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Nameless City (Irem) HP Lovecraft

HP Lovecraft's "Nameless City" 1921. A hapless adventurer wanders into the far reaches of the desert, with the words of the Mad Arab Abdul Al Hazred "That is not dead which eternal can lie...and with strange aeons even death may die..." echoing in his fevered mind. The roseal light of the sub blazes, with visions of the Halls of Memnon, and the times before Babylon. As the sands blow in the spectral ruins, a colossal door springs open. Down the adventurer descends down ancient corridors alighted with a torch, and springs upon antediluvian rites and crocodilian horrors....

Features: Tom Kerin The Adventurer
               Faisal Yaqub Abdul Al-Hazred the Mad Arab 
Music: Emme Ya - "The Backward Path"
                           "Het Isht Num Mize"
                            "Pre-Eval Atavisms (gods ov shadows)
Sound effects from freesound.org
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1001 Arabian Nights: Sinbad 7 and 8 Island of Devils and Return to Sarandib

Sinbad in episode 7 Loses course in a narrow strait filled with leviathans and peril, and finds himself in an isle of winged shape-shifting devils, and finds solace with his second wife and wealthy father in law. Sinbad learns the devil's terrible secret, as they fly to the spheres of heaven, only to be cast down by fiery comets. Twin angels grant Sinbad a rod of red gold that can command serpents who devour men on the island, and finally he returns to his Caliph. 
Sinbad is yet called back to the Island of Sarandib on behlf of the Caliph, who wishes to return favors to the opulent monarch. upon his return to the Ivory Isle, he is waylaid by sea-pirates and sold into slavery. Sinbad falls in favor with an ivory hunter, and finds the Graveyard of the Elephants, a rich repository of tusks. After returning to Baghdad, he concludes his tales of mystery and wonder. 

Miguel Moran Sinbad the Seaman
Richard Garner Sinbad the Landsman
7^th Captain Warren Blackie
Father in Law Glenn Hibburt
Sinbad’s Second Wife Kimlinh Tran
Winged Devil Tony Balun
Rod Bearing Angels S. Longshaw
Devoured Man Isaak Wells
Isaak Wells Ivory Merchant
Riese Meyers Caliph Haroun al Raschid
and Royal Page
Gagnam Patak King of Sarandib
Margritte Sheherezade
Karen Hayman Dunyazad
Michael Valenzuela King Sharhyar

Music Selections Karl Sanders Curse the Sun/ Shira Gula Pazuzu / Slavery Unto Nikotris
Iron Cthulu Apocalypse: Phul / Shambler from the Sea
soundeffects From freesound.org
Art: Depravarts

Enter In / Arabian Adventures Licensed from AudioSparx
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"Abdullah and the 1001 Columns of the City of Irem"

Desert Gems Audio presents Sir Richard Burton’s timeless classic

THE CITY OF MANY COLUMNED IRAM AND ABDULLAH SON OF ABI KILABAH. 

Abdullah the adventurer: Faisal Yaqub

Muwaiyah the Caliph: Kamran Nikhad

Ka’ab the scribe: Warren Blackie

Special Thanks to King Shadad: Richard Kingston

Architects: Anthony Sardinha
Sage Al-Shaabi Sean Chiplock
Sage Al Salibi : Patrick Seymour

Music Qaf – Al Tareeq Ella Tamaher

Music Emme Ya Nightside Ov Eden

“Abdullah and the 1000 Pillars of Irem”
Sound effects from freesound.org Opening and ending credits theme/ "Enter in" Steve Urwin and "Arabian Adventures" by MusicBakery Licensed by Audiosparx.com Desert Gems Audio Mixed COPYRIGHT 2017 ALL rights reserved. 

“But the pearls had grown yellow and had lost pearly colour…”

"The haunting refrain of Abdullah the adventurer echoes as reaches into a bag of spices, jewels and pearls mouldered by time. No one in the court of Muwiyah the Caliph believes the adventurer's tales of an abandoned city in a lost oasis covered by sands, gleaming with silver and bricks of gold, columns of jeweled chrysolite, sparkling fountains, a paradise of fruit-laden trees and no living souls. An old scribe Ka’ab emerges with a forgotten tale of King Shadad of the ancient tribe of Ad within deepest Africa, and the Lost city of 1000 pillars of Irem. Other ancient scribes emerge from his mind’s eye recalling a flash of fire consuming the majestic city, and grave robbers who dared to read the inscription in stone over the jeweled casket of the Mighty King of Shadad…"

Episode 16 Hunchback's Tale Part 3 "The Barber's Tale of his Six Brothers"

The lavish tale of The Hunchback and the winds through the memory of the darkly comic Barber, as the sinister world of his six brothers unfolds, all an embodiment of the seven deadly sins. He recounts barely escaping death from ten condemned men and a cantankerous Caliph. The first brother al Bakbuk, the prattler, a Hunchback tailor lustily covets his Landlord’s wife. As he schemes with her servant to have her for fine robes, the husband has him yoked to a mill as an ox, whilst the women laugh in sheer delight.  The second Al Haddar, the foolish babbler is brimming with lusty delight, and falls in the company of an old woman, who lures him to a harem the Wazirs wife who showers him with slaps and painful conditions, and a drunken throng of devilish maidens who ply him with wine, pelt him with lemons, citrons, and pillows, and uproarious  crescendo of and drunken frolic and trap doors.  

The third Al Fakik, the greedy blind beggar crosses path with a asly and devious House master who endures great lengths of whips and flogging to his pack of blind bandits a lesson they’ll never forget. He sadistically laughs as their blows aretripled and delightfully helps himself to a third of their gold.  The fourth brother, Al Kuz al Aswani, the gabbler, long necked gugglet, and town butcher personifies wrath as he metesout justice to a thieving shapeshifting old shaykh who warns him to turn a blind eye.  Silver coins transform intopaper, a slaughtered ram turns into a human carcass, and the town turns upon him, while the Shaykh’s cane wand puts out his eye. The vengeance of the old shaykh never ceases as he wanders from town to town with a black mark, and with each punishment further marring his fate.

 

The fifth brother concocts a potion of prideful visions from 100 dinars worth of perfumed glass bottles, which crash to his chagrin. An seemingly kind old woman leads him to the house of her mistress, a poisonous damsel married to a Nubian Ifrit. They lure the young man to death in a souterrain of horrors reeking of gore and treasures. Barely escaping death, he returns to the charnel pit to outwit the demonic Nubian, but finds the gold and damsel of his aspirations has a terrible cost.  The sixth brother, Shakashik or many clamors, whose hunger surpasses the circumference of the globe, encounters a sadistic Wazir, and a trio of devious eunuchs to tempt him with a sumptuous repast of thin air. His empty pit of a stomach gnaws as the scheming  Wazir tempts him with salivating depictions of the choicest epicurean delights. A battle of wits ensues for a comical bash of twists and turns, and a drunken carousing feast of twenty years. Despite his good fortune, a twist of fate lands him into the tent of a Bedouin bandit’s wife, where his life and his member hangs upon a blade.

 As Al Samit, the slothful Barber reveals forgiveness by the Caliph, the Sultan of China reels with delight and pardons the Jewish physician, the Agnostic Tailor,the Nazarene Broker and the Muslim Reeve for the death of the Hunchback. There is more in store as the wily barber plays one more trick, and removes a fish bone from the Hunchback’s gullet. The Hunchback fool plays the ultimate trick upon them all in the exciting conclusion of Volume I of the Arabian Nights of Sir Richard Burton's "Arabian Nights Entertainments."

First Tale: Starring Sean Young As Al Samit The Barber the Silent Man. Edwyn Riong Tiong : Sultan of China. Patrick Seymour Nazarene Broker Kamran Nikhad Muslim Reeve and Caliph Tom Kerin Jewish Tailor Tailor Zade Patterson Richard Kingston Sworder  Karen Hayman Dunyazad Margritte:Sheherazade Chris Thurman, Jester’s Hunchback, 1^st Brother   Terah Kuykendall -Servant of Landlord’s Wife Olivia Steele Landlord’s Wife Patrick Seymour: Landlord Sean Chiplock Kazi Second Tale: Older Woman: Danielle McRae Mistress of The House : Cassandra Wladyslava /Tailor’s Wife Brother: Richard Garner Jamaal Ephraim : Captain of the Guard  Third Tale: 3^rdbrother Warren Blackie   Anthony Sardinha Governor Richard Kingston: House Master Fourth Tale: AT Gonzalez  Ryan Edwards: Shape shifting Shaykh Townsperson: Jake Whitmarsh Fifth Tale:  Matt Franklin Fifth Brother Karen Kahler: Old Witch Damsel: Natalie VonSistine Courtier: Jake Whitmarsh Richard Kingston:Nubian Ifrit Sixth brother: Robert Cossyleon Courtiers: RichardGarner Chamberlain: FaisalYaqub Ryan Edwards BedouinBandit Music: Ambient Track Skull Bottle Sorcery "Neptunian" Music Himalayan Gong – Nirtana freesound.org Xserra musical selections from freesound.org. Erik and Derik Feichter: Arabian soundtrack. “Aladdin” KingTut” “Cobra Desert “ Sound effects from freesound.org Opening and ending credits theme/ "Enter in" Steve Urwin and "Arabian Adventures" by MusicBakery Licensed by Audiosparx.com Desert Gems Audio Mixed COPYRIGHT 2016 ALL rights reserved. 

Episode 15: Hunchback's Tale Part II :Jewish Physician's Tale & The Epicurean Tailor's Tale

1001 Arabian nights Audio Drama from Sir Richard Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights Entertainments Sir Richard Burton’s timeless classic “Arabian Nights Entertainments”
Hunchback's Tale Part II the Jewish Physician's Tale and the Tailor's Tale continues captively at the Sultan of China's Court
The physician recants his tale of a young man with no right hand, who in turn tells his hapless tale of intrigue and decapitation of a young damsel by his mysterious lover and the retrieval of her necklace, throughout the lands of Egypt and Damascus. The Tailor also tells his tale, of a impatient young man driven mad by desire, and the mad astrological barber/philosopher  who causes the man to become lame of leg. Introduces the Mad and Bawdy barber for the upcoming conclusion of Volume 1!

Performers:
Tom Kerin - Jewish physician  Rahul Kurup- Mameluke, Landlord, Pawnbroker, Syndic Wazir Barber's Friends. Mark Rowland - Prince without Hand Rip Elliot- Father Uncles and chief - Glenn Hibburt  Villainous Damsel -Kimlinh Tran Governor -Lee Turner Edwyn Rong Tiong Sultan of China Scherezade - Margritte Tailor - Zade PattersonHost, Voice of the Prophet- Joey Sellick Sean Young - Barber Wazirs Daughter - Miriam Bowden Wazir and Barber's Father - Reise Meyers Old Crone - Heidi Tabing Wazir's Retainer -Jhon Longshaw Poet - Stephanie Longshaw
Steve Atwell - Prince With Lame Legs

Music ScapeGoat "Pyramids of Mars" Assume the Death Posture https://slaughterhouserex.bandcamp.com/album/scapegoat-esoteric-technology-techno-magic
Derek and Brandon Feichter - Soundtrack Score6" Desert City" - Kevin McLeod  Eerie Ambience Richard McCulver Mystery Orientale - FSM Team Traditional  Pieces setuniman and xserra Sound effects from freesound.org
Opening and Ending credits theme / "Enter in" Steve Urwin and "Arabian Adventures" by Music Bakery Licensed by Audiosparx.com Desert Gems Audio Mixed and Produced by S. Longshaw copyright 2016 all rights reserved.

The Bull and the Ass

Welcome to the second episode of the 1001 Arabian Nights audio drama, adapted from Sir Richard Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights Entertainments." The Arabian Nights  tale continues as the witty Wazir tries to reason with his willful daughter Sharzahd, weaving a tale that begins in a humble barnyard between a merchant farmer and a bellowing Bull, a Braying Ass, a doleful Dog, and a cocky Cock! This merchant is no ordinary fellow as he understands the speech of birds and beasts. His laughing almost causes him to lose his life over revealing the animal's secrets at the insistence of his shrewish wife. Upon the tale's conclusion, Sharzahd seals her fate to the vengeful King Shahryar. Introducing Sharzahd's  lovely sister Dunyazad in this prelude to the first of 1001 Nights. Cast: Michael Valenzuela as The King Sean Chiplock as the Wazir Chris Thurman as the Bull and Cock Karen Kahler as the Jackass Robert Cossyleon as Merchant Farmer Eric Puhlmann as Farmer Emily Dawkins as Merchant Farmer's Wife Zeke as the Townsman S. Davis as Townswoman Odell Atkinson as the Dog Karen Hayman as Dunyazad Margritte as Sharzahd "Tighten the Belt" Sayed Darwish "Beauty of Drones" Simon StockHausen "Nine Lies the Heart" /"Triller" ERH/Freesound Sound effects from freesound.org / "Enter In" Steve Urwin  and "Arabian Adventures"  Music Bakery licensed by audiosparx.com c.2012 all right reserved