Not Quite Dead

Alfie ignores Neige's advice and begins to question the mechanics of vampirism. At every turn, he uncovers more he wishes Casper had thought to share with him, and becomes less certain of what any of their time together meant.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-23/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wm2_LYHCGU9ldCWsmLNUxaefgTqjIH6BpTiFbGklcG0/edit#heading=h.7r5hbe3pp44p

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, including implied threat of violence to a minor

- discussion of traumatic injury

- references to violent, non-consensual medical procedures and medical abuse, including murder in a medical context, and dismemberment

- detailed discussion of medical terminology and procedures

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.

Alfie is not coping well in the aftermath of his accident. Neige does his best to support him, but isn’t necessarily equipped for the situation…

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-22/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hd2kMheO69oC0CYGGMVjV6DUZ7ZoVm-0DjNDLxgm_A/edit

Support the show and get early access to 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

- depictions of depression

- discussions of death, including murder

- medicalised descriptions of medical torture (descriptions of unethical medical experiments on unwilling participants from the perspective of a clinician)

- discussions of violence

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.

Fresh blood on 9th October. Catch up now. 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.

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

Alfie ponders the fairness of the limits Neige puts upon both his curiosity and their dynamic, questioning his role in the decisions which have led him to this point.

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

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-21/

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YVDgRTVi4Se_2m4qfCxw9y3r2AXjS-XPSO5CLo6Bxec/edit

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

- discussion of physical illness and ailments

- discussion of traumatic injury

- mentions near-death experiences

- references to medical procedures

- labored breathing

- depictions of violence

- death/murder

- sounds of a character in extreme emotional distress

EIRA 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.

We hear from Neige, in the form of a strange and long-winded apology.

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

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-20/

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VYHnHQg_ZdNCAnigQUFXX5uOqgItAcb1Ibf2pp7vIDE/edit?usp=sharing

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, including implied threats of violence to a minor

- discussion of traumatic injury

- mentions near-death experiences

- mentions of suicidal ideation

- mentions of murder

EIRA 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.

Alfie discusses loss and grief and his worries about his family now he's gone, in between filling us in on what has happened since we last heard from him.

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

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-19/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wsggLJu7X1F7g5NDSNDvYcbozZgCYCubjjQWEh3rWl8/edit

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

- discussions of parental loss through possible suicide

- discussions of childhood parentification

- discussions of complex grieving 

- discussion of traumatic injury

- mentions near-death experiences

- sounds of a character in emotional distress

- descriptions of erotic encounters and sexual acts

- mentions of drug and alcohol use, to excess

- heavy, detailed descriptions of blood and blood drinking

- detailed descriptions of injuries

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.

A change of scenary is helpful, though not everything that Alfie needs as he continues to wrestle with the realities of his new life. 

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

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-18/

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U7uz5hv9oGxNxYI7E8m5QJgeb89thZpFBWpQDN6RPKY/edit

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

- mentions near-death experiences

- sounds of a character in emotional distress

- scenes with sexual implications

- descriptions of blood

- descriptions of injuries

- implications of torture

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.

As Alfie continues to struggle to adapt to his new life, he remembers a story Casper once told him, and wonders why Neige would stick around at all.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-17

Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eiCQ5gHMG0dlgsOVjfNsgC4-UwUG3eu5oW16fPHXojc/edit?usp=sharing

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

- mentions near-death experiences

- descriptions of blood

- descriptions of decaying bodies

- mention of deceased children (once, non-specific)

- sounds of a character in emotional distress

- scenes with sexual implications

- detailed descriptions of gruesome injuries

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.

Alfie's got more to worry about than just a lack of access to blood, it turns out...

Check out the transcript with content warnings here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-16

Or here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19kl1LoVNtYh2KyP07a6V3HRQGkUb48cdawLUzXFaPdY/edit#heading=h.7r5hbe3pp44p

Support the show and get Early Access to episodes, three days before general release, over on our patreon: 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

- mentions near-death experiences

- sounds of a character in emotional distress

- scenes with sexual implications

- descriptions of blood

-descriptions of injuries

EIRA: 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.

Alfie's been going through some... changes. Things haven't worked out the way he'd expected. He didn't expect them to work out at all. Turns out this is the kind of thing he should have worried about in advance...

Check out the transcript with content warnings here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-15

Or here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g_B8b1oD7g0G9FI-7y3d3ExOTTpjJ22ZGeONDja5oOA/edit?usp=sharing

Support the show and get Early Access to episodes, three days before general release, over on our patreon: 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, including implied threat of violence to a minor

- discussion of traumatic injury

- mentions near-death experiences

- references to medical procedures

- coughing and labored breathing

- sounds of a character in distress and physical pain 

EIRA: 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.