Tag: Edgar Allan Poe

Audible.com: FREE Fairy Tales + FREE Poe + MORE FREE

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

There are a couple of “Audible Fairy Tales” titles for kids available for FREE from Audible.com. You will need to have an Audible.com account already but if you do you’re golden with these…

Audible Fairy Tales - The True History Of Little Golden HoodThe True History Of Little Golden-Hood
By Andrew Lang; Read by Leo Laporte
Audible Download – 9 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible.com / Audible Fairy Tales
Published: 2008
You know the tale of poor Little Red Riding-hood, that the Wolf deceived and devoured, with her cake, her little butter can, and her grandmother? Well, the true story happened quite differently, as we now know. First of all, the little girl was called and is still called Little Golden-hood; secondly, it was not she, nor the good grand-dame, but the wicked Wolf who was, in the end, caught and devoured.

Audible Fairy Tales - Beauty And The BeastBeauty And The Beast
By Andrew Lang; Read by Roscoe Orman
Audible Download – 51 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible.com / Audible Fairy Tales
Published: 2008
Once upon a time in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich. As he had, however, six sons and six daughters, he found that his money was not too much to let them all have everything they fancied, as they were accustomed to do.

But that isn’t all! An Audible Kids account (which you can get FREE if you already have a regular Audible.com account) will get you even more gems…

Audible / Reading Is Fundamental

I’m listening to the E.A. Poe tale in there now. It’ll freak your kids out right and proper!

[via the Teaching Learners With Multiple Needs blog]

Posted by Jesse Willis

Edgar Allan Poe all over BBC7 this week

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

BBC Radio 7 - BBC7 It’s a busy week over on BBC7 with FIVE whole Poe programs playing! All this is in celebration of Poe’s 200th birthday. If Poe were alive today he’d be a rich man, not because any of his writings are still in copyright, but rather because he’d be able to rake in dough just by doing dramatic readings of his own work. But, since he isn’t still alive [as far as YOU know] we’ll just make do with these…

The Strange Case of Edgar Allan Poe
In this imaginative and mysterious drama by Christopher Cook, one of Poe’s own early creations, the detective C. Auguste Dupin investigates the bizarre and strange death of the writer. First broadcast in 1988, it stars John Moffatt and Kerry Shale and is directed by John Powell.
Sunday at 10am and 8pm

The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling short story was first published in 1842. Read by David Horovitch, it is the tale of the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. The story was abridged by Richard Hamilton and directed by Emma Harding.
Sunday at 11am and 9pm

The Tell-tale Heart
In another of Poe’s atmospheric short stories, a man coldly calculates and commits what he believes is the perfect murder. When he is confronted by members of the constabulary, will his own heart incriminate him? Directed and produced by Clive Stanhope for CSA Word, this classic example of Gothic fiction is read by Richard Pasco.
Sunday at 11.15am and 9.15am

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Gold Bug
Set in 1838, this is Poe’s story of piracy, slavery and a treasure hunt. It was dramatised by Gregory Evans and first broadcast in 2001. Starring Clarke Peters, John Sharlan, Rhashan Stone and William Hootkins, it is directed by Ned Chaillet.
Saturday at 6pm and Midnight

The Fall of the House of Usher
Our final Edgar Allan Poe offering is read by Sean Barrett. A man’s descent into madness seems bound to the house of his ancestors. It is a Radio 7 commission and was first broadcast in 2003.
Thursday and Friday at 6.30pm and 12.30pm

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Mister Ron presents: An 1880 Poe spoof – The Murder in the Rue Rivoli

misterron

SFFaudio Online Audio

Podcast - Mister Ron's Basement Mister Ron’s Basement podcast will be celebrating Edgar Allan Poe’s Bicentennial this month with a collection of Poe’s funniest stories. However, we will beginning with an 1880 spoof of Poe’s Detective Fiction by the remarkable Stanley Huntley in Episode number 1255. It’s called The Murder in the Rue Rivoli. Poe fans should get a kick out of this highly polished satire…

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BROKEN SEA: 31 Nights Of Horror

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Broken Sea Audio Productions HALLOWEEN 2008 - Season Of Screams

Broken Sea AudioBrokenSea Audio Productions is following up their 2007 Halloween Season special with a second month long audio release schedule that is proving popular with audio fans. This year’s season is called: 31 Nights of Horror

BSAP is releasing new AUDIO material (short stories, poems and audio drama) every day on their website, and via podcast. Included are classic tales from authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Joseph Conrad and Edgar Allan Poe, full cast audio drama and readings of great new horror tales by authors who have contributed works to the project. The season runs from October 1st to the 31st. With a major event planned for All Hallows Eve itself – think undead, think cheerleader.

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Four on Seven

Rich

SFFaudio Online Audio

Four on Seven…

BBC Radio 7 - BBC7The 7th Dimension
Readings:
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Brave New World

Plus The Scarifyers #2!

The Fall of the House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic tale of gothic horror, a masterpiece of “dramatic irony and structural symbolism” (whew, okay…) and no doubt his most famous work. Suffice it to say that this is one creepy story that seems to exist in some dark phantasmal dream. What is the power that the House has over the Usher Family? Told in 2 parts beginning on Thursday, September 25. Read by Sean Barrett.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Washington Irving‘s spooky tale of two rivals and an encounter with a ghastly horseman with…you guessed it…no head. Am I spoiling too much here? A traditional favorite and hey, just in time for Halloween. Oh, by the way, nothing wrong with the movie versions but the original’s a must read…or a must listen, as the case may be. Told in 3 parts beginning on Sunday, September 28. Read by Martin Jarvis.

Brave New World: Aldous Huxley‘s nightmare vision of a dystopian future. Often compared to Orwell’s 1984, critic Neil Postman contrasts the two: What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one…Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us. Heavy stuff. Told in 10 parts beginning on Monday, September 29. Read by Anton Lesser.

The Scarifyers series continues on BBC 7 with adventure #2, The Devil of Denge Marsh written by Paul Morris. When a government minister melts in Margate, it’s a job for Lionheart and Dunning. Terry Molloy (Dunning) described the series as being like Tin Tin and Dick Barton meet The X-Files. True to form, this one features an encounter with…no, it’s too horrible to tell! Presented in 3 parts beginning on Sunday, September 28. Produced by Cosmic Hobo. Full-cast audioplay. Stars Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy. – Trailer #1 – Trailer #2

Note that all BBC 7 programs are available to listen to online for six days via the Listen Again feature.

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