Archive for Horror Audio
Pod of Horror #64
Posted by: | CommentsPod of Horror #64 is out, with legendary horror writer Ronald Kelly discussing his many upcoming projects and reveals the publisher of the Essential Ronald Kelly Collection, reprinting all of his novels from the 80s and 90s. Also, Jason L. Keene’s Moonshine Matinee explains that hoodoo and afros can be a powerful combination. In the Call of Kalanta, Nanci covers the news of note in the horror field, and the pile o’ prizes grows large and threatening in The Tomb of Trivia. Get it at iTunes or download it at Horror World.
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Pod of Horror #63
Posted by: | CommentsPod of Horror is back with over two hours of ghastly goodness. On Episode #63, they talk books with Necon’s Bob Booth and Matt Bechtel, author/actor Michael Boatman, Pod of Horror co-founder David T. Wilbanks, and Cutting Block Press’s R. J. Cavender. Nanci has the news, Jason L. Keene critiques the movies and they introduce their new book review segment, Scary Words. Pod of Horror is also giving away a bunch of great books in The Tomb of Trivia. Get Episode #63 at iTunes or download it at Horror World. Pod of Horror is hosted and produced by Mark Justice.
Jake Helman Files Audio Books Now Available
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Audible.com has released two audio books based on author Gregory Lamberson’s hardboiled horror series, The Jake Helman Files: Personal Demons and Desperate Souls. Both audio books are narrated by Christopher Hurt, who narrated audio versions of The Fountainhead and Fahrenheit 451.
The Jake Helman Files tells the story of ex-cop turned occult detective Helman, who finds himself embroiled in the supernatural at every turn. In the first book, Personal Demons, Helman tangles with a serial killer who steals the souls of his victims, a reclusive billionaire, and the Biblical Cain and Abel. In Desperate Souls, his foe is a voodoo priestess who uses a drug called Black Magic to create an army of zombies in New York City.
“I love crime drama and noir as much as I do horror,” says Lamberson, director of the cult horror film Slime City and its new sequel, Slime City Massacre. “And I love combining these genres. Jake Helman is as informed by The Maltese Falcon and the TV series Wiseguy as he is by the creations of Clive Barker and Stephen King. Action is the unifying thread, but the action Jake finds himself in tends to be a lot bloodier than that faced by other hardboiled heroes. Surprise is the real key.”
The author has already completed two more novels in the series for Medallion: Cosmic Forces, which will be published this October, and Tortured Spirits, due in 2012. “I told Adam Mock, the president of Medallion Media Group, that I want to do at least 10 of these Jake Helman books. In truth, I’d like to write a lot more than that, as I’m a real fan of pulp novels and continuing characters. But I plan to write at least six, which will complete the story I set out to write. Jake suffers a lot more than most other heroes who battle the supernatural. I love subjecting him to physical and emotional torture, and as long as he can take what I dish out, we’ll keep going.”
The Dark Verse Episode 76 Available
Posted by: | CommentsM. Amanuensis Sharkchild’s The Image Of Odd Transaction And Collection, The Dark Verse Episode 76, is now available for download at TheDarkVerse.com, on iTunes, or at the Zune Marketplace.
Description: “Head down this way,” I motioned with my arms, directing the couple before me into the stairway leading down into the basement of my house. “This will be the most exquisite collection you have ever seen. I promise you,” I added.
“Very good,” a man, clad in a black suit, an olive shirt, and a pale, yellow tie replied. He then escorted the woman at his side down the stairs. The woman wore an elegant and vivid yellow dress that eclipsed her form flawlessly.
I followed behind the couple.
We entered the white-lit wonder of my basement. Black, velvet counters lined the walls and made aisles throughout the space. On these counters were displayed an array of ancient, unfamiliar jewelry that included bracelets, earrings, necklaces, and charms — some sparkling, some dull, some with rubies, some with emeralds, some with diamonds, some silver, some gold, some carved in jade, some carved in ivory, some carved in stone, some carved in materials unknown. The arrangement of lights on the ceiling angled upon the counters perfectly and completely, leaving no piece unenchanted by the soaking of light. There were pieces in this collection older than the known civilizations of history, found by me through means no archaeologist or historian could fathom.
Listen to the entire story: Episode 76
Deathscribe 2010
Posted by: | CommentsWildClaw Theatre Company will present Deathscribe 2010, the Third Annual International Festival of Radio Horror Plays, on Monday December 6th, at 8:00pm. This collection of spine-tingling audio nightmares will be presented at the historic Mayne Stage Theatre, 1328 W. Morse Ave, Chicago. Admission is $20.
Harkening back to the Golden Age of Radio, Deathscribe 2010 will present five original horror radio plays, chosen from nearly 100 international submissions, performed by some of Chicago’s finest actors, with a live band and dueling foley artists. These radio dramas will be directed by Nic Dimond (Strawdog), Carolyn Klein (Seanachai), Bob Fisher (The Mammals), Lance Baker (A Red Orchid), and Greg Kolack (Drury Lane Oakbrook). There will be a “Best of the Fest” award, the Bloody Axe, chosen by a celebrity panel of judges, plus special surprise guests, and the entire performance will be recorded for a future WildClaw Blood Radio Podcast.
Deathscribe 2010 will be performed at the historic Mayne Stage in Rogers Park. The theater, on Morse Avenue in Rogers Park, opened as Morse Theater in 1912 as a vaudeville and movie house, and closed in 1954. From 1956 until 2008 the building served in various capacities from synagogue to a shoe repair store. Now, with a recent multi-million dollar restoration and renovation project, featuring state-of-the-art audio and video systems, the entertainment and dining hotspot is the perfect venue for our 3rd annual Festival of Radio Horror.
It is WildClaw Theatre’s mission to engage our audience by appealing to their imagination, taking them on strange journeys of suspense, terror and wonder. In other words – to create Horror Theatre. Deathscribe 2010 continues that pursuit of intelligent, imaginative horror storytelling by reaching back in time, to an age when an idea and a sound were more terrifying than any computer generated image.
This guarantees to be a unique and thrilling night of horrific entertainment. For more information, please visit Wild Claw Theater. Tickets can be purchased online at Mayne Stage.
Dark Verse 72 – Vaucifyr
Posted by: | CommentsThe newest episode of Dark Verse – Names: Vaucifyr (The Unreasoned Voice), is available for download at TheDarkVerse.com, on iTunes, or at the Zune Marketplace.
Description: Metek, Alaya, Sturge, and Crim sat anxiously on hard wooden chairs around a wooden table in the basement of the Abandoned House in Semtar’s Forest. The basement was lit by candle-flame, but the moonlit, night sky peeked through holes and cracks in the faltering, aged floorboards above. Animals and insects scurried in the shadows. A strange scent saturated and impregnated the air. The atmosphere was dense and heavy.
These four aforementioned friends were those who chose to initiate the Inspirited of Vaucifyr – so to become commissioners of distant things. In vulgar communication, each of them had heard the Unreasoned Voice – the necromantical acoustics of Vaucifyr’s ever-reaching wisdoms – and followed it into dream, passing mind to it, allowing it to transfer elementary knowledge of outlying, pre-creation matters and instill seeds of ethereal connection.
It was not by faith or fate that these four stumbled into ear’s grasp of the Unreasoned Voice’s accounts. The four Pre-Inspirited, Metek, Alaya, Sturge, and Crim, had each read of Vaucifyr; they had uncovered peculiar tomes of explanation in the backwoods of Semtar’s Forest – in the trees, in the soil, in the stones, rocks, and boulders. By looking at these items, they saw maps of interspersed space that flashed before them like implants of memory. And when these testaments were visually ingested from those whimsical media – whether consciously or in the subconscious, in wood or dust or cloud – the Unreasoned Voice entangled itself upon the words in mind, birthing in sight, but culminating as sound.
Upon such interaction, the relationship between life and thought were altered while senses of unnatural utility were equipped. Each of the Pre-Inspirited was touched in a unique way: Metek by intellect, Alaya by artistry, Sturge by audacity, and Crim by translation – an ability to convert the Unreasoned Voice’s words to their own. Within these links, Vaucifyr sparked flames of otherworldly power and infernal curiosity, communicating to them the ritual for its access to their flesh and to their world. It was this ritual that they were about to perform.
You can listen to the episode online here: Dark Verse 72
Dracula Soundtrack
Posted by: | CommentsPadWorx Digital Media has announced that the official soundtrack for its recently released Apple®iPad™ eBook App is now available on iTunes®. Dracula: The Official Stoker Family Edition – Music from the PadWorx eBook is a full soundtrack featuring 16 original songs from the iPad™ app.
“We’ve had an overwhelmingly positive response from fans who can’t get enough of the beautiful, haunting music that sets the mood for the chapters of our Dracula book,” said Jeffery Alan Schechter, PadWorx Digital Media’s CEO. “Because the music really brings the Dracula story to life and distinguishes our eBook App from others, we made it a priority to offer the entire song list to fans through iTunes.”
The album features indie rock songs from artists Adaline, Christa Couture, Emily Spiller, Eve and the Ocean and Phoebe Sharp. Each song sets the tone of the classic tale, helping to drive the story to its grim finale. Head over to iTunes today to purchase the full album for $9.99 or individual tracks for $0.99 each. Dracula: The Official Stoker Family Edition for Apple® iPad™ is available now for the limited-time price of $2.99.
For more information: iPad Dracula
