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.

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• 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.

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• 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 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 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.

Episode 213: The Unforeseen, Finale!

In which all comes to pass in ways completely unforeseen!

Episode 213, The Unforeseen, chapters 14-15, Finale!
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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

• Jazz Insights

What I've Been Reading Links

• Twilight Watch
• Middlemarch
• The Parable of the Sower (our A Good Story is Hard to Find conversation)

Episode 212: The Unforeseen, chapter 13

In which Virgilia tells the shocking truth ...

Episode 212, The Unforeseen, chapter 13
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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

• History of the Papacy Podcast

Episode 211: The Unforeseen, ch. 12

In which a scream is heard in the night ...

Episode 211, The Unforeseen, chapter 12
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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)

Episode 210: The Unforeseen, chapter 11

In which Virgilia and Dr. Franks ... and Nan and Perry ... sort things out.

Episode 210, The Unforeseen, chapter 11
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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

• The Bone Road by Mary Holland

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• Lent: Books
• Lent: Movies
• A Good Story is Hard to Find: Jurassic Park
• About.com Catholicism 2013 Awards: Podcast Finalists

Episode 209: The Unforeseen, chapter 10

In which visions come true.

Episode 209, The Unforeseen, chapter 10
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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

• No Fear Pioneer

Other Mentions

•  TED Talk: On Being Wrong

Episode 208: The Unforeseen, chapter 9

In which Nan discovers how creatively everyone avoids telling her the truth.

Episode 208, The Unforeseen, chapter 9
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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

• You Are There!

Episode 207: The Unforeseen, chapter 8

In which Virgilia sees big trouble ahead and Nan is left in the dark.

Episode 207, The Unforeseen, chapter 8
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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

• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, I
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, II
• The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Episode 206: The Unforeseen, chapter 7

In which Nan and Perry have a heart-to-heart and Virgilia makes a proposition.

Episode 206, The Unforeseen, chapter 7
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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

• The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs