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TAGLINE: A Secretive organisation. Two antagonistic colleagues. Dracula's severed head...

DESCRIPTION

The Holmwood Foundation is a bi-weekly Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast created by Fio Trethewey (Big Finish: Gallifrey War Room, 18th Wall Productions) and Georgia Cook (Big Finish: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, Gallifrey War Room, BBC Books, The Dracula Daily Sketch Collection). It is a modern day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula.

We follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula over the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a road trip across the country in an effort to achieve the Harker's wish: stop Dracula once and for all.

This is a story about identity and self discovery, family loyalty and devotion, wrapped around a nightmare of a road trip with a rejuvenating severed head, incredibly sincere Victorian ghosts, and an analogue recorder.

EPISODE LENGTH:

30-45 minutes each. After a successful crowdfunding campaign to raise the £23,000 required to pay our cast and crew, we will be releasing season one biweekly from the 10th of June 2025, with a total of seven episodes and a further two seasons planned after that.

REVIEWS:

"This updated take on Dracula with a queer twist is brilliantly inventive while also keeping Bram Stoker’s cast of characters front of mind." - Hannah J Davies, The Guardian (2025)

"A brand new take on the Dracula legend that modernises the story, takes it forward in innovative new ways, tackles different but pertinent social stereotypes, embraces queer identities and diversity at a time when those things are senselessly under threat, and which comes with several stamps of audio storytelling quality." - Tony Fyler, Mass Movement (2025)

"The Holmwood Foundation promises to be a tale of self-identity and self-love that shows that beneath the horrors lies a vulnerable beating heart not even the most vile of bloodsuckers can bleed dry." - Cakeradio, Podcake (2025)

The Holmwood Foundation Podcast © 2024 by Georgia Cook and Fio Trethewey is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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