Gallery of Curiosities

A cautionary tale of a boy and his scheming cat. Sarah "Bookworm" Hiener narrates. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Full show notes at GalleryCurious.com

First show of the new format. Osgoode welcomes you to the gallery and presents two new stories for Valentine's Day.
Love is a Masterpiece by Chris Kelworth read by Garnet Psaltery.
This Peculiar Way of Hers by Joel Arnold ready by Travis I. Sivart.
Theme music by Deus ex Vapore Machina. 

 
“Are you a member?”
We return to Brunel Hall to hear Mr. Victor Mornington, the steamlands’ most famous hotelier, read The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost by H.G. Wells. Grab a drink, turn down the lights, and get comfortable, because story night is Serious Business in New Babbage.
 
First publication: The Strand Magazine, March 1902
 
Reader: Mr. Victor Mornington (Vic Mullin)
Intro/Outro: Miss Garnet Psaltery
 
Music:
Dark and Stormy Night written and performed by MacKnight Culdesac
Tranquility, Reawakening, Clean Soul written and performed by Kevin MacLeod.
Additional music provided by MusOpen.org

A tale that HP Lovecraft said "approaches the absolute culmination of loathsome fright.” Junie Ginsburg reads. #Vintage Horror
 
Arthur 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 & Mr MacKnight Culdesac
 
Outro: Miss Penny Dreadful
 
Music: Earth Prelude, Decline, Ghostcalypse 3, Martian Cowboy, The Dread, Bent and Broken, and Arcane, by  Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)

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? Junie Ginsburg reads. #VintageHorror #Ghosts
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) 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.
 
Host: YoYo UnderbyReader: Junie GinsburgMusic: Music for Funeral Homes Part 11, Phantasm, Gagool, Investigations, by Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com) Outro: Bookworm HeinrichsMusic: New Babbage Shore by MacKnight Culdesac
Production: Mosseveno Tenk

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. 
 Host: Vic Mullin Narrator: Byron Music: Valentine Wolfe

Ghosts, revenge, skeletons in the closet? Is it October yet? Tonight, our favorite lowlander, Victor Mornington (Vic Mullin), reads "A Man of Science" by Jerome K. Jerome. First published in The Idler, an illustrated monthly of literature and humor, in September of 1892. Keep the brandy carafe near, you might need just a nip before this one is over.
music:
A Turn for the Worse Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Lightless Dawn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Consequence Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Lightly Go Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Vic Mullin 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.
First published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, October 1828.
Music: End of the Era, Lamentation, Lasting Hope, Long Road Ahead, Ghost Processional, Private Reflection, Relent, Unpromised,Virtutes Instrumenti, Virtutes Vocis, by Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com)