EP025: The Great Old Pumpkin
Published by SFEley on 27 Oct 2005 at 2:16 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
By John Aegard.
Read by Stephen Eley. Music by Toby Chappell.
As you are no doubt aware, I am the issue of solid Dutch stock—the prosperous Van Pelt family of St. Paul. Mine was a comfortable and happy childhood, and I spent much of it in the devoted service of the Great Old Pumpkin. For him, I cultivated an annual pumpkin patch. I also evangelized him in the community, relating the tale of how, every year on Hallowmas Eve, the day when the spiritual most strongly encroaches on the substantial, this mightiest of gourds would rise to revel across the world with the most sincere of his adorers. My neighbors were understandably skeptical; after all, not once had this superbeing ever chosen to grace my pumpkin patch or any other place in our town. I vowed that I would coax him into my backyard, and I set out in the manner of a learned man to discover how I might do this.
Rated PG. Contains dark imagery and terrifying fruit.
Referenced sites:
Eyes of Ligeia
Amphigory
K9Cast
Brooklyn Bluesman on 28 Oct 2005 at 1:30 am: 1
Nice job from head to toe. Kudos to Toby and his creepy music. Pleasant way to slack at my desk on Fri-afternoon, getting ready for the weekend. Keep it up Steve!
Unquiet Desperation » The Great Old Pumpkin on 28 Oct 2005 at 8:29 am: 2
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Rick on 28 Oct 2005 at 8:40 am: 3
Oh my God. That was hysterical.
dragon on 28 Oct 2005 at 2:30 pm: 4
very nice. loved it.
Martha on 29 Oct 2005 at 10:15 am: 5
Very, very fun. Again. Loved the music, too. I subscribe to lots of good podcasts, but look forward to Escape Pod in a special way each week. Keep up the good work!
Simon on 4 Nov 2005 at 2:19 pm: 6
The music worked well. Its not essential. but it worked. Done badly it could have distracted.
Lee Goodman on 15 Nov 2005 at 8:04 pm: 7
Didn’t see the Lucy reference until the ending came up and smacked me on the side of my head. Great story , great music Keep up the good work!
Dawn on 30 Nov 2005 at 7:14 pm: 8
The only thing that would have made this better would have been getting Mur Lafferty to voice Lucy at the end.
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scatterbrain on 10 Mar 2008 at 10:22 am: 12
Did not get the ending.