COMPLETE Ghost and Horror Story Collection Vol. 057 - rap

[Rapunzelina]

Hi Andy! That's amazing! Thank you for your recording!

I only have a request about pauses if you are available to edit:
one is at the very beginning of the recording, please shorten it to 1 second of silence,
then the gap between the end of the story and the phrase "The end of ..." felt a bit long, I would shorten to about 2-3 seconds.

[Grothmann]

Good Morning:

The Living Nightmare
By Anton M. Oliver
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 14:06

Audio at:
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor058_livingnightmare_oliver_dg_128kb.mp3

Text at:
https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV01n02192304/page/n37/mode/2up

A good, creepy story
Enjoy
Dale

[Rapunzelina]

Yes, this is indeed a nice creepy story!

PL OK! Thank you, Dale!

[Ansam]

Hi Rapunzelina, I have re-edited "The Deferred Appointment" to shorten some of the spaces. Thank you for your vigilance, I also noticed I had misspelled ‘Deferred’ as ‘Defered’, also corrected.

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor057_deferredapointment_blackwood_as_128kb.mp3
Source:
http://algernonblackwood.org/Z-files/Deferred_Appointment.pdf
Time:
16m 34s

[Rapunzelina]

Thank you for the adjustments Andy! PL OK!

[Grothmann]

Good Evening:

The Electric Chair
By George Waight
From Weird Tales, January 1925
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 38:04

Audio at:
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor057_electricchair_waight_dg_128kb.mp3

Text at:
https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV05N01192501/page/n17/mode/2up

Thanks for listening
Dale

[Rapunzelina]

Oh Dale what a story! What would you have chosen? I'd go for better friends probably

An optional edit, around 0:40, "it is true" read as "it is time"

[dg73]

Maybe not a ghost story but spooky!

Skeleton Lake, by Algernon Blackwood
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14471
length 22:38
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor057_skeletonlake_blackwood_dg_128kb.mp3

[Grothmann]

Hi:

Repaired and reloaded. Thanks for catching that.

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor057_electricchair_waight_dg_128kb.mp3

Maybe the moral of this story is; don't marry into a family where the head is a crazy scientist??

Thanks
Dale

[Rapunzelina]

Thank you, Dan and Dale! Both stories PL OK!

[dg73]

Another one, just because it caught my eye. I hope it's ok.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12758
The Torture by Hope by VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM
Length 14:35
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor057_torturebyhope_DE_LISLE_ADAM_dg_128kb.mp3

[dg73]

I found a small mistake and corrected it. Here's the info.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12758
The Torture by Hope by VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM
Length 14:36
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor057_torturebyhope_DE_LISLE_ADAM_dg_128kb.mp3

[Grothmann]

Good Evening

The Plant-Thing
By R. G. Macready
From Weird Tales Magazine, July 1925
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 17:27

Audio at
https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/ghohor057_plantthing_macready_dg_128kb.mp3

Text at
https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV06N01192507/page/n67/mode/2up

I kept waiting for the plant to say, "Feed me Seymour," but this was written 50 years to early.

Thanks
Dale

[dg73]

A more general question,
I see a number of folks pulling stories from weird tales from archive.org. How can we be reasonably sure that they are PD? What is the cutoff date?
What would be best way to check them?
Thanks.

[Rapunzelina]

Currently the cutoff year is 1925. From 1.1.2022 it will be 1926, so we'll be able to record anything published in 1926 and earlier.
You can use most scans from archive.org that show publication date on one of the first pages. For Weird Tales, it would show on the cover.