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 Phantom Coach

Tonight, the sultry Scotsman of New Babbage, Victor Mornington, reads a ghostly tale of the northern moors. The Phantom Coach by Amelia B Edwards is what we're listening to tonight at 7pm PDT at the Muirsheen Durkin Pubic House!

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Miss Edwards was a journalist, novelist, egyptologist and suffragette. She traveled extensively with only a female companion in an era when  male chaperones were considered socially and physically essential. She was also an early advocate for the preservation of archeological sites from the ravages of development and tourism.     

First publication: Christmas 1864, in All the Year Round
Reader: Mr. Victor1st Mornington 
Intro: Mr. Osgoode Underby
Outro: Miss Garnet Psaltery
music: Kevin Macleod
production: Mosseveno Tenk
additional material written by Mosseveno Tenk and Kris Law
runtime: 45:45

The New Accelerator

Yes indeed, these are pushful pushful days we live in. If only there was a way to find more time. Tonight, Emerson Lighthouse reads The New Accelerator by H. G. Wells, first published in The Strand magazine in 1901.

Come listen at the Red Dragon in Babbage Square at 12 noon or 8pm PDT (California time), or listen where ever you may be by tuning your media player to Radio Riel Steampunk.


Host: Osgoode "YoYo" Underby
Reader: Emerson Lighthouse
Outro: Reliable Barthelmess
Promo: Byron Wexhome
Music: Ishkari Lore, Opium, Ghostcalypse 6, Himalayan Atmoshpere, Gypsy Shoegazer, Fluffing a Duck, Myst, composed and performed by Kevin MacLeod and available at incompetech.com
Production Engineer: Mosseveno Tenk
run time: 38:59

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https://archive.org/details/TheNewAcceleratorByH.G.WellsRadioRiel

The Red Haired Girl

Good help is so hard to find, but what do you do when your family is complaining about a maid that you don't remember hiring? Tonight, New Babbage's favorite red, Junie Ginsburg, reads The Red Haired Girl, by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924).

Sabine was an eclectic scholar and folklorist whose best known work is the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers. Oddly, he is also noted for writing The Book of Were-Wolves, the 16 volume The Lives of the Saints, and the popular  Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, which was an overview of medieval superstition.

Join us at noon SLT (California time) at the Gangplank in Clockhaven or at 8pm at the Bucket of Blood Public House in New Babbage, where you can get a nice stiff drink to ward off the chill of the night. Show will be broadcast over Radio Riel Steampunk

download link:  http://archive.org/details/TfNBTheRedHairedGirl

Host: YoYo Underby
Reader: Junie Ginsburg. 
Music: Music for Funeral Homes Part 11, Phantasm, Gagool, Investigations, by Kevin MacLeod
Outro: Bookworm Heinrichs
Music: New Babbage Shore by MacKnight Culdesac.
Production: Mosseveno Tenk
additional material written by Kris Law and Mosseveno Tenk
Runtime: 35:00

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

Christmas 2012 - Dreadful Little Men

Imps. Gnomes. Elves. Call them what you will, there is something sinister hiding behind those pointy boots and jingle bells. For those of us that have had actual dealings with the wee, we know the truth. For our audio yuletide greeting this year, we present three tales of Christmas, each with a dreadful little man.

Vic Mornington reads Charles Dicken's other Christmas redemption tale, The Goblins that Stole a Sexton, which originally appeared in 1863 as part of The Pickwick Papers.

Junie Ginsburg reads A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral, by Thomas Baily Aldrich, which first appeared in volume 43, issue 2 of The Century in 1891.

Emperor Ezra Crumb II reads 'Twas a Night Before a New Babbage Christmas, adapted from the Clement Clarke Moore poem by Salazar Jack, from Tales of New Babbage, Vol. 1, which was published last year at this time.

Deck the Halls, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Greensleeves, Edelweiss, We Three Kings, and We Wish you a Merry Christmas, and Silver Bells were arranged and performed by Canolli Capalini, some of which are available at Capalini Fine Furnishings in Babbage Canals.

Mysterioso March, The Path of the Goblin King, Moonlight Hall, Pop Goes the Weasel, Hidden Agenda, Wizardtorium, and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear written and performed by Kevin Macleod, and are available at his website at incompetech.com.

Additional material written by Kris Law and Mosseveno Tenk.

runtime 47:19

download link:   
http://archive.org/details/TheRadioRielPlayersPresentTalesFromNewBabbageChristmas2012

Listening party at the Tinker Camp outside the city gate tonight, 5 pm SLT (San Francisco Time).  Stream will be broadcast on Radio Riel Steampunk. 
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We currently have a Kickstarter campaign to get Volume 2 of Tales of New Babbage, an anthology of original stories based out of our steampunk city, to press. The more we finish with, the more we print. Please help!

Christmas Broadcast from New Babbage

Yes, Steampunks, there will be a Christmas broadcast tomorrow, December 24th. The cylinders have been graven and copied and set by special messenger to Radio Riel. Join us live in world at the tinker camp outside the city gate for a story and a cup of cheer. The sofas have been carted out, the 'nog is aged and spiced, and a bonfire piled high. See you there tomorrow.

To get to New Babbage, register for a free account in Second Life. Once your avatar rezzes, open the map and search for Babbage Palisade, and join us at the bonfire.

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