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BSAP: The Hyborian Age by Robert E. Howard

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The countdown has begun!

Broken Sea Audio Productions Presents CONAN by Robert E. Howard

The Hyborian Age Episode 1 |MP3| is a prelude to more Broken Sea Audio Productions of Robert E. Howard audio to come. Here’s the offical word:

To whet the Cimmerian appetites awaiting our Full Cast Audio Drama Production of the Robert E. Howard classic CONAN tale “Queen Of The Black Coast”, we are releasing REH’s own history of that barbaric age of steel and sorcery! The Hyborian Age in Audio Book format, depicting the cataclysmic time that passed before CONAN wielded his mighty sword and trod under his sandaled feet!

Check out the new Broken Sea CONAN site HERE and the trailer |MP3| for the upcoming Queen Of The Black Coast audio drama!

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The Dial P For Pulp podcast dials up the goodness

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With a mere six podcasts completed Dial P For Pulp has already proven itself as a reliable source for great pulpy fiction. The host, David Drage, talks about pulp magazines, pulp authors, pulp books, the pulp era and games inspired by pulp. Older shows include stories by H. Rider Haggard and Robert E. Howard, but it is the most recent show, another Howard tale, that interests us the most. It’s a short story taken for the Second Annual SFFaudio Challlenge!

The Cairn on the Headland
By Robert E. Howard; Read by David Drage
1 |MP3| – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Dial P For Pulp
Podcast: March 2008
What lies beneath the stone cairn on the headland of Clontarf, where the Christian Irish defeated the pagan Vikings in pitched battle a thousand years ago? An unscrupulous extortionist plans to uncover the secret. First published in the January 1933 issue of Strange Tales of Mystery And Terror magazine.

Set your podcatcher to pulp, and subscribe to the RSS feed:

http://dpfp.libsyn.com/rss/podcasts

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LibriVox releases Horror Story Collection 003 stories by Poe, Wells, Lovecraft, Howard and more!

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I think we’re getting spoiled…

Horror Story Collection 003
By various; Read by various
10 Zipped MP3 Files, or podcast – 3 Hours 18 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: January 23rd 2008
An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking dead, the fetid pools of slime, the howls in the night that you thought you had confined to your more unpleasant dreams.

Caterpillars
By E.F. Benson; Read by Andy Minter
1 |MP3| file – Approx. 21 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Cats of Ulthar
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by: Sarah Jennings
1 |MP3| file – Approx. 8 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Crawling Chaos
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by D.E. Wittkower
1 |MP3| file – Approx. 26 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Nameless City
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Mark Nelson
1 |MP3| file – Approx. 37 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Raven
By Edgar Allen Poe; Read by Zoe Earley
1 |MP3| file – Approx. 8 Minutes

Skulls in the Stars
By Robert E. Howard; Read by Paul Siegel
1 |MP3| file – Approx. 22 Minutes

The Spook House
By Ambrose Bierce; Read by Scott Bush
1 |MP3| file – Approx. 9 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Statement of Randolph Carter
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Glen Hallstrom
1 |MP3| file – Approx. 14 Miuntes [UNABRIDGED]

The Strange Orchid
By H.G. Wells; Read by Pete Williams
1 |MP3| file – Approx. 21 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

The Tomb
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by D.E. Wittkower
1 |MP3| file – Approx. 32 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

Subscribe to the podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/horror-story-collection-003.xml

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SFFaudio Challenge Title: Red Nails by Robert E. Howard COMPLETE & UNABRIDGED

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Mark Kalita, the narrator for the audiobook version of Robert E. Howard’s Red Nails informs me that he has completed his challenge title! This is the third completed title in our Second Annual SFFaudio Challenge. All 7 of the 7 chapters of this novella are available for download COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED! Woohooo!

Red Nails – A Tale Of Conan
By Robert E. Howard; Read by Mark Kalita
7 MP3s – Approx. 3.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Broken Sea Audio Productions / Hooligan Audiobooks
Published: December 2007 – January 2008
“Red Nails, a tale featuring the legendary Conan the Barbarian, was written by Robert E. Howard and began its written serialization in the July 1936 issue of Weird Tales. This thrilling audio novella begins with pirate-adventuress Valeria of the Red Brotherhood on the run after slaying a notable brigand. She is followed by Conan and the two soon fight their way to a great, walled city inhabited by two warring peoples. The adventure seekers soon find themselves embroiled in the feud and mayhem ensues as the city’s rulers make unholy plans for the mighty Cimmerian and his feisty female companion. Listen now as an ancient evil returns from oblivion and a wicked sorceress seeks to gain immortality at the cost of our Hyborian heroes!”

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Audiobook version of Red Nails by Robert E. Howard is underway

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SFFaudio’s Make An Audiobook Win An Audiobook Challenge #2 I credit the speed to which the Broken Sea folks are getting their audiobooks produced to the years of experience in recording audio drama. One among the BSAP crew is a virtual celebrity of the amateur audio drama community. Mark Kalita is a writer, producer and actor in audio drama scene. You’ll find his work, writing and voice over at both Darker Projects and Broken Sea, he’s played roles in the production of at least a good dozen productions including both Doctor Who and Star Trek as well as numerous original series.

His latest venture is the audiobook version of Robert E. Howard’s Red Nails. This is a Conan adventure also featuring a wily she-pirate named Valeria and is one of the titles from the Second Annual SFFaudio Challenge. Mark has already released 4 of the 7 chapters of this novella. Red Nails first appeared in 1936 as a three part serial in three issues of WEIRD TALES magazine. In it Conan encounters a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are pro-actively resigned to their own destruction. Also, of note, there’s a cool-looking animated movie version headed for a DVD-only release in 2008.

Red Nails is the last Conan story Howard wrote and the last major fantasy he completed. On the verge of abandoning fantasy for more commercial concerns, Howard devoted considerable thought and effort to his final allegorical statement. In a letter to Clark Ashton Smith, Howard had this to say about Red Nails:

“Sent a three-part serial to Wright yesterday: “Red Nails,” which I devoutly hope he’ll like. A Conan yarn, and the grimmest, bloodiest and most merciless story of the series so far. Too much raw meat, maybe, but I merely portrayed what I honestly believe would be the reactions of certain types of people in the situations on which the plot of the story hung…”

Intrigued? Have a listen, and judge for yourself…

Red Nails – A Tale Of Conan
By Robert E. Howard; Read by Mark Kalita
MP3s – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Broken Sea Audio Productions / Hooligan Audiobooks
Published: December 2007 – ???
“Red Nails, a tale featuring the legendary Conan the Barbarian, was written by Robert E. Howard and began its written serialization in the July 1936 issue of Weird Tales. This thrilling audio novella begins with pirate-adventuress Valeria of the Red Brotherhood on the run after slaying a notable brigand. She is followed by Conan and the two soon fight their way to a great, walled city inhabited by two warring peoples. The adventure seekers soon find themselves embroiled in the feud and mayhem ensues as the city’s rulers make unholy plans for the mighty Cimmerian and his feisty female companion. Listen now as an ancient evil returns from oblivion and a wicked sorceress seeks to gain immortality at the cost of our Hyborian heroes!”

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2nd Completed SFFaudio Challenge title: The Queen Of The Black Coast by Robert E. Howard

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SFFaudio’s Make An Audiobook Win An Audiobook Challenge #2 Bill Hollweg of Broken Sea Audio Productions is the second challenger to complete a title in the Second Annual SFFaudio Challenge! Available now is a complete and unabridged reading of Robert E. Howard’s Queen Of The Black Coast read by Bill Hollweg!

This is a significant achievment as Queen Of The Black Coast is one of the world’s most important novelettes:

-There is a hefty page on Wikipedia detailing much about this influential tale.

-It took a stunning 40 issues of Conan: The Barbarian (the Marvel comic) to string out just a few lines in this tale.

-In the original Conan movie, which was not faithful to any particular Conan story, there was one clear aspect that was certainly taken from the end of Queen Of The Black Coast.

–Broken Sea Audio Productions is “doing a full cast audio drama of this and other tales of Conan” – look for the audio drama version in early 2008.

Also, the good folks over at Broken Sea Audio Productions have fenced off a separate page for what they are calling “Hooligan Audiobooks”, there you’ll find all the BSAP single voiced narration tales. If you’ve never tried a Howard story, or never read a Conan tale, have a listen to this unabridged beauty:

Queen Of The Black Coast
By Robert E. Howard; Read by Bill Hollweg
Podcast – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Broken Sea Audio Thursday
Podcast: November – December 2007
In the seacoast kingdom of Argos, after a brush with the Hyborian legal system, Conan hops aboard a southward bound ship. Off the coasts of Kush the ship is boarded by black corsairs under the Shemitish she-devil, Bêlit. Conan joins her crew, becomes her consort, and for a long time they harry the Hyborian and Stygian ports. During this stage of his career, Conan gains the name of Amra, the Lion, which is to follow him throughout his later life.

Chapter 1 |MP3| Chapter 2 |MP3| Chapter 3 |MP3|Chapters 4 & 5 |MP3|

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