Showing posts with label gothic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gothic. Show all posts

Tuesday June 23rd 7:00pm PT: Haunting Echoes of Manderley

 


Haunting Echoes of Manderley

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.


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Step into the shadows of Manderley in “Haunting Echoes of Manderley”, a taut, breathless audio-Gothic reading from Daphne du Maurier's masterpiece, ‘Rebecca’. When a young, inexperienced bride marries the enigmatic Maxim de Winter, she believes she has found her happily-ever-after. But upon arriving at his isolated coastal estate, she is plunged into a chilling nightmare. Hunted by the suffocating memory of Maxim's first wife, Rebecca, and tormented by the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, the new Mrs. de Winter must fight to survive a labyrinth of psychological dread. Stripped to its pounding, relentless heart, this immersive reading accelerates the suspense to a fiery, unforgettable climax.



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*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:
Isolation, Liminality, Psychological Dread


*Notes re: Read-a-Long & Thematic Elements
We ourselves do not provide or post text for non-Public Domain stories or books, on this blog, on our websites, YouTube channels, or other repository, except when given explicit permission from the rights holder. Read-a-Long links on this page are publicly available on the internet. Typically this information be found by a simple Google search for the title of the story. This text is in no way hosted by Storylink Radio or Seanchai Library. Please note that your storyteller may adapt the story for the intended audience, time allotted, dramatic purposes, etc. Efforts are made to remove or adapt instances of foul language from these stories before presenting. However, you may encounter such language as well as potentially disturbing thematic elements in the original text of the story if you choose to follow along with the read-a-long links. Any thematic elements in tonight's telling that we believe some audience members may find concerning are noted above under "Thematic Elements". It is our hope that audience members will find such elements to be neither extreme nor gratuitous, but rather enhancing to the story overall. We do understand that people's views and values may vary, and so while it is not our intent to provide an exhaustive nor industry compliant list of Thematic Elements of this story, we are attempting to provide a guide that we hope you may find useful if you have such concerns.

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THURSDAY October 10th at 7pm: A STRANGE UNCERTAIN LIGHT

 

"Chime folk are rare, but she's a Belfast Girl"
A STRANGE UNCERTAIN LIGHT
A Gothic Folklore Tale by G.V. Anderson
- followed at 9pm by THE RAFT -

Based on the concept of ‘chime children’ from British folklore, this Gothic horror takes place on an aging country estate with shades of Rebecca. Two women’s lives, a century apart, intertwine on these Yorkshire moors. One is Anne, who elopes with a man she barely knows in 1938, and the other is Mary, who’s looking for her lost childhood friend in the 1830s. 

Respectable people, in her experience, recoiled from lunacy.

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From: Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine - July/August 2019
Author: G.V. Anderson

*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:
drug & alcohol use, mental health, archaic asylum, slavery

*Notes re: Read-a-Long & Thematic Elements
We ourselves do not provide or post text for non-Public Domain stories or books, on this blog, on our websites, YouTube channels, or other repository, except when given explicit permission from the rights holder. The Read-a-Long link on this page is publicly available on the internet. Typically this information be found by a simple Google search for the title of the story. This text is in no way hosted by Storylink Radio or Seanchai Library. Please note that your storyteller may adapt the story for the intended audience, time allotted, dramatic purposes, etc. Efforts are made to remove or adapt instances of foul language from these stories before presenting, certainly no "F-bombs" will be present. However, you may encounter such language as well as potentially disturbing thematic elements in the original text of the story if you choose to follow along with the read-a-long links. Any thematic elements in tonight's telling that we believe some audience members could find objectionable are noted above under "Thematic Elements". It is our hope that audience members will find such elements to be neither extreme nor gratuitous, but rather enhancing to the story overall. We do understand that people's views and values may vary, and so while it is not our intent to provide an exhaustive nor industry compliant list of Thematic Elements of this story, we are attempting to provide a guide that we hope you may find useful if you have such concerns.




THURSDAY April 30th at 7pm: HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN!!!! - Stories from the Gothic South

"Stories from the Gothic South"
STONE ANGELS
Southern Gothic – Atmospheric, dark, and intimate. The mansions are grey, the manners are impeccable. Stone Angels follows the story of a single mother as she enters the world of illusion, death, and the struggle to live, that exemplifies the dark, strange contradictory nature of the South.

Join us in Second Life
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/213/43/27

and Kitely
grid.kitely.com:8002:Seanchai   or   http://bit.ly/SeanchaiKitely

Book: DEAD ENDS - Stories From The Gothic South
Author: Laura Benedict



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THURSDAY October 6th at 7pm: DRACULA!


THE 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker
DRACULA

The story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Blood, Sex, Love, Shapeshifters, Lust, Horror, Death, it's got it all!

Join us in Second Life, Kitely, or Inworldz... if you dare!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28
http://www.kitely.com/search?q=seanchai
https://inworldz/region/Delphi/146/47/36

THURSDAY OCTOBER 22nd at 7pm & 9pm: THE VAMPYRE & THE GRAVEYARD BOOK


THE VAMPYRE
Their skin deathly pale, their nails curved like claws, their fangs sharpened for the attack, they are gathered fior the kill, and for the chill, tonight at The Seanchai Library.

Tonights story 'The Vampyre' written in 1816 by John Polidori is the proto-vampire story that formed the structure for all following vampire stories including Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' and Stoker's 'Dracula'. Pre-dating even Joss Whedon's seminal work.

Author: John Polidori
Book: The Vampyre
ISBNs: 978-0852632444
story available in text at: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/96/the-vampyre/1648/extract-of-a-letter-from-geneva/


PRESENTED IN LIVE VOICE at SEANCHAI LIBRARY
in SECOND LIFE, in KITELY and in INWORLDZ
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradley%20University/101/208/28
http://www.kitely.com/search?q=seanchai
https://inworldz/region/Sendalonde/217/144/28


AND AT 9:00 Caledonia represents Seanchai Library at:
LATE NIGHT SPECIAL: Caledonia at the SL Goth's "Bats & Avies" Festival with a selection from Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book", live in voice.  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Snow%20Crash/52/54/22




THURSDAY, October 9th at 7pm: GOTHIC GHOST STORIES



GOTHic GHOST STORIES
Tales of Intrigue & Fantasy from Beyond the Grave
Obsessed with beauty and death, gothic stories are known for their dark, theatrical blurring of reality and fantasy.

Tonight: Girl In The Water
She is a helpless pawn in a game she can not control.

Author: A.S. Mott
ISBN: 978-1894877398


PRESENTED IN LIVE VOICE



AND DON'T FORGET!  at 9pm SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT . . . Tales in the dark to lull you to your rest, or to start your day.  Join Caledonia!