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The Elmwood Strain

Violet Hour Media 12 Episodes Jul 10, 2026

The Elmwood Strain is a psychedelic horror podcast and limited audio drama series in eight parts. It follows Paige, who returns to her dying hometown after a friend's mysterious death, only to find the town being consumed by the forest and gripped by a strange psychosis. The story blends biological horror with Lovecraftian roots, exploring themes of abandonment and reunion. The series is produced by Violet Hour Media and written by Rachel Woolley.

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The Violet Hour Presents: The Gloom - Episode 1 Jul 2, 2021 1982 Introducing THE GLOOM, a new scripted horror podcast from Violet Hour Media. An investigative journalist uncovers clues surrounding a decades-old cold case, where she eventually learns the horrifying truth about a systemic cover-up tied to her own past. Episode 01 - In Medias Res Samantha Williams, an investigative journalist, introduces the infamous unsolved early 1990s cold case of the Filmore F

8. Elmwood Pride — She Has Spent Ten Years Refusing to Remember Her Brother (Series Finale) Mar 8, 2021 1482 Psychedelic horror reaches its emotional center in the series finale of The Elmwood Strain, as Paige faces the truth she has spent ten years refusing to remember. In the kitchen of Elmwood High School, where the worst thing that ever happened to Paige Johnson ended in 2014, she is finally going to face the person she has spent ten years refusing to remember. She is going to face her greatest sin.

7. Barf Powder — The School Is on Fire and Forty-Two Ghosts Have Been Waiting Ten Years for This Mar 1, 2021 1561 Ghost horror reaches its climax in the seventh episode of The Elmwood Strain, as the school burns and the dead of Elmwood High finally move. The school is on fire. Paige is inside it. Lucas is inside it. The ghosts are inside it. And somewhere in the smoke, Crystal and Jed are still hunting her. Forty-two of them have been waiting in this building for ten years. They are not interested in being f

6. Little Shop — She Decides It Ends Tonight If She Can Survive Long Enough to End It Feb 22, 2021 1546 Survival horror accelerates in the sixth episode of The Elmwood Strain, as Paige stops running and starts fighting back. Whatever her friends were trying to do at the school, Paige has decided that it ends tonight. She just has to survive long enough to end it. She is high out of her mind on a drug she did not consent to take. The town is moving against her. The forest is moving against her. The

5. Johnny F*cking Appleseed — The Drug Has Not Worn Off and the Abandoned School Is Waiting Feb 15, 2021 2016 Psychedelic horror returns to its source in the fifth episode of The Elmwood Strain, as Paige is taken back to the one place she has spent ten years trying to forget. Lucas, Crystal, and Jed take her on quad bikes through the dead forest, past the dying trees, and back to the boarded-up shell of Elmwood High School. The place she has not seen in ten years. The place her friends say has been waiti

4. Triple Fudge Slumber Party Style — A Reunion, a Cookie Tin, and Something She Did Not Consent To Feb 8, 2021 1560 Psychedelic horror crosses into something darker in the fourth episode of The Elmwood Strain, as a reunion among old friends becomes something Paige never agreed to. She agrees to one night at Jed's basement with the people who used to know her best. A few drinks. A few cookies. A storm outside, the four of them in the same room for the first time in a decade. Crystal opens Paige's purse while sh

3. Dope and Drive — Her Friends Are Alive and Dealing a Drug That Came Out of the Rot Feb 1, 2021 1196 Folk horror and paranoid betrayal drive the third episode of The Elmwood Strain, as Paige discovers the truth about why she was called back. Crystal and Jed are alive. Paige finds them holed up in the wreckage of Jed's parents' house. Lucas, it turns out, is also alive — the call to her office was a lie, an invitation, a hook. Her friends are dealing a drug that came out of the rotting forest. Th

2. ElmRot — A Dying Town Being Swallowed by the Forest and the Rot Growing at Its Edge Jan 25, 2021 1490 Biological horror takes hold in the second episode of The Elmwood Strain, as Paige discovers the town she remembers no longer exists. Paige checks into the Elmwood Motel and finds the streets empty, the trees dying, and the few residents who remain looking at her like she is something they are trying to remember. Something is growing in the forest at the edge of town — pale, fleshy, expanding fas

1. Mighty Sabertooths — A School Shooting Survivor Returns to the Dying Hometown She Escaped Jan 18, 2021 1504 Psychedelic horror and survivor grief collide in the opening episode of The Elmwood Strain. Paige Johnson built her life around getting out of Elmwood. New city, new apartment, new locks on every door. Ten years ago a sixteen-year-old named Hunter Zedrow walked into her high school's graduation assembly with a homemade vest and a semiautomatic rifle and killed forty-two people. Paige and her thre

Ep 00: The Elmwood Strain - Season 1 Trailer Dec 24, 2020 261 Introducing THE ELMWOOD STRAIN, a new scripted horror podcast from Violet Hour Media. A traumatized woman reluctantly returns to her dying hometown to find the stoner friends she abandoned are hooked on a strange new drug—with bizarre, seemingly supernatural qualities. Subscribe for free wherever you listen to podcasts. LISTENER WARNING: This program includes depictions of violence and other subje

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