Not Quite Dead

Alfie is making some questionable decisions as he learns more about the mechanics of vampirism.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-30/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gu1zEWS7gzeI3pH7-fDLN3inQnyM-IdhEn4aJi7in50/

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This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings

– profanity

– depiction and descriptions of injections – vein access, cannulas, blood draws, infusions

– descriptions of violence and torture (sounds of hitting, gushing blood, squeals of cries)

– depictions of drinking blood – descriptions of violent medical abuse and torture, including vivisection (of vampires)

– sounds of a character in emotional distress

– descriptions of violent murder and killing

– mentions of sex

– sounds of medical equipment

Metal clanging SFX recorded by Jack Locke.

Not Quite Dead is written, performed, and edited by Eira Major, under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License. Live, laugh, bite.

Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.

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Some time after the incident at the laboratory, Alfie and Neige continue to investigate what happened to Casper. This time their approach is a little more hands-on.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-29/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dF9C3CSC1rwJD1BR4reqmLZnOPWxLV-ClLTTUHasMM8/edit?usp=sharing

Support us on Patreon to get Early Access to new episodes: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios

This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings

– profanity

– descriptions of injuries (broken cheekbones, medical injuries)

– depictions of violence and torture (sounds of hitting, gushing blood, squeals of cries)

– depictions of drinking blood, with sounds – descriptions of violent medical abuse and torture, including vivisection (of vampires)

– depictions of violence (hitting, slapping, breaking bones)

– hyperventilating

– implied threat to life and references to intent to end life

– sounds of medical equipment

– description of a blood draw/blood donation

Not Quite Dead is written, performed, and edited by Eira Major, under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License. Featuring a guest performance from Will Cummings. Live, laugh, bite.

Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Find out more: https://hangingslothstudios.com/not-quite-dead/

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios/

Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.

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Join show creator Eira as he answers a selection of questions from you, the weird and wonderful audience of Not Quite Dead! In this first part of the Q&A, Eira will focus on answering questions surrounding the role of vampiric literary traditions in shaping the show, and on the mechanics of the vampires in the world of the show.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1waUF4AHNft8LOf0y0n5XeA7Do_J2ZZ7t5p5Winy6910/edit?usp=sharing

Want to help make Season Three a reality? Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios

Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.

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Hello, it’s Eira here, creator of the show, just dropping in very briefly to let you know that I’m currently accruing questions for a Q&A episode! You can ask anything you like about the show, my creative process, or basically anything that pops into your head in relation to the show! I’ve had a bunch of really cool questions already and it’s been so fun to start assembling the responses to them, so thank you so much for all of the questions I’ve had so far! If you’ve got a biting question of your own and you fancy a big juicy answer to it, go to https://hangingslothstudios.com/qna, like literally the letters ‘q’ for ‘queen’, ‘n’ for ‘nobody’ and ‘a’ for ‘android’. I’m so excited to hear what you want to know about the show and I’m honestly really relishing the opportunity to just talk about it incessantly, it’s so much fun. Remember to go to https://hangingslothstudios.com/qna to ask your questions! The inbox will only be open until midnight UK time on the 15th of December, which is the Friday of the week this trailer is going out. Hope to see you in there. Bye!

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Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.

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Neige takes Alfie hunting in York. Things do not go to plan, to a spectacular and devastating degree.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-28/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hhlxo1XGSeVU2O3QhmF0eRpa520aOZ-SFV3_aoz1JZQ/edit?usp=sharing

Support the show and get early episode access: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios

This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings

– profanity

– references to sex

– depictions of violence (sounds of hitting, gushing blood, squeals of pain)

– depiction drinking blood, with sounds

– depictions of death, including immediate, on screen death

– depiction of a car crash – sounds of tyres squealing, explosions, shattered glass

– yelling, sounds of distress

– hospital/laboratory/medical setting

– sounds of medical equipment

– description of medical intervention

– extremely distressing scenes with descriptions of corpses

– sound of a character in extreme emotional distress

– major character death

Not Quite Dead is written, performed, and edited by Eira Major, under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License. Featuring a guest performance from Aaron Wolfe. Live, laugh, bite. The outro to this episode is Nocturne No.2 Op.62, sourced here, in the public domain: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Frederic_Chopin_-_nocturne_no._2_in_e_flat_major%2C_op._62.ogg

Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.

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Alfie has a chance to collect his evolving thoughts and performs some investigations, some more invasive than others.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-27/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bQ4i4xaQNwkyO2SZHczUjJTVQRF9Bfg8vR8QB8yRNRA/edit?usp=sharing 

Support the show and get early episode access: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios

This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings

- profanity

- references to sex

- descriptions of accidental injuries to hand 

- descriptions of blood and drinking blood

- detailed discussion of bodily fluids, mostly focused on blood and spit, but with mentions of ejaculate and one mention urine

- discussion of teeth 

- sounds of a character pulling out a tooth without pain relief or proper tools, including expressions of physical pain

Not Quite Dead is written, performed, and edited by Eira Major, under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License. Featuring a guest performance from Aaron Wolfe. Live, laugh, bite.

Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.

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Alfie and Neige discuss their differing priorities and perspectives as they attempt to find a way to move forward from recent revelations.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-26/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10IDRiwwTaQ37WZ_4F77xbRhn1G8loQ17L8Q1BTcaOrY

Support the show and get early episode access: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios

This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings

- profanity

- references to sex

- sudden noises (door slamming)

- mentions/discussions of serious illness (illness undefined)

- mentions of suicidal ideation

- mentions of blood

- sounds of a character in distress

- discussions of killing

- mentions of loss and descriptions of complex grieving

Not Quite Dead is written, performed, and edited by Eira Major, under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License. Featuring a guest performance from Aaron Wolfe. Live, laugh, bite.

Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

MORDACIOUS | /mɔːˈdeɪʃəs/ | adjective | formal

1. denoting or using biting sarcasm or invective.

2. (of a person or animal) given to biting.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-25/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqaYYLmj8yKxUoUSiWa0i_C18U6oV8CiAkvvhtY8K9Y/

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios

This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings

– profanity

– threats of violence

– discussion of traumatic injury, terminal illness (the plague), death

– detailed discussion of medical terminology and procedures, including autopsy and dissection (with consent)

– mentions of blood

– discussion of traumatic injury

– discussions of death, including murder

– detailed discussion of medical terminology and procedures, including autopsy and dissection (with consent)

– mentions of blood, drinking and smelling blood

– sounds of a character in distress

– scenes of a sexual nature with sounds of kissing and biting, drinking and smelling blood (confined to last 2-3 minutes of the episode)

Not Quite Dead is written, performed, and edited by Eira Major, under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License. Live, laugh, bite.

Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neige takes Alfie on a field trip and teaches him some important basics of life as a vampire. Alfie finally learns a little more about the context of Cas and Neige's friendship, and sees a part of Neige he never expected to.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-24/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vNE704Q-3XEYXMTVQfwPUZi9lLZgVjkx1n5ZEBSUvvw/edit

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios

This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:

- profanity

- references to sex

- frequent violence

- traumatic injury

- death, including violent death

- references to medical procedures

- hospital settings

- profanity

- threats of violence

- sudden noises (bats, breaking glass)

- discussion of traumatic injury

- detailed discussion of medical terminology and procedures, including autopsy and dissection (with consent)

- mentions of blood, drinking and smelling blood

- sounds of a character in distress

Not Quite Dead is written, performed, and edited by Eira Major, under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License. Live, laugh, bite.

Car breaking sound by jorickhoofd. Wings by Zabuhailo.

Not Quite Dead is back, with spin-off series Snow Blood. Set years after the original story, Snow Blood follows Alfie and Neige as they attempt to start to build a better life for themselves and vampires everywhere. One problem; none of the other vampires want to help, and there is this guy who keeps calling, over and over, insisting Alfie comes to meet him... Snow Blood is crowdfunding on Kickstarter from 7th April to 8th May, 2026 and will air in October 2026.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.