The Elmwood Strain

The Elmwood Strain is a psychedelic horror podcast and limited audio drama series in eight parts, from writer Rachel Woolley. Biological horror with Lovecraftian roots, set in the wreckage of a small American town.

Paige escaped Elmwood ten years ago. She thought she got out. Then word arrives that one of the three best friends she abandoned has died under mysterious circumstances, and Paige finds herself driving back to the dying hometown she swore she would never see again. She finds the town being slowly swallowed by the forest, and what remains of it is in the grip of a strange new psychosis, lorded over by the friends she left behind. Crystal. Lucas. Jed. The people who knew her before. The people who knew everything.

They have been waiting a long time for Paige to come home. And they have plans for her reunion.

Directed and produced by Anthony Ladesich. Written by Rachel Woolley. A Violet Hour Media production.

For fans of I Saw the TV Glow, Color Out of Space, The Invitation, Yellowjackets, The Last of Us, Annihilation, Hereditary, and Midsommar.

Popular Topics Include: psychedelic horror podcast, biological horror podcast, scripted horror fiction, audio drama horror, fungal horror, cosmic horror podcast, Lovecraftian horror, small town horror, female-led horror podcast, trauma horror, indie horror podcast, folk horror, horror podcast like Yellowjackets, horror podcast like I Saw the TV Glow, horror podcast like The Last of Us, horror podcast like Color Out of Space, horror fiction podcast, dark fiction podcast, Anthony Ladesich, Rachel Woolley, Violet Hour Media.


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The Violet Hour Presents: Hollow - Episode 1
A mercenary embarks on a corporate mission to track down a rogue leader and encounters the darkness of space, the darkness of colonization, and ultimately, the darkness within herself.
24 min
2
The Violet Hour Presents: The Gloom - Episode 1
An investigative journalist uncovers clues surrounding a decades-old cold case, where she eventually learns the horrifying truth about a systemic cover-up tied to her own past.
30 min
3
8. Elmwood Pride — She Has Spent Ten Years Refu...
In the kitchen of Elmwood High School, she is finally going to face him. And then she is going to walk out of the building.
21 min
4
7. Barf Powder — The School Is on Fire and Fort...
Crystal and Jed are still hunting her in the smoke.
23 min
5
6. Little Shop — She Decides It Ends Tonight If...
The town is moving against her. The forest is moving against her. Somewhere underneath all of it, a boy's voice is calling her name.
23 min
6
5. Johnny F*cking Appleseed — The Drug Has Not ...
The drug, Paige is beginning to understand, is not going to wear off.
30 min
7
4. Triple Fudge Slumber Party Style — A Reunion...
Crystal opened the cookies. Paige did not ask what was in them. She should have asked.
23 min
8
3. Dope and Drive — Her Friends Are Alive and D...
The call to her office was a lie. An invitation. A hook.
17 min
9
2. ElmRot — A Dying Town Being Swallowed by the...
The streets are empty. The trees are dying. The few residents who remain speak about the rot the way you would speak about a god.
22 min
10
1. Mighty Sabertooths — A School Shooting Survi...
She built a life around staying gone. Then Lucas died and she lost the only excuse she had left.
22 min
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Ep 00: The Elmwood Strain - Season 1 Trailer
Introducing THE ELMWOOD STRAIN, a new scripted horror podcast from Violet Hour Media.
3 min