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.

Episode 21: Bobbie and Jock and the Mailman, Part 2

Bobbie goes to visit Uncle TJ's farm and finds adventure when she tries to figure out why "the longest way 'round is the shortest way home."
Part 2 (Chapters 4-6)

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone.

A small sampling of the illustrations. Click on them to enlarge.

Links

• Featured podcast: Naxos Classical Music Spotlight (website)


• Charles J. Finger

Episode 20: Bobbie and Jock and the Mailman, Part 1

Bobbie goes to visit Uncle TJ's farm and finds adventure when she tries to figure out why "the longest way 'round is the shortest way home."
Part 1 (Chapters 1-3)

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone.

A small sampling of the illustrations. Click on them to enlarge.

Links

• Halloween-ish Podcasting:
  SFF Audio for lots of links to spooky podcasting o' the season
  Radio Drama Revival (website)
  Wireless Theater Company


• Featured podcast: Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase (website)


• Charles J. Finger

Episode 19: The Black Moth Finale

Everything falls into place.
Chapters 28, 29, and Epilogue

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Halloween-ish Podcasting:
  
  Hall of Mirrors (website)
  Classic Tales (website)
  Radio Drama Revival's month of Halloween horror ... links and description on SFF Audio
  Broken Sea Audio's month of Halloween ... links and description on SFF Audio


• Featured podcast: Summer Grasses: stories from the seasons of life (website)


• The Black Moth show notes


• Heyer author page

Episode 18: The Black Moth 25-27

The Duke's plan swings into action,
Diana shows her mettle,
Jack rides to the rescue ...
and, of course, a sword fight!
Chapters 25-27

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Book Talk: Uncle Orson Reviews Everything


• Featured podcast: Escape Pod (also Pseudopod


• The Black Moth show notes


• Heyer author page

Episode 17: Eat, Drink and Be Merry

A visit to Mexico, a sip of summer, and who will will win the garlic wars?

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

Rating: G

Links

• Featured podcast: A Different Point of View


• The modern macho food writer: Food, Inglorious Food
• Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
• Pass the Polenta: And Other Writings from the Kitchen by Teresa Lust
• American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads by Pascale Le Draoulec
• Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life by Michael Lee West


• The Book
• Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet

This book is under copyright

Episode 16: The Black Moth 23-24

Lavinia arranges her elopement. The Duke of Avon takes notice.
Chapters 23-24

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Book Talk: Territory by Emma Bull and Auralia's Colors ... links to my reviews and Maureen's review of Territory can be found here
  
• Featured podcast: Changelings Knit and Stitch: website, iTunes
  
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

Episode 15: The Black Moth 21-22

Richard makes a decision. Lavinia experiences something new.
Chapters 21-22

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Book Talk: They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels
  
• Featured podcast: History According to Bob: website, iTunes
  
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

Episode 14: The Black Moth 19-20

Richard lays down the law to Lavinia. The Duke of Avon returns and sets events in motion.

Chapters 19-20

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Featured podcast: A Musician's Life: website, iTunes
  
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

Episode 13: The Black Moth 17-18

Lady O'Hara matchmakes. Lady Lavinia meets an old beau.

Chapters 17-18

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Featured podcast: Podiobooks
  Look for: 7th Son, Earthcore, The Failed Cities Monologues, How to Disappear Completely, AND Brave Men Run, How to Succeed in Evil, Shadowmagic, Sparkling Death (all of which I forgot to mention)
• Book Talk:
  
  • Rumer Godden
  • Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
  • Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series
    
  • CraftLit
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

Episode 12: The Hotel Detective Sampler

Am Caulfield wants to be the Hotel California's General Manager.
Instead he has to be the house dick.

The Hotel Detective sampler

Rating: PG-13
For sexual innuendo and some implied situations.

Links

• Featured podcast: All Movie Talk


• Book Talk:
  
  • Reading Survey
  • The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
    


• The modern hotel detective: Behind Closed Doors
  


• The Books:
• The Hotel Detective
• The Fat Innkeeper

These books are under copyright.

• Alan Russell's website

Episode 11: The Black Moth 15-16

Diana and Jack face the personal fallout of his decision.

Chapters 15-16

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Featured podcast: Philosophy: The Classics
• Book Talk:
  
  • Why Helen MacInnes Should Be Ludlum's Movie Successor
  • The Great American Novel (and the book they forgot)
  • Vampires of the Internet (via Keith Strohm)
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

Episode 10: The Black Moth 13-14

In which our highwayman and the fair damsel fall in love.
Will his disgraced past stand in the way of her heart?

Chapters 13-14

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Guest host for: Episode 65 at CraftLit
• Featured podcast: Syd Lieberman's Storytelling Podcast
• Where I found some of the Forgotten Classics I'm reading (book links in sidebar): The Common Room
• A favorite Heyer book: False Colors, read an excerpt.
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

Episode 9: The Black Moth 10-12

In which our highwayman rescues a damsel in distress and enters into mortal danger.

Chapters 10-12

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Featured podcast: This is England
• In Praise of Editors
• Not Science Fiction, via SF Signal which has a link to their review of the author's book
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

Episode 8: The Black Moth 8-9

In which we see a hold up that goes wrong.
As well as a highlight on "The Grand Sophy."

Chapters 8 - 9

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Featured podcast: Decoder Ring Theatre
• The Grand Sophy
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

Episode 7: Scout's Progress

Can Aelliana Caylon qualify as a pilot and escape her home world before her scheming and abusive brother discovers her plan? With the help of Scout and Master Pilot, Daav, Aelliana will find freedom.

Episode 7

Show Notes
Can be found here

Episode 7 Show Notes

Hints on pronunciation for foreigners

I take it you already know
of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead-it's said like bed, not bead.
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose
Just look them up--and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward.
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd mastered it when I was five

Featured Podcast
SFF Audio

Genre

• Space Opera: Space opera is a subgenre of speculative fiction or science fiction that emphasizes romantic adventure, and larger-than-life characters often set against vast exotic futuristic settings.
• My Favorite Type of Science Fiction: Space Opera

Authors
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller


Liaden Terms

• Delm -- Head of Clan (Delm Korval, Korval Himself/Herself)
• Melant'i -- Who one is in relation to current circumstances. ALSO who one is in sum, encompassing all possible persons one might be.
• Nadelm -- Delm-to-Be
• Relumma -- Division of a Liaden year, equalling 96 Standard days. Four relumma equal one year.
• Thodelm -- Head of Line

Good Starter Books for the Liaden Universe

• Partners In Necessity (Liaden Universe Novel): contains Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change, and Carpe Diem.
• Scout's Progress: a prequel
• Local Custom: a prequel

These books are under copyright and the excerpts are read with permission of the authors.

Episode 6: The Black Moth 6-7

In which we find out about Devil's romantic interest.
As well as a bit of culinary literature and a highlight on "Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle."

Chapters 6 - 7

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Featured podcast: Podictionary
• Babette's Feast
  
• Ratatouille
• Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant
• Garlic and Sapphires
• Doomsday Book
  
• Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle
• Scout's Progress
  
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

On a side note, I'm out of town until next week ... in a spot that only has dial-up so comments may not be answered for a while, but don't let that stop you. Go right ahead and tell me what you think!

Episode 5: The Black Moth 3-5

In which we meet Richard Carstairs and more of the Belmanoir family, including his wife Lavinia. As well as a bit of interesting information about the author and some thinking about what we can learn by rereading books.

Chapters 3 - 5

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Featured podcast: Classic Mysteries
• Levenger Page Points
• Orson Scott Card's website
• Literary Compass
  
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

Episode 4: The Black Moth 1-2

Not a "typical" romance, this author's skill will surprise you.
Prologue, chapter 1 and chapter 2.

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone, although young children won't necessarily understand what is going on.

Links

• Featured podcast: Matt's Today in History (iTunes link here).
  
• The Black Moth show notes
• Heyer author page

The Black Moth

The Book
Look for this book and other Georgette Heyer novels at your library, local or used book stores or on Amazon. This book is in the public domain.

• The Black Moth
• Georgette Heyer books at Amazon
• The Black Moth: online

The Fashions

• Clothing of 18th Century England - 1735 to 1770
• French Fashions 1700 - 1789

The Pretender
Charles Edward Stuart: a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Charlie

The Slang
Cant and Expressions
Slang not included in the above list:

• Make a leg: A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing. [Obs.][1913 Webster]
  
  
• High Toby: The high toby, the high-road the low toby, the by-road. A highwayman is a “high tobyman;” a mere footpad is a “low tobyman.”

Read in:

• Episode 4: Prologue, Chapters 1-2
• Episode 5: Chapters 3-5
• Episode 6: Chapters 6-7
• Episode 8: Chapters 8-9
• Episode 9: Chapters 10-12
  

Episode 3: Shirley Jackson Sampler

Shirley Jackson usually calls to mind horror fiction but she also wrote some very funny stories about her family.

Episode 3: Shirley Jackson humor sampler

Rating: G
Suitable for everyone.

Look for this book and other Shirley Jackson novels at your library, local or used book stores or on Amazon. Links are in the show notes which are here.

Episode 3: Show Notes

Notes for Episode 3

About the author
Shirley Jackson

Charles
Miette reads Charles

The Books

• Life among the Savages
• Raising Demons

These books are under copyright.

Featured Podcast
Librivox: Free audiobooks from the public domain.

Much thanks
To those who have so kindly mentioned Forgotten Classics.

• The Anchoress who loves a good book as much as I do.
• Literary Compass who always has something interesting to say about books or reading.