[A privately hired train goes missing en route from Liverpool to Manchester, baffling the public and professionals for eight years.]
"The Lost Special" by Arthur Conan Doyle
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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Two stories for the nonexistent price of one!
Firstly:
[In spite of dreadful stories, a governess is sent across the moors at night to fetch a doctor.]
Followed by:
[An artist and a stonemason, unknown to one another, unconsciously predict each other's grave futures.]
"Across the Moors" and "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[A young couple struggle to buy each other Christmas gifts with little money.]
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[A university student, desperate to pass an exam, receives an unexpected visit in the form of an old friend.]
"Keeping His Promise" by Algernon Blackwood
Performed by Matthew Penalva
Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[A devoted old woman maintains the Province House long after the British depart from New England.]
"Old Esther Dudley" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[When their country is beset by a plague of dragons, two siblings set out to bring peace so they can play outside again.]
"The Deliverers of Their Country" by Edith Nesbit
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[A foolhardy Englishman scoffs at superstition and chooses to explore a long-abandoned village.]
Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
Edited by Joseph Wetzel
Performed by Aaron Clark Burstein
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[A little girl left on her own discovers the surprising contents of an old trunk in the attic.]
"The Box of Robbers" by L. Frank Baum
Performed by Kirstin Wolf
Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[A self-important young English woman comes to live in Boston with a relative just before a horrible smallpox outbreak.]
"Lady Eleanore's Mantle" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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[A local shares the tale of how a wicked man met his end.]
"The Last of Squire Ennismore" by Charlotte Riddell
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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Curiosity is key, and admission is free.
The Celestial Omnibus by E. M. Forster
Directed by Aaron Clark Burstein
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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"A vast mass of matter it was, bulky, heavy, rushing without warning out of the black mystery of the sky into the radiance of the sun."
The Star by H. G. Wells
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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"I am not ill, as men call it, though God knows whether there be not worse sicknesses than doctors know of."
A Dream of Red Hands by Bram Stoker
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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"Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil."
The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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Who knew a firework could be so smug?
The Remarkable Rocket by Oscar Wilde
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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Keep your dark, ominous islands to yourself.
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Performed by Aaron Clark Burstein and Joseph Wetzel
Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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I think the true moral of any fairy tale is simply that people shouldn't be trusted with magic.
The Glass Dog by L. Frank Baum
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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Disease is no joke.
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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What might the world of tomorrow hold?
In the Year 2889 by "Jules" Verne
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
Additional voices by Michael Wetzel and Matthew Penalva
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Moving into a haunted building? What could go wrong?
What Was It? by Fitz James O'Brien
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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