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In this episode we contemplate whether it is better to accept death with your morals intact or to survive by any means necessary.Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s “Rashōmon”.Music and Audio Production by Bob FamiliarNarrated by Jim BillbroughSome so
A trio of strange and beautiful fever dreams by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges-“The Rejected Sorcerer,” “The Circular Ruins,” and “The Two Kings and The Two Labyrinths.”All Music and Audio Production by Bob FamiliarNarrated by Jim Billb
In this episode we chase away the winter blues with a bloody sword in Robert E. Howard’s coldest Conan story - “Gods of The North” (aka. “The Frost-Giant’s Daughter”).All Music and Music & Audio Production by Bob FamiliarNarration by Rick Wei
Bonne année! Joyeux 2024!We start our Third Season with a fiery French tale of one woman’s burning need to find balance in a hostile universe. It’s Guy de Maupassant’s torrid tale of red hot revenge! -“Mother Sauvage.”All Music and Music & A
Once again we travel to the magical land of Tibet for the Holiday Season.In this year’s Yuletide offerings a painter and a carpenter commit supernatural postal fraud, a donkey and a rock get arrested for assaulting a jar of oil, a pair of cr
In this episode of Ambient Arcana we explore the mysteries of ‘Siberian Magic’ and the unexpected social challenges that having one’s hostess turned into a wolf can put upon a party guest - It’s “The She-Wolf” by Saki (H.H. Munro)Music and Mu
Nothing says Halloween quite like Trick or Treating in an ancient swampy cemetery in shadow haunted Florida!It’s H.P.Lovecraft’s grim tale of grave robbing gone wrong - “The Statement of Randolph Carter.”All Music and Music & Audio Product
In this episode we dust off our vestigial sense organs and fire up our Pineal Glands to take a mind bending peak beneath the thin veil of our reality in H.P. Lovecraft’s psychedelic mad scientist revenge romp - “From Beyond!”Music and Audio
This month we take a trio of trips into the Infinite Unknown with weird fiction icon Howard Phillips Lovecraft-“Ex Oblivione,” “Nyarlathotep,” and “The Book.”All Music & Music and Audio Production by Bob FamiliarNarration by Jim Billbrough
A small sampling of Inuit, Yup’ik, and Unangax folktales collected by American and European Scholar-Explorers in the late 19th and early 20th century. Even in this muted form, sometimes translated through two or three languages, these stories s
Biercemania!Three dark and evocative tales by surprise ending aficionado Ambrose Bierce:"The Boarded Window," "John Mortonson's Funeral," and "The Applicant."All Music and Audio Production by Bob FamiliarMusic by Man Tray and Bob Familiar
We finish our coverage of Lafcadio Hearn’s tales from ghostly Japan with three more stories: “The Corpse-Rider” from the book Shadowings and “Jiu-Roku-Zakura” and “A Dead Secret” from Kwaidan.Music and Audio production by Bob Familiar.Read by
We return to the works of Lafcadio Hearn with the first of two full length episodes of strange and unusual stories from his adopted country of Japan.“Diplomacy” and “Riki Baka” from the book “Kwaidan” and “Fragment” from “In Ghostly Japan”
We start our second season with a short story about love, loss, and the potential supernatural repercussions to procrastination. “The Reconciliation” by Lafcadio Hearn from his book “Shadowings.”Music and Audio Production by Bob FamiliarRead
Gifts? Check!Visits from distant relatives? Check!A Christmas ghost story? Check!Our last episode of season one features two stories from A.L. Shelton’s 1925 collection of “Tibetan Folktales” : “The Man And The Ghost” & “Story Of A Juggler’
A Demonic Organist! Random Time Displacement! Interdimensional Church Services! A full on Carcosa Mythos story - “In the Court of the Dragon”, from “The King in Yellow”by Robert W. Chambers.Reading by Jim BillbroughMusic and Audio Production
We take a look at the world of R.W. Chambers with a somewhat beige story from "The King in Yellow" called "The Street of The Four Winds". A story about love, loss, and the vagaries of cat ownership. An extra long episode with a pretty beefy bi
This is a bonus episode of Ambient Arcana featuring a very short story about young love, lonely churchyards, and the unspeakable horror of 18th century miniature portrait art - "Uncle Abraham's Romance" by Edith Nesbit. Read by Jim Billbrough,
A discussion about Poe, music, and podcast collaboration.
A terrifying tale of animal abuse, axe murder, and impromptu basement renovations! "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe. Read and recorded by Bob Billbrough. Original soundtrack produced by Bob Familiar featuring music by Man Tray (aka Kel Weston
Poe and Nepotism abound! Two stories by Edgar Allan Poe read by Bob Billbrough. Additional music provided by Man Tray featuring Kel Weston and Paul Billbrough. All other music and audio production by Bob Familiar. Snacks and Poe Bio provided by
Jim Billbrough and Bob Familiar, the production team behind Ambient Arcana, talk about the Pu Songling episodes and try to define what the hell they’re trying to do with this podcasting thing. Is it music with storytelling, or story telling wit
Four more stories by Pu Songling featuring a fox wedding, a trip through hell, a dishonest fortune teller (shocking!), and zombies!!!Titles and time markers are:The Golden Goblet/ 00:32A Most Exemplary Monk/ 11:50Magical Arts/ 14:34The Liv
Ambient Arcana's first full length episode featuring seven stories from Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio."Story and Time Markers are:The Giant Turtle/00:32Biting a Ghost/04:00Wild Dog/08:09The Dead Priest/11:10The Linger
Our trailer episode is a cautionary tale about drinking something even when you know it’s probably not good for you called “In a Cup of Tea”, from Lafcadio Hearn’s book-“Kottō, Being Japanese Curios, With Sundry Cobwebs”.Music by Bob Familiar
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