Transcontinental Terror – An Express Train to Audio Horror

New Audio Productions for Halloween! Now Posted Online for Your Listening Pleasure.

This last Halloween, for the third year in a row, six audio theater companies from around the world teamed up to present a full evening of original audio horror! We call this excursion Transcontinental Terror: An Express Train to Audio Horror  featuring masterful productions by contemporary audio theater’s most exciting, inventive production companies — companies spanning half the globe.  Each of the productions are now posted online for your listening pleasure and are an example current Audio Dramas now being produced.

Part 1 of 6 of Transcontinental Terror live Halloween horror event featured The award winning Wireless Theatre Company (London, England).  Launched in 2007 and quickly established itself as one of the most well-respected audio companies on the internet, producing original audio drama, comedy, stories, poems, sketches and more for download to iPods.
Featured Audio Drama:   “The Maiden without Hands”  by Ann Theato,  is a dark adaptation of the Brother’s Grimm tale and  The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe.  There are many audio interpretations of “The Cask of Amontillado” – this is one of the best.

Part 2 of 6 of Transcontinental Terror features  Electric Vicuna (Halifax, Nova Scotia).  Established in 2009 to meet the growing demand for high profile radio drama, audio cinema, voice acting, and books on tape.   EVP has fifteen years through its flagship podcast The Sonic Society featuring original plays.
Featured Audio Drama:   EVP-28 “Coach #6″  (A desperate father searches for his two children who go missing on a train)  and  “One by One”   (A local radio host is on the air Halloween night and quickly finds himself immersed into covering terrifying events which follow an accidental crash in Halifax harbor).

Part 3 of 6 of Transcontinental Terror  features stories from  FinalRune Productions (Portland, Maine) and Aural Stage Studios (Buffalo, NY).  FinalRune Productions: “Reinventing Audio Drama for the 21st Century”.  Aural Stage Studios Presents:  “premiere podcast for single-run, short series and experimental Audio Drama.  Not every show is a series and not every series runs more than a season”.
Featured Audio Drama:  “Dark Passenger”   (Two teenage friends start scaring each other on the drive to a dismal “haunted” house on the coast of Maine. But when their innocent fun starts to become all too real, they soon realize what true terror is)  and     “Intensive Care”.   (Alex Ericcson (Nat Angstrom) is checked into a New England Hospital after a major car accident. His accommodations are not so state of the art and there is something… off about his fellow patients).

Part 4 of 6 of Transcontinental Terror  features  Chatterbox Audio Theater (Memphis, Tennessee) “Sparking imaginations through outstanding theatrical recordings”.   Created in 2007 by four friends with a lot of creativity and ambition but very little money.  Based in Memphis, TN, with additional productions created in Kansas City, MO, Chatterbox creates fully soundscaped audio works for free streaming and download.   Most Chatterbox shows are recorded live, with manual sound effects and as little post-production editing as possible.
Featured Audio Drama: “Master Zacharius” Part 1 and Part 2   (Also known as “The clockmaker who lost his sole” is an adaption of an 1854 short story by Jules Verne about an inventor whose overpowering pride leads to his downfall).

 Part 5 of 6 of Transcontinental Terror  features Icebox Radio Theater (International Falls, Minnesota).   An audio drama podcast created by a quirky group of characters in International Falls, Minnesota.
Featured Audio Drama: Listening in the Dark 2:  “All Hallow’s Eve” (In the grand tradition of classic horror anthologies comes a collection of three stories woven together into a tapestry of terror!
An old hermit who lives alone in the most dilapidated house on the block and rumored to have done terrible things is the subject of pranks and ridicule from the neighborhood kids, especially on Halloween.  What secrets does he hold as he turns to look up at the stars, his eyes filled with quiet dread? * Three teenage girls decked out in the latest in Halloween fashion stop to play a prank on an ex boyfriend.  He warned them to stay away when the moon was full.  Oh why didn’t they listen? *A little girl from the house the police visit every week says a ghost lives in her bedroom.  But if she’s just a child with an imaginary friend, why is her father so afraid?
The perfect feature for anyone searching for a new, original holiday treat that’s family-friendly without sacrificing chills. From the opening atmospheric soundscape to the final giggle-inducing twist,  All Hallows Eve will have everyone dying to hear it again.

Part 6 of 6 of the Transcontinental Terror Features 19 Nocturne Boulevard  (Seattle, Washington).  An anthology series of half hour stories, ranging from horror to sci fi, from fantasy to dark social commentary and from humor to nothing funny about it…
Featured Audio Drama: HP Lovecraft classic “The Rats in the Walls”.   (The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further, he finds that his family maintained an underground city for centuries and that the inhabitants of the city fed on human flesh, even going so far as to raise generations of human cattle, who eventually began to de-evolve due to their sub-human living conditions).

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