45 episodes
Unpleasant Dreams Jim Harold's Spooky Studio
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4.8 • 506 Ratings
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Chilling stories told by Cassandra Harold. Season 3 brings a format change with classic frightening fiction as the focus.
Prior topics include strange and anomalous phenomena, mind benders, head scratchers and mysterious true crime cases.
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The Mask - Part One - Unpleasant Dreams 44
We delve into Robert W. Chambers' "The Mask," a tale that intertwines love, art, and the audacity of human ambition. What happens when an artist's quest for eternal beauty crosses the unforgiving lines of mortality?
Join us as we explore a story that ventures beyond the surface, examining the emotional and psychological toll of capturing perfection—at a price. Your narrator is Cassandra Harold.
You can find the original text of this classic 1895 story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8492/pg8492-images.html#THE_MASK
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A Voice In The Night - Unpleasant Dreams 43
A terrifying tale of a lost soul on the sea crying for any help he can find for himself and his doomed wife.
Cassandra Harold narrates the classic short story, "A Voice In The Night" by William Hope Hodgson.
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A School Story - Unpleasant Dreams 42
Classmates exchange mysterious tales about their "ordinary" Latin teacher. Their banter spirals into a gripping saga of ghostly encounters, where reality blurs with the realm of the unknown.
Cassandra Harold reads this classic tale, A School Story by M.R. James on this edition of Unpleasant Dreams.
You can find the short story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9629
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A Suspicious Gift -- Unpleasant Dreams 41
Ever get an offer too good too be true? That's the terrifying predicament of our subject on this week's Unpleasant Dreams.
Cassandra Harold narrates this classic short horror story.
Source of A Suspicious Gift by Algernon Blackwood: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14471
Follow Cassandra’s Instagram here: https://instagram.com/unpleasant_dreams_podcast
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The Damned Thing -- Unpleasant Dreams 40
A man finds himself haunted by an unseen, malevolent force. Will he overcome it, will it drive him mad, or worse?
Cassandra Harold narrates this classic Ambrose Bierce short horror story.
Source of The Damned Thing: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23172/23172-h/23172-h.htm
Follow Cassandra’s new Instagram here: https://instagram.com/unpleasant_dreams_podcast
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A Midnight Visitor - Unpleasant Dreams 39
A man gets a most unwelcome visitor late at night!
Cassandra Harold is your narrator.
You can find A Midnight Visitor by John Kendrick Bangs at The Gutenberg Project: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8377/pg8377.html
Follow Cassandra’s new Instagram here: https://instagram.com/unpleasant_dreams_podcast
Thanks for listening and please share the show with your friends!
And…may all your dreams be pleasant!
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Cassandra does an amazing job narrating these stories. I would highly recommend to anybody who loves listening to a wonderfully told story to give this show a listen.
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