Fall is a great time to dive into tales of the supernatural, and what's more supernatural than your local fair folk, hm? Well, don't get me wrong here, fall's just the best time, I can enjoy a wild tale of a man who's on a journey to see and hear things far beyond what he ought to be experiencing any time! That makes this particular story a great fit for the moment both you, me, and past-me who recorded it, at least, if you ask me. I gotta admit, I'm curious about M.R. James' other work after ho...
Aug 31, 2023•2 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 36
We travel farther into the wild world of the red planet, led on and on and on by our dear protagonist, John Carter, who definitely is NOT a Mary Sue and you SHOULDN'T flame Borroughs on AO3 about it, no way. I goof, but seriously, this is a fantastic example of how a wildly overpowered main character simply needs to be written carefully to make for engaging storytelling. I mean, the guy teaches himself TELEPATHY and I'm still interested in just how things will shake out despite how buckwild that...
Jul 20, 2023•2 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Ok, Ok, enough short stories for now. Let's dive into a book that was SUPER popular for its time, and one that honestly, I'm shocked had its popularity killed by the botched disney adaptation. I mean, for context, Edgar Rice Borroughs' other major work, Tarzan, is EASILY recognizable and often parodied (I mean, look at how often the stereotypical "Yell while swinging on a vine" trope is used!), and yet, I was genuinely surprised by most of the twists and turns in this one! Sure, there's some stu...
Jul 20, 2023•2 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Definitely didn't forget to click publish, nuh uh, no way! This batch of stories gets kinda wild in its concepts, very much a creeping horror in its science fiction! Not only do we discover the almost religious terror that can be inspired by the unknown, but we also discover that you REALLY should handle your household products with care, it's not only mustard gas you could be making by accident! Also, we get WHAMMIED by a punch I thought Vonnegut was going to pull. In retrospect, I'm shocked I ...
Jun 11, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Guess who forgot to click publish on this? it's me! I did that! This week, we dive into another couple of short stories, this time hitting up two huge Halloween favorites you may have read in English class, Fall of the House of Usher and The Pit and the Pendulum! I'm a known enjoyer of Poe's general creeping horror, and also a HUGE sucker for weird old science fiction premises, so The Lost Kazoofalum also really appeals to my interests. Can you tell me focusing on the short stories is equal part...
Jun 11, 2023•3 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Another batch of short stories in this episode, gang! Some personal favorites of mine this time (I know, I know, I say a lot of the books on here are my favorites, but I genuinely DO love the creeping horror of Amontillado, and Ring Once for Death inverts a trope that I think sorely needs inverting, anyway!) alongside one that, I must admit, I really didn't care for on my first english class reading, and was really begging to be removed from that stuffy, academic context. Well, that, or I just w...
May 30, 2023•2 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Wierdly enough, I remember as a kid reading Through the Looking Glass much more often than the original tale. There was always something about the way it went, I just preferred it. Or maybe it was just easier to find in the collection of children's stories my grandma left on my bedside table when I slept up there? Who knows, either way this one is one of my favorites, even if I don't bother with any of its adaptations. I will say, I'm very glad I finished this one in one episode, it's always rea...
Apr 01, 2023•3 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 30
This time, we finish up The First Men in the Moon! Just what happens to our intrepid hero when he lands upon our earthly shores once more, and more importantly, will he save his more scientifically minded comrade? No spoilers, but I think the ending we got was a great way to set end things off! Honestly, the big surprise is how great that short story we read in the second half is, if you ask me. Really great stuff, plays off of the trope I was expecting in a fascinating fashion, as the pedigree ...
Apr 01, 2023•3 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 29
The Cavorite is working its lovely gravity defying magic, and so Idina Menzel isn't the only one soaring to new heights around here! The moon is a most peculiar place, with odd blue lights, odder little mushroom lads that would do NUMBERS on tumblr today, and outright strange folk tending weird little cattle. If only we could bottle the solid air they're finding on the moon, I'd love to have a little novelty bottle of "fresh lunar air" to open up when I'm needing a little pick-me-up! Actually, c...
Feb 10, 2023•2 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 28
A new book is always a lovely sight around here, and that goes double for starting a new book from a favorite author of mine. H.G. Wells is solidly a member of the english canon for a reason, sure, but he's also just plain and simple a nostalgic author for me to read. Sure, I really only zoned in on a few books of his, but that just leaves us plenty of room to find new tales of his here! Also, please tell me I'm not the only one who's getting wires crossed about H.G. the actual author, and H.G. ...
Feb 10, 2023•3 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 27
In this, our pentultimate dive into Dracula, we find that there's no shortage of good old fashioned american gusto. Yep, our good friend Quincy Morris has returned to the story, and in stereotypical fashion, rather than listening to the expert on the matter of vampiric weaknesses, he just straight up SHOOTS AT DRACULA! Fun fact, in an early draft of the book, Quincy was supposed to show up with a WHOLE MACHINE GUN in the final act! Not kidding, you can look it up! What a wild twist that would ha...
Dec 10, 2022•2 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Listen, I'm not normally one for the whole style of epilogue that comes up at the end of this book, but I really think it shines here! Not every book earns just how that end changes the context of the original final scene, but given the absolute MESS the gang went through, I think they deserve a little comfortable time. And no, I wouldn't call that a spoiler, you don't know how they got to that epilogue! This is a really REALLY long episode, but I couldn't help myself, felt silly to break the bo...
Dec 10, 2022•5 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 26
If you can believe it, this episode was originally at least an hour longer! I put in a lot of leg work on this one, splicing sentences, cutting distractions and side-tangents, and most of all, refining the crackle for the Seward sections of the book. I really like how this one came together, even if I had to ditch the 20-plus minute long diversion into the history of hypnotism, and how it arose from studies on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and generalized occultist whatnot. To be fair, it's proba...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 24
We were all waiting on bated breath for this one, I think. When is the mask on this terror going to come off, how are things going to resolve with Lucy, when's Van Helsing going to show up, the tension was ratcheting rapidly! Just because we've reached a small resolution on those, dear listener, don't think the thrills and chills are quite over with, no no! This book's still got a whole 'nother act behind it, and there's a few details from the section early on with the paprika and shaving mirror...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 23
As we work our way further into this much-beloved vampire tale, we find that there's a reason an overly-devoted minion of a monster is occasionally called a Renfield! That's right, we're spending more time with everyone's favorite counting-obsessed cuckoo, and boy will you hate what he's up to with those flies! Outside of our time with Doctor Seward, there's plenty else happening, for that matter. Where's all Lucy's blood going? What's up with her mom? will that american guy show up again? I lov...
Nov 10, 2022•2 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Alright, onto a seasonally appropriate classic, Dracula! This book just kept surprising me, I'll be honest, you really think you know a book from a few modern adaptations but there's so much more to unpack here! This episode really dives deep into the little details of the internet's favorite blorbo, Johnathan Harker, and the great time he had getting that delicious recipe for paprika hendl. I won't lie, I do very much want to make myself some paprika hendl after that description. Also a highlig...
Oct 10, 2022•3 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Finally, that mysterious extra day draws to a close, just as inexplicably as it had started. As for us, however, we're not leaving the extra day unaffected. Perhaps you're like me, and find that you have a greater appreciation for the whimsy in your day to day life, or perhaps the glories of the nature around you have been opened to your eyes, or maybe something else about this book has touched you! No matter the case, I loved this book, and judging by the comparison I made to one of my childhoo...
Oct 10, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Luckily, since this book is set before 1986, the birds are actual birds and not an elaborate series of surveillance cameras, so they can impart their secrets! And you know what they say? I hear it was something about "Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana", but that's just a rumor, so don't quote me! Join us live, friday nights, on twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/glacier_nester Want to read along with me? (it helps when my character voices are hard to hear, promise!) https://www....
Sep 11, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Time and space have begun to act oddly on the dear children who lead our story, but just what form does that take? You've got to listen to find out! Perhaps the flowers beneath your feet have more answers than they let on, or the trees have something hiding in their hedgerows? Come join us on twitch, friday nights! https://www.twitch.tv/glacier_nester Wanna read along? Come snag the book over on gutenberg! https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5894 Have things to say about the book? Come join the dis...
Sep 11, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Local man enjoys the heck out of a children's book, but hey, what's new? This time around, we find that the kiddo's dear uncle (who, really, despite writing for an entirely different genre of novel, feels a bit like a self-insert from Blackwood, imho) was not idly promising various adventures for each of the kids. We spend some time among the daisies, and spend further time traipsing about through a forest, looking for something that's quite aggressively elusive. Sound like a fun time? The autho...
Aug 10, 2022•2 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 17
New month, new episode, new book! A real thrilling tale this time around folks, we're diving into The Extra Day, by Algernon Blackwood, and I gotta tell ya, this has to have been one of my favorites that I've read on the show so far. There's a real, palpable sense of naturalistic wonder that suffuses every line here, and that calls my mind back to a childhood favorite, The Secret Garden. I do hope you find just as much whimsy in this little tale as I do! I'll have to dig further on Blackwood's w...
Aug 10, 2022•2 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 16
This is what I get for not setting up these episodes in advance, now I've got limes to juggle outside the podcast, I promise I'm not on fire and the cats are fine, but I don't have a lot of bandwidth for good show notes. I'll come back and update this probably? There's fun pulpy radio stuff going on in this one, I think it's the bit with the parasites? No more details to spoil in case I'm wrong. It's a real good one though! You can find the texts (to read along with) here: https://www.gutenberg....
Jul 10, 2022•1 hr 38 min•Season 2Ep. 15
I will not lie to y'all, the transmission may have broken in my RV, and I need to focus on handling that since I live in there full time. I promise this is a fun episode where we do fun radio things on Venus. There's like,, giant ants, smelting, platinum, me talking about vaccum pressure, it's real neat. Trust me on this one! You can find the text (to read along with) here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52326 We go live each week with a new, live episode of the show on Fridays, over on https:...
Jul 10, 2022•3 hr•Season 2Ep. 14
Finally having finished off 20,000 leagues, we're up next with a small pile of short stories! Admittedly, had I known these stories were this short, I would have just picked up The Radio Planet directly to read instead of reading these short stories, and saved them for times when we run out of book, but have more episode in store for us. That being said, I had a lot of fun with these stories! Loved Insidekick in particular, super super fun premise that reads really well today, even. I'm fairly s...
Jun 10, 2022•3 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Night falls on our fair Venusian hero, while he continues to emotionally (and, occasionally physically) manipulate the poor natives of this planet, scarcely out of the age of wooden tools, into helping him produce technology that will change the course of history on this very continent, and quite aggressively so. However, despite his many various "magics" available to him, he's not invulnerable, and finds himself captured by another, night-dwelling set of natives, while he's on the hunt for the ...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Our wonderful adventure (punctuated by Verne's lovely little nautical infodumps) draws to a close in this somewhat shortened episode, but the way things conclude will have you white-knuckling your podcatcher even despite that. Just what becomes of our captain, and, more importantly, our dear narrator, hm? Even this little time under the sea could begin to wear on the unprepared mind, after all! You can find the text (to read along with) here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/164 We go live each ...
May 10, 2022•1 hr 38 min•Season 2Ep. 11
The captain has piloted us into the seeming dead end of the Red Sea, but worry not, our dear Nemo has a clever plan to get his wonderful submarining machine out of this particular scrape. The how and why may be obvious to you if you've indulged in any of the adaptations of this tale, but it'll still be a thrilling tale nonetheless! Come along with us as we narrate the exciting journey back to somewhere a bit more familiar. You can find the text (to read along with) here: https://www.gutenberg.or...
May 10, 2022•3 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Despite Captain Nemo's predilictions about not wanting to see the land, our intrepid adventurers are already craving the freedom that living somewhere other than a submersible can provide, no matter how grand a submersible like the Nautilus can be. There's no shortage of intrigue and derring-do this week, so let's tune in and find out just how things are going to go, shall we? You can find the text (to read along with) here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/164 We go live each week with a new, l...
Apr 12, 2022•3 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 9
For our first new book post-The Last Man, I decided to go with a childhood favorite of mine, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea! Listen, I'll freely admit that Jules Verne was pointed out to me by Back to the Future, but I really do love his works, especially if the translation is solid. Other than the obvious of Journey to the Center of the Earth, anyone have any particular favorites from Verne? You can point 'em out in the discord, linked below! You can find the text (to read along with) here: https...
Apr 12, 2022•3 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Fleeing England really is the desperate idea that it sounds like here, although considering the way the plague has been treating the characters, it's not exactly a shock! We spend some time in France, experiencing the effects of the world being in panic, before taking to the sea. What sort of results will that bring to our intrepid main characters? Well, just like usual, the easiest answer there is, you can find out by listening to the episode! You can find the text (to read along with) here: ht...
Mar 10, 2022•3 hr 39 min•Season 2Ep. 7
