Gallery of Curiosities

 
A commander of an occult objects retrieval unit recalls a lost love while patrolling the Mediterranean during World War II. #AltHistory #Fantasy  
 
Author Mark Orr lives in Middle Tennessee with his wife of forty years, a couple of cats, a history degree and way too many books. On his best days, he gets to play with his grandchildren - currently four, with a fifth expected by the end of 2021. His hard-boiled supernatural mystery novels, Smarter Than the Average Werewolf and Dead Women in Love, are both available from Dark Recesses Press and through Amazon. He has recently returned to writing short stories, a form in which he had a small degree of success during the first decade or so of the current millennium. He is also scribing a bi-weekly column for HorrorAddicts.net under the moniker Historian of Horror.
 
Narrator Jim Hodgson is a humorist from Atlanta, GA. He writes, produces, and acts in Bad Gladiator, a full-cast audio comedy set in ancient Rome.
 
Leopold: Micheal Allen Rose
 
Opening music:Circus Clowns Lighter Edit by Zev Weinstein (Pond5.com)
Dark Secrets (DECISION) by Sascha Ende®Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/246-dark-secrets-decision-License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Cinematic Suspense Series Episode 006 by Sascha Ende®Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6308-cinematic-suspense-series-episode-006License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
DeepWoods by Lilo SoundLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6005-deepwoodsLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Artemis by Sascha Ende®Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6934-artemisLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Voice In The Night by Rafael KruxLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5608-voice-in-the-night-License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Melodic Interlude Two by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6394-melodic-interlude-twoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Outro music:HauntedSqueezeBox by Lilo SoundLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5552-hauntedsqueezeboxLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
 

A bit of monkpunk to mark the passing of the solstice. Andrew McCurdy and Lou J. Berger read.
Author Dawn Lloyd is an American who got bored and set out across the world looking for adventure. Nineteen years, four continents and six countries later, she has returned to settle into the Alaskan bush. She is the Editor in Chief of The Colored Lens speculative magazine. More information about her adventures can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/dawnlloydwriter/home .
Narrator Lou J. Berger is a Denver-based fiction author, with about two dozen published short stories, a couple novelettes, and a novella (which was work for hire and probably doesn’t count). He’s been published in Galaxy’s Edge Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and a host of anthologies. In 2017, he was a Finalist for Writers of the Future.
Narrator Andrew McCurdy is a writer and editor whose day job as a Speech-Language Pathologist involves providing nonverbal children with access to technology to help them communicate. He lives in rural Nova Scotia with a thirteen year old girl, two freakishly old cats, and an assortment of feral creatures who have assumed ownership of the woodshed and only grant him access if he’s carrying food.
Leopold: Micheal Allen Rose
 
 
Music & Soundscape:
 
Circus Clowns Lighter Edit by Zev Weinstein (Pond5.com)
 
Summer Nights by eric5335(Freesound.org)
 
HauntedSqueezeBox by Lilo SoundLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5552-hauntedsqueezeboxLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

It was supposed to be a jolly evening of drinking and parlor games. What could possibly go wrong? Daren Callow narrates. 
 
Author Harris Coverley lives in Manchester, England, where he (mostly) pretends to be busy. He has short fiction published or forthcoming in Planet Scumm, Horror Magazine, Eldritch Journal, and Shotgun Honey, amongst others. He is also a Rhysling-nominated poet with verse in Star*Line, Spectral Realms, Utopia Science Fiction, Jitter, and elsewhere. If he really had his own “Instant” he would have undoubtedly met his doom years ago.
 
Narrator Daren Callow is a writer, voice actor and musician who is based in Hove on the south coast of the United Kingdom, a medium-sized cannon shot from the English Channel. As an actor, as well as (seemingly endless) live performances of Tales Of New Albion stories and plays, Daren has also lent his voice to Brighton Theatre of The Air and 2 Bit Productions audio dramas, he also finds time to record his own steampunk podcast (also entitled Tales Of New Albion) featuring original comedy material voiced by a cast of thousands (approx.) and readings of his sci-fi stories.
 
Cousin Leopold: Michael Allen Rose
Music:
Theme Song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina used by permission
Circus Clowns Lighter Edit by Zev Weinstein (Pond5.com)
Cinematic Suspense Series Episode 002 by Sascha Ende®Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5789-cinematic-suspense-series-episode-002License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Lurking Sloth by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4785-lurking-slothLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Zum Kampf Bereit (Romeos Erbe) by Sascha Ende®Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4659-zum-kampf-bereit-romeos-erbe-License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Summer In Love by Frank SchröterLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/7872-summer-in-loveLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Long Note Two Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Sad Dramatic March by MusicLFilesLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6240-sad-dramatic-marchLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Outro:HauntedSqueezeBox by Lilo SoundLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5552-hauntedsqueezeboxLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

We finally made 100! To celebrate, we're going all the way back to the first story we aired, the original air kraken story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sound quality is not quite up to the current quality as the original 2010 master file for the story was not in a recoverable condition. 
Music:
Tick Tock Tick Tock Quarantine Time by WinnieTheMoog
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6145-tick-tock-tick-tock-quarantine-time
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
 
Faster Does It by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3741-faster-does-it
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Considering everything else that has happened this year, how would you react to a ghost in your home? Sarah Golding performs. #ghosts #1920s 
 
Author Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. She’s known for her Pushcart-nominated poetry, short stories, and novels. Her work has appeared in F&SF and Asimov’s among other venues. For more about her work, please see edda-earth.com/bibliography.
Narrator Sarah Golding has created a huge range of character types for indie audio drama, and been in such wonderous podcasts as Amelia Project, Edict Zero and Hostile Worlds. She runs script writing competitions with her company, Quirky Voices, producing and performing new writing at podcast events. For more information, visit [email protected]
 
Theme Song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina used by permission
Circus Clowns Lighter Edit by Zev Weinstein (Pond5.com)
Long Note Two by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
A Singular Perversion by Kevin Macleod(incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
 
Take care of each other
 
 

 
It's crime time! Daren Callow narrates the woes of a London pickpocket who picked the wrong pigeon.
 
Author M. A. Smith writes from Gloucestershire, UK, where she lives with her family.  Her fiction has appeared in magazines including Mythic, Gathering Storm and Dark Moon Digest,and her novella Severance was published by Fantasia Divinity.  Find out more at masmithwriting.com.
 
Narrator Daren Callow is a writer, voice actor and musician who is based in Hove on the south coast of the United Kingdom, a medium-sized cannon shot from the English Channel. As an actor, as well as (seemingly endless) live performances of Tales Of New Albion stories and plays, Daren has also lent his voice to Brighton Theatre of The Air and 2 Bit Productions audio dramas, he also finds time to record his own steampunk podcast (also entitled Tales Of New Albion) featuring original comedy material voiced by a cast of thousands (approx.) and readings of his sci-fi stories.
music:
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina, used by permission
Tick Tock Tick Tock Quarantine Time by WinnieTheMoogLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6145-tick-tock-tick-tock-quarantine-timeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Bass Walker by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3423-bass-walkerLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Covert Affair by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3558-covert-affairLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Hard Boiled Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
 
 

Sending a woman to war is most unconventional. Sending a hedgewitch, even more so. Jasmine Arch narrates.
Author A.J. Brennan is a Washington, D.C.-based speculative fiction writer and National Novel Writing Month obsessive. Her work has appeared in The Arcanist, Wizards in Space and Translunar Travelers Lounge. She can be found on Twitter @ajbwrites.
Jasmine Arch is a narrator, writer, and poet whose brain thrives on chaos and caffeine. She lives in a rural corner of Belgium with four dogs, two elderly horses and a husband who knows better than to distract her when she's writing. Find out more about her and her work at JasmineArch.com.
 
Music:
Theme Song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina, used by permission
Circus Clowns Lighter Edit by Zev Weinstein (Pond5.com)
Trio for Piano, Cello, and Clarinet Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Lost Frontier Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Cinematic Suspense Series Episode 002 by Sascha EndeLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5789-cinematic-suspense-series-episode-002License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Meine Oma Fährt Im Hühnerstall Motorrad by Sascha EndeLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6177-meine-oma-fahrt-im-huhnerstall-motorrad-orchestral-versionLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Ghost Dance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
 

Two misfit kids explore a mysterious market. Nat Titman narrates
 
 
Author Shaun van Rensburg is currently studying creative writing at the University of South Africa. He has a strong interest in the fantastic and feels that monsters are usually misunderstood.
 
Narrator Nat Titman is an amateur illustrator, singer, songwriter, storyteller, lapsed podcaster, occasional public speaker and full-time IT professional based in Nottingham UK. Their band's debut album Going through Changes is an eclectic mix of folk and synthpop, inspired by life’s struggles and the fantasy fiction that gets us through them. Find Nat on Twitter at @quarridors or find their creative works at quarridors.com
 
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina, used by permission
Waterkeep Night, Desert Bazaar, March of the Faithful by Tabletop Sound
Martini with Dean by Matthew Creid/(Pond5.com)
 

We're all going to want a There-It-Is store when it's time to go back to work. Tabatha Wood narrates.
Author Adam Gaylord lives with his beautiful wife and kids in Colorado. When not at work as an ecologist, he’s usually writing, cooking, drinking craft beer, drawing comics, or some combination thereof. Look him up on GoodReads or find him on Twitter @AuthorGaylord.
Narrator Tabatha Wood is a former English teacher and library manager, living in Wellington. She writes weird, dark fiction and uplifting poetry.  Despite her obsession with the strange and unusual, she considers herself mostly harmless, although she does take great delight in shocking people with her stories every chance she gets.
Cover art by Martini Discovolante.
Music:
Martini with Dean by Matthew Creid (pond5.com)
Streetlight on a Dark Road by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
String Impromptu Number 1 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

You may be shut in, but you can still dance! Wilson Fowlie narrates a diesel-era delight.
Author Holly Schofield travels through time at the rate of one second per second, oscillating between the alternate realities of city and country life. Her short stories have appeared in Analog, Lightspeed, Tesseracts, and many other publications throughout the world. She hopes to save the world through science fiction and homegrown heritage tomatoes. Find her at hollyschofield.wordpress.com.
Narrator Wilson Fowlie has been reading stories out loud since the age of 4, and credits his parents for any talent he has for it. He's been narrating for podcasts since he answered a call for readers for PodCastle in 2008.
He’s narrated dozens of stories for many podcasts, including all of the Escape Artists shows. Wilson fits all this narrating between his day job as a web developer in Vancouver, Canada, and directing a community show chorus called The Maple Leaf Singers. https://www.mapleleafsingers.com/
 
Music:
Boogie Woogie Rhythm and Blues by AndyL/Pond5
Incidental Background Music for Bohemian Tea Rooms, Greatest Jazz by BackgroundMusicMaster/Pond5