Tag: horror

LibriVox: Collected Public Domain Works of H.P. Lovecraft

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

LibriVoxNow here is a surprise! A brand new collection of public domain H. P. Lovecraft stories read by a devoted team of LibriVox readers. Many of these have been released by LibriVox before, in various collections, and with different readers. This will be handy for podcast listeners who want to have quick access to stories that will freak their heads off. 24 tales by the master of the mind-blasting macabre. No podcast feed is up yet, but I expect that will change shortly.

LibriVox Horror - Collected Public Domain Works of H.P. LovecraftCollected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by various
25 Zipped MP3 Files – Approx. 7 Hours 40 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: October 17, 2008
H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24 Lovecraft works that are in the public domain. You’ll find more versions of these stories throughout LibriVox’s short story collections and short horror story collections.

The Alchemist
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by: Keith Worrell
1 |MP3| – Approx. 19 [UNABRIDGED]

The Beast In The Cave
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Scott Carpenter
1 |MP3| – Approx. 14 [UNABRIDGED]

Beyond the Wall of Sleep
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by D.E. Wittkower
1 |MP3| – Approx. 33 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Cats of Ulthar
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by jpontoli

1 |MP3| – Approx. 9 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Celephais
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Garrett Fitzgerald

1 |MP3| – Approx. 20 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Crawling Chaos
1 |MP3| – Approx. 17 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Joseph Canna

Dagon
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Michael Sample
1 |MP3| – Approx. 15 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Doom That Came to Sarnath
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by: Matt Bohnhoff
1 |MP3| – Approx. 18 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Ex Oblivione
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by jpontoli
1 |MP3| – Approx. 5 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by: Victoria Horsman
1 |MP3| – Approx. 34 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Herbert West: Reanimator
2 MP3s – Approx. 80 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by: Matt Bohnhoff
Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3|

Memory
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Varra Unreal
1 |MP3| – Approx. 3 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Music of Erich Zann
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Cameron Halket
1 |MP3| – Approx. 19 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Nameless City
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Scott Carpenter
1 |MP3| – Approx. 28 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Nyarlathotep
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Durant Haire
1 |MP3| – Approx. 8 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Picture in the House
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Sandra Zera
1 |MP3| – Approx. 24 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Polaris
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by jpontoli
1 |MP3| – Approx. 10 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

A Reminiscence Of Dr. Samuel Johnson
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Cameron Halket
1 |MP3| – Approx. 12 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Statement of Randolph Carter
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Joseph Canna
1 |MP3| – Approx. 13 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Street
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Sarah Jennings
1 |MP3| – – 00:14:31 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Terrible Old Man
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Keith Worrell
1 |MP3| – Approx. 7 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Tomb
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by jpontoli
1 |MP3| – Approx. 26 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Tree
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Michael Sample
1 |MP3| – Approx. 11 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The White Ship
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by D.E. Wittkower
1 |MP3| – Approx. 20 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Posted by Jesse Willis

Review of The Grist Mill: God of the Razor and If You Take My Hand, My Son

Scott D.

SFFaudio Review

Grist Mill - God of the RazorThe Grist Mill: “The God of the Razor” and “If You Take My Hand, My Son”
By Joe R. Lansdale and Mort Castle; Performed by a Full Cast
1 CD – 1 hour – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: STH Productions
Published: 2008
Themes: / Horror / Gods / Razors / Fathers / Afterlife /

A cloud across the moon can change the entire face of the night. It changes the way some people change their clothes… the way women change their hair.
— “God of the Razor”, Joe R. Lansdale

This CD contains two episodes from The Grist Mill audio drama series. The first is Joe R. Lansdale’s God of the Razor, which finds the protagonist confronting a weird guy in an empty house who talks about moons and clouds and eyes on his razor. (Note to self: if a weird guy mentions the word “razor”, it’s time to go, regardless of whether or not he sees eyes on them.) Like it says on the box, this one’s not for the squeamish.

Next is Mort Castle’s If You Take My Hand, My Son, which is a wrenching tale of a man who, after an accident, sees his father, who he had had a terrible time with when he lived. Is the man’s urge to reconcile with his father stronger than his will to live?

The audio drama is first rate – excellent actors, great sound, and two stories that are well worth hearing. So, if you are looking for a chill this Halloween, this collection would be an excellent choice.

Posted by Scott D. Danielson

Meatball Fulton’s 90 Second Cellphone Chillin’ Theatre

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

90 Second Cellphone Chillin’ TheatreMeatball Fulton’s podcast, Meatball’s Meatballs, will feature six stories from his series, 90 Second Cellphone Chillin’ Theatre starting on Friday October 10th 2008. In #17 |MP3| Fulton reveals how he came up with ideas for the 50 stories in this series, stories like Drooling Doreen, Ghouls Galore and Zombie Al’s Big Night Out. They are described as “humorous Hollywood influenced horror stories.”

And, be sure to check out podcast #11 which is a “making of” for the classic The Mist In 3-D Sound by Stephen King |MP3| headphones are required for the full effect.

Subscribe to the podcast feed:

http://www.zbs.org/dircast/dircaster.php

[Thanks Julie!]

Posted by Jesse Willis

LibriVox: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

LibriVox Run that by me one more time? Somebody over on LibriVox is reading my thoughts? Really?

Huh.

Well, the good news is that my thoughts are all a benefit to you folks too! See here, there’s a brand new reading of The Willows that Algernon Blackwood story I was telling you about just on Friday! But now you don’t have to wrangle with an the BBC iPlayer, or even torrent anything. What we’ve got here is a easy peasy 1-click download or podcast feed to make your life easier.

LibriVox Horror - The Willows by Algernon BlackwoodThe Willows
By Algernon Blackwood; Read by Michael Thomas Robinson
4 Zipped MP3 Files – Approx. 2 Hours 22 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: October 6th, 2008
A tale of horror in which a pleasant sojourn down the Danube tumbles terrifyingly awry as the veil between this world and an unfathomably weird dimension is inadvertently pierced by an innocent pair of vacationers, “The Willows”, arguably Algernon Blackwood’s seminal contribution to supernatural literature, has had a lasting influence on the field. No less a personage than H. P. Lovecraft describing it as “…the greatest weird tale ever written.” A reading will reveal a clear influence to one familiar with Lovecraft’s work. The masterful handling of mystery and suspense that build to a quite satisfyingly unnerving crescendo may be particularly noted by the discerning aficionado of the genre.

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/the-willows-by-algernon-blackwood.xml

Posted by Jesse Willis

Crescent by Phil Rossi (a podiobook goint to print)

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Crescent by Phil RossiPhil Rossi, that magnificent beast, writes in to remind us of his podcast novel Crescent. Check out his promo |MP3| and then, if you likes what you hears, check it out either on the Crescent website or over on Podiobooks.com. Here’s the description:

Some places are far darker than deep space. Places where the shadows smile. Where men go mad and lovers go missing. These stygian corners of existence are where reality is stretched thin and something hungry is waiting just outside the corner of your eye.

Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and dare to visit one of these places.

Crescent is dark science fiction at it’s most visceral. Phil Rossi weaves a tale that is reminiscent of old school Stephen King but with a shiny, new set of tricks and an appetite to terrify. There’s sex. There’s corruption. There’s horror. And after you sweat your way through the first chapter, there’s plenty more to keep you awake at night.

The podiobook’s been popular enough to get picked up, like a select few before it, by Dragon Moon Press. According to Rossi it’ll be out in its paperbook version in 2009.

Posted by Jesse Willis

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.

Posted by RC of RTSF