A Weird Western / science fiction radio drama, based on Steven S. Drachman's acclaimed series of novels. Watt O'Hugh the Third is a self-made man, Civil War vet, Time Roamer, former orphan of the New York slums and dime novel hero of the lost, magical West of the 1870s, and his story is one of the most original, riotous literary adventures in recent memory. Starring Sal Rendino and Emily Dalton.
In the season finale, Darryl Fawley recounts a fateful trip to 19th century rural China, which planted the seeds of his violent revolution. Watt and Emelina face a reckoning in the vast snowy mountains of Wyoming. And our hero rides off into the sunset ... for now. If you enjoyed this show, please rate and review it wherever you get your podcasts, tell your friends, post about it on social media. With your help, we will be back for season 2!
In 1874, the dime novel hero and fugitive Watt O'Hugh meets a remarkable woman, a practitioner of some sort of “dark arts.” She says she can Roam through Time, to return him to the world of July 1863, so that he can finally learn what really happened on that one fraught, terrible day. Does he really want to know the truth? What would do, if you were him?
In 1874, in one narrow and green Montana valley, which a 19th century adventurer might reach only by traversing a seemingly endless row of mountain ranges, lay the flush little town known as Sidonia. Sidonia was then, as now, hidden in myth and legend, a realm that housed great wealth, dreams of utopia, plans for insurrection ... and an army of deadlings.
In the latest episode of the weird-western sci-fi radio drama, Watt O'Hugh, the 19th-century dime novel hero turned disgraced fugitive, takes shelter, during the dead of winter, in a decrepit Wyoming mining camp, which is filled with cold-blooded murderers who want to kill him. Then things take a turn for the worse....
You may have heard of me. My name is Master Yu. In 1874, I had nothing to look forward to but a life of wine, women and bad poetry. For me, this was enough! I did not know that I had a mission to perform for the Empress. I did not know that I would one day meet Watt O’Hugh in the Hell of the Innocent Dead. Life often provides a surprise. This is my story.