Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts

Sunday, November 24, 2024

The Chilling Horror That Grinds and Wiggles - Episode 117

Detailed black and white etching of squid tentacles descending from the top of the image. One tentacle clutches a man who flails helplessly. Two other men seem to hang upside down from the mass of tentacles, one of them swinging an axe.

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. 
This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. 
Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s the scariest part of the episode? This Gun in My Hand!

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.

Sunday, September 8, 2024

It Was a Dark and Stormy Reading of the Will - Episode 112

Comic book cover art. A man in a purple suit holding a lantern reacts with alarm to a ghostly, fanged, hooded witchy figure rising from an open grave. In the background is a tall yellow house and nightscape with leafless trees and bats fluttering. In the right corner foreground is a blond woman holding up one arm, terrified by the witchy ghost. The caption across the top reads, "It Was A Dark and Stormy Reading of the Will." In the upper right it's marked "Feb. 10c. No. 9".

Will a mansion full of monsters and ghouls scare Falk Zildjian away from doing his duty? Will hearts be torn out or tamed? Is there anyone here besides us chickens? Listen to find out!

It Was a Dark and Stormy Reading of the Will, episode 112 of This Gun in My Hand, was carried out according to the final instructions of Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What ensures that I get good deals at thrift stores? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Watching The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966), The Bat (1959) or House on Haunted Hill (1959) will not necessarily prepare you for this episode, but it’d be a good excuse to put off listening to this episode.
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UyPC24qfI4
The Bat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3OM8jbBJQ
House on Haunted Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsnw-RNGKFY

2. This Gun in My Hand is perpetually set in 1939. Patsy Kelly’s next movie after 1939 was released in October 1940, The Hit Parade of 1941, also known as Romance and Rhythm. Her reputation was enough to get her listed on the posters for this film, and pictured on some of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Parade_of_1941#/media/File:Hit_Parade_of_1941.jpg

3. The audio and text of This Gun in My Hand are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, real organizations, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, organizations, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

4. Clacton-on-Sea is east and a little north of London, but it’s not in what they consider East London.

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were 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: Let Me Call You Sweetheart (I’m in Love With You)
Music by Leo Friedman, lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson, 1910.
Performed by Carter’s Orchestra, 1924.
License: Public Domain
https://archive.org/details/carters-orchestra-let-me-call-you-sweetheart-brunswick-3541-b

Sound Effect Title: R30-28-Classic Thunder Clap.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/486273/ 

Sound Effect Title: S23-19 Thunder claps; variation edit of Universal’s “Castle Thunder”.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/675991/ 

Sound Effect Title: G46-06-Treble-Heavy Thunder Crack.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/438743/ 

Sound Effect Title: G28-27-Crowd Fast Walla Applause.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438387/

Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/

Sound Effect Title: bus coach ext pull up brake air release idle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454420/

Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/

Sound Effect Title: DoorKnockerVarious.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/136544/

Sound Effect Title: Creaking door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/333929/ 

Sound Effect Title: Creaking Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/709418/ 

Sound Effect Title: Slam door.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/SoundsForHim/sounds/395653/

Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html

Sound Effect Title: Glass Bottle Breaking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/IENBA/sounds/607910/

Sound Effect Title: S10-19 Falling wooden beam; big interior crash; house collapses; long.wav
by craigsmith
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/675967/ 

Sound Effect Title: Foley_Footsteps_ShedWoodenFloor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/523273/ 

Sound Effect Title: 175bpm_classical_running_freak.wav
By giacomelli
License: Creative Commons Sampling+
https://freesound.org/s/95763/ 

Sound Effect Title: TUBE POP.wav
By sandyrb
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/102540/

Sound Effect Title: R27-20-Small Crowd Gasps.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480774/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of the public domain comic book This Magazine is Haunted, Number 9, February 1953. Artist might be Sheldon Moldoff.