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 In this episode we sit down with Emma Speer -  Narrator / Performer / Writer / Painter / Educator - https://www.emmaspeer.me/We listen to  “The House the Blakeneys Built” Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1965. For more information see www.avramdavidson.com   

 In this episode we sit down with Robert Eversmann - Robert is an editor for Deep Overstock, the international booksellers journal, a co-host for Genre Podcast and Late Night Pomes Radio, and plays Brother Dustin for the Portland-based radio drama, EXOPLANETARY. We listen to “The Great Rough Beast” Originally published in Weird Tales, Winter 1988/1989 and later it was published as part of "The Adventures in Unhistory." At the end of the episode we get to listen to a partial lecture from Avram. For more information see www.avramdavidson.com 

In this episode we sit down with Nancy Klein and listen to chapter 1 of "Beer! Beer! Beer!" which was written in the 1970's but published in 2021. Nancy & Sidney Klein were close friends of Avram. Nancy Isaacs Klein is a native of Yonkers, NY. She is a graduate of Barnard College and has 4 children, 19 grandchildren and a lot of great-grandchildren. She is an active community volunteer. Her book, A Life of Joy, tells the story of her husband, Sidney B. Klein and includes some of his own writings about his adventures (mostly humorous) in the Marines, as an engineer, a father, grandfather and Orthodox Jew. Nancy Isaacs Klein is also the author of Heritage of Faith, the biographies of her father, Moses L. Isaacs, and her grandfather, Rabbi Philipp Kle. For more information see www.avramdavidson.com 

In this episode we sit down with Rich Horton - Locus short fiction columnist, editor of "The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy " for Prime Books, and blogger at Strange at Ecbatan.We listen to “The Sources of the Nile” Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1961. For more information see www.avramdavidson.com  

 In this episode we sit down with Patrick Bringley (an author and expert on Jacob Hays) & Edward Conlon -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Conlon and listen to a reading of “The Importance of Trifles”. Originally published in EQMM, January 1969, as "The Man Who Killed Sailors" Reprinted in Best Detective Stories of the Year : 24th Annual Collection, Ed. Allen J. Hubin (Dutton, 1970) and The Investigations of Avram Davidson in 1999. For more information see www.avramdavidson.com 

 In this episode we sit down with Ted White a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction writer, editor and fan, as well as a music critic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_White_(author)We listen to “Or The Grasses Grow” Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1958. For more information see www.avramdavidson.com 

In this episode we sit down with Robert Lopresti and listen to a reading of  "The Necessity of His Condition".   http://www.roblopresti.com/Originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, April 1957 For more information see www.avramdavidson.com     

In this episode we sit down with John Kessel and listen to a reading of  "Faed-Out".   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_KesselOriginally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1963 .For more information see www.avramdavidson.com    

 In this episode we sit down with Dan Murphy. Dan is the editor of the Yonkers Times. He is also is one of the leading experts on Dutch Schultz. http://yonkerstimes.com/have-a-beer-this-summer-on-dutch/ - It was this article that led me to Dan. We discuss what Dan learned from Avram's story "Beer Like Water." This episode is also special in that the story is read by Avram. For more information see www.avramdavidson.com 

In this episode we sit down with three of Avram's former students from William & Mary and listen to "The Bounty Hunter"  originally published in Fantastic Universe, March 1958. For more information see www.avramdavidson.com 

I have taken much of my description below from a review by Robert Lopresti. I remember reading this novella when it originally appeared in the October 1970 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, under the dreadful name of "Manhattan Night's Entertainment."  Frederic Dannay was a great editor but a horrific tinkerer with titles.  Avram Davidson had one of those staggering imaginations, like John Collier, James Powell, or Terry Pratchett.  You just never knew what would pour out of his typewriter.  In this case it is the simple story of a young lady from New Jersey and her encounters with a pickpocket, the Mafia, the Nafia, an Albanian Trotskyite who wants to blow up the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Hudson River pirates, and, of course, the Lord High Keeper of the Queen's Bears, who lives in a cave in Central Park.  Okay, maybe I lied about it being a simple story.   The main character is really the titular Lord, alias Arthur Marmaduke Roderick Lodowicke William Rufus de Powisse-Plunkert, 11th Marques of Grue and Groole in the peerage of England, 22nd Baron Bogle in the Peerage of Scotland, 6th Earl of Ballypatcooge in the Peerage of Ireland, Viscount Penhokey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Laird of Muckle Greet, Master of Snee, and Hereditary Lord High Keeper of the Queen's Bears.   By now you have probably figured out that Davidson loves words, for their own sake.  He also uses them to tell a wonderful story.   The Marquess is broke and dishonest, which explains why he lives in a cave, cadging most of his meals from meat his trained falcon steals off grills on the surrounding balconies.  He is a sharp fellow and when he spots rope in a store window that could only have been swiped from the British Navy he finds himself confronting the aforementioned river pirates who vehemently deny that they are pirates.  You see, Peter Stuyvesant gave the family the right to collect taxes in 1662, just before the Dutch surrendered to the British.  For a moment no word broke the reverent silence.  Then, slowly, Lord Grue and Groole removed his cap.  "And naturally," he said, "your family has never recognized that surrender.  Madam, as an unreconstructed Jacobite, I honor them for it, in your person."  He gravely bowed.  I won't attempt to explain how everyone else fits into this mad mosiac.  Just get your hands on the story and read it.  Why it hasn't been made into a movie is one of those inexplicable mysteries.  It's practically a film right on the page. For more information please visit www.avramdavidson.com 

In this episode we sit down with  Alexander James. https://drunkscribe.com/We  listen to “Full Chicken Richness" and discuss the story. Originally published in Last Wave, October 1983 For more information see www.avramdavidson.com     

In this episode we listen to "Skinny."  A very early never published Avram Davidson story. Written in the early 1950's.   It's semi-autobiographical.  Avram was a corpsman and spent time in China following World War II.For more information see www.avramdavidson.com  

In this episode we sit down with  Susan Emshwiller. http://www.susanemshwiller.com/We discuss The Milford Writing Conference.  We  listen to “The Woman Who Thought She Could Read" and discuss the story. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1959.  For more information see www.avramdavidson.com    

 In this episode we sit down with Melissa Rogers.https://melissaroserogers.com/We discuss how Melissa became an Avram fan. We  listen to “What Strange Stars and Skies” and discuss the story. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1963.For more information see www.avramdavidson.com     

In this episode we sit down with Michael Kurlandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_KurlandWe discuss editing Avram's books, being his roommate, Ray Bradbury and more.  We  listen to “The Montavarde Camera" and discuss the story. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959For more information see www.avramdavidson.com    

In this episode we sit down with Scott Bradfield.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bradfield  We discuss Avram's writing workshop  in Marin.  We  listen to "Dragon Skin Drum" and discuss the story. Originally published in Kenyon Review, Winter 1961  For more information see www.avramdavidson.com     

In this episode we sit down with Gregory Benford. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_BenfordWe discuss Avram as a visiting professor and much more. We were having so much fun that we never actually discussed the narration of   "Now Let Us Sleep" however Greg wrote the introduction for the story in The Treasury. Originally published in  Venture Science Fiction Magazine, September 1957 .  For more information see www.avramdavidson.com    

In this episode we sit down with Alan Dean Foster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dean_Foster) and listen to a reading of  “Help! I Am Dr. Morris Goldpepper".   It's a very funny science fiction story about dentists. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1957.  We discuss Goldpepper.  We also discuss Or The Grasses Grow a fantasy story about the mistreatment of Native Americans well before its time.For more information see www.avramdavidson.com    

In this episode we sit down with Jack Dann and listen to a reading of  "Goslin Day".   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_DannOriginally published in Damon Knight's Orbit 6, March 1970.  We discuss the story, his brag shelf and editing Everybody Has Somebody In Heaven Essential Jewish Tales Of The Spirit.For more information see www.avramdavidson.com