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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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)

Podcast Highlight

• Movies on the Radio

Forgotten Tales 6: The Nightingale and the Rose

 

Oscar Wilde's take on the noble nightingale.

The Nightingale and the Rose

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References:

• SurLaLune's reference to this story
• Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale

This work is in the public domain.

Read about my English adventures at Zombie Parent's Guide. 

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
(download or listen via this link)

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)

Podcast Highlight

• Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast: The Yellow Wallpaper
• SFFaudio: The Yellow Wallpaper Audiobook/Readalong
• Witch House: The Yellow Wallpaper discussion

Other Highlights

• Classic Tales: Carmilla
• SFFaudio: The Beckoning Fair One Audiobook/Readalong
• A Good Story is Hard to Find: H.P. Lovecraft
• TED Talk: The Power of Being Vulnerable

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

This story is in the public domain.

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