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THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM (1917) by Algernon Blackwood An Englishman on vacation in the Swiss Alps, attempts to reserve a room at a quiet village inn, only to discover there are no vacancies. He is later offered a room that is 'in a sense engaged', and the rumors voiced by the inn's porter regarding the possible fate of the previous occupant excite his imagination.

THE HAUNTED DOLLS HOUSE (1923) by M. R. James An antiques dealer named Dillet acquires a beautiful antique dolls' house for a relatively low price. The dolls' house comes complete with dolls which represent servants and a family made up of two children, a father, a mother and a grandfather. At one o'clock in the morning, Dillet sees a ghostly drama play out in the dolls' house.

ZOMBIES! The Grave Gives Up.txt (1924) by Jack D'Arcy Gordon Lane gets a phone call from his fiancée pleading for help. The catch is that said fiancée was killed in a car crash two weeks earlier. Lane, who works for the county attorney's office, is able to get the call traced, and discovers that it came from the caretaker's house in the cemetery where his late fiancée is buried...

Dracula - retold (1897/2004) by Bram Stoker/Ian Edward Transue This classic tale opens with Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. This special retelling is abbreviated for your listening enjoyment.

The Dead Travel Fast by Bram Stoker & Gottfried Bürger Restless spirits abound, from those who cannot go to their rest, to those who WILL not. And some poor souls who didnt even know they were scheduled for departure. Oh, there is no one crankier than someone rudely awakened on the wrong side of the dirt!

The Upper Berth (1886) by F. Marion Crawford The story takes place aboard a transatlantic ocean liner. A passenger named Brisbane is puzzled when the steward behaves oddly while taking his luggage to his stateroom, number 105. In the middle of the first night, Brisbane is further perplexed when his roommate suddenly leaps down from the upper berth and runs out of the cabin. In the morning, Brisbane learns that his roommate has gone overboard – and was the fourth consecutive occupant of the same upper berth to do so.

Ancient Fires (1923) by Seabury Quinn Jules de Grandin is an occult detective created by Seabury Quinn for Weird Tales. Alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, he fought ghosts, werewolves, devil worshippers, monsters, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave! Tonight, in the tale Ancient Fires, Grandin and Trowbridge are engaged to investigate strange happenings at a grand old mansion and we discover that love can survive even the greatest sacrifice.

The Bride of Frankenstein (1925) by Guy Preston After recovering from injuries sustained in the mob attack upon himself and his creation, Dr. Frankenstein falls under the control of his former mentor, Dr. Pretorius, who insists the now-chastened doctor resume his experiments in creating new life. Meanwhile, the Monster remains on the run from those who wish to destroy him without understanding that his intentions are generally good despite his lack of socialization and self-control. Tonight's story, written by Guy Preston, was derived from the 1935 screenplay of the same name, and was published and released at the same time as the movie. That movie “monsterpiece” was created by James Whale, and is widely considered the best film of the “golden age” of horror cinema. Cue the lightning . . .

Was It A Dream? (1903) by Guy de Maupassant When it was quite dark, I left my refuge and began to walk softly, slowly, inaudibly, through that ground full of dead people, and I wandered about for a long time,

Miriam (1925) by Truman Capote Mrs. H. T. Miller wants to spend the remaining years of her life alone in her apartment near the East River after the death of her husband. Then Miriam appears...

https://youtu.be/yQAsOeHC7Kg Welcome to Storylink Radio as we begin this years… COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWE'EN! Storylink Radio provides free year round storytelling from professional storytellers. And now it's Hallowe'en Time! For the best in Ghosts & Haunts stories visit our website and youtube channel. New Hallowe'en Tales released daily, and starting October 1st is HALLOWE'EN COUNTDOWN!! A new story presented LIVE everyday at midnight, you can listen for 24 hours, then the next one appears! As we countdown to the big Three – One!! View the full schedule of our month long events and live online presentations by going to our website, and clicking on the SPECIAL EVENT link at top of the page. And visit our podcast for hundreds more stories you can listen to free anywhere on any device! Visit our website for a link, or just search at your favorite podcast provider for Storylink Radio For Virtual World audience you can attend presentations inworld Opensim and SL as well on Loutube and live stream and be sure to check out our Full Region Hallowe'en Mall featuring some the top Opensim Merchants. Tune in now to get your Scare on!! Links On Screen Website is at: www.storylinkradio.com Youtube Channel is: www.youtube.com/StorylinkRadio

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com “Love may be eternal, but Lovers are mortal…Aren’t they??”   Some restless spirits do not depart in peace because they cannot—or will not! Perhaps it is unfinished business that detains them, a bargain made, a promise unfulfilled. Perhaps a desperate yearning, their own or another’s, that knots that otherwise-severed golden thread.

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com "The Monster Demands A Mate!" After recovering from injuries sustained in the mob attack upon himself and his creation, Dr. Frankenstein falls under the control of his former mentor, Dr. Pretorius, who insists the now-chastened doctor resume his experiments in creating new life. Meanwhile, the Monster remains on the run from those who wish to destroy him without understanding that his intentions are generally good despite his lack of socialization and self-control.   Tonight’s story, written by Guy Preston, was derived from the 1935 screenplay of the same name, and was published and released at the same time as the movie. That movie “monsterpiece” was created by James Whale, and is widely considered the best film of the “golden age” of horror cinema. Cue the lightning . . .   

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com The Cave Girl is a lost world novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. In an instant there sloughed from the heart and mind and soul of Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones every particle of civilization and culture and refinement that has required countless ages in the building, stripping him naked, age on age, down to the primordial beast that has begot his first human progenitor. He saw red as he leaped for the throat of the man-beast whose ruthless hands were upon Nadara Rolling, tearing and biting, they battled-each seeking a death hold on the other. Nadara’s eyes were wide with fascination. She leaned forward with parted lips, drinking in every detail of the conflict between the two beasts. Ah, but was the yellow-haired giant really fighting for the possession of her, or merely in protection, because she is a woman?

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com The Cave Girl is a lost world novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. In an instant there sloughed from the heart and mind and soul of Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones every particle of civilization and culture and refinement that has required countless ages in the building, stripping him naked, age on age, down to the primordial beast that has begot his first human progenitor. He saw red as he leaped for the throat of the man-beast whose ruthless hands were upon Nadara Rolling, tearing and biting, they battled-each seeking a death hold on the other. Nadara’s eyes were wide with fascination. She leaned forward with parted lips, drinking in every detail of the conflict between the two beasts. Ah, but was the yellow-haired giant really fighting for the possession of her, or merely in protection, because she is a woman?

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com Winter Dreams is a short story of love, friendship, and betrayaL. Middle-class Dexter Green has big dreams—to one day be as elite as the “old-money” families he works for each day as a golf caddy. When Dexter returns to the golf club as the guest of the men he once caddied for, he meets his undoing in the enchanting Judy Jones. First published in Metropolitan Magazine in 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” was considered by the author to be the first draft of The Great Gatsby.

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com In 1943 Philip Van Doren Stern decided to give the gift of words to his closest friends for the holidays when he printed up 200 copies of a story called 'The Greatest Gift' and sent them out as a 21-page Christmas card, which became the basis for well-loved movie "It's A Wonderful Life"

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com The owners of Harrowby Hall had done their utmost to rid themselves of the damp and dewy lady who rose up out of the best bedroom floor at midnight, but without avail. They had tried stopping the clock, so that the ghost would not know when it was midnight; but she made her appearance just the same, with that fearful miasmatic personality of hers, and there she would stand until everything about her was thoroughly saturated.

READ ALONG AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com An 1887 Victorian poem on the subject of ghosts from the darker side of humanity.    Creatures of mist, half credited; Our faint form flings No shadow in moonlight on the bed We visit; noiseless is our tread, Who come from deserts of the dead, Where no bird sings...

READ ALONG AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com A doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate.

READ ALONG AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com In Providence, Rhode Island, Robert Blake, a young writer with an interest in the occult, becomes fascinated by a large disused church on Federal Hill which he can see from his lodgings on the city's Upper East side. His researches reveal that the church has a sinister history involving a cult called the Church of Starry Wisdom and is dreaded by the local migrant inhabitants as being haunted by a primeval evil.    The being can only go abroad in darkness, and is hence constrained to the tower at night by the presence of the lights of the city. However, when the city electric power is weakened during a thunderstorm, the local people are terrified by the sounds coming from the church.

READ ALONG AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com A reporter and local monster-hunter travels to Tempest Mountain, in the Catskills range, after reports of various attacks by a group of unidentified creatures against the local inhabitants

READ ALONG AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com This is considered the first vampire story, although not the first English vampire story. That honor goes to John Polidori’s The Vampyre, which you can also listen to hear on StoryLinkRadio Podcast. because Wake Not The Dead wasn’t translated into English until 1823.  It can  be considered the first modern vampire romance. It is about a man who loves his dead wife so much he has a necromancer return her to life, only to discover she has become a vampire. Walter so loved his first wife and mourns her passing that even his new wife and family cannot ease his pain. A necromancer brings her back to life, despite his warnings “Wake Not the Dead.” She is even more beautiful than before, and it seems at first to be everything he hoped for. But this is not a romance but a horror story and a cautionary tale so over time things change. Although in the original German version Teick never actually calls her a vampire, she drinks blood, avoids sunlight, and possesses a power to hypnotize her victims. All the classic traits we associate with vampires.  Even this earliest stage, the vampire has become an erotic creature bound up with our deepest and darkest fantasies.

Written to support the mission of the Royal Society for Public Health. This is a brilliant story about a dystopian world where only the rich can protect themselves from a diet of unhealthy advertising! Please visit fromheretowhere.org for more information.

THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!] READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com In Irish folklore, there are many stories about creatures who can transform themselves from seals to humans. These beings are called selkies. [all audio ©StoryLinkRadio]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main. An Old-time Story of the Days of Captain Kidd.  [all audio ©StoryLinkRadio]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com Like the novel "The Great Gatsby" this story examines a boy whose ambitions become identified with a selfish rich girl. Fitzgerald described "Winter Dreams" as "A sort of first draft of Gatsby."

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he didn't commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness.

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com In this tale of classic literature, Saki gives animals uncanny power, and they act to expose the worst in their human counterparts.

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com In Irish folklore, there are many stories about creatures who can transform themselves from seals to humans. These beings are called selkies.

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. An ignominious and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. An ignominious and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. A ignominious and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. A ignominious and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. A ignominious and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. A ignominious and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. A ignominious and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. A ignominious and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

READ ALONG WITH PODCAST AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com THE Classic Arthurian folklore. A drama of illicit love, the magic of sorcery, and the quest for the Holy Grail. A ignominious and chivalrous tale that's been recounted for centuries. All the famous characters are here... King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, Merlin, Excalibur, the sword in the stone, and all the Knights of the Round Table. StoryLink Radio presents here the original epic tale from Thomas Mallory first published in the year 1485. [new chapter added daily!]

For the ancient Irish, the dead did not simply go away. They could, if they so desired, come back to interact with the living in various ways. They could come back in order to warn, advise, admonish or convey secrets to the living or to fulfill tasks which they had left uncompleted in life. And those who did return to the world of the living were not always the insubstantial phantoms of the Victorian imagination. Rather they were corporeal figures who could make their presence felt in actual and substantial ways. Grainne Daly is the story of a desperate, unmarried girl, anxious to make a life for herself and her mother, and the shadowy evil of the stranger who comes to their door asking for her hand in wedlock.

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com The owners of Harrowby Hall had done their utmost to rid themselves of the damp and dewy lady who rose up out of the best bedroom floor at midnight, but without avail. They had tried stopping the clock, so that the ghost would not know when it was midnight; but she made her appearance just the same, with that fearful miasmatic personality of hers, and there she would stand until everything about her was thoroughly saturated.

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT:  www.StoryLinkRadio.com The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land. (story adapted by: Ian Edward Transue)

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT:  www.StoryLinkRadio.com This the story of a personal experience with ghosts. The man and his brother have been arguing about the existence of ghost in this seventeenth century built mansion they were staying in for the night. They decided to stay up all night to see if the ghosts were real. Around midnight they find out...

READ ALONG AT:  www.StoryLinkRadio.com You follow the road across the moor for two miles, until you come to Redman's Cross. You turn to the left there, and follow a rough path that leads through a larch plantation. And Tebbits' farm lies just below you in the valley...

READ ALONG AT:  www.StoryLinkRadio.com Friends decide to investigate a reputedly haunted house with... fatal results.