the lower light
an anthology of queer ghost stories
About
Welcome to St. Issey's Cove, where the sky is blue, the water is bluer, and strange things keep washing up on the shore...
The Lower Light is a Gothic/horror/supernatural podcast focused on telling queer Gothic stories. It follows Laurie Caston, Head Curator of the lighthouse museum, as he delves into the history of the museum's artefacts and discovers their stories. There's a heavy emphasis on queerness (obviously), the human experience, sea symbolism (with a few sea shanties to boot) and the uncanny. You might like it if you enjoy The Magnus Archives, Welcome to Nightvale or Archive 81.
episode list
01: Sealskin: an introduction, a broken telescope, cottage lesbians, blackberry jam and strange things that crawl out of the sea (TRANSCRIPT)
02: Coin Toss: a liberty dollar, a rifle ball, a meeting in unforeseen circumstances and the writer's love of wilfred owen's poems (TRANSCRIPT)
03: Incision: surgical tools, polyamory, 1850s Edinburgh, graverobbing and creatures of the night (TRANSCRIPT)
04: In the Dark: a lightbulb, a tank, a lost boy, unsafe working conditions and malevolent power outages (TRANSCRIPT)
Contact / navigation
If you have any questions, feedback, encouragement etc., please feel free to drop me an email!
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