Saturday, 26 April 2008

16 - Born on the Island

Todays show is back to the regular format.

We start with some notes about Nellie Bly and her book "10 days in a Madhouse".

The book is available as a free audio book from Librivox.

I've reviewed this audio book on my FreeAudioReview blog.

The musical segment is a 1929 track called Lewisada Blues by Ted Lewis.

The main feature today is an original work called "Born on the Island" by By T. Frazer-Elliott.

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15 - Call of Cthulhu, Part 3

Today we have the final part of the H.P. Lovecraft's story, "The Call of Cthulhu" as read by Mark Nelson.

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14 - Call of Cthulhu, Part 2

Today I present part 2 of the classic H.P. Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulhu" as read by Mark Nelson.

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13 - Call of Cthulu, Part 1

Today We start a short series of three episodes that contain a reading of H.P. Lovescraft's famous story The Call of Cthulhu.

The story is read for us by Mark Nelson.

Thanks Mr Nelson, your a star!

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12 - Aboard the Vordlak

Today we have a short introduction to the 1927 classic silent movie "The General".

The we have a mythos poem called "Where the mind Echos" by Jamie Patton

Then we have a 1918 musical track called "after you've gone" by Marrion Harris.

And todays feature is a mythos sci-fi story called "Aboard the Vordlak" by William Meikle

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11 - The Terrible Old Man

In this episode I start with a little history, the introduction of prohibition.

Then we have a 1927 musical track called "Under the Moon" sung by Aileen Stanley and Jonny Marvin.

The main feature is the H.P. Lovecraft tale, "The Terrible Old Man".

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10 - The Mistake

In this episode we start off by hearing about and from, a real life hero, Ernest Shackelton, an artic explorer.

The Book "South" mentioned is available as text from Project Gutenberg.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5199

"South" is also available as a free audio book from Librivox.

http://librivox.org/south-by-ernest-shackleton/

We also hear a Mythos poem written by listener Jamie Patton called "The City Without Time", and read by Laura Charles ( look on YouTube for OHSIS ). I really enjoyed this poem, and the one to come!

The musical interlude is a 1928 track called "Come right in" by Cannons Jug Stompers.

The main attraction for todays episode is a story written by RL Burt and is called "The Mistake". This story has been previously broadcast on the authors own podcast called "Come, Let Me Whisper", where he's been broadcasting his own horror writing for about 2 years. You can find that here...

http://rlburt.blogspot.com/

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