Gates of Imagination
Classic stories to keep you company - on your commute, while you're doing the dishes, or drifting off to sleep. We focus on public domain literature: Lovecraft's cosmic dread, Wells' journeys through time, weird fiction, classic horror, and everything strange and wonderful in between.
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Narration is AI-assisted, which lets us bring forgotten classics back to life - stories that spent decades waiting on shelves for someone to pick them up again.
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Gates of Imagination
馃巸 Spooktober Finale 路 Halloween Premiere
In a quiet valley along the Hudson River, a lanky schoolmaster rides home late at night, and a headless horseman rides behind him. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, America鈥檚 most famous ghost story, is now on our channel. Happy Halloween! 馃巸
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馃巸 Spooktober Pick 路 Final Nights #5
A beautiful young man stays forever young while his portrait in the attic rots with every sin. Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is our last Spooktober pick, and tomorrow, on Halloween night, a headless rider comes galloping onto our channel. 馃巸
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馃巸 Spooktober Pick 路 Final Nights #4
"One morning, Gregor Samsa woke up as a monstrous insect" is the most famous opening in modern literature, and the start of a story still read as horror, tragedy and parable. Kafka's The Metamorphosis is body horror before the term existed.
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馃巸 Spooktober Pick 路 Final Nights #3
A poor young student is offered the entire fortune of a dying old man, on just one condition. H.G. Wells' The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham is a chilling body-snatching tale that was decades ahead of its time.
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馃巸 Spooktober Pick 路 Final Nights #2
A student rents a cheap, isolated house to study in peace, ignoring the warnings about its former owner, a hanging judge. Bram Stoker's The Judge's House is a classic haunted house tale with one of the most memorable final images in Victorian horror.
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馃巸 Spooktober Pick 路 Final Nights #1
For years, a man dreams of the same house, the same tower room and the same woman telling him it's ready for him, until one day he arrives there awake. E.F. Benson's The Room in the Tower is one of the finest vampire stories of its era.
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馃巸 Spooktober Pick 路 Monster Week #7
Beneath the Paris Opera, in the cellars and on the underground lake, lives a masked genius who will do anything for love. Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera is a gothic thriller that's darker than any musical version, and it's the perfect long listen for a Sunday.
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馃巸 Spooktober Pick 路 Monster Week #6
A respected doctor and a brutal stranger who seem to share far too much. Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde turned the monster inward, and "Jekyll and Hyde" has been a part of everyday language ever since.
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馃巸 Spooktober Pick 路 Monster Week #5
A shipwrecked man lands on an island ruled by a scientist who carves animals into men. The Island of Doctor Moreau remains Wells' most disturbing novel and asks what really separates us from the beasts.
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馃巸 Spooktober Pick 路 Monster Week #4
A man descends to the bottom of the ocean in a steel sphere and discovers he is not alone down there. H.G. Wells' In the Abyss is a forgotten pioneer of deep-sea horror, decades before anyone actually reached those depths.
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