Podcast – Everything Is Better With Dragons

TAGLINE: A Secretive organisation. Two antagonistic colleagues. Dracula’s severed head…

DESCRIPTION:

The Holmwood Foundation is a bi-weekly Found-Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast created by Fio Trethewey (Big Finish: Gallifrey War Room, 18th Wall Productions) and Georgia Cook (Big Finish: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, Gallifrey War Room, BBC Books, The Dracula Daily Sketch Collection). It is a modern-day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula.

We follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula over the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a road trip across the country in an effort to achieve the Harker’s wish: stop Dracula once and for all.

This is a story about identity and self-discovery, family loyalty and devotion, wrapped around a nightmare of a road trip with a rejuvenating severed head, incredibly sincere Victorian ghosts, and an analogue recorder.

EPISODE DETAILS:

Each Episode is approximately 40-50 mins long. Content Warnings are provided, as well as a Transcript available for free on the website.

Episode 1: Across the Moors (Pilot)

Ep 01 Content Warnings: swearing, themes of possession/removal of bodily autonomy, depictions of violence, including implied violence to animals, and brief sounds of vomiting.

Episode 2: Train Fiend (Available to Patreon June 9th/ Public Release June 10th)

Ep 02 Content Warnings: swearing, brief discussions of alcohol addiction, themes of possession/removal of bodily autonomy, and implied violence to animals.

Episode 3: Convalescence (Available to Patreon June 23rd / Public Release June 24th)

Ep 03 Content Warnings: swearing, themes of possession/removal of bodily autonomy, implied violence to animals (including implied violence to a dog), and brief depictions of dangerous driving/vehicular danger.

Full Season Title List:

Episode 1: Across the Moors

Episode 2: Train Fiend

Episode 3: Convalescence

Episode 4: Freezer Food

Episode 5: Wildlife

Episode 6: Database

Episode 7: To The Lighthouse

Episodes released every two weeks.

The Holmwood Foundation Podcast © 2024 by Georgia Cook and Fio Trethewey is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

I’m scared and the first episode is a bit of a mess because I don’t have any editing software, so it’s just me talking into a microphone with some stock music added at the beginning and end. I reviewed two books quite quickly and mentioned others on the blog. WordPress has some sort of agreement with Spotify because every time I publish a blog post I get a ‘turn it into a podcast’ message, and I finally gave in after writing my review for Legends & Lattes earlier. I bit the bullet and made use of a borrowed microphone. I’m hoping to get better at recording and try to find editing software that will let me take out my hesitation and repetition, as well as the dogs making noises in the background.

I hope to release a new episode every fortnight, hopefully with at least two reviews and any rambling chatty stuff that sneaks in. I like to talk about my work so I probably will end up discussing the neurodiversity heritage project and possibly even the allotment.

I should probably tell you what it’s called and all that.

The blog is called:

You can find it on Spotify and Anchor.

If you can bare to hear my weird voice and don’t mind me rambling a bit, please give it a listen and leave any constructive feedback in the comments of this post.