Forgotten Classics

In which we learn that what this country needs is a good cigar-shaped spaceship. Episode 236, Lighter Than You Think (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: G for inventions, horse racing, Lighter Than You Think by Nelson Slade Bond is in the public domain. Podcast Highlight Born Yesterday Muscle Shoals - The Movie

In which we have a pint at the White Hart while hearing a scientific tall tale. Episode 235, The Ultimate Melody (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: G for pop music, British pubs, tall tales, and science The Ultimate Melody by Arthur C. Clarke is under copyright. This story is shared under the Fair Use Act as an illustration of Arthur C. Clarke's writing. Views to the contrary, please contact me (my email is in the sidebar). Podcast Highlight Synthetic Voices Muscle Shoals - The Movie

In which we are transported to 17th century Salem village for an encounter with Puritans, witch-meetings and pink ribbons. Episode 234, Young Goodman Brown (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: PG for pink ribbons, devilish temptation, witches covens, and marital suspicion This story is in the public domain. Podcast Highlight Edgar Allan Poecast

In which the whole truth about Beatrice ... and about Giovanni ... is discovered. Episode 233, Rappaccini's Daughter, part II (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: PG for poisonous flowers, love, and scholarly antagonism This story is in the public domain. Halloween Listening The Lottery Night Drive Beautiful People The Beckoning Fair One (part two, part three) The Uninvited The Unforeseen

In which a young man from Padua spies a beautiful maiden in her garden. But is there something deadly there too? Episode 232, Rappaccini's Daughter, part I (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: PG for poisonous flowers, love, and scholarly antagonism This story is in the public domain.

In which, after a large whiskey, Mr. Jorkens tells a tale of a daughter of Rameses.Episode 228, A Daughter of Rameses (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: G for tall tales told in tavernsThe Travel Tales of Mr. Jorkens by Lord Dunsany is under copyright. This story is shared under the Fair Use Act as an illustration of Lord Dunsany's writing. Views to the contrary, please contact me (my email is in the sidebar).

In which Janet and Captain Perona get better acquainted ... and have an adventure. Episode 218, The Mouse in the Mountain, chapter 6 (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: PG for violence and suggested sexuality Author information: Thrilling Detective,  Rue Morgue Press, Black Mask Magazine. This story is in the public domain. Download it free here. Or here. Podcast Highlight Pete Kelly's Blues Other Reference Beside Still Waters discussion at SFFaudio Of Gods and Men discussion on A Good Story is Hard to Find

A bit of the introduction discussing what archaeologists have brought to understanding the Bible as history.  A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson (listen or download from link above) According to Webster la·gniappe \ˈlan-ˌyap, lan-ˈ\ Function: noun Etymology: American French, from American Spanish la ñapa the lagniappe, from la + ñapa, yapa, from Quechua yapa something added Date: 1844 : a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure

"Everything that I can remember, I have told with perfect candor. ... if anything remains vague, it is only because of the dark cloud which has come over my mind—that cloud and the nebulous nature of the horrors which brought it upon me." The Statement of Randolph Carter (listen or download from link above) Read for us by Will Duquette from The View From the Foothills This story is in the public domain. According to Webster la·gniappe \ˈlan-ˌyap, lan-ˈ\ Function: noun Etymology: American French, from American Spanish la ñapa the lagniappe, from la + ñapa, yapa, from Quechua yapa something added Date: 1844 : a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure

In which Doan meets Eldridge and several others besides ... and experiences something new. Episode 217, The Mouse in the Mountain, chapter 5 (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: PG for violence and suggested sexuality Author information: Thrilling Detective,  Rue Morgue Press, Black Mask Magazine. This story is in the public domain. Download it free here. Or here. Podcast Highlight The Podcast History of Our World Other Reference A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson

In which there are shady doings in Los Altos while the bus passengers are still on the road. Episode 215, The Mouse in the Mountain, chapters 2-3 (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: PG for violence and suggested sexuality Author information: Thrilling Detective,  Rue Morgue Press, Black Mask Magazine. This story is in the public domain. Download it free here. Or here. Podcast Highlight Trial Lawyer Confidential Other Links SFFaudio: The Galactic Pot-Healer Classic Tales

In which Doan and Carstairs board the bus to Los Altos and meet their fellow passengers. Episode 214, The Mouse in the Mountain, chapter 1 (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: PG for violence and suggested sexuality Author information: Thrilling Detective,  Rue Morgue Press, Black Mask Magazine. This story is in the public domain. Download it free here. Or here. Podcast Highlight Movies I've Seen a Million Times

In which our heroes finally get to Los Altos and we see Doan in action. Episode 216, The Mouse in the Mountain, chapters 4 (download or listen via this link) Book Information Story rating: PG for violence and suggested sexuality Author information: Thrilling Detective,  Rue Morgue Press, Black Mask Magazine. This story is in the public domain. Download it free here. Or here. Podcast Highlight They Signed America, The Last Best Hope, Vol. I

In which all comes to pass in ways completely unforeseen! Episode 213, The Unforeseen, chapters 14-15, Finale! (download or listen via this link) This book is in the public domain.  (Note: I have researched the copyright to the best of my ability as well as written to the original publishers more than once and received no reply. My conclusion, therefore, is that this book is in the public domain. If anyone has conclusive information to the contrary, please contact me.)  Book Information Story rating: PG for eerieness For another book by this author: The Uninvited (read previously on Forgotten Classics) Podcast Highlight Jazz Insights What I've Been Reading Links Twilight Watch Middlemarch The Parable of the Sower (our A Good Story is Hard to Find conversation)

In which Virgilia tells the shocking truth ... Episode 212, The Unforeseen, chapter 13 (download or listen via this link) This book is in the public domain.  (Note: I have researched the copyright to the best of my ability as well as written to the original publishers more than once and received no reply. My conclusion, therefore, is that this book is in the public domain. If anyone has conclusive information to the contrary, please contact me.)  Book Information Story rating: PG for eerieness For another book by this author: The Uninvited (read previously on Forgotten Classics) Podcast Highlight History of the Papacy Podcast