Becoming-Spooky #3: Ray Bradbury - The October Country

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Becoming-Spooky #2: Algernon Blackwood - The Man Who Found Out

Join me for this foray into the work of Algernon Blackwood - theosophist, occultist, and writer of weird fiction tales. Blackwood tell us the story of Professor Mark Ebor: a man with a double life, but a wholesome one, split between the scientific and the mystical. He is an "inco ...  Show more

Becoming-Spooky #1: Edgar Allen Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher

Welcome to Becoming-Spooky! This is the first of three episodes in this special, seasonal series. Join me and deterritorialize the domains of sanity, the familiar and the human. Patrons will receive two additional episodes!The first half of the episode is my full reading of The F ...  Show more

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