I’ll likely be offline for a few days. I’m fine, but my city is going to be hit by a cyclone tomorrow night, so I’m likely to lose power. I know that sounds blasé, but I was raised in the north of my state so I’ve been doing cyclones since I was eight. This one’s…
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Ghosts from Lancastrian Ballads: Sir Gualter and his lady
Our second ghostly visitant from Lanacastrian Ballads: this is a pair of ghosts, of which the unnamed lady is the more interesting. She’s linked to a lightning tree, which are sometimes sought out by magi as useful for enchantment. She may have powers related to the weather or may be strangely transformed into a dryad,…
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Heather Ale by Robert Louis Stevenson
This poem contains a Herbam, or even Corpus, vis source created by a race of faeries that are being driven to extinction by the invading humans. Robert Louis Stevenson collected this story in Galloway, and added a note to make sure his readers knew this was an older, and false, historiography. The Picts were not…
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The Wolf-woman by Bassett Morgan
There doesn’t seem to be a clear, copyable text of the The Wolf Woman by Grace Morgan anywhere easily accessible, so here’s a link to a scan of the issue of Weird Tales magazine where it appeared. “Bassett” was her pen name, because, like many authors in her period, she hid her gender to make…
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Fragment Week: Unfinished Race
A note from Ambrose Bierce that seems to have a person falling into regio Thanks to the Librivox recorder and their production team. *** James Burne Worson was a shoemaker who lived in Leamington, Warwickshire, England. He had a little shop in one of the by-ways leading off the road to Warwick. In his humble…
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Fragment week: The Flowers of Evil
Fragment weeks are where I use up ideas that I know have value in Ars but can’t quite land. Sometime others in the community find excellent ways to use them. Here I’m presenting some of the poems from The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire. As I think about them I keep circling back to the…
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Gibbet Hill by Bram Stoker
A lost short story by Bram Stoker was recently rediscovered in an archive. Its from before he wrote Dracula, so his style is there but the story doesn’t conclude in the way his usually do: you’re left at the Jamesian wallop. Ben Tucker has recorded a version into the public domain vis Librivox. Thanks to…
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The Chant of The Grave-Digger
A little poem for Hallowe’en. By ROBERT S. CARR I’m the one who gets you all, Ho! I swing my shovel! Lean ones, fat ones, short or tall, Ho! I swing my shovel! Rich and poor I lay you deep Where the grave-worms writhe and creep In the cold earth’s oozy seep, Ho! I swing…
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The Sorcery of Aphlar by H. P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel
Another little story from Fantasy Fan magazine read by Ben Tucker through Librivox.. Thanks to Ben and his team. Statistics to use Aphlar as an NPC: Magic Might: 30 (Aquam) Characteristics: Int +3, Per +4, Pre –2, Com –2, Str -16, Sta +3*, Dex –1, Qik +7** * Note that he is Tireless, which is…
Read MorePodcast transcripts for January to June 2024
The process of catching up on the podcast transcripts continues apace! First quarter of 2024. Second quarter of 2024.
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Games From Folktales 