Emmy-winning animation director Roy Burdine tackles a new medium today — audio! The first podcast from Monster Forge Radio, The Horror Eternal promises thrills and chills through your earbuds or your speakers. Alternating episodes of serialized horror stories, The Horror Eternal “…blends serialized storytelling and standalone nightmares that will haunt listeners long after the final scream fades.”
A weekly podcast, 3 out of 4 episodes are devoted to “We Are Not Dead,”
…following an unnamed narrator plagued by mysterious text messages from the future. As bizarre, alien-like entities appear across the globe—motionless, silent, watching—the line between past and future begins to crumble, unleashing horrors beyond comprehension.
Every 4th week a shorter tale will break out of the Monster Forge crypt (and Burdine’s imagination), with the following roster announced:
- The Blackcast – A sinister podcast awakens primal, uncontrollable urges in its listeners.
- The Missing Touch – A man discovers his touch makes people vanish — and he can’t stop.
- Bone of My Bone – A rage-fueled virus tears through the female half of humanity, sparking an apocalyptic reckoning.
“I wanted to make something that feels like a nightmare you’re awake for,” says Burdine. “A horror story that stays with you and twists the way you see the world.”
Starting today you can subscribe to The Horror Eternal on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and “…wherever nightmares are streamed.” I challenge Burdine and Monster Forge founder Shannon Eric Denton: you don’t want to stream right into my head.
From the outset, Monster Forge was intended to be transmedia. Developing good comics first, of course, but the IP could be easily adapted into other forms. The last few years have seen the rise of what the industry calls “scripted podcasts” but I quaintly call “radio dramas.” Because that’s what they are — a form that never really went away but slipped away from the mainstream for a while.
I’ll admit that “The Blackcast” sounds a little like Ignition Press’ Murder Podcast, but that just proves certain ideas float in the zeitgeist. It will be interesting to hear a different take.
Now where are my Kraken action figures?
Full editorial disclosure: Monster Forge founder Shannon Eric Denton is a long-time friend and has guested on convention panels with me. That doesn’t diminish that Monster Forge is putting out incredible work.
