Nick Boulton
Virgil Kaylock
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.
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.
A Gothic Adventure. We inhabit a world forever teetering on the lip of destruction and the fall into darkness. The shadow world. The world of Virgil Kaylock!
Once you know the truth, it can kill you!
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.
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?
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.
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.
Chapters 13-15
Virgil sets sail for the Arctic. But what blasphemous horror awaits him in that land of cold and ice?
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 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 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 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.
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.
We’d also like to extend a very grateful thanks to John McPherson, Collin Guthrie, David Thomas, Louis Thompson and FreeSFX.
