Episode 341: Carnacki, The Ghost Finder, 4

Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

The Horse of the Invisible. 
Can Carnacki save the beautiful young heiress from the deadly family curse?

Episode 341, Carnacki Ghost Finder, 4
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for occult detection, faked ghosts, real ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
• This story is in the public domain.

Highlight

• Queen of Katwe

Episode 340: Carnacki, The Ghost Finder, 3

Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

The Whistling Room. 
Why does a whistled tune cause such terror?
Are disappointed suitors playing a trick or does it come from the depths of hell?

Episode 340, Carnacki Ghost Finder, 3
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for occult detection, faked ghosts, real ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
• This story is in the public domain.

Podcast Highlight

• A Time and a Plate

Episode 339: Carnackie, The Ghost Finder, 2

Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

The House Among the Laurels. 
Can Carnackie overcome the blood-drip and killing spirit
that haunts a Irish deserted mansion?

Episode 339, Carnacki Ghost Finder, 2
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for occult detection, faked ghosts, real ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
• This story is in the public domain.

Podcast Highlight

• Twenty Thousand Hertz

Episode 338: Carnackie, The Ghost Finder, 1

Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

The Gateway of the Monster. 
Carnacki is summoned to investigate a spirit that disrupts an ancient mansion
every night at the site of a grisly murder generations ago.

Episode 338, Carnacki Ghost Finder, 1
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for occult detection, faked ghosts, real ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
• This story is in the public domain.

Episode 337: Rip Van Winkle

N.C. Wyeth - Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle .

A famous classic with some elements that no one remembers.

Episode 337, Rip Van Winkle
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for henpecked husbands, ghostly bowling, and a very good night's sleep.
• This story are in the public domain.

Highlight

• Fawlty Towers

Episode 336: True Ghost Stories by Hawthorne and Kipling

Kipling

Hawthorne

The Ghost of Dr. Harris by Nathaniel Hawthorne
My Own True Ghost Story by Rudyard Kipling

Episode 336, True Ghost Stories by Hawthorne and Kipling
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for non-menacing true ghost stories by bemused, famous writers.
• These stories are in the public domain.

Highlight

• The Night Train to Munich (1940)

Episode 312: Mrs. Bullfrog - The Wonderful Window

In which we encounter an unlikely and humorous marriage 

and a fantastical view into another world. 

Mrs. Bullfrog by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Wonderful Window by Lord Dunsany.

Episode 312, Mrs. Bullfrog - The Wonderful Window
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for interesting marriages and unusual windows.
• These stories are in the public domain.

Movie Highlight

• Ushpizin

Episode 277: Strange Exodus

In which we experience a unique alien invasion and victory.

Episode 277, Strange Exodus
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Book Information

• Story rating: PG for alien invasions, strange meals, even stranger sanctuaries, disturbing images of humankind's future.

 PODCAST HIGHLIGHT

• Gravy
• OkraCast

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

• Another Place (Binscombe Tale) by John Whitbourne
• Enchanted April - The Classic Tales Podcast
• The Skylark of Space - Uvula Audio

Episode 270 - The Judge's House

In which Julie loses her voice and
we are very glad that Scott Danielson read us this story for Halloween.

Episode 270, The Judge's House
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for terrifying encounters with an evil painting, gamboling rats, strong tea, and fainting women.
• The Judge's House by Bram Stoker is in the public domain.

Episode 269: Wailing Well

In which we go camping and encounter a terrifying trio at the Wailing Well.

Episode 269, Wailing Well
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for hilarity and a terrifying encounter with ghosts, all suitable to be heard by a Boy Scout troop.
• Wailing Well by M.R. James is in the public domain.

Halloween Highlight

• Bowery Boys: New York History

Extra Links

• A Podcast to the Curious
• 2014 Ladies' Horror Film Fest

Episode 268: The Night Wire and The Toll-House

In which we sample some of the ghastly, ghostly goodness from The Big Book of Ghost Stories. 

Episode 268, Night Wire and Toll-House
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Book Information

• Story rating: PG for ghastly fog and ghostly footsteps.
• The Night Wire is shared under the Fair Use Act as a sample of the stories in The Big Book of Ghost Stories, ed. Otto Penzler. I strongly encourage you to purchase the book and enjoy all the stories in their entirety. Views to the contrary, please contact me (my email is in the sidebar).

Halloween Highlights

• LibriVox Halloween listening
• Halloween Haunter

Episode 267: Another Place

In which we drop into the village of Binscombe only to discover it is not at all what it seems
in our latest sampling of "tall tales told in taverns."

Episode 267, Another Place
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for weird tales with no violence.
• This story is from Binscombe Tales by John Whitbourn. It is under copyright. This story is shared under the Fair Use Act as a sample of the stories in the collection. I strongly encourage you to purchas the book and enjoy all the stories in their entirety. Views to the contrary, please contact me (my email is in the sidebar).

Episode 266: The Sea King

In which a vacation trip to Denmark turns into an encounter with gods older than recorded history for Brigadier Ffellowes in our latest sampling of "tall tales told in taverns."

Episode 266, The Sea King
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Book Information

• Story rating: PG for monstrous gods and death by terror.
• This story is from The Peculiar Exploits of Brigadier Ffellowes by Sterling Lanier. It is under copyright. This story is shared under the Fair Use Act as a sample of the stories in the collection. Views to the contrary, please contact me (my email is in the sidebar).

Podcast Highlight

• Listen to Lucy

Lagniappe 61: A Shepherd I Will Remain

A Shepherd I Will Remain
by Elizabeth Scalia
read by permission of the author

(listen or download from link above)

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

Episode 237: No Forwarding Address

In which we have a martini, read a scroll, and practice magic.

Episode 237, No Forwarding Address
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for tall tales in taverns
• No Forwarding Address by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt is under copyright. This story is shared under the Fair Use Act as an illustration of this duo's writing. Views to the contrary, please contact me (my email is in the sidebar).

Podcast Highlight

• Journey Into
• Seeing Ear Theater

Episode 236: Lighter Than You Think

In which we learn that what this country needs is a good cigar-shaped spaceship.

Episode 236, Lighter Than You Think
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for inventions, horse racing,
• Lighter Than You Think by Nelson Slade Bond is in the public domain.

Podcast Highlight

• Born Yesterday

Muscle Shoals - The Movie

Episode 235: The Ultimate Melody

In which we have a pint at the White Hart while hearing a scientific tall tale.

Episode 235, The Ultimate Melody
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Book Information

• Story rating: G for pop music, British pubs, tall tales, and science
• The Ultimate Melody by Arthur C. Clarke is under copyright. This story is shared under the Fair Use Act as an illustration of Arthur C. Clarke's writing. Views to the contrary, please contact me (my email is in the sidebar).

Podcast Highlight

• Synthetic Voices

Muscle Shoals - The Movie

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
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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
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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 232: Rappaccini's Daughter, part I

In which a young man from Padua spies a beautiful maiden in her garden.
But is there something deadly there too?

Episode 232, Rappaccini's Daughter, part I
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Book Information

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