Campfire Classics Podcast

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Another week, another episode, another beautiful story read passably well by the team of Campfire Classics!

This week, Heather takes a crack at "The Shell of Sense" by Ghost Fiction author and American Suffragette Olivia Howard Dunbar.  The story goes places we weren't expecting, and takes ages getting a couple of places we were anxious to get.  Who the f**k is Theresa!? 

Other important questions include, 'What new awards categories should be established?' 'Who would you haunt?' and 'Why do my super powers suck?'

"The Shell of Sense" was published  in 1908, and today can be read in dozens of collections of ghost stories, short stories, and Dunbar anthologies.

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Welcome to True Crimes and a Lie, the gameshow within our podcast where we try to tell the difference between truth and lies.

We're not good at it.

This month's TCaaL comes from Episode 36 of Campfire Classics, though this recording has 2 1/2 minutes of extra audio not heard on the full episode.

Our guests Ashley and Jeff struggle to find a hint that will point them toward the correct answer.  Will they guess right?

Will you?

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A lot is going on this week.  First of all, it's the return of True Crimes and a Lie with special guest contestants Ashley Lawler and Jeff Verde!  Can you pick out the lie?  Will they?

Our story this week comes from author Frank R. Stockton and asks with its title a very important question: "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

Other questions we answer include, 'What was the first reality show?' 'What happens when you eat brunch too fast?' and 'Why is the king half a dick?'

"The Lady, or the Tiger?" was published  in the magazine The Century in 1882, and has been reprinted many, many times.

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Welcome back.  This week we are treated to a surprisingly modern (for us) story.  "Asleep in Armageddon" was published in 1948, but through some interesting copyright loopholes, has entered the Public Domain early.  We also get some fascinating fun facts on Science Fiction literary legend Ray Bradbury.

Important topics of discussion this week include Heather's plan to join the Daily Show, a man with a magic sword, and what do you think "wreckage" means?

"Asleep in Armageddon" was published in 1948 in Planet Stories.

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In a drastic departure from last week's episode, this week's author is gothic romance adventure novelist Robert Louis Stevenson.  "Thrawn Janet" is a short horror story written in Scots English and read (kinda) in this episode by Ken.  To hear his brief attempt at the original dialect and text head on over to patreon.com/5050ArtsProduction.

This episode covers a wide array of topics, from The Big Game, to who would you haunt if you came back as a ghost, to sitting in a bog with a book.

"Thrawn Janet" was published in 1881 and was later released in the collection The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables published in 1887.

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We're hitting classic humorist P.G. Wodehouse this week!  Well, reading, not hitting.  He is dead and it would be weird to hit him.  We learn a lot about Sir Wodehouse while Heather makes a valiant effort to read his short story "Absent Treatment".  We tackle the world's first "Not" joke, the origins of the dancing feline musical, and what actually is the "Dynamite of the Soul"?

"Absent treatment" was published in Strand in March 1911 and can be found in the 1919 collection My Man Jeeves.

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This episode comes from Campfire Classics' episode "A Gift to Humanity".  This is a special one, because for the first time Heather isn't working alone.  The ladies from Wine Dine and Storytime join in on the fun and try to figure out which stories are real.

Let us know how you did playing along at home.  And check out our guests show wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Happy six month anniversary!  We've been doing this for half a year. And we're celebrating by inviting some guests! The ladies from the podcast Wine Dine and Storytime help us play a round of "True Crimes and a Lie".  Who will win?

It's a new author this week, so you'll get to hear some fun facts about the fascinating Edith Wharton before Ken reads "Miss Mary Pask".  In all, it's an extra long action packed episode.  Heather plans a new career running an Air BnB, Ken tries to define "reverse necrophilia", and the greatest gift to humanity is...well, listen and let us know if you agree.

"Miss Mary Pask" was published in Pictorial Review in April 1925.

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It's been a long couple of ...weeks? ...months? ...centuries? We could all use some self-care.  Hopefully, this will provide you with some simple joy.  This week, Heather gets to read two stories by the great L. Frank Baum. Though neither of them have anything to do with magic slippers.

Discussion topics include TED Talk Tangents, fancy chickens, and moist beatboxing.

"The Box of Robbers" and "The Glass Dog" were both published in the 1901 collection American Fairy Tales.

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We're celebrating Public Domain Day!

On January first, a whole year worth of writing entered the public domain and became fair game for us to try to read.  Please join us in welcoming 1925 into the fold.  To celebrate, Heather has chosen to give Ken a short story from that year, "The Strange Case" by Edgar Wallace.  It will be a race to the finish as Ken tries to make it to the end before his sugar high runs out.

Today, your hosts struggle to remember what year it is, compare this week's author to a certain famous lifeguard, and definitely don't resort to making fart sounds.  Because that would be childish.

Oh!  And a thousand thank yous to our new patron, Stefan Brock.

"The Strange Case" was published in the 1925 collection The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder.

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