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Icebox Radio: Halloween (audio drama) lasts 24 hours

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Icebox Radio, is featuring “24 Hours of Terror”, a solid day of horror lasting the 24 hours that is Halloween 2009.

Here’s the schedule:

Midnight – Oct 31, 2009
Atlanta Radio Theater Company: Brides Of Dracula 1
Atlanta Radio Theater Company: Brides of Dracula 2

1:00am
Atlanta Radio Theater Company: Brides of Dracula 3
Union Signal: Dead Man’s Hole

2:00am
Darker Projects: Man in the Chair
The Grist Mill: The Homecoming
Imagination-X: Background

3:00am
Chatterbox Audio: The Dead Girl

4:00am
Chatterbox Audio: The Dead Girl

5:00am
19 Nocturne Blvd.: Dracula Dot Com
Imagination-X: Up on the Rooftops

6:00am
Sound Effects: Haunted Sounds
Disney: Thrilling Chilling Haunted House

7:00am
Disney: The Haunted Mansion
19 Nocturne Blvd.: For Art’s Sake

8:00am
Darker Projects: Byron Chronicles: The Taint
Darker Projects: The Man in the Chair
Imagination-X: Mandible Hill

9:00am
BrokenSea Audio Productions: Kolchak

10:00am
BrokenSea Audio Productions: Kolchak
Ice Box Radio Theatre: 3 Skeleton Key
Disney: Thrilling Chilling Haunted House 01

11:00am
Willamette Radio: Murder of Crows
Darker Projects: Zombie Pumpkinheads From Outerspace
Haunted Sounds: House Labratory 05

Noon
Atlanta Radio Theater Company: Shadow Over Innsmouth

1:00pm
Atlanta Radio Theater Company: Shadow Over Innsmouth
19 Nocturne Blvd: Thrice Tolled Bell

2:00pm
Bells In The Batfry: The Spectre Bride
Ice Box Radio Theatre: Revolt of the Worms
Haunted Sounds: Entering the Haunted House 01

3:00pm
19 Nocturne Blvd.: The Temple
OTR: The Thing On The Fourbleboard

4:00pm
Ice Box Radio Theatre: Pickaxe Hill
Ice Box Radio Theatre: The Bats
Haunted Sounds: Gathering Storm 03

5:00pm
The Grist Mill: If You Take My Hand My Son |READ OUR REVIEW|
Ice Box Radio Theatre: The Thing On The Ice

6:00pm
Final Rune‘s Halloween Show: LIVE

7:00pm
Final Rune’s Halloween Show: LIVE

8:00pm
OTR: War Of The Worlds (WKBW-Buffalo)

9:00pm
OTR: War Of The Worlds (WKBW-Buffalo)
19 Nocturne Blvd.: Force Majeure (Premiere!)
Imagination-X: The House In The Woods

10:00pm
The Grist Mill: God Of The Razor |READ OUR REVIEW|
Ice Box Radio Theatre: The Thing On the Ice

11:00pm
Imagination-X: Family Radio
Darker Projects: And God Looked

[Thanks Bill!]

Posted by Jesse Willis

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

SFFaudio Review

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

Review of Slasher by F. Paul Wilson

Aural Noir: Review

The Grist Mill: “Slasher”
By F. Paul Wilson; Performed by a Full Cast
Audio Download – 1/2 hour – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: STH Productions
Published: 2008

A man loses his daughter to a killer. At the funeral, he is approached by an FBI agent who keeps him up to date on the investigation. When the investigation doesn’t go the way the man wants it to… well, I can say no more. This audio drama is definitely worth 30 minutes of your time, if only to experience the ending.

Sound effects are used in a professional manner and the acting is pretty good. The only thing that turned me off about this drama is a bit of jarring piano music that is used at a couple of points in the story – it wasn’t appropriate for the mood.

This is my first experience listening to an F. Paul Wilson story, and my first experience hearing an audio drama from The Grist Mill – I look forward to hearing stuff from both again.

Posted by Scott D. Danielson

Recent Arrivals from The Grist Mill

SFFaudio Recent Arrivals

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

The Grist Mill: “Slasher”
By F. Paul Wilson; Performed by a Full Cast
Audio Download – 1/2 hour = [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: STH Productions
Published: 2008

Three audio dramas (two episodes on the CD) from The Grist Mill! These titles are horror, very well done. Radio Drama Revival says: “Slasher” is just a startlingly awesome piece of audio, the best of the best out there.

“God of the Razor” – Master horror writer Joe R. Lansdale introduces us to an ancient razor and the sinister god who controls all who use it. WARNING: this audio is NOT for the squeamish.

“If You Take My Hand, My Son” – Mort Castle’s audio play that tells the tale of a reconciliation between a father and son that takes place beyond the grave; a reconciliation with terrifying results. Taken from his book “Moon on the Water”.

Posted by Scott D. Danielson

The SFFaudio Podcast #001 – NEW RELEASES / RECENT ARRIVALS

Podcast

Hey look! We’ve got our own podcast. This is the very first one, which includes SFFaudio founders Scott D. Danielson and Jesse Willis talking about audiobooks, audio drama, and cease and desist orders. We won’t desist podcasting if you won’t cease downloading them – whatever that means.

This week we talked about the most recent of Recent Arrivals, the newest of the New Releases, and the breaking news about the attempt to break Broken Sea Audio Productions‘ productions.

Topics under discussion include:

Ubik, Philip K. Dick, Joss Whedon, Dollhouse, Babylon Babies, Audible.com, audio drama, The Grist Mill, F. Paul Wilson, Charles de Lint, Robert A. Heinlein, Starman Jones, Mort Castle, Dr. Bloodmoney, Frederik Pohl, Lester del Rey, Arthur C. Clarke, 2000x, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Star Trek, Audible Frontiers, Wonder Audio, The Last Theorem, Preferred Risk, Alfred Bester, Fondly Fahrenheit, The Stars My Destination, Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Audio Realms, Conan and Mickey Mouse.

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http://www.sffaudio.com/?feed=podcast

Posted by Jesse Willis