The Catalog

Eight original series.

Seven full-cast audio dramas — ghost stories, folk horror, supernatural sci-fi — one archival live experience, and two ongoing shows. All cinematic.

102 episodes across every Violet Hour Media show
2 shows still publishing →

The Fiction

Seven full-cast audio dramas and one live experience.

In Another Room

In Another Room

Ghost Stories · Supernatural Horror · Drama · 8 episodes

An amateur paranormal investigator gets trapped inside a notoriously haunted house — where every room she enters holds a different ghost, and a different way the house killed.

Between the Devil

Between the Devil

High Seas Horror · Family · Audio Drama · 8 episodes

An eleven-year-old girl stows away on her father’s cursed ship — and is the only one who can see the boy in the hold.

The Elmwood Strain

The Elmwood Strain

Folk Horror · Psychological · Thriller · 8 episodes

A woman returns to her dying hometown to find the friends she abandoned hooked on a drug that shouldn’t exist.

The Gloom

The Gloom

True Crime Fiction · Supernatural · Horror · 8 episodes

Told in police tapes, 911 calls, and therapy recordings: a journalist reopens the case of four missing children — and finds the entity that took them. Tobin Bell (Jigsaw, Saw) is Dr. Lasher.

Red Riding Hoods

Red Riding Hoods

Final Girls · Supernatural · Ensemble · 10 episodes

Final girls, armed and hunting. Four survivors drive the back roads of America tracking the things nobody else believes in — from Texas to Salem, and toward the woman who assembled them.

Hollow

Hollow

Sci-Fi Horror · Space Opera · 13 episodes

A sci-fi retelling of Heart of Darkness. Shiva Negar plays a mercenary sent to hunt down a rogue leader in the outer worlds of a corporate-controlled galaxy.

Long Night in Egypt

Long Night in Egypt

Archaeological Horror · Supernatural · Claustrophobic Thriller · 8 episodes

A pyramid. A locked door. The Egyptian underworld is real and they are already inside it.

Unsound: Most Dangerous

Unsound: Most Dangerous

Live Interactive Experience · 6 nights · 2021

A live, audience-driven horror experience. Six nights on Spoon Radio, summer 2021. You had to be there.

Still Publishing

Not fiction. Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip on the real crimes, folklore and film history behind horror. Two shows, one free feed.

New episode every other Wednesday
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The Fear Archive

Every episode, Amanda and Mike take a horror film and follow it backward — to the real crime, the folklore, the thing people were actually afraid of. Research-heavy. Darkly funny. Free.

Companion show · same feed

Dead Air

Horror news, listener mail, and whatever Amanda and Mike can’t stop thinking about between Fear Archive episodes. Its own show, in the same feed. No separate subscription.

Where to Start

What’s the difference between the catalog and The Fear Archive?

The catalog is our fiction — eight finished works, made with full casts, original scores and Hollywood directors. The Fear Archive is a podcast Amanda Kagiwada and Michael Ryan Assip host about the real crimes and film history behind horror, and Dead Air is its companion show. Same studio, different thing. The Fear Archive releases a new episode every other week.

Which one should I start with?

For fiction, if you want a name you know: The Gloom, with Tobin Bell of the Saw franchise as Dr. Lasher, or Hollow, with Doug Bradley of Hellraiser. If you want the one critics went for, start with In Another Room. If you’d rather have something new every other week, start with The Fear Archive.

What does it cost?

Nothing. Every series is free on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and always has been. The Fear Archive has a Patreon if you want it ad-free, plus a monthly Dead Air you can’t get anywhere else and The Watch List. The main feed stays free either way.

What is this closest to?

Full cast, original score, professional direction, closed narrative. If Limetown, Homecoming or Steal the Stars worked for you — or QCode titles like Borrasca, The Left Right Game and Blackout — the production level here will be familiar.