Happy Halloween, Day 26

Links of the Day: I've already recommended The Classic Tales, my very favorite podcast. (Today's new installment is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"!) Here are a few more podcasts I suggest that you check out this Halloween season:

* The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company Podcast (Currently the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company is producing a 5-part dramatization of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" for their podcast.)

* Reflections on H.P. Lovecraft (This is an excellent hour-long talk by scholar S.T. Joshi, the world’s foremost expert on Lovecraft, at SUNY Cortland Memorial Library.)

* Reading the Gothic Podcast (This podcast is produced by the Gothic publishers at Zittaw Press. The latest updates are about Varney the Vampire and "Vampires Before Dracula.")

* Lit2Go (This collection of stories and poems, from Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse, includes a number of horror classics, from The Castle of Otranto to Frankenstein.)



Literature of the Day: Be sure you read this one to its very end. Spooky!

"Haunted"
By Ellen P. Allerton (1835-1893)

There stood a goodly house___I knew it well,___
Built like a palace, with fair, stately halls,
Where all things pure and beautiful did dwell,
And sat at peace within its lovely walls.
And oft a voice, tuned like a sweet-toned bell,
In strains of throbbing music rose and fell.

A home of harmonies___a gentle throng!
A home of rest and peace; and yet there came___
Sudden and swift and dark___a day of shame.
Henceforth an end of peace, an end of song.
Henceforth a crowd of demons come and go,
And range all the chambers, high and low.

( The house is haunted. Shadows dark as night, )