49.3 The Perfect Recording
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Unable to perfect his podcast audio, asocial voice artist Jake makes a deal with a mystical being to improve his recording. But at what cost?
Written & narrated by Josh Curran
Edited by Karl Hughes
With music by Andrew KN and Thom Robson
And sound effects provided by Freesound.Org
The illustration for the cover art was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House.
Josh Curran is a narrator and writer. He has narrated many episodes of The Other Stories over the show’s lifetime. He is also the creator of the horror Audio-Drama podcast, Miscreation. You can follow him on twitter, @jcurranwriter
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| 0:00.0 | These aren't the stories your mother told you. No, these are the other stories. |
| 0:10.4 | El Mavvo is coming back. A couple of years ago, we launched the Kickstarter campaign to bring our first comic |
| 0:21.6 | book, El Mavow, to the world. It told the story about a luched or wrestler waking up at a post-apocalyptic |
| 0:27.3 | future there to battle mutants and super soldiers from the evil clutches of the dictator, Socrates. |
| 0:33.4 | Well, if you're up for some Pulpy comic book fun, then you may be interested to hear that |
| 0:36.8 | the lucher from the future is coming back. |
| 0:39.7 | On the 2 of March, the Kickstarter campaign for Issue 2 goes live. |
| 0:44.3 | So if you want to get the newest issue, or maybe even both issues, you'll be able to grab them from the Kickstarter campaign. |
| 0:49.9 | In the meantime, head over to hawk and cleaver.com forward slash elmarvo to put your name down |
| 0:54.7 | and be notified as soon as the campaign goes live. |
| 0:58.3 | Today's episode is The Perfect Recording, written and narrated by Josh Curran. |
| 1:07.5 | The others were all dead. |
| 1:10.7 | Drenched in the blood of his friends, Charlie fled down the hall and into the cellar, slamming the door behind him, then barricading it. Charlie took cover behind some boxes. But despite the barricade, the door slowly opened. |
| 1:33.7 | Charlie could do nothing but look on in horror as a slimy green. |
| 1:38.4 | Okay. |
| 1:41.1 | One, two, three. |
| 1:45.1 | Charlie could do nothing but look on in horror. |
| 1:48.3 | Happy birthday to you. |
| 1:51.8 | I give up. |
| 1:56.7 | I disconnect the microphone and sink into my not comfy chair. |
| 2:00.7 | How am I supposed to record anything in these conditions? |
| 2:04.7 | Why can't my recording studio be soundproof? |
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