T
HEY CALL IT “OLD TIME” RADIO FOR A REASON, BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S ONLY A THING OF THE PAST – especially for fans of atmospheric terror tales. The new horror anthology podcast Tales From Beyond the Pale, inspired by the radio shows of yore, is set to launch on Halloween, at
talesfrombeyondthepale.com, and promises to unsettle with a nine-episode season of auditory anguish. To do their bidding, director/Glass Eye Pix founder Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter), the show’s host, and fellow director Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the
Dead) have assembled a menagerie of genre filmmakers to craft the 30-minute episodes. That list includes fellow Glass Eye Pix members Ti West (House of the Devil) and Graham Reznick (I Can See You), and indie horror directors J.T. Petty (The Burrowers), Ashley Thorpe (The Hairy Hands), Paul Solet (Grace), Jeff Buhler (Insanitarium) and Joe Maggio (Bitter Feast). Rue Morgue talks to Fessenden and McQuaid about the challenges for filmic storytellers leaving their visual tricks at the door.
Why this particular format? Glenn McQuaid: Larry and I were driving up to Woodstock to the set of Jim Mickel’s new movie Stake Land and to pass the hours on the drive we were listening to a Boris Karloff radio show [Inner Sanctum Mysteries’ “The Tell-Tale Heart”]. I was just really soaking up the atmosphere of it.
Larry Fessenden: It was a misty day; the sun was descending on the horizon. Glenn and I just looked at each other and said how much we enjoyed radio and how we listened to it as kids, even though we were children of the ’70s, and we said we’ve got to do this. Very shortly thereafter I called Glenn and said we
R 66M
have so many great filmmakers around, and we can’t always afford to shoot their movies but maybe we could do radio. That was the idea: take visual artists who are great storytellers and ignite some enthusiasm in them to tell their stories just with sound.
Who came up with the title Tales From Beyond the Pale, and where does it come from? GM: I did. [laughs] It’s a title I’ve been playing around with for a couple of years. It’s of “olde,” the tale. [The Pale is also] a very old name for Dublin, where I’m from.
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128