S3.1 The Collecting

S3.1 The Collecting

*The young ones would appear strange on most days, but tonight they draw no notice. Tonight is the night of the collecting, and it is the one night of the year when the young ones move about in peace.*

Written by Cassandra Daucus (linktr.ee/residualdreaming)

Narrated by Georgia Cook (georgiacookwriter.com)

Produced by Georgia Triantafyllopoulou (instagram.com/audiogeekgr )

With music by Guided meditation (freemusicarchive.org)

And Kirk Osamayo (kirkosamayo.com)

And Thom Robson (thomrobsonmusic.com)

And sound effects provided by Soundly

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The episode illustration was provided by Matt Seff Barnes (mattseffbarnes.com)

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer.

Jasmine Arch manages our community.

Mary Pastrano helps orchestrate the chaos.

And the show would collapse into static and screams without the ongoing work of Karl Hughes, Georgia Triantafyllopoulou, and James Barnett — AKA Jimmy Horrors.

**Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Shirley Jackson, Robert Aickman, and a ton of fan fiction, Cassandra Daucus (she/her) writes soft horror and dark romance. She is intrigued by how the human mind responds to the unknown, and also enjoys a good gross-out. Her story "Teething" is published in Ooze: Little Bursts of Body Horror, edited by Ruth Anna Evans, and she has also published drabbles in Trembling With Fear and Hungry Shadow Press's Deadly Drabble Tuesday. Cassandra lives outside of Philadelphia with her family and three cats. She tweets at @residualdreamin and her website is residualdreaming.com/**

**Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She has written for publications such as Baffling, Vastarien Lit, and Flame Tree press, as well as the Doctor Who range with Big Finish. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at georgiacookwriter.com/**

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