Last Update of 2021: Awards & Weird Fic Picks

The black waters of the post-Christmas stupor part, and a groggy voice arises from the depths, proclaiming…

‘God, what a fucking year, eh. What a fucking year.’

Production update

First things first. A huge thank-you to all the voice actors who’ve been putting in time with us over December for Silt Verses S2!

Recording for our Patreon-exclusive miniseries So Long, Good Luck is almost complete, and we’re making good headway with S2 episodes as well. Keep your eyes peeled for our first trailer and release date…

We’ll also be getting some teasers out there in the form of our written Sid Wright spin-off and our lorebook’s next edition.

Audioverse Awards

If you haven’t seen it on Twitter (it took us by surprise!) the Audioverse Awards are on their final day of voting, and we’re finalists in a whole wide array of categories, including:

- Best Guest Roles (a slew of amazing actors)

- Best Supporting Roles (Jimmie Yamaguchi as Hayward, Lucille Valentine as Paige, Jamie Stewart as Mason, David S Dear as Sid Wright)

- Best Lead Roles (the incredible B. Narr & Méabh de Brún)

- Best Vocal Direction

- Action & Environment Sound Design

- Best Cover Art

- Best Writing of a New Production

There are a ton of other amazing shows nominated, so if you have time today to put in your votes, we’d hugely appreciate it.

Ho-ho-horror book picks

Jon got a fair few horror books in his Christmas stocking this year - My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham-Jones, Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cass Khaw…

…but his biggest recommendation by far is Tell Me I’m Worthless By Alison Rumfitt.

In the words of the blurb, it’s “a dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary Gothic, up through Brighton’s queeer scene, and out into the heart of modern day trans experience.”

For Jon’s money, it’s a very sharp, literate, loving, refreshingly political commentary on the Shirley Jackson / Nigel Kneale haunted house sub-genre and its ultimate implications - what kind of landscape does an endless accumulation of trauma and hatred produce? - but also an incredibly humane examination of what it means to be surviving in the face of modern Britain right now.

It also has that courage to find genuine horror in the strange, the absurd, the specific. That old poster of Morrissey that you feel ambivalent about because no matter who he’s become, he was important to you once, and besides, it’s always been there and it covers up a nasty stain on the wall? That can be an objet d’horreur. Yes. Fuck, yeah.

If you enjoyed Eskew, he thinks you’ll definitely love this book - it’s a brilliant read. You can follow Alison on Twitter. 

Show Promo

As you might expect, our incredible VAs are doing lots of great work right now booking gigs!

If you want to hear more of Méabh, you can hear her in the first episode of The Secret of St Kilda, just out - it's a new supernatural thriller audio drama.

And from Feb 1, B. Narr will be appearing in Small Victories, a tragicomedy set in Washington DC.