Journey #27 - The King of Rabbits and Moon Lake by Eugie Foster

Khargosh, King of Rabbits, seeks to save his colony from the drought.  Then the elephants come.

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Eugie Foster is a very talented and versitle writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and children's lit. Eugie received the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and was named the 2009 Author of the Year by Bards and Sages. Her short story collection, RETURNING MY SISTER'S FACE AND OTHER FAR EASTERN TALES OF WHIMSY AND MALICE, was published by Norilana Books and can be found on her website at eugiefoster.com.  Her works have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, Cricket, and Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show just to name a few.

Today's narator, Rajan Khanna is a writer and sometimes corporate wageslave who spends much of his time dreaming of imaginary things.  Rajan is a graduate of the 2008 Clarion West Writers Workshop and a member of the NY-based writing group, Altered Fluid. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Shimmer Magazine, GUD, and The Way of the Wizard (among others) and has received Honorable Mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror and the Year’s Best Science Fiction.   He sometimes writes articles for Tor.com and occasionally narrates podcasts for sites like Podcastle, Lightspeed, and Pseudopod, and now, lucky for us, Journey Into... 

Suggested Podcast Episode: "Mannie the Mailmobile" on Clonepod and "The Wish of the Demon Achromagk" on Drabblecast by Eugie Foster

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Journey #26 - The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (CBS Radio Mystery Theater)

Terrorist? Angel? Musical genius? Ghost? Among the many questions surrounding the phantom of the Paris Opera House, one thing is for sure: He is in love with his protegee.

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Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (English: The Phantom of the Opera) is a novel by French writer Gaston Lerooux.  It was first published as a serialisation in "Le Gaulois" from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910. Initially, the story sold very poorly upon publication in book form and was even out of print several times during the twentieth century.  Iit is overshadowed by the success of its various film and stage adaptations. The most notable of these were the 1925 film depiction, Ken Hill's 1976 musical at the Theatre Royal Stratford East followed twelve years later by Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical, and Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher's 2004 film.

Suggested Podcast Episode: "Black Hill" and "The Worm That Gnaws" by Orrin Grey on Pseudopod.

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Journey #25 - The Milton Feinhoff Problem by Mark Onspaugh

One bright Spring morning, Milton Feinhoff came downstairs to find himself eating an enormous stack of waffles.  That was just the beginning.

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As a child, Mark Onspaugh sat too close to the TV, and now needs glasses.  His young brain was irradiated with monster movies, sci-fi and Looney Tunes.  DC Comics took care of the rest.  Today, he is the writer of the film Kill Katie Malone, a co-writer of the cult fave Flight of the Living Dead, and has several scripts in development.  He has sold numerous short stories and essays.  He tells people he was raised by wolves, but his parents were nice people who only eviscerated the occasional wayward traveler.  You can visit him at www.markonspaugh.com and on his Facebook pages, including Out of My Mind – Fiction and Film from MarkOnspaugh.

Today's narator, Chris Munroe, is a 33 year old actor/comedian who, between shows and dayjobs, likes to play with words and ideas. He currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, where he works, lives, maintains his flash fiction blog (munsistories.blogspot.com) and struggles with an as yet unfinished surrealist urban fantasy novel. His work has previously appeared in Black Heart Magazine, Dark Recesses and the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.  He also now has a YouTube channel under the name MunsiSellsOut.

Suggested Podcast Episode: "The Man Who Lived Backwards" by Charles F. Hall on The Classic Tales Podcast

Marshal's Podcast List:

DunesteefAudio Fiction Magazine

   --> That Gets My Goat

PodCastle

EscapePod

Drabblecast

   -->  Dribblecast

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

Classic Tales Podcast

Lightspeed Magazine

Brothers Grimm Lunchbreak

Ihnatko Almanac

Fullcast Podcast

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Pseudopod

19 Nocturne Blvd

Starship Sofa

OTR Swagcast

Cast of Wonders

Cast Macabre

Decoder Ring Theatre

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Fantasy Magazine
Clarkesworld Magazine
Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Flash Pulp

Need Coffee.com

Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd

The Zombie Astronaut’s Frequency of Fear

Dreaming of Deliverence

Voices New Media Fiction

The Takeover

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Journey #24 - Sherlock Holmes in "New Year's Eve Off The Scilly Isles"

The ocean lines Gigantic faces fire at sea. Can Sherlock Holmes discover the terrorists plot in time?

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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was an old-time radio show which ran from late 1939 to mid 1947. Most episodes were written by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher.

John Stanley was the third actor to play Sherlock Holmes, proceded by Basil Rathbone and Tom Conway. Nigel Bruce Played Doctor Watson through the entire series.

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Journey #23 - The Mansion by Henry van Dyke

John Weightman is a wealthy and generous man, if it provides rewards for himself, but what does he have to learn of freely giving of himself?


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Henry van Dyke was born on November 11 , 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania.  He graduated from Princeton University in 1873 and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877 and served as a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. He was also the pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, in New York City, and served as U.S. minister to the Netherlands from 1913-16, right around the beginnings of WWI.
Among his popular writings are two other Christmas stories The Other Wise Man (1896), and The First Christmas Tree (1897). Various religious themes of his work are also expressed in his poetry, hymns and the essays collected in the books Little Rivers and Fisherman’s Luck .

Cast of characters:
Josh Roseman as Narator, and Dr. McLean
Rish Outfield (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as John Weightman
Big Anklevich (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as the Keeper of the Gate
Julie Hoverson (of the 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as Mrs. Weightman
Marshal Latham as Harold Weightman

Other related links:
My Chistmas book list
Thomas S. Monson Christmas Devotional talk
Have I Done Any Good?
Podcastle 188: The Ghost of Christmas Possible

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Side Trip #2 - Misfit by Marshal Latham

T.R.I.P.P. fights against being labeled a misfit.


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Big Thanks to J. E. Ignatius McNeill for his excellent reading!  You can listen to other stories he has narrated over at the Dribblecast.

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Journey #22 - "19 Santa Clauses" starring Vincent Price as The Saint

Simon Templar gets mistaken for a thief in a santa suit and then must solve the mystery.

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Based on a popular movie series, The Saint ran on NBC radio from 1944-1951 and starred Vincent Price inthe title role. The series was also adapted as a comic strip, a British television series starring Roger Moore, and 1997 film starring Val Kilmer.

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