Auditory Entertainments YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/AuditoryEntertainments A Lavish Tale's author's web site: https://vermilionroot.com "Sir Lavish Dn’Moore is embarking on a quest that he believes is the desire of his sword. The powerful blade has been responsible for much of his success over the years and during that time, Lavish has discovered that bound to the weapon is a Presence that he feels might be a woman’s soul. He ventures forth to face unknown terrors in dangerous and unfamiliar places whereby he seeks to uncover all the curious secrets of the sword. Lavish braves it all by keeping a special ‘hope’ in his heart."  - R.M. Hicks

A Lavish Tale's author's web site: https://vermilionroot.com Auditory Entertainments YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/AuditoryEntertainments "Sir Lavish Dn’Moore is embarking on a quest that he believes is the desire of his sword. The powerful blade has been responsible for much of his success over the years and during that time, Lavish has discovered that bound to the weapon is a Presence that he feels might be a woman’s soul. He ventures forth to face unknown terrors in dangerous and unfamiliar places whereby he seeks to uncover all the curious secrets of the sword. Lavish braves it all by keeping a special ‘hope’ in his heart."  - R.M. Hicks

Thy Name Is Woman - by Kenneth O'Hara "Women of earth had finally attained their objective: a new world all their own and—without men! But was it?" - from, IF Worlds of Science Fiction 1953

The Pluto Lamp - by Charles A. Stearns "It was the most outrageous kind of irony that fate, and the Commission of Galactic Astrography, should select such a prime misfit as Knucklebone Smith to light the lamp of Pluto." - from Planet Stories (Fall 1954)

The Comet - by W.E.B. Du Bois "The Comet is a science fiction short story, written by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1920. It discusses the relationship between Jim Davis (a black man) and Julia (a wealthy white woman) after a comet hits New York and unleashes toxic gases that kill everyone except them.  Originally published as the tenth chapter of Du Bois's Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil, The Comet was reprinted in the 2000 anthology Dark Matter: The Anthology of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction by Black Writers." - from Wikipedia

Old Rambling House - by Frank Herbert "All the Grahams desired was a home they could call their own...  but what did the home want?" - from Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1958

Creatures of the Light 4/4 - by Sophie Wenzel Ellis "In a night club of many lights and much high-pitched laughter, where he had come for an hour of forgetfulness and an execrable dinner, John Northwood was suddenly conscious that Fate had begun shuffling the cards of his destiny for a dramatic game." - from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930

Creatures of the Light 3/4 - by Sophie Wenzel Ellis "In a night club of many lights and much high-pitched laughter, where he had come for an hour of forgetfulness and an execrable dinner, John Northwood was suddenly conscious that Fate had begun shuffling the cards of his destiny for a dramatic game." - from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930

Creatures of the Light 2/4 - by Sophie Wenzel Ellis "In a night club of many lights and much high-pitched laughter, where he had come for an hour of forgetfulness and an execrable dinner, John Northwood was suddenly conscious that Fate had begun shuffling the cards of his destiny for a dramatic game." - from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930

Creatures of the Light 1/4 - by Sophie Wenzel Ellis "In a night club of many lights and much high-pitched laughter, where he had come for an hour of forgetfulness and an execrable dinner, John Northwood was suddenly conscious that Fate had begun shuffling the cards of his destiny for a dramatic game." - from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930

Paycheck 3/3 - by Philip K Dick  "Rethrick Construction hired Jennings for two years.  When he left they erased his memory.  This annoyed him, but not half as much as his paycheck." - from Imagination, June 1953

Paycheck 2/3 - by Philip K Dick "Rethrick Construction hired Jennings for two years.  When he left they erased his memory.  This annoyed him, but not half as much as his paycheck." - from Imagination, June 1953

Paycheck 1/3 - by Philip K Dick  "Rethrick Construction hired Jennings for two years.  When he left they erased his memory.  This annoyed him, but not half as much as his paycheck." - from Imagination, June 1953

Out of This World - by Henry Hasse "When the Earth supply ship set down upon prison planet Number Seven last week, a curious state of affairs was found: the prisoners below mining the ore as usual, the overseer dead, and every indication of some stark drama having taken place. In the study of the overseer's house one man was found dead, apparently by his own hand, and beside him on the desk was a hastily scribbled document which is herewith published." - Planet Stories, Summer 1942

Black Amazon of Mars 5/5 - by Leigh Brackett "Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city—with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel—ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures—at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!" - from Planet Stories, March 1951

Black Amazon of Mars 4/5 - by Leigh Brackett "Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city—with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel—ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures—at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!" - from Planet Stories, March 1951

Black Amazon of Mars 3/5 - by Leigh Brackett "Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city—with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel—ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures—at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!" - from Planet Stories, March 1951

Black Amazon of Mars 2/5 - by Leigh Brackett "Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city—with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel—ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures—at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!" - from Planet Stories, March 1951

Black Amazon of Mars 1/5 - by Leigh Brackett "Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city—with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel—ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures—at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!" - from Planet Stories, March 1951

The Canterville Ghost - by Oscar Wilde Our production is based on Walton Butterfield's dramatization of Oscar Wilde's, The Canterville Ghost. Butterfield's play originally aired in 1939 on the Terror By Night radio drama series.  Have a happy Halloween!