As part of the Canadian Children's Book Week initiative, Edo van Belkom, author of a number of horror novels, and now the popular author of the young adult Wolf Pack series, paid a visit to Ashcroft Elementary School this morning, to speak to the students about his book, and his writing in general. The Ghost Story Society was there, and we're pleased to bring this podcast, so that you can get a flavour of what is being done in our schools.
You can visit Edo's web site at www.vanbelkom.com
In Reggie Oliver's forthcoming collection from Ash-Tree Press, MASQUES OF SATAN, we are introduced to a story titled 'The Man in the Grey Bedroom' in which appears an extract from THE MASQUE OF SATAN, A Dramatic Phantasy by Lord Deverell Cheke. In this broadcast Reggie reads from the Prologue.
For the past few years, Barbara has done a Halloween chat with CJOB Winnipeg. This year's was conducted from our hotel in New York City, en route to the World Fantasy Convention.
Much of Joseph Bruchac's writing draws on the land of the Adirondack mountain foothills around Greenfield Center, New York, where he lives with his wife Carol in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. His influences are his Abenaki ancestry, although his American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood. He, his younger sister Margaret, and his two grown sons, James and Jesse, continue to work extensively in projects involving the preservation of Abenaki culture, language, and traditional Native skills, including performing traditonal and contemporary Abenaki music with the Dawnland Singers.
As a professional teller of the traditional tales of the Adirondacks and the Native peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, Joe Bruchac has performed widely in Europe and throughout the U.S., and has been featured at such events as the British Storytelling Festival and the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee. He has been storyteller-in-residence for Native American organisations and schools throughout the continent, including the Institute of Alaska Native Arts and the Onondaga Nation School. He discusses native culture and his books and does storytelling programmes at dozens of elementary and secondary schools each year as a visiting author.
An atmospheric retelling of two of the earliest and greatest tales by M. R. James - the master of the English ghost story. A critically acclaimed one-man show by Robert Lloyd Parry.
Part One: Canon Alberic's Scrap-book.
Barbara & Christopher Roden discuss the birth of the Press, its development and current status, as well as their involvement with The Ghost Story Society.
