Open the Book; Unlock Imagination
Richard Fish narrates The Crevasse, by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud. An exploration team in the Antarctic is already nurses wounds from an accident, when another tragedy strikes. Garner, the expedition’s doctor, is haunted at night by howls from deep within the earth. Against his better judgement, he descends a crack into the ice shelf to try and settle things. But what he encounters beneath the ice shakes him forever.
Originally appeared on The Drabblecast – Episode 338
In Episode 2 of the Dark Tome, Cassie knows better but can’t escape the temptation to return to Mr. Gussy’s bookshop. She finds the old man frustrated that he can’t make the magical book work. It’s take someone younger – someone for whom the walls between this world and the next are a little thinner.
They catch a whiff of fresh bread, and are transported to the world of Catherynne M. Valente’s fable “The Bread We Eat in Dreams,” where a certain personable demon names Agnes will recount the story of her ejection from hell and the little hamlet that grew up around her.
Episode 1 of the Dark Tome introduces us to Cassie, who is forced to read books to Mr. Gussy – an old crank who runs a bookshop of the strange and the weird – as penance for pulling a girl’s hair out at school. Mr. Gussy has warned Cassie of a book among books – The Dark Tome – and Cassie decides to open up the cover and see what it’s all about.
This flings Cassie into the world of acclaimed writer Joe Hill’s chilling fable, “The Devil on the Staircase,” narrated by a man who walks crooked steps for a living, being discovering a door that leads him straight to hell.
Cassie, a wayward teen, has discovered a magical book that literally transports her to the world within the story. What adventures will we go to with The Dark Tome? It starts on a crooked staircase that leads to the devil. Featuring a preview of the story “The Devil on the Staircase” by Joe Hill.
10 minute preview of the new audio fiction series by Fred Greenhalgh and Bill Dufris.
Cassie, a wayward teen, has discovered a magical book that literally transports her to the world within the story. What adventures will we go to with The Dark Tome? It starts on a crooked staircase that leads to the devil.
2 minute Teaser to the new audio fiction series by Fred Greenhalgh and Bill Dufris.