The Treasure of Boneyard Bay: A Witch Hunter Tale
Please enjoy the first three chapters of this prequel to the Witch Hunter saga. Do you like what you hear? You can purchase the download of the full 15-hour extended edition right away on Bandcamp. It contains a number of additional scenes that shed a deeper light on the characters and the world.
You can listen to the slightly shorter standard edition for free as well on YouTube or any podcast app.
The Beast of the Western Wilds: a Witch Hunter Tale
Please enjoy this prequel to Witch Hunter entitled The Beast of the Western Wilds. You can support us by purchasing the download, which would help us to create more Witch Hunter stories, but you can listen to it streaming as well.
Announcing ‘The Beast of the Western Wilds’
Our new production, The Beast of the Western Wilds, has been written. It’s a new adventure set before the events in Witch Hunter. Ludlov is once more the protagonist in this gothic horror extravaganza that takes place in the wilderness far from the well-known streets of Sevenpeaks.
The Beast of the Western Wilds can be enjoyed with no previous knowledge of Witch Hunter, although that dramatized audiobook can be enjoyed for free on Bandcamp, YouTube and Podbean, so why wouldn’t you?
Like Witch Hunter, we will release this story both as an e-book and as a dramatized audiobook. The audio version will feature multiple voice actors, sound effects and an original music score. Recording is set to begin in July.
Witch Hunter: listen to the entire story now!
You can listen to the entire WITCH HUNTER story for free on YouTube now!
Witch Hunter has been a labour of love for us. We greatly appreciate your feedback.
In addition, you can support us by purchasing Witch Hunter in one of several ways:
- You can purchase the album on Bandcamp. If you do this, you will receive a download of the entire story without chatter in between the episodes. In addition, this download comes with wallpapers and illustrations.
- You can purchase the USB version. This is a beautifully produced hard copy of the story. It looks like an old-fashioned cassette tape, but it’s actually a USB flash drive. The cover has a beautiful map of Sevenpeaks on the inside and the stick contains lots of additional material, including the original music score by composer Peter Van Riet.
- You can buy the novel on Amazon. There is both a Kindle version and a paperback version. The paper version comes with illustrations throughout the novel.
You can also support us non-financially, which we appreciate just as much!
- You can write up your review on Goodreads, Amazon or your own blog.
- You can subscribe to the Audio Epics podcast, which includes both Witch Hunter and other stories plus episodes about audio storytelling in general.
- You can give the Audio Epics podcast a review on iTunes.
- You can share the link to our YouTube channel.
- You can talk about Witch Hunter to your friends!
Witch Hunter: The Dramatized Audiobook released!
We have come to it at last… Witch Hunter released on Bandcamp today!
“Witch Hunter: The Dramatized Audiobook” is now available for purchase on Bandcamp.
We have worked long and hard on this 13-hour epic and we hope that you will enjoy it.
For a limited time, we’re including a special launch promotion! Share Audio Epics posts about Witch Hunter on Facebook to receive a 50% discount code for the audiobook!
The end of the Chronicles… The beginning of Witch Hunter!
We have posted a new article on audioepics.com about the end of The Witch Hunter Chronicles… Which is also the beginning of Witch Hunter, including a very interesting holiday season deal indeed!
Sonic Society Interview
The Sonic Society, Canada’s #1 audio drama podcast, hosted by Jack Ward, features an interview with Audio Epics’ Domien De Groot and Eline Hoskens. It’s a really fun interview about Witch Hunter and our future plans!
Contest!
A few more days left! Send us your design and win the e-book, the audiobook, the music score, wallpaper and illustrations + a credit in the final product!
The Witch Hunter crowdfunding campaign
We’re two days into crowdfunding Witch Hunter: the dramatized audiobook and our backers have already smashed the initial barrier of $500, for which we are extremely grateful!
This is only the beginning, though. We have big intentions and are offering bigger rewards as well! We’re setting out to create the ultimate version of the Witch Hunter saga.
Announcing… WITCH HUNTER
While “The Witch Hunter Chronicles” received praise and an Ogle Award for its quality storytelling, compelling characters and exciting music and sound design, it actually doesn’t represent our full intentions for the story and this has always bothered us. Restrictions on time and resources forced us to limit the production to its current state. Meanwhile, there is so much more story to tell!
We want to give listeners the “true” story of Ludlov and Samina and that requires more attention to detail, more background and deeper exploration of the lore than the audio drama was able to provide.
That’s why I have been working on a novel simply titled “Witch Hunter”.
This novel will soon be turned into an audiobook.
Not just any old boring audiobook with one voice reading you the story, though. No, this will be as sonically exciting as the audio drama was. It will bring more detail, more character, more lore and a completely reimagined ending to the story.
To be able to produce this audiobook the way we envision it, we will need your support. That’s why we’ll be launching a crowdfunding campaign very soon on Indiegogo.
Before we launch it, though, please enjoy this video and share it with your friends!
New website!
Hey everyone,
We have created a brand new Audio Epics website. You will be able to find The Witch Hunter Chronicles there, read news and updates and listen to new projects as well!
Take a look at Audioepics.com !
Jack Ward interviews Domien & Eline
Back in July, Jack J. Ward from the Sonic Society interviewed us about The Witch Hunter Chronicles. This interview is also featured on Jerry Stearns’ radio show Sound Affects: A Radio Playground.
Listen to the interview and see some nice original Witch Hunter Chronicles artwork right here!
A poll
Hey everyone, we have a poll to gauge interest in a possible release in the future. Your feedback is highly appreciated!
A conversation from CONvergence
A roundtable conversation at CONvergence, Minneapolis between Fred Greenhalgh, myself, Eline Hoskens, Jonathan Mitchell and Scott Hickey ! This aired on radiodramarevival.com earlier last month. We discuss the convention, audio drama in general and our own projects.
Back from an incredible week in the USA!
 This is our Ogle award. The name comes from Charles Ogle, who was the first actor to portray Frankenstein back in the silent movie era. His grim visage adorns the plaque. |
 Accepting the award during the opening ceremony of CONvergence 2011. |
 The best picture of the lot, this one shows the wonderful audio drama people we got to know better during our stay.
Top to bottom, left to right: the gentleman with the Superman T-shirt is Jack J. Ward, host of the Sonic Society that has featured our show. He is also the director of Electric Vicuna productions and won an Ogle this year for his supernatural audio drama, Soul Survivor.
Second row, from the left: Jerry Stearns, the man who organizes the awards who is also a radio drama writer/producer with Great Northern Audio. To the right of him there’s me (Domien De Groot, writer/producer of the Witch Hunter Chronicles). Then we have Fred Greenhalgh who also hosts a podcast featuring modern audio drama (including Witch Hunter) called Radio Drama Revival. Besides that, he is an excellent writer/producer who created this year’s Mark Time award-winning production “The Cleansed“, a post-apocalyptic tale recorded on location in Maine. To his right, there is Cayenne Chris Conroy, winner of this years Gold Ogle award and director of Teknikal Difficulties, an audio drama production house based in Minneapolis.
Front row: left is Kris M. Markman, one of the judges of the awards, Brian Price, also a judge and co-writer/producer with Jerry Stearns on Great Northern Audio. To his right is Audio Epics’ voice performance director Eline Hoskens. To her right, Scott Hickey, writer/producer of horror audio drama series The Grist Mill. Finally, we have Samantha Mason (director) and Matthew J Boudreau (sound designer/mixer) from 1918, a retrofuturistic audio drama that won a Mark Time award this year.
We spent many hours until late in the night chatting with these people and all of them are amazingly committed audio dramaphiles who’ve made us little Belgians feel very welcome! |
Improved version coming up + some great art!
Greetings, all of you!
A small announcement: we are planning to release an improved, updated version of The Witch Hunter Chronicles soon. It will be presented as a new playlist. It will also have a higher bitrate, resulting in better sound quality. It should be the best way to experience this audio drama.
Meanwhile, we proudly present this wonderful artwork by the talented Eva Brarens, known as Gwenwhyfar on DeviantArt. In my opinion, it captures the feel of The Witch Hunter Chronicles perfectly:
The Witch Hunter Chronicles received with great enthusiasm!
It seems The Witch Hunter Chronicles has been received with great enthusiasm.
On his blog, Cleireac has written a glowing review of the series, stating:
“The Witch Hunter Chronicles is dark fantasy, certainly, but we are presented with a complex character who knows his own mind and is determined to follow his purpose, no matter where it leads. And it leads to some very unwholesome places indeed. The drama is full of betrayal, madness, fear, corruption, persecution, and intolerance. Ludlov stands alone as perhaps a redeeming figure in this world.
The series is no “Princess Bride,” mind you. It is a serious, gritty fantasy drama that sets the bar very high.”
You can read the full review on Cleireac’s Live Journal.
Also, the popular audio drama podcast Radio Drama Revival is now featuring The Witch Hunter Chronicles. The show’s host, Fred Greenhalgh, loves the series and calls it “well produced, brilliantly scored and awesomely gothic”.
Check it out over at Radio Drama Revival.
Meanwhile, some of you may be thinking “that’s all well and good, but when is the next part coming out”? We have good news. The music has been written for about half of what we call “the grand finale”. Yes, we’d like to end the series on a high note and that’s why the final two episodes of The Witch Hunter Chronicles will be especially long.
Very soon, listeners can expect Episode XI: Ignis, the last “normal” episode before the giant two-part big finish.
Ludlov takes a holiday
Dear listeners,
The Witch Hunter Chronicles is taking a short break from its weekly release schedule. The reason for this is our commitment to making the best possible audio drama. We have seen it commented on forums that many great productions come and go, dying out before they can reach their narrative climax. Rest assured, this is not the case for The Witch Hunter Chronicles. The entire story has been written and all the dialogue has been recorded. We could publish new episodes but we have decided against it to give our excellent composer, Peter Van Riet, the opportunity to perfect the music that the epic finale to our series requires.
I believe that at least half of what makes this series work is the incredible music that Peter has already created. We have been working on this story for a long, long time and we now wish to see it through to the end in the best possible quality.
Do not fear — we will bring the conclusion to the saga to you soon and we promise you:
It will be epic.
The Witch Hunter Chronicles featured on The Sonic Society
Fans of The Sonic Society, a popular Canadian podcast featuring the latest in modern audio drama, will be glad to know that The Witch Hunter Chronicles now features in the program.
Listen to the Society’s episode “Witches“, witch features, I mean, which features the first two episodes of The Witch Hunter Chronicles as well as other great productions such as “The Rule of Three” by the show’s host, Jack J. Ward.
And listen to “Perchance to Dream“, which features our third episode.
Theme Music of The Witch Hunter Chronicles
Good news!
The Theme Music of “The Witch Hunter Chronicles”, as heard in the opening and the closing of each episode, is now available as a free high quality streaming / downloadable listening experience at the facebook-page of our composer, Peter Van Riet. Enjoy!
The Witch Hunter Chronicles 