Shubert 🗣️🎙️The first story I read on my channel is a dark-comedy twist on the typical #fairytale - where an evil dragon is slain by heroic adventurers
"The Slaying of the Monster" by R. H. Barlow & H. P Lovecraft
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Everybody's heard of the 'monkey's paw curse', but few have read the original short story... At least that was my thought process when I recorded my 2nd (and still most popular) audiobook:
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
"I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture..." 🧿
The third tale I decided to tell on my channel is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most well-known short stories: "The Tell-Tale Heart" 💓
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Elves" (German: Die Wichtelmänner) is a well known story from Grimm's Fairy Tales about a down-on-his-luck shoemaker & his wife who receive much-needed help from tiny, skilled men (aka Brownies).
The Elves by the Brothers Grimm
"What the Moon Brings" is a surrealistic prose poem by H. P. Lovecraft 🌕
Like many of his stories, it was based on a vivid nightmare and ends with the protagonist choosing death over insanity
What the Moon Brings by H. P. Lovecraft
Gods be good! For my next story I read "The Death of Balder" by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Balder's death causes the final rift between Loki and Odin and sets into motion the events of Ragnarok.
Won't you weep for Balder? 😭
The Death of Balder by Hamilton Wright Mabie
I'm really proud of this next one; Still the ONLY recording available (afaik) of this somewhat subversive fairy tale written in 1886 by a highly underrated author:
"The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde"
by Mary De Morgan
The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde by Mary De Morgan
Andrew Craucamp@Shubert So the Brothers Grimm are to blame for conflating elves with pixies/gnomes/etc.
Simon and/or Garfunkel@Shubert Oo, listening now… thanks for sharing.
@theonlysimonandorgarfunkel Thanks for listening! 🥰
David Erik Nelson🪬