Two freaks explain antiques every week.
Once upon a time in April of 2020 we read our first Carnacki story - but we did not read it on air. Now the Horse of the Invisible has returned to wreak its revenge, and only Chris and Paris of the @terriblebookclub podcast can rescue the Antiques Freaks from its horrible haunting.
Once upon a time in April of 2020 we read our first Carnacki story - but we did not read it on air. Now the Horse of the Invisible has returned to wreak its revenge, and only Chris and Paris of the @terriblebookclub podcast can rescue the Antiques Freaks from its horrible haunting.
Why do most antiquarian and rare booksellers avoid library book sales? Why do we think you should buck the trend and attend anyway? And what are the striking similarities between books and human flesh? Tune in for our library book sale haul and find out!
Dee lore as revealed on the pod thus far…
~ The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners; or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book, a Guide and Manual for Ladies, by Eliza Leslie, 1854
goblinbuckets asked:
sooting my shot to see who remembers Bella Sara. I would always see their cardpacks at the feed store as a kid, when i would go with my dad to get chicken food. I remember being mystified by the fantastic and magical horses depicted there! I spent a lot of hours playing games on their website, and i was super sad when they closed down :-(
horsefigureoftheday answered:
When all my autism was focused on Bella Sara, back in ‘19, I kept dreaming about finding an old lot of cards at the back of a toy store and I was always so disoriented and sad when I woke up, it felt so real. I miss just going into stores and buying Bella Sara :(
Thankfully, a team from the Bella Sara discord (particularly Mew, Gridloch, x0xll, Bellasaraarchivist, and Crystallinetearz) have worked tirelessly to restore the games and stables, and have made several pages playable again :)
If you used to play on the Bella Sara website and you have an old computer that hasn't been restarted since 2019, there may be important recoverable files on it!
If you have a computer like this, please join the Bella Sara discord and contact Gridloch in the #archival-genchat channel.
This project is ongoing and the Bella Sara community is always in need of more website data!
ALT~ Facts for the People, Things Worth Knowing: A Book of Receipts, in which Every Thing is of Practical Use to Every Body, 1850
Nearly 5 years ago to the day, we reviewed The Horse of the Invisible with our very best podfriends the Antiques Freaks. Years later, we realized that we had never actually read the story aloud as we had promised you, as we've done with all the other Carnacki stories. Once again, we were wrong - there is yet one more 'nack to Carn, so the Terrible Antique Book Freaks assembled anew!
Dust off your Carnacki Bingo cards and enjoy a second round of the gobble-neighing contest, all set to the impeccable scoring and SFX talents of Chris (Oselka Sound).
If you haven't had enough invisible horse after you listen to this episode, you can also hear our review of the story from April of 2020 in Episode 83 - The Horse of the Invisible from Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson *Special Guests D & Ken from Antiques Freaks*
*Whoops! Somehow this scheduled post never actually posted from our episode two weeks ago*
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson has been floating around in the American pop cultural stew for the last 22 years. Paris had always been interested in reading it, so when it happened to be in a pile of books some friends were giving away, she heeded the call of our dark lord and tossed it on the schedule for 2025.
Get on your fancy new bicycles, affix a lightbulb to the front, grab a can of PBR, and somehow also balance a bowl of Shredded Wheat while you're at it for a wild journey from the 1880s through the early 20th century. Paris leads us through Larson's dual accounts of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and its Director of Work, Daniel Hudson Burnham, alongside the Chicago years of "America's first serial killer", H.H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett). If you think you know the Holmes story because you already read this book or saw some TV dramatization - you don't. Together, we'll discover that misinformation and disinformation have suffused this story for 120 years (and counting)!
Thanks to Ken from the @antiquesfreaks for helping Paris down the research rabbit hole & to Adam Selzer for a stellar book, without which much of our disappointment in and suspicions of Larson's tale would not have been justified and relieved (H.H. Holmes: The History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer).
