Out now: THE LESSER DEAD is an immersive audio drama about a disparate group of vampires living in the wild-and-wooly world of 1978 New York City.
The Lesser Dead is a perfect podcast for Halloween, one of the few audio drama podcasts featuring vampires right now. You'd think with vampires being so popular, there would be more of them, but we looked and haven't found any. Echoverse Studios' adaptation of Christopher Buehlman's 2014 novel about vampires in 1978 New York City with a cast that includes Jack Kilmer, Minnie Driver, Saul Rubinek, and Danny Huston.
I mean, I wrote some funny stuff for Neva, but a gifted comedic actor like her can make funny lines hysterical, and so it is in this performance. What do you suppose is the appeal of vampires for them to be repeatedly brought back as foils? There's a lot to unpack with vampirism – the taboo of cannibalism expressed as drinking blood, a profanation of Christian funeral rites and the drinking of Christ's blood at mass, class structures, sexuality, the desire for immortality, etc.
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