Forgotten Classics

Forgotten Classics

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Forgotten Classics episodes

  • Episode 344: Lone Star Planet, ch. 1-2

    When a galactic diplomat makes a political misstep he's punished by being assigned as ambassador to New Texas ... where the last ambassador left feet-first.
    Episode 344, Lone Star Planet, chapters 1-2
    (download or listen via this link)

    Book Information
    • Story rating: G for Texans, gunfights, supercows, and talking dogs.
    • This story is in the public domain, via LibriVox, read by Mark Nelson.
      • Podcast Highlight
      • Lexicon Valley
          • 39 min
        • Episode 343: Carnacki, The Ghost Finder, 6
          Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

          The Thing Invisible. 
          In which Carnacki is called for help when a haunted chapel turns from being a charming old story into deadly reality.
          Episode 343, Carnacki Ghost Finder, 6
          (download or listen via this link)

          Book Information
          • Story rating: G for occult detection, faked ghosts, real ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
          • This story is in the public domain.
            • Podcast Highlight
            • Lexicon Valley
                • 1 hr 3 min
              • Episode 342: Carnacki, The Ghost Finder, 5
                Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

                The Searcher of the End House. 
                A rare glimpse of Carnacki's early days when he finds his own home may harbor a ghost ... or two!
                Episode 342, Carnacki Ghost Finder, 5
                (download or listen via this link)

                Book Information
                • Story rating: G for occult detection, faked ghosts, real ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
                • This story is in the public domain.
                  • Highlight
                  • Arrival
                      • 1 hr 1 min
                    • Episode 341: Carnacki, The Ghost Finder, 4
                      Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

                      The Horse of the Invisible. 
                      Can Carnacki save the beautiful young heiress from the deadly family curse?
                      Episode 341, Carnacki Ghost Finder, 4
                      (download or listen via this link)

                      Book Information
                      • Story rating: G for occult detection, faked ghosts, real ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
                      • This story is in the public domain.
                        • Highlight
                        • Queen of Katwe
                            • 1 hr 4 min
                          • Episode 340: Carnacki, The Ghost Finder, 3
                            Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

                            The Whistling Room. 
                            Why does a whistled tune cause such terror?
                            Are disappointed suitors playing a trick or does it come from the depths of hell?
                            Episode 340, Carnacki Ghost Finder, 3
                            (download or listen via this link)

                            Book Information
                            • Story rating: G for occult detection, faked ghosts, real ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
                            • This story is in the public domain.
                              • Podcast Highlight
                              • A Time and a Plate
                                  • 48 min
                                • Episode 339: Carnackie, The Ghost Finder, 2
                                  Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

                                  The House Among the Laurels. 
                                  Can Carnackie overcome the blood-drip and killing spirit
                                  that haunts a Irish deserted mansion?
                                  Episode 339, Carnacki Ghost Finder, 2
                                  (download or listen via this link)

                                  Book Information
                                  • Story rating: G for occult detection, faked ghosts, real ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
                                  • This story is in the public domain.
                                    • Podcast Highlight
                                    • Twenty Thousand Hertz
                                        • 48 min
                                      • Episode 338: Carnackie, The Ghost Finder, 1
                                        Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

                                        The Gateway of the Monster. 
                                        Carnacki is summoned to investigate a spirit that disrupts an ancient mansion
                                        every night at                                         the site of a grisly murder generations ago.
                                        Episode 338, Carnacki Ghost Finder, 1
                                        (download or listen via this link)

                                        Book Information
                                        • Story rating: G for occult detection, faked ghosts, real ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.
                                        • This story is in the public domain.
                                          • 54 min
                                        • Episode 337: Rip Van Winkle
                                          N.C. Wyeth - Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle .

                                          A famous classic with some elements that no one remembers.
                                          Episode 337, Rip Van Winkle
                                          (download or listen via this link)

                                          Book Information
                                          • Story rating: G for henpecked husbands, ghostly bowling, and a very good night's sleep.
                                          • This story are in the public domain.
                                            • Highlight
                                            • Fawlty Towers
                                                • 49 min
                                              • Episode 336: True Ghost Stories by Hawthorne and Kipling
                                                Kipling
                                                Hawthorne

                                                The Ghost of Dr. Harris by Nathaniel Hawthorne
                                                My Own True Ghost Story by Rudyard Kipling
                                                Episode 336, True Ghost Stories by Hawthorne and Kipling
                                                (download or listen via this link)

                                                Book Information
                                                • Story rating: G for non-menacing true ghost stories by bemused, famous writers.
                                                • These stories are in the public domain.
                                                  • Highlight
                                                  • The Night Train to Munich (1940)
                                                      • 43 min
                                                    • Episode 335: The Magic City, chapters 11-12

                                                      The Night Attack. The End.
                                                      In which we get mythic help against The Pretenderette, 
                                                      and sort everything out in the end.
                                                      Episode 335, The Magic City, chapters 11-12
                                                      (download or listen via this link)

                                                      Book Information
                                                      • Story rating: G for blended families, mean nurses, nice parlor maids, the Destroyer and Deliverer, and quests in magical cities.
                                                      • This story is in the public domain.
                                                      • Read by Ruth Golding at LibriVox.
                                                        • Podcast Highlight
                                                        • Mythgard Academy - Dracula
                                                        • Dracula - Audible Edition
                                                            • 49 min

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