The New Heroes of Old™
Exciting storytelling and high-concept fantasy take you through a modern multiverse of gods, demons, angels, dragons, vampires, and heroes for this podcast based on The New Heroes of Old™ novel series, narrated by author Greg Bulmash. Season 1: "Hell on $5 A Day" - 46 episodes read by the author When Kurt saw the beautiful girl from the club walk into his subway car, he was sure God was giving him a second chance. But she drugged him, kidnapped him, and offered him up as a human sacrifice to Satan. Just his still-beating heart was supposed to go through the portal to Hell. But when Alain and his friends disrupted the ceremony, Kurt accidentally fell through alive and whole. Now Kurt will have to make his way through Hell, Purgatory, and into Heaven... and convince God to save a vampire's soul... or he's never getting home. Enter a multiverse of misfit souls with this first exciting installment in The New Heroes of Old™!
Episodes
Kurt and company cross the Styx.
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Kurt meets four new friends... six if you count all the heads.
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Alain and George make their way to and through the second ring as Kurt learns how the souls get punished... the hard way.
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Kurt makes it to the second ring safely(ish), but the weather report never prepared him for these winds.
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Alain and George search for Kurt in the first ring of Hell, using Alain's vampire senses.
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Crossing the river, Kurt finds his way into a sort of shanty town that stretches off as far as the eye can see.
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Kurt finds himself on the other side of the glowing portal. Escaping the robed man, he has to figure out what he has and how he'll survive.
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The girls drag the unconscious Kurt to a ceremony to sacrifice him to Satan. But Alain and his friends have other plans.
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Kurt strikes out with his dream girl at the club, but fate puts her in his subway car. Should he go for it. What could go wrong?
A lot.
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Alain realizes that maybe he hadn't thought through the whole getting buried alive thing.
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Alain tries a risky gambit to cure him of his need for blood.
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Alain tracks Vinnie and Reese across the Ardennes...
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Alain and his squad are ambushed by a Nazi vampire and his supporting crew.
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Flash back to the Army medical facility as Alain and squad are taught a practical lesson about their need for blood.
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Alain and his squad raid a German outpost in the Ardennes, using their vampire powers. While not technically the squad's first raid, it's the first one where you get to ride along.
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Wait! Alain's not dead? But why is he strapped to a table in a dingy hospital room that smells of smokestack exhaust? And where's the rest of the nurse's face? HELP!
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Five hardcases wait in an Army medical facility in the early days of World War II, wondering why they'd been pulled from their units to be poked and prodded. Now they're gonna find out.
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The New Heroes of Old™ NovelCast premieres Tuesday, January 27, 2026 and will release two episodes a week through late June.
Season 1: Hell on $5 A Day:
With a name inspired by 1960s travel guides, this journey from Hell to Purgatory to Heaven is an adventure story that's part road trip, part running and screaming. Enter a Hell that is at once both ridiculous and horrifying.
Kurt Gray was kidnapped to be a human sacrifice to S...
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