What is The Horror of Dolores Roach about?

The Horror of Dolores Roach is a serialized horror audio drama about Dolores Roach, a fugitive whose attempts to survive pull her into violence, paranoia, and underground New York life.

Who hosts The Horror of Dolores Roach?

The show is scripted fiction rather than a hosted talk podcast. It was written and directed by Aaron Mark and stars Daphne Rubin-Vega as Dolores Roach.

How long are The Horror of Dolores Roach episodes?

The supplied episode is about 31 minutes long, so new listeners can expect roughly half-hour scripted episodes.

Where can I listen to The Horror of Dolores Roach?

The Horror of Dolores Roach is available through its RSS feed and podcast apps that carry Gimlet shows, as well as the Gimlet website.

How often does The Horror of Dolores Roach release?

The show appears to be a completed or inactive serialized fiction podcast rather than an ongoing weekly talk show.

The Horror of Dolores Roach

Gimlet·1 episode

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With blood on her hands, the infamous Dolores Roach has fled the recent shocking destruction in Washington Heights and gone into hiding deep under New York City in an abandoned subway tunnel. But she’s not alone underground, and her dark night of the soul is interrupted by an extremist faction of similarly self-exiled tunnel-dwellers whose space she's invaded. Facing re-incarceration back above ground, but pushed to the limits of shame, paranoia, lust, hunger, and depraved entrepreneurialism below it, Dolores is the outcast of the outcasts again - until she takes her survival in the tunnels into her own Magic Ha...

Why listen

The Horror of Dolores Roach is a full-cast, cinematic horror drama that drops you into a grimy New York underworld of survival, hunger, shame, and darkly comic desperation. It plays like a scripted thriller, with strong performances, immersive sound design, and a central antihero whose choices keep getting worse. Listeners who like character-driven horror, crime-adjacent fiction, and morally messy stories should start from the beginning.

Episodes

31 min

Oct 17, 2018Episode 1

S1 Ep. 1 All the Gory Details

Dolores is reunited with Luis, weed, empanadas, and privacy. Dolores Roach- Daphne Rubin-Vega, Luis Batista- Bobby Cannavale, Claire- Abigail Spencer, Fat F**k-David Zayas, Jeremiah- John Douglas Thompson, Nellie- Kita Updike Written and directed by Aaron Mark, executive produced by Mimi O’Donnell, produced by Katie Pastore, Matthew Boll and Daphne Rubin-Vega, associate produced by MR Daniel. Sound design by Haley Shaw, foley recording by Nico Osborne, mixed by Matthew Boll. Score by Allison Leyton-Brown, music production and mix by Matthew Boll and Bobby Lord, additional engineering by Sam Bair and Shachar Boussani, additional assistance by Daniel Brunelle and Armando Serrano. Special thanks to Kristen Luciani, Saul Nathan-Kazis, Jim Nicola, and Danny Feldman. THE HORROR OF DOLORES ROACH is a production of Gimlet Media.