Wednesday's Weird Stories

Yes. THAT Samuel Clemens.  You may be asking yourself, what Mark Twain was doing writing ghost stories and I asked myself that same question.  This week's story was written as a satire of the popular haunted house tales that were springing up like mad around the turn of the 20th century.  Throughout this tale you will hear nearly every cliche associated with spectral disturbances and Clemens takes it right to the edge of absurdity.

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As someone who works in the paranormal field in my spare time, this story hit a lot of really hot spots for me.  Of the various haunted house tales that I have read and heard, this one really spoke to a lot of what I have seen, heard, and felt in dealing with the spirit realm.  The story is chilling, to experience it first hand, would have been crazy! Blackwood is known to be the master of the English ghost story and this is a great example of that legacy.

 

 

I'll be dipping into the Cthulhu mythos this week as I share a tale of a stranded sailor and the terror of what he finds upon reaching land.  Dagon is a fairly widely used character in the mythos, and I feel like it represents a blending point in the stories between what Lovecraft's original settlers of earth worshiped and what his early humanity developed into the Cthulhu cult and, of course, the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

Tune in at 8pm central on Wednesday, Jan 31 for Dagon on Wednesday's Weird Stories!

 

This week's tale is a prime example of why you do not brush off the warnings of the locals and go wandering a foreign countryside on your own.  The hubris of travelers can easily be their downfall as well.

 

Savage.  That is the only word to describe the revenge plot that Montressor has for Fortunado in this classic tale from Poe.  The next time somebody you have been picking on, asks you to go for a drink, you might want to think back to this story.

 

This week's tale brings a twist to the usual quest for immortality.  Listen in for one of Mary Shelley's lesser known works that questions how far one would go for love and what happens when your life long wish gets fulfilled in the most unexpected way.  Tune in every Wednesday night at 8pm central for Wednesday's Weird Stories on Rock'd Soul Radio!

 

This is the first live reading that I have done for Wednesday's Weird Stories and I kept the intro and outro mostly intact as well to give a little history on the tale and make it more entertaining (maybe?). This is a tale of wanderlust and longing for the mysteries of the sea.  It begs the question for us; what would you do if you found paradise?

This has always been one of my favorite poems from Poe.  In it we hear a tale of crime and guilt from the voice of the accused himself.  It also shows a clear plan for how NOT to get away with murder.

If you are unfamiliar with this holiday story, it is the tale of an unhappy tree who just can't seem to appreciate what it has.  As a fable, it brings to light the moral of being thankful for the blessings you are given and living in the present.  This is my first foray into voicing characters so I promise future dialogue will be better 

In the town of Ulthar, it is said that no man may kill a cat.

This is one of Lovecraft's shorter stories about a mythical town in the dream realm. Listen in as I share the tale of how this law came to pass.