Journey #183 - The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether by Edgar Allan Poe

A man gets more than expected when he visits a French asylum to learn about a new and intriguing system of treatment for its patients.

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Narrated by Dave Robison

Other voices include:  Bria Burton, Barry Haworth, Rish Outfield, Gino Moretto, Big Anklevich, Julie Hoverson, and me, Marshal Latham.

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Journey #155 - Til Death Do We Meet by Marshal Latham (A Dead and Breakfast story)

Dustin and Kara head off to spend their wedding night at the Noble Oaks Bed and Breakfast in Vernon, Idaho.  They just want to enjoy the night together, but they have unexpected guests.

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Cast of characters:

• Renee Chambliss as Kara Page
• Rish Outfield (of The Rish Outcast and The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Dustin Page and Uncle Derek
• Big Anklevich (of The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Tye Palmer
• Bria Burton as Meechelle, and a woman in a wheelchair
• Julie Hoverson ( of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as a middle-aged woman
• Gino Moretto as the room scalper
• Marshal Latham as the narrator, an older gentleman, and a doctor

Other "Dead and Breakfast" stories (by Rish Outfield):

Book 1: "True Ghost Encounter"  in audio or on Kindle

Book 2: "The Night Clerk"  on Kindle

Book 3: "Touching the Other Side" in audio or on Kindle

Book 4: "The Old Man and Me" in audio or on Kindle 

Book 6: "Fatherless Child" on Kindle


Music used in this episode:

Continue Life by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3545-continue-life

Unseen Horrors by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4569-unseen-horrors

Music for Manatees by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4102-music-for-manatees

Movement Proposition by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4088-movement-proposition

Relaxing Piano Music by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4273-relaxing-piano-music

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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Journey #148 - Journey Into the Dying Light of Stars by Bria Burton

Valla Hale is trapped aboard Earth S-1 Station where an unexplained mass casualty event has left her devastated and alone. But everything is on lock-down and she's running out of time to escape.

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Award-winning author Bria Burton lives in St. Petersburg with her wonderful husband, her darling son, and two wild pets. Her fiction has appeared in over twenty anthologies and magazines. Her novelette, The Running Girls, was a 2017 Royal Palm Literary Award Finalist. Her novella, Little Angel Helper, won a 2016 RPLA and earned high praise from the 25th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards. While she writes, her dog and cat do their best to distract her, which is why they star in her family-friendly short story collection, Lance & Ringo Tails. She writes under pen name Shayla Cole for her epic fantasy trilogy, Livinity (awarded a First Place RPLA in unpublished fantasy). At St. Pete Running Company, she's a blogger and customer service manager. A member of the Florida Writers Association, she previously led the St. Pete chapter and served on the statewide FWA Board. She's also a member of the Alvarium Experiment, a by-invitation-only consortium of outstanding authors who created The Prometheus Saga Volumes 1 & 2, Return to Earth, and The Masters Reimagined anthologies.

Cast of characters:

Renee Chambliss as Valla Hale
Dave Thompson as Tray Hale
Big Anklevich (of The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine and Big Anklevich on Toys) as Comm Director Greg Poole
Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as Ingrid Hale
Bria Burton as Pepper Underwood
Rish Outfield (of The Rish Outcast and The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Dr. Heder
Gino Moretto as Dr. Riggs
Kelley Latham as Nurse
Marshal Latham as the narrator

Music from Kevin MacLeod
Sound effects from Youtube.org

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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Journey #145 - Journey Into the Cosmic Lottery by Emily Asad

Eva must plead her case to regain her sight before the bureaucratic Cosmic Lottery.

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Emily Asad, a global citizen with ties to India, Paraguay, and the USA, currently lives in Tampa, Florida with her husband and two daughters where she misses snowflakes and fireplaces. In her free time, she juggles, bakes bread, and studies chess. Her favorite authors are Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tamora Pierce, and Anne McCaffrey. Visit her website at www.emilyasad.com

Cast of characters:

Clay Dugger as Andrew
Bria Burton as Eva
Megan Latham as the secretary
Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as the Senses Taker
Rish Outfield (of The Rish Outcast and The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as God
Marshal Latham as the narrator

Music from Kevin MacLeod
Sound effects from freesound.org


Fact Checker:

• When discussing parts of the story, I stated "If you are religious, you might think of Jesus Christ...".  What I meant to say was "If you are Christian..."

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Journey #127 - Evermore, I Told The Raven by Ken Scholes

Michael Found returns home to pay respects to his brother Thomas at his funeral, but something doesn't feel quite right.

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Huge "Thank You!" to all of the generous donors to the "Ken Scholes Meets Edgar Allan Poe" Kickstarter!!

Rish Outfield

Hugh Blair

Joel Pearson

James, Mostly Harmless

Craig Christensen

Jennifer

Shael Hawman

Chris Munroe

Hugh O'Donnell

Gino Moretto

Bria Burton

Chad Koehnen

Kevin Kaatz

John Higham

Donna R. Barnard

John A. Pitts

Keith Teklits

Wilson Flowlie

Abbigail Hilton

Jeremy Carter

Keith Rainey

Mike Bassett

Dave Thompson

Tom Tancredi

Jonathan Leggo

Herb Petro

Ken Scholes grew up in a trailer outside a smallish logging town not far from the base of Mount Rainier in the Pacific Northwest.  Baptized into Story at a young age, he fed himself on Speed Racer, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants and Marine Boy sprinkled with a generous dose of dinosaur picture books.  When he was thirteen, he read Bradbury's essay "How to Keep and Feed a Muse" and knew he had to be a writer. When he was fourteen, he started writing stories of his own and by fifteen, he had started his own Rejection Slip Collection. 

After a long break away from writing, Ken returned to it after logging time as a sailor, soldier, preacher, musician, label gun repairman, retail manager and nonprofit director. He sold his first story to Talebones Magazine in 2000 and won the Writers of the Future contest in 2004. His quirky, offbeat fiction continues to show up in various magazines and anthologies like Polyphony 6, Weird Tales and Clarkesworld Magazine.

In 2006, his short story "Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise" appeared in the August issue of Realms of Fantasy. Later that year, inspired and taunted by his friends and family to finally write a novel, Ken extended that story and Lamentation was born. Lamentation is the first in a five book series from Tor Books called The Psalms of Isaak.  He has since also written Canticle, Antiphon, and Requiem in that series.

Ken lives near Portland, Oregon, with his amazing wonder-wife Jen West Scholes and their twin daughters: Elizabeth and Rachel.  If you'd like to know more about Ken, you can  contact him through his website.

Cast of characters:

Graeme Dunlop (of Podcastle) as Michael Found
Renee Chambliss as Victoria
Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as Sandra Matthews
Wilson Fowlie as Thomas Found

Music used in this production:
"Awaiting Return", "Virtutes Vocis", and "Rumination" by Kevin MacLeod

Realated Links:
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.


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Journey #119 - Amid The Steep Sky's Commotion: A Tale of the Airship Ozymandias by Josh Roseman

A passenger of the airship Ozymandias is dead, and it is up to Constable Rebecca McDonald to find the killer.

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A special thanks to Jeremy Carter and Christopher Munroe for producing this epiosde.

Josh Roseman (not the trombonist) lives in Georgia USA. His writing has appeared in Asimov’s, Escape Pod, and the Crossed Genres anthology Fat Girl in a Strange Land. His fiction has been reprinted by the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine and StarShipSofa, and his voice has been heard on two Escape Artists and all five District of Wonders podcasts. He is a 2013 graduate of the Taos Toolbox writing workshop. When not writing, he mostly complains about the fact that he’s not writing. 

Cast of characters:

Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as Constable McDonald, Katya Iyarina, and others
Rish Outfield (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Tony Peters
Becky Shrimpton  as Marianne
Christopher Munroe as Captain St. Pierre
Jeremy Carter as the Meteorologist
Marshal Latham as Commander Markel

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Journey #107 - Of Metal Men and Scarlet Threads and Dancing with the Sunrise by Ken Scholes

The great city of Windwir has been destroyed; and the Androfrancine order wiped out.  The only survivor seems to be a lone mechanical man.

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Episode Art courtesy of Allen Douglas

Ken Scholes grew up in a trailer outside a smallish logging town not far from the base of Mount Rainier in the Pacific Northwest.  Baptized into Story at a young age, he fed himself on Speed Racer, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants and Marine Boy sprinkled with a generous dose of dinosaur picture books.  When he was thirteen, he read Bradbury's essay "How to Keep and Feed a Muse" and knew he had to be a writer. When he was fourteen, he started writing stories of his own and by fifteen, he had started his own Rejection Slip Collection. 

After a long break away from writing, Ken returned to it after logging time as a sailor, soldier, preacher, musician, label gun repairman, retail manager and nonprofit director. He sold his first story to Talebones Magazine in 2000 and won the Writers of the Future contest in 2004. His quirky, offbeat fiction continues to show up in various magazines and anthologies like Polyphony 6, Weird Tales and Clarkesworld Magazine.

In 2006, his short story "Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise" appeared in the August issue of Realms of Fantasy. Later that year, inspired and taunted by his friends and family to finally write a novel, Ken extended that story and Lamentation was born. Lamentation is the first in a five book series from Tor Books called The Psalms of Isaak.  He has since also written Canticle, Antiphon, and Requiem in that series.

Ken lives near Portland, Oregon, with his amazing wonder-wife Jen West Scholes and their twin daughters: Elizabeth and Rachel.  If you'd like to know more about Ken, you can  contact him through his website.

Cast of characters:

Wilson Fowlie as Rudolfo
Rish Outfield (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Isaak
Big Anklevich (of the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Sethbert
Josh Roseman (not the trombonist) as Gregoric
Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as Lady Jin Li Tam
Nathaniel Lee (of Mirrorshards) as Chief Gypsy Scout, and the Armorer
Bryan Lincoln (of Full Cast Podcast) as the programmer
Johnny Feisty (of TV Copilot) as Sethbert's mechoservitor
Marshal Latham as Narrator

Music used in this production:
Original custom compositions of "Bawdy Androfrancine Song" and "Upbeat Number" by Juicy Melon Jim
"Temping Secrets", "Master of the Feast", and "Truth of the Legend" by Kevin MacLeod

Realated Links:

Edgar Allan Poe Meets Ken Scholes Kickstarter

"Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk" by Ken Scholes on Escape Pod
"Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky" by Ken Scholes on Escape Pod
Ken Scholes on Amazon

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.


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Journey #84 - The Imp of the Perverse by Richard Freeman

Tanaka Sakura is beginning to realize she is not alone in her newly inherited house.

 
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Richard Freeman lives in Exeter in the county of Devon in England  He isone of the few full time working cryptozoologists in the world. Richard is Zoological Director at The Centre for Fortean Zoology the world's only full time mystery animal research organization. www.cfz.org.uk

Richard has mounted expeditions in search of many cryptids (mystery animals) including the yeti (a huge, black furred, bipedal ape) in India, the Mongolian deathworm (a much feared burrowing reptile) in the Gobi, the giant anaconda (a titanic snake) in Guyana, the orang-pendek (an upright walking ape) in Sumatra, the almasty (a relic hominin) in Russia, the naga (a huge, crested serpent) in Thailand and the ninki-nanka (a dragon-like beast) in West Africa. He is currently on an expedition in search of the Tasmanian wolf (a flesh eating marsupial).

He has lectured on the subject of mystery animals all over the country including at the Natural History Museum, The Grant Museum of Zoology, the Last Tuesday Society and Queen Mary University of London.

Richard has written a number of books of monsters and folklore including Dragons: More Than a Myth?, Explore Dragons, The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia: An A to z of Japanese Monsters and Orang-Pendek:  Sumatra’s Forgotten Ape.  He has branched into horror fiction with two collections of short stories published, Green Unpleasant Land: 18 tales of British Horror and Hyakumonogatari: Stories of Japanese Horror Book One. He isalso editing Tales of the Damned an anthology of fortean horror stories written by some of the world’s most prominent researchers.

Julie Hoverson is a tremendous writer, voice actor, and audio producer.  Check out many of her creations at www.19nocturneboulevard.net/

Music used in this production:

"Opium" and "Asian Drums" by Kevin MacLeod

Theme music by Man In Space


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Journey #59 - The Masque of the Red Death by Lee Lackey

Esther, a black nurse working in white hospital in 1920 during the Spanish Flu epidemic, wonders why some of the less affected patients are dying.

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Lee Lackey is an editor for AetherBound Press, as well as a frequent short story writer. The story “Hotel of the Damned, Gazing on the Beach” was co-written by Lee and Tom Ribas, and subsequently published by Schlock Magazine. Lee’s first full-length novel, Curse of the Twisted Rose, is available now from Grey Gecko Press.

Special Thanks to Laurice White for narrating this story.

Cast of characters:

Laurice White (of itsthavoice! Productions) as the Narrator, and Esther
Jimmy Rogers (of Synthetic Voices) as Dr. Coleman
Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as the night nurse
Robbie Latham as Jimmy
Marshal Latham as Mr. Brooks

Realated Links:
The 1918-1920 Spanish Flu Epidemic
African Americans, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
The Following TV series on Fox
The Raven (2011)
List of Roger Corman - Poe films


Music used in this production:
"Long Note One" and "Chase" by Kevin MacLeod
"Black and Tan Fantasy" by Duke Ellington

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.


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Journey #34 - When The Black Bird Circles Back by Greg van Eekhout

The return of the black bird signals it is time Abigail and her community to take The Walk and face the secret that has kept her safe all these years.

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Greg van Eekhout, a favorite author of mine, has written many, many short stories, as well as three novels.  Norse Code is an adult urban fantasy about Ragnarok in modern-day LA.  His two middle-grade novels, Kid vs. Squid and The Boy at the End of the World, have been thoroughly enjoyed by young and old alike.  Greg is currently working on a new trilogy of books based on his short story, "The Osteomancer's Son".

Cast of characters:
Dani Cutler (of the Truth Seekers Podcast) as Abigail
Norm Sherman (of the Drabblecast) as Doc Gish
Graeme Dunlop (of Cast of Wonders) as the lead creature
Josh Roseman as Mr. Cragg
Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as Mrs. Cragg
Nathan lee (of Mirrorshards) as the Rider
Dave Thompson (of Podcastle) as the Rider's apprentice
Megan Latham as Michelle Gish
Marshal Latham as Mayor John, Abigail's father

Music used in this production: "The Saga Begins" and "Hymn of the Sky" by Celestial Aeon Project


Suggested Podcast Episode: "The Osteomancer's Son" by Greg van Eekhout on PodCastle.


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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

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.

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Journey #7 - The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (part 2)

Kuno tries to escape the Machine, and then, the Machine stops.


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Cast of characters:
B.J. Harrison (of the Classic Tales Podcast) as Narator, and various voices
Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as Vashti
Marshal Latham as Kuno, and Vashti's friend
Alasdair Stuart (of Pseudopod) as Lecturer
Kelley Latham as Vashti's friend

Episode art from the Freise Brothers movie of "The Machine Stops"

Music used in this production:
Be Polite and Say Hello by Bone
End of the Era, Majestic Hills, and Lamentation by Kevin MacLeod

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.

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Journey #6 - The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (part 1)

Vashti begrudgingly leaves her safe home underground to visit her son, Kuno, who has wild notions of acting independent of The Machine.

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Cast of characters:

B.J. Harrison (of the Classic Tales Podcast) as Narator, and airship passengers

Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as Vashti

Marshal Latham as Kuno, and an airship passenger

Renee Chambliss as the Airship Attendant

Episode art from the Freise Brothers movie of "The Machine Stops"

Music used in this production:

Continental Explorer by Pal Zoltan Illes

Be Polite and Say Hello by Bone

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.

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