Showing posts with label weird fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weird fiction. Show all posts

3.05.2017

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
(download or listen via this link)

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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2.25.2017

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
(download or listen via this link)

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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2.18.2017

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
(download or listen via this link)

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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2.11.2017

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
(download or listen via this link)

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.

10.07.2014

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
(download or listen via this link)

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).

9.26.2014

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
(download or listen via this link)

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).
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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
(listen or download from link above)

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