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A double Halloween treat, my favourite Edgar Allan Poe short story, a Gothic Horror tale as narrated by two of my favourite people. First up, as narrated by Julie Davis of Forgotten Classics and A Good Story Is Hard To… Read moreThe Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
This is a pretty terrific adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampire classic, Carmilla. David Warner is wonderful as the father of the doomed Laura. And the music sounds, to my untrained ear, like that from Wojciech Kilar‘s in the… Read moreBBC Radio 4 Extra: Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu [RADIO DRAMA]
Vincent Price hosts this adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic vampire story. The setting is changed, moving the events up to 1922, and placing the action in Vienna. Price begins the program quoting these lines from Lord Byron’s 1813… Read moreSears Radio Theater: Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu [RADIO DRAMA]
Told as if from 70 years after the events, this adaptation of the classic of Gothic Fiction, is very very good. For more opinions check out the comments over on the CBSRMT.com page for this episode. CBSRMT #0318 – Carmilla… Read moreCBSRMT: Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu [RADIO DRAMA]
Recorded in 1967 and 1968, at Harvard, these Jorge Luis Borges lectures on poetry are a wondrous treasure. A part of the long running “Charles Eliot Norton Lectures” the collection is entitled This Craft Of Verse. Introduction |MP3| The Riddle… Read moreThis Craft Of Verse: lectures by Jorge Luis Borges (1967 – 1968)
This retro recommendation was first podcast back in September 2006. Now twenty years old it’s still a great story and still available as a podcast episode via the still going Escape Pod podcast. Also interesting, that editorial introduction by then… Read moreEscape Pod: Barnaby In Exile by Mike Resnick