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Special Episode – Weird Tales – The Pale Man

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Summary:

Our last (official) #AllHallowsRead tale is “The Pale Man,” by Julius Long. A lonely man visiting a country hotel finds himself pondering a strange guest down the hall, one that keeps changing rooms and moving closer and closer.

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Download: Special Episode – Weird Tales – The Pale Man

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You can read the full text of “The Pale Man,” by Julius Long, at Wikimedia. The story is listed as in the public domain.

Promos & Music

Intro music is “Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, used under license from Magnatune.com

Incidental music by Olssons (“Ambient One”); DR (“Sedativa V”); Byzons (“Apatheia (Or, The Story of a Girl Trapped in a World of Madness)),” all of which are used through Creative Commons license on SoundCloud.

Special Episode – Weird Tales – Four Wooden Stakes

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Summary:

Continuing our theme of stories from the Weird Tales magazine published in the mid-twentieth century, we share “Four Wooden Stakes,” by Victor Rowan. This #AllHallowsRead raises the dead as two old friends fight for their lives against a creature of the night.

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Download: Special Episode – Weird Tales – Four Wooden Stakes

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You can read the full text of “Four Wooden Stakes,” by Victor Rowan, at Wikimedia. The story is listed as in the public domain.

Promos & Music

Intro music is “Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, used under license from Magnatune.com

Special Episode – Weird Tales – The Night Wire

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Summary:

We begin our annual #AllHallowsRead episode series with “The Night Wire,” by H.F. Arnold. Our theme this year will be stories from the American horror/sci-fi magazine, Weird Tales, which published from the 1920s to the 1950s. This story features a very creepy fog and a very creeped-out telegraph operator.

Play:

Download: Special Episode – Weird Tales – The Night Wire

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You can read the full text of “The Night Wire,” by H.F. Arnold. The story is listed as in the public domain.

Promos & Music

Intro music is “Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, used under license from Magnatune.com

Incidental music by DR (“Sedativa II”), Lucidique (“L’Horrible Passion”), and Canton (“Ambient Gourd”), which are used through Creative Commons license on SoundCloud.