Episode 61: "The Earth Draws" by Jonas Lie

 

In this dark Norwegian folk tale, a young shop assistant accidentally chances upon the secret stores of the hidden underground people - and one of their women becomes enamoured of him. But what calls to him every Yuletide...?

This is an audio presentation (with music and sound effects) of "The Earth Draws" by Jonas Lie, translated by R. Nisbet-Bain (1893).

This is part of a season of ghost and horror stories for Christmas. The playlist is here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7JYpOrSDoCdOa4uUF8OMcBHxVfP-hpef

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About the episode:

 

"The Earth Draws" by Jonas Lie.  Originally collected in Trold by Jonas Lie (1891). This translation first published in the collection Weird Tales of the Northern Seas from the Danish of Jonas Lie by Jonas Lie, translated by R. Nisbet Bain (published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893).

 

Credit where credit's due:

 

Incidental music:

 

Landskab by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7881-landskab
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

 

Theme music:  The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

Sound effects:  All  sound effects sourced at Freesound.

 

The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Anchor.

 

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