This week’s Unpleasant Dreams features a horror story written by H.P. Lovecraft. Cassandra Harold narrates the short story, “The Music of Erich Zann.” “The Music of Erich Zann” was written in 1921 and first published in 1922 and is in the Public Domain. — Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers’ intellectual property. All fictional stories…
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Join us this week on Unpleasant Dreams as Cassandra Harold tells us the story of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death.” “The Masque of the Red Death” (originally published as “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy”) is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842…
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Believe it or not, Mark Twain actually wrote a classic ghost story. Appropriately enough, it was called, “A Ghost Story” and it is our Season 4 premiere. Much more to come this fall! It is great to be back and thanks for your patience! We’ll be back next week with more chilling Unpleasant Dreams. “A…
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This week on Unpleasant Dreams we dive into an eerie tale that tests the boundaries of darkness and the sway it holds over the mind. Our story is Edith Nesbit’s “The Power of Darkness.” Our narrator is Cassandra Harold. Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33028
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Tune in for this classic Victorian ghost story written in 1852 by Elizabeth Gaskell. Your narrator is Cassandra Harold. —– Note: The image used in the artwork accompanying this episode was generated by Midjourney AI. Everything else you hear was created by a human.
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Cassandra shares the troubling tale of “The Vale of Corbies” written by Arthur J. Burks. You can find the original at The Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV06N05192511/page/n31/mode/1up Please tell your classic horror loving friends about Unpleasant Dreams!
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A hard boiled journalist encounters something that shakes him to his core. That is the premise of H.F. Arnold’s short story, The Night Wire. You can find it here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Night_Wire Cassandra Harold is our narrator. Thank you for listening and please share with your friends who enjoy classic horror!
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s the perfect story for a day dedicated to our hearts. It’s The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Enjoy!
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Join Cassandra on a journey to the mysterious Goblin Market on this edition of Unpleasant Dreams! This classic was written by Christina Rossetti and released in 1862. Thank you for listening and please share the show your friends!
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The Yellow Wallpaper is a horror tale from 1892 which details a woman’s decent into madness. Yet, it is much more and is considered a classic of feminist literature. The author is Charlotte Perkins Gilman and you can find the full text at Project Gutenberg. Your narrator is Cassandra Harold. Thank you for listening and share…
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