Episode 7 – Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays everybody! Solstice has passed, and it’s the holiday time of year. Thanks for taking a little time out of your chaotic lives to listen – hope you enjoy.
Readings tonight are A School Story and The Mezzotint by MR James, and music is provided by the HPLHS Historical Society, and Nox Arcana – two songs from each. Check them both out, and consider sending some of the cash from your Christmas returns their way, hmm?
The episode can be found here:
http://darklylit.podbean.com/mf/web/m3vgr2/DarklyLitEp7.mp3
Episode 6 – Season’s Greetings
After a couple weeks, we have the first of our December shows – this week, we have The Diary of Mr. Poynter, by M.R. James. Ladies? This is what happens when your husband is forced to help with the interior decorating.
Music is provided by the inimitable HPLHS, at www.cthulhu-lives.org, and as always, Nox Arcana, including a selection from their newest album, Winter’s Eve. Give them a look at www.noxarcana.com, or through the link below.
Episode 5 – Oblongate
Well, it turns out that I was thinking of an adaptation of the story, not the story itself, when I picked this one… but I do my best in the discussion all the same. Just getting over a case of pneumonia, I’m afraid, so it’s fairly short, and my voice is a bit off. Don’t leave just yet though – next show (December 11), we’ve got Christmas readings and songs and generally enjoyable things… all with a Darkly Lit twist.
The episode can be found, as always, here:
http://darklylit.podbean.com/mf/web/67uzf9/DarklyLitEp5.mp3
As promised, the link to the version I *was* thinking about:
http://www.archive.org/download/NBC_short_story/NBC_Short_Story_The_Oblong_Box.mp3
And, as always, music provided by Nox Arcana – and this time, by special guests the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society!
The HPLHS, who produced A Very Scary Solstice.
Episode 4 – The Oblong Box
As (belatedly) promised, this week we have The Oblong Box, by Edgar Allan Poe. Music is by Nox Arcana, and includes Melancholia, from “Shadows of the Raven,” and The Fate of the Tempest, from “Phantoms of the High Seas.”
Having done this for about month, I’m finding that it’s quite a chore to put out an episode every single week, especially doing this on my own. It’s also very, very inconvenient for my family, since my ’studio’ is almost my living room.
For a while, I will probably be shifting to bi-weekly podcasts – but they’ll probably be longer, and certainly more relaxed. If real-life lightens up (or popular demand really happens), maybe I’ll go back to weekly, but for now, you can expect a discussion of The Oblong Box in two weeks. As always, please feel free to comment, and to give me any questions you’d like discussed next episode, which should come out just in time for Thanksgiving here in the US.
This week’s episode can be found at:
http://darklylit.podbean.com/mf/web/fb7qz5/DarklyLitEp4.mp3
Episode 3 – Telling the Tale
This week, we discuss the Tell Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe. Subjects include when the progtagonist went mad, and whether or not he’d have been a candidate for the madhouse today, instead of death row. Next week’s episode will be The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist – and to set the mood, we conclude with a reading of Thomas Lovell Beddoes “The Phantom Woo-er.”
The episode is available at the following link:
http://darklylit.podbean.com/mf/web/zrqjef/DarklyLitEp3.mp3
This week’s musical choices were Nox Arcana’s “The Legacy of Darkness,” from Blackthorn Asylum, and “Veil of Darkness,” from Darklore Manor. Drop them a line below.
Episode 2: The Tell-Tale Heart
Tonight’s tale of madness and obsession, the Tell-Tale Heart. Next week, we’ll be discussing the story – please send your thoughts to lit.darkly@yahoo.com, or include them in a comment here.
The episode can be found, as always, through iTunes or the following link.
http://darklylit.podbean.com/mf/web/c4h4wk/DarklyLitEp2.mp3
Music tonight is “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Nox Arcana, from their album Shadow of the Raven.
Episode 1: Lighting a dark candle
This is it, everybody – Darkly Lit is now live. Episode 1 has been published, and you can get it at Podbean, as usual.
http://darklylit.podbean.com/mf/web/mpivum/DarklyLitEp1.mp3
I would like to take a moment to offer special thanks to the folks at Nox Arcana, who gave me permission to use their music in the podcast. They’re very cool guys with some excellent gothic music, and you should go check them out at the first opportunity – you won’t regret it. I particularly love Blood of Angels, an album they did as a collaboration with Michelle Belanger.
This week, I used Cries in the Night, from Carnival of Lost Souls, and The Legacy from Blackthorn Asylum.
The discussion this week focused on what Darkly Lit is going to be all about – readings and discussions of the dark literature of the past. It’s a somewhat shorter episode than I think we’ll have in the future, and you’ll probably notice a certain lack of polish, but there’s a reason for it (hint – it’s got to do with this being the first episode.) I ended with a reading of Poe’s “The Conqueror Worm.”
Please tune in next week for my reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” For those of you who’d like to read along, I am reading from Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Coming soon….
The Darkly Lit podcast will be coming soon. Keep your eyes and ears ready – on October 24th, the first episode will live.
Will you?
Darkly Lit is largely meant for entertainment purposes, but also exists to spread awareness and appreciation of the fiction of an older era. This podcast is dedicated to readings and discussion of dark literature, with a focus on public domain works such as those of Poe, Doyle, Lovecraft, Shelley, Wells, and Beddoes. Each week, we will either discuss what came before, or have an entirely new unabridged reading of a classic work of horror, mystery, and the macabre. Readings and discussion should be suitable for use in most classrooms, or for home schooling; if you want to find a way to get the kids to crack open a book when they balk at Salinger or Melville, you might find that it’s a little easier to get them to read through a short story or three by Poe.
You can find our promo audio below. We will soon be available for subscription through iTunes.
http://darklylit.podbean.com/mf/web/5km9cp/DarklyLitPromo.mp3
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