WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 24, 2022

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 8:06pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm Charles: Turn off the lights, light up the candles
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Settle in. This first section is about 34 minutes long.
	♥ 9:02pm HyperDose: LOVE the vampire voice. Good Hello again, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Charles and HyperDose! This should be a good one.
	9:02pm Count Fabula: Greetings, mortals!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Mr. Fab!
	9:03pm Charles: With each october night, the announcer count grows stronger
	♥ 9:04pm HyperDose: Gotta put the cat to bed first. She's only 5. Don't want her to get scared 😋
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: "The Call of Cthulhu" was written in the summer of 1926, and was published in "Weird Tales" in February, 1928. "The Tale Master" has opted to record this audio as if it was being produced as an "audiobook" from the late 20's / early 30's, essentially: an LP, with a lot of surface noise, and production qualities that sound very of the era.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: While the voice is a little more clear than a lot of radio from the late 20's / early 30's, the production quality of this recording is pretty authentic.
	9:07pm Charles: The surface noise fits nicely here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: If you like Horror, and someone reading it to you, then I do recommend this YouTube Channel. While the "vintage" stories are not all produced with this level of care, he's still got a good voice for this kind of stuff, and there's a lot of good stories, new and old, which make for good October listening.
	9:10pm Charles: What's your favorite horror stories Austin?
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: Hmmmm. Good question. I do enjoy Lovecraft, but I'm not as much of a nerd like a lot of people I know, and so I can only make a general recommendation.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: I think I spent the most time reading Stephen King growing up. Not precisely short stories, but a lot of his stuff is very creepy, and a lot of it still works, years later.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Ambrose Bierce is a fave of mine, and I've even recorded some of his stories for a spoken word Halloween album I released a while ago. But certainly, more than what I read is worth checking out. Bierce is old fashioned, but wonderfully creepy.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Poe holds up, certainly. Frankenstein is a marvelous novel. Dracula is okay, but is a bit hokey at times. (The movies do the story better.)
	9:14pm Charles: Misery left a mark, haven't read it in decades but I still remember some moments well.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: Radio: Quiet Please, hands down, is the best horror radio show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: Misery caused me to flinch a few times. Yikes!
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: I would say that I tend to enjoy more eerie and creepy horror, where most of the gore and violence is off-page, or off-screen. I'm a fan of the Universal pictures, and all the Shock Theater movies. Though I do have a soft spot for Evil Dead.
	9:20pm Charles: hehe
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: A lot of tropes and ideas that wind up on Dimestore Radio Theater shows originated in pulpy weird fiction like that of Lovecraft.
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: I find the music production on this to be really good, for a YouTube "audio book reader." There's a whole genre of YouTube channels, where people are reading books and stories and novels for their fans. Some I've heard are not good. So the production on this one was really surprising, in that it was so good.
	9:55pm Mr Fab: In fact there was a whole pulp magazine called “Weird Tales”! As I’m sure you all know. We could used more actual weird fiction nowadays instead the same ol slasher and/or zombie predictability.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: I agree! My boss has a lot of old issues of "Weird Tales" lying around, and reading them is very cool. So different than stuff I grew up reading.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: I forgot that Clark Ashton Smith gets a shout out in this story.
	10:23pm Mr Fab: I just found an old Arkham House book in a give-away pile of Cthulhu Mythos stories NOT written by Lovecraft. Not too familiar with that side of things.
	10:25pm Mr Fab: I meant: give-away boxes of books that happened to include the Arkham House volume.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: There was a "circle" of writers - pen pals and people Lovecraft worked with - who all fleshed out the Cthulhu mythos after Lovecraft died. (Though some borrowed from him before he died, too.) So there's a lot of "expanded universe" stuff that's okay... but I think looses some of the hypnotic qualities of his source material.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: August Derleth is the one who did most of the "official" cannon expansion, and was one of the Arkham House founders. Again, it's like reading the Tolkien stories that his son did: they're okay... just... not great.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: Sailing stories and sailors seem to play a big role in Pulp Fiction and this era of fiction. We need to bring back stories where sailors have seen things that would make your blood run cold.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: This section of the story sort of reads like, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" by Edgar Allen Poe, and author that Lovecraft was an admitted fan of.
	10:38pm Mr Fab: And bring back bawdy sailor songs!
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: I've got a Bawdy Sailing Songs record around the Lava Lamp Lounge. Probably time to do another Dr. Demento tribute on MVM...
	10:41pm Mr Fab: Tolkien’s son!? Ha, didn’t know that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: I guess there was a novel, too, but I never read this one: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:46pm wenzo toad: Howdy all
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: Howdy, wenzo toad!
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go a couple minutes over. Sorry everyone! I guess Cthulhu has taken over the stream...
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: I wonder how long it takes this reader to record stuff like this? I know when I'm doing bits for my shows, it can take me three or four takes just to get one sentence right. Long passages can take a long time to get right. Something this long? I can only imagine...
	10:58pm Heather: I've been lurking! Great show, as always! Re managing to read a long thing like this, phew, yeah.... I wonder how many takes and how much time!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: It does seem like a impressive work of reading. I can sometimes get on a roll, and it comes out good for a while... but there's usually so many takes, just to get rid of stuttered words, and other mistakes.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: (And: thanks for lurking.)
	11:02pm Heather: It really is. I don't usually do a lot of long form stuff but, when I do, phew, that's a skill I don't have honed! Yes! I'm always glad when I can tune in and lurk!! Great stuff!!!
	11:16pm Mr Fab: Thanks Count Austin, love the weird!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 24, 2022

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
H.P. Lovecraft	"The Call of Cthulhu" Part 1	26 August 2019			Read by The Tale Master on YouTube. (youtube.com/c/TheTalemaster). Here's a direct link to the post where this story came from: https://youtu.be/AnX6ckYAnAI.	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Ray Noble And His Orchestra	The House Is Haunted	Halloween Stomp	Jass Records	1990		0:26:29 (Pop-up)
H.P. Lovecraft	"The Call of Cthulhu" Part 2	26 August 2019			Read by The Tale Master on YouTube. (youtube.com/c/TheTalemaster). Here's a direct link to the post where this story came from: https://youtu.be/AnX6ckYAnAI.	0:35:31 (Pop-up)
Ray Noble And His Orchestra	The House Is Haunted	Halloween Stomp	Jass Records	1990		1:17:07 (Pop-up)
H.P. Lovecraft	"The Call of Cthulhu" Part 3	26 August 2019			Read by The Tale Master on YouTube. (youtube.com/c/TheTalemaster). Here's a direct link to the post where this story came from: https://youtu.be/AnX6ckYAnAI.	1:25:21 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 8:06pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm Charles: Turn off the lights, light up the candles
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Settle in. This first section is about 34 minutes long.
	♥ 9:02pm HyperDose: LOVE the vampire voice. Good Hello again, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Charles and HyperDose! This should be a good one.
	9:02pm Count Fabula: Greetings, mortals!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Mr. Fab!
	9:03pm Charles: With each october night, the announcer count grows stronger
	♥ 9:04pm HyperDose: Gotta put the cat to bed first. She's only 5. Don't want her to get scared 😋
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: "The Call of Cthulhu" was written in the summer of 1926, and was published in "Weird Tales" in February, 1928. "The Tale Master" has opted to record this audio as if it was being produced as an "audiobook" from the late 20's / early 30's, essentially: an LP, with a lot of surface noise, and production qualities that sound very of the era.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: While the voice is a little more clear than a lot of radio from the late 20's / early 30's, the production quality of this recording is pretty authentic.
	9:07pm Charles: The surface noise fits nicely here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: If you like Horror, and someone reading it to you, then I do recommend this YouTube Channel. While the "vintage" stories are not all produced with this level of care, he's still got a good voice for this kind of stuff, and there's a lot of good stories, new and old, which make for good October listening.
	9:10pm Charles: What's your favorite horror stories Austin?
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: Hmmmm. Good question. I do enjoy Lovecraft, but I'm not as much of a nerd like a lot of people I know, and so I can only make a general recommendation.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: I think I spent the most time reading Stephen King growing up. Not precisely short stories, but a lot of his stuff is very creepy, and a lot of it still works, years later.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Ambrose Bierce is a fave of mine, and I've even recorded some of his stories for a spoken word Halloween album I released a while ago. But certainly, more than what I read is worth checking out. Bierce is old fashioned, but wonderfully creepy.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Poe holds up, certainly. Frankenstein is a marvelous novel. Dracula is okay, but is a bit hokey at times. (The movies do the story better.)
	9:14pm Charles: Misery left a mark, haven't read it in decades but I still remember some moments well.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: Radio: Quiet Please, hands down, is the best horror radio show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: Misery caused me to flinch a few times. Yikes!
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: I would say that I tend to enjoy more eerie and creepy horror, where most of the gore and violence is off-page, or off-screen. I'm a fan of the Universal pictures, and all the Shock Theater movies. Though I do have a soft spot for Evil Dead.
	9:20pm Charles: hehe
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: A lot of tropes and ideas that wind up on Dimestore Radio Theater shows originated in pulpy weird fiction like that of Lovecraft.
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: I find the music production on this to be really good, for a YouTube "audio book reader." There's a whole genre of YouTube channels, where people are reading books and stories and novels for their fans. Some I've heard are not good. So the production on this one was really surprising, in that it was so good.
	9:55pm Mr Fab: In fact there was a whole pulp magazine called “Weird Tales”! As I’m sure you all know. We could used more actual weird fiction nowadays instead the same ol slasher and/or zombie predictability.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: I agree! My boss has a lot of old issues of "Weird Tales" lying around, and reading them is very cool. So different than stuff I grew up reading.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: I forgot that Clark Ashton Smith gets a shout out in this story.
	10:23pm Mr Fab: I just found an old Arkham House book in a give-away pile of Cthulhu Mythos stories NOT written by Lovecraft. Not too familiar with that side of things.
	10:25pm Mr Fab: I meant: give-away boxes of books that happened to include the Arkham House volume.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: There was a "circle" of writers - pen pals and people Lovecraft worked with - who all fleshed out the Cthulhu mythos after Lovecraft died. (Though some borrowed from him before he died, too.) So there's a lot of "expanded universe" stuff that's okay... but I think looses some of the hypnotic qualities of his source material.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: August Derleth is the one who did most of the "official" cannon expansion, and was one of the Arkham House founders. Again, it's like reading the Tolkien stories that his son did: they're okay... just... not great.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: Sailing stories and sailors seem to play a big role in Pulp Fiction and this era of fiction. We need to bring back stories where sailors have seen things that would make your blood run cold.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: This section of the story sort of reads like, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" by Edgar Allen Poe, and author that Lovecraft was an admitted fan of.
	10:38pm Mr Fab: And bring back bawdy sailor songs!
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: I've got a Bawdy Sailing Songs record around the Lava Lamp Lounge. Probably time to do another Dr. Demento tribute on MVM...
	10:41pm Mr Fab: Tolkien’s son!? Ha, didn’t know that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: I guess there was a novel, too, but I never read this one: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:46pm wenzo toad: Howdy all
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: Howdy, wenzo toad!
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go a couple minutes over. Sorry everyone! I guess Cthulhu has taken over the stream...
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: I wonder how long it takes this reader to record stuff like this? I know when I'm doing bits for my shows, it can take me three or four takes just to get one sentence right. Long passages can take a long time to get right. Something this long? I can only imagine...
	10:58pm Heather: I've been lurking! Great show, as always! Re managing to read a long thing like this, phew, yeah.... I wonder how many takes and how much time!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: It does seem like a impressive work of reading. I can sometimes get on a roll, and it comes out good for a while... but there's usually so many takes, just to get rid of stuttered words, and other mistakes.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: (And: thanks for lurking.)
	11:02pm Heather: It really is. I don't usually do a lot of long form stuff but, when I do, phew, that's a skill I don't have honed! Yes! I'm always glad when I can tune in and lurk!! Great stuff!!!
	11:16pm Mr Fab: Thanks Count Austin, love the weird!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 24, 2022

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