When the World Was Young
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38 minutes, 6 seconds
Unabridged Horror Short Story
1910
"And then the thing happened — the thing unthinkable and unexpected." London's speculative story about the frightening, dual nature of man.
Read by William Coon.
Continue reading "When the World Was Young"
Posted by alex at 12:39 PM
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16 minutes, 27 seconds
Unabridged Horror Story
1842
What's a Prince to do when his people are dying of plague? Why, wall himself off with a thousand other nobles and throw a masquerade ball, of course!
Silly prince. Doesn't he know he's in an Edgar Allan Poe story?
Continue reading "The Masque of the Red Death"
Posted by alex at 3:31 PM
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27 minutes, 01 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Science Fiction
1835
What happens when you hypnotize a person in the moments before he dies? The story that began as a hoax (it was first published without the "fiction" label) is one of the first modern science fiction tales.
Continue reading "The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar"
Posted by alex at 7:26 PM
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38 minutes, 54 seconds
Unabridged Short Fiction
1835
A puritan confronts witches, the devil, and his own morality in the spooky, Salem woods in this classic American short story.
Continue reading "Young Goodman Brown"
Posted by alex at 6:04 PM
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54 minutes, 13 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Mystery Fiction
1839
"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all..."
Disease (vampirism?) and decay of both man and stone (do they share a soul?) in the master of the macabre's famous tale. Includes Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace" with musical accompaniment.
Continue reading "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Posted by alex at 9:34 PM
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1 hour, 18 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction and Horror Stories
2000-2002
Four science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories.
The Fish Merchant: (science fiction) Li Hao-Chang struggles to stay one step ahead of starvation or stabbing, selling fish on the brutal docks of Macau. He's too busy to read the headlines in the newspapers that wrap his wares--rumors of non-random signals from deep space. When a gangster named Pepper is gunned down in front of Li's stand, the fish seller finds a computer disk stolen from the Chinese government. Maybe, just maybe, the biggest news in history is enough to make Li's dearest dream a reality: escape to safety in America. First published in Science Fiction Age, 2000. Read by Jonathon "Sullydog" Sullivan.
"The story is interesting for its non-western setting, and its realization that many people in the world would have no care for news about aliens..." -- Locus
A Green Thumb: (fantasy/science fiction) It's a very different USA, where necessity has provoked a very profound change in technology. And yet many things are still the same. Being a teenager is always tough, and there are many choices ahead. One of which is "how and where do you grow your very first car?" First published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, 2002. Read by Alex Wilson.
"Amusing and heart-warming at the same time, and read with feeling and emotion by Wilson." --Locus
All Her Children Fought: (science fiction) When you fire something into space the cost of that launch is per pound. When you go to war with someone in space, you need to keep the cost down. So you use the smallest available pilot you can. A child. Originally published in Speculon, 2001. Read by Mary Robinette Kowal of the Willamette Radio Workshop.
Trinkets: (horror) New England, early 1800s: At the harbor near his jewelry shop, George Petros receives a package from the Haitian merchant ship Toussaint--a sinister link that follows him from a brief stay on the Caribbean island of dark magic. Originally published in The Book of All Flesh, 2001. A Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention. Read by the author.
Continue reading "The Fish Merchant and Other Stories"
Posted by alex at 12:02 AM
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33 minutes, 22 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Mystery Fiction
1843
"Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"
Poe's classic horror tale about intoxication, murder, and a most mysterious cat. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Black Cat"
Posted by alex at 12:07 AM
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1 hour, 14 minutes
Unabridged Story Collection
1891, 1894, 1909
Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune narrate five stories by Bierce, full of vivid characters, precise and evocative language, surprises and suspense.
An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge
A life, flashing before the eyes, and a miraculous escape from certain death, suddenly becomes--something else entirely. Bierce's strangest and most famous fantasy. A French film adaptation of "Owl Creek Bridge" won the Academy Award for short film in 1963, and also became the hightest-rated episode of The Twilight Zone.
Staley Fleming's Hallucination
The ghost of a Newfoundland dog with a white forefoot--and hungry for revenge!
The Damned Thing
A wild, ferocious animal determined to drive a man off his land-or or drive him insane, once he realizes the strange truth about the danger he faces.
Diagnosis of Death
A doctor whose incredibly accurate diagnoses are not at all conducive to a long and healthy life.
The Boarded Window
A window forever boarded up; a love forever gone.
Written a century ago, these stories still capture the imagination with vivid, precise language that bites--and may even draw blood. This Freshwater Seas production presents these five classics performed by Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune, with subtle musical underscoring to enhance and enrich Bierce's words.
Continue reading "A Bite of Bierce: Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories"
Posted by alex at 3:45 PM
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8 minutes, 25 seconds
Two Unabridged Short Ghost Stories
1910
Two short, Civil War era ghost stories by one of the most mysterious authors in American history.
Continue reading "Present at a Hanging & An Arrest"
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51 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Horror Fiction
1843
"I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me..."
Poe's classic horror tale about one soul's torment as he awaits execution in a Spanish Inquisition torture chamber. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Posted by alex at 6:06 AM
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1 hour, 1 minutee
Full Cast Science Fiction/Horror Radio Drama
1978
The National Radio Theater of Chicago presents a full cast adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic SF/Horror novel. Produced in 1977 at DB Studios in Chicago and first aired in 1978. Dramatized for radio, produced, and directed by Grammy Award Winner Yuri Rasovsky (director of the bestselling mystery/comedy Murder at Woodside Village).
Continue reading "Frankenstein"
Posted by alex at 12:09 AM
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1 hour, 26 minutes
Unabridged Horror Story
1819
Irving's most famous story about Ichabod Crane--a timid schoolmaster and superstitious outsider in the the haunted Dutch community of Tarry Town--and his fateful encounter with the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier: the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Posted by alex at 12:01 AM
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18 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Horror Fiction
1843
"You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me."
The Master of the Macabre's most famous horror story. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Posted by alex at 12:01 AM
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8 minutes, 29 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1845
The archetype of dark poetry by the master of macabre. Read by Alex Wilson.
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious
volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping,
rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered,
"tapping at my chamber door--
Only this, and nothing more..."
Posted by alex at 8:36 PM
