LISTEN IN TERROR

By Richard J. Hand

This groundbreaking book is the first full-length study of British horror radio from the pioneering days of recording and broadcasting right through to the digital audio cultures of our own time. The book offers an historical, critical and theoretical exploration of horror radio and audio performance examining key areas such as writing, narrative, performance practice and reception throughout the history of that most unjustly neglected of popular art forms: radio drama and 'spoken word' auditory cultures. The volume draws on extensive archival research as well as insightful interviews with significant writers, producers and actors. The book offers detailed analysis of major radio series such as Appointment with Fear, The Man in Black, The Price of Fear and Fear on Four as well as one-off horror plays, comedy-horror and experimental uses of binaural and digital technology in producing uncanny audio

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listen-terror-British-Broadcasting-Digital/dp/0719081483

THE MYSTERY OF SPRING-HEELED JACK

By John Matthews

Exploring the vast urban legend surrounding this enigmatic figure, John Matthews explains how the Victorian fascination with strange phenomena and sinister figures paired with hysterical reports enabled Spring-Heeled Jack to be conjured into existence. Sharing original 19th-century newspaper accounts of Spring-Heeled Jack sightings and encounters, he also examines recent 20th and 21st-century reports, including a 1953 UFO-related sighting from Houston, Texas, and disturbing accounts of the Slender Man, who displays notable similarities with Jack. He traces Spring-Heeled Jack’s origins to earlier mythical beings from folklore, such as fairy creatures and land spirits, and explores the theory that Jack is an alien marooned on Earth whose leaping prowess is attributed to his home planet having far stronger gravity than ours.

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mystery-Spring-Heeled-Jack-Victorian-Steampunk/dp/1620554968

REVOLUTION IN THE ECHO CHAMBER

By Leslie McMurtry

Revolution in the Echo Chamber is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. 

Building on historical analysis, this book provides contemporary perspective, drawing on trends from the current audio drama environment to analyse how people listen to audio drama, including podcast drama, today – and how they might listen in the future.

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/revolution-in-the-echo-chamber

PODCASTING - THE AUDIO MEDIA REVOLUTION

By Martin Spinelli & Lance Dann

Born out of interviews with the producers of some of the most popular and culturally significant podcasts to date (Welcome to Night Vale, Radiolab, Serial, The Black Tapes, We're Alive, The Heart, The Truth, Lore, Love + Radio, My Dad Wrote a Porno, and others) as well as interviews with executives at some of the most important podcasting institutions and entities (the BBC, Radiotopia, Gimlet Media, Audible.com, Edison Research, Libsyn and others), Podcasting documents a moment of revolutionary change in audio media. The fall of 2014 saw a new iOS from Apple with the first built-in "Podcasts" app, the runaway success of Serial, and podcasting moving out of its geeky ghetto into the cultural mainstream. The creative and cultural dynamism of this moment, which reverberates to this day, is the focus of Podcasting. Using case studies, close analytical listening, quantitative and qualitative analysis, production analysis, as well as audience research, it suggests what podcasting has to contribute to a host of larger media-and-society debates in such fields as: fandom, social media and audience construction; new media and journalistic ethics; intimacy, empathy and media relationships; cultural commitments to narrative and storytelling; the future of new media drama; youth media and the charge of narcissism; and more. Beyond describing what is unique about podcasting among other audio media, this book offers an entry into the new and evolving field of podcasting studies.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Purchase at: https://www.waterstones.com/book/podcasting/martin-spinelli/lance-dann/9781501328688

THE STRANGE CASE OF MR PELHAM

By Anthony Armstrong

First published in 1957 The Strange Case of Mr Pelham is Anthony Armstrong's masterclass in suspense, a slow-burning examination of one man's descent into paranoia.

Filmed several times for television in both the UK for the BBC, and in the US as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Armstrong's Pelham eventually hit the big screen in 1970 as the movie The Man Who Haunted Himself, starring Roger Moore.


Reissued here for the first time in more than half a century, this classic period piece is set to bring one of the great 20th-century thriller writers to a new generation of admirers.

Purchase at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Case-Mr-Pelham-Psychological/dp/1914169328/ref=asc_df_1914169328/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=535899408642&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6990263523367141408&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006698&hvtargid=pla-1456420578121&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

THE TIME THAT NEVER WAS – Book One of the Swidgers Series

By Steve Nallon

HE CAN’T LIE, HE CAN’T HARM, BUT HE CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE.

You see, William Arthur, our young hero in THE TIME THAT NEVER WAS, is no ordinary teenager – for he is a Swidger! Yes, William, and others like him, can sense future catastrophes and so alter your timepath to certain peril.

However, little does William know that his time-bending powers go way beyond just accident prevention. Only as this unexpected gift begins to be revealed to him, a life-saving endeavour goes mind-bogglingly wrong, and everything that William thinks he knows about himself and his world is put into question.

Luckily though he is joined by a wise yet slightly dotty lady by the name of ‘Granny’, whose antics in the tale are often hilarious! But Granny comes with a warning too, for she explains to William that now there’s been “an attack” he’s not longer safe.

After a visit to a very odd chap called ‘Echo’ and a bewildering and laugh-out-loud funny evening at a Parent Teacher Meeting, Granny and William embark on a mystical journey to the strange and terrifying Old Coach Inn. And it’s here where our young hero must defeat the menacing Aloysius in order to save all who live there from being trapped in Time itself.

Will William learn the true nature of his gift? And can he evade the dark force that would use his powers for evil? All will be revealed… IN TIME.

More at: https://www.swidgers.com/

DESTINATION TIME TRAVEL

By Steve Nallon & Dick Fiddy

Where are we going? 

The future, Doc! 

Great Scott! 

Not forgetting the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey past. 

That’s right, ticket holders, Destination Time Travel is your journey into the many worlds of the time travel tale – exploring its tropes, its rules, its devices, its science, its values, its plots, its characters and, most importantly, its enduring – and timeless – appeal.

Alongside their upcoming film seminar at the British Film Institution in October, join Steve Nallon and Dick Fiddy as they explore the world’s obsession with time travel in film and television. From the classics of Doctor Who and Back To The Future to the Netflix hit Dark, Nallon and Fiddy explore just what it is about time travel that makes us tick. 

This book will be a guaranteed hit with fans of time travel and the different film and television series that Nallon and Fiddy explore. It will also be key to film buffs and those interested in the medium. 

Jack was a consultant to Steve Nallon during the writing of this wonderful tome.

LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT - THE BOOK OF THE AUDIO MOVIE

By Jack Bowman, Kenton Hall & Lance Roger Axt

A hardcover and paperback book looking behind the scenes of the acclaimed Audio movie remake of LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, containing the original script by Lance and Kenton Hall, exclusive Production Diaries from Jack Bowman and Hall, and a brand new novelisation of the story by co-writer Hall.

NOW AVAILABLE!

Signed Editions - Strictly Limited!

https://londonaftermidnightaudio.bandcamp.com/merch

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