{"id":18767,"date":"2026-01-22T05:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18767"},"modified":"2026-01-22T05:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:05:30","slug":"the-cone-a-stoke-set-tale-as-a-free-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/01\/22\/the-cone-a-stoke-set-tale-as-a-free-audiobook\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Cone&#8221; &#8211; a Stoke-set tale as a free audiobook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local tale as a new audiobook. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=18I9t6hdgx0\">&#8220;The Cone&#8221;<\/a> by H.G. Wells is a macabre revenge tale set in Basford, Basford Bank, and Etruria, in Stoke-on-Trent. You can also find an annotated version of &#8220;The Cone&#8221; at the back of my recent book on H.G. Wells in the Potteries.<\/p>\n<p>The new 28-minute audiobook is read for Gates of Imagination, a YouTube channel which also has an excellent set of free readings of R.E. Howard&#8217;s Solomon Kane tales. <\/p>\n<p>If you have problems with ads in YouTube, download your audiobooks as local .MP3 files with MediaHuman&#8217;s free Youtube to MP3 downloader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local tale as a new audiobook. &#8220;The Cone&#8221; by H.G. Wells is a macabre revenge tale set in Basford, Basford Bank, and Etruria, in Stoke-on-Trent. You can also find an annotated version of &#8220;The Cone&#8221; at the back of my recent book on H.G. Wells in the Potteries. The new 28-minute audiobook is read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18768,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions\/18768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}