really clever: you hear her audio logs first to last, and his last to first, and the story is all the more heartbreaking for it. I'd recommend listening to the supercut.

The Lost Cat Podcast: A man befriends strange entities, loses bits of himself and drinks an awful lot of wine while looking for his cat. Soft and cosmic horror.

The Moon Crown: The shortest on this list, but also one of the most fascinating. A disgraced scribe living in a city of humans, beasts, and other bizzare entities, begins to recount recent happenings, and actions she has a hard time explaining, on broadcast. But the people she's hoping to reach might not be the ones listening.

The Silt Verses: In a modern world where gods are plentiful, both illicit and commercialised, two disciples of an outlawed river god go on a pilgrimage.

Although, maybe some other listeners can help me out and share what scared them?

[yarnchonk]

Out of all the horror pods I tried to listen after tma, ghost wax just hits the spot

Old man telling creepy ass stories

[ghostwaxpod]

Hello friends! Please consider auditioning for Ghost Wax: Mazemouth, our interlude project before Season two starts soon!

[croik]

Sites of Supernatural Occurrence and Assessment

Making myself a map of various supernatural locations and organizations in the horror podcast I've been listening to. Loose criteria is:

a) Audio drama

b) Supernatural, particularly Eldritch

c) Could conceivably exist in a version of our modern day(ish)

Limited by how many icons I could squish in. Open to suggestions, especially outside of the US and UK!

[moosha-mushroom]

favorite podcast blorbos!

Love me some podcast characters that roam in my brain rent-free.

Magnus Archives - Tim Stoker (literally can do no wrong)

Malevolent - Noel Finley (I adore him)

Welcome to Night Vale - Kevin (obsessed wit him)

Midnight Burger - Caspar Scott (SCREEE)

Kakos Industries - Corin Deeth III (I need to comfort him)

Penumbra Podcast - Peter Nureyev (SLAYYYY)

The Amelia Project - Piotr Kozlowski (he’s my fave <333)

Desert Skies - Tendy the Attendant (sweeeeeeeetie :3)

Wolf 359 - Doug Eiffel (AUGH)

Victoriocity - Archibald Fleet (I have a thing for protags)

Sherlock & Co. - Sherlock Holmes (His voice)

Red Valley - Clive Schill (ASSHOLE /A)

The Meat Blockade - Karl Berenger (Hope he’s okay)

Hotel Daydream - Lionel Autuary (love him)

Ghost Wax - Owen Voncid (AAAAAAAAAAH)

The Patient Files - Lucian Donahue (I hate him, but I love him)

The Technomancy Projects - Elijah Long (WARLOCK)

Station 112.211 - Haley (She’s my favorite)

[ghosteso]

Podcast Faves

My one mutual (shout out to @moosha-mushroom ) did this so I wanted to do it too! Here are my favorite podcast blorbos! Some have more than one! Because it’s impossible for me to choose between them.

Ghost Wax: Luca Eso, Pip James, Owen Voncid

The Technomancy Project: Jason Fenix, Allie Watts, Elijah Long (yes I have a thing for found family sue me)

Malevolent: Arthur Lester

Hotel Daydream: Lionel Autuary

The Patient Files: Charles Talbot

Red Valley (not caught up yet shhh I’m trying): Gordon Porlock and Warren Godby

Station 112.211: Joan and Tim

Hello From The Hallowoods: Nikignik, Polly, Yaretzi, and Mort

The Phosphene Catalog: Jude

Jar of Rebuke: Jared Hel

Middle of No Air: Acob

The Grotto: Matt (shhh)

[yamikakyuu]

I liked this meme so did it specifically for podcast characters. I know my handwriting sucks so description in alt.

Please listen to these shows!

[cranberrybogmummy]

So ghost wax is about this organization that fight monsters. To find out what kind of monster, where it might be and how it started they send this wizard necromancer Owen Voncid who is older then dirt and talks in a stilted way to temporarily bring the corpse back to life or something to tell their story, when he does this he records their tale on a wax cylinder not just cuz he’s a vintage dude but because the wax is made by spooky bees… yeah. It’s good not funny mostly but like Magnus spooky only they are fighting the monsters not just investigating them.