Nightmare Fuel Podcast: Episode Fifteen--A Halloween Reading--Kipling's Pool Playing Spectres!

Good Evening...


Tonight's tale is one of ghoulish goings on in the heart of India.


I present to you, as voted by listeners, the Halloween Reading for 2011!


Rudyard Kipling's My Own True Ghost Story.


As always, you can listen to the haunting goodness here. Or, you can download from Archive.org

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Kipling, "I ain't afraid of no bhoots!"

Videos of the Week

An MTV Halloween Classic...Somebody's Watching Me...(And yes, that's The King of Pop on the chorus)

Pumpkin Madness II! Another classic from my childhood.

Happy Halloween, everybody! Now, get into the spirit!

Nightmare Fuel Podcast--Episode Five--Carmilla

Good Evening, my lovely deviants!

Tonight, we take a journey to the nocturnal side of a most exclusive sapphic sisterhood. The female vampire has been with us since the days of Lilith. But the lesbian vampire traces its' roots to J.S. Lefanu's Carmilla. Published in 1872, this tastefully written account of same sex attraction between a vampire and a young woman has become a mainstay of horror fiction.

You can take my word for it, as you listen to the episode. Afterwards, listen to the vampiric goodness as read by the beautifully-voiced Elizabeth Klett from Librivox.org
You can download a free copy of this public domain reading from Librivox.org and Archive.org
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As always, you can listen to the sexy vamp talk here, or on Archive.org

CLICK HERE: to download this week's episode from Archive.org

Podcaster's Note: I originally intended to talk about the various film adaptations of Carmilla as well, but didn't get round to it in this week's episode. So, that'll be next week's topic. Also, due to space limitations on Podbean.com, I will post all future episodes to Archive.org. As always, you can listen to the episodes here, via the embedded player. I will also continue to make the links available to where you can download each week's episode for play on iPod, and other devices.

For those of you who may have subscribed via iTunes (the Podbean account) fret not. I will do a monthly round up of the best episodes to be posted there. ALL BACK EPISODES will be availabe on Archive.org

Also, make sure to check out some of my fiction at http://landofinsomnia.blogspot.com The latest piece speculates on what Jack The Ripper might have included on his iPod. A bit of "whistle while you rip."

This week's videos

The lovely Anna Calvi performs DESIRE

Vampire makeup tutorial from youtube favorite Michelle Phan

Next Week: Carmilla--films about and inspired by her. 

Episode 32--The Phantom Rickshaw

This week, I take you to the dark side of India with Rudyard Kipling's tale of love and revenge, The Phantom Rickshaw


Originally published in 1888, in the anthology The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales, the titular story has become one of the best known, and most reprinted, ghost stories of all time. Kipling's contributions to the horror genre cannot be understated. Though he is best known as the author of The Jungle Book We can also thank him for some intelligent scare fests.

As always, you can listen to the show here, or download it from archive.org
http://www.archive.org/details/TheFlyPaperDungeon--episode32ThePhantomRickshaw


Link of the Week:
The Art of Richard M. Powers
http://members.cox.net/sjrohde/
(The above image was scanned by me, from an old edition of Kipling. It was illustrated by Richard M. Powers. No infringment is intended on the work of this great Sci-Fi and Fantasy artist)