The Midnight Reading: "Gabriel-Ernest"
Fireside Mystery Theatre
Fireside Mystery Theatre
4.5 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Midnight Reading is a special series of dramatic readings of lost classics from the world of macabre fiction that have inspired our show, [**Fireside Mystery Theatre**](https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com). We hope to encourage you, dear listeners, to embrace the joy of books and to build your own collection of dark literature.
Hosted by James Rieser
"Gabriel-Ernest" by Saki — read and performed by Ali Silva
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Created and produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva for Fireside Mystery Productions
Written by Silbin Sandovar
Post-production audio by Ali Silva
Theme music by Martina DaSilva
Audio recording engineered by Wayne Silver at The Ice Plant Studio in New York City
Copyright 2018 Fireside Mystery Productions
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| 0:00.0 | In the dark of night, one light still yet burns. |
| 0:10.1 | Frightened fingers tremble as brittle pages turn. |
| 0:15.9 | Fireside Mystery Theater presents The Midnight Reading, |
| 0:19.1 | a special series of dramatic recitations of dark |
| 0:22.1 | masterpieces in miniature by the masters of the macabre. Good evening. I'm James Reeser. |
| 0:33.0 | What's that? |
| 0:38.2 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:39.1 | You say you heard something? |
| 0:43.9 | Well, that could be a lot of things. |
| 0:46.8 | But all right, then, I can see that it's troubling you a bit. |
| 0:49.7 | Not to worry. |
| 0:52.7 | It would have been nice to take in that pleasant evening breeze, but there, I've closed the window |
| 0:58.8 | for you. |
| 0:59.6 | That better. |
| 1:01.2 | What's this I'm holding here in my hand, you ask? |
| 1:03.2 | Oh, just something I pulled from Fireside Mystery Theater's overcrowded bookshelf of lost literary |
| 1:07.7 | classics. |
| 1:08.8 | Old but lovingly curated volumes that contain tales touched by the |
| 1:12.3 | strange, the unusual, the mysterious, the macabre. This book I have here is called The Best of Saki. |
| 1:19.1 | That spelled S-A-K-I. Oh, but that was only a pen name. His real name was Hector Humann-Roe. |
| 1:29.3 | Such a wonderful book this is. |
| 1:31.3 | So many delightful tales to choose from. |
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