Magenta Presents

Fiction

Let Madame Magenta be your guide to things unnatural and threats unseen...

A horror/weird tales anthology series from the folks who brought you Mockery Manor and The Ballad of Anne & Mary, with stories introduced by celebrated psychic, medium and strange seductress Madame Magenta.

Season 1: the five-part miniseries Ghosted, starring Beth Eyre and Lucy Roslyn.

Season 2: a collection of short chillers from a host of guest authors.

Season 3: the adventures of Magenta & Bernard's Paranormal Investigations (also available on Long Cat Media's other podcast, Madame Magenta: Sonos Mystica)

Prepare yourself for... Magenta Presents!

Greetings fans of the esoteric! Prepare yourself for... MAGENTA PRESENTS!

A new horror anthology series from Long Cat Media. Launching February 14th 2023 with Episode 1 of Ghosted, starring Beth Eyre and Lucy Roslyn.

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Ghosted: Introduction

Madame Magenta introduces you, the listener, to... GHOSTED.

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Ghosted: Episode 1

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CONTENT WARNINGS: grief/bereavement, animal injury, 1x jump scare.

Perched on a rain-battered cliff edge is a former lighthouse; now a charming, boutique hotel. Owner and sole occupant Beth has spent months renovating, absorbing its essence into her bones, preparing for her first guest to arrive. But when they do, to Beth's horror, it is a figure from a past she has tried to forget. Keira.

GHOSTED is a five-episode psychological drama and ghost horror story, written and directed by Lindsay Sharman, with music, sound design and editing by Laurence Owen.

Featuring Beth Eyre as Beth, Lucy Roslyn as Keira, Tessa Hatts as Merta, Laurence Owen as Wes and additional voices, and Lindsay Sharman as additional voices.

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Ghosted: Episode 2

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Previously: Reclusive Beth is shocked to discover that the first visitor to her converted lighthouse Bed & Breakfast is a figure from a past she has tried to forget - Keira. During their chilly reunion, Keira learns that the lighthouse creaks ominously, and that you can only get phone reception if you lean out of a bathroom window. Suddenly, a seagull slams violently into the glass and falls injured onto the outer walkway (known as the Widow's Walk). They decide to ignore it, hoping it will fly away, and Beth says she'll be back this evening to cook dinner.

In a flashback, we find Beth, Keira and friend Wes in a university bedroom. They are holding a seance, and they appear to make contact with an entity calling itself Gabby - the name of Beth's childhood friend, killed in a road accident.

CONTENT WARNINGS: grief/bereavement, chronic illness, animal injury

GHOSTED is a five-episode psychological drama and ghost horror story, written and directed by Lindsay Sharman, with music, sound design and editing by Laurence Owen.

Featuring Beth Eyre as Beth, Lucy Roslyn as Keira, Tessa Hatts as Merta, and Laurence Owen as Wes.

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Ghosted: Episode 3

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Previously: Lighthouse BnB owner Beth has been unexpectedly visited by an estranged friend, Keira. Over an awkward dinner, Keira tells Beth what's happened since they last met. Not only is Keira a widow, but her late husband was their mutual university friend Wes (who was present at the seance when they communed with the entity claiming to be Gabby). To Beth's disgust, Keira also reveals that she has come to the lighthouse to write a book about spiritualism. Beth investigates a loud thumping noise upstairs, which turns out to be the open bathroom window. Keira claims she never opened it. Next morning, housekeeper Merta tells Keira the story of the ghostly keeper said to be haunting the lighthouse. While Beth tries to stave off an oncoming migraine, Keira tells her that the injured seagull on the widow's walk is now dead.

And in Episode 1, Beth tells Merta that she has been receiving gross calls from "a heavy breather".

CONTENT WARNINGS: grief/bereavement, chronic illness, animal death, horror

GHOSTED is a five-episode psychological drama and ghost horror story, written and directed by Lindsay Sharman, with music, sound design and editing by Laurence Owen.

Featuring Beth Eyre as Beth, Lucy Roslyn as Keira, Tessa Hatts as Merta, Laurence Owen as Wes and the Radio DJ, and Lindsay Sharman as Theresa.

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Ghosted: Episode 4

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Previously: a nauseous, migraine-y Beth crawls out onto the structurally unstable widow's walk to pick up the dead seagull. Its condition is much worse than she and Keira expected - it looks like it's been run over. Blood drips from the bin bag, and Beth heads to the kitchen to fetch a mop. The phone rings, and Beth hears Wes's voice speaking to her. Shocked, she goes for a walk along the beach to clear her head. While walking, she thinks she sees Keira out on the widow's walk. She calls the lighthouse, expecting to see the figure walk inside. But when Keira answers the phone in the kitchen, Beth realises the figure is... something else.

In a flashback, Beth tells Keira that she is staying in her university room because her chronic migraines have worsened. But despite that, she wants to keep trying to contact Gabby.

CONTENT WARNINGS: grief/bereavement, supernatural horror, toxic friendships

GHOSTED is a five-episode psychological drama and ghost horror story, written and directed by Lindsay Sharman, with music, sound design and editing by Laurence Owen.

Featuring Beth Eyre as Beth and Lucy Roslyn as Keira.

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Ghosted: Episode 5

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Previously: after seeing the mysterious figure on the widow's walk, Beth rushes back to the lighthouse. She finds Keira with bloodied hands, which, she claims, came from the dead body of Beth's parrot Margot, but the parrot has now disappeared. They hide in the lantern room in case an intruder is still in the building. Keira says she's been feeling "a presence" during her stay, and that she thinks it's Wes. Beth admits she has also felt that she's not alone in the lighthouse. They begin to hear something climbing the lighthouse stairs. Suddenly, the radio turns itself on, and plays what appears to be fragments of Beth and Keira's past conversations. And then - a horrifying scratching and banging at the locked door. Keira tries to convince Beth to open the window so they can escape via the unstable scaffolding, but Beth desperately wants to stay. She believes the entity could be Gabby. Keira finally reveals that she pushed the glass at the seance - Gabby never came through. It was her.

CONTENT WARNINGS: grief/bereavement, supernatural horror, toxic friendships

GHOSTED is a five-episode psychological drama and ghost horror story, written and directed by Lindsay Sharman, with music, sound design and editing by Laurence Owen.

Starring Beth Eyre as Beth and Lucy Roslyn as Keira, with Tessa Hatts as Merta, Laurence Owen as Wes, Hayley Evenett as the Buyer, and Lindsay Sharman as Beth's mum Theresa.

This series is supported by Arts Council England National Lottery project grants, and our Ko-fi supporters. Become a supporter on Ko-fi and help us make more podcasts!

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The Yellow Necktie

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Magenta Presents... the first of many short stories: The Yellow Necktie, by Mason Ball.

Mason’s work can be found at his website, including his novel The Thirty-Five Timely & Untimely Deaths Of Cumberland County, together with short story collections, fairy tales, poetry and more…

Mason also moonlights as cabaret host Benjamin Louche at London's award-winning Lynchian cabaret institution The Double R Club

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The Woodwose

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Magenta Presents... the second short story of the series! The Woodwose, by Lindsay Sharman.

A story from a long time ago, when humans shared the land with the wolf, the lynx, the hobgoblin and the grim. A story of a young girl born between worlds.

Lindsay is the writer and director of Mockery Manor, The Ballad Of Anne & Mary, and Ghosted.

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Little Boxes (Live from London Podcast Festival)

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Greetings, fans of the esoteric! It's a very special episode - recorded live from the London Podcast Festival 2023, it's a fusion of Sonos Mystica and Magenta Presents!

Magenta and Bernard begin by meeting their tragic fans and solving a few problems through the mystic arts of bibliomancy and cat cards, before embarking on a brand new, chilling tale - Little Boxes.

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