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Self Destructive Elements
Celebrate Poe - July 22, 2024 06:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This the final episode of a series that looks at what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe had chosen a different path - if he had decided to become a soldier after his time at West Point, and not one of the greatest of all American writers. And we invariably go off t...
Waking at 6 AM
Celebrate Poe - July 19, 2024 02:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Celebrate Poe - my name is George Bartley, and this is episode 257 - Waking at 6 AM This and the following podcast episodes are an alternate or what if history exercises. The episodes look at what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe had chosen a different...
In a Violent Nature: Unveiling Horror, Gender Dynamics, and Theatrical Triumphs
Horror Rewind - July 18, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 49 ratingsHey horror junkies, we hope you're ready for another spine-chilling and thought-provoking episode of Horror Rewind! This week, we're diving deep into the dark and eerie world of slasher cinema with our latest episode feature: In a Violent Nature. 🎬 Here's what to expect: Who could forget the ...
Literary Ambitions
Celebrate Poe - July 16, 2024 03:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This and the following podcast episodes in this series are an alternate or what if history exercises. The episodes look at what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe had chosen a different path - if he had decided to become a soldier after his time at West Point, and n...
A Dream and a Career
Celebrate Poe - July 11, 2024 03:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This and the following three podcast episodes were begun as what if history exercises. These episodes look at what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe had chosen a different path - if he had decided to become a soldier after his time at West Point, and not one of the...
Dark Books Coming Out in July 2024 part 2 of 2
Dark Side of the Library - July 06, 2024 02:08 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMemories of the Lost, by Barbara O’Neal (Lake Union Publishing, July 30, 2024) Months after her mother dies, an artist sees a painting in a gallery that makes her lightheaded and dizzy. A handsome stranger comes over to help her. She later discovers a document in her mother’s papers that makes...
Nostalgia and Nightmares: Unpacking "I Saw the TV Glow" and Celebrating Horror Films
Horror Rewind - July 04, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 49 ratingsJoin us 🫴 on a thrilling journey as we dive deep into the mesmerizing world of horror nostalgia. Today we passionately dissect the latest horror sensation, "I Saw the TV Glow," and explore its profound themes, including media's influence on identity and the impact of childhood trauma. 📺✨ Here...
Dark Books July 2024 part 1 of 2
Dark Side of the Library - July 03, 2024 15:05 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAdult Fiction July 2024 part 1 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) The Astrology House, by Carinn Jade (Atria Books, July 16, 2024) A gro...
Poe and Democracy
Celebrate Poe - July 02, 2024 03:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome back to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 254 - Poe’s Views on Democracy. Today I would like to talk with Mr. Poe about his views of government - and especially about what he might have thought about the specter of Donald Trump. I had previously been under the i...
Defending the Sacredness of Love
Celebrate Poe - June 30, 2024 21:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This podcast episode deals with an address given by Robert G. Ingersoll - one of the individuals who spoke at Whitman’s funeral. He was the poet of Love. He was not ashamed of that divine passion that has built every home; that divine passion that has painted every pict...
When Walter Met Peter
Celebrate Poe - June 27, 2024 19:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 251 - When Whitman Met Peter - this episode deals with an essential area of Walt Whitman’s life and creative spirit - in fact, you might even say that a twenty-something immigrant served as an inspiration and a muse for some of the poet...
Whitman and the Civil War
Celebrate Poe - June 21, 2024 23:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 250 Whitman and the Civil War. Walt Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started. Some critics would charge that he should have joined the Union Army, but anyone who knew him, like his friend and biographer John...
Chucky Takes the White House: Horror Rewind Revival and Brad Dourif Appreciation
Horror Rewind - June 20, 2024 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 49 ratingsHey Horror Rewind fans! 🔪 This week, we’re bringing you a spine-chilling, laughter-filled episode you won't want to miss: Ever wondered what would happen if your favorite horror icon decided to set up shop in the White House? Tune in as we celebrate the release of Chucky Season 3 and share tant...
America's First Gay Bar
Celebrate Poe - June 13, 2024 06:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This is episode 249 - America’s First Gay Bar While the word gay certainly wasn’t used to connote same sex attraction during Walt Whitman’s lifetime, Whitman DID patronize an establishment at 647 Broadway that today might be considered a gay bar. And that drinking esta...
America's Poet
Celebrate Poe - June 08, 2024 13:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 248 - America’s Poet - This is the first full episode of Pride Month dealing with Walt Whitman. This episode emphasizes that Whitman continually revised and added new poems to his masterpiece "Leaves of Grass" over his lifetime...
Same Sex Attraction in the 19th Century
Celebrate Poe - June 01, 2024 01:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is Episode 247 - Same Sex Attraction in the 19th Century As I write the script for this podcast episode, tomorrow is the first day of LGBTQ month - and similar to previous years, I decided to devote the enti...
NOCTRANS Ep 182 - The Recital
NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS : horror stories, dark tales and scary mutterings performed by voice artist Kristin Holland - May 29, 2024 02:16 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsA message for all our music lovers out there in the NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS community - This one is NOT for you. [Naughty word language warning] Nocturnal Transmissions is proud to present: D.H. Parish's THE RECITAL ———— NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly podcast feat...
INDIANA STATE SANATORIUM
AFTERTHE3VER Podcast - May 27, 2024 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsShow Notes: Join me The Pumpkin Queen as we dive down the reaabit hole of the Indiana State Sanatorium Linktr.ee https://linktr.ee/AFTERTHE3VERPODCAST Instagram: https://instagram.com/afterthe3ver?igshid= Contact Me or send in your stories to:[email protected] Warnings: Spooky Cont...
My Home Town
Celebrate Poe - May 27, 2024 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Today I’d like to take a slight change of pace with a look at an area that is not often associated with Edgar Allan Poe, but an area in which the Allan family vacationed - White Sulphur Springs during the summers of 1812, 1813, and 1814. Prior to the Civil War, the Whi...
Byron's Influence on Poe
Celebrate Poe - May 21, 2024 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is Episode 245 - Byron’s Influences on Poe. This episode is the third - and final - for now - episode about Lord Byron, and does not deal as much with Byron’s escapades in Europe, but how he influenced Edgar...
Darkness
Celebrate Poe - May 20, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This is Episode 244 of Celebrate Poe - Darkness - the second of three episodes about Lord Byron Where we left off, it is said that Lord Byron awoke one morning and found himself famous. The first run of his latest book of 500 copies sold out in three days. Pretty impre...
Dangerous to Know
Celebrate Poe - May 19, 2024 17:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Celebrate Poe, Episode 243 ˜- Dangerous to Know. This My name is George Bartley, and this is the first of three episodes about Lord George Byron. A few episodes ago, I talked about the love of Lord Byron and his dog - and hoped I got across the point that ...
NOCTRANS Ep 181 - The Graveyard Rats [PATREON EPISODE TEASER]
NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS : horror stories, dark tales and scary mutterings performed by voice artist Kristin Holland - May 15, 2024 02:32 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsThe following episode is a teaser for our PATREON SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE presentation of: 'THE GRAVEYARD RATS' by Henry Kuttner To hear this episode in full subscribe at: patreon.com/nocturnaltransmissions
Dreamland, Continued
Celebrate Poe - May 14, 2024 22:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 242 - Dreamland, Continued . Hopefully this should be the last episode regarding Edgar Allan Poe’s Dream Poems - at least for now. And, hopefully, by the end of this episode, you will have an fir...
Dreamland
Celebrate Poe - May 11, 2024 23:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This podcast to takes a deeper dive into some of Poe’s so-called Dream Works - or your works that dealt with the experience of dreaming. This episode will revisit A Dream With a Dream (perhaps the work most associated with the movie Inception.). But the majority of the ...
Dark Young Adult Fiction Books Coming Out April 2024
Dark Side of the Library - May 09, 2024 18:56 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDark Side of the Library Podcast Episode #187: Dark Young Adult Fiction Books Coming Out April 2024 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) Aga...
Animal Metaphors
Celebrate Poe - May 06, 2024 15:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. This episode deals with the use of animal metaphors in Poe’s works - concentrating on The Conqueror Worm and perhaps the most well-known of all poetic metaphors - The Raven. And imagine that (instead or a raven) Poe used an owl - or a parrot. What differences might tha...
The Hauntings of Dudleytown
AFTERTHE3VER Podcast - May 06, 2024 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHello, my spooky friends, and welcome back to another episode of Afterthe3ver! Your podcast dedicated to all things paranormal and macabre.Whether you're a returning spooky friend or a curious newcomer, I am excited that you're here listening. Can just a town alone be cursed? Dudleytown, is a sm...
Twain and Poe on Cats
Celebrate Poe - May 03, 2024 17:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 239. This episode deals with arguably the two greatest writers of the 19th century - Mark Twain and Edgar Poe - and their fascination with (and love of) cats in their lives and literature.
Remains of a Friend
Celebrate Poe - May 03, 2024 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Celebrate Poe - My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 238 - Remains of a Friend. Now I admit that examining Poe’s life - while certainly interesting and informative - can be a bit tedious at times. For a complete change of pace, I thought I would lo...
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