The Saturday Night Special: “Araby” by James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in a…
The Saturday Night Special: “Casting the Runes” by M.R. James
“Best known for his ghost stories, M.R. James invigorated the genre by using more realistic and contemporary settings than his predecessors. He is known as the originator of the “antiquarian ghost story.” James published his first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, in 1904. Most of our favorite stories featured here…
The Saturday Night Special: “To Build a Fire” by Jack London (1908)
John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist, and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an…
The Saturday Night Special: “Glamr” by Sabine Baring-Gould (1863)
The following story is found in the Gretla, an Icelandic Saga, composed in the thirteenth century, or that comes to us in the form then given to it; but it is a redaction of a Saga of much earlier date. Most of it is thoroughly historical, and its statements are…
The Saturday Night Special: “The Boarded Window” by Ambrose Bierce (1891)
In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, lay an immense and almost unbroken forest. The whole region was sparsely settled by people of the frontier–restless souls who no sooner had hewn fairly habitable homes out of the wilderness…
The Saturday Night Special: “At the End of the Passage” by Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work….
The Saturday Night Special: “What was it?” by Fitz-James O’Brien (1859)
{O’Brien’s] His earliest writings in the United States were contributed to the Lantern, which was then edited by John Brougham. Subsequently, he wrote for the Home Journal, the New York Times, and the American Whig Review. His first important literary connection was with Harper’s Magazine,..[from Wikipedia]
Coming to The Saturday Night Special on August 20: “What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien
The Saturday Night Special on August 20, 2022 at 10:00 p.m. (US central time) will feature the story “What Was It” by Irish-American author Fitz-James O’Brien.
Coming to The Saturday Night Special on August 20: “What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien
The Saturday Night Special on August 20, 2022 at 10:00 p.m. (US central time) will feature the story “What Was It” by Irish-American author Fitz-James O’Brien.
The Saturday Night Special: “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood (1907) from Horrorbabble
(from Wikipedia) Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, “His work is more consistently…
