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**Production is on hiatus to devote more time to Keen's Turn (https://melainablanc.com/).** Tales of horror, peculiarity, and the supernatural, read and sometimes written by Melaina Blanc. From Edgar Allan Poe to Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, to H. P. Lovecraft and beyond, join me for a celebration of strange and spooky stories. What's that music, you ask, rising from the crypt? The tomb's tones.
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Lend me your ears, lend me your eyes, lend me any organs you can spare, and prepare yourself for a vampire story like no other. Keen's Turn is a horror comedy audio drama packed with thrills, chills, and more puns than you can shake a stake at. The trailer video that accompanies this episode is parked on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UHPyOtYF19I When r…
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A lowly servant stands beneath Rashōmon Gate, waiting for a break in the rain. Notes: A raccoon dog, or tanuki, is neither a racoon nor a dog, and like the fox it is regarded in Japan as a trickster animal. "Kimono" literally translates as "thing for wearing" and as such refers to an ungendered garment. The Heian Period was from 794 to 1185, when K…
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On the surface superficial joy in rhyming interstitial, There is nothing artificial in the poem here in store— Not a stanza injudicial in the poem here in store. Quoted here for evermore. Notes (words are defined in the sense they are used in the poem): surcease: an end obeisance: gesture of respect mien: appearance; attitude Pallas: Athena, the Gr…
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This tale of vengeance begins in Italy, amidst the madness of the carnival season... "Nemo me impune lacessit." No one impugns me with impunity. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com "Immuration"
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As the merry-making extends towards the very witching hour of night, a ride homewards promises our hero a journey through the haunts of that infamous spectre, the HEADLESS HORSEMAN of Sleepy Hollow. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com "Creepy Hollow"
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With his heart set on the attractive Katrina Van Tassel and her even more attractive inheritance, Ichabod Crane finds a formidable rival in the person of BROM BONES, the town rowdy. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com "Creepy Hollow"
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If you are familiar with the lands just north of the largest port city in the great State of New-York, you may have heard of the region known as SLEEPY HOLLOW, and of the strange tales and superstitions which seem to float in its very air, and infect any who tarry there overlong. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com "Creepy Hollow"…
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You may have heard something of the accursed affair already, with the rumors in the papers of imprudent scientific pryings, and it is these not unsubstantiated rumors that lead me to break my silence on the matter of my best friend, Crawford Tillinghast. Although it is not a tale which I recount with any eagerness... Ending music: https://www.purpl…
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Now I comprehend you think me mad, but harken well to my tale, and I am assured it will convince you of my perfect sanity, as it would any sane person... The music is by Setuniman on Freesound (https://freesound.org/people/Setuniman/). Copyright Setuniman, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (https://creativecommon…
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