Campfire Classics Podcast

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

You've been gifted, this week, with possibly the kinkiest story (at least in your hosts minds) yet read on this podcast.

But what do you expect out of a story called "The Mummy's Foot"?

Ken has chosen the story for Heather to read based solely on the fact that the author, Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, is super French, and he thought that would be funny. Regular listeners are either excited or rolling their eyes.

Proceed with caution.

Along the way your hosts discuss French stereotypes, explicit paper weights, and cursed thrifting.

"The Mummy's Foot" was first published in 1840.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Well, your hosts might have played last week...poorly...

But, no one has ever accused them of TOO MUCH tact.

Ah well, life goes on. We hope.

This week will be better. Probably. Not.

Heather has picked a story called "The Dream Snake" for Ken to read. It's by previous Campfire Classics author Robert E. Howard, who you can hear all about by listening back to Episode 53. Heather gives us Fun Facts completely unrelated.

Conversation topics include the original lyrics to the song "Waltzing Matilda," weird dreams, and disappointing parties. Definitely not any recent politics...

Okay, maybe a little recent politics.

But your hosts move on quickly, so you can enjoy it amyway!

"The Dream Snake" was published in 1928 in the magazine Weird Tales.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Heather's back!

And we're really hoping that not the best news you're getting today.

Ken has selected a story for Heather to read called "The Mysterious Case". It's by a previous Campfire Classics author named Anna Katherine Green.

And frankly, you can tell your hosts have been chomping at the bit to get back at it, so I'm not even going to spoil conversation topics for you.

Just listen!

"The Mysterious Case" was published in 1891.

The organizations Ken has mentioned during these specials are Beloved Asheville and North Carolina Stage Company.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Welcome to the final Special of October 2024.

Ken is going to be reading the book The Willows by Algernon Blackwood.

At five chapters long, you'll be getting one chapter per week! And this is the final chapter. The end of the story. We're finally at the end. This has been a wild trip.

The Willows was published in 1907.

The organizations Ken has mentioned during these specials are Beloved Asheville and North Carolina Stage Company.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Welcome to the second Special of October 2024.

This month, Ken is going to be reading the book The Willows by Algernon Blackwood.

At five chapters long, you'll be getting one chapter per week!

This is, in essence, the meat of the story. If you've enjoyed the last couple weeks set up, strap in, because this one is WILD!

The Willows was published in 1907.

The organizations Ken mentioned at the top of the episode are Beloved Asheville and North Carolina Stage Company.

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Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Welcome to the second Special of October 2024.

This month, Ken is going to be reading the book The Willows by Algernon Blackwood.

At five chapters long, you'll be getting one chapter per week!

The third chapter starts to hint at what the real trouble might be...

The Willows was published in 1907.

The organizations Ken mentioned at the top of the episode are Beloved Asheville and North Carolina Stage Company.

Email us at [email protected].

Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

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Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Welcome to the second Special of October 2024.

This month, Ken is going to be reading the book The Willows by Algernon Blackwood.

At five chapters long, you'll be getting one chapter per week!

This second chapter catapults us straight in to the first concrete evidence of something...not right.

The Willows was published in 1907.

The organizations Ken mentioned at the top of the episode are Beloved Asheville and North Carolina Stage Company.

Email us at [email protected].

Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

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Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Welcome to the first Special of October 2024.

This month, Ken is going to be reading the book The Willows by Algernon Blackwood.

At five chapters long, you'll be getting one chapter per week!

This first chapter very much sets the tone and leaves you anxious for what comes next. An amazing and atmospheric piece to take us through the spooky season.

The Willows was published in 1907.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

This is an update and a VERY important story.

Basically, Ken shows up and is like "oops we got busy, we'll be back soon" then he reads some story about a woman who becomes her own husband.

It's actually pretty freaking wild.

Give it a listen.

The story is called "If I Were a Man". It was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1914.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to solve the murder before the writer solves it for you.

Honestly, I didn't, and I really felt I should have.

Anyway, it's a solo mission from Ken, so if you listen it'll be good for his ego, and he's been feeling kinda down on himself lately, so you really should give it a listen. And then tell him it's a really good story and that your going to tell your friends about the podcast because they'll love him.

And tell him his hair looks nice today, too.

He's really very needy.

It's exhausting taking care of this guy.

But, yes, the story is called "One Hundred Bucks Per Stiff". It was written by J. Lloyd Conrich and published in 1942.

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Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

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Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.