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Welcome to December everyone. In the United States December 11th is National Make a Friend Day and we would like to take a moment to recognize all of the friends we’ve made over the years through the 11th Hour Audio Challenge. The original concept for the 11th Hour Audio Challenge was simple. Get together with some people you’ve never worked with before, create an original horror story and do it in one month. The first show we created like this, Intensive Care, brought two different production teams together. The second, Vultures Over Low Doves, brought two different countries together. People getting together to tell stories pre-dates the written word. Some of the earliest evidence dates back as far as 30,000 years ago. The drawings in the Lascaux and Chavaux caves in France depict visual stories and sympathetic magic in the form of animals, humans and fantastic creatures. Storytelling is part of what makes us human. The practice lives at the intersections of identity and community and thrives on ideas summoned through diversity and struggle. Ideas are the fuel that feeds us, feeds creativity, progress and relationships. Stories are how we share our ideas and fend off the things that lurk beyond the campfire. So in honor of National Make a Friend Day, we invite you to pull up a chair and listen to a story. Because the greatest enemy of community, creativity and ideas is censorship.
Before we get to our story we wanted to let our friends know that we’ve started a Patreon. 11th Hour Audio plans to bring you more shows and not just in October. We’ve been working with our friends, creating scripts, casting roles and budgeting. To learn more and lend your support visit us at https://www.patreon.com/11thHourAudio.
The Hidden Truths 2 comes to us from Tom Rory Parsons. It’s a story about identity, belonging and a frightening misuse of power. Josh continues his Journey through life but encounters a new supernatural threat, it's up to his family and friends to solve the problem once again. We hope you enjoy it.
Listen to The Hidden Truths
Written by Tom Rory Parsons You can hear more of Tom's work in: The Radcliffe Square Labyrinth, Down the Basement, and Gower Hall Shaun Mendum as Josh Sarah Golding as Mary Sarah also appears in: Breathless, Monster's Game, and The Parsonage Fiona Thraille as Aunty Francis Listen to Fiona in: Upstairs Upstairs, Customs, and Monster's Game Karim Kronfli as Uncle Jim Catch Karim in: Ivory Towers, Reminisce With Me, and Fidget Lauren Regan as Jenny Erika Sanderson as Miss Snell Erika also appears in:
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“It was the Terrible Season of the autumn, and the wild people in the mountains were preparing for the frightful ceremonies which only rumour told of in the towns. They were the very old folk who dwelt higher up in the hills and spoke a choppy language which the Vascones could not understand. …every spring and autumn they held the infamous rites on the peaks, their howlings and altar-fires throwing terror into the villages. Always the same—the night before the Kalends of Maius and the night before the Kalends of November. Townsfolk would disappear just before these nights, and would never be heard of again.”
- H.P. Lovecraft The Very Old Folk
On November 3rd 1927 H.P. Lovecraft sent a letter containing the story The Very Old Folk to Donald Wandrei. The Very Old Folk is a tale that draws its inspiration from the cross-cultural observances of All Souls’ Day, All Saints’ Day and Dia de los Muertos. These days of ceremony and ancestral remembrance are observed during the first days of November.
And just as the folk practices of the world gave H.P. Lovecraft the feverish dreams he wrote about, those dreams went on to influence many other writers and podcasters who cautiously dip their pens into the mad Lovecraftian universe. This month the 11th Hour Creature Feature brings you a story from the stormy shores of the island of St. Caillic. In Ruins comes to us from A Scottish Podcast.
A Scottish Podcast chronicles the story of Lee, a washed up former radio DJ who launches a paranormal investigation podcast with reluctant help from his friend Dougie. The two travel the length and breadth of Scotland in search of Medieval Demon Kings and Lovecraftian Gods of the Sea.
Main Cast
Lee – Robert Cudmore Hear more of Robert in: Fidget and Cargo Doug – Matthew McLean Matthew also appears in: DAW of the Dead Jane – Fiona Thraille Fiona can also be found in: Breathless, The Hidden Truths, and Customs Tommy – Michael Hudson Check out Michael in Castle of Horror George – Jim Balfour Bruce – Karim Kronfli You can find Karim in: The Radcliffe Square Labyrinth, Ivory Towers, and A Little Bedtime Gory Byers – David Ault Listen to David in Ancient Evil Danielle – Rosemary Stanford Rosemary also appears in Cargo Bob – Kevin Parr Drunk Helen – Sarah Golding Catch Sarah in: The Parsonage, Wolpertingers, and
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There is a city that’s nicknamed “The City of Statues.” In this city there are, unsurprisingly, many statues. But they’re not normal statues, and they’re not placed in a way that makes any sense. They are everywhere you can imagine: in the middle of streets, in the middle of sidewalks, inside buildings and rooms and closets. And oftentimes they look like they are chasing something. In the day and in the light, they’re just statues, but once darkness falls they come to life and hunt any living creature down, infecting you with just a touch. The story follows a group of 5 survivors as they try to escape the city at night, all while trying to avoid the statues and stay alive.
Content Warnings: Life threatening situations, loud noises and screams, an infectious illness, gun and gunshots, harsh language, discussion of death, and on screen character death. Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18khYwhJhIfLYxSjnbSHRVMAn7r1K-vzjjYXQYTCpZCU/edit?usp=sharing - Credits: Written, directed, and composed by Ali Hylton Script editing and transcription by Nic Fray Dialogue editing by Kai C Environmental Sound Design by Trace Callahan Action sound design by Rebecca Liu Sounds sourced from Soundly and Adobe Cast: Allegra Rodriguez Shivers as Adrian Andrew Sianez-De La O as Felix Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall as Everett Ari Delyne as Jordan ItMe as Ollie
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Written and produced by Owen McCuen
Featuring:
Glenn Mercer
Janine Gilbert
Agnes McCuen
Eloise McCuen
And the voice of Brian Holcomb by way of The Timekeeper by Miss Mae (11th Hour Audio Challenge 2018).
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Written by Faith McQuinn Story concept by Tanja Milojevic Cast: ROBERT: James David West MELANIE AND STEWARD MELANIE: Tanja Milojevic INGRID: Xperience J GRAYSON: Dean T. Moody Steward: Melody, a built-in AI voice provided by resemble.ai. Sound design by Matthew Boudreau Sound Effect Design direction and dialogue editing by Tanja Milojevic Music: Dystopia by Ian Kelosky, Tesseract by Cody Martin If you would like to learn more about ethically cloning your own voice, check out www.resemble.ai and create your voice for free on the platform. This was an 11th hour presentation. Copyright 2022 Happy Halloween!
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Written and produced by Owen McCuen
Featuring:
Glenn Mercer
Janine Gilbert
Agnes McCuen
Eloise McCuen
And the voice of Brian Holcomb by way of The Timekeeper by Miss Mae (11th Hour Audio Challenge 2018).
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Humanity is under attack. Monsters born from the darkest depths, crawl the wretched streets day and night, killing and devouring all they find. The few people that survive, do so by living deep underground. But there is hope. There is entertainment..... Because every night a select band of heroes around the world ride the great elevators to the surface. To battle the horde. To defeat the demons. Broadcasting live onto millions of bunker monitors across the planet. This is... The Hellstream!! Written, Directed and Edited by Peter Beeston Featuring the voices of: Kelsey Painter as Erin The Fox, Owen Mccuen as The Voice of The Hellstream, Andrew Biss as The Demon Overlord, Katabelle Ansari as Carly, Tanja Milojevic as Faye, Karim C Kronfli as Simon, Hannah Lloyd as Beth Justine, Leah Hince as Kylie, Dean T Moody, as The Advert, Heidi Fischer as Mia, (Faye Fan Girl 2044) Additional Production Help By: Javert Boudreau, Spleeny Dotson, Peter Richard Adams, Pip Mason, Matthew Boudreau, Michael Haight. The Opening and End Track used in this production was ‘Attack The Block’ by ‘Hey Pluto!’, Podcast Character Artwork of ‘Erin The Fox’ by Liquid GTX. This work is released under a creative commons agreement for 11th Hour Audio and Cornucopia Radio. Thank you for listening. We all hope you really enjoyed this production; it was so much fun to make. We were influenced by trashy horror anime, Paul Verhoeven films and 'first person shooters' in putting this all together. We’d also love to hear from you if you enjoyed it, or want to get involved in future audio drama productions with us.
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OCTOBER
A delicious chill has crept into the air, the leaves on the trees are performing their brilliant displays before falling to the ground in aromatic clumps. The pumpkins have taken their places alongside ghosts and witches up and down the streets and breathless shiver of anticipation lurks deep down in our cores.
Around here October is the most hallowed month of the year. While we eagerly await the arrival of Halloween we are busy little 11th Hour Audio Challenge imps. There are stories to write, lines to be recorded, dialog to be edited, sound-effects to be layered and a delightful horde of participating fiends to torture.
All of this celebratory torment brings us to World Audio Drama Day on Oct 30th. October 30th is a significant day for the fans and creators of Audio Drama because of it’s connection to The War of the Worlds. On October 30th, 1938, the Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles and John Houseman, broadcast Howard Koch’s adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds”. In recognition of that media-altering event we have brought a very special adaptation of War of the Worlds to the Creature Feature this month.
In 2013 Matthew Boudreau organized the 75th Anniversary War of the Worlds Radio Contest. The judges received ten entries from four different countries and the winner was The Wireless Theatre Company with their submission Dead London.
Dead London is an original audio drama based on H.G. Wells’s classic tale of Martian invasion. DEAD LONDON sees humanity defeated by a superior military force from another world. It was recorded on location at Horsell Common, Surrey, and featuring Brian Blessed as the Voice of the Martians.
Dr. Georgina Welles… JOSEPHINE ARDEN
Dr. Tom Kane/Survivor 2… TOM SLATTER
PC Toland… JACK BOWMAN
Dr. Jeff Quinlan/Survivor 1… MATT BLAIR
Captain Glover/Dan… MATTHEW HEBDEN
Newsreader… MARIELE RUNACRE-TEMPLE
Martian Voices… BRIAN BLESSED
Written by… JACK BOWMAN and ROBERT VALENTINE
Directed by… GEORGE MADDOCKS
Recording and Post-Production… MALCOLM THORP
Produced by… MARIELE RUNACRE-TEMPLE, JACK BOWMAN and ROBERT VALENTINE
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Host Owen McCuen and Scream Queen Tanja Milojevic kick off this year's 11th Hour Audio Challenge. Listen to find out how to sign up and become a part of this year's horror mayhem!
It’s September and there’s a hint of change in the air. Labor Day has come and gone, families on summer vacation have scurried home to tame the children and send them back to school and pumpkin spices are being sprinkled into everything. The Harvest Moon rises on the 10th as the last full moon of summer and September 22nd marks the Autumn Equinox- It’s time to reap what has been sown. But remember an old bit of Appalachian wisdom that says to always leave at least one apple in each tree when you harvest to keep the devil away.
So as you eagerly await the end of summer’s harsh glare and dream of warm apple cobbler and fallen leaves, we’ve brought you an episode from The White Vault, Season 5 Episode 2, Scatter. The White Vault is a found-footage horror drama that follows a repair team sent to discover the source of a mysterious signal coming from the remote Arctic research Station in Svalbard, Norway. Once the group reaches Outpost Fristed and makes the repairs they are trapped by a heavy snow storm. The mystery deepens and the team’s situation begins to unravel after they discover a service hatch in the bunker.
As season 5 opens the remaining team members attempt to return to Svalbard. With their nightmares and terrible visions in tow, they find themselves facing another isolating storm and breakdown in communications.
11th Hour Audio is thrilled to share The White Vault and its talented cast and crew with our listeners. To hear the chilling tales they’ve created for the 11th Hour Challenge, visit www.11thhouraudio.com or follow the links provided.
If you enjoy listening to the 11th Hour Challenge shows, consider participating in the event this October. Visit 11th Hour Audio.com/join-us to sign up, learn more, and get started.
K.A. Statz - Writer/Creator
Travis Vengroff - Producer/ Sound Designer
Kaitlin Statz - Writer
Cast and Crew
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