The Chilling Horror That Grinds and Wiggles - Episode 117

Will Falk survive the wriggling horror that descends from the heavens? Why did he murder his wife? When did he get married? How do you make a piano out of squids? Listen to find out!

The Chilling Horror That Grinds and Wiggles, episode 117 of This Gun in My Hand, was molded, frozen and dropped on you by Rob Northrup. 

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Show Notes:

1. The “slush pile” is publishing industry jargon for unsolicited manuscripts mostly from amateurs. I know the term because outside of self-publishing, that’s as far as my stories have gotten.

Credits:

The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Music Title: Pictures at an Exhibition - I. Gnomus Vivo

Composed by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Performed by Skidmore College Orchestra

License: Public Domain

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skidmore_College_Orchestra_-_02_-_I_Gnomus_Vivo.ogg 

Music Title: Pictures at an Exhibition - VIII. Catacombae. Sepulcrum romanum Largo

Composed by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Performed by Skidmore College Orchestra

License: Public Domain

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skidmore_College_Orchestra_-_12_-_VIII_Catacombae_Sepulcrum_romanum_Largo.ogg 

Music Title: Pictures at an Exhibition - Cum mortuis in lingua mortua Andante non troppo con lamento

Composed by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Performed by Skidmore College Orchestra

License: Public Domain

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skidmore_College_Orchestra_-_13_-_Cum_mortuis_in_lingua_mortua_Andante_non_troppo_con_lamento.ogg

Sound Effect Title: forest boreal light wind breeze through leaves +close loud birds.flac 

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/s/637563/ 

Sound Effect Title: Silbido bomba cayendo.wav 

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/s/393006/ 

Sound Effect Title: Broken Egg Squelch 

By d.n.audio.uk

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

https://freesound.org/s/461049/

Sound Effect Title: Pouring Soup in a Metal Pan - Quick,Short,Gross 

by Hitrison

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

https://freesound.org/s/251410/

Sound Effect Title: Messy Splat 3a 

by FoolBoyMedia

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

https://freesound.org/s/237928/ 

Sound Effect Title: Blood Gush and Squelch 

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/s/635042/ 

Sound Effect Title: GateShutThumps.wav

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/s/401041/  

Sound Effect Title: lion.wav 

License: Public Domain 

https://freesound.org/s/684527/ 

Sound Effect Title: Gore Cabbage by IENBA

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/s/607909/ 

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain drawing “squid holding sailor” by Alphonse de Neuville, featured in the Hetzel edition of 20000 Lieues Sous Les Mers.