Journey #20 - Dream Engine, Part 1 by Tim Pratt

Episode art by Howard Lyon

Howlaa and Wisp are are assigned by the Regent to rid Nexington-on-Axis of a murderous naked fat man.


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Listen to Part 2 of Dream Engine

Stay updated with Tim Pratt on his blog. Check out more with these characters, and this world, in Tim's YA online novel, The Nex.

Cast of characters:
Renee Chambliss (author of Dreaming of Deliverance) as Wisp
Rish Outfield (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as the Regent
Bryan Lincoln (of the Fullcast Podcast) as the Fat Man
Marshal Latham as Howlaa Moor

Music used in this production:  Calm at Heaven Disrupted by Industrial Water

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.

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Journey #19 - Midshipman Hornblower: The Man Who Saw God by C.S. Forester (presented by BBC)

Horatio Hornblower faces restlessness and questions of faith while at sea.


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The radio series "The Hornblower Story" (1968-69) was adapted from four of the Hornblower books by C.S.Forester. Dramatised into 20 half-hour parts by Val Gielgud, it was produced by Trevor Hill, and directed by Trevor Hill and Christopher Hayton Webb.  Music by Johnny Pearson, special effects by David Fleming-Williams, Jack Hollinshead in conjunction with the Sea Training Association.

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Journey #18 - The Veldt by Ray Bradbury (presented by Dimension X)

George and Lydia wanted the best for their children, so they bought the automated nursery along with the other advanced household amenities. But was it the best for George and Lydia?

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Dimension X aired on NBC radio from April 8, 1950 to September 29, 1951. The first 13 episodes were broadcast live, and the remainder were pre-recorded. Fred Wiehe and Edward King were the directors, and Norman Rose was heard as both announcer and narrator.

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Journey #17 - Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe

Hop Frog is often the butt of the King's jokes and cruelty, along with the Royal Council, but Hop Frog still agrees to help them with a masterful ruse at the masquerade.


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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 macarbe. 

Cast of characters:
John "Widgett" Robinson (of Need Coffee Dot Com) as Narrator

Big Anklevich (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Hop Frog
Marshal Latham as the King, and his ministers

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Music used in this production:

Jig by Valerie Thompson  of ARTSomerville

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Journey #16 - Three Skeleton Key by George Toudouze (Escape)

Rats, Vincent Price, and a lonely lighthouse...


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This March 17, 1950 production of "Three Skeleton Key" is based on a 1937 Esquire magazine short story by the French writer George Toudouze; and was adapted for Escape in 1949 by James Poe.  It features Vincent Price in the lead role.

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Journey #15 - The Box by Christopher Munroe

There is a box in the corner of his room; and he will not open it.


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The author, Christopher Munroe, lives in Calgary, Alberta, where he works, lives, and maintains his flash fiction blog.  His fiction has been featured on Drabblecast, Dribblecast, and the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.

Graeme Dunlop, the reader of this story is the host and editor of the YA speculative fiction podcast, Cast of Wonders.  He is also the audio editor for Pseudopod, and the submissions editor for CastMacabre.

Music used in this production:

Darkscape 3 by SUR

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Journey #14 - Double Feature: Chicken Heart & Revolt of the Worms (Lights Out)

A double dose of science experiments going bad with disastrous results.


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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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