AMBIENT ARCANA

In this episode we spend a delightful day in the New England hill country discussing the vagaries of cosmic dualism with a fiendishly pleasant host  in Jerome Bixby's "Trace."

All Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar

Narrated by Jim Billbrough

 What would you do if you suddenly found your worst enemy completely at your mercy? Would you take revenge? Would you forgive?" Here are two stories that explore what happens when, out of the blue, the opportunity for vengeance arrives.

"One Of These Days" by Gabriel García Márquez

"Razor" by Vladimir Nabokov

All Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar

Narration by Jim Billbrough

A man finds himself struggling against an invasive intelligence taking over his mind and trying to eradicate everything the man had previously revered and admired in Stefan Grabiński’s “Strabismus.”

Translated by Miroslaw Lipinski

All Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar

Narrated by Jim Billbrough

 Once again we spend the Yuletide season high up in the Himalayas with three stories from Albert Leroy Shelton's 1925 book Tibetan Folk Tales:

"The Wiley Poor Man," "The Story Of The Two Devils," and "The Story Of The Violinist."

All Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar

Narration by Bob Familiar and Jim Billbrough

 In this episode a selfless Nightingale sings her heart out to create a Red Rose for a lovelorn Student, but is he truly worthy of such a precious gift?

It's Oscar Wilde's poignant tale of blood thirsty horticulture - "The Nightingale and the Rose."

All Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar

Narration by Joey Pesce

Nightingale recordings by Pro Sound Effects

It's Family Values Gone Wild in Ambrose Bierce's Dark Comedy

"A Bottomless Grave."

Narration by David Mulholland

Music by Man Tray

Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar.

Have you ever felt like a helpless pawn being manipulated by mysterious and hidden higher-dimensional beings?

If so then this is the episode for you!

It's Nebula Award Winning Author Bob Leman's  trans-dimensional, mind and body altering trip through an almost endless game of bizarre, sanity shattering, yet seemingly mundane tasks:

"Instructions."

All Music, Audio Production, and Narration by Bob Familiar

 We finish our current coverage of the works of British author Robert Aickman with a story that explores what happens when the face looking back at you in the mirror is not your own.

"Le Miroir" by Robert Aickman

All Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar

Narration by Jim Billbrough

 In this episode two young British women, serving in the 'Woman's Land Army' during WWII,  decide to skip a dour farmer's Christmas party only to discover there are worse ways to spend the Holiday in Robert Aickman's

"The Coffin House."

 All Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar

 Narration by Jim Billbrough

Mod dress? Thigh-boots? Impossibly long worm-infested hallways?

It's Robert Aickman's  strange tale of a mysterious, ageless woman orbiting the life of a hapless man:

"Laura."

All Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar

Narrated by Alex Fitzsimmons

In this episode we explore the heavy price of turning back the hands of time with Philip K. Dick's "The Cookie Lady."

All Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar.

Narration by Jim Billbrough

Once again we spend our Holiday Season at the Top Of The World with yet more stories from

Albert Leroy Shelton's 1925 book "Tibetan Folk Tales"

All music and audio production by Bob Familiar

Narrated by Bob Familiar and Jim Billbrough