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THURSDAY April 17th at 9pm: THE SEALED BOOK

  

"tales of dark deeds strange and terrible beyond all belief"
THE SEALED BOOK

Description:
The sound of the great gong heralds another strange and exciting tale from... The Sealed Book.Tonight the mysteriously keeper of the book has opened the ponderous door to the secret vault wherein is kept the great Sealed Book, in which is recorded all the secrets and mysteries of mankind through the ages... Here are tales of every kind, tales of murder, of madness, of dark deeds strange and terrible beyond all belief.

THE HANDS OF DEATH
A dark story of two brothers, one of them killed because he could not help himself. The other one was interested in murder too… but in a very different way.

THE GHOST MAKERS
The strange story of two scoundrels who would stop at nothing for money.

DEATH AT STORM HOUSE
The strange story of a beautiful woman. Whose jealousy was so great that even the grave could not give her peace.

Based on Radio Plays from the show "The Sealed Book", c. 1945




*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:
supernatural, ghost, mystery, murder


*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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SATURDAY November 2nd at 6pm: MORGAN CAREY AND THE CURSE OF THE CORPSE BRIDE - Dia de los Muertos Myths & Legends

 


“Oh, don’t be such a scaredy-cat”
Morgan Carey
THE CURSE OF THE CORPSE BRIDE
Dia de los Muertos Myths & Legends by Susan Colleen Browne

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Myths and legends...
Halloween is just around the corner, and 5th grader Morgan chooses the coolest costume ever—a dead bride. Preparing for a fun night of trick-or-treating with her best friend Claire, she definitely did not expect a trip to the costume store to set off a series of strange encounters… Like the snarky, mysterious clerk at the store, a very curious bridal veil, and a weird fortune-telling machine that actually works…when it’s not plugged in!

But Halloween quickly takes a spooky turn: a Day of the Dead curse, an old book of magical spells, and a dark and deserted cemetery forces Morgan, with Claire’s help, to confront the powerful magic of Dia de los Muertos...Or is Morgan doomed to be cursed by the Corpse Bride forever? A family-friendly Halloween adventure - humor, drama and just the right touch of scariness!

FOLLOWED BY DDLM DANCE WITH DJ CALEDONIA

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Book: MORGAN CAREY AND THE CURSE OF THE CORPSE BRIDE
Author: Susan Colleen Browne

*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:
halloween, Dia de los Muertos

*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.



SATURDAY October 5th at 12pm: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES - whirlwind edition

 

"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys"
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
A Story of Hypnotic Dark Poetry by Ray Bradbury

This is a special whirlwind presentation of all 54 Chapters of this amazing story squished into 1 hour!

Experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes...and the stuff of nightmares.

The title is reference to a quote spoken by one of the witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

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Book: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Author: Ray Bradbury

THURSDAY January 4th at 7pm: A TWELFTH NIGHT GHOST STORY

   

"A Ghost Hunt on Christmas Eve?"
A TWELFTH NIGHT GHOST STORY
When sensible and level-headed Beatrice Casson decides to spend Christmas in a hotel in the wilds of Scotland it was the “old fashioned Christmas” experience promised in the brochure that was the attraction. – The smell of pine trees, crackling log fires, mulled wine, tangerines, walnuts and frosted forest walks. What she had not noticed in the itinerary was the ghost-hunt planned for Christmas Eve. Bea didn’t believe in ghosts. So who was the pale young girl who visited her room during a power cut on the night she arrived? And how was it that suddenly Bea found herself helping a medium reunite a mother and daughter who had been roaming the hotel searching for each other for hundreds of years?

Author: Dawn Summers Book: Haunted Christmas

Friday Oct. 13th at 7-8:30pm: FRIDAY 13th Special - '1408' by Stephen King

    


FRIDAY 13th Special -
1408
by Stephen King

Mike Enslin, bestselling author of "true" ghost stories, decides to spend the night in New York City's most haunted hotel room.
Made into movie starring John Cusak, Samuel Jackson, Tony Shalhoub

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Thursday Sept. 28th at 7-8:15pm: IN THE PINES

 

IN THE PINES
by Karl Edward Wagner

Pre-figuring the "THE SHINING" this Appalachian ghost/horror story is a stark portrayal of a grieving emotionally-fractured couple facing something horrific in the midst of a desolate pine forest.
Ghost story buffs will note striking similarities to the Shining that was published 3 years later. 

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THURSDAY October 28th at 7pm & 9pm Hallowe'en Stories: 7pm TALES OF THE SLAYER - White Doe on Roanoke Island 1586 and 9pm NIGHT CRIES - RIVALS OF DRACULA

   


"In every generation there is a chosen one…"
TALES OF THE SLAYER
White Doe - Roanoke Island 1586
-- Special 90 minute presentation --

Demons, Spirits, Vampires, oh my!
In the year 1586, John White, Watcher and explore, is sent to the New World with his family to colonize Roanoke Island. He tells his Native American Croatoan ally Manteo that a "gifted hunter of the Night Walkers" will soon be born.

What really happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
This is an amazing atmospheric and historic tale set in the world of The Vampire Slayers.
https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/The_White_Doe

FOLLOWED AT 9pm by:
HORROR AT THE DRIVE-IN: Night Cries / Rivals of Dracula
A 600 year old vampire that goes by the name of Jonathan Harker. Hard-boiled, 
hard-hitting seeker of justice with a soft spot for the dames. He's who Mike Hammer would be... 
If Mike Hammer were a vampire!


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Book: Tales of the Slayer Vol. 1
Story: White Doe
Author: Christie Golden


FRIDAY October 22nd at 7pm: GHOSTBUSTERS!

      


"Who You Gonna Call?"
GHOSTBUSTERS!
conclusion

Caledonia & Shandon Duet Performance

Relive the original Ghostbusters movie in 4-nights with
Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, Dana Barrett, Louis Tully, 
Janine Melnitz, Winston Zeddemore, Gozer, Zuul, and of course Slimer!

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Book & Movie: Ghostbusters
Author: Larry Milne
Adapted by: Shandon Loring


FRIDAY October 15th at 7pm: GHOSTBUSTERS!

      


"Who You Gonna Call?"
GHOSTBUSTERS!
pt 3 of 4

Caledonia & Shandon Duet Performance

Relive the original Ghostbusters movie in 4-nights with
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Janine Melnitz, Winston Zeddemore, Gozer, Zuul, and of course Slimer!

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Book & Movie: Ghostbusters
Author: Larry Milne
Adapted by: Shandon Loring


THURSDAY October 14th at 7pm & 9pm Hallowe'en Stories: 7pm THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF JOHN BUCKLEY and 9pm HORROR AT THE DRIVE IN

  



"War is Hell"
THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF JOHN BUCKLEY
-- Special 80 minute presentation --

When a photographic retoucher is commissioned to fix the abnormalities on a Great War portrait, he finds his own past and that of the subject beginning to connect. Are his personal nightmares returning, or is it something more? A short ghost story in the M.R. James tradition, The Last Photograph of John Buckley is a dark tale of past crimes and unfinished business.

FOLLOWED AT 9pm by:
HORROR AT THE DRIVE-IN
An introverted teen battles a horde of mind-devouring aliens
who have invaded the world through film.

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Book: THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF JOHN BUCKLEY
Author: T. J. Brown


FRIDAY October 8th at 7pm: GHOSTBUSTERS!

      


"Who You Gonna Call?"
GHOSTBUSTERS!
pt 2 of 4

Caledonia & Shandon Duet Performance

Relive the original Ghostbusters movie in 4-nights with
Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, Dana Barrett, Louis Tully, 
Janine Melnitz, Winston Zeddemore, Gozer, Zuul, and of course Slimer!

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Book & Movie: Ghostbusters
Author: Larry Milne
Adapted by: Shandon Loring


THURSDAY October 7th at 7pm: THE PAST

   


"The ghost of a past love"
THE PAST
-- Special 75 minute presentation --

Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist born in 1873, and published many books and stories from 1897 thru 1941. Many of her works involved social commentary, romanticism, and… Ghosts! Tonight's story is all of these.

THE PAST
Mr. Vanderbridge's deceased first wife is keeping him from living in the present. His second wife strives to break the past's hold over him... and her.

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Book: Restless Spirits
Author: Catherine A. Lundie


FRIDAY October 1st at 7pm: GHOSTBUSTERS!

     


"Who You Gonna Call?"
GHOSTBUSTERS!
pt 1 of 4

Caledonia & Shandon Duet Performance

Relive the original Ghostbusters movie in 4-nights with
Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, Dana Barrett, Louis Tully, 
Janine Melnitz, Winston Zeddemore, Gozer, Zuul, and of course Slimer!

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Book & Movie: Ghostbusters
Author: Larry Milne
Adapted by: Shandon Loring


THURSDAY September 30th at 7pm: ABANDONED

  

"I heard the deadbolt click"
ABANDONED
-- Special 90 minute presentation --

Lisa has nowhere to go. She’s been kicked out of her apartment in Queens by her worthless boyfriend and has no other friends in the city. A co-worker tells her about a house on Staten Island where she can live in rent-free, but Lisa comes to realize the price that comes with living in an abandoned house.

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Novella: Abandoned
Author: Carol McMahon


THURSDAY October 17th at 7pm: THE SEALED BOOK

"tales of dark deeds strange and terrible beyond all belief"
THE SEALED BOOK

Description:The sound of the great gong heralds another strange and exciting tale from... The Sealed Book.Tonight the mysteriously keeper of the book has opened the ponderous door to the secret vault wherein is kept the great Sealed Book, in which is recorded all the secrets and mysteries of mankind through the ages... Here are tales of every kind, tales of murder, of madness, of dark deeds strange and terrible beyond all belief.

THE HANDS OF DEATH A dark story of two brothers, one of them killed because he could not help himself. The other one was interested in murder too… but in a very different way. THE GHOST MAKERS The strange story of two scoundrels who would stop at nothing for money. DEATH AT STORM HOUSE The strange story of a beautiful woman. Whose jealousy was so great that even the grave could not give her peace. Based on Radio Plays from the show "The Sealed Book", c. 1945

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THURSDAY December 27th at 7pm: HAUNTED CHRISTMAS

"A Ghost Hunt on Christmas Eve?"
HAUNTED CHRISTMAS
When sensible and level-headed Beatrice Casson decides to spend Christmas in a hotel in the wilds of Scotland it was the “old fashioned Christmas” experience promised in the brochure that was the attraction. – The smell of pine trees, crackling log fires, mulled wine, tangerines, walnuts and frosted forest walks. What she had not noticed in the itinerary was the ghost-hunt planned for Christmas Eve. Bea didn’t believe in ghosts. So who was the pale young girl who visited her room during a power cut on the night she arrived? And how was it that suddenly Bea found herself helping a medium reunite a mother and daughter who had been roaming the hotel searching for each other for hundreds of years?

Author: Dawn Summers Book: Haunted Christmas


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THURSDAY November 1st at 7pm: THE UPPER BERTH

THE UPPER BERTH
"something ghostly moved in my grip"

“I remember that the sensation as I put my hands forward was as though I were plunging them into the air of a damp cellar, and from behind the curtains came a gust of wind that smelled horribly of stagnant sea-water. I laid hold of something that had the shape of a man’s arm, but was smooth, and wet, and icy cold.”

Book: Various Author: F. Marion Crawford

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THURSDAY October 4th at 7pm: WAKE NOT THE DEAD!

"literature's FIRST vampire story"
 WAKE NOT THE DEAD

"Wilt thou for ever sleep?

Wilt thou never more awake, my beloved? O yet once again return!"

Love eternal? Perhaps, yet once more do I warn thee, 'Wake not the dead'.

This is literature's first vampire story!
And a female vampire at that!
Written in German in 1797. by Ludwig Tieck

Book: Various Author: Ludwig Tieck


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THURSDAY February 15th at 7pm: FROM THE SHADOWS - Phantom Lovers

"Bare footsteps in the dust"
PHANTOM LOVERS
A German officer loses his mind after an intimate romantic encounter
with the ghost of woman murdered many years before in the war.

A woman fed up with her husband's ghostly lover, gets one of her own!

Book: The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories Editor: Peter Haining


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THURSDAY October 5th at 7pm: FROM THE SHADOWS

TONIGHT
"Mrs. Clendon's Place"  and  "The Haunting"
FROM THE SHADOWS
Being down on your luck is often portrayed in film and story as a somewhat romantic condition. Without ties one can become a wanderer, an observer, a minister without portfolio to what the world is "really" like. What the world is really like, however, is almost always much different than we ever imagined.

Book: From The Shadows #7 Author: Charles L. Grant

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