It's time for another Storytime Edition! That's right! One of my audiobook-style readings of various types of public domain stories. For today’s Storytime, I’ve chosen William Hope Hodgson’s “The Voice in the Night.” William Hope Hodgson was a British writer with a penchant for the macabre. He spent a lot of his young life on […]

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Happy Holidays, everyone! As a holiday present to all of you, I decided to bust out another Storytime Edition of the Horrible Imaginings Podcast. And what says "merry" better than manic visions of an invisible and highly-evolved starman sent to enslave our will and replace the human race? Well, this is a horror podcast, after […]

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Ah, Storytime Edition, it’s been too long! I took a trip to Dublin last month, where I saw some relevant Bram Stoker sites: I have been in the mood for bringing some of his work to the Monster Island Resort. What could be better than the creep short story DRACULA’S GUEST? I am happy to

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It is February, which brings with it Women in Horror Recognition Month! I am going to do a few episodes during the month of February to honor this growing tradition. To kick things off, I’d decided to go back before the advent of film to the world of literature. One of the pioneers of the

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A storytime to get us into the Halloween spirit! What could bring life to the holiday more than the Headless Horseman? Why waste more words? On to the story! Listen to the Episode here:

Hello everyone, Time for another Storytime edition! This will be the first part of three. Three Ghost Stories, that is. The first of Charles Dickens’s famous triptych of ghost stories is The Signal Man. Monster Island Resort Storytime is especially suited to ghost stories like this one. I hope you are in a dark room,

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Hello everyone! I have another bonus MIR Storytime Edition for all of you. Last week Monday, I had the opportunity to read Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat during a new film series I’m co-presenting at Whistle Stop Bar, along with Beth Accomando of Cinema Junkie and Ian Forbes of The Sobering Conclusion called Shot

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Hello everyone. Now that my MIR Storytime featuring Herbert West: Re-Animator has come to a conclusion, I have gotten some feedback requesting the entire story in a single audio file. I decided to indulge those requests and edited Storytime Episodes 6-11 together for this Bonus Episode. Because they were originally separate, you may experience some

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Hello nocturnals! Today—March 15th–is the 74th anniversary of the death of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. To mark the anniversary of the day Lovecraft departed our dimension, I’ve decided to dedicate episode 5 of Monster Island Resort Storytime to the classic weird tale Nyarlathotep. It will also be the opening of a 6-part block of HP Lovecraft

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Yes, folks, it’s time for another edition of Monster Island Resort: Storytime, with a special twist! Today’s story is read by none other than Brian Solomon of the mighty Vault of Horror Blog!   He has dropped by the Monster Island Resortand brought the Edgar Allan Poe story “Ligeia” with him! Sit back, relax, and

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Hello to all of my terrorific listeners! This is the second offering I have of what I am calling Monster Island Resort Storytime! It is an off-shoot of my regular show, and not what I am calling episode 17. Rather, it is episode 2 of MIR Storytime, because I am considering HP Lovecraft’s “The Outsider,”

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This is not an episode, but it is embarrassing and pretty old! I'm posting it...