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Nobody does Edgar Allan Poe better than Wayne June. The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe Lo! ’tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a… Read moreThe Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Wayne June)
Sometimes titled The Highwayman, sometimes The Highwaymen, Lord Dunsany’s elegant prose poem is an 1,800 word tale about a scabrous gang of bastard highwaymen. And it has something for almost everyone. I think, despite the sacrilege and desecration in the… Read moreLibriVox: The Highwayman by Lord Dunsany (aka The Highwaymen)
Here’s the subject of our next podcast recording, a specially commissioned reading of Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft. The narrator is one of my very favourites, Jonathan Davis, who will be on the podcast discussing it with us! The story… Read moreCool Air by H.P. Lovecraft
Here’s a rather timely re-post, one based on a post prompted back in 2006 by an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. Professor Esther M. Hu, pointed me towards this reading of an Arthur C. Clarke classic, one read by… Read moreThe Transit Of Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
I’m a shy visitor to the world of poetry. I find myself unable to even consider an approach to any given poem without some sort of tour guide, as it were. The latest such guide was an episode of BBC… Read moreLibriVox: We Are Seven by William Wordsworth
Robert Sheckley was a joker, a satirist, a poker of fun at all of the silliness in life. But there’s something more going on in this short short story from 1953. Sure there’s the existentialist angle, and of course there’s… Read moreLibriVox: Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley