1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Podcast
1) A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM by EDGAR ALLAN POE
In Scandinavia, there is a phenomenon known as the Moskstraumen or Moskenstraumen, a system of tidal whirlpools found in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county (in Norway) between the Norwegian Se...Show More
2) THE BUSH FIRE by HENRY LAWSON (A.K.A.THE FIRE AT ROSS'S FARM)
This story was originally written as a 'Bush Ballad" or poem-story by Henry Lawson, and it describes how two competing farm families finally unite while trying to prevent a wildfire from destroying th...Show More
3) THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE and THE CHOICE OF HERCULES (JAMES BALDWIN)
The Husband Who Was To Mind The House- is a folk talestory in which a husband complains tohis wife for not having dinner ready when he comes in from work- so she convinces him to switch jobs the next ...Show More
THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE and THE CHOICE OF HERCULES (JAMES BALDWIN)
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4) MAMMON AND THE ARCHER by O. HENRY
A young man of means expreeses frustration to his wealthy father over not being able to find alone time with the girl of his interests due to her busy social schedule. His mother believes that chance...Show More
5) COOL AIR by H.P.LOVECRAFT
In New York City in the early twenties a writer finds a baely livable apartment in a rroming house.soon finding that directly above himlives an eccentric old doctor who requires an extremely cold livi...Show More
6) THE STRANGE CRIME OF JOHN BOULNOIS from THE WISDOM OF FATHER BROWN
Reporter Calhoun Kidd of the Western Sun is off to interview John Boulnois, a philisopher, at his home, Grey Cottage at the edge of Pendragon Park. But he comes across a murder, but who is the guilty ...Show More
7) CHRISTMAS JENNY by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
A single woman living alone on a mountain within sight of a little town raises the curiousity of the town's inhabitants who share rumors about the strange menagerie she keeps in her shabby hut on the ...Show More
8) WHISTLING DICK'S CHRISTMAS STOCKING by O.HENRY
This was the first short story penned under the name O.Henry- and its a great classic, offering a tale of a wanderer named Whistling Dick who, finding New Orleans no longer friendly to hoboes, hits th...Show More
9) ANN MARY; HER TWO THANKSGIVINGS by MARY E .WILKINS FREEMAN
A little girl is temporarily abandoned on Thanksgiving when her family has to rush away to the next town to care for an ailing relative
10) HOW WE KEPT THANKSGIVING AT OLDTOWN by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
How was Thanksgiving celebrated in the 1860's? After the Civil War, affairs of home and hearth became much more important to families who suffered so much loss during the Civil War. Harriet Beecher S...Show More