Georgia Cook

After making it such a pivotal setting for the start of The Holmwood Foundation Season One, we took a little trip across the moors to say hello to one of the best-known Dracula locations, and the fictional home of Maddie, Jeremy and Arthur, as well as the destroyed Lucy Westenra building.

We’ve visited the Abbey, walked through St Mary’s churchyard - previously explored by one Mina Murray - and walked many a walking tour (also highly recommend checking out the Hand of Glory in the Whitby Museum, if you like a bit of dark folklore and you’re not too squeamish.)

Oh, and there might have been an engagement as well.

Next stop tomorrow: The Yorkshire Moors! As we chart the route walked by Maddie, Jeremy, The Harkers, and a head in a bag.

Hello all!

As we approach the 1-year anniversary of Holmwood Season One, I thought I'd make a post regarding our current position with season two and the future of THF.

First of all, and most excitingly: We have a funding avenue, and we hope to have it locked down by the end of this year. It's not how we would have expected or hoped to fund season two (securing external funding for the arts in the UK is still extremely difficult without a huge name, brand or following behind you, and so self-funding is our only option if we want to complete this series) but we're extremely grateful for it nonetheless.

With that in mind, we have continued to redraft our Season Two scripts, with the aim of having them locked down for production as soon as we have our funding/ cast any additional roles.

At time of writing, Season Two is still about ten episodes long, each about an hour (10k words), and we've just re-locked the first three to send to our editor, Kat.

The rest are approaching the same state of completion, so we're hopeful to have a complete season locked and ready to go as soon as we're able.

Our Jonathan Harker 3rd and Asset #6-centric minisode is on track for release the second week of June, as we're just adding the finishing touches to audio. Watch out for updates and a release announcement in the very near future!

Thank you all for your patience! As promised, here is the completed tarot card for May. Featuring Dame Mina Harker (and various pieces of Count Dracula) as The Empress.

As always, you can listen to all of Season One of The Holmwood Foundation for free right now wherever you get your podcasts, or just click the link below:

With final audio checks underway and a tentative release date of early June, please have the official cast and crew announcements for "1985", our second Holmwood minisode!

Starring:

Jackie Calistahhh as Asset #6/The Sister

Jonathon Carley as Young Jonathan Harker 3rd

Anusia Battersby as Scientist

With

Writing by Georgia Cook and Fio Trethewey

Script Editing by Kat Armitage

Direction by Samuel Clemens

Sound Design by Benji Clifford

In honour of Dracula season returning - and the approach of Holmwood Season 1's one year anniversary - we present this brand new poster by the amazing artist Daruva!

Find them at the links below:

Insta: @daruva98 Bluesky: @daruva98.bsky.social

And listen to all of Season One of The Holmwood Foundation right now wherever you get your podcasts!

(NOTE: Features Spoilers both real and fictional for the end of the novel Dracula)

@fiotrethewey suggested a try a little daily sketch challenge for Dracula Daily, seeing as Dracula is my Favourite Bloomin' Thing and I missed out on it all last year, so I'm giving it a go!

Dracula Daily sketch for May 3rd.

Unfortunately my tablet has decided to stop working, so I have been unable to complete our April tarot card on time (my apologies!)

Scrambling to get this fixed, but for now please have the line art for April: The High Priestess card, featuring Henri Martin and The Hand!