Creative talent runs in the Greenhalgh family! The amazing cover art above was developed by my cousin Bethany. See her artwork on Instagram.

Lizzie (Marie Lane), 10, visits her family’s ancestral farmhouse in Maine, and discovers that the woods behind the house contain an amazing secret: a gateway into the mystical land of Faerie.

Yet, a dark cloud looms over the horizon of this fantastic land: Lizzie’s Great-Uncle Carlow (Peter Berkrot), has corrupted the goblin kingdom and plans to conquer all of Fae, and then move into our world unless Lizzie and some unlikely friends — a talking goat (Dustin Tucker) and a swordfighting weasel (Ella Mock) — friends can stop him.

OF FAE & FIENDS

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Homefront is a full-cast, fully dramatized performance of a thrilling new episode in the New York Times bestselling Expeditionary Force series.

After the latest mission of the starship Flying Dutchman, Earth is safe not just for a year, but for hundreds of years. The ship’s weary crew wonders what they will do with their lives in peacetime, but the enemy has other plans, and there is danger on the homefront.

Starring Zachary Quinto, R.C. Bray, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, and everyone’s favorite AI, Skippy the Magnificent, alongside a full cast. Packed full of “pew-pew-pew,” original music composition, and schmaybe even some operatic singing by everyone’s favorite beer can.

This stand-alone story is a must-listen for hardcore fans and uninitiated monkeys alike.

We had a BLAST recording this for Podium Publishing and working with creator Craig Alanson to bring the world of Expeditionary Force to life in audio.

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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?).

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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.

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What if there was a book that literally opened up doorways to other worlds?

Where would it lead, and could you handle what you found on the other side?

Cassie, a misfit teen from Simpson Falls, Maine, is about to find out. One day, after she wraps up community service at a local hospital, she stumbles out of the basement of a spooky bookshop and into a story set on a devil’s staircase in a remote Italian village.

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The X-Files: Cold Cases and The X-Files: Stolen Lives

For Audible

The series that had a generation looking to the sky gets a breathtaking audio reprise in an original full-cast dramatization featuring actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson returning to voice FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

Based upon the graphic novels by Joe Harris – with creative direction from series creator Chris Carter – and adapted specifically for the audio format by aural auteur Dirk Maggs (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Alien: Out of the Shadows), and directed by William Dufris of AudioComics, Cold Cases marks yet another thrilling addition to the pantheon of X-Files stories.

Featuring a mind-blowing and otherworldly soundscape of liquefying aliens, hissing creatures, and humming spacecraft, listeners get to experience the duo’s investigations like never before.

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For Audible

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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Victorian Robot circa 1890. The steampunk them is rampant in “A Journey With Strange Bedfellows”!

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.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

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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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(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.

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