Not Quite Dead
Hanging Sloth
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As an A&E nurse, Alfie deals with horror everyday, but almost being killed by a walking corpse and being saved by a vampire takes things a bit far, even for him. The vampire is Casper, and he’s hundreds of years old, and Alfie can’t seem to leave him alone, despite both of their best efforts.
The more Alfie learns about Casper and his world, the more he finds himself inescapably drawn deeper into both. Despite Casper’s misgivings about his kind, the relationship between vampires and humans is more complicated than just predator and prey, and his own relationship with Casper is a heady, carnal blend of horror, hunger, love and lust.
Not Quite Dead is a (mostly) single narrator gory horror romance audio drama exploring themes of identity, sexuality and death. Totalling 40 episodes over 3 completed seasons, with S4 on the way in 2025.
This show is part of the Rusty Quill Network, and is created independently by Eira Major (AKA Hanging Sloth) who writes, sound designs, and performs as Alfie and Neige.
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What is Not Quite Dead about?
Alfie is not quite dead, and he’s going through some… changes. Alfie is a nurse working overtime on the night shift in A&E when a patient comes in with her throat torn out. The girl on the gurney is the first of many, baffling staff and horrifying the public. Alfie almost becomes another victim of the walking, rotting dead things which have been attacking his patients, but is saved by the same man he saw dripping blood into his patient’s eye. He’s Casper, and he’s a vampire, and now he’s saved Alfie’s life the two of them are inescapably bound together. Neither of them are happy about it, but the draw of each other’s blood is irresistible. Another brush with death later, Alfie must make a choice: death or undeath. He’s not sure which is worse, but whatever he chooses, there’s bound to be blood.
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II: Beer & Bloodlust
Not Quite Dead
11/14/22 • 30 min
In episode two, Alfie's health takes a turn for the worse, and then another turn, this time for the weird.
Here's the transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-2/
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This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:
profanity
references to sex
frequent violence
traumatic injury
death, including violent death
references to medical procedures
hospital settings
This Episode's Content Warningsdiscussion of the process of dying
descriptions of violent injuries
descriptions of death and dead people
hospital settings
mentions of medical procedures
swearing
references to sex
mentions of infidelity
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III: Everyone's Miracle
Not Quite Dead
11/28/22 • 26 min
In episode three, Alfie sees even more patients with blood loss and torn throats, and Alfie encounters that strange man he saw on the day Linda didn't die, and the vibes are weirder than anything he's ever experienced in his whole life.
Here's the transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-3/
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Show tumblr: https://notquitedeadpod.tumblr.com/
Content Warnings:
Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. This episode contains:
– mild profanity
– references to sex
– discussion of the process of dying
– medicalised descriptions of death processes and dead people
– death, including violent death
– descriptions of violent injuries, but not the violence that caused them
– hospital settings
– mentions of blood
– a character experiencing dissociation
– a character struggling with memory issues
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IV: A Cobweb on the Soul
Not Quite Dead
12/12/22 • 29 min
Alfie's life was moving on quite happily when he had no memory of Casper, but an ordinary night out sets him back on the path to his own not-quite demise...
Here's the transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-4/
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Show tumblr: https://notquitedeadpod.tumblr.com/
Content Warnings:
Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. This episode contains:
– discussion of violent deaths
– heavy descriptions of blood
– discussion of drinking alcohol/being drunk
– heavy descriptions of decaying flesh
– detailed descriptions of violent death
– descriptions of violent injuries
– descriptions of dead people
– swearing
– a character experiencing dissociation
– a character struggling with memory issues
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I: The Girl on the Gurney
Not Quite Dead
10/31/22 • 21 min
Alfie is not quite dead and has decided to sit down to record the events which led him to be in this state, beginning with the description of a person he calls the girl on the gurney.
Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-1/
Hanging Sloth Studios on twitter: https://twitter.com/hangingsloths
Show tumblr: https://notquitedeadpod.tumblr.com/
Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. This episode contains:
– mild profanity
– references to sex
– discussion of the process of dying
– medicalised descriptions of death processes and dead people
– death, including violent death
– references to medical procedures
– hospital settings
– mentions of blood
– mentions of infidelity
– descriptions of blood
Written, performed and edited by Eira Major.
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VII: What Are We?
Not Quite Dead
03/06/23 • 32 min
Alfie describes the early days of his time with Casper, the confusion and conflict bound up in it all. They're bound by blood and it goes both ways; Casper cannot leave anymore than Alfie can. So where is Casper now, when Alfie needs him more than ever?
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Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/what-are-we/
Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1da0Be9ZlGtFuUwsWL0PZlKM9KqGYWueBcJy0UNTgc78/edit?usp=sharing
Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:
– profanity
– references to sex
– frequent violence
– traumatic injury
– death, including violent death
– references to medical procedures
– hospital settings
– mentions of blood
Episode Specific Content Warnings:
- Descriptions of blood
- Threats of death and harm
- Descriptions of decaying flesh
- Descriptions of the experience of a panic attack (describing the feelings felt during the panic attack including racing heart, breathlessness, and panic)
- Mentions of hospitals
- Alcohol use
- Description of violent assault
- Scenes of a sexual nature
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V: Fight or Flight or Not
Not Quite Dead
12/27/22 • 32 min
Alfie can't sleep, and recounts the days following the first time Casper saved his life, including the unfortunate implications of Casper having drunk Alfie's blood.
Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-5/
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Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. This episode contains:
– discussion of violent deaths
– heavy descriptions of blood
– biting necks
– descriptions of violent death
– descriptions of the experience of a panic attack (describing the feelings felt during the panic attack including racing heart, breathlessness, and panic)
– descriptions of violent injuries
– descriptions of dead people
– swearing
– threats to kill or harm others
– descriptions of kissing
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VI: A Friend Indeed
Not Quite Dead
02/20/23 • 36 min
In his memories, Alfie returns to work after spending the night with Casper only to find things more difficult than he expects, and in his present, the person at the door is back.
Transcript with Content Warnings: https://hangingslothstudios.com/a-friend-indeed/
Or: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xGjbSyF9KvRyaXNvd5KNsqQHqCpuwjcYOxNmM7mnaQ0/edit?usp=sharing
This show is a work of horror fiction frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. In addition, listeners should be aware that this show contains the following throughout:
profanity
references to sex
frequent violence
traumatic injury
death, including violent death
references to medical procedures
hospital settings
Episode Six, Content Warningsdiscussion of violent deaths
references to sex
heavy descriptions of blood
descriptions of decaying flesh
detailed descriptions of needles and cannulas
mentions of throwing up
descriptions of death
non-graphic descriptions of medical procedures
swearing
Not Quite Dead is written, performed, and edited by Eira Major, under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License. With guest performance from Alex Peilober-Richardson as Haley. Live, laugh, bite.
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07/18/23 • 2 min
You can be a part of bringing this magical world to life by supporting the show on IndieGoGo! Become a part of the mayhem, mischief, madness and magic of the Twelvelms Conspiracy today.
Support on IndieGoGo: https://igg.me/at/twelvelms
Find out more: https://twelvelms.com/
Transcript for this trailer: https://hangingslothstudios.com/trailer-introducing-the-twelvelms-conspiracy/
Nestled in the hills and trees of the North of England is a tiny town, invisible to passing hikers and planes flying overhead. Twelvelms is part of a secret world just out of sight of the one we all live in; a dangerous magical world full of curses and spells beyond our imagination, and hidden histories which loop and twist like the knotted roots of ancient trees. With rewards on offer including a prospectus for Twelvelms University which is jam-packed with detail and world-building, an immersive journalling experience which will provide you with a journalling activity once a month for entire year, welcome boxes filled to the brim with Twelvelms goodies, and a lite RPG discord server run by the creator of the show, there’s something for everyone. The campaign has also built carbon off-setting into the production budget, so you know we care about the planet as well as the podcast!
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Not Quite Dead Season Two is Coming 7th August
Not Quite Dead
07/25/23 • 2 min
More vampires for you to sink your teeth into coming in less than two weeks.
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Transcript Below
ALFIE: Recording for posterity, I guess.
At some point in the last few days, I don’t know when, I can’t remember because--
It doesn’t matter why. But I drank approximately 1 litre of vampire blood, with a view to. In an attempt to. Because I was trying to become a vampire.
I did this because-- because otherwise I was going to die. I didn’t make this change lightly, I wasn’t coerced, and I’m not dead, and I think-- I think it’s worked, but it’s like. It’s not as total a transformation as I was expecting. I’m... well. I’m definitely different. I feel like I could snap a tree. But also my entire body hurts and my throat feels like it’s on fire and it has since-- well. Since I ran out of the blood bags in the fridge. I even tried drinking some saline but--
ALFIE LAUGHS
Yeah that didn’t help, didn’t help!
There are no studies about this. No records of the change. I recorded what happened after I drank the blood, but I’ve not listened back to it yet. Maybe I should have had a video feed or something, but I... I don’t know.
I can feel the places I was injured before. It’s less pronounced, for sure, but I can still feel them. It’s like. I don’t know. It’s like it’s not happened all at once. I don’t know what I was expecting. It’s pretty dramatic but--
Mmmf.
It doesn’t feel total. It doesn’t feel complete. I don’t know how to articulate this.
I can smell every person in this apartment building and oh god.
It’s so odd because they don’t smell different than they would have before, you know, I can smell a small and it’s the smell of people. Obviously I couldn’t smell anyone through walls and ceilings before so there’s that but also like. They smell. Good. Appetising.
Saying they smell like food is missing something fundamental about how much like people they smell, they do not smell like a roast dinner or something they smell the same as they did before only now? Now I want to eat them.
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Based Vampirification: A Not Quite Dead Audio Essay
Not Quite Dead
07/03/24 • 16 min
Hey folks! Something a bit different this week. Last year, I got quite a lot of interest in the idea of me talking about my relationship with existing vampire media, queer readings of those vampires, and how those things contributed to the creation of Not Quite Dead. Mild Spoiler Warnings for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, Dracula, Interview with the Vampire and Underworld. Based Vampirification is me discussing the various pieces of vampire media that set me down the path which would eventually lead to the conception of Not Quite Dead. It involves tenuous leaps, stretched interpretations and deeply personal readings of the texts in question, all informed by many years of academic literary study and not-so-academic vampire brain rot.
Transcript available here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/based-vampirification/
Or here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AZ0aYTVZ9j_FL1OBoNQAlfWUoPsPQxAAKaYqssHe_Ns/edit
If you're intrigued to take a slightly more scholarly jaunt into this subject matter, here are some things which I think make for a great jumping off point. There's a range of things listed here, including a fun video essay, some non-academic articles and an academic paper:
- ‘The trail of blood : queer history through vampire literature’ https://louis.uah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1220&context=uah-theses
- ‘Vampires Are Us’ https://glreview.org/article/vampires-are-us/
- ‘Closet and Coffins: The Queer-Coded History of Vampires and Representation’ https://ohiofusion.com/closet-and-coffins-the-queer-coded-history-of-vampires-and-representation/
- ‘Vampiric Seduction and Vicissitudes of Masculine Identity in Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ https://www.jstor.org/stable/40347238
- ‘Twilight’ (a video essay) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqloPw5wp48
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Podcast Q&A
Why did you start this show?
I wanted to write a vampire story that answered questions I had about other vampire shows, as well as write a story I could really feel myself represented in. So often monstrousness is used as a metaphor for queerness, but the queerness is left subtextual. This show very much makes that subtext into text, loudly and indugently.
What do you hope listeners gain from listening to your show?
I've heard this show awakens things in people. Whilst this was not my intent, I do think it's good. Be a freak. That's good, actually.
Which episode should someone start with?
Episode I: The Girl on the Gurney. You could skip ahead if you want but you're going to get lost if you don't start at the beginning.
Which have been your favourite episodes so far?
So far I think my favourite episode is XXIX: What A Catch. It was really fun to write, perform and edit, and I think it might be the best season opening I've ever written.
Which episode are you most proud of?
To date I'm most proud of XXVIII: The Kill Jar. It was really challenging in regards to sound design, and there were places I felt I struggled to get Neige as consistent as I liked in the performance so I rerecorded them multiple times. I'm proud of lots of episodes of this show which we're such a fight to get right, but the amount of time I spent on this one makes it very special to me.
What is your vision for your show?
gay vampires.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Not Quite Dead have?
Not Quite Dead currently has 51 episodes available.
What topics does Not Quite Dead cover?
The podcast is about Scary, Fiction, Vampire, Drama, Audio Drama, Lgbtq, Podcasts, Halloween, Queer, Spooky and Horror.
What is the most popular episode on Not Quite Dead?
The episode title 'III: Everyone's Miracle' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Not Quite Dead?
The average episode length on Not Quite Dead is 23 minutes.
How often are episodes of Not Quite Dead released?
Episodes of Not Quite Dead are typically released every 12 days, 22 hours.
When was the first episode of Not Quite Dead?
The first episode of Not Quite Dead was released on Oct 24, 2022.
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