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The Chilling Tales of Yuletide


4 episodes


Synopsis:

An annual podcast with a new episode every Yuletide season featuring adaptations of ghostly stories for the longest, darkest nights. For the best audio experience, please listen with headphones. Current episodes available: 2021 (an anthology of three short story), 2022 (a full length adaptation of The Screaming Skull)


Continuity: Anthology

Genres: Holiday-themed, Horror

Completion status: Not applicable

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Episodes:

The Chilling Tales of Yuletide: The Festive Spirit

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:10:00 GMT

Amber has booked the latest flight home for Christmas Eve in the hopes of avoiding the majority of her family's celebrations, as well as Uncle Jerry's infamous drunken dance to 12 Days of Christmas, while Sara has been forced to work the last Christmas Eve shift at the airport bar when she would literally rather be anywhere else. The two are unsatisfied with their lot, until a mysterious stranger offers them a wager to read their fortunes and change their present, but as she reads their cards hidden things are revealed and spirits of the past return....after all, Christmas is the perfect time for ghosts.

Written by Lana O'Kell. Originally performed in 2019.


Cast:

Amber: Shalaka Kalyanpur

Sara: Nicola Proctor

Deirdre: Deanna Davis

Fiona: Luki Goddi

Cassandra: Lana O'Kell

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2023: A Poetry Anthology

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:28:41 GMT

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In the third annual edition of The Chilling Tales of Yuletide, we have a collection of yuletide poems to add a literary, and chilling, delight to your festive season.


Cast:

Charlotte Wetherall

Christian Neuhaus

Cathy Kutz

Lana O'Kell

Shalaka Kay

Angela Heenan

Mikaela Lovett

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2022: The Screaming Skull

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 18:20:46 GMT

For the best audio experience, please use headphones. 

In the second annual edition of The Chilling Tales of Yuletide, we have a full-length adaptation of the 19th century short story, The Screaming Skull. 

After the death of his friends, Dr and Mrs Pratt, Captain Braddock takes up residence in their former home. Yet he soon becomes convinced that the skull he found in the upstairs bedroom screams every night, haunting him, and that it was the cause of Dr Pratt's death. When investigators Miller and Shaughnessy (a believer and sceptic respectively) arrive to learn more about the situation on the night before Christmas Eve, Captain Braddock explains the haunting, as well as his theory that the skull belonged to Mrs Pratt and that her husband killed her. A half-tormented man himself, Captain Braddock is erratic in his explanations and retellings, and even Shaughnessy's scepticism is slowly put to the test as the haunting of the skull begins to drag them into the tale of murder and betrayal and guilty consciences. 

Based on the story by Frances Marion Crawford and adapted by Lana O'Kell. 

Sound Editor: Tori Taylor

Captain Charles Braddock: Pete Lutz

Miller: Joshua Chadwick

Shaughnessy: Lana O'Kell


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2021: A Chilling Anthology

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:29:59 GMT

An anthology of haunting tales ibcluding adaptations of three chilling seasonal stories: The Festival (H P Lovecraft), The Ghost at the Crossroads (Frederick Manderly) and The Real and the Counterfeit (Louisa Baldwin).

Voice Cast:

Alisa Belonogina: Woman/Mara

Lana O'Kell: Spinning Woman/Caomihe/Laura

Rebecca Jowett: Nurse

Claire Gaskell: Train Conductor

Tom Martin: Narrator/Mr Sweeney

Carolyn Carothers: Billie/ Mrs Sweeney

Cathy Kutz: Andi

Francesca Izzo: Siobhan

Joshua Chadwick: Traveller

Noah Gill: The Devil

Samuel Vsetula: John

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