Alex Nursall & Emily Kellogg
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Beatrice Ashe has a quiet life as an assistant at the Woodbine Agency, a small detective firm in the east end of Toronto. But things change for her quickly when she is brutally attacked and left near death. Now, her boss Grace Hawthorne has a choice to make: Let Bea die... or give her a second chance. A second chance that brings Bea into a new world of shadow.Woodbine is a show about monsters, mysteries, new beginnings, and new bodies. What would you do if you found yourself in a world you never knew existed? What would you do...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Woodbine turns vampire fiction into intimate serial drama, where casework, coercion, and old loyalties keep drawing blood.
Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production is a serial fiction drama where vampire power, bruised loyalty, and casework keep ending up in the same room.
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A blood-soaked domestic farce that stays sharp by keeping character tension at the center.
Woodbine gives MOONSEED a live-studio-audience charge, and that energy suits its quick, theatrical comedy. The story turns on a blood-and-household-chaos setup: a clogged sink, a shirtless Reese, Grace trying to keep the room moving, and Lennox using hunger and withholding as a…
A vampire power struggle where etiquette, panic, and blood feel equally dangerous.
Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production turns a power struggle into a tight, uneasy meeting, where talk of stability, growth, and transfer of power keeps colliding with panic, mind games, and blood.
A tense, dreamlike vampire chapter built on violence, dread, and shifting loyalties.
This episode keeps close to a narrator moving through a vampire world that feels half memory, half injury. It is strongest when it stays with the damage already done: a man with a broken arm, a torn throat, Grace cornered in an alley, and another vampire cut down before they can…
A missing emerald opens into a dark, intimate story about debt, hunger, and family strain.
A missing emerald gives this story a tight hook, then lets it wander into family strain, old debts, and a husband with a score to settle. The search starts simple enough, but each conversation pulls in another motive, and the narrator keeps the emotional distance clear: beauty…
A nightmare-heavy chapter that uses body horror and dream logic to sharpen the show's emotional stakes.
The episode folds fear, shame, and power into a vampire nightmare that starts in a tight, intimate aftermath before tipping into full horror. Lennox jolts Bea awake with a badly timed nose hit, and the story quickly slides into a dream space where the body seems to turn on…
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Deborah Treisman and a guest writer read and dissect one archival short story monthly.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.
Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production, episode 20.5: MOONSEED, follows Grace Hawthorne after Hollis confines her inside Emile and keeps her cycling through oleander, hunger, and dream states.
Grace spends the episode trying to push Lennox out of the company while keeping Bea out of his reach.
Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production episode 19, SUGARBERRY, keeps Bea inside Lennox's house while Grace, Hollis, and a board vote against Lennox drive the larger conflict.
Grace and Bea's relationship fractures as Grace begins working for Lennox, turning people into vampires while hiding the brutal reality from Bea.
Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production, episode 17, drops Grace and Bea into a run of nightmares where Lennox keeps invading the house, the apartment, and Grace's old memories.
Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production — “16: SERVICEBERRY” follows Bea’s developing vampire abilities amid Lennox’s control over Grace, Hollis, and the Emil Holdings community.
Bea visits Grace after an altercation with Lennox, then accompanies him to Ashbridge's Bay to investigate a fairy ring that may be forming near his property.
Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production follows Grace, Bea, and Reese as they transport a cursed book through Toronto after subway closures, festivals, a protest, and a 10K block the planned route.
“13: SPRUCE” from Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production follows Grace, Bea, and Aurelius as paranormal investigators handle Eleanor’s haunted mirrors, missing wife Natalia, and protective cat Whiskers.
A promo for the fictional podcast Woodbine, followed by a satirical fantasy series Stanland and a humorous segment from Getting to the Bottom of It.
A trailer for the fiction podcast Woodbine, about a detective agency assistant who is attacked and given a second chance in a world of monsters.
A Q&A episode for the fictional audio drama Woodbine, featuring cast and crew answering listener questions.
The cast and crew of the fictional podcast Woodbine answer listener questions about acting preparation and intense scenes.
A detective agency assistant is attacked and given a second chance in a world of shadows and monsters.