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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. Primary Format : Literature Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : Unknown Region : XX User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of The Classic Tales Podcast Podcasts Methings.com listings of The Classic Tales Podcast Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of The Classic Tales Podcast Episode 134, A Diamond As Big As The Ritz, Pt2 of 2, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Love comes to John and Kismine in the Hidden Valley of the Diamonds. They spend the long, lazy summer vowing never to part. Yet, how far will Kismine's father go to keep this valley of immeasurable wealth a secret? The answer will shake the earth. F. Scott Fitzgerald, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 133, A Diamond As Big As The Ritz, Pt1 of 2, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Percy Washington says that his dad is the richest man in the world. His preparatory schoolmate, John, squints with a skeptical eye. Percy says his dad has a diamond as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Well, that seems like a good fantasy. But what happens when John finds out that Percy is telling the truth? F. Scott Fitzgerald, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 132, "Olalla" Part 2 of 2, by Robert Louis Stevenson Haunting screams in the night herald the existence of something evil. The cries cannot be of a beast, but was there ever man or woman born who could create such a torrent of screaming infamy? Perhaps the daughter, Olalla, will explain all. Of course, she may also turn out to be the screaming demoniac.  Robert Louis Stevenson, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 131, "Olalla" Part 1 of 2, by Robert Louis Stevenson There is something wrong about the Spanish residencia on the hill. Some disregard it as only a house with a mad woman with her two children. Others claim that unspeakable things happen at night, when the house is in the shadows. When a wounded war hero takes refuge in this forbidding home, he slowly realizes that degenerate people tend to fraternize with degenerate spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 130, "Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad" by M.R. James Superstitions around Suffolk hold that one who whistles on the seashore kindles the wind. But Professor Parkins discovers that some whistles summon more than empty atmosphere. M.R. James, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 129, Lot No.249, Part 2 of 2, by Arthur Conan Doyle Layers of evidence reveal to Abercrombie Smith that Bellingham must be at the bottom of the strange attacks. But in the method and manner of these outrages he finds something he cannot believe. Finally, he sees the red eyes of the demoniac in the dead of night, and his worst fears are realized. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 128, Lot No.249, Part 1 of 2, by Arthur Conan Doyle Unexplained events are happening at Oxford these days. Several students have been attacked at night by some strange form of wild animal. It can scale walls with cat-like agility. Its arms are as thin and as strong as steel bands. And there is one student who conducts midnight studies in his room with certain Egyptian artifacts. The most significant of which is a 6'7" tall mummy. Arthur Conan Doyle, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 126, The Man Who Disliked Cats, by P.G. Wodehouse Jean Priaulx, an aspiring artist, dislikes cats. That may be an understatement. He can't stand them. Their existence is noxious to him. Why? Because he holds one of them responsible for destroying his life. How can an innocent animal devastate the life of would-be French master? Find out, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 127, Feathertop, by Nathaniel Hawthorne It is widely known that Mother Rigby is one of the most powerful witches in New England. And when she constructs a make shift scarecrow to frighten the crows away, she is struck with an uncommon idea. Why not give this pumpkin headed creation life? Nathaniel Hawthorne, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.This episode also contains a bonus episode of The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 126, The Man Who Disliked Cats, by P.G. Wodehouse Jean Priaulx, an aspiring artist, dislikes cats. That may be an understatement. He can't stand them. Their existence is noxious to him. Why? Because he holds one of them responsible for destroying his life. How can an innocent animal devastate the life of would-be French master? Find out, on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 125, A Case of Identity, by Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes hears the distressing tale of Miss Mary Sutherland. It seems that something unexpected and mysterious has happened to her fiancee, Hosmar Angel. Is it a simple case of cold feet? Holmes finds something far more diabolical, lurking deep beneath the surface. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, today on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 124, The Unexpected, by Jack London Edith was a respectable maid in England, living a life that is well oiled and extremely predictable. But when she goes to the States, marriage, trail blazing, prospecting, and even murder each leave their mark on her well-mannered life. So, what happens when she is faced with The Unexpected? Find out, today on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 123, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Part 8 of 8 Victor's mad ambition comes to a chilling finale, as we see the creature creep into the chamber that holds the worldly remains of his creator. Conscience makes no coward of him, and our Gothic tale comes to an end.  Frankenstein, the unabridged mini-series, concluded on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 122, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Part 7 of 8 Victor is accused of murder in Ireland. But the accusations that wrack his soul nearly tear his mind asunder. Traces of the monster consume him, and his ominous wedding with Elizabeth is solemnized. Frankenstein, the unabridged mini-series, continues on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 121, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Part 6 of 8 The creature's proposal racks Victor with pangs of conscience and remorse. Finally, he agrees to create another patchwork horror: a mate for the fiend he has already formed. But how far will he go before he realizes that this being may be more murderous, brutal and vicious than the first? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 120, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Part 5 of 8 Upon a snow-capped mountain in Switzerland, two figures sit in grave conversation. One is misshapen, awkward, and frightening. It is he who speaks. It is he who makes a diabolical threat and proposal to his own creator. Frankenstein, the unabridged mini-series, continues on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 119, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Part 4 of 8 Death haunts Victor Frankenstein during every waking hour. He vows revenge on the creature he has formed. But when he meets the daemon face to face, he feels it only just to hear the creature's strange tale. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 118, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Part 3 of 8 Victor Frankenstein, scientist and surgeon, after creating his monster has suffered a nervous attack. When he regains his senses after three months of illness, he learns that the cry of "Murder!" is sounded at home. But this is a sound that he will hear again, and again. Frankenstein, the unabridged mini-series, continues on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 117, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Part 2 of 8 In the thunderous hills above Ingolstadt, a creature is formed. It is a being so horrible in aspect that its own creator turns away in disgust. The whirlwind of consequence begins for the ambitious and brilliant giver of life. Frankenstein, the unabridged mini-series, continues on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 116, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Part 1 of 8 In the frozen wastes north of Russia, a lone seaward vessel seeks the elusive Northwest Passage. Suddenly they sight a dog sled with a gargantuan figure in the shape of a man, driving the dogs northward to sure oblivion. The following day, they find another sled. This sled is filled with a European near death, and when asked what he is chasing, he simply replies, "to seek one who fled from me." Frankenstein, the unabridged mini-series, today on The Classic Tales Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website