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🗓️ 8 March 2019
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Duels, death and chicanery all cavort with cynical discipline in two stories by the devil’s lexicographer. Ambrose Bierce, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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And now for something completely different. Ambrose Bierce is kind of like Mark Twain without a filter. His gift for writing is undeniable, but his stories always have a biting wit that sometimes can bite pretty deep.
For the month of March, we’ll be having Moonlight March, where we’ll be featuring writers who have a distinct proficiency in the medium of the ghost story. Today we’ll have first a bit of a jocular tale called “The City of the Gone Away”, followed by the chiller, “The Middle Toe of the Right Foot”.
H.P. Lovecraft said of Bierce, “Virtually all of Bierce’s tales are tales of horror; and whilst many of them treat only of the physical and psychological horrors within Nature, a substantial proportion admit the malignly supernatural and form a leading element in America’s fund of weird literature”.
And now, The City of the Gone Away, and The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, by Ambrose Bierce.
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0:00.0 | Duels, death and chicaneery all co-vort with cynical discipline in two stories by the devil's |
0:09.5 | lexicographer Ambrose Beers, today on the Classic Tales Podcast. |
0:24.9 | Welcome to the Classic Tales Podcast. |
0:27.0 | Thank you for listening. |
0:28.9 | The Classic Tales Podcast is listener supported. |
0:32.2 | Your monthly donation really helps to create a support flow that we can count on. |
0:37.5 | If you can step up with $5 a month, that really helps us out. |
0:42.9 | Go to classictalesaudiobooks.com and become a monthly supporter. |
0:47.9 | You get a monthly thank you code for any digital download in the store. |
0:52.1 | It's a great deal and a great feeling. |
0:54.9 | Thank you very much. |
0:56.7 | You can also purchase t-shirts and stuff at our merchandise store and check out the |
1:01.2 | Hybrid Audio Book, the audiobook that's embedded in a printed book that I've invented |
1:07.3 | and patented. |
1:08.8 | Links can be found in the episodes details. |
1:12.5 | And for those of you with the Classic Tales app, check out your special features for more |
1:16.9 | meditations of Marcus Aurelius, just enough to wet your whistle. |
1:22.1 | And finally, we are now on the Roku Network. |
1:26.7 | If you have a Roku, which is kind of like a Chromecast where you plug it into your TV |
1:30.9 | and you can stream media, you can now listen to the Classic Tales through your Roku. |
1:37.9 | We are on the audiobooks network channel. |
1:40.9 | A link is also in the show details. |
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