Story: the early signs that daylight's fading
Author: raven
Reader: eccentric_hat
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: Teen & up, to be safe; no warnings except perhaps for loneliness
Length: 12:50
Music: The intro is the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing "Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams; the outro is Geoffrey Palmer reading Edward Thomas' poem "Adlestrop." The cover image is from here. The wind sound is from Sound Bible.

Summary: A story in which Carlos has always been on his way to Night Vale.

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MP3 (22.4 MB)

M4B (10.1 MB)

Title: Some madness in love (read it at the AO3)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Author: dee
Reader: eccentric_hat
Music: "Zuma" by Coyote Grace
Length: 20 minutes
Characters/Pairing: Cecil/Carlos
Download Links: mediafire:
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Author's summary:

Hallucination or not, Carlos takes Cecil on a date to the Night Vale Harbour and Waterfront Recreation Area. They have a picnic. And there's also a hydra.

That’s the thing about time in Night Vale: perfect moments last forever. Literally. Somewhere.

Not rated by the author. As they say on This American Life, this story acknowledges the existence of sex, but I'd say it's suitable for general audiences.

Title: In a Dark Wood (text can be found on author's website here, or on Yuletide site here)
Author: tadorna/sheldrake
Reader: eccentric_hat
Fandom: Traditional fairy tales: Beauty and the Beast
Length: 44 minutes
Rating: PG
Music is "Escape Artist" by Zoe Keating

Summary: On the nature of beasts. There is something about him of the dank marsh, or of the earth, or the creeping undergrowth. Of wild and lonely places coming alive at night, when there is nobody around to see.

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My sincere thanks to tadorna for permission to record this story, based on my all-time favorite fairy tale. This is the longest podfic I've recorded so far, and the first one to include dialogue, so it's somewhat reassuring to know that it's been podficced before and this needn't be definitive--you can find luzula's recording of the story on the archive.

Points: 5 (reader) + 5 (fandom) + 5 (pairing) + 5 (length) = 20

I was just going to crosspost this from the sherlockbbc community when I saw the announcement about the archive being hacked. If that post needs to stay at the top of the page, please feel free to delete this one or whatever, and I can repost when it's convenient.


Story: Fall Back
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Author: halotolerant
Reader: eccentric_hat
Rating: PG-13
Length: 6:15

( Summary & warnings put behind a cut to avoid any hint of series 2 spoilers )

Download links (Dropbox):
mp3
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Streaming (Soundcloud):
Fall Back by eccentric_hat

This is my first podfic--the story was such sheer pleasure to read aloud that I decided I had to record it. I hope you enjoy!