Journey #210 - "Crisis at Easter Creek" (The Six Shooter starring Jimmy Stewart)

Britt Ponset is hornswoggled into raising money for the town's church organ, and he found creative ways to get donations.

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The Six Shooter was a Western program starring James Stewart as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of the wild west, which ran on NBC radio from Sept. 1953 to June 1954.  

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Journey #209 - The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe

A traveler takes refuge in a remote chateau to be entranced by a portrait of a beautiful woman, and then learns of its origin.

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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 and became an American author, poet, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as the genre of science fiction.  He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.  Poe died in 1849,  in Baltimore, under mysterious circumstances, but he left us with a legacy of tales of wonder and woe, the marvelous and the macabre.

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Journey #207 - Daydream by R.C. Anderson (Co-1st Place Journey Into Journey Illustrated Contest Winner)

King Eric of Gossamer is missing! Daena goes on the search and what she finds changes her life.

 

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R.C. Anderson works a day job in the tech sector, but moonlights as an amateur writer. Originally from the Ozarks, he was fortunate enough to grow up during the 1980’s in his mother’s video store. This allowed him to spend countless unsupervised hours in both the natural beauty of the rural South, and with the VHS classics of the age. This unique blend of influences fired off his imagination, resulting in him crafting stories throughout his life, up to the present day. His works have been published multiple times on the “Journey Into…” podcast. He lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, with two cats.

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Journey #206 - Tales From The Crypt: Zombie! (as presented by Seeing Ear Theater)

Come to beautiful Haiti where, for $10,000, a man can flee the law, escape his own sorry past — and even wind up with a beautiful woman in tow! David Goodson has paid the price and he's well on his way to his promised new life. But in voodoo-rich Haiti, when a man buys happiness with other people's money, he sometimes awakens powerful enemies - and not just among the living!

Content Warning: Some sexual situations.

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Cast:

Oliver Platt as David Goodson

Kenya Brome as Vamiel

Venida Evans as Mambo Delaruse

John Kassir as The Crypt Keeper.

Tom Detrik, Jasha Godschilde, Ezra Knight, Margorie St. Juste, Jacqueline Cuscuna, and Rika Daniel.

Seeing Ear Theater was an internet based drama/re-enactment troupe looking to capture the feel of older sci-fi / fantasy radio plays. The productions originally ran from 1997-2001 on the now defunct SciFi.com website.

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Journey #205 - Faithfully by Rish Outfield (Co-1st Place Journey Into Journey Illustrated Contest Winner)

Isaac, a disheartened librarian, travels to Vermont to collect one last record for the Guinness Book, but he is about to discover something truly unbelievable.

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Rish Outfield is an author of many short stories, novels, and everything in between. He is also an audiobook narrator and podcaster. Check out the Rish Outcast and Amazon for more of his stories. Rish is also an ancient immortal from Scotland who is training Connor MacLeod in battle so that he can become the last immortal on Earth and obtain The Prize.

Wilson Fowlie lives in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada, and has been reading stories out loud since the age of four. He credits any talent he has in this area to his parents, who were both excellent at reading aloud. He started narrating stories for more than just his own family in late 2008. Since then, he has gone on to read dozens of stories for PodCastle and the other Escape Artists ’casts, and many other fiction podcasts all over the web. He does all this narrating when not reading copy for corporate videos, and acting in local theatre productions.

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Journey #204 - Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu (Columbia Workshop, adapted by Lucille Fletcher)

Carmilla is invited to stay with Helen and her father after she and her mother crash near Laura’s manor. The girls become fast friends, but Helen's father becomes increasingly apprehensive about their relationship.

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, popularly known as J. S. Le Fanu, was an Irish writer of Gothic literature, mystery novels, and horror fiction. Considered by critics to be one of the greatest ghost story writers of the Victorian era, his works were central to the development of the genre during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Lucille Fletcher was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television. Her most notable credits include 1) "The Hitch-Hiker," an original radio play written for Orson Welles, and adapted for The Twilight Zone television series, and 2) "Sorry, Wrong Number," one of the most celebrated plays in the history of American radio, which she adapted and expanded for the 1948 film noir classic of the same name.

Columbia Workshop was a radio series that aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1936 to 1943, and returning in 1946–47. Over its run, the program was directed by Irving Reis, William N. Robson, and Norman Corwin.

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Journey #203 - "Myra Barker" (The Six Shooter starring Jimmy Stewart)

Britt Ponset meets a woman that makes him question his bachelor ways.

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The Six Shooter was a Western program starring James Stewart as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of the wild west, which ran on NBC radio from Sept. 1953 to June 1954.  

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Journey #202 - The Returned (Weird Circle) - based on Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe

Sir Charles returns to his castle with his new bride four years after his first wife died.

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Journey #201 - Tales From The Crypt: Island of Death (as presented by Seeing Ear Theater)

A pair of film fanatic buddies crash land on an uncharted island where they're forced to play a variation of "The Most Dangerous Game" against a seductive vixen for the amusement of an eccentric millionaire.

Content Warning: Some sexual situations.

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Cast:

Gina Gershon as Galatea Hapsburg

Luke Perry as Quinn Dillon

Anne Bobby as Doris

Todd Cummings as Jeeves

Ramon de OCampo as Baily

Rafael Ferrer as Lothar

Nick Wyman as the Rich Man

Allissa Hunnicutt as the Series Announcer, and

John Kassir as The Crypt Keeper

Seeing Ear Theater was an internet based drama/re-enactment troupe looking to capture the feel of older sci-fi / fantasy radio plays. The productions originally ran from 1997-2001 on the now defunct SciFi.com website.

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Journey #200 - Funny Farm by Robert Bloch (Mindwebs)

Joe Satterlee, a reclusive retiree, was holed away in his childhood home amid his extensive collection of vintage comic strips. Who would ever want to do him any harm?

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Timecode: 00:00 Intro, 16:04 Tune in, 17:20 "Funny Farm" on Mindwebs, 47:26 Commentary

Robert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction. Best known as the writer of Psycho (1959), the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock, Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a protégé of H. P. Lovecraft, who was the first to seriously encourage his talent

Mindwebs was a 1970's series out of WHA Radio in Wisconsin that featured weekly semi-dramatized readings of science fiction short stories performed by Michael Hansen. It aired stories by some of the genre's best writers like Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, Gordon R. Dickson, and Ray Bradbury. Many of the readings were enhanced by music, periodic sound cues, and the occasional character voice, however they are not completely dramatized.

Relevant Links:

"The Man Who Collected Poe" by Robert Bloch on Rish Outcast (Patreon)

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Journey #199 - "The Coward" (The Six Shooter starring Jimmy Stewart)

While in Temple City, Britt Ponset runs across an old acquaintance, Will, and finds out he is a different man than the one he knew.

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The Six Shooter was a Western program starring James Stewart as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of the wild west, which ran on NBC radio from Sept. 1953 to June 1954.  

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Journey #198 - First Contact by Murray Leinster (X-Minus One)

An Earth rocket makes first contact with an alien space craft in deep space. Both desire a peaceful trade of ideas and technology, but neither can trust the other enough to risk the fate of their home planets.

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Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975). He was an award-winning fiction writer, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

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Journey #197 - The Grave (Twilight Zone Radio)

Old West lawman Conny Miller visits the grave of a man who he failed to track down to prove he was never afraid of him, but he gets more than he bargained for.

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The Twilight Zone was a nationally syndicated radio drama series featuring radio play adaptations of the classic television series produced for the BBC Radio 4 Extra from 2002 to 2012.  Many of the stories are based on Rod Serling's scripts from the original Twilight Zone series, and are slightly expanded and updated to reflect contemporary technology and trends (e.g., the mention of "cell phones" and "CD-ROMs.". In addition to adapting all of the original episodes aired on the 1959-1964 TV series, the radio series has also adapted some Twilight Zone TV scripts which were never produced, scripts from other Serling TV productions, and new stories written especially for the radio series.

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Journey #196 - Cat Wife (Lights Out)

An illustration of what can happen if a marital spat goes too far.

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Lights Out was one of the first radio series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television.  It featured two of the most creative writers at the time, Wyllis Cooper, and Arch Oboler.

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Journey #195 - Like a Moth to a Flame by Barry Haworth (1st Place Quordle Quell Writing Contest Winner).

Algernon invites Brother Michael to come help debunk a séance that his widowed mother insists will help her reach beyond the veil of death.

 

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Barry Haworth works as a data scientist with the Australian Taxation Office, which is more interesting than you might think.  Barry lives in Brisbane, Australia with his wife Sylvia, his three unmarried children, their five cats and one dog.  Barry's married daughter has just made him a grandfather.  Outside of work and family, Barry's hobby is community theatre, where he has performed a variety of roles over the years, including some Shakespeare (Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Prospero in The Tempest), Marley's Ghost and Ebenezer Scrooge in two different version of A Christmas Carol, a few musicals, a murder mystery or two, and a lot of children's theatre with his daughters when they were younger.  Barry is currently rehearsing for a production of Frankenstein, his first ever science fiction play.  Barry has listened to Journey Into for many years and has meant to enter several past writing competitions but only managed to complete something for this latest one.

Rish Outfield is a writer, voice actor, and imitator of the late Sean Connery.  He's a fan of the Star Wars Trilogy, Eighties music, and those horror movies your mother insisted you not watch for fear of what they'd do to you (turns out she was right about that one).  He's the former co-host of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine podcast, and his own show, the Rish Outcast.  

Story Music: 

"The Chamber", "Symmetry", and " SCP-x2x" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Journey #194 - The Decline of the West (and other secret terrorist photo galleries) by R.C. Anderson (2nd Place Quordle Quell Writing Contest Winner)

Langer is trying to start over  after getting out of Silicon Valley, but accidently gets pulled into a terrorist conspiracy while trying to develop his next web product.

 

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Cast of characters:

Bria Burton as Lee-Ann

Rish Outfield as Zoltan

Josh Roseman as Armin Pluto

Marshal Latham as Langer, and the narrator.

R.C. Anderson is an amateur writer who would much rather write something original and good, than cliché and great. Although his attempts at “Original & Great” have sometimes yielded success.  While he wishes he could focus on writing more, (‘focus’ being the key word), his day job at a microchip fab provides for such luxuries as food, shelter, a backyard tomato garden, and the ability to have writing as a hobby, even if he’s too tired to want to do it most days.  He lives in Oregon with two cats (Katie and Bobbie), is considering his alternatives to this, (on states of which to live in, not the cats).

More stories by R.C.:

• Backtalk
• Journey Into IFC

Story Music: 

"Mesmerizing Galaxy" (and others) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Journey #193 - Morella by Edgar Allan Poe

Morella's husband was mesmerized by her vast intelligence and learning, especially in mystical writings of German philosophers, but he never loved her.  Now, she is dying and the daughter she will leave him will be a blessing and a curse.

 

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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 and became an American author, poet, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as the genre of science fiction.  He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.  Poe died in 1849,  in Baltimore, under mysterious circumstances, but he left us with a legacy of tales of wonder and woe, the marvelous and the macabre.

Dave Robison is a storyteller at heart. He is a voice actor, audiobook narrator, role-playing gamer, board game designer, and theater nerd.  one his webpage he, says, "The written word is powerful but, when it’s read by a skilled performer, it becomes even more vital and compelling. My passion is discovering the true essence of the words I read and giving that truth a voice in the world. Voice acting is a bridge that connects people intimately with the ideas and stories that fill our world."  Dave has narrated numerous books and stories for fiction podcasts and audiobooks, including several tales of Poe for this here Journey Into Podcast

Website:  https://butterymanvoice.com/

Previous Journeys with Dave Robison

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Journey #192 - "Britt Ponset's Christmas Carol" (The Six Shooter starring Jimmy Stewart)

Britt meets up with a young boy on the trail who is running away and hates Christmas.

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The Six Shooter was a Western program starring James Stewart as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of the wild west, which ran on NBC radio from Sept. 1953 to June 1954.  

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Journey #191 - With A Banjo On My Knee by Rish Outfield (3rd Place Quordle Quell Writing Contest Winner)

Garrett McClaren picks up an old banjo in an alley after watching the murder of who he thinks was its previous owner.  Despite that, he feels compelled to learn how to play it and discovers not is all as it seems.

 

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Cast of characters:

Dave Thompson as Garret McClaren

Rish Outfield as Kyvin Grandine

Keith Teklits as Brad Kramer

Renee Chambliss as Belva Stone

Bria Burton as LaTonya Erinsen

Big Anklevich as Cal Hickson

Gino Morretto as the Columbia Records executive

Marshal Latham as the narrator, and assorted voices

Rish Outfield is a writer, voice actor, and imitator of the late Sean Connery.  He's a fan of the Star Wars Trilogy, Eighties music, and those horror movies your mother insisted you not watch for fear of what they'd do to you (turns out she was right about that one).  He's the former co-host of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine podcast, and his own show, the Rish Outcast.  Born with an oddly-shaped birthmark and a lack of the vital section of the brain that produces ambition, he could still live a somewhat-full life, if only he'd get up and do something once in a w--oh no, he's gone to sleep again.

More stories by Rish:

• Rish's other Journeys and Delusions 
• Rish on Amazon 
• Rish on Audible 

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Journey #190 - The Screaming Woman by Ray Bradbury (Suspense)

On Thanksgiving Day, Margaret Leary hears a woman screaming from underground in an empty lot, but will anyone believe her in time to save the woman?

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Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1942 through 1962.  One of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" and focused on suspense thriller-type scripts, usually featuring leading Hollywood actors of the era. Approximately 945 episodes were broadcast during its long run, and more than 900 are still in existence.

Ray Bradbury is the world’s greatest science fiction writer. Some may argue, including Ray himself, that he writes fantasy rather than science fiction. He once said that Fahrenheit 451 was his only true science fiction work. His stories may tells us very little about science, but a great deal about the netherworld of imagination buried deep within all of us. In addition to over 1000 short stories, several novels and a handful of plays; Ray Bradbury has written poetry and scenarios. He adapted the novel Moby Dick for the movies, and has seen several of his own stories made into motion pictures, as well as television and radio shows. His writing has appeared in nearly every American magazine publishing quality fiction, and in over 100 anthologies of short stories.

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