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Calling Darkness
''Calling Darkness'' is a Comedy horror, horror comedy podcast written by Gemma Amor and S.H.Cooper. It was co-created by S.H.Cooper, Gemma Amor, Victoria Juan, Allison Brandt, Desdymona Howard, and Charlotte Norup who each play characters in an ensemble cast. Kate Siegel narrated the first season. The first season was released in 2019 and the second season in 2023. Premise Four women go to Crowe House, an isolated manor, for acting lessons from Annabelle Crowe. They are joined by Annabelle's visiting cousin, Nadia. The group read a book which accidentally summons a demon. They try to escape Crowe House and defeat the demon with help from a priest and his friend. Cast *Kate Siegel as the narrator *S.H.Cooper as Bridgette Milsen *Gemma Amor as Gloria Smith *Victoria Juan as Mariela Williams *Allison Brandt as Cassie Waters *Desdymona Howard as Annabelle Crowe *Charlotte Norup as Nadia Olsen *Erin B Lillis as Mrs. Morwood *David Cummings as Mr. Morwood *Dan Zappulla as Phineas Daws ...
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Gemma Amor
Gemma Amor is a British author of horror fiction, podcaster, and illustrator. She has written two collections of short stories, five novels, and edited a collection of stories. Amor co-wrote ''Calling Darkness'' and has contributed to other podcasts including ''The NoSleep Podcast'' and ''Shadows at the Door: The Podcast, Shadows at the Door''. Career Amor's first experience of writing horror fiction for publication came through ''The NoSleep Podcast''. She began listening to the show after it was mentioned on ''The Black Tapes'' and responded to a call for submissions. The first story she submitted to the show was "His Life's Work" which was released as part of season 10 in 2018. Later that year Amor released ''Cruel Works of Nature,'' a collection of Short story, short stories, some of which had appeared on ''The NoSleep Podcast''. In 2019, Amor published her debut novel, ''Dear Laura'', and was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Awards in the category 'Bram Stoker Award for Best ...
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Comedy Horror
Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary genre, literary, television genre, television, and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Comedy horror has been described as able to be categorized under three types: "black comedy, parody and spoof." It often crosses over with the black comedy genre. Comedy horror can also parody or subtly spoof horror clichés as its main source of humour or use those elements to take a story in a different direction, for example in ''The Cabin in the Woods'', ''Tucker & Dale vs. Evil'', ''Shaun of the Dead'' or the ''Evil Dead'' franchise. Author Bruce G. Hallenbeck cites the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving as "the first great comedy horror story". The story made readers "laugh one moment and scream the next" and its premise was based on mischief typically found during the holiday Halloween. In literature Horror and comedy have been associated with each other since the early days ...
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Kate Siegel
Kate Gordon Siegelbaum, known professionally as Kate Siegel ( , born 9 August 1982), is an American actress and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaborations with her husband, filmmaker Mike Flanagan, appearing in his films ''Oculus'' (2013), ''Hush'' (2016; she also wrote the screenplay with him), '' Ouija: Origin of Evil'' (2016), and ''Gerald's Game'' (2017), as well as in his television series ''The Haunting of Hill House'' (2018), ''The Haunting of Bly Manor'' (2020) and ''Midnight Mass'' (2021). She has been dubbed a " scream queen" due to her work in horror films and television. Life Siegel was born on 9 August 1982 in Silver Spring, Maryland. She attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Maryland, and graduated from Syracuse University in 2004. Siegel is Jewish. Siegel said in 2008 she was bisexual and had been in relationships with other women before. She married director Mike Flanagan in early 2016. They have two children: a son, Cody, and a daughter, Theod ...
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Realm Media
Realm, formerly Serial Box, is an American audio entertainment company that creates original fiction podcasts and audiobook series, which include continuations of TV series. Realm’s podcasts feature an array of production styles depending on the story, some with full casts, others with single voice narration. NPR described Realm as intending to serve as an " HBO for readers". History In September 2015, Julian Yap and Molly Barton launched Serial Box. The first production was ''Bookburners'', created by Max Gladstone. The writing process was based on television serials rather than novels. Founder Yap realized that he was reading fewer novels due to time constraints from work. Both Yap and Barton believe that serialized fiction will make reading more accessible and social. In April 2021, Serial Box changed its name to Realm and released its productions globally as podcasts. The productions can be listened to for free with advertising, or with a subscription. Process Realm hires ...
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The NoSleep Podcast
''The NoSleep Podcast'' is an anthology horror fiction podcast. History overview NoSleep began as a subreddit, or forum, on Reddit where people would exchange scary stories and frightening experiences. With the popularity of NoSleep, a member named Matt Hensen proposed the idea of creating a podcast where the top stories from the NoSleep subreddit would be narrated in an audiobook style. The idea was well received and a few months later a small group of members released the first episode of The NoSleep Podcast. During their first two seasons, David Cummings assumed the role of host and producer, working with volunteer Redditors to help narrate and produce content for the show. The popularity of The NoSleep Podcast rapidly grew as the production quality became more professional. Regular voices on the show who provide narration for its stories include David Cummings, Jessica McEvoy, Peter Lewis, Nikolle Doolin, Nichole Goodnight, David Ault, Jeff Clement, Erika Sanderson, Addis ...
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The A
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ...
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Dark Humour
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss. Writers and comedians often use it as a tool for exploring vulgar issues by provoking discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience. Thus, in fiction, for example, the term ''black comedy'' can also refer to a genre in which dark humor is a core component. Popular themes of the genre include death, crime, poverty, suicide, war, violence, terrorism, discrimination, disease, racism, sexism, and human sexuality. Black comedy differs from both blue comedy—which focuses more on crude topics such as nudity, sex, and Body fluids—and from straightforward obscenity. Whereas the term ''black comedy'' is a relatively broad term covering humor relating to many serious subjects, ''gallows humor'' tends to be used more specificall ...
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