Time for a Smoke and a Shiver! (4th Annual)

[shanez]

Welcome one and all to a fun filled month of evening pipes enjoyed with a a scary tale or three.

My wife did her usual superb job of decorating the house which always puts me in the mood. Tonight I have my scarecrow meer with some C&D From Beyond with a glass of homemade wine:





Sit back, relax, and enjoy with me and please do post stories of your own you like here.

As always we start with Poe's "The Raven" in my 3 favorite narrations.

First is Darth Vader James Earl Jones:

Next is Dracula Christopher Lee:

And last, but not least, a whimsical version from the Simpsons:

 

[shanez]

One more for the night by one of my favorite authors, Guy de Maupassant's classic "The Hand".

 

[OzPiper]

Awesome carving

 

[Scottmi]

 

[dcrguns]

These are the best posts! Thanks!

 

[RookieGuy80]

Thank you for putting the Simpsons telling up. That is my absolute favorite versions of The Raven. Beyond James Earl Jones' stellar reading, the interpretation from younger children is priceless.

 

[FLDRD]

You got me started on this last year with your posts, thanks! I enjoy audio in a very different way from viewing...

 

[HRPufnstuf]

Welcome one and all to a fun filled month of evening pipes enjoyed with a a scary tale or three.

My wife did her usual superb job of decorating the house which always puts me in the mood. Tonight I have my scarecrow meer with some C&D From Beyond with a glass of homemade wine:

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Sit back, relax, and enjoy with me and please do post stories of your own you like here.

As always we start with Poe's "The Raven" in my 3 favorite narrations.

First is Darth Vader James Earl Jones:

Next is Dracula Christopher Lee:

And last, but not least, a whimsical version from the Simpsons:

Thank-you for this post, a great accompaniment to a double negroni and some Plum Pudding! I confess to favouring Christopher Lee's reading, even though Poe was American. His is somehow darker and lonlier, despondent and lost. Anyway, thank-you for a dreary interlude.

 

[HRPufnstuf]

One more for the night by one of my favorite authors, Guy de Maupassant's classic "The Hand".

Gomez would be proud.

 

[vosBghos]

this is just an explanation of the concept, the actual series is nice and creepy check out an episode or 18

but this presenters whole channel is very interesting

 

[El Capitán]

I prefer the Vincent Price reading of The Raven.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Nevermore!

 

[huckleberry]

This is a great way to start the fall season and a wonderful way to get in the mood for Halloween!

 

[HRPufnstuf]

I' d like to offer another famous Poe tale.

 

[tobakenist]

We have what is called a Indian Summer (not Red Indians) here in the UK, 26c today, hotter tomorrow and Monday and Tuesday, enjoying it because we had a crap summer this year where I live, so enjoying outside pipe smoking for a change.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Our (US) Indian Summers require at least one good frosty night. Do yours, or are there different requirements?

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

This reminds me of when the wife and I would sit around our fire pit reading ghost stories to our kids when they were younger. Our story telling was more on par with Homer Simpson, and not so much James Earl Jones or Christopher Lee. LOL

Love the scarecrow meerschaum. Who carved the pipe?

 

[huntertrw]

 

[pepperandjack]

Shanez, I really appreciate you putting up the three versions of "The Raven." Hearing Lee as Saruman turned me on to his voice, which I never heard in the Hammer Drac movies, probably because it wouls have detracted from him biting all those pretty women. What I take as his competently rehearsed reading of the poem I will return to. I look forward to hearing Jones and Homer's versions.

 

[shanez]

Love the scarecrow meerschaum. Who carved the pipe?

Sadik Yanik.