Episode 235: Isle of the Dancing Dead by Rick Kennett• Narrated by
Barry Haworth• Audio production by
Jeremy Carter• Originally published in
The Fifth Book of After Midnight Stories (1991)
Rick Kennett has had horror and SF stories published in several magazines, anthologies and podcasts including
Dunesteef, Pseudopod, and here at Cast of Wonders. He won two Parsec Awards for podcast stories in 2013, a year that also saw the publication of his novel
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. One of those Parsec Awards was for Cast of Wonders
Episode 71,
Now Cydonia, one of the several
Martian Ranger Cy De Gurch stories. When not toiling at the day job in the transport industry, he can be found wandering cemeteries – necrotourism – or working as the podcast reporter for the
Ghosts & Scholars M R James Newsletter. You can follow him
online.
Barry Haworth works as a statistician for the Australian Taxation Office which is more interesting than you might think. He holds a Masters degree in Statistics. Outside of work he is a keen reader of science fiction and enjoys choral singing and taking part in amateur theatricals, having performed such roles as Prospero in
The Tempest, Major-General Stanley in
The Pirates of Penzance, and Ebenezer Scrooge and Marley’s Ghost in two different versions of
A Christmas Carol.
Barry has narrated episodes of
Escape Pod, PodCastle and also the
Cheap Astronomy podcast. He lives in Brisbane, Australia with his wife Sylvia, those of his children who haven’t left home yet, and whatever the current quota of pets is.
"Is it true," said young George as he filled in his first grave, "that the best place to hide from a ghost is in a cemetery?"
"Yes," said the grave-digger, shovelling. "Most times you'd be right aholding to that notion. But not here. Not in this particular cemetery. Not with the Chenoweth Grand Tomb not five hundred yards behind you."
"A haunted grave?" George turned about, studying the lawns and masonry. "Which one?"Click here to listen to Episode 235Click here to read the text of the storyTags: Barry Haworth, Cast of Wonders, family secrets, ghosts, graverobbing, haunted, Jeremy Carter, Rick Kennett, scary noises, tombs, Young Adult fiction