Shadows at the Door

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S1E07 - Number 13 Feb 01, 2019

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In an old inn in Viborg, a visiting scholar hears strange sounds from a room that should not exist.
Credits
Written by M.R. James
Adapted by Mark Nixon
Produced, Edited and Directed by Mark Nixon
Musical Score by Nico Vettese
Cast
The entire cast is performed by David Ault
This is a Shadows at the Door Production, made possible by listeners like you. Consider joining them and supporting our Patreon: https://patreon.com/marknixon

Transcripts available here. Help directly fund further episodes here.
Approximate Time Stamps
Intro (Around 00:01:00), Story (Around 00:02:00), Discussion (Around 00:27:00), Credits (Around 00:55:00)

Content Warnings
Story: none. Discussion: sexual innuendo

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S1E06 - Pit Village Jan 25, 2019

Show notes

A young social worker settles into his first home in a remote village. The neighbours seem kind but far too curious. And something old stirs beneath their smiles.

Credits
Written by Mark Nixon
Produced, Edited and Directed by Mark Nixon
Musical Score by Nico Vettese
Cast
The entire cast is performed by David Ault
This is a Shadows at the Door Production, made possible by listeners like you. Transcripts available here. Consider joining them and supporting our Patreon: https://patreon.com/marknixon

Help directly fund further episodes here.
Approximate Time Stamps
Intro (Around 00:01:00), Story (Around 00:02:00), Discussion (Around 00:24:00), Credits (Around 01:00:00)

Content Warnings
Story: homophobia, cults/cult-like behaviour. Discussion: discussion of media representation including homophobia and misogyny, fridging, mention of child abuse.

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S1E05 - Winter Wings Jan 18, 2019

Show notes

He wanted the game more than anything. Now the game wants something in return—and the crows are circling.

Credits
Written by Christopher Long
Produced, Edited and Directed by Mark Nixon
Musical Score by Nico Vettese
Cast
The entire cast is performed by David Ault

This is a Shadows at the Door Production, made possible by listeners like you. Transcripts available here. Consider joining them and supporting our Patreon: https://patreon.com/marknixon

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Approximate Time Stamps
Intro (Around 00:01:00), Story (Around 00:02:00), Discussion (Around 00:30:00), Credits (Around 01:04:00)

Content Warnings
Story: sudden loud noises (crashing crockery), animal death, character death. Discussion:none.

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S1E04 - The Signalman Jan 11, 2019

Show notes

At the mouth of a dark railway tunnel, a troubled signalman speaks of a figure seen before every tragedy. And now it has returned...
Credits
Written by Charles Dickens
Adapted by Mark Nixon
Produced, Edited and Directed by Mark Nixon
Musical Score by Nico Vettese
Cast
The entire cast is performed by David Ault
This is a Shadows at the Door Production, made possible by listeners like you. Transcripts available here. Consider joining them and supporting our Patreon: https://patreon.com/marknixon

Help directly fund further episodes here.
Approximate Time Stamps
Intro (Around 00:01:00), Story (Around 00:02:00), Discussion (Around 00:23:00), Credits (Around 00:46:00)

Content Warnings
Story: character death. Discussion: brief discussion of violent death/injury.

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S1E03 - Let Sleeping Gods Lie Jan 04, 2019

Show notes

Among lost ruins beneath the desert sands, a scholar digs for knowledge—unaware that something older than myth is already awake.
Credits
Written by Gemma Amor
Produced, Edited and Directed by Mark Nixon
Musical Score by Nico Vettese

Cast
The entire cast is performed by David Ault.

This is a Shadows at the Door production, made possible by listeners like you! Consider joining them and supporting our Patreon: https://patreon.com/marknixon
Transcripts available here. Help directly fund further episodes here.

Approximate Time Stamps
Intro (Around 00:01:00), Story (Around 00:02:00), Discussion (Around 00:31:00), Credits (Around 00:55:00)

Content Warnings
Story: themes of historical colonisation/cultural appropriation, sudden loud noise (rocks falling, gunfire), assault. Discussion: brief mention of enslavement, extended discussion of horror tropes & genre examples.

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S1E02 - The Devil and Tom Walker Dec 28, 2018

Show notes

A miser stumbles upon a strange figure in the woods. What follows is profit, then ruin...and a tale still whispered in the dark.

Credits
Written by Washington Irving
Adapted by Mark Nixon
Produced, Edited and Directed by Mark Nixon
Musical Score by Nico Vettese

Cast
The entire cast is performed by David Ault
This is a Shadows at the Door Production, made possible by listeners like you. Consider joining them and supporting our Patreon: https://patreon.com/marknixon

Transcripts available ⁠here⁠.

Approximate Time Stamps
Intro (Around 00:01:00), Story (Around 00:02:00), Discussion (Around 00:27:00), Credits (Around 00:50:00)

Content Warnings
Story: racism/slurs (indigenous, Black), mention of human sacrifice, mention of genocide, mention of religious persecution, mention of enslavement, graphic depiction of nausea, implied violent death, abduction. Discussion: extended discussion of religion/religious themes/doctrine (Christianity).

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S1E01 - Leave a Light On For Me Dec 20, 2018

Show notes

We begin our anthology podcast with a professor. A man convinced that the supernatural is simply a failure of reason. He travels to a quiet seaside town, where the sea is calm, the streets are still, and certainty begins to quietly erode.

This is a remake of our original S1E01 production, for more information check out the discussion section.

Credits

Written by Mark Nixon
Produced, Edited and Directed by Mark Nixon
Musical Score by Nico Vettese

Artwork by Shannon Lawes

Acoustic Guitar music licensed via Pond 5
Recorded at Salt Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne

Cast

Geoffrey Troughton was played by David Ault
Simon Gorman was played by Daymon Britton
Liam Hare was played by Jake Wilson Craw
Andrew Fletcher and Old Edgar were both played by Lawrence Neale
and The Drowned Man was played by Andrew Latheron

This is a Shadows at the Door production, made possible by listeners like you. Consider joining our Patreon to help us make more productions.

Content Warnings Story: loud noise at 37:23 specifically, drowning, simulated vomiting, choking, strangulation. Discussion Section: Swearing.

Approximate Time Stamps
Intro (00:20:00), Story (00:58:00), Discussion (00:55:16), Credits (01:40:01), Outtakes (01:40:48)

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The Trailer Oct 31, 2018

Show notes

From Shadows at the Door publishing comes a chilling new podcast, bringing to life a collection of macabre tales and spirited debate. Drawing on the haunted landscapes of classic folk horror, the podcast lifts the veil on some of your favourite ghost stories, and presents new fables throughout a series of macabre audio dramas. Shadows at the Door: The Podcast artfully showcases the unsettling, the unearthly, and the uncanny, with new tellings of beloved ghost stories, and spectral yarns created exclusively for the podcast by some of the most exciting writers in modern horror. Join presenter Mark Nixon and voice actor David Ault as they bring you ghoulish dramatisations, and discuss what makes the ghost story such a powerful, enduring force in cultures around the world.

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