A Truly Creepy Tale from Drabblecast "Scales"

An audio drama that is definitely unique in its creepiness.

Scales by Samantha Henderson

One day when a surge of dying summer heat roiled through the waterways, spoiling my fishing, I punted home to find Mama running down the grassy swell towards my docking-place. Hope died in her face when she saw my punt empty and I knew then what had happened...



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Author's note: I HATE SNAKES (and mosquitos)

Freebee Friday

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006)

Among the many wonderful novels that she published, in 1979, she published Kindred, a novel that uses the science-fiction staple of time travel to explore slavery in the United States. In this story, Dana, an African American woman, is inexplicably transported from 1976 Los Angeles to early nineteenth century Maryland. She meets her ancestors: Rufus, a white slave holder, and Alice, an African-American woman who was born free but forced into slavery later in life.

You can listen/download the entire audio drama HERE from a most deserved fan site.

If you ever seriously consider listening to anything that I recommend, please consider this audio drama. Once you begin listening, you won't be able to stop; and you certainly will never forget it.

Octavia Butler died outside of her home in Lake Forest Park, Washington, on February 24, 2006, at the age of 58. News accounts were inconsistent as to the cause of her death, with some reporting that she suffered a fatal stroke, while others indicated that she died of head injuries after falling and striking her head on her walkway. Another suggestion is that a stroke caused the fall which caused the head injuries.

A very gifted writer, lost at a young age. It's good that her writings will live on to the enjoyment and enrichment of future generations. Pass it on!

A word of warning: This is an adult audio. There are about a half a dozen GD's throughout the 4 parts and a sex scene between a husband and wife. The audio is rather intense.

TamLynn P.I. Audio Drama

I recently listened to this audio production from Gypsy Audio. It was so much fun, I thought I'd share. Each episode is an individual story. I like that! You can hear it HERE.

Catch the entire series HERE.

The Screw Tape Letters

The Screwtape Letters
by
C.S. Lewis


"The Screwtape Letters" is fiction. But only fiction in the sense that the characters and the dialogue sprang from the imagination of one of the greatest modern Christian writers. Yet in our terrestrial reality the issues confronted in this book play out in our lives every day.

The book contains thirty-one letters from Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood, who is screwtape's underling in fiendishness. Screwtape is an upper-level functionary in the complex bureaucracy of the underworld. The "Screwtape Letters" are friendly advice from this elder statesman to a front-line tempter on how to procure the soul of his "patient", a young Christian man just trying to live out his everyday life.

We get the letters only from one side of the correspondence
(Screwtape's), yet the story of the meanderings of the Christian
"patient's" soul is clearly read between the lines. The letters
begin with Wormwood's failure to keep his subject from becoming
a Christian. The urbane Screwtape informs him that, although thisis an alarming development, his patient is by no means lost tothe dark forces of evil.

World War II serves as the backdrop for the Letters. Yet war and
strife do not play a significant roll in the work. The book is
about more everyday and universal problems. Problems every
individual must deal with even today. Thus, each letter addresses various aspects of the travails of the human soul and how the devil tempts that soul away from goodness and toward evil - not evil on a grand scale, but evil on a petty scale. They show how evil can seep into a Christian's relationships
with friends and family, in his views on the church, even in his
practice of prayer.

As each letter unfolds, we find the Christian "patient" slipping more and more out of the hands of Wormwood and his temptations.
Screwtape's advice to the tempter becomes more firm and yet more
subtle. And, by degrees, we come to see the workings of evil in our own hearts. "The Screwtape Letters" is a book that entertains while it instructs. It is a book to be treasured and studied.

More information:

The Screwtape Letters

You can download a text copy of Letters and study sheets here:

Letters and Study Sheet

You can you can download an audio version here:

screwtape Audio Pt1

Screwtape Audio Pt2

You can buy an audio drama version here Screwtape

Scary Fun

I didn't start my blog until November 1st, so I didn't do a Halloween post. I thought that I'd just keep it for next year, but my granddaughter caused me rethink it.

This is her favorite website (next to Spongebob games on Nickelodeon). We use this website all year long. She loves to dunk the wolf, the virtual pumpkin carving and the shows. She hates the haunted house and virtual abduction. She says it's too scary. She's 4.

cyberhaunt.com

This is another great kids site that she likes a lot.

meddybemps.com


This one is more for older kids and adults. It's my favorite scary site.

Devil's Tramping Ground

I am an Old-time radio and audio drama fan. Here is a creepy kids original audio drama.

Halloween In July