History AudioPlay / LetThemGo

* DropTheHammer: One of the improvised weapons Rebecca uses is a carpenter's hammer, which she uses to beat [[spoiler: Dawson]] to death.

* GutturalGrowler: Dawson becomes this [[spoiler: as he begins to succumb to Egyptian Rabies.]]

* Dehumanization: Rebecca starts thinking of the barghest as separate creatures instead of the people they once were to make doing what she has to easier for her.

* AllHallowsEve: Most of the story takes place on Halloween night.

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Ravenwood, especially when you learn it was originally named Crowwood and derived its name from the fact it was located near a crossroads that featured a gibbet that would house living criminals who were ultimately feasted on by crows.

''Let Them Go'' is an audio drama created by Alexander Shaw and is the eighth story in the ''New Century'' series, though it serves as a {{Prequel}} to the series as a whole.

* AngerBornOfWorry: A rather extreme case on behalf of Charles Wolverton towards his children. After they play hide and seek in the woods around Ravenwood [[spoiler: a year after Timothy's death]], Charles becomes furious at them, and then their aunt and uncle. This leads to a breakdown in relations between Amanda and Rebecca's father and their aunt and uncle.

* BerserkBoardBarricade: At one point, Dawson begins breaking down furniture and uses the resulting boards to nail over the windows.

* CallingTheOldManOut: After their father's suicide, Rebeccas does this directed towards Amanda, saying the their father essentially abandoned them and their mother in his pursuit of profit.

* CreepyBasement: Rebecca has to enter Ravenwood's dark basement at one point in the story. It contains an old, unused room that is even creepier.
* DeathFromAbove: How William Smythe dies, as the barghest he climbed into a tree to avoid hiding further up in the tree than he was, and she drops down on him when he falls out.

* DroolHello: Played with in the fact that William Smythe notices the barghest he was running from hiding in the tree above him and then she drools on him before attacking.

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Rebecca as the other characters are either killed by or infected by barghests. Unremarked upon but related is the fact, as the only unwed character in a Victorian setting, she is likely also a virgin.]]

* ImagineSpot: In episode 2, after Amanda tells him to be quiet while they're in the woods, Timothy briefly imagines [[WhenTreesAttack the trees coming alive and forcibly shushing him.]]

* ImprovisedWeapon: After the loss of the shotgun, Cleo gathers a number of household objects that the ground could use to defend themselves. Rebecca later uses a fire poker and a meat cleaver to fight an injured barghest.

* SealEvilInACan: [[spoiler: The ending implies that Rebecca leaving the hatch in the basement open after trapping Dawson was a bad thing, possibly for this reason.]]

* ShellShockSilence: Happens to Rebecca after she shoots a barghest at point blank range. The ringing is enough that she doesn't notice at first that the barghest is now screaming in pain.

* VoiceoverLetter: Used for the telegram Charles Wolverton receives from Caruthers about the unrest happening in India.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: How Cleo dispatches Cavendish.]]

* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler: Rafe believed he had this with Rebecca. Ultimately, he said he was still in love with Rebecca even though he was engaged to her sister.]]

* ImprovisedWeapon: After the loss of the shotgun, Cleo gathers a number of household objects that the ground could use to defend themselves.

* JumpScare: After Rafe goes looking for the barghest, the group begin talking amongst themselves, only for Rafe to suddenly fire the gun nearby, startling everyone.
* {{Kneecapping}}: [[spoiler: Happen to Rafe during his struggle with the barghest.]]

* MarriedToTheJob: Rebecca is implied to be this with respect towards running the shop, as Amanda has to literally drag her away from it for them to visit their Aunt Cleo.

* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: [[spoiler: The story becomes this when Rebecca ends up alone in Ravenwood, trapped with two people infected with Egyptian Rabies.]]

* TheOneThatGotAway: Rebecca mentions that she used to be in love with a man with curly blond hair but their relationship ultimately didn't work out. She says that no other man has measured up to him.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Episode 2 takes place 11 year before the rest of the story and deals with the main characters as children.

* CreepyBasement: Rebecca has to enter Ravenwood's dark basement at one point in the story.

* ShoutOut: Rebecca remembers her father reading her and Amanda ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' when they were young.

* ZombieAdvocate: Despite believing they are dealing with Egyptian Rabies and seeing what an infected person can do, Rebecca refuses to let Dawson harm Amanda after she is bitten. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as it is known yet that the infection is incurable.

* BeserkBoardBarricade: At one point, Dawson begins breaking down furniture and uses the resulting boards to nail over the windows.

* ArmorPiercingResponse: Rebecca is able to get Dawson to stop trying to put Amanda down because she points out that if there's no way to save someone infected with Egyptian Rabies, then he might as well kill himself too, because he's likely been infected as well.

* ClosedCircle: The main story deals with a group of people trapped in the English mansion of Ravenwood by a barghest prowling outside. [[spoiler: Becomes even more so when Rafe, the only combat capable member of the group, is killed, losing the group's only firearm in the process.]]

* AngerBornOfWorry: A rather extreme case on behalf of Charles Wolverton towards his children. After they play hide and seek in the woods around Ravenwood[[spoiler: a year after Timothy's death]], Charles becomes furious at them, and then their aunt and uncle. This leads to a breakdown in relations between Amanda and Rebecca's father and their aunt and uncle.

* Kneecapping: [[spoiler: Happen to Rafe during his struggle with the barghest.]]

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Episode 2 takes place 11 year before the rest of the story and deals with the main characters as children.

* KneeCaping: [[spoiler: Happen to Rafe during his struggle with the barghest.]]

* ClosedCircle: The main story deals with a group of people trapped in the English mansion of Ravenwood by a wendigo prowling outside. [[spoiler: Becomes even more so when Rafe, the only combat capable member of the group, is killed, losing the group's only firearm in the process.]]
* DeathFromAbove: How William Smythe dies, as the wendigo he climbed into a tree to avoid hiding further up in the tree than he was, and she drops down on him when he falls out.
* DeadHandShot: Played with, in that [[spoiler: seeing Timothy's limp hand is how Rebecca finds him in the woods, and while he's alive at the time, he has already become infected with the pneumonia that would kill him a few days later.]]

* DroolHello: Played with in the fact that William Smythe notices the wendigo he was running from hiding in the tree above him and then she drools on him before attacking.

* FlashBack: William Smythe has one on how he ended up being chased through a rural English field by a wendigo.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The group in Ravenwood close the door just as [[spoiler: the wendigo pounces on Rafe to finish him off.]]

* JumpScare: After Rafe goes looking for the wendigo, the group begin talking amongst themselves, only for Rafe to suddenly fire the gun nearby, startling everyone.
* {{Kneecaping}}: [[spoiler: Happen to Rafe during his struggle with the wendigo.]]

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Rafe, Amanda's husband and the only combat capable person at Ravenwood, is killed trying to hunt down the wendigo.]]

* TheTeaser: The story's prologue, which opens on William Smythe being chased through a field in rural England by a wendigo.

* WhamEpisode: The emotional drama relating to Charles Wolverton's will is completely forgotten when a wendigo suddenly shows up and attacks Amanda.

* TheSocialDarwinist: Galloway says he agrees strongly with Darwin's "Survival of the fittest" statements when discussing a business deal.

* WhamEpisode: The emotional drama relating to Charles Wolverton's will is completely forgotten when a Wendigo suddenly shows up and attacks Amanda.

* CartharticScream: Rebecca lets one out after the reading of her father's will.

* ImagineSpot: After Amanda tells him to be quiet while they're in the woods, Timothy briefly imagines [[WhenTreesAttack the trees coming alive and forcibly shushing him.]]

* VoiceoverLetter: Used for the telegram Charles Wolverton receives from Caruthers about the unrest happening in India.