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Ah perhaps this is the penultimate episode after all! All will be revealed.

LibriVox volunteers present a dramatic recording of The Ghost Breaker by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey. Dramatic Reading read by a full cast. The Ghost Breaker is a drama and haunted house horror complete with heroes, villains, and a Princess. The Ghost Breaker was originally a screenplay and would later be made a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. (Summary by Linette Geisel) Cast:
Narrator: Linette Geisel
Warren; Ghost Breaker and Kentuckian hero: Bill Mosley
Maria Theresa, Princess of Aragon: Amanda Friday
Rusty Snow; Warren's servant man: Phil Chenevert
Carlos, Duke of Alva, cousin of Maria Theresa: Marty Kris
Colonel Jarvis of Meadow Green (older voice): Marty Kris
Mandy; Colonel Jarvis's servant woman: Jenny Lundak
Doctor: Chuck Williamson
Major Selby: Nathanial W.C. Higgins
Hotel Page: Marty Kris
Colonel Jim Marcum, wealthy and prominent Kentucky sportsman: Jerry James
Brazilian coffee merchant: Amy Gramour
Detective 1: David Olson
Detective 2 ToddHW
Nita; Chic young Spanish servant to Maria Theresa: Abigail Bartels
Ship's Porter: Lucy Perry
Ship's Steward: Chuck Williamson
Ship's Officer: Barry Eads
Ship's Captain: Kevin Soini
Scotland Yard Detective: Barry Eads
Senorita Deloris, daughter of Senor Vardos: Heather Hamtil
Senor Pedro, tavern keeper: ToddHW
Don Robledo: Nathanial W.C. Higgins
Human Battleship: Liberty Stump
Vardos, Prince's Retainer: ToddHW

the ghostbreaker a novel based upon the play by charles goddard and paul dickey this is the librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org chapter 16 as in days of old rusty you lazy [ __ ] get on that horse of yours and hack along to the castle see the moon is helping us yeah sir i was just finishing another hunk of pork chops that i forgot and put in my pocket but won't you have a bite no i want to eat up something worse than pork tonight and jarvis swung into the saddle with the lith skill acquired from childhood days on the backs of bluegrass thoroughbreds what was that gun play moss warren asked rusty after he had calculated that they had ridden a respectful distance for inquiries rusty had a certain inherited pride jarvis laughed and the dull glow of his cigarette tip was discernible oh rusty why worry over history leave that sort of thing to these spaghettis that's all they have to think about over here it was just a question of being pinked or pinking a certain gentleman who was working beyond union hours huh snorted rusty i bet the razor has in my jeans that he was more red and pink when you all got finished with that cannon the urine moss one it runs in the family to shoot street well rusty let's ride straight for a while we must go up this road to the turn they passed dark cottages and finally reached the fateful angle of the road rusty groaned apprehensively say moss one i wouldn't mind this all in the meanest moonshine district in kentucky but i don't like for the ride in this year a foreign district why didn't you all pick out some place where they speaks human talk instead of this on christian lingo it don't seem religious to me moss warren rusty i'm beginning to think you've got a yellow streak in you with all this talk about objections you used to have a name for not even being afraid of your weight in wildcats said warren rusty nodded as he clung tightly to the saddle on the increasingly rough trail my swan that was right but wildcats is pretty heavy and you all can hit him with a shotgun the trouble with ghosts is that they don't weigh nothing look out rusty here's a brook and suddenly jarvis's horse stumbled to its feet after sliding down a sharp declivity which had been hidden by the shadows of the big moonlit trees rusty was not so...

The penultimate chapter of this very spooky tale of the unexpected.
Stay tuned for the final episode.

LibriVox volunteers present a dramatic recording of The Ghost Breaker by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey. Dramatic Reading read by a full cast. The Ghost Breaker is a drama and haunted house horror complete with heroes, villains, and a Princess. The Ghost Breaker was originally a screenplay and would later be made a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. (Summary by Linette Geisel) Cast:
Narrator: Linette Geisel
Warren; Ghost Breaker and Kentuckian hero: Bill Mosley
Maria Theresa, Princess of Aragon: Amanda Friday
Rusty Snow; Warren's servant man: Phil Chenevert
Carlos, Duke of Alva, cousin of Maria Theresa: Marty Kris
Colonel Jarvis of Meadow Green (older voice): Marty Kris
Mandy; Colonel Jarvis's servant woman: Jenny Lundak
Doctor: Chuck Williamson
Major Selby: Nathanial W.C. Higgins
Hotel Page: Marty Kris
Colonel Jim Marcum, wealthy and prominent Kentucky sportsman: Jerry James
Brazilian coffee merchant: Amy Gramour
Detective 1: David Olson
Detective 2 ToddHW
Nita; Chic young Spanish servant to Maria Theresa: Abigail Bartels
Ship's Porter: Lucy Perry
Ship's Steward: Chuck Williamson
Ship's Officer: Barry Eads
Ship's Captain: Kevin Soini
Scotland Yard Detective: Barry Eads
Senorita Deloris, daughter of Senor Vardos: Heather Hamtil
Senor Pedro, tavern keeper: ToddHW
Don Robledo: Nathanial W.C. Higgins
Human Battleship: Liberty Stump
Vardos, Prince's Retainer: ToddHW

the ghostbreaker a novel based upon the play by charles goddard and paul dickey this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org chapter 15 mysterious influences

the princess of aragon gazed into the republican eyes of the kentuckian with a glowing fire which was contrary to all rules and conventions of the divine right of kings no common man should have been given such a glimpse of empire but injustice to the magic of such glances which came once from the eyes of every good woman for some good man in each lifetime it must be acknowledged that their potent wizardry turns the commonplace even the tawdry surroundings of a thousand million everyday lives into dazzling kingdoms of love warren jarvis felt the thrill and he lost his humorous poise the heartbreaking seriousness of it all now came to his realization how he wanted to draw her to him forgetting all the differences in nativity the social and political conditions which separated them so insufferably back in new york she had been to him as any other sweet well-bred girl but here in the land of the middle ages there were centuries between them he wished to touch her hand and yet so deep was his reference not for her family position but for her own proud poise of soul that he stifled his desire and dropped his eyes ashamed of his own weakness the girl divined his thoughts better than he realized she had stepped upon the low platform at the base of the stairs and thus her face was on a level with his oh mr jarvis you are brave so brave i never can tell you how you have sustained me in my fears and grief i can never let you realize how gallant i believe you to be for what you are doing tonight for my sake jarvis shook his head in depreciation are we not merely honest traitor's your highness we made a compact risking your life at the start to save mine now is the completion when i find your brother and saw the mystery of the fortune i will know that our account is squared then i may be human her eyes dropped before his own ardent answer and she turned to the stairs i must go get the memorandum in the locket yes of course where is it you should have guarded that well it is safe in my room mr jarvis i won't be long and up the steps she fled as though trying to...

A ghost story novel in dramatic prose read wonderfully bu our colleagues at Librivox.

Hourly uploads will keep you on your toes as we add to the wonderful library of archive horror.

LibriVox volunteers present a dramatic recording of The Ghost Breaker by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey. Dramatic Reading read by a full cast. The Ghost Breaker is a drama and haunted house horror complete with heroes, villains, and a Princess. The Ghost Breaker was originally a screenplay and would later be made a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. (Summary by Linette Geisel) Cast:
Narrator: Linette Geisel
Warren; Ghost Breaker and Kentuckian hero: Bill Mosley
Maria Theresa, Princess of Aragon: Amanda Friday
Rusty Snow; Warren's servant man: Phil Chenevert
Carlos, Duke of Alva, cousin of Maria Theresa: Marty Kris
Colonel Jarvis of Meadow Green (older voice): Marty Kris
Mandy; Colonel Jarvis's servant woman: Jenny Lundak
Doctor: Chuck Williamson
Major Selby: Nathanial W.C. Higgins
Hotel Page: Marty Kris
Colonel Jim Marcum, wealthy and prominent Kentucky sportsman: Jerry James
Brazilian coffee merchant: Amy Gramour
Detective 1: David Olson
Detective 2 ToddHW
Nita; Chic young Spanish servant to Maria Theresa: Abigail Bartels
Ship's Porter: Lucy Perry
Ship's Steward: Chuck Williamson
Ship's Officer: Barry Eads
Ship's Captain: Kevin Soini
Scotland Yard Detective: Barry Eads
Senorita Deloris, daughter of Senor Vardos: Heather Hamtil
Senor Pedro, tavern keeper: ToddHW
Don Robledo: Nathanial W.C. Higgins
Human Battleship: Liberty Stump
Vardos, Prince's Retainer: ToddHW

the ghostbreaker a novel based upon the play by charles goddard and paul dickey this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org chapter 14 more obstacles dolores approached the ketuchian politely yet eagerly pardoned senor but i have a message for you from her highness what is it she instructed me to tell you that she would see you very soon thanks senorita and may i ask who was the cheerful frolicsome individual who flattered me with that polite toast is he one of the royal family taking a little vacation in this neighborhood the girl reddened then laughed no senor he is well known in this part of our country his name is don robledo warren lit another cigarette and studied her attractive face with the gallant interest of a southerner who was always prone to admire beauty she was embarrassed yet pleased under the unmistakable scrutiny don robledo he seems to be well acquainted with you senorita is he one of the family no but he wishes to be she snapped out and he shall never be until he changes his manners and and his face i don't really care for his face if i were a girl i would never leave home and mother for that face but of course that's none of my business he stopped for an instant to absorb the rowdy rocket from the tap room either he's a wonderful spender or he has unlimited credit with bar cashier maybe he eats his checks it has been done but i don't like that name it sounds dangerous and yet it doesn't seem to mean much after all to me the girl looked at him earnestly it may mean much before you reach the castle more than you suspect senor you have been the subject of much more serious talk in this tavern before you were ever seen here and how was that i'm really a very unimportant person you know let me tell you something while i have the opportunity you are in great danger here senor i wish to help you i have tried for weeks to stir up some manhood in the hearts of these cowardly sheep in segoro the prince has been missing for days since he went into that castle i want to save my beloved princess from the same fate which i fear overtook him when he braved the horrors of that castle it is the place of a satan senor the...

We are nearing the finale ....sort of, a few more terrifying events and then it may be over....or will it? Sleep safe my friends.
LibriVox volunteers present a dramatic recording of The Ghost Breaker by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey. Dramatic Reading read by a full cast. The Ghost Breaker is a drama and haunted house horror complete with heroes, villains, and a Princess. The Ghost Breaker was originally a screenplay and would later be made a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. (Summary by Linette Geisel) Cast:
Narrator: Linette Geisel
Warren; Ghost Breaker and Kentuckian hero: Bill Mosley
Maria Theresa, Princess of Aragon: Amanda Friday
Rusty Snow; Warren's servant man: Phil Chenevert
Carlos, Duke of Alva, cousin of Maria Theresa: Marty Kris
Colonel Jarvis of Meadow Green (older voice): Marty Kris
Mandy; Colonel Jarvis's servant woman: Jenny Lundak
Doctor: Chuck Williamson
Major Selby: Nathanial W.C. Higgins
Hotel Page: Marty Kris
Colonel Jim Marcum, wealthy and prominent Kentucky sportsman: Jerry James
Brazilian coffee merchant: Amy Gramour
Detective 1: David Olson
Detective 2 ToddHW
Nita; Chic young Spanish servant to Maria Theresa: Abigail Bartels
Ship's Porter: Lucy Perry
Ship's Steward: Chuck Williamson
Ship's Officer: Barry Eads
Ship's Captain: Kevin Soini
Scotland Yard Detective: Barry Eads
Senorita Deloris, daughter of Senor Vardos: Heather Hamtil
Senor Pedro, tavern keeper: ToddHW
Don Robledo: Nathanial W.C. Higgins
Human Battleship: Liberty Stump
Vardos, Prince's Retainer: ToddHW

Another episode is here and I will finish the book today!
Also, we have some fabulously terrifying short stories coming for the fearless. Is that you? Are you brave? I hope so.
The Tale Teller is committed to terrifying you all.

LibriVox volunteers present a dramatic recording of The Ghost Breaker by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey. Dramatic Reading read by a full cast. The Ghost Breaker is a drama and haunted house horror complete with heroes, villains, and a Princess. The Ghost Breaker was originally a screenplay and would later be made a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. (Summary by Linette Geisel) Cast:
Narrator: Linette Geisel
Warren; Ghost Breaker and Kentuckian hero: Bill Mosley
Maria Theresa, Princess of Aragon: Amanda Friday
Rusty Snow; Warren's servant man: Phil Chenevert
Carlos, Duke of Alva, cousin of Maria Theresa: Marty Kris
Colonel Jarvis of Meadow Green (older voice): Marty Kris
Mandy; Colonel Jarvis's servant woman: Jenny Lundak
Doctor: Chuck Williamson
Major Selby: Nathanial W.C. Higgins
Hotel Page: Marty Kris
Colonel Jim Marcum, wealthy and prominent Kentucky sportsman: Jerry James
Brazilian coffee merchant: Amy Gramour
Detective 1: David Olson
Detective 2 ToddHW
Nita; Chic young Spanish servant to Maria Theresa: Abigail Bartels
Ship's Porter: Lucy Perry
Ship's Steward: Chuck Williamson
Ship's Officer: Barry Eads
Ship's Captain: Kevin Soini
Scotland Yard Detective: Barry Eads
Senorita Deloris, daughter of Senor Vardos: Heather Hamtil
Senor Pedro, tavern keeper: ToddHW
Don Robledo: Nathanial W.C. Higgins
Human Battleship: Liberty Stump
Vardos, Prince's Retainer: ToddHW
the ghostbreaker a novel based upon the play by charles goddard and paul dickey this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org chapter 12 welcome to seguro the princess and her party were delayed in liverpool by the quarries of the authorities just long enough to make the missed connections with the boat train at london the trip had been carefully planned this one provoking delay cost them another close connection at the station in paris confounded declared the duke of alva after all this long trip it seems to take us longer steel to get back to seguro male addictions on that miserable american pig he brought bad luck from start to finish his cousin's face had not its usual color but now a rosy tent flushed up at a moment as she answered sharply i will not permit you to speak so of the man who at least volunteered to risk his life for me and for my brother he proved himself more of the gentleman carlos than you with all the boasted advantage which we believe accompanies a title the duke was silent morose and uncertain himself for the remainder of the tiresome ride rusty was humble as ever but there was an expectant look in his rotund face he inquired many times as to the exact time for the arrival of the train at san fernandez the nearest railroad station to saguaro from here the party would travel by motor to the oldest state of the princess and her family it was a 25-mile ride the country through which the train was passing grew rougher with every mile after irritating delays and interminable weights at stations for train service in spain was the worst in europe san fernando's was reached here they were compelled to wait in the semi-modern hotel until an automobile could be obtained the long ride was begun over rough roads no roads at all and through mud holes which seemed relics of the flood this makes me think of the arkansas traveler muttered rusty but his reminiscence was unappreciated by his tired companions a blowout delay with the minding of the tire and the fall of darkness wore out what spirits were left among the four voyagers at last the little town was reached and the machine was...

Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft
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Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft
A series of amazing shorts for the brave.

this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by james pontolillo the cats of ulthar by h.p lovecraft

it is said that an ulthar which lies beyond the river sky no man may kill a cat and this i can verily believe as i gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire for the cat is cryptic and close to strange things which men cannot see he is the soul of antique egyptis and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in marawi and ophir he is the kin of the jungle's lords and heir to the secrets of hory and sinister africa the sphinx is his cousin and he speaks her language but he is more ancient than the sphinx and remembers that which she hath forgotten in ulthar before ever the burgesses forbade the killing of cats there dwelt an old cotter and his wife who delighted to trap and slay the cats of their neighbors why they did this i know not save that many hate the voice of the cat in the night and take it ill that cats should run stealthily about yards and gardens at twilight but whatever the reason this old man and woman took pleasure in trapping and slaying every cat which came near to their hovel and from some of the sounds heard after dark many villagers fancied that the manner of slaying was exceedingly peculiar but the villagers did not discuss such things with the old man and his wife because of the habitual expression on the withered faces of the two and because their cottage was so small and so darkly hidden under spreading oaks at the back of a neglected yard in truth much as the owners of cats hated these odd folk they feared them more and instead of berating them as brutal assassins merely took care that no cherished pet or mouser should stray toward the remote hovel under the dark trees when through some unavoidable oversight a cat was missed and sounds heard after dark the loser would lament impotently or console himself by thanking fate that it was not one of his children who had thus vanished for the people of ulthar were simple and knew not whence it is all cats first came one day a caravan of strange wanderers from the south entered the narrow cobbled streets of ulthar dark wanderers they were and unlike the other roving folk who passed through the village twice every year in the marketplace they told fortunes for silver and bought gay beads from the merchants what was the land of these wanderers none could tell but it was seen that they were given to strange prayers and that they had painted on the sides of their wagons strange figures with human bodies and the heads of cats hawks rams and lions and the leader of the caravan wore a headdress with two horns and a curious disc betwixt the horns there was in the singular caravan a little boy with no father or mother but only a tiny black kitten to cherish the plague had not been kind to him yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow and when one is very young one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten so the boy whom the dark people called menes smiled more often than he wept as he sat playing with his graceful kitten on the steps of an oddly painted wagon on the third morning of the wanderer's stay in ulthar menes could not find his kitten and as he sobbed aloud in the marketplace certain villagers told him of the old man and his wife and of sounds heard in the night and when he heard these things his sobbing gave place to meditation and finally to prayer he stretched out his arms toward the sun and prayed in a tongue no villager could understand though indeed the villagers did not try very hard to understand since their attention was mostly taken up by the sky and the odd shapes the clouds were assuming it was very peculiar but as the little boy uttered his petition there seemed to form overhead...

Horrific tales only for the brave from the Tale Teller Book Club.

More terror from the Tale Teller Book Club.

this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by scott carpenter the beast in the cave by h.p lovecraft

the horrible conclusion which had been gradually intruding itself upon my confused and reluctant mind was now an awful certainty i was lost completely hopelessly lost in the vast and labyrinthine recess of the mammoth cave turn as i might in no direction could my straining vision sees on any object capable of serving as a guidepost to set me on the outward path that nevermore should i behold the blessed light of day or scan the pleasant hills and dales of the beautiful world outside my reason could no longer entertain the slightest unbelief hope had departed yet indoctrinated as i was by a life of philosophical study i derived no small measure of satisfaction from my unimpassioned demeanor for although i had frequently read of the wild frenzies into which were thrown the victims of similar situations i experienced none of these but stood quiet as soon as i clearly realized the loss of my bearings nor did the thought that i had probably wandered beyond the utmost limits of an ordinary search caused me to abandon my composure even for a moment if i must die i reflected then was this terrible yet majestic cavern as welcome as a poker as that which any churchyard might afford a conception which carried with it more of tranquility than of despair starving would prove my ultimate fate of this i was certain some i knew had gone mad under circumstances such as these but i felt that this end would not be mine my disaster was the result of no fault save my own since unknown to the guide i had separated myself from the regular party of sightseers and wandering for over an hour in forbidden avenues of the cave had found myself unable to retrace the devious windings which i had pursued since forsaking my companions already my torch had begun to expire soon i would be enveloped by the total and almost palpable blackness of the bowels of the earth as i stood in the waning unsteady light i idly wondered over the exact circumstances of my coming end i remembered the accounts which i had heard of the colony of consumptives who taking their residence in this gigantic grotto to find health from the apparently salubrious air of the underground world with its steady uniform temperature pure air and peaceful quiet had found instead death in strange and ghastly form i had seen the sad remains of their ill-made cottages as i passed them by with the party and had wondered what unnatural influence along sojourn in this immense and silent cavern would exert upon one as healthy and vigorous as i now i grimly told myself my opportunity for settling this point had arrived provided that want of food should not bring me too speedy a departure from this life as the last fitful rays of my torch faded into obscurity i resolved to leave no stone unturned no possible means of escape neglected so summoning all the powers possessed by my lungs i set up a series of loud shoutings in the vain hope of attracting the attention of the guide by my clamor yet as i called i believed in my heart that my cries were to no purpose and that my voice magnified and reflected by the numberless ramparts of the black maze about me fell upon no ears save my own all at once however my attention was fixed with a start as i fancied that i heard the sound of soft approaching steps on the rocky floor of the cavern was my deliverance about to be accomplished so soon had then all my horrible apprehensions been for naught and was the guide having marked my unwarranted absence from the party following my course and seeking me out in this limestone labyrinth whilst these joyful queries arose in my brain i was on the point of renewing my cries in order that my discovery might come the sooner when in an instant my delight...

A quick introduction to the club.
hello everybody welcome to the tale teller book club i'm just going to do a little uh introduction really to what the podcast is all about what goes on here what my aims are and what we're doing so i was running a podcast for kids uh tail telekids and it was it's going really well it's still going it's you know going strong but in my research looking for really good stories to read actually um to recite because i'm a res uh you know i'm a narrator and an actress so in my search for um really exciting stories i was coming across a lot of adult stories oh there's a bumblebee could you hear it i'm very annoying perhaps it's a bat and i think it's a bumblebee anyway uh in my search i was coming across numerous stories which i thought i can't possibly put those on the kids show but some of them were some of the fairy tales actually that i was coming across were pretty horrific i think this is where why the internet thought i might be interested in these other stories because actually fairy tales are fairly petrifying some of them and it's quite often a bit of gore and blood and things like that but of course we don't mind giving those to our children but we don't want to give um murder most foul stories and you know the real heavy supernatural stories to our youngsters we don't want to you know plenty time for that when they're over 18. so i set up this channel and this is the telltale book club and this is going to be focusing really on the macabre the horrific the deadly the witchy the fierce the angry the horrors of humanity that one would really prefer not to hear about but i'm going to share them with you anyway and it should go without saying that everything comes with a bit of a warning because if you're alone in a dark big creaky house i wouldn't recommend putting on my podcast but if you snuggle up with teddy um teddy's gardener of course you snuck it up with him and everything would be fine darling absolutely fine so i hope you enjoy these stories i'm trying to fish them out from the best sources i can possibly find and i'm going to start reciting my own uh tonight actually but i want to do them quite late at night perhaps one o'clock in the morning you know the witching hour and that's really what i'm looking to do just perhaps uh a longer story that i read a paragraph or so before you shut your eyes and drift off to a heavenly sleep where angels live and there are no demons or are there