After eight years of producing half-hour episodes of the audio drama Tales from Beyond the Pale, Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid’s production will soon be a free weekly podcast.
McQuaid (V/H/S, I Sell The Dead) and Fessenden (Depraved, The Last Winter) will launch the podcast on October 10th with a brand new audio drama entitled “Reappraisal”, written and directed by McQuaid. It will feature Fessenden as a mysterious stranger determined to buy a property from an unstable seller played by Tales regular Clay MacLeod Chapman (author of the acclaimed new novel “The Remaking”). The following week, October 17th, brings “In the Wind,” a creature feature set on a chilling mountaintop besieged by flying monsters. Both audio dramas were performed live in Oregon’s Timberline Lodge as part of the 2016 Overlook Film Festival.
Following these two new premieres, Tales from Beyond the Pale, The Podcast will offer up a different episode each week, mixing premieres and new content with tales plucked from archives comprised of 40+ half hour recordings by genre writers and directors, including Graham Reznick (Dead Wax, I Can See You, Until Dawn), Stuart Gordon (Re-Aniamtor, From Beyond), Eric Red (The Hitcher, 100 Feet), Paul Solet (Grace, Bullet Head), Jeff Buhler (Pet Sematary, Jacob’s Ladder), Ashley Thorpe (The Hairy Hands, Borley Rectory), Sarah Langan (author Audrey’s Door), and April Snellings (author Ghoulish: The Art of Gary Pullin), as well as McQuaid and Fessenden themselves.
Produced by Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix (Depraved, The Ranger, Most Beautiful Island, The House of the Devil, Stake Land, I Sell The Dead) and originally released as 4 multi-episode seasons in box sets illustrated by genre talent from Gary Pullin to Graham Humphries and Brahm Revel, Tales from Beyond the Pale features voice performances by Vincent D’onofrio, Barbara Crampton, Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Amy Seimitz, Kate Flannery, Leon Vitale, Lance Reddick, Tony Todd, Dominic Monaghan, A.J. Bowen, Pat Healey, Joshua Leonard, Martin Starr, Ana Asensio, Cooper Roth, Samuel Zimmerman, Jeremy Gardner, Kevin Corrigan, James Le Gros, Roxanne Benjamin, Misha Collins, Larry Fessenden, and many others.
While inspired by old radio dramas, Tales is decidedly modern in its approach, pushing the boundaries of immersive audio entertainment, offering up diverse styles and tones in its embrace of the vast potential offered by the genre of the macabre. Tales has earned awards and accolades in its near decade-long history, and new listeners will now be able to enjoy the series on their favorite podcast platform.
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