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"Fish Head" by Irvin S. Cobb


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In Reelfoot Lake, a backwoods bayou of the American South, lives an outcast freak – a lonely swamp dweller whose fishy features have earned him a strange moniker. Mystery and local superstition surround him, but when the Baxter brothers seek their revenge will they uncover the truth about the one they call…”Fish Head”.

This original recording is an audio presentation (with sound effects and music) by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror. “Fish Head” by Irvin S. Cobb (1913).
You can hear me discuss this story by becoming a channel member and listening to a future episode of The EnCrypted Postmortem. (Honest! Next one coming up soon!) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7JYpOrSDoCfvPbjBn6DZGIXDlK-eOzpR).

NOTE ABOUT PRONUNCIATION OF "SLOUGH"

A number of helpful people have gotten in touch to tell me I should have pronounced "slough" as "slew" as that is how it is pronounced in that part of the world. However, it was not a word known to me (not used much in British English, at least not in the sense meant in this story) so I referred to Merriam-Webster dictionary which suggested US speakers (except in New England) would pronounce the word "slew" or "sloo", but added that British English speakers would usually say "slau" (like the English town) even if they were refererring to an American swamp. As a British English speaker myself that was what I went with.

As I'm rather tired of people assuming I don't do any research when I record these damn stories, I thought I'd set the record straight. No need for anyone else to tell me it should be "slew". Any issues, take it up with the dictionary people.

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About the story:
"Fish Head” by Irvin S. Cobb. First published in The Cavalier magazine, 11 January 1913. Collected in “The Escape of Mr. Trimm: His Plight and Other Plights” by Irvin S. Cobb (pub. George H. Doran, 1913).
Music credits:
Music used : “A QUIET PLACE” composed and produced by Vivek Abhishek
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Music used : “SHARK ATTACK" composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"
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Music used : “NIGHT SWIM" composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek"
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Sound effects: All sound effects sourced at Freesound*
*Used with the following licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Spotify.
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