Asezhia
Season 11, Episode 10
October 16, 2023
The demon is loose. The legend is real.
For Halloween, Re-Imagined Radio presents "Asezhia," by Marc Rose and Jerrel McQuen of Ensérné Media. An ancient jewel, stolen from Asezhia, a planet of great beauty and dark history, transforms into a hellish denizen with an insatiable hunger for death and blood. Even Emile Song, the telepathic Special Detective from Quaymet, the capitol of a galactic civilization, may be out of his reckoning as he goes up against a skeletal fiend that can vanish in a ruby mist. From our Guest Producer series.
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Production
Cast
Linda Stroh as Abrah Shahad
Kevin Quigley as Alex Hunt
Roland Marks as "Beast"
Marc Rose as Trickles
Darren Glades as Professor Durrick Henchard
Aaron Niles as Emille Song
John Summers as the Announcer
Credits
Written by Jerrel McQuen
Sound Design, Original Music Composition, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Graphic design by Holly Slocum
Re-Imagined Radio announcer is Jack Armstrong
Produced and Hosted by John F. Barber
Significance
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Producer's Notes
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Background
"Asezhia" (Ah-SEIZE-sha) was created in 1989 by Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose, for a commercial radio series called Shreek Show, broadcast on WKRL-FM, Tampa, Florida, and "about eight other markets" (Booth).
Learn more→ at the Ensérné
Media website, "a
repository for various things we have developed or are in the process of developing" for our radio
storytelling.
— Jerrel McQuen and Marc Rose
"Shreek Show," said Rose in a Tampa Tribune interview, "is a mixture of horror, humor and terror. We're trying to scare people while they're laughing. And things move fast. We're not going to put you to sleep" (Hill 6F).
"Asezhia" (Ah-SEIZE-sha), written by Rose and McQuen as an episode for Shreek Show, was originally called "Vapors." Drawing on Dry Smoke & Whispers for location, characters, and atmosphere, with an extra helping of terror given the focus of Shreek Show, "Vapors" featured telepathic "Special Detective" Emilie Song and his partner, Professor Durrick Henchard, much in the mold of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with a dash of Blade Runner by way of Casablanca for spiciness. But Song, based in Quaymet, the capitol of a galactic civilization, is perhaps out of his reckoning as he goes up against a skeletal fiend that can vanish in a ruby mist, a hellish denizen from the distant world of Asezhia.
"Vapors" was broadcast only once, and then shelved. Now, renamed "Asezhia," this cinematic radio story returns in this episode of Re-Imagined Radio, a portent for a potential reboot of Dry Smoke & Whispers. We hope you enjoy listening.
Works Cited
Booth, Philip. "New Tampa Radio Series Is A Read Scream." The Tampa Bay Times. Oct. 28,
1988.
Hill, Judy. "'Shreek' Radio Show Aims at Horror, Humor." The Tampa Tribune. Dec. 5, 1988,
1F, 6F.
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