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Maria Lectrix: The Creature From Cleveland Depths by Fritz Leiber

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The Maria Lectrix podcast, and it’s proprietress Maureen O’Brien have finished recording and releasing into the public domain a new/old short story by the immortal/deceased Fritz Leiber!

Says Maureen: “Here is a modern tale of an inner-directed sorcerer and an outer-directed sorcerer’s apprentice … a tale of— THE CREATURE FROM CLEVELAND DEPTHS”

The Creature From Cleveland Depths
By Fritz Leiber; Read by Maureen O’Brien.
8 MP3 Files – Approx. 1 Hour 32 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Maria Lectrix
Podcast: October 2008
Provider: Archive.org
Every time Gusterson dropped a new free idea into the fad-ridden mainstream world of underground cities and cozy crowds, it crystallized into something really strange, and things got out of hand. So he shouldn’t have mentioned the reminder machine….
Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3| Part 3 |MP3| Part 4 |MP3|
Part 5 |MP3| Part 6 |MP3| Part 7 |MP3| Part 8 |MP3|

Posted by Jesse Willis

The Living Dead anthology being AUDIOBOOKED

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The Living Dead is a paperbook anthology edited by John Joseph Adams. Here’s the premise from the book’s introduction:

“Most of the stories in this book are either inspired by Romero’s ‘unholy trilogy’—Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead—or are a reaction to it.”

There are 34 stories in the anthology. Three are currently available in audio form from Pseudopod and WBAI 99.5 FM’s Hour Of The Wolf (there are two different readings of the David Barr Kirtley story BTW).

Here’s the Table of Contents with the AUDIO adaptations noted:

* Introduction by John Joseph Adams
* This Year’s Class Picture by Dan Simmons
* Some Zombie Contingency Plans by Kelly Link
* Death and Suffrage by Dale Bailey
* Ghost Dance by Sherman Alexie
* Blossom by David J. Schow
* The Third Dead Body by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
* The Dead by Michael Swanwick
* The Dead Kid by Darrell Schweitzer
* Malthusian’s Zombie by Jeffrey Ford
* Beautiful Stuff by Susan Palwick
* Sex, Death and Starshine by Clive Barker
* Stockholm Syndrome by David Tallerman; Read by Cheyenne Wright |MP3|
* Bobby Conroy Comes Back From the Dead by Joe Hill
* Those Who Seek Forgiveness by Laurell K. Hamilton
* In Beauty, Like the Night by Norman Partridge
* Prairie by Brian Evenson
* Everything is Better With Zombies by Hannah Wolf Bowen; Read by Mur Lafferty |MP3|
* Home Delivery by Stephen King
* Less Than Zombie by Douglas E. Winter
* Sparks Fly Upward by Lisa Morton
* Meathouse Man by George R. R. Martin
* Deadman’s Road by Joe R. Lansdale
* The Skull-Faced Boy by David Barr Kirtley; Read by David Barr Kirtley |MP3|
* The Skull-Faced Boy by David Barr Kirtley; Read by Ralph Walters |MP3|
* The Age of Sorrow by Nancy Kilpatrick
* Bitter Grounds by Neil Gaiman
* She’s Taking Her Tits to the Grave by Catherine Cheek
* Dead Like Me by Adam-Troy Castro
* Zora and the Zombie by Andy Duncan
* Calcutta, Lord of Nerves by Poppy Z. Brite
* Followed by Will McIntosh
* The Song the Zombie Sang by Harlan Ellison® and Robert Silverberg
* Passion Play by Nancy Holder
* Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man by Scott Edelman
* How the Day Runs Down by John Langan

Here’s more:

From WBAI 99.5 FM’s Hour Of The Wolf and David Barr Kirtley’s podcast:

A discussion of the book (with editor John Joseph Adams, author David Barr Kirtley and host Jim Freund) at |MP3|

Listener calls |MP3|

And, here’s the “Zombieriffic” claymation video that was mentioned in the listener calls…

Posted by Jesse Willis

BROKEN SEA: 31 Nights Of Horror

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BrokenSea 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.

Posted by Jesse Willis

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

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Now 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.

Collected 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

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The 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

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Meatball 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