An exclusive for will-self.com. Listen to Will Self reading The Minor Character, an unpublished short story, which was part of his collection of short stories, The Undivided Self.
Self recorded The Minor Character while he was narrating an unabridged audio version of Liver.
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From the short story collection With A Little Help.
A live show recorded at Penguicon 6.0 on April 20th, 2008. The Time Traveler interviews Vernor Vinge and Vernor reads his short story, "A Dry Martini".
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Special Arthur C. Clarke tribute show. The centerpiece is the short story "The Hammer of God" by Clarke. It’s read by Golden Voice awarded narrator Scott Brick with Gabrielle de Cuir. Plus Arthur C. Clarke speech at the 1965 Hugo ceremony. Also commentary by Vernor Vinge, Scott Brick and Stefan Rudnicki.
An early short story by legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick. (http://2xrainbow.com/audiotome/category/podcast)
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A traveler to a penal colony witnesses the horrific punishment inflicted upon those who break even the smallest of laws. But when a new leader rises to power, will the merciless be treated with mercy?
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Performed December 19th, 2008 at The Lab Theater in Minneapolis as part of In The Loop’s holiday storytelling special, Festive Indigestion.
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator’s guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man’s heart is still beating under the floorboards.
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published September 1839 in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine. It was slightly revised in 1840 for the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.
"The Fall of the House of Usher" was adapted for Escape by Les Crutchfield and produced/directed by William N. Robson. Paul Frees played the narrator and Ramsay Hill played Roderick Usher. This episode aired on October 22, 1947.
“The Cask of Amontillado” (sometimes spelled “The Casque of Amontillado”) is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book.
“The Cask of Amontillado” — January 19, 1953 — a radio show broadcast on The Hall of Fantasy show, introduced as “dedicated to the supernatural, the unusual and the unknown.” As was often the case with dramatic presentations of Poe’s works, the story has been modified. Performers include Carl Dreyson, Richard Thorne, and Eloise Kummer. This show as rebroadcast on January 4, 1954.
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