"A man muddles through life... he wonders if there mightn't be ... a truer meaning... something grander... something red."

With blood on his hands, RM Renfields seals the pact with the dark voice in his head, the voice calling from across the English channel spelling doom to so many. Is there any hope of redemption before he becomes a mad servant of this terrible being?

The chilling 3rd and final installment of The Bloody Life of RM Renfield. Original radioplay by Marty Ross, produced by Wireless Theatre Limited.

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"From within their hollow guts, grew an echo, an echo which I now echoed too..."

A terrible, powerful voice has gotten into RM Renfield's head. What does this voice want from him, and how far will he go to appease it? Part 2 of the original radioplay by Marty Ross, produced by Wireless Theatre Limited.

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"No cut finger or noseblood quite prepares one for the sheer volume of redness - bright bright redness - as can spill and spurt from the frame."

R.M. Renfield is one of the most enigmatic characters of Bram Stoker's Dracula - second only, perhaps, to the eponymous count himself. But how did he become the henchman of the vampire? Those answers are sought after in this riveting, intimate drama. We meet him as a young man in Victorian England, with a home life not so extraordinary... But a fascination with blood starts early, followed soon by a mysterious premonition, and a dark voice promises him riches to come.

Part 1 of an original radioplay by Marty Ross, produced by Wireless Theatre Limited, about Dracula's henchman, R.M. Renfield.

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"The problem might be me. I’m really drunk."

A man comes home late at night and his apartment isn't what it seems. Indeed, the more he looks around, the more it looks like he's in a waking nightmare.

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"Have you ever truly loved someone? I mean the kind of love you’d kill or die for?"

What starts as a sleepy shift for Kat, the guest DJ for a call in dating show, turns into a nightmare when an unwelcome caller rings into the station.

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"Be happy while ye live, for ye’ll be a long time dead."

Something terrible is wending its way to Bessie Smith's small cottage, something that no amount of warding spells or charms may avert. As her inner circle is ripped apart from her, and terrible lies become the music of the land, she asks one question: Will she ever dance freely again?

A story of witchcraft and resistance by Morgan Sylvia, read by Jessica Taige with sound design by Fred Greenhalgh, music by Blue Dot Sessions.

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Molly Malone moved to Vinalhaven Maine to escape a dark secret from her past, but now it seems her past is catching up with her... But Molly has a gun and no wish to have her past ruin her future.

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Molly Malone was once known as Rita… But that was in a different life, before she moved to Vinalhaven, Maine, a remote island that doesn’t ask newcomers too many questions about the past. But as a deep fog rolls in, Molly finds out that you can’t outrun your past.

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A Downeast Maine native son returns to the site of the family farmhouse, which has now been demolished and buried. But when the light strikes a shard of metal just right, a portal to an unnerving horror is revealed.

The inaugural episode of our new season, Familiar Haunts, is an inspired by real events family ghost story written, performed, and sound designed by Fred Greenhalgh.

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Part 4 of Spooktacular September with a full cast production of The Toll House, by WW Jacobs. Friends hear the legend of a haunted house and decide to spend the night... to terrifying results. With a bonus poem, The Demon of the Gibbet, by Fitz James O'Brien.

Adapted from the public domain short story The Toll House, by WW Jacobs, and the poem The Demon of the Gibbet, by Fitz James O'Brien, produced by Mind’s Eye Productions and podcast by arrangement with Podcast Universe Productions.

Undertow is a production of Realm, hosted by Fred Greenhalgh.

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