Campfire Classics Podcast

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Apparently our hosts really do have no sense of decorum, decency, or humor. And I have to sit and listen to this whole thing to try to come up with adequate warnings for you, dear listener, so you know what you're getting yourself in to.

Okay, so Clown Corner this week is inexplicably educational, the author's Fun Facts (provided by Ken this week) seem awfully short on fact, and the story is just...well, no, the story is actually quite good.  A little unsettling, but it's A story called "The Phantom Wolfhound" by a guy name Otis Adelbert Kline, and it really is incredibly engaging.

But not engaging enough to keep your hosts on task.

Tangents include musical interludes by Bloodhound Gang (and The Offspring mislabeled as Bloodhound Gang, which neither Ken nor Heather picked up on, for shame, for shame), a treatise on the value of art, and some masturbation jokes.  So, you know...even more scatterbrained than usual.

But really, you're here for this story!

Come on in!

"The Phantom Wolfhound" was published in 1923 in Weird Tales.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

This week we are literally getting a ghost story written by a priest!

That should literally be all it takes to sell you on this episode!

No?  Need more?

Heather has chosen this week's story from author Sabine Baring-Gould.  It is called "The Red-Haired Girl," and it is a shockingly fascinating story from a writer neither of your hosts had ever heard of before!  Just...listen to it!

The episode is of course filled with the regular ridiculousness. Silly songs, butt stuff, and accusations of plagiarism abound! 

But really, you're here for this story!

Come on in!

"The Red-Haired Girl" was published in 1903 in The Windsor Magazine.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

If you were going to list the things in this world that you fear the most, what would be on that list?

Now, take that list and make it a song.

That's basically this episode.

It makes very little sense, and your hosts are so gobsmacked by the story that the barely manage a single dick joke.

Ken has chosen a story for Heather this week by the oft requested author Charlotte Perkins Gilman called "The Rocking-Chair".  It is one of the more subtly disconcerting stories they've covered on this podcast, and I actually think you might enjoy it.

There are still plenty of tangents though, for those of you who prefer the unfocused tirades. We've got Clown Rabies, Elementary School Discipline, and Sexy Blonde Psychopaths.

"The Rocking-Chair" was published in Worthington's Illustrated in 1893.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

We're revisiting an author we haven't touched on since Episode 42 this week.  Nathaniel Hawthorne!  You know what that means?

Your hosts are extra professional and focused this week because he's a really important author...

Or something.

Heather has chosen a story for Ken to read this week which he attacks with uncharacteristic gusto.  The story is called "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," and, surprising none of our regular listeners, the story is fascinating, and the episode devolves into chaos.

This week's tangents include the status of the American Theatre, the most literary football team, and the origin of viagra.

A huge shout out to our friends in Florida, as well.

"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" was published in 1837.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

We're back to what we do well this week.

Well, what we do okay.

Well, what we do often.

We're back to just audio! Please enjoy this return to good quality and not having to see our faces!

This week Heather reads a story Ken picked out for her, newly in the public domain.  A Sherlock Holmes short title "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger".

But first!  We are all subjected...I mean treated...to another week of Clown Corner!

This week's bizarre conversation pieces include Heather forgetting our author's name, the true origin of cows, and the invention of the word onomatopenis.

Oh, and those A.A. Milne poems Ken mentions can be found here.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger" in 1927.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Welcome to our live(ish) video episode!

Last week you were promised a live reading of ghost stories on Christmas.  So, here it is.

We're all aware that the audio quality is a little...eh...

BUT!

Both of your hosts get to read a short story by M.R. James.  And basically it's all weird, unedited, and uncensored because you're getting it as recorded.

Let us know what you think.

Tangents abound, and include topics such as Heather's fashion choices, acid trips, and possibly undead sex slaves.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Where ever we go, whatever we do, we're gonna go through it...

TOGETHER!

Heather and Ken are together again, recording in their Philly home, and back at it with a vengeance.

Heather picks a story for Ken to read.  It written by E.F. Benson of "The Room in the Tower" fame.  And Ken reads it pretty well, but our hosts get distracted. A lot.

Distractions include drunk Santa, deja vu, and coming up the crags.

"Between the Lights" was written by E.F. Benson in 1912.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

With Heather unavailable this week, Ken is here presenting you a nice, short, solo episode.

If you like cute stories read in a soothing voice with a fire crackles in the background this is the episode for you!

If you like pretty much everything else this podcast usually does, fear not!  We're coming back at you next week!

Winnie the Pooh was written by A. A. Milne and published in 1926.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

What do Insane Clown Posse, Surfing, and Kathy Bates have in common?  This podcast episode!

Plus, Patron Saint of Campfire Classics, Dame Agatha Christie, is back with a story for us this week with none of her usual character.

The fun facts have nothing to do with her, because we've covered her a lot.  Check out Episodes 1, 10, 20, 21, 22, and 23 for some interesting facts about her.

Heather reads the story, and your hosts discuss bosoms, Juggalos, and biblical murder.  Oh, also , Heather has CoViD, so be nice to her.

"The Wife of the Kenite" was published in 1923.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

We're keeping it classic this week with an old favorite, Mr. E.A. Poe.  He's always done well by us in the past, so, why not!?

Heather selected the story and has some truly fascinating fun facts that have little to do with Mr. Poe, but that's all I'm going to tell you about that, so you'll just have to listen if you want more!

This was a bowel heavy episode which is alway...a delight? ...disturbing? ...another "d" word I can't think of? Sure. Someone likes it in the rear, there's wind and a candle in the poop, and the whole thing gets flushed down a giant hole.

"MS Found in a Bottle" was published in 1833.

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