Episode 234: Young Goodman Brown

In which we are transported to 17th century Salem village
for an encounter with Puritans, witch-meetings and pink ribbons.

Episode 234, Young Goodman Brown
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: PG for pink ribbons, devilish temptation, witches covens, and marital suspicion
• This story is in the public domain.

Podcast Highlight

• Edgar Allan Poecast

Episode 233: Rappaccini's Daughter, Part II

In which the whole truth about Beatrice ... and about Giovanni ... is discovered.

Episode 233, Rappaccini's Daughter, part II
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: PG for poisonous flowers, love, and scholarly antagonism
• This story is in the public domain.

Halloween Listening

• The Lottery
• Night Drive
• Beautiful People
• The Beckoning Fair One (part two, part three)
• The Uninvited
• The Unforeseen

Episode 171: Halloween Special - The Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont

We visit a future in which rebellious teenager Mary is a misfit.
She doesn't want to be beautiful.

Episode 171, The Beautiful People
(download or listen via this link)

Book Information

• Story rating: PG for extra conformist messages.
• Charles Beaumont
• Number 12 Looks Just Like You - The Twilight Zone episode
• This story is in the public domain and you can get it at Project Gutenberg
• Jesse's info about the story with plenty of links to good things ... at SFFaudio.

Halloween Podcast Highlights

• The Happy Hour Lounge
• Music From 100 Years Ago 
• The Flicks That Church Forgot
• The Bowery Boys

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My Huffduffer Feed
(where you can easily download sample episodes of the podcast highlight or other various podcasts I want to share)

• Julie D's Huffduffer feed

Episode 22: Shirley Jackson Horror Sampler

Finding horror behind the "ordinary" things.
The Haunting of Hill House,
We Have Always Lived in the Castle,
the Daemon Lover stories and ... a reading of The Lottery.

Jackson Horror Sampler

Rating: PG
Nothing graphic in these stories. Use your own discretion.

Episode Links:

• All Hallow's Eve by Charles Williams: book review. (Via Brandywine Books).
  
• Featured podcast: Scott Sigler's BloodCast. The iTunes link is here.
  
• The Daemon Lover at Answers.com
• About Shirley Jackson

The Lottery is under copyright.

Halloween Special 2

Ghost stories of a different twist:
The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
My Own True Ghost by Rudyard Kipling

Halloween Special 2

Rating: PG
Nothing graphic in these stories. Use your own discretion.

Stories provided by LibriVox, public domain stories read by volunteers. Their ghost story collections can be found here.

Photo source

Halloween Special 1

Two of the scariest stories we know:
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
The Judge's House by Bram Stoker

Halloween Special 1

Rating: PG 13
Nothing graphic in these stories but The Judge's House is very frightening and The Masque of the Red Death probably too abstract for younger listeners. Use your own discretion.

Stories provided by LibriVox, public domain stories read by volunteers. Their ghost story collections can be found here.

Symbolism is highly important in The Masque of the Red Death. Spark Notes has a nice rundown for those interested.

The Masque of the Red Death image above is actually a T-shirt. Pretty nifty, eh? Get details here.