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desertgemsaudioNameless City (Irem) HP LovecraftHP 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....
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2019-10-1348 min
desertgemsaudio1001 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 o...
2019-06-1535 min
desertgemsaudioSinbad 5th and 6th Episode: City of Apes and Isle of SarandibThe Fifth Voyage of Sinbad unravels as a Family of Rukhs seek vengeance upon their unborn, and lands Sinbad shipwrecked upon the island of the Sheikh al Bahr, a miserable wretch who rides the backs of the living and devours their life force. Only a secret elixir of alcohol can allow Sinbad to escape danger, to the Lost City of the Apes, who pelt coconuts by day and devour human flesh by night, and a host of wonders until Sinbad reaches again Baghdad. The Sixth voyage unfolds as Sinbad is cast upon a lost isle, a mountain filled with...
2019-06-0243 min
desertgemsaudioSinbad the Seaman Episode 3 and 4The Third and Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman.
The third voyage chronicles Sinbad's return, where he is waylaid at sea to the Mountains of Zughb, where the ship is absconded by mad ape people. The crew retreats into a castle, where they meat with a giant cyclopean ogre, who devours the crew one by one. Sinbad and two others flee on a raft to the next island. A vicious serpent swallows the remainder of the crew, and Sinbad must outwit the scaled dragon. All is not lost, as he regains his cargo from the next port...
2019-05-1153 min
desertgemsaudioArabian Nights: Sinbad The Seaman Voyage: 1 and 2Sindbad The Seaman and Sindbad The Landsman.
The Legendary 7 Voyages of Sinbad Begin…
An impoverished yet good-hearted young porter Sinbad happens one night upon a fountained courtyard with music and dancing inside. Instantly he is whisked to the lavish feasting table of Sinbad the Seaman who begins the first two of eight exciting fantastical tales of serpents, rukhs, and mystery. Voyage One recounts the tale of Sinbad’s first shipwreck on a floating island, the back of a large sea-monster. On the shore, sea-stallions rise from the ocean, herded by a tribe of underground sea-cavern dwellers. As S...
2019-05-0849 min
desertgemsaudioAnd Then One Night "A Long Cold Lonely Winter”Season One Anthology Episode HG WORLD Lost Episode.
And Then One Night “A Long Cold Lonely Winter” by Dayton Ward
A cold winter's evening, a colonel and a gunnery sergeant converse as zombie eaters loom in the distance. The sat phone crackles and all hell breaks loose.
CIVILIAN #1 ISAAK WELLS CIVILIAN #2 WARREN BLACKIE CIVILIAN #3 J. LONGSHAW
CPL. KIRSTEN BEYER GINNY SWANN 1ST LT. CARRIE BURROUGHS S. LONGSHAW COL. MICHAEL DAVISON DAVID SOBKOWIAK LANCE CPL. BECKY GASKILL KAREN KAHLER
LANCE CPL. RICKY JACKSON STACY DOOKS SGT. WILLIAM LEISNER TANJA MILOJEVIC
GUNNERY SGT...
2019-05-0221 min
desertgemsaudioRabinadrath Tagore's "The Skeleton"“In the garden at dusk, the smell of greenery wafts though the windows, and the night breeze wafts through and rattles chimes made of wood and bone that softly tinkle. Outside in the vines, is a carving relief of the goddess Chamunda, covered with moss and vines. This view is obscured by the darkening night, and a physician spends a fateful night in the old medical college…remembering the bones of an old skeleton that once hung from the rafters…
A voice whispers from behind the curtain… during the last thirty-five years I have only moaned in the wind...
2019-01-2222 min
desertgemsaudio"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 freeso...
2017-09-0418 min
desertgemsaudioRabinadrath Tagore's "The Hungry Stones"The Hungry Stones" by Rabinadrath Tagore
An excursion high into the Hills of the Punjab and descent into madness, into the marble halls of the long-lost Mughals, and a demoness trapped in stone and serpentine dreams."
"Methought that one of the thousand and one Arabian Nights had been wafted to me from the world of romance, and that at the dead of night I was wending my way through the dark narrow alleys of slumbering Bagdad to a trysting-place fraught with peril."
“her form was not invisible to my mind's eye,--an Arab gir...
2017-02-2636 min
desertgemsaudioEpisode 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 bab...
2016-10-281h 25desertgemsaudioEpisode 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...
2016-07-051h 04desertgemsaudioEpisode 14: Hunchback's Tale Part 1: Nazarene Broker and Muslim Reeve's Tale1001 Arabian nights Audio Drama from Sir Richard Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights Entertainments Sir Richard Burton’s timeless classic “Arabian Nights Entertainments”
The magic continues as Scheherezade weaves a spell of aural tapestries rife with a ribald and darkly comic murder mystery set in the Western provinces of China, as a bumbling hunchback jester of the Sultan’s court fatefully meets his doom in the hapless Tailor and his Wife’s home. Horrified, the Bacchanalian tailor passes the corpse off to the Jewish Physician, who stumbles over the body down the stairs in mortal terror and at the advice of...
2015-11-031h 12desertgemsaudioEpisode 13: Nur al Din ali and His Son II1001 Arabian nights Audio Drama from Sir Richard
Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights Entertainments Ja’afar continues the story as the hapless Hasan is whisked away from his bride by a winged Ifritah, and lands in Damascus in his nightgown amidst a jeering throng. He begins a new life for twelve years as a common cook, while his beloved Sitn al Husn gives birth to their son Ajib. The wasir ousts the Hunchbacked Horsegroom and begins his search for Hasan, as ajib looks for his true father with the help of his high-strung Eunuch, a dish of pomegranate grains unravels their de...
2014-10-061h 08desertgemsaudioEpisode 12: Tale of Nur al Din and his Son
Ja’afar weaves the spell binding tale of destiny before the
Caliph in the "Tale of Nur al Din and his Son” 1001 Arabian nights
Audio Drama from Sir Richard Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights
Entertainments.” Two brothers Nur al Din and Shams al Din inherit their
father’s kingdom, and promise to wed two sisters, and marry their unborn son
and daughter together. The two are separated by a mighty quarrel and are driven
to foreign lands. Fortune unfolds as the two marry the daughters of Wazsirs and
give birth to Hasan and Sitn al Husn. Upon Nur al Din’s dea...
2014-02-251h 05desertgemsaudioEpisode 11: “Tale of the Three ApplesThe haunting and spell-binding "Tale of the Three apples" 1001 Arabian nights Audio Drama from Sir Richard Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights Entertainments begins with the return of the Caliph and Ja'afar who travel incognito about the kingdom. They happen upon an old fisherman carrying a basket upon his head. The Caliph is moved by pity for the old man, and offers him gold in exchange for the first thing that is dredged up, an old chest. A grisly discovery is made inside of a reed basket, containing the remains of young woman. The Caliph is enraged at this horrifying sight, an...
2013-07-2923 mindesertgemsaudioEpisode 10: “Porter of Baghdad Part V” The Eldest Lady's Tale
The dramatic conclusion of the “Porter of and the Three Ladies of Baghdad” 1001 Arabian nights Audio Drama from Sir Richard Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights Entertainments. continues with Part V “ The Eldest Lady’s Tale and “The Portress’s Tale.” The Eldest Lady in the court of the Caliph begins to unravel the mystery of the two beaten black dogs. The wealthy widow tells a sad tale of her two twice-married sisters, whose profligate husbands left them destitute. She whisks them away on a mercantile sea voyage, only to find a deserted island, whose inhabitants are cursed as black stones. She fi...
2013-06-291h 03desertgemsaudioEpisode 9: “Porter of Baghdad Part IV” Third Kalandar’s TaleThe exciting fourth part of the Porter of Baghdad 1001 Arabian nights Audio Drama from Sir Richard Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights Entertainments continues with the story of the Third Kalandar’s tale, who tells the spellbinding tale of the loss of his eye by his own folly. He begins his journey sailing to the islands as a young prince Ajib son of Khazib. The ship goes off course when a Titanic black mountain, and he follows a mysterious voice of Destiny urging him to defeat a horseman of brass upon the Magnet Mountain of Mystery. He boards a rowboat with a...
2013-05-0154 mindesertgemsaudioEpisode 8: "Porter of Baghdad Part III" Second Kalandar's Tale
The exciting third part of the Porter of Baghdad 1001 Arabian nights Audio Drama from Sir Richard Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights Entertainments. continues with the story of the Second Kalandar’s tale, who speaks of the loss of his eye and fall from fortune. He sets out as a scholarly young prince, who is waylaid by bandits in the desert. A kindly tailor takes him in and urges him to take the guise of woodcutter, as he is in hostile territory. One day in the woods he comes across a trap door, which hides a subterranean palace and a beautiful da...
2013-04-141h 07desertgemsaudioEpisode 7: "Porter of Baghdad Part II" First Kalandar's Tale
The second part of the Porter of Baghdad 1001 Arabian nights Audio Drama from Sir Richard Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights Entertainments. continues with the story of the First Kalandar’s tale, who speaks of the mystery of his one eye. The tale begins by a plot of his cousin and a mysterious richly woman to hide deep inside the sepulchers of the city in a hidden crypt. The first Kalandar is horrified that he cannot remember the entrance to the sepulcher. As he falls foul to his a uncle’s plot and loses his kingdom, the father of his cous...
2013-03-1619 mindesertgemsaudioEpisode 6: "Porter of Baghdad Part I"
The saga continues with 1001 Arabian nights Audio Drama Porter of Baghdad" from Sir Richard Burton's timeless classic "Arabian Nights Entertainments. The story begins with a handsome young porter who is accosted by a beautiful young lady who needs his services at the market while shopping. As he is invited into her home, he haplessly stumbles into an drunken bacchanal at the house of her two sisters, on the condition he asks no questions of any goings on in the house. Later three robed one-eyed Kalandars join the party and they too are invited on the condition they keep secrets of the...
2013-03-1549 min