A Spoonful of Sugar
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07/05/22 • 74 min
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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
This one gets weird right off the bat, with Heather deciding that being literary and funny isn't enough, this show also needs to be a paranormal political travelogue. It's a pretty wild opening that includes advice on finding some really horrifying stuff on the internet. Ken does not approve.
Once we get to the story, chosen by Heather this week, we're back in familiar if unsettling territory as Ken reads a ghost story from M.R. James entitled "The Haunted Dolls House."
It's exactly the kind of beautifully written creep fest we've come to expect from Mr. James. As the episode progresses Heather tries to sell you things I promise you don't want, Ken basically just whines about being uncomfortable a lot, and one of your hosts misses a really obvious "Elizabethan erection" joke.
"The Haunted Dolls House" was published in Empire Review in 1923. It was republished 2 years later in the anthology A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories.
Some of the haunted objects Heather talks about can be found here.
Info on M.R James can be found by listening to Episode 6 of this podcast!
Email us at [email protected].
Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.
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Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
This one gets weird right off the bat, with Heather deciding that being literary and funny isn't enough, this show also needs to be a paranormal political travelogue. It's a pretty wild opening that includes advice on finding some really horrifying stuff on the internet. Ken does not approve.
Once we get to the story, chosen by Heather this week, we're back in familiar if unsettling territory as Ken reads a ghost story from M.R. James entitled "The Haunted Dolls House."
It's exactly the kind of beautifully written creep fest we've come to expect from Mr. James. As the episode progresses Heather tries to sell you things I promise you don't want, Ken basically just whines about being uncomfortable a lot, and one of your hosts misses a really obvious "Elizabethan erection" joke.
"The Haunted Dolls House" was published in Empire Review in 1923. It was republished 2 years later in the anthology A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories.
Some of the haunted objects Heather talks about can be found here.
Info on M.R James can be found by listening to Episode 6 of this podcast!
Email us at [email protected].
Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.
Like, subscribe, leave a review.
Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.
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A Plethora of Butts
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
It's the closest thing to a live episode we've done yet! Recorded at an actual campsite in front of a real live tent! Oh, the excitement! The drama! The...butt jokes? Okay, so it's the same old show.
Ken has chosen a story for Heather to read by author Stuart Strauss (probably a fake name) called "The Shadow on the Moor". That part is probably real.
As the stories are read, your hosts ask:
How do they spell cigarette in 2937?
Do you remember the game Crossfire?
Can a butt be an inny?
"The Shadow on the Moor" was published in 1928 in Weird Tales. Extensive research has discovered no evidence of an active copyright.
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Oh! Pooh!
2 RecommendationsWelcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
Come down! Come down! And let’s see who you be!
If that didn’t make sense to you, you haven’t listened to this week’s episode yet. And why the heck not!?!? Huh? What’s keeping you?
It is a pretty good one. Ken has chosen a story for Heather by author Harriet Beecher Stowe of Uncle Tom fame. But like, it’s funny, and spooky, and there’s a lot of stuff about poo and penises. So, you know...a Campfire Classics episode.
Heather gives a masterful read despite the story being largely written in dialect (something regular listeners will know our hosts fear more than death by a thousand mosquitoes), and along the way you’ll be treated to some classic ‘90s movie references from Heather, Ken fundamentally misunderstanding what is happening in the story, and a surprisingly long conversation about the virtues of a wooden prosthetic foreskin.
"The Ghost in the Mill” was published in the collection Oldtown Fireside Stories in 1872.
Email us at [email protected].
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Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.
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