Lore explores the real-life frightening and disturbing tales that have given rise to our modern-day myths and legends. The six-episode second season features new tales from the podcast, as well as original stories not yet available in podcast form. The anthology series continues to interweave rich archival and mixed media sequences to complement the narrative segments.
Lore is executive produced by Ben Silverman (The Office), Howard T. Owens (Killing Kennedy), Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead), Brett-Patrick Jenkins (Face Off), Sean Crouch (The Exorcist, Numb3rs), Jon Halperin and Mark Mannucci (A Year in Space). The series is produced by Propagate Content and Valhalla Entertainment. Aaron Mahnke is Co-Executive Producer. Launched in 2015 by writer and producer Aaron Mahnke, the Lore podcast has generated a massive audience, was named "Best of" by Apple multiple times, and was listed as one of the “15 podcasts you need to hear” by Entertainment Weekly. Mahnke’s three-book Lore series, The World of Lore series, is available from Penguin Random House.
Lore explores the real-life frightening and disturbing tales that have given rise to our modern-day myths and legends. The six-episode second season features new tales from the podcast, as well as original stories not yet available in podcast form. The anthology series continues to interweave rich archival and mixed media sequences to complement the narrative segments.
Creator:
Adapted from Aaron Mahnke’s award-winning podcast of the same name
Executive Producers:
Ben Silverman
Howard T. Owens
Gale Anne Hurd
Brett-Patrick Jenkins
Sean Crouch
Jon Halperin and Mark Mannucci
Co-Executive Producer:
Aaron Mahnke
Cast:
Josh Bowman - Jack Parsons
Doug Bradley - Dr. Robert Knox
Thomas Kretschmann - Inspector Georg Reingruber
Paula Malcomson - Mary Webster
Maimie McCoy - Elizabeth Bathory
Jürgen Prochnow - Andreas Gruber
Emmett Scanlan - William Burke
Alicia Witt - Majorie Cameron
Two shunned Irish immigrants in Scotland start off as grave robbers to sell the dead to doctors, but decide that creating their own inventory is much easier, and become the most prolific mass-murdering duo in history. Stars Emmet Byrne, Emmett J. Scanlan and Doug Bradley
Air Date: October 18, 2018
The aging Countess of Blood, running out of virginal peasants to drain of their youthful essence, brings in a bright-eyed noble to start a new cycle of torture and murder. Stars Maimie McCoy, Rosalind Eleazar and Ella Hunt
Air Date: October 18, 2018
In the German hinterlands, between world wars, a family goes to bed, not knowing that their killer has been living in the walls and attics of their home like a ghost, watching, waiting for his chance to strike, in one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of all time. Stars Jürgen Prochnow, Thomas Kretschmann and Susanne Wuest
Air Date: October 18, 2018
As two clockmakers race against the curse of the Orloj, a curse that has already driven the city of Prague to madness and death with the Black Plague, these brothers will discover the price of trying to change history. Stars Steven Berkoff, Numan Acar and Elie Haddad
Air Date: October 18, 2018
A young woman, raised in a town controlled by a religious zealot, must rectify a fatal mistake before a ravenous mob hangs the Old Witch, Mary Webster, in this story set just 11 years before and 100 miles from Salem, Massachusetts. Stars Paula Malcomson, Hebe Beardsall and Paul Rhys
Air Date: October 18, 2018
In 1922 only one person, Jack Parsons, believed that we could send a rocket into space and conjure a demon. By 1952 he had done both. But all he cared about was the Scarlet Woman he had both summoned, and lost, Marjorie Cameron. Stars Josh Bowman and Alicia Witt
Air Date: October 18, 2018
Creator:
Adapted from Aaron Mahnke’s award-winning podcast of the same name
Executive Producers:
Ben Silverman
Howard T. Owens
Gale Anne Hurd
Brett-Patrick Jenkins
Sean Crouch
Jon Halperin and Mark Mannucci
Co-Executive Producer:
Aaron Mahnke
Cast:
Josh Bowman - Jack Parsons
Doug Bradley - Dr. Robert Knox
Thomas Kretschmann - Inspector Georg Reingruber
Paula Malcomson - Mary Webster
Maimie McCoy - Elizabeth Bathory
Jürgen Prochnow - Andreas Gruber
Emmett Scanlan - William Burke
Alicia Witt - Majorie Cameron