Spooky Soliloquies 2020 | The Post-Meridian Radio Players

The Post-Meridian Radio Players love Halloween and while we couldn’t be together in person in 2020, we still brought some Halloween treats! On Halloween, Saturday Oct. 31st, we hosted “Spooky Soliloquies” — tales told by a single reader, available for free to stream or download.

From Noon until 10pm posted stories on the hour every hour to our Soundcloud account; you can listen or download them from there or scroll down to stream them from this page.

Featuring Stories From

Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Nesbit and more!Read by
Mare Freed - Jay Sekora - Max Bowen - Jessica Lulka - Sarah Parisi Boçi - Marleigh Norton - Marty Mason - Tegan Kehoe -
Rashi Verma - Martha Putnam Sites - Daniel Gurzynski - Brian Edgar - Liz Salazar - Kamela Dolinova - Nick & Amy Bennett-Zendzian

While the stories are free if you’d like to drop us a tip feel free to PayPal us at [email protected] or hit us up at https://bit.ly/2J1A6w3. Any and all contributions are greatly appreciated!

Spooky Soliloquies Crew:
Producer – Chris DeKalb
Sound Editing – Jeremy Holstein
Upload Gremlin – Meg Wickham

Listen to the stories!

You can stream the stories from this page hear using the embedded players below or from our SoundCloud page.

Shout-out from Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone (0:35)

Martha Putnam Sites reads Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” (10:36)

Nick Bennet-Zendzian reads Ambrose Bierce’s “The Boarded Window” (8:16)

Shout-out from Naomi Ibasitas of Fort Point Theatre Channel (0:29)

Kamela Dolinova reads Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” (20:19)

Shout-out from Mike Sprague of the Arisia sci-fi convention (0:29)

Dan Gurzynski reads H.F. Arnold’s “The Night Wire” (16:36)

Liz Salazar reads Edith Nesbit’s “The Power of Darkness” (32:31)

Shout-out from Phoebe Roberts, creator of Mrs. Hawking (0:26)

Jay Sekora reads Charles Dickens’s “The Signal-Man” (29:51)

Rashi Verma reads W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Appointment in Samara” (1:57)

Max Bowan reads Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (25:03)

Paul Dworkin reads his original story “Ghost Mother” (10:45)

Jeremy Holstein reads William Hope Hodgson’s “The Gateway of the Monster” (55:49)

Tegan Kehoe reads Wilkie Collins’s “The Traveler’s Story of the Terribly Strange Bed” (38:20)

Sarah Parisi Boçi reads Guy de Maupassant’s “The Horla” (part 1, 32:41)

Sarah Parisi Boçi reads Guy de Maupassant’s “The Horla” (part 2, 39:22)

Brian Edgar reads H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls” (41:35)

Mare Freed reads James Whitcomb Riley’s “Little Orphant Annie” (3:01)

Jess Lulka reads H.P. Lovecraft’s “Dagon” (15:19)

Marty Mason reads W. Horton’s “Aren’t You Glad You Didn’t Turn On the Light?” (2:46)

Marleigh Norton reads Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (23:30)

Series:

Halloween

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