Reading: The Cask of Amontillado

Another video I forgot to post here on the blog. I read Walter Scott Story's fan-fiction "The Sequel" aloud a while back, and I posted that, but forgot to post my reading of this Poe classic.

Anyway, enjoy!

An Alternate Ending to a Poe Classic: The Sequel, by Walter Scott Story

A little while back I read Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Cask of Amontillado..." Well, Walter Scott Story wrote a little alternative ending to the story that also got into the first issue of Weird Tales (1923).

It's simply titled "The Sequel," and it tells the story of a possible, and maybe even plausible, escape. Having played around with bricks and mortar before, I find this story believable.

Anyway, see the video above for my reading, or read it yourself here:
https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV01n01192303/page/n119/mode/2up

A Mesmerizing Poe Horror Reading: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

No major commentary in this post; the video above is my reading of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is about what was called "mesmerism" back in the day. Poe wrote it all the way back in 1845 or so, when it was published in The American Review and Broadway Journal. Poe wrote a bunch of good, short fiction, but this was a story I'd never heard of. And it was good enough to reprint in the first issue of Amazing Stories.

It provides a dark and horrific result to a test that was, according to what I've read, plausible enough at the time: What happens if you mesmerize a man just before he dies?

Anyway, enjoy the reading! I'm going to try to do more of them as time goes on.