Journey #58 - Maunscript Found in a Bottle by Edgar Allan Poe

A tale of one man's journey aboard a peculiar ship with a more peculiar crew hurling toward an unknown fate.

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Special Thanks to Dave Robison for narrating this story.

Episode art was made using the work of Entangled-Minds from DeviantART.com

Realated Links:
Protecting Project Pulp
The Round Table Podcast
Atys, a French opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault
The Hollow Earth Theory
H. P. Lovecraft's quotes about Poe
The Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne

Music used in this production:
PS1 (Dungeon) and Tempest by SUR



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Side Trip #5 - New Media Expo Panel - Tone and Emotion: The Keys to Compelling Podcast Fiction Narration

A panel featuring Renee Chambliss, Bryan Lincoln, and myself.

 
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Journey #57 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Shaun Graham

Sam Usher lives a lonely life in his office building, not even realizing thevalue he has in his daughter, Hope.

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Shaun Graham is a 23 year old student of American Literature and Culture at the University of Hamburg in Germany. His Edgar Allan Poe pastiche "The Fall of the House of Usher" is his first published short story. Having an ever-growing appetite for creativity he loves to write short pieces and has also dipped his toes into photography, writing music and board game design. Currently he is passionate about the stories from his childhood, such as Winnie-the-Pooh, Grimms Fairytales and The Stories of Uncle Remus. You can keep up with Shaun on GoogePlus or by taking a left turn right behind Brer Rabbits house, somewhere beyond the Hundred-Acre Wood.


Related Links:
The Ghosts of New York by Jennifer Pelland on Podcastle
Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon

Music used in this production:
Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod


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Journey #56 - Edgar Allan Poe-etry: Annabel Lee, The City in the Sea, and The Bells

Here are some poems of wonder and woe, written by a man named Edgar Allan Poe.

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Special thanks to B.J. Harrison of the Classic Tales Podcast, and John Robinson of NeedCoffee.com for allowing me to use their narations.

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.

In the preface to The Raven and Other Poems , Poe commented, “Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time, any serious effort in what, under happier circumstances, would have been the field of my choice. With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not — they cannot at will be excited with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.”

Related links:

Stan Lee reading Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

Some pictures of the panel at New Media Expo

Music and sound effects were found on Freesound.org

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Journey #55 - The Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke (presented by Family Theater)

Artaban is seeking to behold the King of Israel and finds instead the compassion and charity within his own heart.

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Family Theater Productions, an extension of the Family Rosary Crusade founded by Father Patrick Peyton, CSC, as a way to promote family prayer. The program had no commercial sponsor, yet Father Peyton, CSC arranged for many of Hollywood's stars in film and radio at the time to appear. In its ten-year run, well-known actors and actresses, including James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, and more appeared as announcers, narrators or stars.  A total of 540 episodes were produced. The program featured not only religious stories but half-hour adaptations of literary works such as A Tale of Two Cities, Moby-Dick and Don Quixote.

Other related links:
New Media Expo - January 6-8 Las Vegas
Renne Chambliss' Panel
CBC Radio As It Happens plays "The Shepherd" on Christmas Eve
"The Shepherd" on Youtube


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Journey #54 - It's A Wonderful Life starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed (presented by Lux Radio Theater)

George Bailey is at his wits end, and only divine intervention can help him recognize that he has led a wonderful life.

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Lux Radio Theater was  a long-running classic radio anthology series. Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. It became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s.

Other related links:
New Media Expo - January 6-8 Las Vegas
Renne Chambliss' Panel
Synthetic Voices podcast


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Journey #53 - The Black Door (presented by Suspense)

An archeologist is lead to the lost City of the Fire God, but what awaits him beyond the Black Door.

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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 existance.


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