The rediscovery of spoken literature, you gotta love it. Sean Puckett and Dawn Keenan do too. Sean said the idea for Voices In The Dark came to him suddenly one afternoon:

"...imagine when there was no HDTV, no radio, and entertainment was what you and your family did together, and not what you watched together. When the sun went down and everything was candle-lit, familes would gather together and play, sing and read."

Their website name came soon after, and before they could catch their breath, the domain was registered. Dawn Keenan, says...

"My most precious memories of my father are from early childhood, when he would tell us stories and sing songs. Though I only became interested in his passion of Canadian history as an adult, I have had an especial love of folk tales and legends that reaches as far back as I can remember. In high school, I was complimented on my voice by several teachers. I read news at the campus radio station when I was in university and have enjoyed reading aloud and singing with my daughter and son from their earliest days."

One minor annoyance, narrator Sean Puckett doesn't always attribute the titles at the begining of the MP3s. But other than that how can I complain when they provide such wonderous materials as these...

The Shadow Over Innsmouth
By H. P. Lovecraft; Read by Sean Puckett
4 MP3 Files - 24 Minutes 20 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]
SOURCE: Voices In The Dark
CREATED: 2005
|Chapter 1|Chapter 2|Chapter 3|Chapter 4|Chapter 5|
A young man on an architectural and historical tour of New England is drawn to the decaying port town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts.One of Lovecraft's best loved novellas!

The Alchemist
By H. P. Lovecraft; Read by Sean Puckett
1 MP3 File - 24 Minutes 20 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]
SOURCE: Voices In The Dark
CREATED: 2005
The latest decendant of a long line of nobility confronts the six hundred year-old curse that has cut down his forefathers at the age of 32.

The Beast In The Cave
By H. P. Lovecraft; Read by Sean Puckett
1 MP3 File - 17 Minutes 23 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]
SOURCE: Voices In The Dark
CREATED: 2005
The narrator breaks away from his touring party in Mammoth Cave and becomes lost in the darkness.

Memory
By H. P. Lovecraft; Read by Sean Puckett
1 MP3 File - 2 Minutes 25 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]
SOURCE: Voices In The Dark
CREATED: 2005
The Genie that haunts the moonbeams asks the Daemon of the Valley a question.

The Music Of Erich Zann
By H. P. Lovecraft; Read by Sean Puckett
1 MP3 File - 19 Minutes 33 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]
SOURCE: Voices In The Dark
CREATED: 2005
A brief tale of a college student, a lost street in Paris, and a bent, old violist.

The Outsider
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Sean Puckett
1 MP3 File - 16 Minutes 29 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]
SOURCE: Voices In The Dark
CREATED: 2005
One of the shorter works ... about which it is not wise to say too much.

The Rats In The Walls
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Sean Puckett
1 MP3 File - 43 Minutes 25 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]
SOURCE: Voices In The Dark
CREATED: 2005
An American gentleman takes posession of his ancestral estate in Exham, and learns far more about his family's past than he ever imagined.

The Street
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Sean Puckett
1 MP3 File - 14 Minutes 51 Seconds [UNABRIDGED]
SOURCE: Voices In The Dark
CREATED: 2005
Do things and places have a soul?

Other authors and stories of interest over on Voices In The Dark include:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
*I've added this one to our Cory Doctorow Author Focus listing.

The Case of Davidson's Eyes by H. G. Wells

The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells

The Empire of the Ants by H. G. Wells

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H. G. Wells

The Magic Shop by H. G. Wells

If you're an aspiring author, narrator or storyteller the folks at Voices In The Dark invite you to contribute! Here's the contact info.

posted by Jesse Willis 10:41 AM --

Comments: Post a Comment