For a while there, I had TV show on SyFy that was based on my books. It was called Reginald the Vampire, and it starred Jacob Batalon, who plays Ned “The Guy in the Chair” Leeds in the Spider-Man movies.
Reginald the Vampire ran for two seasons. I went and hung out on the set, watched the filming, met the cast, ate a lot of food from craft services, which in Canada is simply called “Crafty.” I wrote (and recorded) a few posts here if you’d like to catch up on the whole thing. Then SyFy did away with pretty much all of its scripted programs (including very popular series like Chucky and Resident Alien) and Reginald got the axe along with it.
Boo! Hiss!
Anyway, when the show was live, I talked the producers into letting me host an official companion podcast for the show. But before I was able to so much as finish Season One of that podcast, the show was cancelled.
Again: Boo! Hiss!
The producer in charge of such things told me that I could do “whatever I wanted” with the episodes I’d finished (8 out of the planned 10), but I didn’t know what the hell to do with them. So I sat on them for two years. I guess I was in mourning. What was the point of releasing a companion podcast for a show that was no longer being filmed?
Then, an anniversary came.
Fat Vampire — my books that Reginald the Vampire was based on — turned 13 years old this year. Thirteen is a very important anniversary for vampires. Maybe you didn’t know this. If you didn’t know that, don’t look it up. It’s totally a thing. Thirteen is a horror number. Just ask any hotel that doesn’t have a 13th floor.
And as part of that anniversary, I decided to create a . Check out these mockups:
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit