2008 Release Audiobooks
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
by Clement Clarke Moore (or Henry Livingston Jr.)
3 minutes, 18 seconds
Unabridged Christmas Verse
1823
“A Visit from St Nicholas” (or “The Night Before Christmas”), since first published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel, widely introduced the modern concept of Santa Claus to the Western world.
The classic verse was later attributed to both Clement Clarke Moore and Henry Livingston, Jr., depending on who you ask.
Alex Wilson is a writer and actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His stories and comics have appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Outlaw Territory II (Image Comics), Weird Tales, Futurismic, LCRW and elsewhere. Locus has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Website)
Alex has performed lead roles in the North American premiere of (Richard Taylor's musical) Whistle Down the Wind and (Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido's film) The Third Cord. He has recently appeared in the Deep Dish Theater productions of Hedda Gabler and Moon for the Misbegotten, and recorded narrations for Escape Pod and Night Shade Books. (Acting Resume/Reel) On early Telltale recordings, Alex is sometimes credited as "Alexander Wilson." He founded Telltale in 2004.
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Tags: 1-15 minutes, 1823, 18th Century AD, 2008 Release, Alex Wilson (reader), Christmas, Clement Clarke Moore, Fables and Fairy Tales, Free, Henry Livingston Jr, Lyrical Verse, Podcast, Poetry, Speculative
Clement Clarke Moore, Podcast
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
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by F Scott Fitzgerald
55 minutes, 44 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1921
Benjamin Button is born as a grown man of seventy years. He spends the rest of his life growing ever younger.
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Tags: 1921, 200 cents, 2008 Release, 20th Century AD, 30-60 minutes, Alex Wilson (reader), F Scott Fitzgerald, Fables and Fairy Tales, Fiction, SF Story, Short Story, Speculative
F Scott Fitzgerald
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
by Thomas Bulfinch
19 minutes, 23 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913
Young Phaeton finds out he’s the son of the god who drives the Sun around, and suddenly he feels all entitled to take the family car out for a cruise. What could possible go wrong?
Read by Alex Wilson.
Alex Wilson is a writer and actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His stories and comics have appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Outlaw Territory II (Image Comics), Weird Tales, Futurismic, LCRW and elsewhere. Locus has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Website)
Alex has performed lead roles in the North American premiere of (Richard Taylor's musical) Whistle Down the Wind and (Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido's film) The Third Cord. He has recently appeared in the Deep Dish Theater productions of Hedda Gabler and Moon for the Misbegotten, and recorded narrations for Escape Pod and Night Shade Books. (Acting Resume/Reel) On early Telltale recordings, Alex is sometimes credited as "Alexander Wilson." He founded Telltale in 2004.
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Tags: 15-30 minutes, 1913, 2008 Release, 20th Century AD, Alex Wilson (reader), Fables and Fairy Tales, Free, Mythology, Nonfiction, Podcast, Thomas Bulfinch
Podcast, Thomas Bulfinch
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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by John Kendrick Bangs
21 minutes, 41 seconds
Unabridged Christmas Ghost Story
1894
A humorous ghost story in which a particularly damp apparition appears on Christmas Eve.
“Far be it from me to be impolite to a woman, madam, but I’m hanged if it wouldn’t please me better if you’d stop these infernal visits of yours to this house. Go sit out on the lake, if you like that sort of thing; soak the water-butt, if you wish; but do not, I implore you, come into a gentleman’s house and saturate him and his possessions in this way. It is damned disagreeable.”
Performed by Susie Berneis.
Freshwater Seas can be found online at freshwaterseas.com. [new window]
This recording will be released under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution License on November 30, 2013 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
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Tags: 1894, 19th Century AD, 2008 Release, 75 cents, Christmas, Fiction, Ghosts, Humor, John Kendrick Bangs, SF Story, Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune (readers)
John Kendrick Bangs
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
by Alex Wilson
3 minutes, 16 seconds
Unabridged SF poem/parody
2008
A Filk of the Republic Sung in the Year 2088.
A political parody based on Ernest L Thayer’s Casey at the Bat. First appeared in Inconsequential Art #4. Text online here. Cover art by Constantine Markopoulos.
Alex Wilson is a writer and actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His stories and comics have appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Outlaw Territory II (Image Comics), Weird Tales, Futurismic, LCRW and elsewhere. Locus has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Website)
Alex has performed lead roles in the North American premiere of (Richard Taylor's musical) Whistle Down the Wind and (Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido's film) The Third Cord. He has recently appeared in the Deep Dish Theater productions of Hedda Gabler and Moon for the Misbegotten, and recorded narrations for Escape Pod and Night Shade Books. (Acting Resume/Reel) On early Telltale recordings, Alex is sometimes credited as "Alexander Wilson." He founded Telltale in 2004.
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Tags: 2008, 2008 Release, 21st Century AD, Alex Wilson, Alex Wilson (reader), Fantasy, Filk, Free, Government, Horror, Humor, Lyrical Verse, Podcast, Science Fiction, SF Poetry
Alex Wilson, Podcast
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
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by M R James
29 minutes, 53 seconds
Unabridged Ghost Story
1923
Probably the most famous of the ghost stories of M R James. Commissioned by Queen Mary for her doll house library, which is still on display at 1:12 scale in Windsor Castle. Performed by Susie Berneis.
(from Wikipedia:)
Montague Rhodes James (August 1, 1862 - June 12, 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918) and of Eton College (1918-1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories in the classic 19th century Yuletide vein, which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature...
Freshwater Seas can be found online at freshwaterseas.com. [new window]
This recording will be released under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution License on October 26, 2013 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
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Tags: 100 cents, 15-30 minutes, 1923, 2008 Release, 20th Century AD, Fiction, Ghosts, Horror, M R James, Mystery, SF Story, Short Story, Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune (readers)
M R James
Monday, September 29th, 2008
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by Henry James
44 minutes, 35 seconds
Unabridged Fantasy/Horror Story
1868
The first ghost story of Henry James, and was part of a gothic literature revival in the 1880s. First appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. Performed by Susie Berneis.
(from Wikipedia:)
Henry James (April 15, 1843 - February 28, 1916) was an American-born British author. He is one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form ... He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception...
Freshwater Seas can be found online at freshwaterseas.com. [new window]
This recording will be released under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution License on September 29, 2013 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
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Tags: 1868, 19th Century AD, 200 cents, 2008 Release, 30-60 minutes, Fiction, Ghosts, Henry James, SF Story, Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune (readers), The Longer Stuff
Henry James
Monday, September 15th, 2008
by Thomas Bulfinch
23 minutes, 33 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913
Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto, Diana and Actaeon, and Latona and the Rustics: an action-packed chapter in which we learn…
- How the goddess Juno disposes of her husband’s mistresses.
- He has many mistresses.
- The price one pays for seeing a virgin goddess naked.
- The origin of frogs (not related to the naked thing).
Read by Alex Wilson.
Alex Wilson is a writer and actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His stories and comics have appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Outlaw Territory II (Image Comics), Weird Tales, Futurismic, LCRW and elsewhere. Locus has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Website)
Alex has performed lead roles in the North American premiere of (Richard Taylor's musical) Whistle Down the Wind and (Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido's film) The Third Cord. He has recently appeared in the Deep Dish Theater productions of Hedda Gabler and Moon for the Misbegotten, and recorded narrations for Escape Pod and Night Shade Books. (Acting Resume/Reel) On early Telltale recordings, Alex is sometimes credited as "Alexander Wilson." He founded Telltale in 2004.
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Tags: 15-30 minutes, 1913, 2008 Release, 20th Century AD, Alex Wilson (reader), Fables and Fairy Tales, Free, Mythology, Nonfiction, Podcast, Thomas Bulfinch
Podcast, Thomas Bulfinch
Friday, August 29th, 2008
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by H G Wells
32 minutes, 11 seconds
Unabridged Fantasy/Horror/SF Story
1902
A classic Victorian ghost tale, framed by Wells’s trademark love of mystery, adventure, and scientific philosophizing. Performed by Robert Bethune. Not for sale in the EU.
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Tags: 150 cents, 1902, 2008 Release, 30-60 minutes, Fantasy, Fiction, Ghosts, H G Wells, SF Story, Short Story, Speculative, Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune (readers)
H G Wells
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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by Rudyard Kipling
1 hour, 15 minutes
Unabridged Story Collection
1891, 1894, 1902
Three classic elephant stories by Rudyard Kipling:
The Elephant’s Child (1902)
“In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn’t pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant–a new Elephant–an Elephant’s Child–who was full of ’satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.”
Moti Guj Mutineer (1891)
“Once upon a time there was a coffee planter in India who wished to clear some forest land for coffee planting. When he had cut down all the trees and burned the under-wood the stumps still remained. Dynamite is expensive and slow-fire slow. The happy medium for stump clearing is the lord of all beasts, who is the elephant.”
Toomai of the Elephants (1894)
“Kala Nag stood ten fair feet at the shoulders, and his tusks had been cut off short at five feet, and bound round the ends, to prevent them splitting, with bands of copper; but he could do more with those stumps than any untrained elephant could do with the real sharpened ones.”
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Tags: 1-2 hours, 1891, 1894, 1902, 1st Century AD, 2008 Release, 20th Century AD, 300 cents, Adventure, Fiction, Popular Author, Rudyard Kipling, Short Story, Story Collection, Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune (readers), The Longer Stuff
Rudyard Kipling
