AMBIENT ARCANA

We start our second season with a short story about love, loss, and the potential supernatural repercussions to procrastination. “The Reconciliation” by Lafcadio Hearn from his book “Shadowings.”
Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar
Read by Jim Billbrough
 
Ambient Arcana would like to dedicate this episode to our good friend Gabrielle Agachiko who passed away last month. Gabrielle was a wonderful singer with a powerful voice and an irrepressible personality. We had been planning to have her read for the podcast, particularly the parts that called for goddess level intensity, but unfortunately fate stepped in. She was deeply loved by many and will be dearly missed. Hopefully we will meet her again in the next incarnation, if such things are possible.

Gifts? Check!
Visits from distant relatives? Check!
A Christmas ghost story? Check!
Our last episode of season one features two stories from A.L. Shelton’s 1925 collection of “Tibetan Folktales” :
“The Man And The Ghost” & “Story Of A Juggler’s Tricks”
Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar.
Narration by Jim Billbrough & Bob Familiar.
Recorded Live (more or less) at Sounds Familiar Studios

A Demonic Organist! Random Time Displacement! Interdimensional Church Services! A full on Carcosa Mythos story - “In the Court of the Dragon”, from “The King in Yellow”by Robert W. Chambers.
Reading by Jim Billbrough
Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar
All Music used in this episode was by Man Tray
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We take a look at the world of R.W. Chambers with a somewhat beige story from "The King in Yellow" called "The Street of The Four Winds". A story about love, loss, and the vagaries of cat ownership. An extra long episode with a  pretty beefy bio and a bonus story snippet at the end.
Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar, Narration and Bio by Jim Billbrough. The poem introducing the story was read by Mandy Familiar.
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 This is a bonus episode of Ambient Arcana featuring a very short story about young love, lonely churchyards, and the unspeakable horror of 18th century miniature portrait art - "Uncle Abraham's Romance" by Edith Nesbit. Read by Jim Billbrough, Music and Audio Production by Bob Familiar.

A discussion about Poe, music, and podcast collaboration.

A terrifying tale of animal abuse, axe murder, and impromptu basement renovations! "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe. Read and recorded by Bob Billbrough. Original soundtrack produced by Bob Familiar featuring music by Man Tray (aka Kel Weston and Paul Billbrough), and Bob Familiar.
 

Poe and Nepotism abound! Two stories by Edgar Allan Poe read by Bob Billbrough. Additional music provided by Man Tray featuring Kel Weston and Paul Billbrough. All other music and audio production by Bob Familiar. Snacks and Poe Bio provided by Jim Billbrough.
Titles and Time Markers:
The Oval Portrait/ 00:32
The Masque of The Red Death/ 9:59
Poe Bio and Credits/ 27:57
 

Jim Billbrough and Bob Familiar, the production team behind Ambient Arcana, talk about the Pu Songling episodes and try to define what the hell they’re trying to do with this podcasting thing. Is it music with storytelling, or story telling with music? Is it unintentional ASMR? A weak attempt at scary bedtime stories? A sad grasp towards artistic relevance before the fading of the light? Probably. Anyway, tune in and find out!

Four more stories by Pu Songling featuring a fox wedding, a trip through hell, a dishonest fortune teller (shocking!), and zombies!!!
Titles and time markers are:
The Golden Goblet/ 00:32
A Most Exemplary Monk/ 11:50
Magical Arts/ 14:34
The Living Dead/ 23:04