100 episodes
StoryLink Radio Shandon Loring: Professional Storyteller / Seanchaí
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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The professional storytellers at StoryLink Radio, known as Seanchaí, are committed to bringing stories to Life through the spoken word as in traditional oral storytelling. We present stories of many genres...
Ancient Myths and Legends, short stories, full length novels, science fiction and high fantasy, philosophy, traditions, drama, fiction, non-fiction, romance, theatre, ghosts & haunts, suspense, stories of the strange, and more!
Our stories may be drawn from contemporary sources, or from some dusty near-forgotten tome. Regardless it is a treat like no other to listen to the stories & tales presented in a "live" format with the emotion and feeling a true professional storyteller brings.
The Seanchai's job is much more than purely entertainment. The Seanchaí is the custodian of stories and traditions in need of preservation, and possesses the skill to ignore the inhibitions of modern day stifled conversations and instead focuses their attention on presenting those of us with keen ears - with the stories of the past, sometimes the present and, perhaps, even of what's to come.
The infectious tones that we hear from their lips allow us to momentarily slip away from the modern day and very real world and conjure up images of Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Fantasy.
So enter here, and let us be your Seanchaí for a time!
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Halloween 2022 Countdown 51 - THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM
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. -
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Halloween Countdown 52 - THE HAUNTED DOLLS HOUSE
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. -
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TALES FOR HALLOWEEN - The Grave Gives Up
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... -
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TALES FOR HALLOWEEN - Dracula, retold
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. -
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TALES FOR HALLOWEEN - The Dead Travel Fast
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! -
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TALES FOR HALLOWEEN - The Upper Berth
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.