Reading for "Season One"

After our long hiatus we are now preparing for a relaunch, dubbed "Season One". We will be changing to a seasonal schedule, each season being twelve episodes in length, and are looking for seven more stories to fill the first season. We hope that this format will enable us to produce higher quality shows with more of a consistent theme. In the meantime please enjoy our archive.

CM45 - From Around Here by Tim Pratt (pt 3)

Read by Graeme Dunlop


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Show Notes

This is part three. Thanks to Tim Pratt for selling us the rights to produce this fabulous long story for Cast Macabre.

Thanks to Graeme for narrating, producing, and guest hosting this week's episode, and a special thanks to all the fantastic narrators he lined up for us.

Music provided by Mevio at Music Alley

CM44 - From Around Here by Tim Pratt (pt 2)

Read by Graeme Dunlop


Click to play or download the MP3.

Show Notes

This is part two. Listen to part one here. Part three will be episode 45. Thanks to Tim Pratt for selling us the rights to produce this fabulous long story for Cast Macabre.

Thanks to Graeme for narrating, producing, and guest hosting this week's episode.

Music provided by Mevio at Music Alley

CM43 - From Around Here by Tim Pratt (pt 1)

Read by Graeme Dunlop


Click to play or download the MP3.

Show Notes

Thanks to Tim Pratt for selling us the rights to produce this fabulous long story for Cast Macabre.

Thanks to Graeme for narrating, producing, and guest hosting this week's episode.

Music provided by Mevio at Music Alley

Show Update

Hi Cast Macabre Fans, your host, Barry J. Northern here.

Apologies for the long delays between episodes. I am relocating to another town, and the move is taking longer than expected. Unfortunately my recording equipment is now packed in a box somewhere in the pile, so I can't record an update, let alone a show. Be assured that I'm still buying some great stories for you, ready for a restart in a few weeks time once we've moved and I'm settled enough to start recording again. In the meantime look forward to stories from Tim Pratt, Ralph Robert Moore, Craig Herbertson, Bosley Gravel, Bruce Boston, and many more.

Soon, we'll have a tale to tell. In the meantime, check out Cast of Wonders.

Listen to the promo or download the MP3

CM42 -Big Inches by Ralph Robert Moore

Read by Alasdair Stuart


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Show Notes

Visit Ralph Robert Moore's website. There really is a lot of good stuff there.

Also, many thanks to Alasdair and the guys at Pseudopod towers for showing me the way out of their labyrinthine passageways.

Music provided by Mevio at Music Alley

Church Outing 20060312 by Spainful Films Soundtrack Dept.

41 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Edward Morris

Read by Barry J. Northern


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Show Notes

For Neil Gaiman and Mike Carlos

Edward Morris is a 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award nominee, also nominated for the 2009 Rhysling Award. To date, he has sold 74 short stories worldwide, including sales to Interzone(#200, 'Imagine'), Pseudopod (#106, 'Jihad Over Innsmouth') , and most recently Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year #2 ("Lotophagi.")

He's a three-year veteran panelist at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and the Oregon Science Fiction Convention.

"Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God" is a story-poem after the style of many of the poems in Neil Gaiman's SMOKE & MIRRORS. John Shirley gave him the idea when he mentioned British Petroleum and a certain Elder God in the same Facebook post. He called this one "a good idea" when he read it. I hope you agree.

Music provided by Mevio at Music Alley

Idunn - 14 - Crystal Sea - Lull by Ambient Light
Sea of Blood by A Dying Ember

Sound effects from bashing my microphone against my hand and applying effects in Audacity.