The Novel of the White Powder

What is in that white powder my brother is taking? 

Tonight, Junie Ginsburg tells a tale that HP Lovecraft said "approaches the absolute culmination of loathsome fright.” The White Powder by Arthur Machen is what we are listening to tonight on Tales from New Babbage! Gather around the hearth at The Gangplank in Clockhaven, or tune into Radio Riel Main or Steampunk to listen where ever you are, but you might not want to listen to this one alone.


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Mr. Machen was born in Wales and became enamored with mysticism and the occult at an early age. The Novel of the White Powder was part of The Three Impostors, a novel composed of a number of interwoven tales, in 1895. The novel and the stories within it were eventually to be regarded as among Machen's best works. However, following the indecency scandal surrounding Oscar Wilde later that year, Machen's association with works of decadent horror made it difficult for him to find a publisher for new works until later in his career. Publisher John Lane, wary of the atmosphere, asked Machen to censor his manuscript. Barring the omission of one word, Machen refused to comply.

First publication:1895
 Reader: Miss Junie Ginsburg
Intro: Mr Announcer & MacKnight Culdesac
Outro: Miss Penny Dreadful
Music: Earth Prelude, Decline, Ghostcalypse 3, Martian Cowboy, The Dread, Bent and Broken, and Arcane, by  Kevin Macleod 
Production: Mosseveno Tenk runtime: 47:55

The White Ship

Tonight on Radio Riel Steampunk, an early work from H. P. Lovecraft's Dream cycle stories. Sit back, relax, and have your squire bring a coal from the stove to spark the hookah.

This story was first published in the November 1919 issue of The United Amateur. We regret that we can only select stories of Lovecraft that were published before 1923, as later works are not clearly in the public domain in the United States.

 Listening party at 7pm SLT (California time) at Ahab's Tavern on the Iron Bay waterfront in New Babbage.

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Intro/Outro: Vic Mullin
Reader: Byron Music: Music from Cloud 9, by Valentine Wolfe
Outro Music: Merry Go by Kevin MacLeod
Post-production: Mosseveno Tenk
runtime 20:25

The Brownie of the Black Haggs

Victor1st Mornington reads a grim tale from his native Scotland by poet and novelist James Hogg. Hogg wrote in both Scots and English, and it is said that his grandfather was the last man to have spoken with fairies.

Babbagers know better than to expect a happy ending on their fairy tales. We like them told they way they were meant to be told.

Listening party at 7pm Pacific at The Bucket of Blood Public House.

First publication: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, October 1828.

Reader: Victor1st Mornington
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Intro/Outro: Byron Wexhome
Production: Mosseveno Tenk
Runtime: 46:00
Radio Riel air date: May 1, 2011

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The Bodysnatcher

In the early 19th century in Scotland, medical cadavers were in such high demand that a criminal element, known as body-snatchers, or resurrection men, gave rise to a particular public fear and revulsion. In the year 1827 a pair of Irish immigrants sold a body which had died of natural causes in a boarding house to an Edinburgh medical school. The money was so good, that for the next year, they set about procuring bodies without the trouble of digging in graveyards in the dead of the night. The Burke Hare serial murders were memorialized by Robert Louis Stevenson in his 1884 fictional story, The Bodysnatcher. Read for you by the sultry Scotsman of Brunel Hall, Victor1st Mornington.

Listening party  Sunday, April 3, at 12:30pm PDT at the Clarendon in New Babbage or  7:00pm PDT at the Gangplank in Clockhaven.

For more information on the background of this story, visit http://burkeandhare.com/

First publication: Pall Mall Christmas "Extra" December 1884

reader: Victor1st Mornington
music: Kevin MacLeod
outro: Byron Wexhome
postproduction: Mosseveno Tenk
runtime 53:41
Radio Riel airdate: April 3, 2011

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The Horror of the Heights

Do you believe in air kraken?

In this episode, Victor1st Mornington reads Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Horror On The Heights, in which a pioneering aviator investigates the mysterious death of a fellow pilot by following clues in a diary recovered from crash site wreckage. Turn out the lights and listen!

The story was first published in November, 1913, in Strand Magazine, Vol. 46, #275, and later collected in Tales of Terror and Mystery.

Run time: 47 minutes
Reader: Victor1st Mornington
Outro: Mavromichaeli Szondi
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Production: Mosseveno Tenk
Radio Riel air date: November 2010

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