Virgil Kaylock

About

The Strange Tales of Virgil Kaylock

A series of Gothic Horror dramatic podcasts written by John Ramm, with an incredible cast and a music score composed by Neil Brand. The Strange Tales of Virgil Kaylock are supported by public funding with Arts Council England via the National Lottery.

New episodes to be released shortly.

Set in the 1920’s. “The Tales” tell the story of Virgil Kaylock. A modest and insecure young man whose life takes the strangest of turns as he battles with dark, supernatural forces and confronts his own feelings of inadequacy and fear. His adventure takes him to a haunted Moor, a cursed Sailing Ship, the Hellfire caves and the Arctic wastes as he battles with an incomprehensible evil. But why? Why do the forces of darkness pursue him? He will ultimately discover the shocking truth.

Episodes

It is 1922. Virgil Kaylock is at the start of an extraordinary adventure. He is an optimistic young man eager to make his way in the world. As he leaves home for the first time, he enters a strange and dark world and begins a journey to find the sinister truth that reveals his destiny.

Many thanks to Feedspot for including us in their Top 25 Gothic podcasts

Chapters 1-3

The young Virgil Kaylock is sent to work for a gentleman farmer on the Yorkshire Moors. Bewitched by his new employers’ wife, Virgil Kaylock fights to save her from the beast that stalks the inhabitants of the isolated farmhouse.

The Cast

Nick Boulton
Nick Boulton
Virgil Kaylock
Rachel Atkins
Rachel Atkins
Mrs. Briers
Emma Pallant
Emma Pallant
Elsa Elwood
Daniel Fraser
Daniel Fraser
The young Virgil Kaylock
Sam Dale
Sam Dale
Rufus

Chapters 4-6

A sailing ship carries the newly discovered contents of an ancient Egyptian tomb to The British Museum. The cargo is priceless but it is also deadly. Who or what is haunting the ship?

The Cast

Nick Boulton
Nick Boulton
Virgil Kaylock
Daniel Fraser
Daniel Fraser
Young Kaylock
Abigail Thaw
Abigail Thaw
Lady Tragaskis
Matthew Pidgeon
Matthew Pidgeon
James Penhallow
David Fielder
David Fielder
Robert McNIsh
Ellie Turner
Ellie Turner
Dorothy Bell

Chapters 7-9

Who goes to a séance? The weak willed, the foolish, and the desperate. For you never know what powers may be unleashed.

Nick Boulton
Nick Boulton
Virgil Kaylock
Daniel Fraser
Daniel Fraser
Young Kaylock
Ellie Turner
Ellie Turner
Dorothy Bell
Rachel Atkins
Rachel Atkins
Miss Gibson
Sam Dale
Sam Dale
Mr. Blackwell
Carolyn Backhouse
Carolyn Backhouse
Mrs. Butler

The Urn

Chapters 10-12

A mysterious urn arrives at The British Museum. Virgil is eager to find out why it is attracting so much attention and whose ashes it may contain.

Nick Boulton
Nick Boulton
Virgil Kaylock
Daniel Fraser
Daniel Fraser
Young Kaylock
Ellie Turner
Ellie Turner
Dorothy Bell
Hugh Ross
Hugh Ross
Professor Geisel
Josh Dylan
Josh Dylan
James Waverley
Sian Webber
Sian Webber
Annie Renshaw

Of Ice and Darkness

Chapters 13-15

Virgil sets sail for the Arctic. But what blasphemous horror awaits him in that land of cold and ice?

Nick Boulton
Nick Boulton
Virgil Kaylock
Daniel Fraser
Daniel Fraser
Young Kaylock
Ellie Turner
Ellie Turner
Dorothy Bell
Ellie Piercy
Ellie Piercy
Agatha Lennox
Fergus O’Donnell
Fergus O’Donnell
Jorgen Olsen
Andrew Havill
Andrew Havill
Dr Benjamin Lennox

The Crew

Behind the Curtain

Richard Vahrman
Richard Vahrman
Sound/Web/Producer

Richard has had a broad and diverse career as a keyboard player in a jazz-funk band, a medical researcher, bio-engineer at Brunel Uni with Heinz Wolff, micro-gravity researcher with ESA, and as a creator of location-based educational games for children. An obsessive inventor, Richard still experiments with computer boards building everything from door entry systems, cat feeding devices and musical instruments.

Martin Malone
Martin Malone
Sound/Design/Producer

Martin is an award-winning theatre director who originally trained as a graphic designer but has also extensively worked in stage, TV and film. He helped to found The Co-Active Theatre Factory, the Brighton-based collective staging critically acclaimed plays in London. Martin has also produced, written, directed and edited many TV and film projects with his company Moth Media.

John Ramm
John Ramm
Writer/Director/Producer

John has been an actor, writer and director for thirty-five years. He has performed in film, television and in theatres worldwide, performed in repertory theatre, the West End and Broadway, and been a member of The National Theatre and The RSC. He has written and performed for many years with The National Theatre of Brent; a comedy double act with shows on television, radio and theatre.

Neil Brand
Neil Brand
Composer

Neil Brand has been a silent film accompanist for over 30 years, regularly in London at the Barbican and BFI National Film Theatres, throughout the UK and at film festivals around the world. 
Neil is well-known as a TV writer/presenter on BBC4 with his hugely successful series’ Sound of Cinema, The Music that Made the Movies (2013), Sound of Song (2015), Sound of Musicals (2017) and Sound of Movie Musicals (2018). He is a regular presenter on Radio 4’s Film Programme, a Fellow of Aberystwyth University and a Visiting Professor of the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded the BASCA Gold Badge in 2016.

Thanks

We have received help and support from wonderful people. We would like to thank you all for your generosity and kindness, and for helping us make this dream a reality.


A hearty thankyou goes to:
Alex Richardson
Dennis Wiener
Patricia Boulton
Nicholas Boulton
Maria Yotova
Ron Kill
Robert Dee
Carolyn Backhouse
Michael Woodage
Beverly Klein


Tanya Taylor
Moira Nangle
Louise McKay
Leah Brotherhead,
Simon Barre-Brisebois
Martin Duncan
Karen Rose
Sam Paterson
Mark Ramm
Peter Moreton
Nick Herrett

We’d also like to extend a very grateful thanks to John McPherson, Collin Guthrie, David Thomas, Louis Thompson and FreeSFX.

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