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A podcast adaptation of stories from the fiction collection A Consternation of Monsters, by Eric Fritzius. A consternation, as you should remember from grade school, is the collective noun for monsters. It is therefore a fitting title for a collection of short stories that each contain monsters of various sorts and shades. In these tales, a creature of make-believe proves difficult to disbelieve, a trickster-god takes an unkindly interest in witnesses, eldritch horrors can be summoned using ...
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A podcast chronicle of one man's quest to remain sane while working in a small town "liberry" with patrons who had apparently missed the Twin Peaks casting call. Adapted from the blog Tales from the "Liberry" (liberry.blogspot.com)
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EPISODE 08: "The Hocco Makes the Echo" a recorded live reading [REDUX]
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Rob Hughes thought his kid was a genius--or, if not a genius, at least a very smart boy. Aaron was only five years old and already he could tie his shoes, count to 120, identify pictures of animals in books and recognize the constellation of Orion. Sure, he referred to it as `Oh-wyan,��� but he knew it when he saw it. Aaron was possessed of a power…
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EPISODE 07: "Nigh" a live reading [REDUX]
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The end of the world is an event that has been predicted for millennia. It is always on the horizon, but so far has not come to pass. Mr. Daniels, however, has his own prediction and, unless he���s wrong, the danger of the end of the world is very real indeed. And it just might begin at Starbucks. This live-reading of "Nigh" was recorded at the 201…
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EPISODE 06: "Wolves Among Stones at Dusk" REDUX
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The Mexican Gray wolf is among the rarest of North American wolf species. Few humans have seen them, fewer still have heard them growl, and far fewer have heard the pangs of hunger from the stomach of one. One old man, seated on the cliff of an Arizona mesa, could possibly lay claim to all three of these feats if only he could be bothered to pay at…
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EPISODE 05: "...to a Flame" the stage play (live from the Pocahontas County Opera House)
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The Mothman of West Virginia is reported to be a winged creature, the size of a man, but with glowing red eyes. There have been a few plays written about this creature. This is one of them. Presenting the stage adaptation of Eric Fritzius���s short story "...to a Flame" as recorded during its performance at the Opera House PlayFest, at the Pocahont…
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EPISODE 04: "Old Country" a Live Radio Adaptation REDUX
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Episode 04 of the REDUX version of the Consternation of Monsters Podcast features a recording of a live radio adaptation of the short story "Old Country" as found in the collection A Consternation of Monsters. On a day in 1983, Martin Riscili receives the most important phone call of his life. His late father���s mobster "associate," Jimmy Jambalay…
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A story of bitter rivalries, stolen opportunities, forgery, and the angel of death, set in the cut throat world of public television antiques appraisal--a world in which one of the most powerful objects is a fork. This podcast is an excerpt of the audiobook adaptation of the short story "Limited Edition" found in the collection A Consternation of M…
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EPISODE 02: "The Ones that Aren���t Crows" REDUX
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The Seward Whale Strike Tragedy, they called it. Twenty-five people dead. The worst accident in Alaska���s tourism history since Will Rogers��� plane went down in ���35. Only one man left alive knows the truth of what really happened--the man everyone agrees caused the tragedy to start with. And if there���s one thing he���s sure of, the thing they…
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The Mothman of West Virginia is reported to be a winged creature, the size of a man, but with glowing red eyes. It was reportedly witnessed on multiple occasions around the area of Point Pleasant, W.Va., during the 1960s and has been reported around the world since. An ominous creature, its presence often seems to portend doom for those who see it.…
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The Consternation of Monsters Podcast is an ongoing project, adapting and excerpting a few of the stories found in the short story collection A Consternation of Monsters as well as the unabridged audiobook of the collection. While many of these stories have been featured in the previous iteration of this podcast from 2015, this redux edition will f…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 7: EPISODE 40 (140): Mr. B-Natural
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") There are rogue patrons and there are Rogue Patrons and Mr. B-Natural, Grumpiest Old Man in All the Wo…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 7: EPISODE 034 (234): Non-Actual Conversations Not Heard in Actual Libraries #74
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") When I was first planning this podcast, there were two entries from the original Tales from the "Liber…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 7: EPISODE 035 (235): Cranky Liquid Paper Guy (and other tales of Library Neophytes)
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") We're all neophytes at something in life, but the number of people who remain computer neophytes in 20…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 7: EPISODE 045 (245): Cross Words
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") One of the patrons who I assumed would remain my arch-enemy for the life of the blog was Grumpiest Old…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 6: EPISODE 16 (116): Stanky Patrons and other Dusty Turds
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") Public service brings with it one constant: The Public. And not everyone among the public is an avid f…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 6: EPISODE 36 (136): The Ballad of Crusty the Patron
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") While not the stinkiest patron we ever had to deal with, the man who became known as Crusty the Patron…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 6: EPISODE 51 (151): Dumbass Things I've Done Lately Week
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") I've often maintained that if a person is going to go around pointing fingers at the foibles of others…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 6: EPISODE 031 (231): Monsieur Stanky
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") Way back in Episode 16 of this podcast, I started to tell the story of our penultimate stinky patron, …
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 5: EPISODE 035 (235): Cranky Liquid Paper Guy (and other tales of Library Neophytes)
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") We're all neophytes at something in life, but the number of people who remain computer neophytes in 20…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 5: EPISODE 43 (143): ParkaST 2
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") Back for the new year are tales of everyone's favorite puffy, white, Michelin Man parka-clad, innanet …
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 5: EPISODE 39 (139): And the Password Is...
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") Everybody has a secret these days. If nothing else, they have at least one computer password. We went …
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 5: EPISODE 24 (124): Who's Got the 10 and a Half?
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") For most of my "liberry" career, I was a part time employee. Once in a while, though, when EVERYONE el…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 5: EPISODE 18 (118): Parka Life
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") Just when we thought we had it bad enough with frequent visits from Chester the (Potential) Molester, …
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EPISODE 052 (252): Final Days (Final Episode)
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Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and this is the end of the weekly edition of Tales from the "LiberryCAST." (You'll have to listen to it to find out why I put weekly in italics.) Contained herein are some of the final entries I wrote as a "Liberry" employee, and one that I wrote afterward. There are a number of appearances from prominent…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 4: EPISODE 41 (141): Christmas Party Pack
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") I loves me some Christmas Party. Yessir. Nearly my favorite kind of party due to high concentrations o…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 4: EPISODE 038 (238): The Second Crustacean Menace
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") Among the five Grumpiest Old Men in All The World that I encountered and cataloged during my time at t…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 4: EPISODE 33 (133): The Crustacean Menace!
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") In the past, I've chronicled small tales of Mr. B-Natural and Mr. Smiley, the first and second grumpie…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 3: EPISODE 26 (126): D-Con Kills Nerds Dead
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") As you might have noticed, I'm an enormous nerd. Maybe not quite as nerdy as the Nerdist Podcast, but …
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 2: EPISODE 021 (221): Annoying Greens of the Non-Horn Variety
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") Having last appeared in the Bad Mom's 2 Mother's Day Episode, Ms. Green was not a bad mom, per se, des…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 2: EPISODE 08 (208): Bad Moms 2
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") Okay, so it's a week late, but just like calling your mom for Mother's Day, better late than never. To…
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BEST OF WEEK DAY 2: EPISODE 22 (122): Summer Reading Blues
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(Welcome to Best Of Week. As Tales from the "LiberryCAST" rockets toward its final episode, this is my chance to have a look back at some of my favorite episodes from this podcast adaptation of favorite blog entries from Tales from the "Liberry.") Summer Reading, oh how it burns! Yes, it's the time of year when snot-nosed crumb-crunchers descend up…
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