Maeltopia - A New World of Horror Fiction

I’m very impressed by their excellent works and fantastic creative minds. From sound design to voice acting to the stories, it’s very well done. I also love the hand-drawn logo by Mark Anzalone; it shows wonderful creativity with a creepy look. I heard of this podcast, as well as Sleep Wake Cycle, from listening to several Rusty Quill podcasts recommending them. All in all, I adore it. Superb work.

I came across the gentleman from hell as a suggestion after I binged old gods of Appalachia. I fell hook line and sinker for this plot, and as I caught up on episodes, found myself counting down the days to the next drop. Searching around I found out this was an entire universe, and now I’m obsessed with obscurary. I’ve seen a lot of hate accusing the artists of AI work, but clearly it’s not. As a voice actor, stage artist, paranormal investigator -even a cult survivor- and writer myself, I am absolutely enthralled by what this group continues to put out. Highly suggest listening to the episode where the creators and the actors all sit and talk.

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I am just starting to enjoy this after a dozen episodes but it takes a lot to keep paying attention. The writing is good but there is a huge disconnect between the author’s written story and the fact that it is being delivered in an audio format. It’s way too dense and verbose and the pace doesn’t leave you any time to digest. Details are lost because they’re buried in a long string of sentence clauses that stack multiple images and ideas and you have a few seconds to process them before you are left behind in the story. Less is more; you don’t need to try to prove so much and I don’t want to have to backtrack or pause just to take a minute to decipher a bunch of run on sentences. The content is good — it just really needs to be pared down.