The Elmwood Strain

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The Elmwood Strain episodes

July 10 The Fear Archive Presents: Black Christmas vs. Daniel LaPlante
The Fear Archive is a true crime and horror film podcast — every episode pairs a real case with the horror film it inspired. Following this intro is our Black Christmas episode, currently our top performing episode, approaching half a million listens.
A traumatized woman returns to a place she escaped. Something wrong is already living there. It has been there the whole time. If you are deep enough into The Elmwood Strain to understand what Paige walked back into, you are going to understand exactly what those girls in that sorority house were up against.
Black Christmas, 1974. The film that wrote the rulebook for killer-in-the-house horror, four years before Halloween. A man who hid himself inside a sorority house before the movie started. He was already in the attic. Already watching. He was never identified. The case was never solved.
Hosted by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Introduced by Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production.
LISTENER WARNING: This episode contains discussion of murder, violence, and the specific dread of a killer who was never caught.
Popular Topics Include: Fear Archive podcast, Black Christmas 1974, Black Christmas true story, Daniel LaPlante, biological horror, trauma horror, return to hometown horror, killer in the house, Lovecraftian horror podcast, horror fiction podcast, horror podcast, true crime horror, Violet Hour Media

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1 hr 2 min
October 28, 2022 Introducing: Outgrowth
If you're a fan of The Elmwood Strain, then get ready to love Outgrowth. We've included the first episode for your listening pleasure.
A family camping trip goes horribly wrong, deep in the woods of central Oregon.
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12 min
June 30, 2022 The Violet Hour Presents: Hollow - Episode 1
Introducing HOLLOW, a new scripted sci-fi horror podcast from Violet Hour Media.
A mercenary embarks on a corporate mission to track down a rogue leader and encounters the darkness of space, the darkness of colonization, and ultimately, the darkness within herself.
Episode 01 - Leave
Battle hardened corporate mercenary, Amelia Wallenrod, travels to the prestigious Luna colonies and is briefed on her mission to recover an important scientist who has been taken hostage on Mars.
A Violet Hour Media production.
Hollow is airing now for free wherever you listen to podcasts.
LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Please proceed with caution.

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27 min
November 08, 2021 Introducing: Roanoke Falls
If you're a fan of Violet Hour Media's podcasts, then get ready to love Roanoke Falls by Realm. We've included the first episode for your listening pleasure.
Something is punishing the people of Roanoke with blood...if you have sinned, beware.
1587, North Carolina: Agnes is a reluctant settler in Roanoke, forced to leave England with her preacher husband, Thomas, in search of a better life. But the first colony failed, and Agnes fears this one will suffer the same fate: lack of resources, frigid cold, starvation.
So when a series of ritualistic murders occur in the colony, Agnes finally feels connected to a purpose: to find the monster and protect her community. That is, until people suspect that witchcraft is to blame, and question Agnes’ childlessness as well as her connection to the dead. As the killings escalate and the colony teeters on the edge of ruin, Agnes must go to impossible lengths to save herself— or she will burn.
Listen and subscribe to Roanoke Falls wherever you get your podcasts.
This podcast is intended for mature audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
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29 min
July 09, 2021 Introducing: Dark Tome
If you’re looking for another great audio drama, look no further than "Dark Tome" from Dagaz Media. We've included the first episode here for your listening pleasure.
Imagine if the cliché "Books are a gateway to the imagination" was literally true - teenager Cassie Pinkham is going to find out exactly what that means... the day she skips out on an after school public service project to play around with the mysterious book the Dark Tome. She finds herself vaulted onto remote seaside cliffs in Italy, with a spooky narrator who is about to tell her about his personal dance with the devil. Each episode of The Dark Tome explores another fully dramatized story by a top-notch writer, while developing Cassie's storyline as she finds that the Dark Tome twists and tweaks her own world.
Note: This episode contains actors who conduct violent and racist acts - listeners beware.
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57 min
July 02, 2021 The Violet Hour Presents: The Gloom - Episode 1
Introducing THE GLOOM, a new scripted horror podcast from Violet Hour Media.
An investigative journalist uncovers clues surrounding a decades-old cold case, where she eventually learns the horrifying truth about a systemic cover-up tied to her own past.
Episode 01 - In Medias Res
Samantha Williams, an investigative journalist, introduces the infamous unsolved early 1990s cold case of the Filmore Four, a group of teenagers caught up in a ghastly web of murder and destruction, tied to a Queens, New York psychiatric hospital, and quite possibly, their emotionally damaged therapist, Dr. Darlene Harrington.
A Violet Hour Media Production.
The entire first season of The Gloom is available for free wherever you listen to podcasts.
LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subject matter that may be upsetting for listeners. Please proceed with caution.

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34 min
March 08, 2021 8. Elmwood Pride — She Has Spent Ten Years Refusing to Remember Her Brother (Series Finale)
Psychedelic horror reaches its emotional center in the series finale of The Elmwood Strain, as Paige faces the truth she has spent ten years refusing to remember.
In the kitchen of Elmwood High School, where the worst thing that ever happened to Paige Johnson ended in 2014, she is finally going to face the person she has spent ten years refusing to remember. She is going to face her greatest sin. She is going to face her brother. And then she is going to walk out of the building.
The eight-part limited series concludes.
Written by Rachel Woolley. Directed and produced by Anthony Ladesich. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production.
LISTENER WARNING: This program includes subject matter that may be upsetting for some listeners.
Popular Topics Include: psychedelic horror podcast series finale, trauma horror, grief horror, identity horror, family horror, ghost horror, survival horror, female-led horror podcast, emotional horror, reckoning horror, haunted school, folk horror, horror podcast like I Saw the TV Glow, horror podcast like Hereditary, horror podcast like Yellowjackets, horror podcast like The Haunting of Hill House, all episodes available, Rachel Woolley, Anthony Ladesich, Violet Hour Media.

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25 min
March 01, 2021 7. Barf Powder — The School Is on Fire and Forty-Two Ghosts Have Been Waiting Ten Years for This
Ghost horror reaches its climax in the seventh episode of The Elmwood Strain, as the school burns and the dead of Elmwood High finally move.
The school is on fire. Paige is inside it. Lucas is inside it. The ghosts are inside it. And somewhere in the smoke, Crystal and Jed are still hunting her. Forty-two of them have been waiting in this building for ten years. They are not interested in being forgotten.
Written by Rachel Woolley. Directed and produced by Anthony Ladesich. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production.
LISTENER WARNING: This program includes subject matter that may be upsetting for some listeners.
Popular Topics Include: ghost horror podcast, haunted school horror podcast, survival horror, female-led horror, fire horror, psychedelic horror podcast, atmospheric dread, trauma horror, grief horror, Lovecraftian horror, biological horror, folk horror, cosmic horror, horror podcast like The Haunting of Hill House, horror podcast like Hereditary, horror podcast like Yellowjackets, horror podcast like The Magnus Archives, Rachel Woolley, Anthony Ladesich, Violet Hour Media.

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27 min
February 22, 2021 6. Little Shop — She Decides It Ends Tonight If She Can Survive Long Enough to End It
Survival horror accelerates in the sixth episode of The Elmwood Strain, as Paige stops running and starts fighting back.
Whatever her friends were trying to do at the school, Paige has decided that it ends tonight. She just has to survive long enough to end it. She is high out of her mind on a drug she did not consent to take. The town is moving against her. The forest is moving against her. The ghosts of Elmwood High are waiting in the dark. And somewhere underneath all of it, the small voice of a boy she used to know is calling her name.
Written by Rachel Woolley. Directed and produced by Anthony Ladesich. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production.
LISTENER WARNING: This program includes subject matter that may be upsetting for some listeners.
Popular Topics Include: survival horror podcast, female-led horror podcast, ghost horror, hallucination horror, trauma horror, psychedelic horror podcast, biological horror, haunted school horror, atmospheric dread, folk horror, grief horror, identity horror, horror podcast like Hereditary, horror podcast like I Saw the TV Glow, horror podcast like Yellowjackets, horror podcast like The Haunting of Hill House, Rachel Woolley, Anthony Ladesich, Violet Hour Media.

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26 min
February 15, 2021 5. Johnny F*cking Appleseed — The Drug Has Not Worn Off and the Abandoned School Is Waiting
Psychedelic horror returns to its source in the fifth episode of The Elmwood Strain, as Paige is taken back to the one place she has spent ten years trying to forget.
Lucas, Crystal, and Jed take her on quad bikes through the dead forest, past the dying trees, and back to the boarded-up shell of Elmwood High School. The place she has not seen in ten years. The place her friends say has been waiting for her to come home. Inside, something old and wrong has been growing in the dark. And her friends finally tell her the real reason they pulled her back to Elmwood.
Written by Rachel Woolley. Directed and produced by Anthony Ladesich. Executive produced by Cassie Jozefov. A Violet Hour Media production.
LISTENER WARNING: This program includes subject matter that may be upsetting for some listeners.
Popular Topics Include: haunted school horror podcast, psychedelic horror podcast, biological horror podcast, abandoned places horror, ritual horror, folk horror, ghost horror, cosmic horror, Lovecraftian horror, fungal horror, hallucination horror, friend group betrayal, horror podcast like Color Out of Space, horror podcast like Annihilation, horror podcast like The Last of Us, horror podcast like The Haunting of Hill House, Rachel Woolley, Anthony Ladesich, Violet Hour Media.

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34 min

About The Elmwood Strain

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The Elmwood Strain is a psychedelic horror podcast and limited audio drama series in eight parts, from writer Rachel Woolley. Biological horror with Lovecraftian roots, set in the wreckage of a small American town.