The Classic Tales Podcast

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The Classic Tales Podcast delivers professional performances of unabridged classics. Enjoy classic short fiction from Poe, Dickens, Hardy, and others. Performed by character actor B.J. Harrison. (Author: B.J. Harrison)
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Recent episodes from The Classic Tales Podcast

  • Episode 71, "fear And The Graveyard" By Guy De Maupassant
    Published: Sep 5, 08
    Skeletons and corpses rise from their fitful sleep to deliver a chilling message from beyond the grave. Two perspectives on fear by Guy de Maupassant.
     
  • Episode 70, The Dream Woman, Part Two, By Wilkie Collins
    Published: Aug 29, 08
    Francis Raven marries the woman of his dreams. But when their marriage dissipates into violent animosity, Francis realizes that the woman of his dreams has turned into the Dream Woman.
     
  • Episode 69, The Dream Woman, Part One, By Wilkie Collins
    Published: Aug 22, 08
    “Wake up! Wake up there! Murder!” A hostler spits out these vehement words while he turbulently sleeps. He is haunted by a phantasm. It is a ghostly woman with a droop in the left eye, long flaxen hair, and a long buckhorn clasp knife.
     
  • Episode 68, The Yellow Wallpaper, By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    Published: Aug 15, 08
    It’s just a hideously papered room. At least, that’s what everybody else thought. But when a woman suffering from a nervous condition is housed in the room, things begin to surface from the wallpaper- things that seem familiar, but are best left quiet and undisturbed.
     
  • Episode 67, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, By F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Published: Aug 8, 08
    Bernice has rare beauty and wealth, but is undeniably socially awkward. Her cousin Marjorie does her best to make her into a social vampire. To be a socialite in America in the 1920s, some of the more archaic feminine ideals need to go. Bernice’s luxurious long hair may need to go, too.
     
  • Episode 66, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge, And A Horseman In The Sky, By Ambrose Bierce
    Published: Aug 1, 08
    There is a bridge at Owl Creek that is surrounded by dry and cracking driftwood. Burning the bridge would be the perfect way for a civilian Southerner to strike a blow against the Union Army. But Peyton Farquar doesn’t make it that far, and instead finds a rope around his neck. It’s the “devil’s lexicographer”, Ambrose Bierce, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
     
  • Episode 65, Jeeves And The Unbidden Guest, By P.g. Wodehouse
    Published: Jul 25, 08
    Jeeves stays his hand. Yes, that’s right. Even though a particularly well-upholstered friend of Aunt Agatha chucks her bleary eyed, milk sot of a son on Bertie for a month, Jeeves refuses to rally to the cause. Of course, if Bertie would simply throw out the offensive tie and hat, things might be smoothed over soon enough. But Bertie, just this once, has decided to be firm.
     
  • Episode 64, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Part Six, By Arthur Conan Doyle
    Published: Jul 18, 08
    Deep mists shroud the final attack of the Baskerville hound. And while Holmes and Watson track down the hellish beast, Sir Henry Baskerville receives a shock that will haunt him all the rest of his days. The Hound of the Baskervilles, concluded, on the Classic Tales Podcast.
     
  • Episode 63, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Part Five, By Arthur Conan Doyle
    Published: Jul 11, 08
    Sherlock Holmes finally reveals himself, and proclaims who he believes the murderer to be. However, he further states that there exists not a shred of evidence to convict the villain. Holmes’ net tightens, and the fiendish hound claims another victim.
     
  • Episode 62, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Part Four, By Arthur Conan Doyle
    Published: Jul 4, 08
    The mysterious butler, Barrymore, has his secret exposed. The throaty wail of a hell hound terrorizes the moor, causing Sir Henry Baskerville’s very bones to tremble with fear.
     
  • Episode 61, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Part Three, By Arthur Conan Doyle
    Published: Jun 27, 08
    A wild horse struggles for freedom from the merciless Grimpen Mire. Watson and Stapleton stare in horror and wonder as the mire slowly extinguishes the thrashing animal. The gloom and mystery of the moor pervade Watson’s investigations, and nobody is as innocent as they would have us believe.
     
  • Episode 60, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Part Two, By Arthur Conan Doyle
    Published: Jun 20, 08
    Holmes explores three potential threads of the mystery. The journey is exhausted in London, and we venture into the dangerous lands of Dartmoor.
     
  • Episode 59, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Part One, By Arthur Conan Doyle
    Published: Jun 13, 08
    The spectral hellhound, which dogs the descendants of the Baskerville family, has claimed another victim. The ancient legend, and the modern murderous facts are placed before the great Sherlock Holmes. And one of the greatest adventures put to print begins…
     
  • Episode 58, Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves, Part Two
    Published: Jun 6, 08
    The Forty Thieves seek the life of Ali Baba. And Morgiana, the slave girl, shows that her worth is greater than gold. The magic carpet ride continues with the conclusion of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
     
  • Episode 57, Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves, Part One
    Published: May 30, 08
    In the mystical land of Arabia, there is a secreted magic door that opens with the command, “Open, Sesame”. Inside lays the plunder of a century of robbers and mercenaries. And when Ali Baba witnesses 40 thieves open this door with the enchanted words, endless possibilities begin to unwind before him. Take a magic carpet ride with the Arabian Nights. Today, on the Classic Tales Podcast.