The Best Christmas Stories – Lancelot Schaubert

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading Koschei the Deathless. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my own stories or even […] Read more posts like "Koschei the Deathless" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: If you’re looking for short Christmas Stories, check out I Gotta Idee by Elsie Singmaster in this episode of The Best Christmas Stories: Featured download: learn how to write your own Christmas Story based on thematic protagonism a la Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Read more posts like "Short Christmas Stories : I Gotta Idee by Elsie Singmaster" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland is today’s Best Christmas Story. Featured download: learn how to write your own Christmas Story based on thematic protagonism a la Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Read more posts like "My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: If you’re curious about what Christmas looked like at Orchard House in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, you should check out this episode of The Best Christmas Stories: Featured download: learn how to write your own Christmas Story based on thematic protagonism a la Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Read more posts like "Christmas at Orchard House by Louisa May Alcott" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: Season 3 announcement about the best stories series — both the best stories for Christmas and the best stories for Halloween:   Read more posts like "Season 3 Coming Up + Best Scary Stories" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: Quick announcement about the best stories series — both the best stories for Christmas and the best stories for Halloween:   Read more posts like "More of the Best Stories Coming Soon!" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: Why I, an Adult, Believe in Santa is an article I wrote four years ago and it seemed fitting to read for The Best Christmas Stories because it’s something of a meta-story about Christmas in general — particularly the mythos of Santa and why that’s a good thing:   Read more posts like "Why I, an Adult, Believe in Santa by Lancelot Schaubert" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: For the Best Christmas Stories, we’re now reading The Little Guest by Margery Williams Bianco. Really love the ending to this one. Read more posts like "The Little Guest by Margery Williams Bianco" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: Here’s one of my own — one of the poems I recently posted on here — for the Best Christmas Stories, a poem called Vulnerare. I’m also using this to splinter off into a third podcast which will eventually compose poetry readings.   Read more posts like "Vulnerare by Lancelot Schaubert" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: Getting into the momentum here reading one an hour for our annual tradition of the best Christmas stories. You’ll be able to tell Tara and I are enjoying relaxing to the sounds of Christmas all around us… relaxing enough that I botched the intro on My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland like eight times. Here’s My […] Read more posts like "My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: For my annual readings of The Best Christmas stories, here is Santa Claus: A Psychograph by Gamaliel Bradford. It’s a wonderful bit about the psychology behind a man who would want to travel around the world giving to others. As well as the psychology of those who hope to emulate him by participating in the mythos: Read more posts like "Santa Claus: A Psychograph by Gamaliel Bradford" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: In keeping with the annual tradition of reading the best Christmas stories for adults (as well as the best Christmas stories for kids and the best Christmas poems), here is The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot: As you’ll hear in the recording, I was clued into The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot by Professor […] Read more posts like "The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: This year I had planned on staying in NYC the whole holiday season, but my grandfather passed away very, very suddenly on Saturday morning, so we grabbed an emergency flight back to Illinois, rolled into town for the visitation on Monday night and I performed the funeral eulogy and graveside services on Tuesday. Tara recorded the […] Read more posts like "Funeral Eulogy for My Grandpa Deno Bubba" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: In keeping with reading The Best Christmas Stories, here is The Second Christmas by F.K. Foraandh. It’s a short one, but it’s a really interesting philosophical and theological meditation. It’s a fictional piece about what may or may not have gone through the minds of the holy family as, during the second Christmas, they started to deal […] Read more posts like "The Second Christmas by F.K. Foraandh" at Lancelot Schaubert.

lanceschaubert over at Lancelot Schaubert - fiction, myths, and free readings of bedtime stories said :: In keeping with our annual tradition — Christmas readings of the best Christmas stories — here’s a poem by G.K. Chesterton entitled Gloria in Profundis. It’s a poem about how the fall of God is greater than the fall of man: If you’d like to hear more of the best Christmas stories, click here. cover […] Read more posts like "Gloria in Profundis by G.K. Chesterton" at Lancelot Schaubert.