10.26.2012

Episode 203: The Unforeseen, chapters 4-5


In which Nan and Perry go mountain climbing and we meet Timeen.
Episode 203, The Unforeseen, chapters 4-5
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  • Story rating: PG for eerieness
  • For another book by this author: The Uninvited (read previously on Forgotten Classics)
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10.25.2012

Forgotten Tales 6: The Nightingale and the Rose

 
Oscar Wilde's take on the noble nightingale.
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This work is in the public domain.

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10.17.2012

Episode 202: The Unforeseen, chapters 3-4


In which Virgilia's "talent" comes in handy ... or does it?
Episode 202, The Unforeseen, chapters 3-4
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This book is in the public domain. 
(Note: I have researched the copyright to the best of my ability as well as written to the original publishers more than once and received no reply. My conclusion, therefore, is that this book is in the public domain. If anyone has conclusive information to the contrary, please contact me.) 

Book Information
  • Story rating: PG for eerieness
  • For another book by this author: The Uninvited (read previously on Forgotten Classics)
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10.06.2012

Lagniappe 57: The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft

"Everything that I can remember, I have told with perfect candor. ... if anything remains vague, it is only because of the dark cloud which has come over my mind—that cloud and the nebulous nature of the horrors which brought it upon me."

The Statement of Randolph Carter
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Read for us by Will Duquette from The View From the Foothills

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According to Webster
la·gniappe \ˈlan-ˌyap, lan-ˈ\
Function:
noun
Etymology: American French, from American Spanish la ñapa the lagniappe, from la + ñapa, yapa, from Quechua yapa something added
Date: 1844
: a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase;
broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure