Gallery of Curiosities

2017 Christmas Broadcast from New Babbage

By old tradition, we warm up the aetheroscope and search for the band which is broadcasting from that hidden city-state, New Babbage. Terrible storms in the in-between spaces delayed us locating it until today.
An Unusual Christmas Gift written and performed by Tepic Harlequin.
Music: Melody, Carol of the Bells arranged and performed by LaTosha Hall
Simple Sadness, Secret Garden, Christmas Theme 2, by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
The Curtain Rises, Wish Background by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 
Horror Opening Credits - Written and Performed by Brett Van Donsel

Christmas Eve Extra - All Through The House by Joachim Heindermans

A Christmas Eve Special to help the little ones go to bed. Osgoode and Kevin narrate.
Author Joachim Heijndermans is a writer and artist from the Netherlands. His work has been featured with such publications as Gathering Storm Magazine, Mad Scientist Journal, Kraxon Magazine, Asymmetry Fiction and Metaphorosis. He likes to read, paint, travel, collect rare toys and bore people with random trivia. You can follow him @jheijndermans on twitter.
Music: We Wish You, Sugar Plum Dark Mix, Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).
Osgoode - Kris Law
Kevin - Kevin Frost
Thank you for another year. It's been a rough one.

There Was A Nicholas Once by Alexis Lantgen

A witch-child recounts the Russian Revolution and the abuse and hunger her family endured. Content note for suggestions of domestic violence. #darkFantasy 
Author Alexis Lantgen is a writer, 6th grade science teacher, and classical musician. Her stories have appeared in Phantaxis, Red Sun Magazine, and the Gallery of Curiosities, and she's written nonfiction for Renaissance Magazine. Alexis blogs at thewiseserpent.blogspot.com, and tweets @TheWiseSerpent. She lives with her husband, her four year old daughter, and their very patient cats in Carrollton, Texas.
Narrator Maria Rose is a graphic designer, writer, astrologer, classicist. Sometimes saturnine, mostly eccentric. She tends noisy society finches and remains unimpressed by cutesy bios containing mundane details about pets. Including her own. She's narrating her current project through ACX, "Messengers of the Right" forthcoming from University of Press Audiobooks.
Story music: Cinematic Soundscapes by Phil Michalski and Almost in F by Kevin MacLeod. 
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina.

Invisible Men by Edward McDermott

A librarian is plagued with a pest of a customer. Benjamin Sperduto narrates. 
Author Edward McDermott, born in Toronto, has a professional day job but spends his spare time pursuing a writing career. Aside from taking writing courses and participating in writers' groups, Edward takes time for sailing, fencing, and working as a movie extra.
His web page is http://edwardmcdermott.net/
Narrator Benjamin Sperduto is a history teacher in Tampa, Florida. His short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, including Coven (Purple Sun Press), Bad Neighborhood (Spooky Words Press), and Dystopian Express (Hydra Publications). His first novel, The Walls of Dalgorod, is available from Curiosity Quills Press. For a full list of publications and fiction updates, visit www.benjaminsperduto.com or follow him on Twitter (@bensperduto).
Music: Investigations, Mysterioso March by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Osgoode's chorus: Novelle Noel by Kevin MacLeod
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by DEVM

Against Mint Justice by Daniel Ausema

Hang on for a high flying ride over the rooftops Spire City. Lesa Whyte narrates a kid-friendly episode. 
A writer, runner, reader, parent, and teacher, Author Daniel Ausema has had short stories and poems published in many publications, including Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, and Diabolical Plots. He is also the creator of the steampunk-fantasy trilogy Spire City, which shares a setting with this story. Daniel lives in Colorado, at the foot of the Rockies.
Narrator Lesa Whyte narrates stories, writes nonsense, coaches people, creates websites, sleeps well, counts words, bakes treats, consults oracles, excuses French, feeds cats, flips birds, hammers time, kicks buckets, eschews umbrellas, lists lists, cultivates ambiguity, games systems, sweats details, cries wolf, abuses verbs, carries on, and is generally embarrassing to know.
The Scout: Piper McCurdy
Music:
Mystery Awakens by Brett Van Donsel
Lomoto Perpetuo Loop, Plans in Motion, Crossing the Chasm, Journey of Solitude by Kevin MacLeod and are in the Public Domain
Some sound effects from zapsplat.com
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina

Common Magick by Jordan Taylor

The boarding school girls are learning magic. What could possibly go wrong? 
Author Jordan Taylor grew up in a small town in the American South, where she was raised on equal parts Jesus and fairy tales. She has since lived in New York, Portland, and now Raleigh, NC, where she keeps several bookshelves full of books and one cantankerous corgi. Her work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from Capricious, Abyss and Apex, and Cicada. You can follow her online at jordanrtaylor.com.
Narrator Maria Rose is a graphic designer, writer, astrologer, classicist. Sometimes saturnine, mostly eccentric. She tends noisy society finches and remains unimpressed by cutesy bios containing mundane details about pets. Including her own. She's narrating her current project through ACX, "Messengers of the Right" forthcoming from University of Press Audiobooks.
Music:Cinematic Soundscapes and Disturbing Booms by Phil Michalski
Air Prelude, Thunder Dreams, Inner Sanctum, Duet Musette - Kevin MacLeod 
 

The Reanimation Emporium by Brain Rappatta

A different sort of zombie story. Vic Mullin narrates. 
 
Author Brian Rappatta is an expat writer living in South Korea who likes to spend his spare time thinking of practical uses for the undead.  His short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, including Writers of the Future, Shock Totem, and Nemonymous.
Narrator Vic Mullin is a 40 year old scotsman who is usually surrounded in a cloud of vapor from constant e-cig usage.  Generally found spending time editing youtube videos or lazing around in New Babbage pretending to build something.
Music: Music for Funeral Homes & Immersed by Kevin MacLeod
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by Deus Ex Vapore Machina
Osgoode's Chorus: Walking Along by Kevin MacLeod
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Where Justice Ends, Vengeance Begins by David Boop

Saddle up! We're going to Arizona Territory, back when the West was Weird. David Boop narrates his own work.
Denver-based spec-fiction author David Boop re-released his novel She Murdered Me with Science after a hiatus. David’s short story work includes media tie-ins for Predator, Green Hornet, and Veronica Mars. He edited the bestselling anthology, Straight Outta Tombstone for Baen. This story is part of his Drowned Horse Chronicle. More stories can be found at www.facebook.com/drownedhorse.
He’s a single dad, part-time temp worker and believer. Find out more at www.davidboop.com, www.facebook.com/dboop.updates or Twitter @david_boop.
Music:
Cowboy Coffee by Stockmusic.com
Long Note One, Fantastic Dim Bar, Martian Cowboy by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Safe as Houses by Laura E. Price & The Automat's Automaton by Angela Enos

Two stories of abandoned things to finish out the summer. 
Author Laura E. Price lives in Florida with her husband and son in a perfectly ordinary house. Her stories have appeared in Cicada, On Spec, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, GigaNotoSaurus, and a forthcoming issue of Betwixt. You can find her blog at seldnei.wordpress.com.
Narrator Sarah Heiner, active in Second Life under the pseudonym of Bookworm, assisted in the editing of two of the three 'Tales from New Babbage' volumes, and has stories published in all three. She lives in the fly-over land of Minnesota, with more books than she knows what to do with.
Author Angela Enos writes fiction and other oddities that have been published in Cast of Wonders, FLAPPERHOUSE, Visibility Fiction, New Myths, Nonbinary Review’s Alphanumeric, Bloodbond, and Body Parts Magazine. When not writing, she makes art and theatre across the US.
Narrator Andrew McCurdy has been reading and writing science fiction ever since he saw Charleton Heston kneeling in the surf, cursing the half-buried Statue of Liberty. He recently relocated from teaching college in a large city to rural Nova Scotia where he hopes to start writing in earnest. He is a regular editor at the Gallery and has been known to sneak a story or two into the slush pile.
We are taking submissions until Oct. 31, 2017. Visit http://gallerycurious.com/submissions
Theme song: Ashes Ashes by DeVM
Ogoode's chorus: Walking Along by Kevin MacLeod
Story Music:Fairytale Waltz by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Satie - Gymnopedies 1 & 2 by Blue Dot Sessions
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Urban Drift by Andrew Knighton

Tonight, it's an art theft in a city unlike any you've ever been to. Vic Mullin narrates.
 
Author Andrew Knighton lives in Yorkshire with his cat and many unread books. The first volume of his steampunk adventure series, The Epiphany Club, is available for free from Amazon or Smashwords. You can find more free stories and links to his books at andrewknighton.com. He’s on Twitter as @gibbondemon 
Narrator Vic Mullin is a 40 year old scotsman who is usually surrounded in a cloud of vapour from constant e-cig usage.  Generally found spending time editing youTube videos or lazing around in New Babbage pretending to build something.
Music:
Chill Bells by Frank Nora
Ambient Drones by Buzzbeat Music
Shadowlands, Infinite Peace, and Plans in Motion by Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com)
Song Of The Earth: Epic Orchestral and Sacred Chant by SoundPhenomenon