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Mr. Jim Moon reads Shadow Bride by J.R.R. Tolkien! The title character finds a mate in a man who casts no shadow. There’s something of sexuality here, and there’s something of Persephone and Hades, but also something of Sleeping Beauty,… Read moreShadow Bride by J.R.R. Tolkien
La Chasse-Galerie (aka “The Bewitched Canoe” aka “The Flying Canoe“) I mentioned this story on a recent podcast, then I tracked down a very early English translation |PDF|, and now narrator Mark Turetsky has recorded it for us all! Thanks… Read moreLa Chasse-Galerie by Honoré Beaugrand (Read by Mark Turetsky)
I probably should have told you about this podcast earlier, the thing is, I forgot just how stupid BBC policy can be. So, hurry up and subscribe to this great podcast before what remains of the earlier files drop out… Read moreBBC Learning: Tales From Ancient Greece
Dangerous Visions “A season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias” is the title for new BBC Radio 4 programming that airs from Saturday June 15 to Friday June 21, 2013. Here’s the official description: Alternative worlds dominate… Read moreBBC Radio 4: Dangerous Visions
Having sampled a fair amount of steampunk fiction I’d pretty much concluded it was a genre best relegated to photography or film, not text. But there may be another place steampunkery may be successful – computer games. The BioShock series… Read moreDishonored: The Drunken Whaler
Alethia Phrikodes is a long poem by H.P. Lovecraft. The title, by the way, is from Greek, and means “Frightful Truth.” Following the title there is a short line, in Latin, reading: “Omnia risus et omnis pulvis et omna nihil.”… Read moreAlethia Phrikodes by H.P. Lovecraft