In the Fall of 1918, college student Milton Ford meets the enigmatic Professor Sparks, a man whose radical ideas about sex and magic throw into question everything about Milton’s religious Maine upbringing. After a decadent salon at Sparks’s apartment, something’s unleashed that shatters Milton’s world around him.

Based on the world of The Dark Tome (or is it?).

1918 Project Website

Behind the Scenes of 1918

11-year old Aurela means the best when she sneaks a magical crystal out of her dad’s room and uses it to try and summon the spirit of Kulkulkan, an ancient Mayan god. But instead of helping out her village, she instead re-awakens the spirit of Specter, an ancient enemy of her people. It’s up to Aurela, her sister, Zaita, and a 20-foot-long talking Boa constrictor, Ish, to stop Specter before he destroys the Maya, the rainforest, and the entire world.

This epic adventure is a podcast called THE MAYAN CRYSTAL, performed by a full cast, with talking animals, immersive sound effects, and Hollywood-style music, and is the first collaboration between Fred Greenhalgh and Gen-Z Media, the team responsible for Peabody-award winning hit kids podcast The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel.

THE MAYAN CRYSTAL is inspired by adventures Fred and his family had while traveling in Belize and spending time with the modern Maya.

The Mayan Crystal – Project Website

Behind the Scenes – The Mayan Crystal

FinalRune Productions, working with AudioComics, for Audible Studios, is pleased to announce the release of Locke and Key, an epic audio saga based on the acclaimed graphic novel series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, and published by IDW.

A brutal and tragic event drives the Locke family from their home in California to the relative safety of their ancestral estate in Lovecraft, Massachusetts, an old house with powerful keys and fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. As siblings Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode Locke discover the secrets of the old house, they also find that it’s home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all….

Featuring performances by Haley Joel Osment (Entourage, The Sixth Sense), Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Kate Mulgrew (Orange Is the New Black, Star Trek: Voyager), Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez, and Stephen King (The Stand, 11-22-63), as well as a cast of more than 50 voice actors, this audio production preserves the heart-stopping impact of the graphic novel’s astounding artwork through the use of richly imagined sound design and a powerful original score.

This lavish production was recorded on-location throughout New England in a creepy old farmhouse, underground cavern system, on the beach, in the woods… and wherever else the story took us.

 

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Behind the Scenes of Locke and Key

In collaboration with Forest Rose Productions…

Set in the late 1800s, “A Journey with Strange Bedfellows” follows Hunter Brown in his quest to secure true love: the “Hunt” is for Faith Geibel, the young woman of his desires.

The harrowing steampunk-esque journey begins in Victorian Great Britain, moves to Paris then eastward to Hungary and finally, to western Romania (former Transylvania). After overcoming insurmountable odds, and grave personal loss, Hunter must make the ultimate sacrifice to remain in Faith’s existence. Socially shy and a bit uncertain, Hunter becomes a determined man with purpose and great inner strength over the course of his journey. There are twists and turns, surprises and plenty of blood. The dark fantasy features devils and werewolves, spooky Bordellos in backstreets of Paris, mechanical robots and oh so much more!  Inspired by the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bram Stoker, Jack London, Jerome K. Jerome, Wilkie Collins, and Hector Hugh Munro (aka, Saki).

Timeless Gothic horror themes along with steam punk elements are an inescapable constant that implores listeners to experience the tale by candlelight, with protective bed covers safely secured. — Learn more about this audio drama at www.a-strange-journey.com.

Visit A Journey With Strange Bedfellows Project Website

Behind the Scenes of A Journey With Strange Bedfellows

Fifteen years after the fallout of a massive energy crisis, steadfast homesteaders in rural Maine slog through an off-grid life.

This bucolic existence is turned upside down when John Prophet, a soldier still fighting an unwinnable war, arrives with word of a powerful military force setting up in the ashes of old New York. His message falls on deaf ears except for those of two youths, Maria and Luke, who buck their parents’ wishes and set off on a journey filled with grim survivalists, rugged characters, religious maniacs, and dangers of nature that have grown up in this strange land.

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Behind the Scenes of The Cleansed

(Horror)
Written by James Comtois

Alex wakes in a run-down New England hospital with foggy memories of a car accident. He asks nurses about his missing girlfriend, Elizabeth, but can’t seem to get any answers. In fact, he can’t seem to get anything straight from anyone. And – was that a scream in the distance?

Alex soon realizes that his condition is more critical than he first believed.  Because very, very soon, he is coming back, and he may not have such great ideas for Alex.

Play Intensive Care:

Production Team:

Matthew J Boudreau, Samantha Mason, and Frederick Greenhalgh

Cast:

• Nat Angstrom – Alex
• Bernie Horowitz – Mrs. Lee
• PG Lorusso – Mr. Bradley
• Kristina Balbo – Elizabeth
• Dave Marshall – Doctor
• Hannah Kramer – Nurse 1
• Janice Gardner – Nurse 2
• Ashley Brooks – Nurse 3

This production was recorded on location at North Dam Mill in Biddeford, Maine, October 2011.

Location recording by Fred Greenhalgh and Michael DiAmeda
Sound Design and Music by Matthew J Boudreau and Barbara Truex
Original Art by Monique Boudreau

Special Thanks to Doug Sanford, Carolyn Gosselin, the City of Biddeford, RODE Microphones and the ZOOM Corporation.

In a back back back door meeting in the White House, the President and his most trusted advisors discuss a new conflict which is unavoidable, absolutely essential to America (at least insofar as justifying the ballooning Department of Defense budget).

This new conflict, nay, War, will be a War fought against one of the most pervasive ills that has cursed civilization since the beginning. A War on… Poverty.

Wait. Poverty? How do you attack poverty?

This tongue in cheek 5 minute treat was produced for an audio engineering course Fred recently took with Dave Moulton (a Grammy nominated engineer) with the University of Maine in Augusta.

Voted most likely to get Fred on an FBI watch list!

Credits:

• Written, directed and produced by Fred Greenhalgh
• Dave Marshall – The Man in Black
• Bill Dufris – The President
• Burke Brimmer – The General
• Hannah Kramer – The Analyst
• Johnny Speckman – The Pilot
• Joe Duley – Co-Pilot
• Emily Burnham – Anchorwoman
• Philip Hobby – Anchorman
• Original music – Barb Truex

This production was recorded in-studio at Mind’s Eye Productions for a University of Maine Augusta audio engineering class, Spring 2010.    Sound effects and additional music courtesy of Sounddogs.com and Soundrangers.com.

Special thanks to the UMA Audio 319 class for the spring of 2010.

This show is part of the open-source early works!

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(Adventure/Fantasy)
Written, Directed and Produced by Frederick Greenhalgh

What would happen if a troll still lived in the diminishing wild around us?

To explore that question comes FinalRune’s environmental fantasy, The Troll of Stony Brook.

An awkward teenager, Jamie, is driving home one night from a party when he hits something – something big. His pushy co-worker, Rick, talks him into going back to the scene of the accident… and what they find will change them both forever.

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Cast

• Philip Hobby as Jamie
• Bill Dufris as the Troll
• Hannah Kramer as Margo
• Johnny Speckman as Rick
• Joe Duley as angry customer and radio DJ
• Paul Drinan as manager
• Chris Newcomb as Officer 1
• Emily Myshrall as Dispatch
• Christine Marshall as TV reporter
• Christopher Price as Sgt. Dailys
• Charly Duley as the housewife
• Ed Patterson as Officer 2
• Dave Marshall as pilot
• Janice Gardner as the trollette

Crew

• Field recordist – Randall Farr
• Mixing engineer – Tony Marino
• Original musical score – Barb Truex
• The song “Quantum Jesus” – Big Coffin Hunters
• Additional sound effects courtesy of Mind’s Eye Productions.

Recorded on location in South Portland and Alfred, Maine the spring of 2010. Additional studio recording courtesy of Mind’s Eye Productions.

Learn more about this show (including a wacky documentary!) by seeing our accompanying Behind the Scenes page:

Behind the Scenes – The Troll of Stony Brook