Modern Gothic

Laughter in a Time of Mass Extinction

Delve deep into the roadkill of the A6195. Discover magpie-cop duo, Esco & Orrison. And prepare to shed tears over Barry Higginbottom's 'driver tizer'. In this relic from

Consolation is not on the map

No man had made it, that we knew. Not time enough, for it was the work of one night, and not even, but a minute, maybe less. Soft thunder that woke most who heard it as m

Murdering Gloves: The Musical

A hit musical has the world's highest body count. Another darkly comic tale from Modern Gothic. All copyright: Neil Fitzgerald Contact the author for rights, etc: neil

Balls

A ballad in the key of 80s movies à la John Hughes. That's it. That's the pitch. All copyright: Neil Fitzgerald Contact the writer; producer and performer for rights, et

A Horseshit Apocalypse of Two Halves

Was Mahler's 9th Symphony inspired by a sighting of the eldritch abomination in the Atlantic Ocean in 1908? Can self-styled cosmic weirdo Cthulhu escape the logics of cap

Funny Business: Who Shot The Yeoman?

Who shot Stan 'the Yeoman' Yeo? A devastating account of what really happened the night the stand-up comedian was gunned down on stage, which also provides an evisceratin

The Rest is Bollocks

When two of the world's most unlikely cultural commentators, Brian Hnnng and Goatie McWimaway, forge a rare podcast partnership, their seemingly inconsequential political

Series 2 Trailer

More weird stories coming soon including 'The Rest Is Bollocks', 'Murdering Gloves: The Musical' and so much more weirdness! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro's Waking Nightmare, or What The Butler Sought

SERIES FINALE! The waking nightmare life of Sir Kazuo Ishiguro and its enslavement to one of his characters. All copyright: Neil Fitzgerald Contact the writer; producer

A Year in a Puddle

A failed attempt to ride the New Nature Writing gravy train with A Year In A Puddle. TRIGGER WARNING: mention is made of 'Driver Tizer', 'hedge-porn' and tree fetishism.

A Problematic Supper with Slavoj

A despairing journalist tries to steer the so-called 'Elvis of nose-tweaking, T-shirt tugging and cultural theory' Slavoy Zizek away from the magnetic conversational pole

Cthappuccinos at the Cthulhu Café

When the cosmic abomination Cthulhu decides to diversity his portfolio and invest in civet-digested Arabica coffee beans, the future of humanity and independent coffee sh

Brexyt Is Icumen In

Brexyt Is Icumen In examines the disturbing reaction of the villagers of Oughtiton when a suspected saboteur doesn't put any bunting out on Brexyt Day. A classic of the f

The Toad

Toby Gulch finds himself in court as his joke experiment to cross the species divide and transition into a toad takes a more serious turn. All copyright: Neil Fitzgerald

Mere Oblivion

The Sixth Mass Extinction is closing in on the animals in The Wind in the Willows. How is this even possible? Badger explains all...from the grave. All copyright: Neil F

Blue Rinse, Thug Life

A young Southerner makes a schoolboy error in The North and finds himself in the firing line of some thuggish OAPs with horrific consequences. All copyright: Neil Fitzge