Black Mass - Horror Programs

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31 of the 39 programs from the Horror stories produced by the Black Mass:

Christopher Lee - Fireside Tales

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Broadcast originally on the BBC, this is Dracula/Saruman the White doing five creepy old tales of horror. Though there is a Poe one, I personally would have loved to have had him doing a Lovecraft tale.

Max Brooks - World War Z

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Max Brooks again proves that he is indeed the Romero of zombies in literature. excellent "history" of what happened in the future zombie invasion. read by Max Brooks and some others including Mark Hammill.

[Audiobook] [BBC Radio 4] - The House on the Borderland - by William Hope Hodgson

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In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it. Its torn pages seem to hint at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility. 

This is a classic novel that worked to slowly bridge the gap between the British fantastic and supernatural authors of the later 19th century and modern horror fiction. Classic American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft lists this and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences.

Author's Introduction to the Manuscript: 

Many are the hours in which I have pondered upon the story that is setforth in the following pages. I trust that my instincts are not awrywhen they prompt me to leave the account, in simplicity, as it washanded to me.
And the MS. itself--You must picture me, when first it was given into mycare, turning it over, curiously, and making a swift, jerky examination.A small book it is; but thick, and all, save the last few pages, filledwith a quaint but legible handwriting, and writ very close. I have thequeer, faint, pit-water smell of it in my nostrils now as I write, andmy fingers have subconscious memories of the soft, "cloggy" feel of thelong-damp pages.
I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible thatblind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. Amid stiff, abruptsentences I wandered; and, presently, I had no fault to charge againsttheir abrupt tellings; for, better far than my own ambitious phrasing,is this mutilated story capable of bringing home all that the oldRecluse, of the vanished house, had striven to tell.
Of the simple, stiffly given account of weird and extraordinary matters,I will say little. It lies before you. The inner story must be uncovered,personally, by each reader, according to ability and desire. And evenshould any fail to see, as now I see, the shadowed picture and conceptionof that to which one may well give the accepted titles of Heaven and Hell;yet can I promise certain thrills, merely taking the story as a story.

WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON December 17, 1907

Read by Jim Norton

Extra:

In 2003 DC Comics’ mature reader imprint Vertigo published a 96-page color graphic-novel adaptation of The House on the Borderland. The story was adapted by Simon Revelstroke and the art was done by comic book artist Richard Corben. The book is available in both soft and hardcover and contains an introduction by British comic writer and artist Alan Moore. 

If anyone has this comic, please send me a link in the comment box, I'd love to read it!

[Audiobook] [BBC Radio 4] - HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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Coming up to All Hallows Eve, lend an ear to this great reading of Lovecraft that will CHILL YE TAE THE BONE!

Synopsis:
Young historian Robert Olmstead journeys to the mysterious, shunned town of Innsmouth in New England. Read by Richard Coyle.

 5 x 30 min episodes

First broadcast: BBC Radio 4 Extra, Mon, 3 Oct 2011

[Audiobook] - Classic Tales Of Horror - Series 1

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I'd like to mention that among these great stories is a wonderful gem - The Man In The Bell.
I found every bit of this story truly imaginative, it held me in its grasp till the end. Beautiful.


Episode 1: An Englishman spends a chilling night in a spooky bungalow in India. Rudyard Kipling's haunting tale read by Richard Pasco.


Episode 2: A church bell ringer's trip up to the Belfry has terrifying consequences. WE Aytoun's chilling tale read by Patrick Malahide.


Episode 3: A man is terrorised by hideous apparitions in a haunted Italian villa. EF Benson's tale is read by Patrick Malahide.


Episode 4: An Alderman leases a property for his family unaware that it's haunted. J Sheridan Le Fanu's tale read by Richard Pasco.


Episode 5: A mysterious print reveals a tragic tale of rural revenge. MR James' short story read by Robin Bailey.


Episode 6: A scientist claims to have discovered a Fountain of Youth. Nathanial Hawthorne's comically creepy yarn, read by Nicky Henson.


Episode 7: This classic Edgar Allen Poe story follows Prince Prospero's eager attempts to avoid the Red Death. Edgar Allen Poe story read by Patrick Malahide.


Episode 8: Wilkie Collins' unnerving story of a young man, flushed and foolish with gambling success and champagne. Wilkie Collins read by Robin Baile Classic

Short Horror Stories: 8 x 15 - 40 Minute Episodes

[BBC Radio 4] - Grand Guignol

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At the end of the nineteenth century, in the seediest quarter of Paris, a new theatre opened its doors offering a recipe of blood and terror - and soon the Grand Guignol was to become as big as an attraction in the city as the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. The success of an evening's performance - made up of a succession of short comedy and horror plays - was measured by how many members of the audience fainted, as they witnessed gougings, garrottings and gory murders on a nightly basis. 

After more than sixty years the theatre finally closed its doors, but only after helping influence the development of horror in the cinema, as well as introducing the phrase Grand Guignol into common parlance as a byword for shocking, blood-soaked terror. Sheila McClennon visits Paris to revisit the scene of this most shocking of theatre movements, and also comes to London to find out how the likes of Joseph Conrad and Noel Coward got involved in its English incarnation, which fought a staunch but unsuccessful battle with the censors at the beginning of the 1920s.


Broadcast on 17 Aug 2010
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