The Best Halloween Poems–Episode 3: “The Haunted Oak” By Paul Laurence Dunbar
And never more shall leaves come forth
On the bough that bears the ban;
I am burned with dread, I am dried and dead,
From the curse of a guiltless man.
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The Best Halloween Poems–Episode 2: “Ghost House” By Robert Frost
I dwell with a strangely aching heart
In that vanished abode there far apart
On that disused and forgotten road
That has no dust-bath now for the toad.
Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart;
The Best Halloween Poems–Episode 1: “Haunted” By Siegfried Sassoon
An evil creature in the twilight looping,
Flapped blindly in his face. Beating it off,
He screeched in terror, and straightway something clambered
Heavily from an oak, and dropped, bent double,
To shamble at him zigzag, squat and bestial.
“Blood & Dust” By Jeffrey LeBlanc (Narrated By Author)
The Pirate slaughtered the captain’s maid;
(Antoine Valterre became the Devil’s king.)
And her broken heart rotted holding the blade.
(A vampire’s thirst is a deadly thing.)–JL
“The Spider” By Julian Machen (Narrated By Jeffrey LeBlanc)
And when thy heart drummed its horrid beat, dreadful the writhing of its legs and
the gnashing of its teeth?-JM
Robert E. Howard’s “Rattle the Bones”—A Solomon Kane Tale: Episode 1 (Narrated By Jeffrey LeBlanc)
“Great God!” he muttered as cold sweat formed on his body. “This thing is beyond all reason, yet with mine own eyes I see it! Two vows have here been kept…”–Robert E Howard
Robert Bloch’s “The Shambler From the Stars” (Narrated By Jeffrey LeBlanc)
“In literature I have walked the midnight paths with Poe or crept amidst the shadows with
Machen; combed the realms of horrific stars with Baudelaire, or steeped myself with earth’s inner madness amidst the tales of ancient lore.” –Robert Bloch (The Shambler From the Stars)
“Where the Wolf Dwells” Weekly episodes now on Kindle Vella!!!
“The sun had set Blood Mountain ablaze with evening light. Long shadows stretched across the landscape of the forest. Ancient and mysterious was this mountain in the twilight. Dwindling shimmers of light illuminated briefly a rugged path that winded further and further up into the vastness of hardwoods and hemlock. Oh, how I shivered and glanced uneasily over my shoulder. Growing fear knocked at my chamber door in the growing quiet of this place. Miles behind me lay the nearest ranger’s outpost—thousands of miles ahead of me lay the expanse of the Appalachian Trail.”–Jeffrey LeBlanc
The Best Werewolf Stories-Episode 2: Ralph Allen Lang’s “The Silver Knife”
A shivery tale of WOLF DAHLGREN and his gruesome adventure with a great WOLF that trailed him through the arctic wastes!-WT
The Best Werewolf Stories–Episode 1: Robert E. Howard’s “In the Forest of Villefere” (Narrated By Jeffrey LeBlanc)
If a WEREWOLF is slain as a MAN, then his half soul will haunt his slayer forever!!–Robert E. Howard (In the Forest of Villefere)
Robert E Howard’s “Infernal Incantations of Solomon Kane” (Narrated by Jeffrey LeBlanc)
He spake in wonder, not in fear:
“How walks a man who died?
“Friend of old times, what do ye here,
“Long fallen at my side?”
“Rise up, rise up,” Sir Richard said,
“The hounds of doom are free;
“The slayers come to take your head
“To hang on the ju-ju tree.
“Swift feet press the jungle mud
“Where the shadows are grim and stark,
“And naked men who pant for blood
“Are racing through the dark.”–Robert E Howard (The Return of Sir Richard Grenville)
“Cool Air” By H. P. Lovecraft (Narrated By Jeffrey LeBlanc)
“You asked me to explain why I am afraid of a draught of cool air; why I shiver more than others upon entering a cold room, and seem nauseated and repelled when the chill of evening creeps through the heat of a mild autumn day. There are those who say I respond to cold as others do to a bad odour, and I am the last to deny the impression. What I will do is to relate the most horrible circumstance I ever encountered, and leave it to you to judge whether or not this forms a suitable explanation of my peculiarity.”–H. P. Lovecraft
“The Survivor” By August Derleth & H. P. Lovecraft (Narrated By Jeffrey LeBlanc)
“The very darkness seemed alive, incredibly remote from the life of Providence which swirled all around it.”–The Survivor
“The Statement of Randolph Carter” By H. P. Lovecraft (Narrated By Jeffrey LeBlanc)
Vision or nightmare it may have been—vision or nightmare I fervently hope it was—yet it is all that my mind retains of what took place in those shocking hours after we left the sight of men. And why Harley Warren did not return, he or his shade—or some nameless thing I cannot describe—alone can tell.–H. P. Lovecraft
“Stragella” By Hugh B. Cave (Narrated By Jeffrey LeBlanc)
Night, black as pitch and filled with the wailing of a dead wind, sank like a shapeless specter into the oily waters of the Indian Ocean, leaving a great gray expanse of sullen sea, empty except for a solitary speck that rose and dropped in the long swell.–“Stragella” Hugh B. Cave
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