Author: Jesse Willis

Plotting For Perfection by Tim Prasil

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

SFFaudio Podcast #189 featured our chat with the fantastic writer Tim Prasil – about his MARVELLOUS BOXES anthology series (as produced by Decoder Ring Theatre). Something that came up in that discussion was that one of the stories, Plotting For Perfection, was based on a short story Tim has the story online, |PDF|, and has now graciously narrated it for our listening pleasure:

Tim PrasilPlotting For Perfection
By Tim Prasil; Read by Tim Prasil
1 |MP3| – Approx. 32 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Provider: Tim Prasil
Provided: December 2012
A photographer on assignment meets his future love, an astrophysicist, and then is visited by photographs of their future life together.

Plotting For Perfection by Tim Prasil - illustration

[Thanks Tim!]

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Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

There seems to me no point in any other narrator even attempting to narrate H.P. Lovecraft’s Dagon. Wayne June mastered it. He conquered it. He embodied it. And he has made all other attempts, at least those not done for one’s own pleasure, a deaf and pointless exercise.

Like an inescapable crushing force June’s narration works upon your mind, flooding a cool swaddling of algal bloom round the the abyssal depths of your fear center, pulling you down into his narration like a black ocean of horror from which nothing and no one can ever truly be freed.

The Dark Worlds Of H.P. Lovecraft Volume 2SFFaudio EssentialDagon
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Wayne June
1 |MP3| – Approx. 16 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Audio Realms Podcast
Podcast: August 12th 2008
The testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurred early on in World War I when he was a merchant marine officer. First published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11).

And here’s a |PDF| made from a publication in Weird Tales.

Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft - Weird Tales

Haunt Of Horror - Dagon - adapted by Richard Corben

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Was It A Dream? by Guy de Maupassant

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Horror, romance, and zombies – kinda.

LibriVoxWas It A Dream?
By Guy de Maupassant; Read by Sandarroch (Sandy Wood)
1 |MP3| – Approx. 12 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: March 26, 2009

There’s also a terribly muddy recording, of a cool sounding CBSRMT adaptation too:

CBS Radio Mystery TheaterCBS Radio Mystery Theater #0548 – The Graveyard
Based on Was It A Dream? by Guy de Maupassant; Adapted by Elspeth Eric; Performed by a full cast
1 |MP3| – Approx. 46 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: CBS Radio
Broadcast: November 8, 1976
Source: CBSRMT.com
A man mourns for his lost love who died after riding out into a rain storm to buy a new dress. He learns the truth about her in a hard way.

Cast:
Ralph Bell
Evie Juster
Norman Rose
Jada Rowland
Guy Sorel

|PDF|

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Molle Mystery Theatre: The Beckoning Fair One (adapted from the novella by Oliver Onions)

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Molle Mystery TheatreMolle Mystery Theatre – The Beckoning Fair One
Adapted from the novella by Oliver Onions; Performed by a full cast
1 |MP3| – Approx. 31 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: NBC
Broadcast: June 5, 1945
Source: Vintage Horror Radio

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Escape Pod: Craphound by Cory Doctorow

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Craphound, wasn’t Cory Doctorow’s first short story, but it was the first one I’d ever read of his. Published in Science Fiction Age, a slick full sized magazine in which Doctorow had a regular column, it featured many of the elements you’ll find in his other stories and novels. A kind of curious combination of warm and fuzzy nostalgia with a clear eyed thinking. Craphound is also what Doctorow named both his website and podcast.

Podcast - Escape PodCraphound
By Cory Doctorow; Read by Jesse Thorn
1 |MP3| – Approx. 45 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Escape Pod
Podcast: January 2006
“Aliens have once again decided to visit Earth in this lighthearted romp. Rather than having conquest on their minds, they merely wish to visit, and explore. Jerry is a junk dealer, a collector, a pack rat of crap and antiques and memorabilia, depending on your point of view.” First published in Science Fiction Age, March 1998.

Craphound by Cory Doctorow

Craphound by Cory Doctorow - interior illustration by Chuck Demorat from Science Fiction Age

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Highway To Mars: Odile Thomas and Jim Moon discuss Children Of The Stones

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Highway To MarsA recent Highway To Mars podcast features Odile Thomas (of the Sending A Wave podcast) and Mr Jim Moon (of the Hypnobobs podcast) discussing the 1976 TV serial Children Of The Stones.

The brief official description asks this question:

Is it an updated version of The Prisoner or an early version of Lost or in a class of it’s own?

You could also describe Children Of The Stones as kid’s version of The Wicker Man (except with the whole village doing goofballs) or as a very good episode of Jon Pertwee era Doctor Who (except starring Rog Blake) – but really, however you describe it, Children Of The Stones is a great combination of intelligent storytelling and intelligent characters in a very cool mysterious plot involving all the sort of stuff smart people are into. And thus its a great show for smart kids and smart adults alike.

|MP3|

Children Of The Stones

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