William A. Wellman
236 episodes listed below
Gothic horror at the end of everything.
Hello from the Hallowoods is a narrated horror fiction serial set among black pines, burning skies, and cities built from survival. Its recent episodes move between cosmic decay, civic breakdown, family dread, grief, revenge, and the uneasy mercy of remembering the dead.
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Hello from the Hallowoods is a long-form gothic audio drama about survival after the old rules have failed. Its world is full of black pines, strange skies, burned houses, cosmic authorities, impossible appetites, and cities that grow from need into government. The scale is large. One episode may begin with a lone person standing in black rain, then move toward world-ending powers, family crisis, and a plea for help at a door. Another turns from a burned body on a table to Lady Ethel Mallory arriving in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico as a grotesque figure whose silence matters precisely because she is rarely speechless. The show treats horror as climate, not decoration. Bodies burn, spores spread through worlds, ghosts follow the living, and the dead remain socially, politically, and emotionally inconvenient. Yet the series is not only interested in shock. It is equally drawn to institutions: Scout City's committees and deputies, its mayor and council, its mansions and infirmaries, its attempt to build something different before discovering how quickly structure can resemble what it fled. Nickignick gives the serial a ritual shape, guiding scenes with solemn address, cosmic perspective, and occasional dry jokes that cut the dread without softening it. The recent run is thick with grief. Valerie drafts a letter after Heather's death while a city burns outside, knowing both the necessity and insufficiency of the words she chooses. Vincent is pulled back toward dead people despite wanting to be done with them. Raj, Russell, Jedediah, Diggory Graves, and other named figures move through rooms where family, power, revenge, and duty have become dangerous subjects. The fantasy is elaborate, but the emotional engine is plain: damaged people keep being asked what they owe one another. The show suits listeners who enjoy serialized horror with mythic scope, queer gothic sensibility, and dense, literary narration. It rewards attention. Names, places, wounds, and jokes recur until the forest feels less like a setting than an archive of everyone trying, failing, and trying again to be remembered before nothing remains.
Made for: Best for listeners who want serialized horror fiction with literary narration, queer gothic atmosphere, cosmic stakes, and a large connected cast. It suits patient audiences who enjoy dread, grief, bureaucracy, and dark humor braided together.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its blend of ornate cosmic horror and practical civic detail: burning worlds, dead bodies, and fungal transformation sit beside committees, letters, mansions, deputies, and exhausted obligations. Its narrator gives the apocalypse the feeling of an archive being maintained by candlelight.
Come walk between the black pines! In this award-winning queer horror podcast, a cosmic narrator follows the increasingly connected residents of the forest at the end of the world. It’s a bittersweet story that explores queer identity, horror genre tropes, and finding hope in humanity’s last moments. New episodes every Wednesday, and weekly bonus stories on Patreon!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Cosmic narration, intimate character drama, and macabre humor make apocalypse feel both immense and painfully personal.
Hello from the Hallowoods turns apocalypse into an intimate address, with Nickignick guiding the audience through a serialized world of black rains, altered bodies, returning dead, corporate ruin, and powers vast enough to remake planets.
This is the show that gives your apocalypse violins, revolution, and deeply suspicious lemonade stands.
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A bleak, ceremonial chapter where memory, duty, and rot keep the story moving.
This episode sits inside ruin, and that is where it is most alive. A former hunter looks back at the creed that once made him dangerous, while the devil, the forest, and a broken body have worn that certainty down into something meaner.
A black rain apocalypse that keeps its focus on family trouble and ruin.
Hello from the Hallowoods turns the apocalypse into something you can feel on your skin: black rain, green light, and neighbors moving across the lawn as if the end has already settled in.
A tense homecoming folds a wide argument about power into one small, uneasy room.
Embers opens hard and keeps the heat on. It moves from accusation to a quieter room, but the sense of threat never really leaves. Fire, hunger, masters, nobility, slavery, and the spark that could still set everything off give the piece its pressure, while Vincent's climb…
A grief heavy chapter that turns a burning city into intimate dread.
Ashes follows a city under fire and keeps its focus on grief, faith, and the small acts people make while everything falls apart. The angel that once offered protection, the mother’s rod, the raised knife, and Scout City in flames all push the same question: what does safety…
A bleak, lavish reckoning with conviction after the world refuses to change.
The episode tracks a once rebellious musician as old conviction runs into a world that has not budged. The Botulus Corporation remains in place, friends die, a daughter dies, and the dead come back wearing familiar faces, so love and fear end up sharing the same room.
Four McElroys narrate a wizard battle-royale tournament across elimination trials on Octave Ziggurat.
A continuous Fabula Ultima actual-play campaign following one party through the world of Perpetua.
An ensemble cast plays teen superheroes through Masks: A New Generation campaigns and guest one-shots.
A recurring cast plays full Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, and Pendragon campaigns session by session.
A Dungeon World actual-play campaign following three comedians battling villain Callum Blackhammer.
You were once a hunter.
Black rain falls.
This episode explores a cosmic entity's journey from destructive infancy to a transformative, consciousness-fracturing existence that spreads across worlds while preserving stories.
A mysterious host introduces a dark, dream-like narrative set in a forest where change is coming, beginning with a scene in Scout City.
Episode 199, “Vassals,” centers on a second-person address that treats darkness and “nothing” as the core of a religion.
A cosmic narrator tells the story of a group building a utopian city at the end of the world, exploring themes of community and identity.
A cosmic narrator interviews a new council member in a queer horror fantasy setting.
Hello from the Hallowoods, Episode 191 "Leads," opens with a star in the north that keeps pulling a family from Florida to Boston and then into the far northern forests of Canada.
Fire speaks first.
An angel once kept you safe, or seemed to.
A cosmic narrator observes the intertwined lives of residents in a forest at the end of the world, blending queer identity and horror.
Hope curdles.
A cosmic narrator tells a story about a fire-wielding character who feels overlooked and seeks power in a post-apocalyptic forest.
A cosmic narrator describes a person's eerie encounter with a sentient house in a forest at the end of the world.
A cosmic narrator reflects on a character's despair and choices in a world-ending storm, blending horror with queer themes.
A cosmic narrator recounts a tense confrontation between former allies in a post-apocalyptic forest, blending horror with queer themes.
A cosmic narrator follows residents of a forest at the end of the world in a queer horror story.
A cosmic narrator introduces a story about a character named Vincent facing an impossible choice in a post-apocalyptic forest.