Appointment in Podcast Up February 12

Hark us back to December 23 last year (cf. also, December 16, et al.) and the publication of my new year’s opus, “Appointment in Time,” in CURIOSITIES. It was a reprint, having debuted in YEAR’S END: 14 TALES OF HOLIDAY HORROR by Untreed Reads in 2012. But that’s not the whole story.

Flash forward to now, and an email from CURIOSITIES Editor Kevin Frost: It’s really late, but it’s up!

Hope you like it.

Because, you see, there was more to the deal than just reprinting “Appointment” in the magazine. There was also the podcast, under the aegis of GALLERY OF CURIOSITIES, and that, as of Saturday February 12, has come to fruition.

You can hear it for yourself by pressing here.

But best to listen to it after dark. It’s that kind of story — not a nice story with flowers and unicorns and sunshine. Rather a story of dark of night and the old year’s turning, of modern nations and old ex-colonial customs that still must be obeyed. Of the old and the new.

But wait for darkness, or at least close your eyes as you listen to narrator Alasdair Stuart’s reading — and listen, especially, for sounds in the background as it nears the end. As the great clock chimes. . . .

I think you’ll like it too.