46.1 Erl-King
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
"My son, wherefore seek'st thou thy face thus to hide?"
"Look, father, the Erl-King is close by our side!"
Written by Elana Gomel
Narrated by Alexandra Elroy
Edited by Karl Hughes
With music by Chris Zabriskie and Zapsplat.com
And sound effects provided by Freesoung.org
Elana Gomel is the author of six non-fiction books published by Routledge, Macmillan and others and of numerous articles on subjects ranging from science fiction and fantasy to posthumanism and Victorian literature. Her fantasy and science fiction stories appeared in Apex, Timeless Tales, Mythic, The Fantasist, and other magazines; and in anthologies The Apex Book of World SF, People of the Book, Zion’s Fiction, Ink Stains, Transcendent and others. Her collection of stories Un/home was published by Alban Lake in 2018. She is the author of three fantasy and science fiction novels: A Tale of Three Cities (2013) The Hungry Ones (2018), and The Cryptids (2019). The fairy-tale-based novel Nightwood is scheduled to come out this year.
She can be found at www.citiesoflightanddarkness.com
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| 0:00.0 | These aren't the stories your mother told you. |
| 0:05.0 | No, these are the other stories. |
| 0:09.0 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 0:19.0 | With the nest, Ova and the evil spirit of Halloween locked away in its cage for another year, |
| 0:23.6 | we're now looking toward that great bearded terror from the North Pole. |
| 0:27.6 | We're boarding up our windows, we're polishing up our shotguns, |
| 0:31.6 | readying for his army of evil elves, terrible reindeer, |
| 0:34.6 | the leader of which dips its nose in the blood of its enemies. But |
| 0:38.9 | alas, we will not succeed. Not unless we band together. That's right. Absolutely. We've just |
| 0:46.8 | received three new soldiers in the war on Santa. Molly Westfield, who I believe has been |
| 0:51.6 | sharpening her teeth. We didn't ask her to do that. And when |
| 0:54.4 | I went to explain that, she bit my little finger off. Russ Taylor, master of making things explode. |
| 1:00.0 | You name it. Russ will explode it. Bread? Sure. Christmas stockings. You bet you. Little evil elves. |
| 1:07.7 | Well, that's kind of a plan. And will it will it dark my good friend will it dark my companion |
| 1:13.2 | will it dark who doesn't know yet but he is destined to become the next sorcerer supreme |
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