#overbrook

Summary:

I loooove a crossover episode - so far we've done:

Re: Dracula (a reading of The Fall of the House of Usher)

SCP Archives (S is for Shelterwood)

The Gospel of Haven (The Christmas Spirit Comes to Haven AND The Happy Housewife)

Worst Movies Ever Played (The Sunset House)

Iron, Silver, and Salt (Silent Hill)

Overbrook (Shelterbrook)

Someone Dies in this Elevator (Home Body)

And I'm always interested in doing more! There's a few people in the audiodrama world I would love to work with - name a horror podcaster, honestly - but I'd especially love to get to work with Motzie Dapul (who I hear is working on a Catholic horror piece right now; that's going to snap me in half like a dry twig), Jonathan Sims (who I had the pleasure of doing the dialogue editing for when he was our Seward on Re: Dracula, but haven't gotten to interact with very much), Soren Narnia (of Knifepoint Horror fame), and Jamie Petronis (of The Cellar Letters and The Magnus Protocol). There's so much to learn from other people in your genre, and every time I get to see how someone else works, I get that much better at my craft!

so you can understand this joke:

A rec list of some audio fiction to try out written and/or created by Black creatives. Enjoy!

Audio drama -

The BookMarks: Following the book-themed podcast of best friends Mark Bookerson and Marquelle Bookerson (no relation), this show is a delightful slice of life in an absurd world. I know I'm voting for the Winter Wizard this election season. It takes a few episodes to find its footing, but it's become one of my absolute recent favorites. I desperately need this to get a fandom, ok?

Janus Descending (and its sequel Descendants): Space horror! Creator Jordan Cobb has been called the Mistress of Monsters, and it is with good reason. The story is told by two people, from beginning to end and end to beginning. It is a tragedy. Does that ruin the beauty? This also features tragic siblings that haunt my thoughts constantly.

Overbrook: For fans of Night Vale and I Am In Eskew, this is a must-listen. Set in the strange and inescapable small town of Overbrook, New York, we follow Vincent as she navigates life among the horrors and a best friend who dies and returns ad infinitum. It is a strange and compelling world, and I love the central friendship.

Audiobooks -

The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull, narrated by Janina Edwards and Ron Butler: This compelling scifi novel is tied completely to its setting on the U.S. Virgin Islands. There's a lot of very compelling worldbuilding, and an interesting dynamic of how the world keeps on keeping on after being irreparably changed. Aliens came to the island five years ago. This is what is happening now. A lot of compelling characters, and you can feel sympathy for everyone even when disagreeing with their actions.

The Sound Of Stars by Alechia Dow, narrated by Joy Sunday and Christian Barillas: Another alien invasion story! This one has a focus on connection formed through art and music and books. The characters are compelling, and the situation is tense and interesting.

Kindred by Octavia Butler, narrated by Kim Staunton: An intense, absolute page turner (or audio equivalent) of a novel. Through inexplicable time travel, modern (1970s) author Dana is brought back in time antebellum Maryland repeatedly. This is one that I absolutely couldn't put down once I started. Dana is a brilliant character who ties the whole story together. The use time travel to tell a story about inextricable ties to history, especially painful history and slavery, as well as the question of determinism (will the drowning, abused son of a slave-owner inevitably become as bad as his father? commit to the same evil acts?) is really, really cleverly done.

The horror was there, but the human characters still had so much space to exist and be equally destructive and kind. I love them all, Vincent especially! She really embodied that early 20’s righteous anger. Rhys Tirado bottled it up and poured it out into Vincent.

Others on here covered the entire finale way better than I could. So I will attempt to be brief??