⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales SHOW NOTES – The Secret Garden (A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton) Episode Summary Tonight's story is one of G.K. Chesterton's most atmospheric and ingenious Father Brown mysteries — a tale of moonlight, murder, and impossible circumstances. The Secret Garden begins at the Paris home of Aristide Valentin, Chief of the Paris Police, where a distinguished group of guests gathers for dinner. Among them is the unassuming English priest, Father Brown, whose quiet presence will soon prove essential. Valentin's garden is unlike any other: large, elegant, and completely sealed off from the outside world by high, smooth walls topped with spikes. There is no exit except through the guarded front door. Yet in this enclosed space, under a sharp moon and drifting storm clouds, a headless corpse is discovered in the grass — a murder that seems not only brutal, but physically impossible. As panic spreads among the guests, Valentin attempts to solve the crime using logic and forensic deduction. But Father Brown, with his gentle manner and deep understanding of human nature, sees something else — something everyone else has missed. What follows is one of Chesterton's finest locked‑garden mysteries, filled with twists, misdirection, and the quiet brilliance of the little priest from Essex. What You'll Hear in This Episode The introduction of Aristide Valentin and his peculiar, fortress-like home A dinner party filled with diplomats, aristocrats, scientists, and soldiers The shocking discovery of a headless body in the moonlit garden Valentin's methodical investigation — and Father Brown's subtle observations The unraveling of an impossible crime A final revelation that only Father Brown could see coming Why This Story Endures The Secret Garden is a masterclass in classic mystery writing. Chesterton blends Gothic atmosphere with razor-sharp logic, creating a puzzle that feels supernatural until the final explanation snaps everything into place. It's a story about perception, pride, and the quiet wisdom of a man who understands sin because he has heard it confessed. Father Brown remains one of literature's most unique detectives — not because he is cleverer than others, but because he sees the world through the lens of compassion, humility, and human frailty. A Note on the Text The attached passage includes vivid descriptions such as: "A sharp moon was fighting with the flying rags and tatters of a storm…" and "The argent light lit up all four corners of the garden." Chesterton's imagery sets the stage for a mystery that feels both theatrical and eerily real.   ⭐ RECOMMENDED LISTENING THE DEVIL'S BRIGADE OF WWII – THE TRUE STORY OF THE FIRST SPECIAL FORCES UNIT Now playing at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast If you enjoy stories of courage, strategy, and real-world heroism, don't miss our deep-dive episode on the First Special Service Force — the legendary joint American‑Canadian commando unit whose daring operations in WWII earned them the name "The Devil's Brigade." It's a gripping historical narrative and a perfect companion to tonight's mystery.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our classic tales and historical adventures, please consider supporting us: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork Website: https://www.bestof1001stories.com

⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales SHOW NOTES – Robin Encompasses a Marriage (From The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood) Episode Summary Today's story comes from Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, and it captures one of the most joyful and dramatic episodes in the entire Robin Hood tradition — the day Robin and his Merry Men stopped a wedding, rescued a heartbroken bride, and set things right with a little courage, a little mischief, and a great deal of Lincoln Green. Fair Ellen is to be married against her will to the wealthy Sir Stephen of Trent. Her true love, Allan a Dale, stands helpless — until Robin Hood swears that Allan will "eat from the platter filled for Sir Stephen." What follows is one of the most delightful scenes in the Robin Hood canon: disguises, trickery, Friar Tuck's booming laughter, Little John's steady sword, and Robin's bold interruption of a church ceremony that was never meant to be. This is Robin Hood at his best — clever, fearless, and determined to defend the innocent. What Happens in This Tale Robin chooses a score of his best men and disguises himself as a wandering minstrel. The band travels from Sherwood to the Vale of Rotherstream, hiding near the church where Ellen's forced wedding will take place. Friar Tuck infiltrates the church, preparing for Robin's signal. The Bishop of Hereford arrives in full pomp, unaware that Robin Hood is waiting. Sir Stephen and Ellen arrive — Ellen pale and sorrowful, Sir Stephen proud and oblivious. Robin steps forward, halts the ceremony, and blows three blasts on his horn. Little John, Will Stutely, and eighteen yeomen storm the church. Allan a Dale arrives with Robin's bow, kneels, and joins the rescue. Friar Tuck publishes the banns nine times and marries Allan and Ellen himself. Robin forces the Bishop to give Ellen his golden chain as a wedding gift. The yeomen return to Sherwood for a feast "such as Nottinghamshire never saw before." Why This Story Endures This tale is one of the most beloved Robin Hood episodes because it blends everything readers love: Romance Humor Justice Rebellion Merry camaraderie A triumphant ending It's a celebration of Robin's code: no forced marriage, no abuse of power, and no injustice left unanswered. A Note on the Text Howard Pyle's language is rich, musical, and filled with the charm of old English storytelling. The attached passage includes lines such as: "Here be lilies in the cheeks, and not roses such as befit a bonny bride." and "Then straightway he came down from the loft and forthwith performed the marriage service; and so Allan and Ellen were duly wedded." These moments capture the spirit of the tale — bold, warm, and wonderfully theatrical.   ⭐ RECOMMENDED LISTENING FRANCISCO DE ORELLANA: THE MAN WHO NAMED THE AMAZON Now playing at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast If you enjoy stories of daring adventure and historical mystery, don't miss our episode on Francisco de Orellana, the explorer whose impossible 1542 river journey gave the Amazon its name. It's a tale of danger, discovery, and the clash between myth and reality — perfect companion listening after today's Robin Hood adventure.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our classic tales and historical adventures, please consider supporting us: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) (bing.com in Bing) Website: https://www.bestof1001stories.com

⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales SHOW NOTES – THE OVAL PORTRAIT by Edgar Allan Poe Episode Summary Tonight's story is one of Edgar Allan Poe's shortest and most haunting works — a compact Gothic masterpiece first published in 1842. The Oval Portrait tells the eerie tale of a wounded traveler who takes shelter in a deserted chateau, where he discovers a portrait so lifelike, so arresting, that he cannot look away. As he reads the tragic history behind the painting, he uncovers a chilling story of beauty, obsession, and the terrible price of artistic perfection. Though brief, this tale captures Poe at the height of his Gothic imagination — blending atmosphere, mystery, and psychological horror into a single unforgettable moment. Background & Inspiration Poe wrote The Oval Portrait during a turbulent period in his life. His young wife Virginia had begun her long decline from tuberculosis, and Poe was living under constant financial and emotional strain. Scholars often see the story as a reflection of Poe's fear that devotion to art — or to anything — could consume the very life of the one you love. The story first appeared as part of a longer piece titled Life in Death in Graham's Magazine (1842). Poe later revised it, removing the surrounding material and publishing it as the standalone tale we know today. Themes & Significance The Oval Portrait explores several of Poe's recurring themes: The destructive pursuit of artistic perfection The blurred line between life and art Beauty as both inspiration and danger The tragic consequences of obsession It remains one of Poe's most atmospheric and symbolic works — a story that lingers long after its final line. Related Listening If you're interested in the real-life tragedies that shaped Poe's writing — including the long illness and death of his wife Virginia, and Poe's own mysterious final days — we covered the full story at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries. Listen here: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/best-of-44-of-577-the-mysterious-death-of-edgar-allan-poe/id956154836?i=1000361901961 Support the 1001 Stories Network If you enjoy our classic stories and want to help us continue bringing great literature to listeners around the world, please consider supporting us at: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) Follow Us Website: https://www.bestof1001stories.com Facebook: Bestof1001stories.com Instagram: @1001storiespodcast Twitter/X: @1001stories  Thank you for listening, and for supporting great storytelling.

1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES & TALES SHOW NOTES THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN CROSS — PART TWO A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton In the second half of The Curse of the Golden Cross, G.K. Chesterton brings all the threads of his mystery together in a way only he can — blending archaeology, paranoia, hidden identities, and the quiet, penetrating insight of Father Brown. Professor Smaill and Father Brown arrive at the lonely Sussex churchyard where the ancient tomb lies waiting. But instead of a quiet investigation, they find themselves surrounded by familiar faces: Lady Diana Wales, the moody young dandy Paul Tarrant, the insinuating Leonard Smyth, the melancholy journalist Boon, and even the silent lecturer with the walrus moustache. One by one, every passenger from the Moravia seems to have converged on the same spot. Is it curiosity? Coincidence? Or something far more sinister? Chesterton uses this eerie gathering to explore the professor's growing fear — the belief that a single, faceless enemy is stalking him for possession of a sacred relic. But as Father Brown observes, when a man begins to suspect everyone, he often overlooks the one person who truly matters. The curse, the relic, the tomb, and the mysterious pursuer all come together in a final revelation that shows why Father Brown remains one of literature's most quietly brilliant detectives. This conclusion delivers atmosphere, tension, and Chesterton's trademark insight into human nature — reminding us that the greatest mysteries are not found in ancient tombs, but in the hearts of the people who stand beside them.   ⭐ ALSO THIS WEEK FROM THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK ⭐ 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME THE MURDER OF JOAN OF ARC AND THE RESULTING TRIAL THAT BROUGHT THE CHURCH TO ITS KNEES Now playing This week's episode of 1001 True Crime From Another Time tells one of the most powerful and heartbreaking stories in medieval history. Joan of Arc — the teenage girl who saved France, lifted the siege of Orléans, and led a king to his coronation — was betrayed, captured, and put on trial by her enemies. Her execution in 1431 was the result of a sham proceeding engineered by political forces who feared her influence and needed her silenced. But the story didn't end at the stake. Twenty‑five years later, Joan's mother and brothers forced the Church to reopen the case. What followed was one of the most extraordinary legal battles of the Middle Ages — a retrial that exposed corruption, overturned the verdict, and restored Joan's honor. It was a trial so powerful that it shook the authority of the Church itself. This is true crime at its most dramatic: a wrongful conviction, a political conspiracy, a grieving family's quest for justice, and a verdict that changed history. Listen now at 1001 True Crime From Another Time — new episodes every Friday at 4 PM ET.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our weekly episodes, please consider supporting the show: Patreon: Patreon.com/1001StoriesNetwork Website: BestOf1001Stories.com Reviews: Your reviews help new listeners discover the show Share: Tell a friend who loves great storytelling

⭐ 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES & TALES SHOW NOTES THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN CROSS PART ONE A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories often begin quietly, but The Curse of the Golden Cross opens on the vast Atlantic Ocean aboard a great liner bound for England. Around one small dinner table sits a curious mix of travelers: a celebrated American archaeologist, a bold lady adventurer, a moody young dandy, two English lecturers, and a small, unassuming priest who listens more than he speaks. What begins as casual conversation soon turns toward a newly discovered tomb on the Sussex coast — a tomb containing an embalmed body, a chain, and a golden cross marked with a secret symbol from the earliest days of Christianity. Professor Smaill, the archaeologist, carries a cross of his own with the same mysterious mark, and with it, a terrifying secret: years earlier, deep in the labyrinths of Crete, he encountered a faceless pursuer who vowed to kill anyone who possessed the relic. Now, as the ship crosses the ocean, the professor believes that same unseen enemy may be among the passengers at his very table. When the voyage ends, Father Brown accompanies the professor to the lonely Sussex churchyard where the ancient tomb lies waiting. But one by one, the same passengers from the ship begin to appear — drawn by curiosity, ambition, or something darker. Is it coincidence? Or is the curse of the golden cross finally closing in? Chesterton uses this eerie convergence to explore fear, obsession, and the danger of suspecting everyone except the one person who truly matters. And as always, Father Brown sees what others overlook — quietly, patiently, and with the wisdom of a man who understands human nature better than anyone. This is one of Chesterton's most atmospheric mysteries: a tale of archaeology, paranoia, hidden identities, and the quiet brilliance of a priest who solves crimes by understanding souls.   ⭐ ALSO THIS WEEK FROM THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK ⭐ THE AMAZON WARRIOR WOMEN: REALITY OR MYTH? Now playing at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries For centuries, the Amazons lived in the hazy borderland between myth and memory — fierce warrior women described by Herodotus and dismissed by later historians as pure fantasy. But modern archaeology is rewriting that story. In this powerful new episode, Jon Hagadorn explores the discoveries that reveal the truth behind the legend: Scythian and Sarmatian women buried with weapons and armor Battle injuries matching ancient Greek descriptions The 2019 discovery of four warrior women in a single grave And the question of whether Orellana's 1542 encounter in South America echoed a much older tradition Were the Amazons real? Did they shape the cultures of the ancient world? And why did their story survive for thousands of years? This is a cinematic, deeply researched episode that brings the Amazons to life — not as myth, but as history. Listen now at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our weekly episodes, please consider supporting the show: Patreon: Patreon.com/1001StoriesNetwork Website: BestOf1001Stories.com Reviews: Your reviews help new listeners discover the show Share: Tell a friend who loves great storytelling

⭐ 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES & TALES SHOW NOTES NEMESIS AND THE CANDY MAN By O. Henry O. Henry had a gift for taking ordinary New Yorkers and turning their lives into small, sparkling comedies of pride, vanity, romance, and human nature. Nemesis and the Candy Man is one of his most delightful examples — a story that begins with a farewell on Madison Avenue and ends in a West Side alley where beauty, stubbornness, and street‑corner philosophy collide. Honoria Clinton is preparing to sail for Europe, and young Ives arrives hoping for forgiveness and one last chance at love. But O. Henry never lets a simple goodbye stay simple. A street vendor — the candy man — appears below her window, selling motto candies wrapped in tiny verses that somehow speak more truth than the people reading them. Then the story shifts — as only O. Henry can — to a theatrical alley where Mlle. Adele, a glamorous performer with a waterfall of auburn hair, decides to test her charms on the candy man. What follows is a wonderfully human clash between beauty and indifference, pride and humility, and the strange ways affection can appear where we least expect it. It's a tale of small things — a slip of paper, a square of candy, a smile from a window — and how those small things can change the course of a day, or a life. This is O. Henry at his best: sharp, funny, tender, and full of the unexpected.   ⭐ ALSO FROM THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK ⭐ 1001 STORIES FROM THE GILDED AGE Our fast‑growing series celebrating America's most vibrant literary era — when magazines were king, short fiction flourished, and writers like Willa Cather, Susan Glaspell, Kate Chopin, and O. Henry shaped the national imagination. Each episode brings you a beautifully narrated story from 1870–1920, restored, curated, and presented with historical context. If you love classic storytelling, this is your next favorite show. Find it now at BestOf1001Stories.com and on all podcast apps.   ⭐ 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME True crime… but not the kind you're used to. This series dives into the most dramatic, shocking, and forgotten crimes of the past — from medieval betrayals to Victorian scandals to courtroom battles that changed history. Each episode is deeply researched, richly narrated, and filled with twists you won't see coming. This week: THE MURDER OF JOAN OF ARC AND THE RESULTING TRIAL THAT BROUGHT THE CHURCH TO ITS KNEES If you enjoy historical mysteries, courtroom drama, and stories that reveal the darker corners of human nature, this show is exploding in popularity for a reason. New episodes every Friday at 4 PM ET.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our weekly episodes, please consider supporting the show: Patreon: Patreon.com/1001StoriesNetwork Website: BestOf1001Stories.com Reviews: Your reviews help new listeners discover the show Share: Tell a friend who loves great storytelling

SCARFACE- JAMES BALDWIN    AT 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES & TALES Scarface tells the story of a young Blackfoot man whose facial scar becomes the subject of wild rumors and exaggerated legends. As the tales grow, he learns that he cannot control what others say — only how he chooses to live. Through courage, kindness, and steady character, he reshapes the meaning of his name and becomes the author of his own identity.   ⭐ FOR WANT OF A HORSESHOE NAIL — Summary (James Baldwin Retelling) This story is Baldwin's adaptation of the classic proverb about how small oversights lead to catastrophic consequences. It begins with a simple failure: a missing horseshoe nail. Because the nail is not replaced, the shoe loos't hold; because the shoe fails, the horse stumbles; because the horse is lost, the rider cannot deliver a crucial message; and because the message never arrives, an entire battle—and kingdom—is lost. Baldwin's version emphasizes the chain‑reaction nature of responsibility. He highlights how seemingly trivial details can carry enormous weight, and how neglect—whether born of haste, carelessness, or pride—can ripple outward until it becomes disaster. The story serves as a reminder that great failures often begin with small, preventable mistakes.

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales "The Plymouth Express Affair" by Agatha Christie" Episode Summary Agatha Christie's The Plymouth Express Affair (first published in 1923) is one of Hercule Poirot's early and tightly‑plotted murder mysteries. The story begins when a young naval officer discovers the body of a woman hidden beneath a seat aboard the Plymouth Express train. The victim is Florence Halliday (also known as Mrs. Rupert Carrington), daughter of wealthy American steel magnate Ebenezer Halliday. She had been traveling to a weekend house party carrying jewels worth a small fortune — jewels that are now missing. Halliday summons Poirot, who quickly realizes that the case involves more than a simple robbery. Florence's estranged husband Rupert Carrington, deep in gambling debt, appears to have motive. So does Count de la Rochefour, a charming but unscrupulous adventurer who once courted Florence and recently attempted to rekindle the romance. Both men seem plausible suspects — yet Poirot suspects that the truth lies in the details of Florence's last train journey, her sudden change of plans at Bristol, and the testimony of her maid, Jane Mason. Christie's clever misdirection shines here: the killer hides in plain sight, disguised as a witness, while stronger suspects distract the reader. The story is a classic example of Christie's early mastery of the "false trail" and her ability to conceal the culprit within the ordinary. Themes & Talking Points Classic Christie Misdirection: Multiple suspects, each with motive, yet the real killer is quietly embedded in the narrative. Greed & Deception: Jewel theft, financial desperation, and romantic manipulation drive the plot. Poirot's Method: Attention to tiny inconsistencies, witness behavior, and the psychology of disguise. Early Poirot Style: This story shows Christie experimenting with techniques she later perfected. Historical Context Published early in Christie's career, The Plymouth Express Affair demonstrates her growing confidence with train‑based mysteries, intricate disguises, and the interplay between social class and crime. It also foreshadows later classics like Murder on the Orient Express. Suggested Episode Structure Opening Hook: The shocking discovery aboard the Plymouth Express. Case Overview: Florence Halliday's background, jewels, and suspects. Poirot's Investigation: The maid's testimony, the Bristol train change, and the missing jewel case. False Leads: Carrington and the Count — motives and misdirection. The Reveal: How Poirot uncovers the true culprit and the disguise. Closing Reflection: Why this early Poirot story still captivates listeners.   Support the Show & Stay Connected ❤️ Support Us on Patreon If you enjoy 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales, please consider supporting us at Patreon. Your help keeps these timeless stories coming every week. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) 📣 Please Leave a Review Reviews at Apple Podcasts and other podcast apps help new listeners discover the show. If you enjoy our work, a quick review is one of the best ways to support us. 🌐 Official Website www.bestof1001stories.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media Facebook: https://facebook.com/bestof1001stories (facebook.com in Bing) Instagram: https://instagram.com/1001storiespodcast YouTube: https://youtube.com/bestof1001stories.COM

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber Episode Summary James Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939) remains one of the most iconic American short stories of the 20th century. It follows the mild‑mannered Walter Mitty as he escorts his wife on routine errands—yet escapes constantly into vivid, heroic daydreams. These fantasies include Mitty as a Navy commander braving a hurricane, a world‑renowned surgeon saving a millionaire banker, a crack marksman on trial, and a fearless wartime pilot volunteering for a suicide mission.   Mitty's daydreams serve as a coping mechanism for his mundane, henpecked life, revealing the contrast between his timid reality and the bold, confident figure he imagines himself to be. Thurber's blend of humor, melancholy, and satire made the story a cultural touchstone—so much so that "Walter Mitty" entered the dictionary as a term for an ordinary person who escapes into fantasy.    Themes & Talking Points for the Episode Escapism & Imagination: Mitty's fantasies highlight the universal desire to break free from routine and responsibility. Marital Dynamics: His relationship with Mrs. Mitty underscores themes of emasculation, frustration, and emotional distance. Identity & Self‑Worth: Mitty's imagined competence contrasts sharply with his real-world insecurity. Cultural Impact: The story inspired two major film adaptations (1947 and 2013) and remains one of the most anthologized American short stories. Historical Context Thurber wrote during a period when American men were grappling with changing social roles, and Mitty's fantasies reflect anxieties about masculinity, modernity, and purpose. The story's humor is gentle but pointed, making it both entertaining and psychologically insightful.  Support the Show & Stay Connected 📣 Help Us Grow — Reviews & Shares If you enjoy 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales, please take a moment to leave a review at Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Reviews help new listeners discover the show and keep these classic stories alive. Sharing episodes with friends and family is another great way to support what we do. ❤️ Support Us at Patreon Become a supporter and help us continue producing great stories every week. Join us at: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) Your support keeps the lights on and the stories coming. 🌐 Official Website Visit our home base for all shows in the 1001 Stories Network: www.1001storiesnetwork.com or www.bestof1001stories.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media Instagram: @1001storiesPODCAST Facebook: HTTPS://Facebook.com/bestof1001stories.com YouTube: www.bestof1001stories.com Twitter/X: @1001Stories

SHOW NOTES — MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE by Edgar Allan Poe 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Episode Summary In this early sea‑tale from Edgar Allan Poe—first published in 1833 and winner of a Baltimore literary contest—we follow an unnamed narrator whose voyage from Java becomes a descent into terror, isolation, and the unknown. After a catastrophic storm destroys his ship, he and an old Swede survive adrift for days, only to encounter a massive, ghostly vessel crewed by ancient mariners who seem unaware of his presence. As the ship pushes toward the Antarctic and into a monstrous whirlpool, the narrator records his final thoughts, seals them in a bottle, and casts them into the sea—creating the "manuscript" we, the readers, are supposedly discovering.   Key Themes & Motifs 1. The Unreliable Narrator Poe frames the story with a narrator who insists on his rationality and methodical mind, distancing himself from superstition. This insistence—common in Poe's fiction—ironically heightens the uncanny nature of what follows. 2. Isolation at Sea The sea becomes a Gothic landscape: vast, empty, and hostile. The narrator's solitude intensifies as he boards the mysterious black ship whose crew neither sees nor hears him. The setting shifts the Gothic tradition from haunted houses to the boundless ocean. 3. The Unknown & the Sublime The ancient ship, its porous timbers, its decrepit crew, and its silent voyage toward the South Pole evoke both awe and dread. Poe blends nautical realism with supernatural suggestion, creating a story that Joseph Conrad later praised for its authenticity and poetic imagination. 4. Fate & Doom The whirlpool—an image Poe would revisit in A Descent into the Maelström—symbolizes inevitable destruction. The narrator's final act of writing and casting his manuscript into the sea underscores the theme of doomed testimony: a voice preserved only by chance.   Plot Highlights Departure from Java: The narrator boards a merchant vessel carrying cotton, cocoa-nuts, and opium. The Simoon: A strange cloud and oppressive humidity foreshadow a violent storm that capsizes the ship. Survival: Only the narrator and an old Swede remain alive as the shattered vessel drifts for days. The Black Ship: A gigantic, ancient vessel appears during a second storm; the narrator is thrown aboard. Ghostly Crew: The mariners speak an unknown language and seem oblivious to the narrator's presence. Discovery: A chance incident reveals the word DISCOVERY on a sail, prompting the narrator to examine the ship more closely. Final Descent: As the ship is drawn into a massive whirlpool near Antarctica, the narrator writes his manuscript and casts it into the sea.   Why This Story Matters MS. Found in a Bottle is one of Poe's earliest breakthroughs—an award-winning tale that helped launch his literary career. It showcases his emerging mastery of atmosphere, psychological tension, and the blending of realism with the supernatural. It also anticipates later nautical classics, influencing writers such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad.   Suggested Episode Structure Intro (2–3 minutes): Poe's early career, the contest win, and the story's significance. Reading of the Story: Full narration. Post‑Show Commentary: Poe's fascination with storms, isolation, and doomed narrators The story's place in early American Gothic literature Connections to A Descent into the Maelström and later sea fiction   Listener Takeaways Poe's sea stories are as atmospheric and psychologically rich as his Gothic tales. The "manuscript in a bottle" device creates a powerful sense of immediacy and fatalism. The story remains a compelling blend of nautical adventure and supernatural mystery.

⭐ SHOW NOTES 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales THE RESURRECTION OF FATHER BROWN A Father Brown Mystery by G. K. Chesterton From Chesterton's final Father Brown collection: The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926) In this remarkable late‑career Father Brown story, Chesterton takes his humble priest far from the English countryside and places him in a volatile corner of South America — a land of political unrest, secret societies, and clashing cultures. Here, Father Brown becomes an unlikely celebrity, thrust into the spotlight by an overzealous American journalist who turns the quiet cleric into a media sensation. But fame, as Chesterton shows, is a dangerous thing. When Father Brown is suddenly attacked under a moonlit archway and left for dead, the region erupts. Political factions blame each other, crowds gather in fury, and the fragile peace of the town collapses. And then — in a moment that shocks everyone present — the priest stirs, rises, and returns from the brink. His "resurrection" becomes the spark for hysteria, devotion, and superstition, revealing just how quickly people abandon reason when emotion takes hold. This is not the tidy detective puzzle of Chesterton's early years. The Resurrection of Father Brown is broader, stranger, more symbolic — a story about crowds, politics, miracles, and the human hunger for spectacle. It shows Chesterton in his final phase, using mystery not just to entertain, but to explore the deeper truths of human nature.   ⭐ WHY THIS STORY MATTERS It appears in The Incredulity of Father Brown, Chesterton's last Father Brown book It reflects his late style: less puzzle, more parable It explores how crowds create myths — and how myths distort truth It shows Father Brown as a moral anchor in a world losing its balance It blends political drama, religious symbolism, and psychological insight   ⭐ THEMES TO LISTEN FOR Fame and distortion — how celebrity reshapes reality Crowd psychology — the volatility of public emotion Miracles vs. misunderstanding — what people choose to believe Father Brown's method — truth found in small human details, not spectacle The danger of ideology — how politics blinds people to simple facts   ⭐ CHARACTERS OF NOTE Father Brown — quiet, observant, and unexpectedly central to a political storm Paul Snaith — the American journalist who turns the priest into a sensation John Adams Race — the engineer whose silence becomes a moral question Alvarez — the flamboyant atheist leader caught in the chaos Mendoza — the conservative magnate whose pride fuels the conflict   ⭐ ABOUT THE AUTHOR G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) wrote Father Brown stories for over fifteen years, evolving from clever detective puzzles to deeper moral dramas. The Incredulity of Father Brown was his final collection, reflecting a more philosophical, reflective tone — and The Resurrection of Father Brown stands as one of its most striking pieces.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our productions and want to help keep these classic stories alive, please consider supporting us at: 👉 patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork Your support helps us continue bringing timeless literature to listeners around the world.   ⭐ PLEASE SHARE & REVIEW If this episode resonated with you, please: Share it with friends who enjoy classic mysteries Leave a review at Apple Podcasts Visit us at bestof1001stories.com Every review and share helps new listeners discover the show.

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales The Theory and the Hound by O. Henry There's something irresistible about an O. Henry tale — that blend of sharp observation, sly humor, and a twist that snaps shut like a well‑made pocketknife. The Theory and the Hound is one of his most quietly clever stories, built around a simple premise: how much can you really tell about a man by the way he treats the creatures around him? We begin with J.P. Bridger, a U.S. consul from the tropics, who shares with the narrator a curious theory he's developed — a theory about men, dogs, and the darker corners of human nature. What follows is a wonderfully crafted account of a sheriff from Kentucky arriving on a sleepy island to arrest a murderer who has vanished into the coconut groves. The problem? Two American expatriates fit the description perfectly. Same height, same build, same manner. Either one could be the killer… or neither. O. Henry lets the tension simmer as the sheriff dines with the two men, watches them, listens to them, and waits. And then — with the sudden appearance of a friendly hound — the truth leaps out in a flash. It's classic O. Henry: human nature revealed not by grand gestures, but by the smallest instinct. And if you enjoy stories from this era — tales of wit, irony, elegance, and American life at its most colorful — be sure to check out 1001 Stories from the Gilded Age, where we bring you the finest short fiction from the writers who defined America's most glittering period.

⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales SHOW NOTES — "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe   ⭐ EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, we present one of Edgar Allan Poe's most iconic and visually striking tales — "The Masque of the Red Death." First published in 1842, this story remains a masterpiece of Gothic symbolism, a chilling meditation on privilege, denial, and the inescapability of death. The tale follows Prince Prospero, a ruler who believes he can outwit a devastating plague ravaging his kingdom. He retreats with his courtiers into a fortified abbey, sealing the gates and creating a world of lavish color, music, and revelry — a dreamlike refuge where fear is banished and pleasure reigns. But Poe reminds us that no fortress is strong enough, no lock secure enough, and no masquerade dazzling enough to keep mortality outside the door. When Prospero hosts a magnificent masked ball — one of the most haunting scenes in all of Gothic literature — a mysterious figure appears, robed in blood-red, moving silently through the seven colored chambers. What follows is a confrontation with the truth Prospero has tried so desperately to escape. This is Poe at his most symbolic, theatrical, and merciless — a story that feels as modern today as it did nearly two centuries ago.   ⭐ KEY THEMES 1. Dancing & Revelry — "The Illusion of Safety" The masquerade represents denial — a feverish attempt to drown out fear with beauty, rhythm, and spectacle. The revelers whirl through the colored chambers believing they've outwitted fate, their laughter echoing against locked iron gates. It is a fragile dream that cannot hold. 2. The Appearance of the Red Death — "The Inescapable Truth" The Red Death enters quietly, inevitably — a figure that embodies the truth Prospero tried to seal away. Its arrival shatters illusion, reminding us that no wealth, no wall, and no revelry can keep mortality outside the door.   ⭐ ABOUT THE STORY First published: 1842 Genre: Gothic fiction / allegory Setting: A fortified abbey during a deadly plague Notable for: The seven colored rooms The ebony clock Poe's use of symbolism and theatrical imagery One of the most famous endings in Gothic literature   ⭐ ABOUT EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) remains one of America's most influential writers — a master of atmosphere, psychological tension, and symbolic storytelling. The Masque of the Red Death is often cited as one of his greatest allegories, blending horror with philosophical depth.   ⭐ SUGGESTED READING & SOURCES (No copyrighted text is reproduced — these are citations and summaries only.) Edgar Allan Poe — "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842) Public-domain text available through multiple literary archives. Poe Museum (Richmond, VA) Background on Poe's life, themes, and writing. https://www.poemuseum.org Library of America — Poe Collections Scholarly context and commentary. Academic analyses of Poe's symbolism Particularly regarding the seven rooms and the ebony clock.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE SHOW & CONNECT WITH US If you enjoy 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales, please take a moment to: Review the show on Apple Podcasts Share this episode with friends who love classic literature Support us at Patreon — your help keeps the 1001 Stories Network thriving 👉 https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) Visit our website for all 1001 shows and archives 👉 https://www.bestof1001stories.com And now a strong request for all listeners: ⭐ FOLLOW US ON X (formerly Twitter) — @1001stories We post new episode releases, classic literature insights, and updates from www.bestof1001stories.com. Join us there — it's one of the best ways to stay connected with everything happening across the 1001 Stories Network.   ⭐ CLOSING NOTE The Masque of the Red Death remains one of Poe's most unforgettable works — a story where beauty and terror dance side by side, where illusion collapses in a single moment, and where the truth enters quietly, wearing a mask no one can ignore. Thank you for listening, and for helping keep classic literature alive.

⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales SHOW NOTES — "The World and the Door" by O. Henry From the collection Whirligigs (1910)   ⭐ EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, we bring you one of O. Henry's most emotionally intricate and ironic tales — "The World and the Door." It's a story about guilt, reinvention, love, and the strange ways fate can swing open a door just when you think it's closed forever. The story follows Ralph Merriam, a New York broker who flees the country believing he has killed a man during a drunken quarrel. His escape takes him to the quiet, tropical town of La Paz, where he meets Mrs. Florence Conant, a mysterious American woman living in self‑imposed exile. Both carry heavy secrets, both believe they've crossed moral lines they can never uncross, and both find unexpected solace in one another. But O. Henry never lets his characters rest for long. When a steamer arrives in port, Merriam discovers that the man he thought he killed is very much alive — and the world he shut out comes rushing back through the door. What follows is one of O. Henry's most elegant reversals, ending with a quiet heartbreak that lingers long after the story ends.   ⭐ WHY THIS STORY MATTERS It's one of O. Henry's most mature and psychologically layered stories. It blends romance, irony, and moral tension with his trademark twist. It explores how people reinvent themselves — and how the past refuses to stay buried. It showcases O. Henry's late‑career writing style: deeper, darker, and more emotionally resonant.   ⭐ ABOUT THE COLLECTION — WHIRLIGIGS A whirligig is a small spinning toy — something that turns in circles, whirls in the wind, or spins on its own axis. O. Henry chose the title Whirligigs because each story revolves around sudden turns of fate, unexpected reversals, and the circular motion of life's ironies. Over the coming weeks, we'll be cherry‑picking more standout stories from Whirligigs — a collection full of sharp humor, emotional surprises, and the kind of twist endings that made O. Henry famous.   ⭐ THEMES IN THIS STORY Guilt and redemption Reinvention and escape The collision between fantasy and reality Love born from shared wounds Fate's unpredictable turning wheel — the "whirligig" at work   ⭐ SUGGESTED READING & SOURCES (No copyrighted text is reproduced — these are citations and summaries only.) O. Henry — Whirligigs (1910) Public‑domain collection containing "The World and the Door." Biographical studies of O. Henry For context on his late‑career writing style and themes. Historical references to early 20th‑century Central American port towns For background on settings similar to La Paz.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE SHOW & CONNECT WITH US If you enjoy 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales, please take a moment to: Review the show on Apple Podcasts Share this episode with friends who love classic literature Support us at Patreon — your help keeps the 1001 Stories Network going strong 👉 https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) Visit our website for all 1001 shows and archives 👉 https://www.bestof1001stories.com And now a strong request for all listeners: ⭐ FOLLOW US ON TWITTER — @1001stories We post new episode releases, classic literature insights, and updates from www.bestof1001stories.com. Join us there — it's one of the best ways to stay connected with everything happening across the 1001 Stories Network.   ⭐ CLOSING NOTE "The World and the Door" is one of O. Henry's most haunting tales — a story where love blooms in exile, fate spins its wheel, and the world finds its way back in through the smallest crack. Thank you for listening, and stay tuned as we continue exploring more gems from Whirligigs in the coming weeks.

⭐ SHOW NOTES THE MIRACLE OF MOON CRESCENT A Father Brown Mystery by G. K. Chesterton From the collection: The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926) In this atmospheric Father Brown tale, Chesterton blends mystery, psychology, and a touch of the uncanny in a story that begins with a strange death high above the city — a death that seems, at first glance, impossible. Moon Crescent is a glittering, crescent‑shaped tower rising above the modern world, a symbol of wealth, ambition, and the restless energy of the age. But when a powerful financier is found dead on its heights — with no weapon, no attacker, and no earthly explanation — the newspapers cry miracle, the public whispers superstition, and the police are left baffled. Enter Father Brown. The quiet priest with the shabby umbrella and the unassuming manner walks calmly into a storm of theories, egos, and illusions. As investigators chase shadows and marvels, Father Brown studies human nature — the one force he believes never lies. What follows is a story of pride, fear, and the strange ways guilt can twist the mind. Chesterton gives us a mystery where the miraculous seems possible, yet the truth — once revealed — is more human, more tragic, and more profound than any supernatural explanation.   ⭐ WHY THIS STORY STANDS OUT A classic "impossible crime" set high above a modern city A study in psychological pressure and the illusions people create Father Brown at his best: quiet, observant, and devastatingly perceptive A tale that blends atmosphere, suspense, and Chesterton's trademark wit A reminder that miracles are often misunderstandings — and motives are rarely divine   ⭐ ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales brings Chesterton's mystery to life with rich atmosphere, careful pacing, and a focus on the human drama behind the puzzle. It's perfect for listeners who enjoy: Impossible crimes Character‑driven mysteries Stories where psychology matters more than clues Chesterton's blend of humor, philosophy, and suspense   ⭐ THEMES TO LISTEN FOR Illusion vs. Reality — how appearances deceive even the cleverest minds The Weight of Reputation — how power can isolate and distort judgment Father Brown's Method — not deduction, but compassion and understanding The Mirage of the Modern Age — Chesterton's critique of progress without wisdom   ⭐ ABOUT THE AUTHOR G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) remains one of the most influential voices in detective fiction. His Father Brown stories combine mystery with moral insight, humor with philosophy, and puzzles with profound human truths. The Incredulity of Father Brown is one of his later collections, showcasing a more mature, reflective Father Brown confronting the illusions of the modern world.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our productions and want to help keep these classic stories alive, please consider supporting us at: 👉 patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork Your support helps us continue bringing timeless literature to listeners around the world.   ⭐ PLEASE SHARE & REVIEW If this episode resonated with you, please: Share it with friends who enjoy classic mysteries Leave a review at Apple Podcasts Visit us at bestof1001stories.com Every review and share helps new listeners discover the show.   ⭐ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 1001 TRUE CRIME FROM ANOTHER TIME IS BACK Our hit historical true‑crime series is resuming weekly blockbuster original stories — gripping cases from decades past that once dominated headlines, filled newspapers, and kept families talking around the dinner table. If you love true crime wrapped in history, atmosphere, and storytelling, follow 1001 True Crime From Another Time wherever you listen.

JACQUE FUTRELL'S FINAL IRONY — THE PROBLEM HE COULDN'T ESCAPE: THE TITANIC Jacques Futrelle (1875–1912) was one of America's great early mystery craftsmen. Before his untimely death, he created more than fifty stories featuring The Thinking Machine, a character designed to rival Sherlock Holmes in pure deductive brilliance. Van Dusen's creed—"Two and two always make four, not sometimes, but all the time"—became the backbone of Futrelle's tightly engineered puzzles. His stories were clever, modern, and immensely popular. Futrelle was on the rise, writing novels, touring, and enjoying international acclaim. Then came April 1912. Futrelle and his wife Lily boarded the RMS Titanic for their return to America. When the ship struck the iceberg, Futrelle reportedly insisted Lily board a lifeboat, telling her he would be fine. He stayed behind, helping others reach safety. He was last seen on the deck, smoking calmly with fellow writer John Jacob Astor as the ship went down. The man who created a character capable of escaping any prison could not escape the one fate placed before him. It remains one of literature's great ironies—and one of its great heartbreaks.   Support the 1001 Stories Network If you enjoy our weekly episodes and want to help us keep classic literature and timeless mysteries alive, please consider supporting us on Patreon. 👉 Patreon.com/1001StoriesNetwork Your support helps us continue producing high‑quality stories, deep‑dive historical episodes, and the kind of narrative craftsmanship our listeners love.   Please Review & Share Our Show If you're enjoying 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales, please take a moment to leave a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Reviews help new listeners discover the show and keep these stories alive for future generations. And if you know someone who loves mysteries, detective fiction, or classic literature, please share this episode with them. Word of mouth is powerful.

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales  Show Notes – The Problem of Cell 13, Part 1 (Jacques Futrelle) In this episode: We begin one of the most celebrated locked‑room mysteries ever written—Jacques Futrelle's The Problem of Cell 13, featuring the brilliant "Thinking Machine" himself, Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen. Futrelle's creation was designed to rival Holmes in pure deductive power, and in this story he puts that reputation on the line in a challenge that borders on the impossible. Part 1 sets the stage: A spirited debate erupts over whether the human mind, properly applied, can overcome any obstacle. Van Dusen, ever confident, accepts a wager that would terrify any ordinary man—escape from a maximum‑security prison cell with no tools, no accomplices, and no advantages… within one week. We meet the skeptical Dr. Prescott, the amused newspaper man Hatch, and the prison officials who are certain the professor has finally overestimated himself. The challenge is agreed upon, the rules are set, and Van Dusen is escorted into the infamous Cell 13—bare, cold, isolated, and supposedly escape‑proof. This opening chapter is all atmosphere, tension, and intellectual bravado. Futrelle builds the puzzle piece by piece, inviting listeners to wonder: How can a man escape a cell without ever touching the lock? Part 1 ends with Van Dusen alone in the darkness… already thinking.   About the Author Jacques Futrelle (1875–1912) was a journalist, editor, and mystery writer whose "Thinking Machine" stories became instant favorites among puzzle‑lovers. His life ended tragically aboard the Titanic, but his stories—especially The Problem of Cell 13—remain enduring classics of early detective fiction.   Support the 1001 Stories Network If you enjoy our weekly episodes and want to help us keep great literature, classic mysteries, and timeless adventures alive, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Your support helps us produce more stories, more series, and more deep‑dive historical episodes. Join us at: 👉 Patreon.com/1001StoriesNetwork Every pledge makes a difference.   Please Review & Share Our Show If you're enjoying the 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories podcast, one of the best ways to help us grow is to leave a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Reviews help new listeners discover the show and keep these classic stories alive for future generations. And if you know someone who loves mysteries, detective fiction, or classic literature, please share this episode with them. Word of mouth is powerful.

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Show Notes – James Baldwin's "Jupiter and His Mighty Company" and be sure to catch 'FIVE AMAZING GREEK LEGENDS' at 1001 Heroes, Legends,Histories & Mysteries this week Episode Summary In this episode, we bring you James Baldwin's lively retelling of a timeless myth, "Jupiter and His Mighty Company." Baldwin—known for his clear, engaging prose in Fifty Famous Stories Retold—presents the Roman gods not as distant figures carved in marble, but as vivid personalities with quirks, tempers, and ambitions. This short tale offers listeners a charming window into classical mythology, wrapped in Baldwin's signature storytelling style that has delighted readers for over a century. About the Story "Jupiter and His Mighty Company" recounts how Jupiter, king of the gods, gathers his celestial court atop Mount Olympus. Each deity arrives with their own powers, symbols, and responsibilities—creating a colorful parade of mythic characters. Baldwin's version is accessible, humorous, and ideal for listeners of all ages, making it a perfect fit for our series celebrating classic literature. Themes & Highlights The Roman Pantheon — A quick, engaging introduction to Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Mars, Mercury, and others. Power & Personality — Baldwin emphasizes the human-like traits of the gods, making them relatable and memorable. Myth as Moral Instruction — The story subtly explores leadership, cooperation, and the responsibilities of power. Family Dynamics Among the Gods — Rivalries, alliances, and playful tensions add charm and humor. Why This Story Matters Baldwin's retellings have long served as a gateway to classical mythology for young readers and lifelong learners alike. His work preserves the spirit of ancient tales while making them approachable, entertaining, and educational. This episode continues our mission at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales to bring timeless stories to modern audiences in a format that honors their original magic. About the Author James Baldwin (1841–1925) was an American editor and author who specialized in educational texts and story collections. His Fifty Famous Stories Retold remains a staple in classrooms and libraries, celebrated for its clarity, charm, and ability to ignite imagination. Perfect For Listeners Who Enjoy: Classical mythology Family-friendly storytelling Short, uplifting tales Literary retellings and folklore Educational stories with historical flavor Closing Note If you enjoy this episode, explore our growing library of classic tales—from ancient legends to Gilded Age gems—carefully curated and narrated to bring the world's greatest stories to life.

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Show Notes: Which Make Men Remember by Jack London Episode Summary Two men meet in the Klondike after one, Fortune La Pearl, shoots a man in a gambling house. Luck will decide their lives in the days to come. Key Themes & Story Elements The Test of Character: London's fascination with the moment when a man's true nature is revealed. Courage Under Fire: How danger clarifies priorities and exposes both cowardice and bravery. Brotherhood in Hard Places: The bond between men who face the same peril and depend on one another for survival. The Making of a Legend: How a single act — often small, often unseen — becomes the story others tell for generations. Why This Story Matters Jack London wrote about men pushed to their limits — physically, morally, spiritually. Which Make Men Remember distills that obsession into a short, sharp narrative that asks: What does it take to be remembered? For listeners, it's a reminder that heroism is rarely loud. It's often a quiet decision made in a moment when no one is watching.   Historical & Literary Context Written during London's peak creative years, when he was exploring themes of survival, masculinity, and moral testing. The story reflects London's belief that the frontier — whether Arctic ice, open sea, or wilderness — reveals truth more clearly than civilization. Its brevity is intentional: London wanted the story to hit like a hammer, clean and direct.   Perfect For Fans Of… Jack London's frontier and survival tales Stories of quiet heroism Gritty, character‑driven fiction Tales where nature is both adversary and truth‑teller Classic American storytelling with moral weight Closing Note This episode continues the mission of 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales: bringing timeless literature to life with vivid narration, historical framing, and storytelling that honors the original while engaging modern listeners.

⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales THE LAST OF THE BELLES Show Notes – F. Scott Fitzgerald Story Background: Published in 1929, The Last of the Belles is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most evocative pieces of short fiction — a bittersweet reflection on youth, love, and the fleeting glamour of the American South during the First World War. Written after Fitzgerald's own tumultuous early years with Zelda, the story blends nostalgia with regret, capturing the emotional turbulence that defined his life and work. Summary (Spoiler‑Safe): The narrator, Andy, looks back on his time as a young officer stationed near Atlanta during the war. There he meets Ailie Calhoun, the "Belle" of the title — a radiant Southern girl whose charm, beauty, and innocence seem to embody everything enchanting about the region. Andy becomes part of a lively social circle filled with dances, porch gatherings, and the intoxicating rituals of Southern courtship. Yet beneath the surface lies a tension between youthful idealism and the realities of adulthood. Andy's feelings for Ailie are genuine, but complicated by his own insecurities and the shifting expectations of wartime life. As the story unfolds, Fitzgerald explores the ache of remembering a moment in time that can never be recaptured — a moment filled with promise, sweetness, and the kind of heartbreak that shapes a person forever. Why This Story Endures: Fitzgerald's prose is at its most lyrical and reflective. Ailie Calhoun stands among his most memorable female characters — a symbol of innocence touched by the melancholy of change. The story captures the emotional landscape of the American South during WWI with remarkable sensitivity. Themes of nostalgia, lost youth, and the fragility of idealized love resonate across generations. Themes: Memory, longing, innocence, the passage of time, and the bittersweet nature of first love. Historical Context: Fitzgerald wrote the story during a period of personal strain, drawing heavily from his own experiences as a young officer in the South and his early relationship with Zelda Sayre. The result is a story that feels both intimate and universal — a window into the emotional world that shaped one of America's greatest writers. At 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales: This episode presents The Last of the Belles with restored audio, thoughtful narration, and contextual commentary that highlights Fitzgerald's craftsmanship and the story's place within his larger body of work. It's a perfect blend of literature, history, and storytelling — the kind of episode your listeners return to again and again.

FATHER BROWN: "THE ORACLE OF THE DOG" Podcast Show Notes – 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales   ⭐ Episode Summary In this Father Brown mystery, G.K. Chesterton blends sharp wit, psychological insight, and a sly critique of superstition. "The Oracle of the Dog" centers on a murder at a country estate where the key witness—according to several excitable onlookers—is not a person at all, but a dog. When the dog howls at the moment of the crime, the household leaps to the conclusion that the animal possesses supernatural insight. Father Brown, however, suspects that the only "oracle" at work is human imagination. This episode explores how Chesterton uses humor, misdirection, and philosophical depth to expose the dangers of jumping to conclusions. As always, Father Brown's quiet reasoning cuts through the fog of superstition, revealing a very human motive behind the crime.   🔍 Key Characters Father Brown – The unassuming priest‑detective whose gentle manner hides a razor‑sharp understanding of human nature. Harold Musgrave – The young man accused of murder, largely due to the dog's behavior. The Dog ( Nox) – The supposed "oracle," whose howl becomes the centerpiece of the mystery. The Household & Guests – A chorus of superstition, gossip, and half‑truths that cloud the investigation.   🐕 Central Mystery A man is murdered at the Musgrave estate. At the exact moment of the crime, the dog howls—leading everyone to believe the animal sensed the killer's presence. The dog's behavior becomes "evidence," and suspicion falls on Harold Musgrave. Father Brown, however, sees through the theatrics. He reminds the group that dogs howl for many reasons—and that humans often hear what they want to hear. His investigation reveals that the dog's "oracle" is nothing more than coincidence, and that the real clues lie in human behavior, not animal instinct.   🎙️ Themes Explored in the Episode Superstition vs. Reason – Chesterton's playful attack on the tendency to assign mystical meaning to ordinary events. The Fallibility of Witnesses – How fear and rumor distort perception. Father Brown's Method – A blend of empathy, logic, and moral insight. The Psychology of Guilt – The true killer's motives emerge not through physical clues, but through subtle human tells.   🧠 Why This Story Endures "The Oracle of the Dog" is one of Chesterton's most entertaining critiques of irrational thinking. It showcases Father Brown at his best—calm, observant, and deeply human. The story reminds us that truth is rarely found in dramatic signs or supernatural explanations, but in the quiet details of human nature. For listeners who enjoy classic mysteries, this tale offers humor, atmosphere, and a clever twist that still feels fresh more than a century later.   📚 Recommended Sources & Further Reading Primary Texts "The Incredulity of Father Brown" (1926) – The collection containing "The Oracle of the Dog." "The Complete Father Brown Stories" – Various editions available; includes all five collections. Biographical & Critical Works "G.K. Chesterton: A Biography" by Ian Ker "The Detective Fiction of G.K. Chesterton" by John C. Tibbetts "The Wisdom of Father Brown" – Chesterton's philosophical essays that illuminate his approach to storytelling. Online Archives The G.K. Chesterton Archive (British Library) The American Chesterton Society – Articles, essays, and commentary Project Gutenberg – Public‑domain Father Brown stories (not including later copyrighted collections)   🎧 Suggested Episode Structure (1001 Style) Atmospheric Cold Open: The dog's eerie howl echoes across the estate. Setting the Stage: Introduce the Musgrave household and rising tension. The Superstitious Crowd: How the dog becomes "the oracle." Father Brown Arrives: Quiet logic meets loud superstition. Unraveling the Truth: Human motives replace mystical explanations. The Reveal: Father Brown exposes the real killer. Closing Reflection: Chesterton's message about reason, humility, and human nature.     I need a podcast show notes for the Father Brown story 'The Oracle of the Dog' at 1001 classic short stories & TYales- do you know the story?

⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales JOE WILSON'S COURTSHIP (Part 2) — Show Notes Episode Summary In this second half of Henry Lawson's beloved tale, Joe Wilson's awkward, earnest pursuit of Mary Brand reaches its turning point. The story follows Joe as he navigates the small but treacherous emotional terrain of young love—misunderstandings, hesitations, and the quiet courage required to speak one's heart. Lawson brings Joe's world into sharp focus: the dusty roads, the lonely paddocks, the simple dances and gatherings that meant everything in the bush. Part 2 carries Joe from uncertainty to revelation, capturing the timeless tension between hope and heartbreak. About the Story "Joe Wilson's Courtship" is one of Lawson's most human stories—gentle, humorous, and deeply observant. Part 2 reveals: Joe's growing confidence and emotional maturity Mary Brand's subtle but decisive role in shaping their future The social rhythms of rural Australia, where every dance, visit, and conversation carried weight The quiet heroism of ordinary people trying to build a life in a harsh land Lawson's gift is not in grand events, but in the way he elevates the small ones.   🌾 Henry Lawson's Outback: Why His Writing Still Resonates A Master of the Unadorned Truth Henry Lawson had an extraordinary ability to capture the Outback exactly as it was—not romanticized, not exaggerated, but lived. His prose is lean, direct, and honest. He wrote about: Dusty roads stretching into nowhere Bush shanties and lonely homesteads The emotional isolation of settlers The humor and resilience that kept communities alive Lawson didn't just describe the Outback—he understood its soul. He knew its people, their hardships, their hopes, and the quiet dignity with which they faced both. Characters Who Feel Real Joe Wilson, Mary Brand, and the neighbors who drift in and out of the story are not caricatures. They are recognizable, flawed, decent people. Lawson's characters endure because: Their struggles are universal Their emotions are timeless Their world, though rugged, mirrors our own Joe's nervousness, Mary's guarded warmth, the community's watchful curiosity—these are human truths, not period details. Why Lawson Remains Popular Today More than a century later, Lawson's work continues to be read, taught, and celebrated because: He preserved a vanishing era of Australian life His stories are accessible, even to modern readers His themes—love, hardship, perseverance—are evergreen He is considered one of Australia's greatest storytellers, alongside Banjo Paterson His writing shaped the national identity and remains central to Australian literature Lawson's popularity endures because he wrote about real people with real hearts in a real place—and he did it with unmatched clarity.

🎙️ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales  "Joe Wilson's Courtship" by Henry Lawson (1901) Part 1 Every now and then a writer comes along who does something that sounds simple and is anything but — he tells the truth about ordinary people, in ordinary moments, with such precision and such tenderness that you feel, reading him, that someone has finally said the thing you always knew but could never quite find the words for. Henry Lawson was that writer. An Australian. A bushman's son. A man who grew up poor and hard in the outback of New South Wales in the 1880s, who went half-deaf as a child, who struggled with drink and money and the particular loneliness of a man who sees the world more clearly than most and can't always decide whether that's a gift or a curse. He wrote short stories. Some of the finest short stories in the English language. And at the very peak of his powers — in 1901 — he gave us a character named Joe Wilson. A young bushman. Not a hero in any conventional sense. Not remarkable. Just a man in love with a woman named Mary, terrified she won't have him, not quite able to believe his luck when she does. Lawson gave Joe Wilson a line of self-description that I have never forgotten since I first read it. "I wasn't a healthy-minded, average boy," Joe says. "I reckon I was born for a poet by mistake, and grew up to be a Bushman." Born for a poet by mistake, and grew up to be a Bushman. If you have ever felt even slightly out of step with the life you landed in — if you have ever loved someone and been absolutely certain you were going to say the wrong thing — if you have ever stood at the edge of something wonderful and thought, surely this isn't really meant for me — Joe Wilson's story is your story. .

⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales SHOW NOTES — Episode: The Bushwhacker Nurse By Frank R. Stockton From John Gayther's Garden and Other Stories (1903) Episode Summary In this episode, we bring you Frank R. Stockton's whimsical and imaginative tale "The Bushwhacker Nurse," one of the standout stories from his 1903 collection John Gayther's Garden and Other Stories. Stockton, best known for The Lady, or the Tiger?, was a master of gentle satire and playful storytelling, and this tale is a perfect example of his ability to blend humor, fantasy, and social commentary. The story is framed within the larger narrative of John Gayther's garden, where members of the household come to share stories they've invented. Today's tale is told by the Daughter of the House, a spirited young woman with a vivid imagination. Her heroine, Almia, is determined to serve heroically in wartime — but only on her own terms. Rejecting the rigid structure of official nursing corps, Almia reinvents herself as a "bushwhacker nurse," an independent, self‑appointed healer who strides into battle equipped with bandages, brandy, and a five‑barreled pistol. What follows is a humorous and highly imaginative adventure involving dueling soldiers, unexpected alliances, an eccentric "Exceptional Pedestrian," and Almia's unwavering determination to remain independent in the midst of chaos. Stockton uses Almia's journey to poke fun at romanticized notions of war, heroism, and personal autonomy, all while keeping the tone light, charming, and delightfully off‑beat.   ⭐ Key Themes & Elements • A Satire of Heroism and Independence Almia's determination to serve without rules or oversight becomes a humorous exploration of how idealism collides with reality. • Stockton's Signature Whimsy The story blends adventure with gentle absurdity — dueling swordsmen, cavalry charges, and philosophical ramblings all appear through a playful lens. • The Framed Narrative The tale is told within the setting of John Gayther's garden, adding an extra layer of charm as the Daughter of the House shares her imaginative creation with the gardener. • Humor in the Midst of War Stockton avoids grim realism, instead using the wartime setting as a backdrop for character comedy and satirical commentary. • A Strong, Unconventional Heroine Almia is bold, resourceful, and determined to define her own role — a refreshing character for early 20th‑century fiction.   ⭐ About Frank R. Stockton Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902) was one of America's most beloved humorists. His stories often challenged conventional thinking, presenting moral dilemmas, unexpected twists, and characters who behave just a little differently than readers expect. John Gayther's Garden and Other Stories was published shortly after his death and remains a testament to his imaginative storytelling.   ⭐ Perfect For Listeners Who Enjoy: Lighthearted adventure Literary humor Satirical takes on heroism Early 20th‑century American fiction Stories told within stories   ⭐ Episode Length: Approx. 20–25 minutes   ⭐ Suggested Episode Image: A whimsical illustration of a young woman in a bicycle skirt, boots, and cap, standing confidently with a medical satchel — a humorous nod to Almia's "bushwhacker nurse" persona.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE SHOW & CONNECT WITH US If you're enjoying 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales, please take a moment to leave a review wherever you listen. Your reviews help new listeners discover the show and keep these timeless stories alive. Explore all our podcasts, archives, and bonus content at: 👉 www.bestof1001stories.com Support the show and gain access to exclusive bonus episodes, early releases, and behind‑the‑scenes content by joining us at: 👉 www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) Your support keeps these classic tales coming every week.

Podcast Show Notes — "The Arrow of Heaven" by G.K. Chesterton at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Podcast A Father Brown Mystery Story Title: The Arrow of Heaven Author: G.K. Chesterton Series: Father Brown Genre: Detective mystery / satire / impossible crime Themes: Obsession, vengeance, superstition, American wealth, justice, hidden motives   Episode Summary (Spoiler‑Safe) In this uniquely American Father Brown adventure, G.K. Chesterton drops the little priest into a world of skyscrapers, aviation, millionaires, and a mysterious killer known only as Daniel Doom. Three wealthy men have already died under impossible circumstances — each connected to a priceless relic called the Coptic Cup, rumored to carry a curse. Father Brown arrives in the United States only to be swept immediately into the case surrounding the Cup's newest owner, Brander Merton — a man so powerful he lives inside a steel fortress with no windows, no trees, and no shadows. Protected by guards, technology, and a secretary who never sleeps, Merton seems untouchable. Yet when Father Brown finally reaches Merton's inner sanctum, he finds the impossible has happened: the millionaire has been killed by a silent arrow, shot through a window no human could reach. The crime appears supernatural — a "bolt from the blue." But Father Brown suspects something far more human, and far more dangerous. This story blends Chesterton's trademark wit with a classic locked‑room mystery, aviation intrigue, and a surprising moral twist.   Key Characters Father Brown – Quiet, observant, and morally incisive; sees truth where others see spectacle. Brander Merton – A powerful American magnate living in a fortress-like tower. John Wilton Border – Merton's vigilant secretary, driven by a personal vendetta. Peter Wain – Young aviator who introduces Father Brown to the case. Hickory Crake – Veteran frontiersman with deep knowledge of old Red Indian weaponry. Norman Drage – The inscrutable American, sardonic and unsettling.   Major Themes & Motifs The illusion of security – Even the most fortified tower cannot protect a man from human obsession. Old vs. new weapons – Chesterton contrasts ancient arrows with modern aviation. Obsession and vengeance – The hunt for Daniel Doom becomes a consuming force. Chesterton's satire of American wealth – Power, paranoia, and spectacle collide. Why This Story Matters The Arrow of Heaven stands out as one of Chesterton's most atmospheric and ironic mysteries. It's a tale of impossible crime, but also a commentary on fear, pride, and the strange ways justice can be twisted by personal motives. Father Brown's quiet insight cuts through the noise of American sensationalism, revealing a truth far more grounded — and far more tragic — than the legend of Daniel Doom.  Support the 1001 Stories Network If you enjoy our stories, please take a moment to leave a review wherever you listen. Reviews help new listeners discover the show and keep classic literature alive. You can also support us at: www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) Your support helps us produce more great episodes across all our 1001 shows.

Podcast Show Notes — "At Twenty‑Two" by Rudyard Kipling  at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Story Title: At Twenty‑Two Author: Rudyard Kipling Original Publication: 1890s Indian period Genre: Industrial drama / human survival / colonial‑era realism Themes: Experience vs. youth, instinct, danger, betrayal, the unseen wisdom of laborers   Episode Summary (Spoiler‑Safe) Deep in the Jimahari Collieries of colonial India, the Twenty‑Two shaft is a world of darkness, danger, and superstition. Among the miners working its galleries is Janki Meah — blind, stubborn, and legendary for his uncanny knowledge of the underground workings. Younger men resent him, especially Kundoo, who covets both Janki's hoarded lamp‑oil and his beautiful young wife. When the monsoon breaks and the Tarachunda River floods, disaster strikes. Water crashes into the mine, trapping entire gangs in the farthest out‑workings. In the pitch‑black chaos, with air thinning and panic rising, the only hope lies with the one man who "is always seeing" — the blind miner who knows every forgotten gallery by touch and memory. What follows is a tense, claustrophobic struggle for survival, where instinct and experience matter more than maps or authority. Kipling turns the mine into a living presence — oppressive, dangerous, and strangely loyal to those who understand it.   Key Characters Janki Meah – Blind veteran miner; proud, temperamental, and deeply knowledgeable about the mine's old workings. Kundoo – Young miner, ambitious and jealous; secretly involved with Janki's wife. Unda – Janki's young, beautiful wife; flirtatious, restless, and central to the story's final twist. The Manager & Assistant – Overseers who witness the disaster and the miraculous escape.   Major Themes & Motifs The wisdom of experience – Janki's blindness becomes a form of deeper sight. Industrial danger – Kipling's realistic portrayal of mining life and monsoon flooding. Human frailty – Pride, jealousy, and betrayal shape the story as much as the flood. Irony – Survival underground does not guarantee safety above it. Why This Story Matters Kipling's mining tales are some of his most gripping works, and At Twenty‑Two stands out for its blend of tension, cultural detail, and human drama. It's a story about the value of hard‑earned knowledge — and the limits of control when life delivers its own unexpected blows.

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Show Notes – "The Clarion Call" by O. Henry Summary O. Henry's The Clarion Call is one of his sharpest, most ironic crime tales—an urban cat‑and‑mouse story set against the bustle of early 20th‑century New York. It follows Detective Barney Woods, a man with a strong sense of justice and an even stronger memory, as he crosses paths with Red Halloran, a smooth‑talking criminal who once loaned Woods $1,000.00 to help him get back on his feet. When Halloran bumps into Woods on a New York street, Woods finds himself torn between duty and debt—until O. Henry delivers one of his trademark twists that snaps everything into place with perfect timing. This story blends moral tension, clever dialogue, and the kind of twist ending only O. Henry could pull off. It's a tale about honor, obligation, and the moment when a man's conscience finally sounds its clarion call.   About the Author O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) remains one of America's most beloved short‑story writers, celebrated for his wit, warmth, and ingenious endings. His stories capture the humor and humanity of everyday life, often set in New York City's crowded streets and colorful neighborhoods.   Why We Selected This Story The Clarion Call is a perfect example of O. Henry's ability to take a simple premise—a detective and a criminal with unfinished business—and turn it into a tightly wound moral puzzle. The story's pacing, character interplay, and final twist make it ideal for audio storytelling, and a natural fit for the 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales collection.   Themes & Talking Points Honor vs. Duty – When does a personal debt outweigh professional responsibility? Moral Ambiguity – O. Henry's characters often live in the gray areas of life. The Twist – A classic O. Henry reversal that reframes everything in the final moments. New York City as Character – The city's energy and grit shape the story's tone.   Listener Support If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to share 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales with friends, family, or anyone who loves great storytelling. Word of mouth is the lifeblood of independent podcasts like ours. You can also support the show in the following ways: Join us at Patreon and help keep these stories coming: www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) Leave a review at Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Reviews help new listeners discover the show. Subscribe to all our shows at the 1001 Stories Network: www.bestof1001stories.com Your support means the world and helps us continue bringing classic literature to listeners around the globe.   Closing Note Thank you for listening to The Clarion Call. O. Henry's stories remind us that life is full of unexpected turns—and sometimes the clarion call of conscience rings louder than anything else.

⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Show Notes — F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Gretchen's Forty Winks" A Time Capsule of 1925 America: Marriage, Status, and the Baby Upstairs F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Gretchen's Forty Winks" is more than a humorous domestic tale — it's a time capsule of 1925, showing us what everyday life looked like for a young married couple in an era when social climbing mattered more than parenting, and when housekeepers and nannies were inexpensive enough that many families relied on them for nearly all childcare. In this story, Fitzgerald gives us a revealing portrait of a marriage where neither parent spends much time with the baby. That wasn't unusual in 1925. Among middle‑class and aspiring families, it was common — even expected — that hired help managed the nursery while the parents focused on social obligations, appearances, and maintaining their place in the rising tide of American prosperity. It  was said then that "children were to be seen and not heard". It's astonishing how much this story shows about how dramatically life and society have changed in just one long lifetime. Today's hands‑on parenting culture would be unrecognizable to Gretchen and her husband, whose concerns revolve around status, propriety, success, and enjoying themselves About the Story "Gretchen's Forty Winks" follows Gretchen, a young mother who wants a social life — in a world where appearances mattered more than domestic duties— while her husband works to assemble multiple advertising campaigns for his company. What unfolds is a charming, chaotic, and sharply observed portrait of Jazz Age domestic life. Fitzgerald uses humor and gentle satire to highlight: the rigid gender expectations of the era the pressure to appear socially successful the near‑total reliance on household help the emotional distance between parents and their own child the absurdity of domestic roles in a status‑driven society Beneath the comedy lies a subtle critique of the social norms that shaped young families in the 1920s.

⭐ SHOW NOTES "The Badge of Policeman O'Roon" by O. Henry at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales A 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Presentation Narrated by Jon Hagadorn   Episode Summary In this charming slice of early‑1900s New York, O. Henry introduces us to Policeman O'Roon — a proud Irish patrolman whose badge is more than just a piece of metal. To O'Roon, it represents dignity, authority, and the hard‑earned respect of the neighborhood he serves. But when a moment of embarrassment threatens to tarnish that pride, O'Roon finds himself caught in a very human struggle between honor, reputation, and the unpredictable characters who populate his beat. O. Henry brings his trademark humor and warmth to the story, filling it with lively dialogue, colorful personalities, and a gentle irony that reveals the heart beneath the uniform. As always, he shows how even the smallest misunderstandings can lead to big consequences — and how a man's sense of self can hinge on something as simple as a badge.   Why This Story Works Classic O. Henry humor: quick wit, gentle irony, and a playful look at human pride. A vivid New York setting: bustling streets, neighborhood characters, and the rhythms of city life. A relatable theme: how easily pride can be bruised — and how honor can be restored in unexpected ways. A light, enjoyable listen: perfect for fans of O. Henry's character‑driven tales.

⭐ SHOW NOTES "The Lady of the Barge" by W.W. Jacobs at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales   www.bestof1001stories.com         Support appreciated at www.Patreon/1001storiesnetwork A 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Presentation Narrated by Jon Hagadorn Episode Summary In this lively comedic tale from W.W. Jacobs, the river becomes the stage for a battle of pride, jealousy, and stubborn human nature. "The Lady of the Barge" follows a young woman who insists on joining her brother‑in‑law aboard his cramped barge—an intrusion that instantly upsets the delicate balance among the men who work it. What begins as a simple river outing quickly turns into a clash of personalities. The barge's skipper and mate, already prickly with one another, find their tempers tested even further by their unexpected passenger. Jacobs uses the tight quarters of the vessel to heighten the humor: sharp dialogue, wounded egos, and a rivalry that escalates until one character stages an outrageous fake drowning to win sympathy and attention. Jacobs' gift is in the banter—quick, dry, and wonderfully human. The story captures the rhythms of river life, the pride of working men, and the chaos that erupts when someone disrupts their routine. It's a charming slice of early‑20th‑century humor, full of personality and the kind of comic timing that made Jacobs one of the most beloved storytellers of his day.   Why This Story Works Classic Jacobs humor: misunderstandings, bluster, and sly wit. A tight, character‑driven setting: the barge becomes a pressure cooker for comedy. A memorable twist: the fake drowning scene is pure Jacobs—absurd, clever, and perfectly timed. A light, enjoyable listen: ideal for fans of Jacobs' river tales and maritime comedies. About the Author W.W. Jacobs (1863–1943) was a master of short fiction, best known for blending humor, maritime life, and sharply observed character sketches. While he is most famous today for the dark classic "The Monkey's Paw," much of his work—like "The Lady of the Barge"—is rooted in comedy and the everyday dramas of sailors, dockworkers, and river folk.

⭐ SHOW NOTES — "A Mixed Proposal" by W.W. Jacobs W.W. Jacobs was a master of the light comic tangle, and "A Mixed Proposal" is one of those stories where he lets human pride, romance, and misunderstanding collide in the most entertaining way. Set among ordinary working people—Jacobs' favorite territory—the tale follows a young woman whose future becomes the subject of competing plans, assumptions, and not‑so‑subtle ambitions. Two would‑be suitors circle the situation with very different ideas about how things ought to go, and Jacobs plays their rivalry with his trademark blend of humor and gentle satire. Every conversation carries an undercurrent of posturing; every gesture seems to mean more than it should. The fun comes from watching how quickly confidence can turn to confusion, and how easily a simple matter of the heart can become a comedy of crossed signals. At its core, the story is about the awkwardness of courtship and the way people—especially those who think they have everything figured out—can be blindsided by their own assumptions. Jacobs keeps the tone light, the dialogue sharp, and the emotional stakes just high enough to keep listeners leaning in. It's a charming, character‑driven piece that showcases Jacobs' gift for turning everyday situations into memorable little dramas. All 2,000+ of our 1001 Stories are free, thanks to our Patrons and our advertisers. If you would like to support our network please visit www.patreon.com/1001stories.com  Thank You!

🎙️ Summary for "A Call" — 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales- by Grace MacGowen Cooke Grace MacGowen Cooke was one of those early‑20th‑century writers who understood people from the inside out. Her stories often revolve around small moments that reveal big truths — the kind of emotional turning points that happen quietly, almost invisibly, until suddenly everything has changed. "A Call" is one of her most memorable pieces in that regard. It begins with a simple situation — Two boys on the brink of manhood decide to make their first formal call on two sisters who lived nearby but things don't go quite as well as planned. In those days to make a formal call on a girl or lady you had to present a calling card at the door. A tray, or server, was presented and you placed your business card on it. If it passed the parent's inspection, you were allowed into the parlor. This a a fun story about two boys who lost their nerve through most of the process.  Enjoy all our 1001 Stories nPodcasts at www.bestof1001stories.com or wherever great podcasts are found.

🎙️ SHOW NOTES — "A Brave Heart" by Henry van Dyke at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales  Henry van Dyke sets A Brave Heart against the rugged, wintry backdrop of rural Canada, a landscape he often used to explore themes of endurance, moral clarity, and the quiet heroism found in ordinary people. The setting is more than scenery — it shapes the characters' choices, tests their resolve, and mirrors the stark moral crossroads at the heart of the story. This is a world of snow‑covered forests, isolated homesteads, and long northern nights, where neighbors depend on one another and where a single act of courage can mean the difference between life and tragedy. Van Dyke understood the frontier spirit well, and he uses the Canadian wilderness to highlight the strength and decency of people who live close to the land. 🌲 A Glimpse of the Storyline (Spoiler‑Safe) At the center of the tale is a man whose character is revealed not through grand speeches but through a moment of crisis. When danger strikes — sudden, real, and life‑altering — he must choose between safety and sacrifice. Van Dyke shows how true bravery often comes from instinct: the instinct to protect, to help, to step forward when others might step back. The story unfolds with Van Dyke's trademark simplicity: a clear moral line, a test of character, and a resolution that affirms the quiet power of doing what is right. It's a reminder that courage is not always loud or dramatic. Sometimes it's a single decision made in the cold, with no witnesses but one's own conscience. ✍️ About Henry van Dyke Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) was a minister, diplomat, professor at Princeton, and one of America's most widely read writers in the early 20th century. He believed deeply in the moral potential of ordinary people, and his stories often celebrate kindness, integrity, and the small acts of goodness that shape a life. Van Dyke traveled widely and drew inspiration from the natural world — mountains, rivers, forests, and coastlines. His Canadian stories in particular reflect his admiration for the resilience and generosity of people living in remote places. He wrote with clarity, warmth, and a belief that literature should uplift the human spirit. In this uplifting and quietly powerful tale, Henry van Dyke turns his attention to the kind of courage that rarely makes headlines — the everyday bravery found in ordinary people who choose compassion, integrity, and steadfastness when life tests them most. "A Brave Heart" is not a story of battlefield heroics, but of moral courage: the courage to do what is right, even when no one is watching. Van Dyke's gift lies in revealing how strength often appears in humble forms. Through simple moments and honest character, he shows how a single act of goodness can ripple outward, touching lives in ways the giver may never fully know. It's a reminder that bravery isn't always loud. Sometimes it's quiet, steady, and deeply human. Listeners will find in this story the same qualities that make van Dyke's work endure — warmth, clarity, and a belief in the better angels of our nature. "A Brave Heart" stands as a gentle encouragement to hold fast to kindness, to meet hardship with grace, and to remember that courage often begins with a single, faithful choice. Catch all our 1001 Podcasts at www.bestof1001stories.com!

🎙️ SHOW NOTES O. Henry — "The Complete Life of John Hopkins" 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales In this light, witty New York sketch, O. Henry introduces us to John Hopkins, an ordinary working man whose imagination is far livelier than his circumstances. What begins as a simple moment in an everyday life quickly blossoms into a humorous exploration of how a single impulse — a whim, a daydream, a sudden change of mood — can send a person spinning into an entirely different version of themselves. O. Henry had a gift for taking the smallest human moment and revealing the entire inner world behind it. "The Complete Life of John Hopkins" is one of those stories: a quick, clever portrait of a man who, for a brief time, steps outside the routine of his life and sees himself in a new way. It's funny, it's warm, and it carries that unmistakable O. Henry charm — the sense that every person on the street has a story worth telling, if only someone would stop long enough to notice. Set against the backdrop of early‑1900s Manhattan, the story captures the rhythms of the city O. Henry knew so well: the crowded sidewalks, the elevated trains, the boarding houses, the small shops, and the millions of people whose lives brushed past one another every day. Hopkins is one of them — an ordinary man with an extraordinary moment.   🖋️ About O. Henry and This Story O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) wrote this piece during his most productive years in New York City, after leaving Texas and rebuilding his life in Manhattan. Between 1902 and 1910, he produced hundreds of short stories for newspapers and magazines, often writing on tight deadlines and drawing inspiration from the people he saw around him. This story reflects several hallmarks of his New York period: Everyday characters placed at the center of the narrative Humor and gentle irony rather than high drama A focus on inner life — how a person thinks, dreams, and imagines A quick, clever twist that reveals something true about human nature O. Henry was fascinated by the idea that the most ordinary person could contain a universe of hopes, frustrations, and fantasies. "The Complete Life of John Hopkins" is a perfect example of that theme — a small story with a big heart.

🎙️ SHOW NOTES Frank Norris — "The Riding of Felipe" 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Set in the days of early California, when ranchos stretched across the valleys and horsemanship was a measure of pride and manhood, Frank Norris's "The Riding of Felipe" tells the story of a young Californio boy facing a test that will determine his standing in the eyes of his family and community. The tale blends local color, cultural tradition, and the kind of personal challenge that reveals character under pressure. Norris paints the landscape with vivid detail — the dust, the sunlight, the spirited horses, and the proud traditions of the Californio ranch families. At its heart, this is a story about courage, expectation, and the moment a boy steps across the threshold into something larger than himself. It's a compact but powerful sketch of a world already fading by the time Norris wrote it. 🖋️ About Frank Norris Frank Norris (1870–1902) was one of America's most important early naturalist writers — a forerunner to Jack London and Theodore Dreiser. Though best known for his novels McTeague, The Octopus, and The Pit, Norris also wrote short fiction that explored the American West, frontier cultures, and the tensions between old ways and the modern world. Norris spent time in California as a young man, and the region left a deep impression on him. He was fascinated by the state's layered history — Spanish, Mexican, and American — and by the dramatic changes taking place as railroads, industry, and new settlers transformed the landscape. "The Riding of Felipe" comes from this period of his writing, when he was producing short stories that captured the color, grit, and human drama of Western life. He wrote pieces like this to preserve the atmosphere of a California that was rapidly disappearing — a world of ranchos, vaqueros, adobe towns, and traditions that had endured for generations. Norris's early stories often highlight moments of personal trial, where a character's inner nature is revealed through action, instinct, or courage. Felipe's story fits squarely into that theme. Though Norris died young at just 32, his influence on American literature was enormous, and stories like this one show the range and sensitivity he brought to the short‑story form.

🎙️ SHOW NOTES — Stephen Crane's Sullivan County Tales A Tent in Agony & Four Men in a Cave 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Podcast- Reviews Always Appreciated at Apple or www.bestof1001stories.com ⭐ A Tent in Agony Stephen Crane shows his playful side in this lighthearted Sullivan County tale about a group of soldiers whose quiet night in camp is shattered by the most unexpected intruder imaginable — a curious, hungry bear. What begins as a peaceful evening quickly turns into a chaotic scramble as the men try to figure out what's thrashing around inside one soldier's tent. Crane's humor shines through in the frantic dialogue, the exaggerated bravery, and the wonderfully human reactions of men who suddenly discover that battlefield courage doesn't always apply when a bear is rummaging through your belongings. A fun, fast, and very funny slice of camp life from one of America's great storytellers.   ⭐ Four Men in a Cave In this comic adventure, Crane follows four enthusiastic but inexperienced explorers who decide to investigate a mysterious cave in Sullivan County. What starts as a simple outing quickly becomes a comedy of errors as the men get lost, panic, argue, and imagine every possible danger lurking in the darkness. Crane gently pokes fun at their bravado and their overactive imaginations, turning a minor misadventure into a charming study of human nature under pressure. It's a story about fear, friendship, and the way ordinary men can turn a harmless situation into high drama — all told with Crane's trademark wit and sharp observational humor.

Summary (Show Notes) for "Our Archery Club" by Frank Stockton at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Podcast Takeaway: Frank Stockton's "Our Archery Club" is a humorous, lightly satirical tale about a village's enthusiastic  attempt to form an archery club, highlighting human vanity, social dynamics, and the gap between ambition and ability. Every club has its characters — the overachiever, the worrier, the natural talent, the one who talks a big game, and the one who surprises everyone. And in Frank Stockton's Our Archery Club, all of them show up with bows in hand, ready to prove themselves… even if the arrows don't always cooperate. This is Stockton at his best: sharp, witty, and wonderfully observant. What begins as a simple pastime quickly becomes a comedy of pride, precision, and good‑natured chaos. If you've ever joined a club or tried a new hobby only to discover that enthusiasm doesn't always equal skill, you're going to love this one.

🎙️ SHOW NOTES — Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales (also check out new arrivsls at 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age) Website: www.bestof1001stories.com In this quietly unsettling tale, Nathaniel Hawthorne invites us into the dim, antiquated study of Dr. Heidegger — a physician whose reputation is equal parts wisdom, eccentricity, and whispered rumor. When he summons four elderly acquaintances to witness a strange demonstration, the group expects a harmless curiosity. What they receive instead is a chance — or what appears to be a chance — to reclaim their lost youth. As the doctor unveils a mysterious liquid said to possess rejuvenating powers, Hawthorne shifts the focus away from the supernatural and toward something far more human: whether people truly change when given a second chance. The experiment becomes a mirror, reflecting vanity, folly, and the patterns that shape a lifetime. This is a story about temptation, self‑deception, and the uneasy truth that age may alter the body, but character is far harder to transform. Hawthorne delivers it with his signature blend of gothic atmosphere, moral inquiry, and a touch of dark humor — leaving listeners with a question that lingers long after the final line.   ⭐ Themes & Highlights The tension between youthful desire and hard‑earned wisdom Hawthorne's fascination with moral testing and the persistence of human flaws A gothic setting that feels almost like a character in itself A story that asks whether experience truly teaches — or merely repeats   🕯️ What Inspired Hawthorne to Write This Story While Hawthorne left no single definitive explanation for Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, the story fits squarely within several of his lifelong obsessions: 1. The Moral Legacy of Puritan New England Hawthorne grew up in the shadow of Puritan history — a culture deeply concerned with sin, repentance, and the possibility (or impossibility) of moral change. This story echoes that heritage: a controlled "test" of human nature, with the doctor acting almost like a moral examiner. 2. Skepticism About Human Perfectibility Hawthorne was wary of the 19th‑century American belief that people could be perfected through reform movements, self‑improvement, or scientific progress. The experiment becomes a parable: even when circumstances change, character may not. 3. The Rise of Pseudoscience and "Miracle Cures" During Hawthorne's lifetime, America was full of traveling elixir salesmen, mesmerists, and medical showmen. The "fountain of youth" motif allowed him to poke at society's fascination with quick fixes and miraculous transformations. 4. Hawthorne's Personal Preoccupation with Human Weakness Many of his stories — The Birth‑Mark, Rappaccini's Daughter, Young Goodman Brown — revolve around experiments, tests, or moral trials. He was fascinated by the idea that people reveal their true selves when placed under pressure. 5. A Literary Nod to Classical and Folkloric "Youth Restored" Tales Legends of rejuvenating waters appear in Greek myth, medieval lore, and early American storytelling. Hawthorne uses the familiar trope but twists it into a psychological study rather than a fantasy.   🎧 Why This Story Still Resonates Hawthorne's question is timeless: If we were given back our youth, would we use it any better?

🎙️ SHOW NOTES — "A Chaparral Prince" by O. Henry at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales (Reviews appreciated) In this lively tale set against the dusty edges of the American Southwest, O. Henry introduces us to a young man whose pride, imagination, and sense of chivalry far exceed his circumstances. "A Chaparral Prince" follows a would‑be hero who dreams of noble quests and romantic triumphs, even as he navigates the rough‑and‑tumble realities of frontier life. What begins as a simple encounter between a spirited young woman and an earnest, self‑styled knight quickly becomes a story about idealism meeting reality, and about the lengths to which a person will go to live up to the image they've created for themselves. O. Henry's trademark humor is here, but so is a surprising tenderness — the kind that reveals how even the most fanciful dreams can shape a person's courage. Without giving away the twist, this is a story about honor, youthful bravado, and the unexpected ways people rise to the occasion when their moment finally arrives. It's a Western with a wink — but also with a heart.   ⭐ Themes & Highlights Romantic idealism colliding with the grit of frontier life Youthful pride and the desire to be seen as noble or heroic O. Henry's gentle irony, revealing character through small, human moments

This story is one that captured the American imagination almost instantly when it first appeared — a quiet, deeply human tale built around one of the most revered moments in our nation's history. "The Perfect Tribute," by R.M.S. Andrews, became an overnight sensation when it was published in 1906. Readers were moved by its simple dignity, its emotional restraint, and its portrayal of Abraham Lincoln not as a monument, but as a man — humble, uncertain, and capable of touching lives in ways he never fully realized. It is fiction, but it carries a powerful message. The story spread quickly through newspapers, magazines, and schoolrooms. Teachers read it aloud, ministers quoted it in sermons, and families passed it from hand to hand. For many Americans, it became the defining fictional account of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address — a tribute not only to the speech, but to the spirit behind it. Its author, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, was a writer with a gift for moral clarity and emotional resonance. Born in 1860, she wrote stories that blended patriotism, sentiment, and a deep respect for character. Andrews had a particular interest in moments where ordinary people reveal extraordinary grace, and she returned often to themes of honor, sacrifice, and the quiet heroism found in everyday lives. "The Perfect Tribute" remains her most famous work, cherished for more than a century for the way it brings Lincoln down from the pedestal and places him gently, respectfully, back among the people he served. Settle in now as we revisit this beloved American classic — a story that has touched generations with its warmth, humility, and enduring reverence for one of our nation's greatest leaders. The story inspired two movies: svg]:size-5" aria-hidden="true">            J       Invite   Yesterday   You said   my please provide an intro to my reading of RMS Andrews 'The Perfect Tribute' and include the instant popularity of this abraham lincoln story as well as background of author Andrews Copilot said Here's a warm, atmospheric, listener‑pulling intro for your reading of Ruth McEnery Stuart Andrews's "The Perfect Tribute," crafted in your signature 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales style. It highlights the story's remarkable early popularity and gives clean, engaging background on Andrews herself.   🎙️ INTRO FOR R.M.S. ANDREWS'S "THE PERFECT TRIBUTE" at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales  for America 250 Tonight's story is one that captured the American imagination almost instantly when it first appeared — a quiet, deeply human tale built around one of the most revered moments in our nation's history. "The Perfect Tribute," by R.M.S. Andrews, became an overnight sensation when it was published in 1906. Readers were moved by its simple dignity, its emotional restraint, and its portrayal of Abraham Lincoln not as a monument, but as a man — humble, uncertain, and capable of touching lives in ways he never fully realized. The story spread quickly through newspapers, magazines, and schoolrooms. Teachers read it aloud, ministers quoted it in sermons, and families passed it from hand to hand. For many Americans, it became the defining fictional account of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address — a tribute not only to the speech, but to the spirit behind it. Its author, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, was a writer with a gift for moral clarity and emotional resonance. Born in 1860, she wrote stories that blended patriotism, sentiment, and a deep respect for character. Andrews had a particular interest in moments where ordinary people reveal extraordinary grace, and she returned often to themes of honor, sacrifice, and the quiet heroism found in everyday lives. "The Perfect Tribute" remains her most famous work, cherished for more than a century for the way it brings Lincoln down from the pedestal and places him gently, respectfully, back among the people he served. Settle in now as we revisit this beloved American classic — a story that has touched generations with its warmth, humility, and enduring reverence for one of our nation's greatest leaders. Here is "The Perfect Tribute," by R.M.S. Andrews.  The story The Perfect Tribute inspired two screen adaptations: a 1935 MGM short film and a 1991 television movie. Archive  🎬 Film Adaptations Inspired by The Perfect Tribute 1. The Perfect Tribute (1935) — MGM Short Film Produced as a dramatic short by MGM. This was the first screen adaptation of Andrews's story. It brought her sentimental, reverent portrayal of Lincoln to a new audience at a time when short historical dramas were popular in theaters. The film closely follows the original narrative: Lincoln's self-doubt after the Gettysburg Address and the dying Confederate soldier who unknowingly affirms the speech's greatness. Archive 2. The Perfect Tribute (1991) — Television Movie A feature-length TV adaptation starring Jason Robards as Abraham Lincoln. This version expanded the story's emotional arc and introduced it to a new generation, leaning into the reflective, human side of Lincoln that Andrews captured so well. It aired during a period of renewed interest in historical dramas and presidential biographies   Here is "The Perfect Tribute," by R.M.S. Andrews.

The story (Summary by The Kipling Society)   at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales "I" tells this story, in which his rooms in London (Kipling lived during this time in rooms in Villiers Street, next to Charing Cross Station) are the setting for a chance meeting of an eminent English writer Eustace Cleever (or 'Cleaver' in the footnote to "Slaves of the Lamp — II" in Stalky & Co.) with three young army officers just arrived on leave in London from service in India and Burma, 'Tick' Boileau, Nevin, and 'The Infant', an impressively large young man. The three have read and deeply admired Cleever's book, set in the Infant's county ('all my people live there'), and their enthusiastic questioning leads Cleever to drop from the manner of 'the pundit caste' into colloquial speech — and to realize that, much as he knows of the English countryside and country people, he knows nothing of the Subaltern of the Line. As they begin to tell him a little, he remarks: 'the whole idea of warfare seems so foreign and unnatural, so essentially vulgar . . . ' "I" explains quickly that all three have 'seen service' which leads to Cleever's demanding that they tell him about it. Whereupon the Infant tells the story of his campaign against murderous dacoits in the Burmese jungle, an assault on a village, and the capture of Boh Na-ghee the dacoit leader. Cleever is delighted, and accompanies the three young men when they leave to dine out and go on to the Empire Music-Hall. They return great friends, and on leaving, Cleever quotes Thomson to "I" to the effect that life is greater than art: 'Whereupon I understood that Eustace Cleever, decorator and colourman in words, was blaspheming his own Art, and would be sorry for this in the morning.'

🎙️ SHOW NOTES SUMMARY — "The Keeper of the Light" by Henry van Dyke In this gentle, quietly powerful tale, Henry van Dyke turns his attention to the life of a solitary lighthouse keeper — a man whose days are shaped by the rhythm of the sea and the unwavering duty of tending the light that guides sailors home. What begins as a simple portrait of coastal life deepens into a moving reflection on love, memory, and the promises that outlast time. Van Dyke brings his trademark warmth to the story, revealing how the keeper's devotion to his work is tied to something far more personal than routine or responsibility. As the tides rise and fall, the lighthouse becomes a symbol of constancy in a world that changes, a beacon not only for ships at sea but for the keeper's own heart. With its quiet emotion and moral clarity, "The Keeper of the Light" stands as one of van Dyke's most tender pieces — a reminder that the truest acts of love are often carried out in silence, faithfully, long after the world has stopped watching Check out all our stories at www.bestof1001stories.com and leave us a kind review!  Thanks!

🎙️ SHOW NOTES Father Brown: "The Dagger with Wings"  (audio only, original video) A Gothic Mystery with a Supernatural Shadow In this episode, Father Brown is drawn into one of the most eerie and atmospheric cases of his career — a mystery steeped in superstition, fear, and the lingering shadow of a family curse. "The Dagger with Wings" takes place in a lonely stretch of English countryside, where a wealthy recluse has died under violent and baffling circumstances. Rumors swirl that he was murdered by a supernatural being — a winged avenger said to haunt the family line. When Father Brown arrives, he finds a household paralyzed by terror and a suspect who seems to vanish and reappear like a phantom. The case twists through dark corridors, strange footprints, and a man convinced he is being hunted by something not of this world. But as always, Father Brown brings with him the quiet clarity of reason, compassion, and a deep understanding of human nature. What follows is a tense, psychological unraveling of fear, guilt, and illusion — a story where the supernatural explanation is the easiest one to believe… and the most dangerous to accept. 🔎 Why This Story Works •     A gothic atmosphere that blends superstition with real-world dread •     A psychological mystery where fear becomes a weapon •     Father Brown's signature method: gentle insight cutting through terror •     A clever twist that reframes everything the characters — and the reader — thought they knew ⭐ Why "The Dagger with Wings" Is a Classic Chesterton's Father Brown stories endure because they aren't just puzzles — they're explorations of the human soul. In this tale, he uses gothic elements not for shock, but to reveal how fear distorts perception and how guilt can create monsters where none exist. The story is a masterclass in misdirection, atmosphere, and moral insight, showing why Father Brown remains one of literature's most beloved detectives.

Episode Summary: "The Lagoon" by Joseph Conrad In this haunting tale of "impulsive betrayal and permanent remorse", a white traveler known only as Tuan journeys through the dense, tropical waterways of the Malay Archipelago. He stops for the night at the isolated jungle clearing of an old friend, Arsat, only to find the man in the throes of a double tragedy. Arsat's beloved, Diamelen, lies dying of a fever, and her impending end forces Arsat to confess the dark secret of how they came to be there.  Study.com +5 By the flickering light of a fire, Arsat recounts a harrowing escape from years prior: how he and his brother kidnapped Diamelen from a powerful Rajah. When their pursuers closed in, Arsat's brother stayed behind to hold them off, sacrificing himself so the lovers could reach their canoe. In a moment of fatal choice, Arsat pushed off into the water, ignoring his brother's desperate cries for help in order to save himself and his love. As the sun rises and Diamelen breathes her last, Arsat is left in a "world of illusion", finally resolving to return to the river to avenge his brother and face his own destiny.  Study.com +2       Why This Story Is a Classic Mastery of Atmosphere: Conrad uses lush, "dreamlike and surreal" prose to create a setting that is as much a psychological landscape as a physical one. The stagnant lagoon serves as a powerful symbol of Arsat's moral isolation and the "immobility" of his guilt. The Weight of Moral Ambiguity: Typical of Joseph Conrad's work, the story avoids easy answers. It explores the "ethical ambiguity of life" by pitting the noble virtue of love against the sacred bond of loyalty to one's kin. A Forerunner of Modernism: Published in 1897, "The Lagoon" is an early experiment in Conrad's complex narrative techniques. Its "story within a story" structure and focus on internal human struggle helped bridge the gap between 19th-century adventure and 20th-century psychological modernism. Universal Themes: While the colonial setting reflects the era of its writing, the core themes—remorse, the consequences of cowardice, and the search for redemption—remain timeless.  Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities +10

SUMMARY OF 'KEEPING WATCH' A boat captain with a pretty daughter aboard leaves two crewmen 'on guard' whilem he heads for a night at the local tavern. His suspicion has been aroused after finding a pile of love letters wrapped with a pink ribbon nin his daughtyers possessions.  The young girl proves to be wilier than either of them expected.... Check out all of our shows at www.bestof1001stories.com

"That Pretty Girl in the Army" by Henry Lawson In this light, good‑humored tale, Henry Lawson turns his attention to the small misunderstandings and quiet vanities that make everyday life so entertaining. The story follows a narrator who becomes intrigued by a striking young woman dressed in a military-style uniform—an unusual and eye‑catching sight that sparks curiosity and a bit of harmless speculation. As he observes her and tries to make sense of her role, Lawson gently pokes fun at the assumptions people make based on appearances. The narrator's imagination fills in the gaps, building a picture of who she must be and what her "army" position might involve. But as the truth gradually comes into focus, the situation proves far more ordinary—and far more amusing—than the narrator's initial theories. Lawson's trademark charm is on full display: dry wit, affectionate character sketches, and a warm appreciation for the quirks of human nature. The story offers a playful reminder that people are rarely what they first appear to be, and that sometimes the smallest encounters leave the biggest smiles.

"The Last Fight in the Coliseum" — Charlotte Yonge   Episode Summary In this episode, we bring you Charlotte Yonge's powerful historical tale "The Last Fight in the Coliseum," a story that blends imagination with the fading echoes of ancient Rome. Set during the final years of the Roman Empire, the narrative follows a young Christian who finds himself thrust into the brutal world of the gladiatorial arena—not as a warrior, but as a witness to the clash between old Rome and the rising Christian faith. Yonge uses the grandeur and cruelty of the Coliseum to explore themes of courage, conviction, and the moral transformation of a civilization. The story captures the moment when the old pagan world, built on spectacle and violence, begins to crumble, and a new spiritual worldview takes its place. ⭐ What the Story Is About •     A Christian hermit named Telemachus is brought into the Coliseum during one of the last gladiatorial spectacles. •     Instead of a traditional gladiator's duel, the confrontation becomes a symbolic struggle between the old Roman order and the new Christian faith. •     Yonge highlights the contrast between physical might and moral courage, showing how one person's steadfastness can echo louder than the roar of the crowd. •     The story reflects the broader historical shift as Christianity spreads and the gladiatorial games fade into history. ⭐ Fact vs. Fiction While the characters and specific events in the story are fictional, the historical backdrop is real: •     By the 4th century, the gladiatorial games were declining due to cost, political instability, and the growing influence of Christianity. •     Early Christian writers recorded accounts of believers who were executed in the arena for refusing to renounce their faith. •     The idea of a final symbolic confrontation in the Coliseum is poetic rather than literal, but it reflects the genuine cultural transition taking place in Rome. Yonge's story is not meant as strict history—it is a moral and emotional portrait of a world in transformation. ⭐ About Charlotte Yonge Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901) was a prolific Victorian author known for her historical fiction, moral tales, and character‑driven narratives. Deeply influenced by her Anglican faith, she wrote more than 100 works, many of them exploring themes of virtue, sacrifice, and spiritual courage. Yonge had a gift for taking historical settings and using them to illuminate the human heart. In "The Last Fight in the Coliseum," she blends history with imagination to create a story that is both dramatic and reflective—a reminder of how individual acts of bravery can shape the moral memory of a civilization.

The Chest of broken Glass is an old folk tale about a father who has grown old- to old to care for himself, and in order to gain more time from his three sons who only visit now and then, fills an old locked chect with broken glass. The sons, upon seeing the chect, and hearing the content inside, believe their father has filled it with gold, and decide to take turns living with and caring for their father further into his old age.  In Federalist No. 55 one of our nations founders James Madison, admits that for our democratic republic to work, its elected leaders must be honest and virtuous- otherwise,it will become ruled by tyrants.

"After Twenty Years" — Summary Set on a quiet, rain‑slicked street in early‑20th‑century Manhattan, After Twenty Years explores loyalty, fate, and the unexpected turns life can take. Two friends—Jimmy Wells and Bob—made a pact twenty years earlier to meet again at the same spot, no matter where life had taken them. When the night finally arrives, one man keeps the appointment… but the reunion that follows is not the one either of them imagined. O.     Henry delivers one of his most famous twist endings here—an ending that raises questions about duty, friendship, and the choices that define us. "Brickdust Row" — Summary In Brickdust Row, O. Henry shifts from the streets to the shabby boarding houses of New York's working class. Here we meet Blinker, a shy, lonely clerk, and Florence, the gentle young woman who lives across the hall. Their lives unfold quietly—two people navigating poverty, pride, and unspoken affection. O. Henry paints the world of Brickdust Row with tenderness and humor, showing how small acts of kindness can brighten even the most worn‑down corners of the city. And, true to form, he delivers a twist—one that reveals the hidden hopes and quiet sacrifices of ordinary people trying to find connection in a big, indifferent city.

AN ERNEST HEMINGWAY DOUBLE PLAY 🎙️ Mix War, Art, and Dancing   Hemingway's early newspaper sketch drops listeners into a Kansas City Y.W.C.A. ballroom during World War I, where soldiers on leave mingle with art students in a swirl of jazz, fox‑trotting, and youthful bravado. The piece captures a vivid contrast: outside, a lone woman walks through sleet on a dark, wet sidewalk, while inside, music, laughter, and flirtation pulse through the Fine Arts Institute. Soldiers swap stories, girls in bright dresses compete for dances, and the pianist shifts from ragtime to sentimental wartime tunes. What emerges is a snapshot of wartime America that blends innocence, longing, and the strange normalcy people try to build in the shadow of global conflict. Hemingway's eye for detail—paintings on the walls, fruit punch in the intermission, the girl in the red dress surrounded by eager partners—turns a simple community dance into a portrait of a nation trying to stay human while the world changes around it. Added twist for listeners: This isn't just a dance; it's a moment where art, youth, and war brush shoulders. The story invites the question: What do people cling to when the world is shifting beneath their feet? 🎙️ Cat in the Rain   Set in a quiet Italian seaside hotel, this story follows an American wife who spots a small cat crouched under a dripping green table in the rain. Her desire to rescue the cat becomes the spark that reveals deeper emotional currents in her marriage—unspoken needs, loneliness, and a longing for comfort and identity. Her husband remains absorbed in his book while she wanders downstairs, encountering the dignified hotel‑keeper whose attentiveness makes her feel seen in a way she hasn't felt in a long time. When the cat disappears, her disappointment opens into a confession of all the things she wants—stability, beauty, tenderness, and something of her own. The rain‑soaked setting, the quiet hotel corridors, and the wife's growing sense of yearning all build toward a final gesture that suggests someone else has been listening after all. Added twist for listeners: The cat becomes more than a cat—it's a symbol of everything she feels slipping out of reach. The story's power lies in what Hemingway doesn't say, leaving listeners to sense the emotional iceberg beneath the surface.

Hot Potatoes by Arnold Bennett   Arnold Bennett's Hot Potatoes is a gentle comedy of good intentions gone wrong, centered on a devoted mother, her musically gifted son, and two very ill‑timed potatoes. On a bitterly cold evening, Mrs.Swann'son is preparing to play in the orchestra at an important social event hosted by local businessmen. His mother, proud but anxious, fusses over him as he leaves. At the last moment she is struck by a "brilliant" idea: Hiss hands must be kept warm for the performance—so she bakes two large potatoes  and hurries out into the night to deliver them to him. Her son, meanwhile, has already arrived at the elegant home where the pre‑concert dinner is being held.  Things fall apart quickly from that point forward.   Enjoy all our stories at www.bestof1001stories.com and send us a kind review-thanks!

The First‑Class Passenger unfolds during a winter train journey, where a modest, observant narrator finds himself seated vis‑à‑vis a well‑dressed stranger. The man, eager for an audience, begins talking about his life—boasting about his cleverness, his ambition, and the way he has outmaneuvered others to get ahead. As he speaks, his pride slowly exposes something darker: a past marked by cruelty, selfishness, and a lack of remorse. Chekhov builds the tension not through action but through revelation. The more the man talks, the more he condemns himself, until the narrator—and the reader—see the moral emptiness behind the polished exterior. The story becomes a quiet study of guilt, self‑deception, and the thin line between success and moral failure. 🖋️ What Inspired Chekhov (Based on What We Know) There is no single recorded anecdote from Chekhov explaining the origin of this story, but its themes and structure align closely with several well‑documented aspects of his life and writing: •     Chekhov traveled constantly, especially by rail, and often used trains as settings where strangers reveal themselves in unexpected ways. Encounters with talkative fellow passengers were a common feature of Russian travel in the 1880s and 1890s. •     He was fascinated by casual confession, especially the way ordinary people reveal their flaws unintentionally. Many of his stories hinge on a character who talks too freely, exposing truths they never meant to share. •     He frequently explored moral blindness, showing how people justify their actions while remaining unaware of the harm they cause. The first‑class passenger fits this pattern perfectly. •     Chekhov's medical background gave him a keen eye for psychological detail. He often said that people reveal themselves most clearly in unguarded, everyday conversation—exactly the dynamic at play in this story. While we don't have a diary entry saying "this is why I wrote it," the story reflects Chekhov's lifelong interest in the quiet dramas of ordinary people and the moral contradictions hidden beneath polite conversation. Enjoy all our stories at www.bestof1001stories.com and sign up for our newsletter after leaving a great review!  Thanks!

Enjoy ALL our story podcasts at www.bestof1001stories.com for free and sign up for ourmonthly newsletter after leaving a review!   🐸 Summary of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain's story centers on a narrator who visits a mining camp in California to inquire about a man named Leonidas W. Smiley. Instead, he is cornered by the endlessly talkative Simon Wheeler, who launches into a long, deadpan tale about Jim Smiley, a compulsive gambler who would bet on anything that moved. Smiley's prize possession is Dan'l Webster, a frog he has trained to jump higher and farther than any other. A stranger tricks Smiley by secretly filling the frog with buckshot, causing Dan'l Webster to lose the contest. By the time Wheeler finishes his rambling anecdote, the narrator realizes he has been the victim of a frontier tall tale—one told with such sincerity that it becomes its own kind of art. 📚 Why the Story Mattered to Mark Twain •     It launched his national career. The story was first published in 1865 and became Twain's breakout success, bringing him widespread recognition as a humorist. It is widely acknowledged as the piece that "jumpstarted his career," establishing his voice and reputation. •     It showcased his signature style early. Twain's blend of dry humor, regional dialect, and satirical observation is already fully formed here. The story's structure—a straight‑faced narrator listening to an outrageous yarn—became a hallmark of his comedic technique. •     It connected him to the American West. Twain's mining‑camp experiences in California and Nevada shaped his early writing. This story captures the rough‑and‑ready storytelling culture of the frontier, grounding his humor in lived experience.  How to support our show- check us out at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork and donate maybe $5 a month to help pay our basic expenses-thanks!

THE LADY WITH THE DOG SUMMARY In this quietly powerful tale of unexpected love and emotional awakening, Anton Chekhov introduces us to Dmitri Gurov, a disenchanted Moscow banker vacationing in the seaside town of Yalta. There, he encounters Anna Sergeyevna, a young woman walking with her small white dog. What begins as a fleeting affair between two married strangers soon deepens into something far more profound and unsettling. Set against the backdrop of the Black Sea and later the gray streets of Moscow, the story traces the inner transformation of a man who, for the first time, confronts the possibility of genuine love—and the quiet tragedy of lives constrained by social convention. Chekhov's masterful restraint and psychological insight elevate this brief encounter into a timeless meditation on desire, loneliness, and the human capacity for change. If you would like to support our stories here please visit www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork and pledge whatever you feel comfortable with- Thank You!  JH 1001 AND... Stop by our website at www.bestof1001stories.com and sign upfor our newsletter while checking out all our 1001 podcasts!

Please consider helping to support this podcast and others in our 1001 Stories network collection by going to www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork and pledging a monthly contribution-Our Patreon supporters help cover our basic expenses hee as I try to bring great literature to everyone through sharratihng these narrations. The Open Window" — Show Notes Summary In this iconic tale of mischief and misdirection, a nervous visitor named Framton Nuttel arrives at a quiet country house seeking rest and recovery. But when he's greeted by the host's precocious niece, Vera, he's drawn into a chilling tale of loss, longing — and an open window that never closes. Saki's razor-sharp wit and love of the unexpected are on full display here, as he turns a simple social call into a masterclass in narrative sleight-of-hand. A story about nerves, storytelling, and the fine line between truth and invention, The Open Window remains one of the most beloved short stories in English literature. 🐎 "A Matter of Sentiment" — Show Notes Summary It's the eve of a major horse race, and the guests at Lady Susan's country house are in a quiet frenzy. Everyone wants to place a winning bet — but with no clear favorite and their hostess disapproving of gambling, the scheming must be done in whispers and winks. Enter Clovis, ever the agent of chaos, who discovers a potential inside source: the butler's second cousin, a stable lad with privileged knowledge. What follows is a deliciously dry comedy of manners, deception, and social subterfuge, as Saki skewers the pretensions of the upper crust with his trademark elegance and bite. Music: 🎵 Danse Macabre Op. 40 – Camille Saint-Saëns (1936 Stokowski/Philadelphia Orchestra recording) (archive.org in Bing) This version features Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, with a violin solo by Alexander Hilsberg. It's a historic 1936 recording, beautifully restored and freely available for use under public domain.

Episode Summary — A Redeeming Sacrifice (with an added twist) Lucy Maud Montgomery's tender short story A Redeeming Sacrifice follows a quiet, aching tale of love, pride, and the painful choices that can drive two young people apart. Set against the windswept beauty of an island community, Montgomery's original narrative traces the consequences of a single rash act which could be viewed as heroic, the story capturing the author's gift for small‑town detail and deep emotional truth. In this episode I read Montgomery's story as written — then, for listeners who've ever wished for a fuller reckoning, I present a short, original continuation that honors Montgomery's tone while offering the closure many readers have no doubt longed for.  " If you enjoy the extra, tell a friend and leave a note — I'd like to know what you think.- corage or cowardice? "A Redeeming Sacrifice" by L. M. Montgomery appears in several modern short‑story collections of her work, most commonly in compilations of her tales from the 1900s–1920s. Notable collections that include the story are: • Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909–1922 (various modern reprints/editions) • Collected/Complete Short Stories of L. M. Montgomery (omnibus editions and anthologies of her short fiction) It's also frequently reprinted in assorted L. M. Montgomery anthologies and e‑book compilations of her shorter works.   Browse all 12  1001 podcasts at www.bestof1001stories.com- aand thank Pixabay artists for their music controbutions.

Old Well-Well" is a classic baseball short story by Zane Grey, first published in the July 1910 issue of Success magazine.  Summary The story follows the legendary figure of "Old Well-Well," an elderly man famous throughout the East as the ultimate baseball fan. He is recognized by his unique, thunderous yell of "Well, well, well!" which he bellows at critical moments in games.  The narrative focuses on a high-stakes professional game where a young, unproven player named Burt faces off against an experienced veteran pitcher, Duveen. As the game reaches a fever pitch and the crowd erupts in "bedlam," Old Well-Well's iconic cry serves as a unifying force for the spectators. The story is less about the technical play-by-play and more about the vibrant culture and spirit of early 20th-century baseball, portraying it as a "national game" that connects people across generation Enjoy all the Zane Gray baseball stories at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at your favorite host or at www.bestof1001stories.com. Reviews appreciated and so is sharing !

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Antique Ring" (1843) is a fascinating departure from his usual dark, Puritan-focused dramas. It is a "story within a story" that blends lighthearted social banter with a legendary, cursed history.   The story begins in a cozy, modern setting where a young man named Edward Caryl presents an antique ring to his fiancée, Clara. When she asks about the ring's history, Edward—an aspiring writer—unfurls a legendary "biography" of the jewel. He transports his listeners back to the court of Queen Elizabeth I, where the ring is a royal pledge given to the Earl of Essex. According to Edward's tale, the ring carries a mysterious power: it sparkles with a "diamond of the mind" when the wearer is true, but grows dim and murky when betrayal is afoot. The narrative follows the ring through a series of tragic historical mishaps, including its role in the Earl's execution, before finally landing in the hands of the modern-day lovers.  As you read, you'll find yourself questioning where Edward's fiction ends and the "real" history of the ring begins. It is a masterful look at how we project meaning onto objects and how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt the romantic gestures of the present. Unknown Facts & Inspirations While Hawthorne is usually associated with the "Haunted Mind," this story reveals a more playful, experimental side of his genius. The "Essex Ring" Legend: Hawthorne didn't invent the ring's backstory entirely. He drew from a popular 17th-century legend involving Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. It was rumored that Elizabeth gave Essex a ring, promising to save him from any danger if he sent it back to her. When he was scheduled for execution, he supposedly tried to send it, but it was intercepted by a rival. Hawthorne took this historical "urban legend" and added his own supernatural, moralistic twist. A "Potboiler" with Purpose: Hawthorne wrote this during a period when he was struggling financially and trying to appeal to the "gift-book" market (popular annual anthologies for women). Interestingly, he used this "commercial" assignment to subtly mock his own profession—Edward Caryl is often seen as a self-parody of Hawthorne himself, a writer trying to please a demanding audience. The Salem Connection: Though set in London and "modern" America, the story's focus on symbolism and hidden sin is a direct result of Hawthorne's obsession with his Salem ancestry. He believed that even a beautiful piece of jewelry could carry the "stain" of the past.  Critical Reception: Then vs. Now In 1843: Upon its initial release in The Sargent's New Monthly Magazine, the story was well-received but seen as "light" entertainment. Readers of the era loved the mix of historical romance and contemporary manners. The "Minor" Label: For decades, critics dismissed "The Antique Ring" as a minor work compared to The Scarlet Letter. They felt it lacked the psychological depth of his darker stories. Modern Re-evaluation: Today, the story is highly valued by scholars for its meta-fictional quality. It is studied as an example of how Hawthorne viewed the act of storytelling itself—seeing the writer as a sort of jeweler who polishes old myths to make them shine for a new audience. Enjoy hundreds more well-narated short stories at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at our website where they are sorted by category and author for your convenience at  www.bestof1001stories.com

"The Furnished Room" is widely considered one of O. Henry's most somber and haunting stories. Unlike his more lighthearted or humorous tales, this one leans heavily into urban loneliness and tragedy.   The story follows a weary young man searching the boarding houses of New York City's Lower West Side for a woman he loves—an aspiring singer named Eloise Vashner. He has been searching for five months. He rents a "furnished room" from a cold, ghostly landlady. The room is dilapidated and smells of stale air and cheap perfume. As he sits in the dark, he is suddenly overwhelmed by the strong, distinct scent of mignonette—the exact fragrance Eloise used to wear. Convinced she has been in the room, he frantically searches the furniture and cracks in the wall for a sign of her, but finds nothing.  Publication and Context Written/Published: The story was first published in the New York World in 1904 and later included in his famous 1906 collection, The Four Million. Historical Setting: At the turn of the century, New York was flooded with young people from rural areas seeking fame in the arts. O. Henry captures the dark side of this "American Dream"—the anonymity and despair of the big city. Possible Inspirations While O. Henry rarely cited specific inspirations, scholars point to several factors: Personal Tragedy: O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) lived a life marked by loss. His wife, Athol Estes, died young from tuberculosis. His own experiences living in cheap New York boarding houses after his release from prison gave him an intimate, firsthand look at the "transient" lifestyle. The "Furnished Room" Culture: During the early 1900s, boarding houses were a unique social phenomenon. They were places where thousands of people lived in close proximity but remained total strangers. O. Henry was fascinated by the idea that a room could hold the "ghosts" or lingering energies of those who stayed there for just a week. The Mignonette Scent: This specific flower was a popular Victorian symbol for "your qualities surpass your charms." It adds a layer of sensory nostalgia that O. Henry likely drew from the romantic literature of his era. Che4ck out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com for thousands of stories from Sherlock Holmes to WWII. Current Specials: How Teddy Roosevelt saved the Buffalo at 1001 Stories From The Old West 'The Sky Train and The Sphinx' at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast Enjoy the first radio episodes of "The Shadow' with Gizelle Ericksonn at 1001 Ghost, Chiller & Lovecraft

The Story Summary In this inaugural Carnacki tale, occult investigator Thomas Carnacki is called to investigate the "Grey Room" in a centuries-old mansion. The room is plagued by a violent, invisible entity that has beaten previous occupants to death. Unlike traditional ghost hunters, Carnacki uses a blend of ancient ritual and modern technology—specifically his famous "Electric Pentacle." After a terrifying night spent inside the protective barrier, witnessing a massive, disembodied hand attempt to manifest and crush him, Carnacki discovers that the haunting is tied to a historical ring and a "gateway" that was never properly sealed. He eventually succeeds in "shuttering" the spiritual leak, proving that some monsters are not just ghosts, but intruders from another dimension. Key Themes & Atmosphere The Scientific Occultist: Carnacki doesn't just use holy water; he uses vacuum tubes, wiring, and photography. The "Outer Monstrosities": The idea that the universe contains vast, predatory forces that don't care about human morality. Claustrophobia: The tension of being trapped inside a circle while something powerful prowls just inches away in the dark. The Legacy: Influence on the Genre William Hope Hodgson's work, particularly this story, acted as a bridge between Victorian ghost stories and modern horror. The Blueprint for the "Occult Detective": While there were earlier examples (like Sheridan Le Fanu's Dr. Hesselius), Carnacki perfected the trope. He directly influenced characters like John Constantine (Hellblazer) and the Winchester brothers from Supernatural. Influence on H.P. Lovecraft: Lovecraft was a massive fan of Hodgson, praising his ability to create "cosmic fear." You can see the DNA of the "Gateway" in Lovecraft's later stories about ancient evils breaking into our reality. The Technology of Fear: Hodgson was one of the first to suggest that ghosts could be fought with science. This "technobabble" approach to the supernatural is the direct ancestor of the P.K.E. meters and proton packs in Ghostbusters. Memorable Quote "It was a hand, a vast, white, slimy hand, and it was reaching out of the center of the room toward me... It was the very essence of some monstrous, outer-world life."

"A Love Passage" is a lighthearted maritime comedy from W.W. Jacobs' 1896 collection, Many Cargoes, that satirizes the bumbling romantic efforts of sailors.  The Plot The story follows the mate of a schooner who decides, with somewhat clinical detachment, that it is time for him to fall in love. When the skipper brings his daughter on board for a voyage, the mate sees an opportunity and begins an exaggerated performance of romance.  Performing "Love": The mate's idea of courtship is highly theatrical; he begins to mope, loses his appetite, and spends an inordinate amount of time washing and preening, much to the annoyance of the skipper. The Misunderstanding: Most of his "lovelorn" gazing goes unnoticed by the girl. While the mate believes he is deep in a profound, melancholy romance, the girl remains oblivious or merely amused by his strange behavior. The Climax: The humor peaks when the mate's attempts to appear sophisticated or "stricken" by love conflict with his actual duties on the ship, leading to comical friction with the crew and the skipper.  Key Themes Performance vs. Reality: The mate is more in love with the idea of being in love than with the girl herself. Nautical Life: Jacobs uses his signature dockside vernacular and maritime setting to ground the absurdity of the "love passage" in the gritty reality of life on a schooner.

Catch 'The Shadow' radio mystery hosted now at 1001 Ghost, Chiller & Lovecraft Stories Podcast- The Shadow was America's favorite radio mystery form 30 years and its still good today...give it a try! Pt 2 of 'The Wreck of the Golden Mary' finds our two lifeboats in dire straits as food and water are just about gone.

"The Wreck of the Golden Mary" is a collaborative novella published by Charles Dickens in the 1856 Christmas issue of his periodical, Household Words. The story is a dramatic, suspenseful narrative focusing on the sinking of a passenger ship and the subsequent survival efforts of those in lifeboats.  Summary of "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" The Voyage and Disaster: The Golden Mary, captained by William George Ravender, is en route from Liverpool to California, navigating around Cape Horn during the height of the California Gold Rush. The ship strikes an iceberg, causing it to sink. The Lifeboats: The passengers and crew escape into two lifeboats. The first chapter, written primarily by Dickens, focuses on the harrowing, orderly evacuation led by Captain Ravender and his loyal first mate, John Steadiman.   Inspiration for the Story The California Gold Rush: The story is directly set against the backdrop of the 1850s California Gold Rush, with passengers on the ship chasing fortune. Victorian Shipwrecks: In the mid-19th century, maritime disasters were common, and narratives of survival and bravery at sea were popular. The theme of encountering icebergs was a known danger, and the story focuses on the psychological struggle of survivors facing extreme deprivation. Collaboration: While initiated by Dickens, the story was a collaborative effort for Household Words, allowing for different perspectives on the ordeal. "The Frozen Deep": Dickens was preparing his theatrical production of The Frozen Deep at the time, which also featured themes of Arctic survival and, likely, influenced the icy, dramatic nature of this story.  The novella is noted for exploring human behavior under severe stress, combining intense, realistic details of the wreck with the psychological resilience of the survivors.  cREDITS: Weigh The Anchor Alan Turner  (Pixabay)   nearer-my-god-to-thee-144614.mp3 nearer-my-god-to-thee-146077.mp3 weigh-the-anchor-a-sea-shanty-363826 (1).mp3 cinematic-inspirational-epic-music-379249.mp3 adventure-epic-background-music-306685.mp3 epic-adventure-background-music-404457.mp3 to-survive-296564.mp3 fight-epic-metal-dubstep-277580.mp3 impending-doom-383242.mp3 Eternal_Father,_Strong_to_Save_(instrumental).ogg.mp3 sad-emotional-piano-background-music-462089 (3).mp3  till-the-very-end-463729 (1).mp3 iii-keep-you-warm-463725.mp3 praise-to-the-lord-piano-solo-247399.mp3

Join host Gizelle Erickson every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4pm ET at 1001 Ghost, Chiller & Lovecraft Podcast as she introduces the nuances of every episode of America's favorite vigilante radio serial 'The Shadow' as Lamont Cranston and his sexy sidekick Margot Lane bring all the lowlifes and sleazeballs who never thought they would be punished to justice. Take the Shadow challenge and listen to the first five episodes like I did to really get an understanding of the show and you'll be a fan!   Apple Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ

From THE FOUR MILLION by O. Henry O. Henry's "A Cosmopolite in a Café" tells of the narrator meeting E. Rushmore Coglan, a man who claims to be a true "citizen of the world," free from hometown ties. Coglan boasts of world travels, dismissing regional pride and judging people individually. However, when a stranger insults Coglan's hometown of Mattawamkeag, Maine, Coglan fiercely defends it, revealing his profound local loyalty and leading to a fight, thereby exposing his hypocrisy and proving the narrator's theory that true cosmopolites are rare.  Be sure to check out our narration of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' at 1001 Stories For the Road- An awesome story you don't want to miss!

3  Original fairy tales from The Brothers Grimm whose job it was to spend their lives collecting old tales-m the same ones that Disney and others cleaned up for public consumption.  Keep an eye out for 'Found in the Footnotes' (at 1001 Heroes for THE AMAZING STORY OF THE REAL-LIFE TOM THUMB   For some amazing browsing try us at www.bestof1001stories.com!

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 Sea and the Vestfjorden. This Moskstraumen was the inspiration for Poe's tale. Poe learnt about the maelstrom from several sources, which included an 1834 story in Fraser's Magazine titled 'The Maelstrom: A Fragment'. 'A Descent into the Maelstrom' is a classic example of Poe's incorporation of real-life, non-fiction accounts of phenomena into fiction. The story provides us with something that real life almost certainly never could: what would it be like to be caught up in such a powerful force as the Maelstrom and yet live to tell the tale? Much like people who claim to have had near-death experiences in which they have seen the 'other side', the white-haired man experienced, and survived, something that nobody else had. Many of Edgar Allan Poe's tales focus on protagonists who find themselves in trouble because of their own behaviour: so the murderer in 'The Tell-Tale Heart' is driven mad by his own guilt (or, depending on how you read that ambiguous story, by the supernatural beating of his victim's heart beneath the floorboards), while the cat-killer in 'The Black Cat' also brings his subsequent haunting and bad luck upon his own head through his cruelty to his pet. Now you can scroll all of 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales by category at our new website to increase your listening pleasure- just go to www.bestof1001stories.com-- 1001 Classic Short Stories & tales- "episodes"- and choose from the categories dropdown- WOW- the perfect browser!

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 their farms.   Check out our new 'Found In The Footnotes' every Wed at 4pm ET at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast- short, AMAZING stories designed to entertain and enlighten in under ten minutes. Here's the Spotify link for your convenience! https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ

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 day.. The Choice of Hercules- a young Hercules is journeying toward the mountains when he sees the road split and pauses to decide which to take.He is soon approached by two beautiful women, one who offers an easy path full of fun and the other who says there will be hard going and you'll have ups and downs- but you will be able to enjoy the fruits of your labors once you reach your destination.Which does he choose?

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 will bring them together while his father sees different options. A great o.Henry classic!

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 living situation to stay alive.One day, the writer suffers a seizure and knowing his nearest neighbor is a doctor.he goes upstairs to ask for help. The story gets stranger as the doctor comes to depend on the man for his survival, and the writer, feeling that he owes the doctorfor saving him, does all he can to help the failing old man stay alive.  Catch all ourpodcasts and leave reviews at www.bestof1001stories.com. Thanks!

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 party. Father Brown investigates. A great Father Brown mystery from the pen of G.K.Chesterton. How would you like one-click access to all my narrated Father Brown stories?  Here it is:  https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/categories/father-brown-mysteries/

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 mountain. When the church deacon and pastor decide to make an unnounced visit to 'Christmas Jenny's' home and enter without an invite, a close friend from the town gives them a piece of her mind. A good Christmas story from Mry E.Wilkins Freeman. Enjoy all our stories at www.bestof1001stories.com

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 the road for better chances, and finds himself the new owner of a young ladie's stocking which was accidentally dropped from a passing carriage. Its a story that will immerse you in life along the river at the dawn of the 20th century and keep you in suspense as trouble approaches a sugar cane plantation outside of New Orleans.  Check out all our shows and episodes at www.bestof1001stories.com

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

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 Stowe was of the important leaders of this renaissance with her stories.

Bertie Wooster is approached by his old pal Bingo for help in the romamce departmentm and   needs Jeeve's advice. It seems that Bertie has fallen head over heels for a girl who serves food at a local coffee shop and also works as a chef for a wealthy old man. Bingo wants to marry her but needs to have his wealthy Uncle up his monthly allowance so he can support her. A plan proposed by Jeeves looks like it might do the trick.   Catch all our 1001 stories at www.bestof1001stories.com, and send us a kind review!  Thanks

An ex-Texas Ranger, Indian fighter working as a commisioner of a small office in the state govenrment is approached by a down and out woman who is seeking financial support which her nw dead father, a Texas hero, had denied,hoping that whatever had been promised to him could be passed down to her.  Conversation led to her sharing her name and the commisioner related that yes, her father and he had fought together and been close friends for years. She also shared the fact that her bum of a husgand had taken her money and turned her out after mistreating her.  The commissioner promised he would help her one way or the other. This is a great story you don't want to miss! Catch allour stories at www.bestof1001stories.com

So much for that quiet holiday weekend so longed for by these two newlyweds! It's FAMILY TIME!!!! Anton Chekhov's "A Country Cottage" centers on two young newlyweds, Sasha and Varya, who are enjoying profound, almost dream-like happiness while strolling on the platform of a little country station under the moonlight. The air is still and heavy with the fragrance of lilac and wild cherry, and they look forward to a perfect, quiet supper of chicken "just big enough for two," along with salmon and sardines. Sasha remarks that their "splendid time" seems almost unbelievable. However, their tranquility is instantly shattered when the train, described as a "dark monster," pulls up to destroy their little oasis of peace. For the Credits: Narration & Production: Gizelle Erickson Executive Producer: Jon Hagadorn Music and Sound Effects: Thanks to Victor vanTast "Prelulde Des-Dur" Music by Lutz Dalkowski from Pixabay Nature ambience Cyprus Troodos mountains Mount Olympus Sound effect by Freesound Community from Pixabay

FALL FAMILY SPECIAL: THE LAST LEAF by O.HENRY New York City in Greenwich Village around 1910 was a haven for aspiring artists and anyone looking for work in a growing new city. Sue and Johnsy were two young female artists living on hope and not much else. When Johnsy got sick Sue was told by the doctor that Johnsy didn't have long to live- but Sue never gave up- as far as she was concerned they were family. Its a "masterpiece" from O.Henry! We appreciate your monthly support!  Here;s the link: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS   Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2025 SPECIAL-FALL FAMILY & HEROES THEMES NOW THRU 12/31-Lots of family stories here at 1001 Classic Short SAtories now thru December-Tell a friend In this story we find a young man at the bottom of his rope- a faqiled thief, a failed college student, failed journalist. He walks into a house in an attempt to steal the jewelry and his mother- yes- it was his old house- finds him there. An incredible story from Willa Cather.. ANDROID USERS-  see and listen to all 600 short stories our website for similar category themes: www.bestof1001stories.com APPLE USERS  Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618   Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Holidays are approaching and at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast our shows themes every Sunday will be  turning to FAMILY and HONOR -SINCE MANY OF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT   BRINGING FAMILY TOGETHER, RECONNECTING , SEEKING CLOSURE ON ACCOUNT OF LOST ONES, seeking justice,  KEEPING THE PEACE. HONORING OUR FIRST RESPONDERS DURING THE HOLIDAYS AND BUILDING NEW RELATIONSHIPS.   A FEW EXAMPLES: AT 1001 HEROES WE BRING NEW EPISODS EVERY Sunday at noon eastern and a 'best of "listener favorite every Thursday night at 9PM ET- MOST OF THESE Best ofs after Halloween will also carry similar themes that unite with these topics. I'll tag them as Fall Family and Honor Themed  Beginning this last week of October and lasting through the holidays, we are offering a number of interview-base shows dealing with subjectS that go straight to the heart starting with "LIVE, LAUGH, AND FIND TRUE LOVE: A STEP BYSTEP GUIDE TO BUILDING   NEW RELATIONSHIPS- OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR AND LONG TIME L.A. DIVORCE ATTORNEY SARAH INTELLIGATOR- She is empowering, inspirational and packed with powerful tools to help you, male or female, to a healthy, fun and fulfilling relationship- whether youre on the brink of a marriage or just starting out or hoping to find a lasting love- don't miss this interview and book! We'll talk about the 5FasilFactors- Fundamental values, fear, Foundation, Fixing, and Fairy Tales-I guarantee you will appreciate her honest take. The following week Sunday NOV 2: Holidays are tough on the families of murder victims and missing relatives: A son's12 year long search for the killer of his father as we interview   California Congressman ,author, and law firm partner Mike Gatto- who is still actively searching for clues  to his fathers murder– And asking each of you to offer your theories and ideas as to new ways to look at the evidence which he lays out in his book Noir by Necessity And in this interview.  This book is a True Crime page turner with a powerful Family theme… On Sunday Nov 9th  Retired Police Sgt Bert "Maverick" Gonzalez reminds us why families of those who are constantly working in service to others in police, military, and rescue throughout the holidays are sacrificing so much to keep the peace-- in his new book The Real Greatest Show on Earth- all lessons learned and stories told  gathered from his 40 years of service in Florida's Miami Dade county- it's a well told story that bridges the gap between crime scenes and calm and in a family sense, because it shows the important link between mental health and community engagement is just as important as tactics Thesae are just three examples of our FALL FAMILY ORIENTED SHOWS AT 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries-now thru December is solid family, holiday-themes, honoring the men and women in uniform whose prence will be missed at many dinner tables this coming holiday,, and heart-felt stories and advice.  We'll be doing the same thing at 1001 Classic Short Stories & tales so stay tuned for that update as well- and  This is Jon Hagadorn, your host at 1001 Heroes, legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast- Make sure to share our Fall family and Honor themed shows over the next 9 weeks and bring us new listeners!  Also check our our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com for our entire archives of all 12 1001 shows, sign up at any "Newsletter Sign Up Page- and that newslatter will cover the coming week 's specials and shows, offering lots of insight and sometimes personal stories. One more thing- the holidays are a time for giving- and we really appreciate those who give monthly to cover our basic expenses here at 1001 Stories network. By going to patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork and   signing ing up for a few dollars a month to help us forward.  I have also been bringing on new help with some terrific talents which you've heard or enjoyed in Gizelle Ericksen and Lena Alsup- and I'm seeking a male voice for narrating some good stories for Old West and others. .

Rip Van Winkle- A very lazy old Dutchman takes his dog on a mountain hunting trip to escape his nagging wife and winds up meeting a strange little group of gnomes carrying a keg of liquor and getting ready to party. He falls asleep for a long, long time.... The American Boy- Teddy Roosevelt shares his opinion of what a good American boy should be all about- honesty, morality, courage, and a desire to protect the weak. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1  Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: hWWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A teen-aged boy witnesses an horrific death by the railroad tracks of his small town and to build his status with the older boys he hangs with he adds a lie to his story, saying that a known local townsman was near the boy at the time the train pulled in. This psychological thriller ends in a crowded courtroom as the boy comes to term with the results of his actions. Join us at www.bestof1001stories.com for a chance to browse many more stories at our 12 1001 shors, and leave us a kind review!  Thanks.

After a skirmish a Civil War cavalry Captain enters a house thinking it might be housing enemy and finds a scared young lady holding a gun behind her back.  The Captain, after investigating the house to find two other family occupants, finds himself drawn to the girl but struglles to find a way to tell her.

A young man heading for college in Boston decides to catch a nap in a cozy little glen not far from the stage stop. While sleeping soundly he is silently approached by three different entities- the first promises wealth, the second promises love, and the third robbery and possible death. A great lesson on how life (and sometimes tragedy) passes us by when we're not watching closely. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our two best friends continue to write back and forth until John (Jack) Fleming's leg heals enough to travel, which he does, taking the train to new Hampshire to meet the girl of his dreams, depite Edward's best efforts to prevent him from coming.

Two close pals exchange letters, one having had to cancel his trip to a summer spot in New Hampshire with his friend due to a broken leg. In the letters the pal in New Hampshire begins to write of the presence of a beautiful young lady named Marjorie Daw, who is living there at "Tyhe Pines" in a house with her father. Our brone-legged friend, withering away in New York City, takes an instant interest in the young lady and begs for more letters and more story on her. Pt 2 coming soon-Dont miss it!

Wayne University Ken Ward has a long shot at playing varsity baseball ijn his first year due to the team's varsity players being grounded by playing ball outside the college off season.  When the tryouts come over a hundred players show up and they are hooted mercilessly by the varsity players now on the sidelines.    Try out our new esbsite at www.bestof1001stories.com and find 11 podcasts loaded with episodes you've never heard.

From the author who gave us "House of 1,000 Candles" (currently at 1001 Stories For The Road) comes this short story about a city councilman who m as a lesson in honesty, began to install statues on the town's main boulevard that featured some of the town's past crooked leaders, and some poor decisions of the past- calling it "the boulevard of rogues".  Join us for all 12 podcasts and episodes at www.bestof1001stories.com.

A young man wants to marry a local girl whose father was recently sent to prison for embezzling another person's money. He talks to the girl's mother, who has three daughters, and she doesn't want any of them to marry, because she doesn't them to grow old and bitter like her as a result of not living the grand life she had hoped for. (She was constantly pushing her husband to provide more and living beyond their lifestyle, which he why he "borrowed" short term loan from another man, and though his investment saved his family from ruin and he paid it back- he got caught.) Then he asked his father for permission to marry and his father said that the girl's familie's reputation was now "tainted" and that would haunt him through their marriage, Then he got an appointment to meet with her father in prison- which he did- and what a story!   Send us a kind review at www.bestof1001stories.com!  Thanks

Two young mountain climbers are about to take on the famous Half Dome in the High Sierras when they see a distress signal flashed at them from high up on the peak.. NEW 1001 Ghost ,Chiiler & Lovecraft is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327   Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901

A teacher, knowing that one of her students, a recently immigrant from Russia, is deeply upset about something, goes to his home to speak with his mother and father.

A teacher in a city school circa 1916 (we assume New York) works with a 12 year old immigrant boy whose family had recently arrived from Russia as he becomes assimilated to our culture.  In part one the boy, after she asks him to try on a George Washington costume for an upcoming school play, becomes very upset- but won't give up what is hurting him.   Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com.sign up for our newsletter, and leave a kind review at one of our 1001 podcasts. Thanks!

This engaging story takes place in New Orleans in the early 1900's, as a young man and woman get married spontaneously, but within hours the man begins to wonder if he has made the right decision, and goes back to the priest asking how he can annul the marriage. Through twists and turns and a surprise ending the man finds he still has a lot to learn. O.HENRY BEST STORIES. O.HENRY PODCAST. NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: ​​https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr.  Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com TEST YOUR HISTORY SMARTS! CATCH 1001 HISTORY CHALLENGE   Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Con, the Worcester coach, is all set to win the series when his best pitcher, nicknamed "The Rube', falls apart. It seems that a very pretty girl named Nan Brown has the Rube so distracted that he can't perform- and its going to take some really tricky relationship coaching to make it to the pennant. NEW) 1001 Stories From The Old West (Spotify)- https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Stories from Roy's Diner on Player.fm: Follow Us https://player.fm/series/1001-stories-network 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ==   APPLE USERS (NEW) 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 1001 Stories From Roy's Diner at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/1001-stories-from-roys-diner/id1594740377 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618   Get all of our shows at one website:www.bestof1001stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two great early Hemingway storieswritten in his cryptic style and describing everyday events that help to illustrate his message.

The famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot uses his "little grey cells" to break an international spy ring. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- ALL OUR EPISODES AUDIO AT WWW.BBESTOF1001STORIES.COM APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Robin receives a royal request from the Queen to represent her at the national match, promising he and his followers safe journey to and from London. he accepts, and brings 4 of his trusty men with him.   ANDROID USERS-  all episodes at www.bestof1001stories.com, Spotify, Podchaser, and others  APPLE USERS   Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618   My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another great tale from Wodehouse taking a poke at the generation of wealthy young men who are kept on retainers by rich relatives and have no desire to work- thus having to create their own entertainment- in this case, betting on which church reverend will give the longest sermon on the coming Sunday.  CHeck out our new audio -rich website at www.bestof1001stories.com= sign up for my newsletter, and leave us a kind review for our Wodehouse stories if you enjo0y this one!  Thanks

Two cowboys are paid to round up a crew of Mexicans to drive a herd of cattle near the Mexican border. When one of the vaqueros becomes angry and shoots the black cook, one of the cowboys shoots and kills the Mexican, turning the Mexicans againt the two gringos.  Trapped by gunfire, they try to figure out a way to come out of the mess alive.  Stop by our website at www.bestof1001stories and sign up for our newsletter!

Two great Robin Hood adventures from Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood ANDROID USERS- WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM   APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618     REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spring has arrived, and in the bustling city of New York in 1905 or so minds were turning to other than business pursuits. Two great stories from O.Henry that illustrate what NYC was like in those formative years- with ice delivery wagons, coal furnaces, gum-chewing shop girls, and single women trying to make it on their own. Please stop at our website at www.bestof1001stories.com and sign up for our free newsletters- where I give you the backstory on some of our shows and stories. Very interesting stuff!

SPOOKTEMBER IS HERE!!  A favorite tale of horror from Robert Louis Stevenson who gave us Treasure Island (which, by the way, is over at 1001 Stories For the Road). T   CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS!  SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A classic Frank Stockton tale about a griffin ( a winged beast of legend) and a minor canon- meaning an associate pastor/priest who handles the actual job of visiting and teaching the congregation).  Our story:  A little rural church built centuries ago features a stone likeness of a griffin above the entrance door, and word reaches a Griffin that his likeness is attached to a church. Naturally he plans a trip to see it.   Join us at our website at www.bestof1001stories.com for many more Stockton stories- all in order- and sign up for our newsletters and leave a review at this episode!   Thanks

A great Father Brown Mystery from GK Chesteron's collection 'The Wisdom of Father Brown. Father Brown plans to meet his niece in a picture gallery, but before he does, he encounters a lawyer named Granby who wants his opinion about a man named Musgrove who has received mized reviews. Upon meeting his niece, father brown finds out she is planning on marrying Musgrave- and Father Brown takes a sudden interest. Check out all our Father brown stories in order at www.bestof1001stories.com!

Father Brown, thief-turned-detective Flambeau, and an inspector from Scotland Yard come to a castle in Scotland to try to determine if a murder has been committed there.   APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2   NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM   SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

(to be or naught to be)  In a future where death is volunteered and the population is controlled, a soon-to-be father waits for his triplets to be born—and he must find three volunteers to die in order for them to live.. Explicit   includes violence. Thought -provoking commentary about a futuristic totalitarian society   Check out our website and sign up for our soon-to-come newsletter at www.bestof1001stories.com

meAmidst a raging battle taking place over an otherwise peaceful glen, a soldier, having been taunted by others, decides to run under shell and rifle fire across an open meadow filled with dying men and horses to a nearby well to fill canteens.  Enjoy this story and many others at our huge story center at www.bestof1001stories.com.

A woman hunting the Klondike for gold with her husband meets 'the unexpected' when tragedy suddenly occurs within their group and tests her ability to cope with life threatening circumstances. We are asking for your support! ! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Thank you. Join for a few dollars a month and get earlybird releases! YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW..  APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS-  www.bestof1001stories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An elder man living out his latter days in Paris and working part time writing for a tour guide spends one week every month drinking himself into a stupor between writing jobs and having no concern for other people's problems until his laundress (washerwoman) shares her miserable life with him, giving him a reason to care for others. For more HC Bunner narrated stories visit our Bunner collection at:  https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/categories/hc-bunner/

MY WATCH: A humurous piece describing the narrator's futile efforts to get his watch fixed MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE: An autobiographical piece describing Twain as a young typesetter in Hannibal who gets a rare chance to write an article or two for the daily paper while the owner is out for a few days Join us at www.bestof1001stories.com tobrowse all our 12 podcasts Be sure to follow 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age where Gizelle Erickson is just starting narrating the 3rd 'Anne of Green Gables' sequel titles 'Anne of the Island ' (Anne is headed for college) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-gilded-age/id1485751552

With Poirot recovering from the flu, Hastings sets out to solve a murder. In the process, as Hastings share the results of his investigation, Poirot responds to him by wire with requests that Hastings can't see the value of- until Poirot solves the case without ever leaving his hotel room. ANDROID USERS- vISIT WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COMfor all our podcasts new episodes arrriving daily APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618     REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A small, broze-skinned man shows up mysteriously in a small Connecicut farming town wearing strange clothes and speaking very little english. A local farmer rescues him from a trip to the jail by offering to be responsible for him and then puts him to work.  Over time, the small man's unfamiliarty with everything to big machines to glowing fireflies earns him a reputation as a coward until.....   Join us at www.bestof1001stories.com to browse all 12 1001 podcasts and enjoy!

Big Jim Dougherty was a sporting man, but he hadn;t been much of a husband to Del. After three years of marriage she finally had to ask him to take her out to dinner. She dressed to impress. A great New York in 1905 short story. "The Kid" was a successful bantam weight boxer, just married in NYC, with a loving wife for whom he would do anything- and that's just what she asked him to do. But finding a fresh pear in New York in the winter was no easy task.   Join us at www.bestof1001stories.com and please consider supporting us monthly at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork- thanks!

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It's "Back to School" time for Anne Shirley of Green Gables- as well as your kids and neighbor's kids-Coming Sunday Aug 10 (tomorrow as I write this) at noon EDT  -Chapter 1 of the 3rd 'Anne of Green Gables' story- called 'Anne of the Island'- narrated by Gizelle Erickson- who is introducing herself soon over at 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age.  Its a combination romance/adventure/coming of age story that will take you back to a simpler time! Join us at 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age Apple Users: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-gilded-age/id1485751552 Spotify" https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Website ( and ALL our Anne  stories) at 1001 Stories from The Gilded Age: www.bestof1001stories.com

Our protagonist finds himself stranded at Innsmouth and given a room at the only hotel- a room from which he makes a narrow escape as unseen creatures start tearing down the door. We appreciate your monthly support!  Here;s the link:  https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ IF YOU ENJOY THIS STORY YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED!   Here is the link for 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622?mt=2 Android: try Podbay.fm for 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales!   http://podbay.fm/show/1078098622 And try our other show in the TOP 50 Apple Podcast -History Catch 1001 HEROES now at Apple iTunes Podcast App:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2   Website For  1001 Heroes is still www.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM   Music: Copyright and royalty free  Epic Chase  Ross Bugden Dead rage  Coagmusic@yahoo.com Drive by Ross Bugden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The suspense heats up quickly as our narrator finds the town drunk, who, with the help of a quart of whiskey, shares an incredible story of devil worship and sacrifice. Then our narrator finds that there is no bus leaving town and he will have to stay at the only inn. We appreciate your monthly support!  Here;s the link:  https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Here is the link for 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622?mt=2 Android: try Podbay.fm for 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales!   http://podbay.fm/show/1078098622 And try our other show in the TOP 50 Apple Podcast -History Catch 1001 HEROES now at Apple iTunes Podcast App:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Website For  1001 Heroes is still www.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You are a guest in a house on Adams Street listening to a first hand account from a witness to exactly what happened there years ago to cause the little seaside town and its people to become so strange. It is a horrifying tale of a supernatural being from the sea named Dagon that gripped the town with fear and disease and wouldn't let go. SUPPORT OUR SHOW MONTHLY AT PATREON Become an Assistant Producer at 1001 Stories Network ( a great resume enhancement) and support us at Patreon today! Here;s the link:  https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Catch RADIO DAYS now at Apple  iTunes!   https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 HEROES now at Apple iTunes Podcast App:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622?mt=2 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901?mt=2 ANDROID USERS- CATCH OUR SHOWS AT WWW.CASTBOX.FM  SUBSCRIBE FREE  THEN SHARE  THANK YOU 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:  https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id381734?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries:  https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1114843?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Website For  1001 Heroes is still www.1001storiespodcast.com  (we redirected that one to www.1001storiesnetwork.com) Website For 1001 Classic Short Stories is still www.1001classicshortstories.com ( we redirected that as well) Website for 1001 Stories For The Road is still www.1001storiesfortheroad  (we redirected that one, too) Website for 1001 Radio Days is www.1001radiodays.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frank Stockton not only gave us some great short stories but also some very well-loved children's tales.   Frank Stockton (1854 - 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known for his allegorical fairy tales for all ages. Rather than moralizing, he tended to poke fun at qualities like greed, violence, and abuse of power. The Lady, or the Tiger?, his most famous story (published in 1882), offers a compelling choice for the reader because there is no right answer. It is a fascinating illustration of the conflict between determinism and free-will, an increasingly popular choice for middle school language arts teachers to include in their persuasive writing lessons. His story, The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1885) received renewed interest in 1963, with an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak. We feature both works on our Fairy Tales Guide. Stockton also offers a different storytelling style, a more subtle element of surprise, as in The Widow's Cruise, a slow-paced conversation between widows and visiting seafaring men, in which one widow tells the most dramatic sea story of all.

"The Aunt and the Sluggard" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the Saturday Evening Post in the United States in April 1916, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in August 1916. The story was also included in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeves.[1] In the story, Bertie's friend Rocky, a reclusive poet who dislikes city life, needs help from Bertie and Jeeves when he is instructed by his aunt to go to exciting parties in New York and write letters to her about them. Plot He was a poet. At least, he wrote poems when he did anything; but most of his time, as far as I could make out, he spent in a sort of trance. He told me once that he could sit on a fence, watching a worm and wondering what on earth it was up to, for hours at a stretch. — Bertie describes Rocky, the sluggard[2] In New York, Bertie is surprised to be woken by his friend Rockmetteller "Rocky" Todd, who normally lives quietly in the country. Rocky received a letter from his aunt in Illinois and namesake, Miss Isabel Rockmetteller: she will pay Rocky an allowance, on the condition that he live in New York and write to her once a week about his experiences there so she can enjoy the city second-hand. She feels that she is not healthy enough to go to New York herself, though Rocky asserts that she is only being lazy. Wodehouse often has Bertie Wooster allude to a literary work he would have studied at school, though Bertie rarely quotes precisely, giving merely a sketchy version of the original work. An example of this in "The Aunt and the Sluggard" occurs when Bertie is at the hotel missing Jeeves: "It was like what somebody or other wrote about the touch of a vanished hand" (from Tennyson's "The May Queen"). Another example occurs when Aunt Isabel arrives unexpectedly at Bertie's apartment: "The situation floored me. I'm not denying it. Hamlet must have felt much as I did when his father's ghost bobbed up in the fairway"  The contrast in Jeeves's and Bertie's diction leads to what Wodehouse scholar Kristin Thompson terms the "translation device". Jeeves often says something that Bertie repeats in less formal language, either to make sure he understands or to translate for someone else. This device is used for comic effect in "The Aunt and the Sluggard", when Jeeves provides a long, formal, sophisticated description of his plan for Rocky to have someone else write letters about New York to his aunt. When Rocky is confused by Jeeves's complex speech, Bertie translates Jeeves's idea for Rocky in much fewer, simpler words. The humour in these situations arises from the fact that Bertie's version is much shorter than Jeeves's.    The title is a pun on Book of Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise." The fictional character Jimmy Mundy is based on evangelical preacher Billy Sunday.  In the story, Jeeves visits two nightclubs, "Frolics on the Roof" and the "Midnight Revels". Both of these names were derived from the popular "Midnight Frolics" at the New Amsterdam's Roof Garden theatre.  Publication history 1916 Saturday Evening Post illustration by Tony Sarg Tony Sarg provided illustrations for the story in the Saturday Evening Post. Alfred Leete illustrated the story in the Strand.  The story was featured in the 1919 collection My Man Jeeves and in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeves.  There are some minor differences between the two book versions of the story. For example, in the My Man Jeeves version, one of the phrases in the poem by Rocky Todd which Bertie quotes is "With every muscle". This phrase is changed to "With every fibre" in the Carry On, Jeeves version of the story.  The 1958 collection Selected Stories by P. G. Wodehouse, published by The Modern Library, and the 1985 collection P. G. Wodehouse Short Stories, published by The Folio Society and illustrated by George Adamson, included the story.  "The Aunt and the Sluggard" was collected in the 1958 anthology The Saturday Evening Post Carnival of Humor, published by Prentice-Hall.   Prentice-Hall.[12]

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In one of GK Chesterton'slast collections, the Wisdom of Father Brown, Father Brown, while visiting a retired Flambeau in Spain, explains to a curious guest how he solves murders. Then he begins to recall past events, one story of which is 'The Vanishing of Vaudrey'.  For all our Father Brown stories visit www.bestof1001stories.com and visit 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales/episodes/Father Brown.

A young American man visiting a nearly deserted old abbey in England decides to take a swim in a secluded but inviting pond filled with crumbling statues. Suddenly a young lady enters from a hidden path, and not knowing for sure what to do, and not wanting to frighten or embarrass her, he becomes a statue some distance away through the reeds. To his surprise, she pulls out her sketchbook... New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- NOW you can enjoy all of our shows in one place, with the archives all in order (by category- JUST CLICK ON "EPISODES" WHEN YOU GO TO A SHOW). All at www.bestof1001stories.com- what a website!!!   Leave reviews, too. APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website:  www.bestof1001stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Trivial Incident- An Earlybird Release Our narrator and his friend enter the woods on a large estate to hunt woodcock but are soon told that the owner does not allow hunting. The narrator's friend once knew the lady owner so they approach the house hoping to leverage that old friendship.  Chekhov shows his mastery of the short story through characterization, which takes an ordinary event and incorporates mixed emotions to make a moving account of what would normally be "a trivial incident".  Check out all our stories at www.bestof1001stories.com

The Gold- The Colonies had recently gone to war with the Old Country and New England coastal residents were hearing that british ships were raiding small towns. One married couple, having just received a large inheritance of gold, knew that it had to be hidden and quickly.... The Cat- A loner cat surviving by himself one winter in a mountain cabin, his mastrer having left for the winter, receives a visitor to the cabin in the form of an old man seeking shelter. The man is too weak to provide food, the cat appreciates the companionship, and a strong bond is formed. An excellent story about humans and animals and their need for companionship- lots of highly descrptive phrases here that illustrate a short story writer at the top of her game.   Browse over 2500 great stories at our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com

TWO great Saki stories today poking fun at Victorian era society.. First- The Shartz-Metterklume method- a mysterious lady of class is mistaken for the newly hired nanny (governess) of a wealthy family and bedlam follows. In The Open Window, a young man who has been sent to a country estate to cure his extreme nervousness is set upon by a precocious 15 year old girl with advanced storytelling abilities. Within 2 weeks- look for our newest 1001 show 1001 GHOST STORIES & TALES OF THE MACABRE at most podcast sites. (It will arrive first at www.1001storiesnetwork.com)(Look for the subheader "1001 Ghost Stories & Tales" below each episode. This is the website where all our episodes from all our shows play) NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: ​​https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr.  Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In part two our narrator, Joe, now older, heads out to the outback to raise sheep with his best friend who has just married a girl they had grown up with. Upon leaving she asks Joe not to let her new husband go near a drink- because he can't stop it once he gets starrted. Joe promises he won't. The reverend McLaghlin appears large in this story as well- bringing in the sheep.

Henry Lawson was one of Australia's greatest short story writers (I think the best) and poets, and hisn stories tell much about the people  who settle Australia and fought the tough climate and barren landscape to farm and raise livestock.  This story and the one that follows  (Pt. 2) provied accurate histrorical depictions of the men, women, and families that settled that land, and the strength of good preachers who gave the people hope and strength.  Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories .com  and send us a kind review-thanks!

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Amild mannered man falls in love with a young lady named Madeleine but doesn't have the courage to tell her, mainly because her father is a mean old guy who wants to keep her by his side as he grows older. The father goes away on a business trip and a strange chain of events takes place when the father's ghost shows up complaining that he was given the ghostship mistakenly while the old man was still alive and needs help getting out of his predicament. nA funny story from Frank Stockton that English teachers have tried to spin as an allegory to the rise in capitalism- but that's pure you-know-what.  Stockton just wrote it as a funny short story with a great twist.   Join me at www.bestof1001stories.com and check out stories from all 12 1001 podcasts.  Comkin soon  1001 TARZAN STORIES.iI'm looking for a voice for that!  let me know at 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com

A lonely seamstress living on the top floor of a high rise tenement building in 1900's New York city tries to cope with a male neighbor who positions a tankard of porter (beer) on her window sill each day. Enjoy 'The Lost Poacher" and other great Jack London short stories now at 1001 Best of Jack London- Apple and Spotify links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1905 as seen through the windows of Mrs. Murphy's boarding house by O.Henry. A lady screams that her six year old Mikey is missing. The McCasky's are upstairs throwing kitchenware at each other. Others are sitting on the porch steps oblivious to it all. And the cop walking his beat knows better than to interfere with any of it. Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this story  Dr. Watson narrates a tragedy involving Holmes as it appears Holmes has been killed by his mortal enemy, Dr Moriarty, on the eve of a trial that would convict Moriarty and his henchmen of a number of crimes. NOTE  2025  we  ARE SEEKING A MALE VOICE FOR NeW ADVENTURE NOVEL PODCAST. Contact me at 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com A NOTE TO ALL APPLE LISTENERS WORLDWIDE- WE NEED YOUR REVIEWS AND NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS- SO TAKE SOME TIME OVER THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO TO GET OTHERS TO SUBSCRIBE AND SEND REVIEWS!  THANK YOU. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE A BUSINESS SERVICE OR PRODUCT YOU WOULD LIKE US TO TRY AND THEN PROMOTE INTERNATIONALLY EMAIL ME THE DETAILS AT 1001STORIESPODCAST@GMAIL.COM. SUPPORT OUR SHOW MONTHLY AT PATREON Become an Assistant Producer at 1001 Stories Network ( a great resume enhancement) and support us at Patreon today! Here;s the link:  https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED!

"Extricating Young Gussie" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United States in the 18 September 1915 issue of The Saturday Evening Post and in the United Kingdom in the January 1916 edition of The Strand Magazine.[1] It was included in the collection The Man with Two Left Feet (1917).[2] The story features the first appearance of two of Wodehouse's most popular and enduring characters, the impeccable valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster, though there are some differences between this story and later stories in which they appear. Jeeves only plays a very small role in this story and Bertie's surname, which is not explicitly given, appears to be Mannering-Phipps, as that is the name of his cousin Gussie, whose father is Bertie's paternal uncle. Bertie's imperious Aunt Agatha, a recurring character, is also introduced in this story. While Jeeves is only a minor character in this story, he plays a larger role in the next published story in which he appears, "The Artistic Career of Corky" (originally titled "Leave It to Jeeves"), which was first published in February 1916. The first meeting of Jeeves and Bertie was chronicled in the November 1916 short story "Jeeves Takes Charge".  Plot In Bertie's flat in London, around half past eleven, Jeeves wakes Bertie up telling him that his Aunt Agatha has come to see him. She is distressed that Augustus "Gussie" Mannering-Phipps, her nephew and Bertie's cousin living in New York City, has fallen for a girl named Ray Denison who is a vaudeville performer. Concerned about the family's prestige, Aunt Agatha does not want Gussie to marry a vaudeville performer like his late father did, though Gussie's mother Julia learned to be aristocratic. Aunt Agatha demands that Bertie go to New York and keep Gussie from marrying Ray.   Check out all our PG Wodehouse stories at our website category link: https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/categories

Another great western short story by cowboy author Andy Adams telling of a rancher who had worked for years to build a good ranch with his own brand of horses- who suddenly has an old judgement come up against him- forcing the local sheriff to take horses as collateral.  In Texas, where this story happens, justice often triumphed over the law- and this was a good example.  Lawmen had to know when to work by the letter of the law and when not to.

An excerpt from Herman Melville's blockbuster adventure 'Moby Dick' describes a portion of Captain Ahab's relentless pursuit of the white whale which had nearly cost him his life in a previous hunt.   APPLE USERS   Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man taking a two week leave from business along the Mediterranean coast is the lucky recipient of an olive which has fallen off a young woman's table to come to rest at his feet. He is interrupted in mid morning by a knock on his hotel room door.   APPLE USERS   Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A million dollars worth of nonds disappear from under a young man's nose and now he's being held accountable- a great Poirot mystery short story from Agatha Christie

One of Arthur Conan Doyle's personal top 12 favorites, this story has Holmes defusing an International incident by discovering the location of a damaging letter.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A mother and her baby, alone in a small cabin on a river, face a life-threatening situation when a storm appears and the river rises, forcing her to abandon the cabin and cling to a floating tree for life. Get all of our shows at one website:  www.bestof1001stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW...   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Up first: "A Sacrifice Hit" A romantic novel writer out to make himself a star at everyone else's expense marries a girl that he thinks can push him up the ladder of success. In "The Ferry of Unfulfillment, a lucky prospector returns from Alaska loaded with gold dust and looking for the girl of his dreams in New York City and finds her. She's returning home to New Jersey on the ferry after a long day of work and having trouble staying awake. They are both great stories you'll enjoy.  STORIES BY O.HENRY PODCAST O.HENRY STORIES   YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW...  Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Watson recalls a case in which he and Holmes unravel a mystery surrounding a young lady cyclist who iis being pursued daily by an unknown man.   Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM-  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In "Adventure In the Upper Sea" by Jack london, a balloon pilot recounts a harrowing incident involving a young boy during a public show in Oakland CA in this riveting jack London tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In part two the young attorney and his client figure out an ingenious way to get past the bulldog and then have to decide the safest way to get to Chicago. Deputies will be watching the train stations- so the going will be tough. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS-   1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS   Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In part one a junior partner in a Chicago law firm travels by train, and then by foot, to an Illinois farm at which his firm's client, a young widow named Mrs. Delaney, is staying with relatives. His mission: to show her what she is legally entitled to with the sale of her husband's property. She has been told otherwise by her crooked relatives, who find a way, using a vicious bulldog, to trap first the young lawyer, and then Mrs. Delaney, on the roof of the carriage house. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1  1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS   Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A street smart boy named Gallegher finds work at a Philadelphia newspaper and quickly proves his worth by identifying a murderer. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us!   APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Stories From The Golded Age on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: wwww.bestof1001stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A minor league manager unexpectedly tells his team they are headed for Canada to play an exhibition game and they run into tougher competition than expected., forcing them to employ "the rabbit"- a hot baseball which is nearly impossible to catch. Get all of our shows at one website: www.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM   REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Storiews From the Gilded Age on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Apple DevIces here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 Catch 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Arthur Conan Doyle) on Apple Podcast Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Catch 1001 History's Best Storytellers (interviews) here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

'Courage' is actually a very moving poem- a father's advice to his son. False Dawn had me holding my sides through parts of this story as our narrator, who we presume is working at a government post in India, accompanies a small party of locals who have decided to have a picnic about 6 miles from the village in the middle of nowhere when a rain and then dust storm kicks up.   Check out our short stories by category at www.bestof1001stories.com!

An Englishman checks in at a small mountain inn in Switzerland and immediately discovers a beautiful young lady who happens to be the daughter of the proprietor. He has no idea that his presence is ruining the plans of another young man, an Italian, who owns a sharp knife and a vile temper.  APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618   Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com  REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mundon Mandeville runs a thoroughly disliked repertoire theater company and is murdered inside a windowless room in the building although everyone involved has an alibi.  Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective. He is featured in 53 short stories by English author G. K. Chesterton, published between 1910 and 1936.  Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. Msgr John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.[ Since 2013, the character has been portrayed by Mark Williams in the ongoing BBC television series Father Brown. Character Father Brown on a case, illustrated by Sydney Seymour Lucas for The Innocence of Father Brown Father Brown is a short, plain Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes, a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human behaviour. His unremarkable, seemingly naïve appearance hides an unexpectedly sharp intelligence and keen powers of observation. Brown uses his unimposing demeanour to his advantage when studying criminals, to whom he seems to pose no danger, making him a precursor, in some ways, to Agatha Christie's later detective character Miss Marple. His job as a priest allows him to blend into the background of a crime scene, as others can easily assume he is merely there on spiritual business.  Catch all our Father Brown stories in one place at www.bestof1001stories.com- see "episodes-categories-Father Brown

The story was written as a sequel to "The Ice Palace," and Clark Darrow appears in both. The omniscient narrator, who ensures that close observation is paid to Powell's story, draws in the reader. The opening line – "Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean"- labels the protagonist immediately, and as a character he remains within the stereotype Fitzgerald indicates, though he almost manages to break free.    The history of Powell's life presents a tale of a family fallen on hard times. Powell is humiliated by the whisperings of the social set and chooses notoriety over civility. He fights for his country aged eighteen and returns at twenty-one with ill-fitting, unfashionable clothes which symbolize how he does not "fit" in society. Powell contrasts with the attractive and dynamic Clark Darrow. He is unsure of whether to go to the party Darrow invites him to, but Nancy Lamar, with her "mouth like a remembered kiss," entrances him. The simile is a romantic one, as although Powell has always known Nancy, she has never been attainable to him.  Its a small town story with all its class divides and Fitzgerald builds some very believable caracters around which his story evolves.

In this classic Poirot mystery Hastings and Poirot are asked to clear up a very unusual settlement in which the sole heir, a young woman, is challenged by her now deceased grandfather to find a will in which she will receive all his fortune. If she does not find it- it all goes to charity. In his eyes, he was testing her to see if she was deserving of it....does she pass the test?   APPLE USERS 1001 Stories from The Old West at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618   Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Yes- Poirot is BACK!...despite the terrible review we received a couple years ago complaining that my French sounds like its been infusd with Russian.. I was moved by that, and left for a year to study at the Sarbonne, at which time I was reminded that Poirot's character was born in lived as a child in  in Portugal, and often took trips with his father to Moscowbefore the fall of the Romanovs-so I had to spend some time there as well.  then it was back to the states to study the shows on PBS with David Suchet who does a tolerable job with Poirot- whats a few Emmy's anyway?  Someday I will win the equivalent of an Emmy- what's that in podcasting- a Poddy?...for my interpretation of a (in this story) flu-weakened Poirot who hasn't lost his crime solving ability yet, Hastings. So there. Now on with the show.    The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge is a short story written by Agatha Christie, which was first published in The Sketch in May 1923 in the U.K. The story was published in the U.S. in The Blue Book Magazine in June 1924 as "The Hunter's Lodge Case". In 1924 also, the story appeared as part of the collection Poirot Investigates.

Frank Stockton was best known for his humurous children's stories and later "fairy tales for adults" in which he pokes fun at our human capacity for misundesrstanding while building a very credible love story. He wrote the story in the mid 19th century and didnt live long enough to enjoy seeing it beceome a movie in 1936 starring Carole Lombard and Caesar Romero.   Visit us at www.bestof1001stories.com

A young girl meets a stranger riding near her parent's ranch, does him a favor, and later comes to believe he may be a Mexican horse thief.  From "Stories of the Early West" by Bret Harte About the author Profile Image for Bret Harte. Bret Harte   Follow People note American writer Francis Bret Harte for The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870), his best-known collection of his stories about California mining towns. People best remember this poet for his short-story fiction, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the Gold Rush. In a career, spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern United States to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but people most often reprinted, adapted, and admired his tales of the Gold Rush. Parents named him after Francis Brett, his great-grandfather. Bernard Hart, paternal grandfather of Francis and an Orthodox Jewish immigrant, flourished as a merchant and founded the New York stock exchange. Henry, father of the young Francis, changed the spelling of the family name from Hart to Harte. Later, Francis preferred that people know his middle name, which he spelled Bret with only one t. An avid reader as a boy, Harte at 11 years of age published his first work, a satirical poem, titled "Autumn Musings", now lost. Rather than attracting praise, the poem garnered ridicule from his family. As an adult, he recalled to a friend, "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse". His formal schooling ended at 13 years of age in 1849. APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com  My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeeves Takes Charge" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the Saturday Evening Post in the United States in November 1916, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in April 1923. The story was also included in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeves.[1] Bertie meets Jeeves for the first time in this story. Florence Craye, Bertie's fiancée, wants him to destroy his uncle's scandalous memoirs.

Tobin's Palm From O' Henry's 'The Four Million': Two young sons of Ireland , John and Daniel (Tobin) head for Coney Island Amusement Park in order that good palm John can relieve Daniel of his worries over his girlfriend's not having arrived yet from County Sligo with his money. It's been three moneths and no sign of her. He consults a fortune teller who tells him things are not going his way and that he will soon see a pale girl, a dark man, and a man with a crooked nose who ( we can assume) holds the key to his future.  The Coming Out Of Maggie (also called Cinderella's Ball) Warning : Racial slurs by today's standards, New York City as it really was by 1915 standards.  The story begins by explaining the Clover Leaf club, an Irish organization, and its exclusive dances. These dances are held at the Give-and-Take Athletic Association. To attend, you must be a part of the club or work for Rhinegold's paper-box factory. However, each member has the option to take an outsider to one dance. Maggie Toole and Anna McCarty work together at the factory and are basically inseparable. Anna and her ''fellow,'' Jimmy Burns, would pick up Maggie every Saturday and bring her to the dance. It seems Maggie is a plain-looking girl who isn't sought after by any man. One Saturday, the girls are leaving the factory when Anna tells Maggie to be ready, per usual, by 7pm. Instead of the usual response, Maggie says the ride will not be necessary; a gentleman is coming to get her to escort her to the dance. Anna is blown away and a little angry with Maggie's lack of information. ''You'll see to-night,'' Maggie says to Anna, and assures her she will see them at the dance. The Secret Date Around 8:30pm, Maggie and her gentleman friend enter the hall. Anna, whose eyes have been glued to the door since her arrival, is taken aback by how stunning the man is. Jimmy makes a few jealous comments, but Anna pulls him toward the couple. T The Four Million is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released on April 10, 1906, by McClure, Phillips & Co. in New York. There are twenty-five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem". The book's title refers to the then population of New York City where many of the stories are set. O. Henry was responding to a newspaper editorial by Ward McAllister, who claimed that there were only four hundred people in New York City worth knowing, by instead opining that every human being in New York is worthy of notice.[1] Contents "Tobin's Palm" "The Gift of the Magi" "A Cosmopolite in a Cafe" "Between Rounds" "The Skylight Room" "A Service of Love" "The Coming-Out of Maggie" "Man About Town" "The Cop and the Anthem" "An Adjustment of Nature" "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" "The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein" "Mammon and the Archer" "Springtime à la Carte" "The Green Door" "From the Cabby's Seat" "An Unfinished Story" "The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock" "Sisters of the Golden Circle" "The Romance of a Busy Broker" "After Twenty Years" "Lost on Dress Parade" "By Courier" "The Furnished Room" "The Brief Debut of Tildy"

Arthur Conan Doyle's #3 favorite of all his Sherlock Holmes adventures. A crypto mystery. SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES MYSTERIES BEST OF SHERLOCK HOLMES SHERLOCK HOLMES PODCAST  Get all of our shows at one website:WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two similar stories by Maupassant explore the memories of older men with regard to the woman whom they just can't forget....] for music credit:  Midnight in Paris Music by Jean-Paul Verpeaux from Pixabay New sponsor spot time markers: Sponsor Message intro 12:51 Show re-entry: 12:54     Visit us at www.bestof1001stories.com

get ready for another "Jeeves" style adventure- this time with the clueless Rollo and his excellent butler and advisor Wilson.  It seems Rollo is quite caught up with a young lady but he has his own "system" for getting the final "yes" from her and doesn't need advice.    Join our email list at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales podcast and browse our new categories under "episodes". www.bestof1001stories.com

The first in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" series in which Holmes explains how he escaped death at the hands of Dr. Moriarty and in which Holmes and Watson solve a murder case in London.   LOTS MORE SHERLOCK AT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM NEW Enjoy 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552    SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW...   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tourist gets lost in Mammoth Cave and runs into a very scary situation in 'The Beast In The  Cave' In 'The Alchemist' a curse haunts an old family for 6 hundred years, killing each male member of the family at age 32.   Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com by going to 1001 Classic Short Storiers and tapping on "Episodes"- then look for the "categories" that drop down.. Wow!  Makes searching easy!

tThis story by award-winning Brazilian writer Machado de Assis delves into infidelity and jealousy in a small town in Brazil.The characters are well- developed and the action is non-stop. Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com for more great stories.

Poirot can't resist a case, even when holidaying in Brighton with Hastings. When a necklace goes missing, the case is a simple matter of logic for the little Belgian. This was only the second of Agatha Christie's short stories to appear in print. In the UK, it appeared in The Sketch magazine on the 14th March 1923 as The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls and in the US it appeared in October 1923 as Mrs Opalsen's Pearls. The story was first published as a book in the collection Poirot Investigates, 1924, by Bodley Head. The story was adapted for the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot in 1993, starring David Suchet, and like many of the other early episodes, included the characters of Hastings, Japp and Miss Lemon, regardless of whether or not they appeared in the original text. It was adapted as the first episode of the Japanese anime Agatha Christie's Great Detectives in 2004, which involved Poirot teaming up with Miss Marple's great niece. All Devices Join Us  New for 2025  www.bestof1001stories.com New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us!   APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618   REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An unknown narrator describes his ferry ride across a river in Russia to attend an Easter Eve service at a Russian Church. This story offers a great example of Chekhov's ability to create powerful imagery as well as carry a compelling narrative. APPLE .USERS 1001 True Crime From Another Time  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ALL USERS-WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

'Ulysses and the Cyclops'-Adaped by Andrew Lang from the Greek classic   'Homer', this story places Ulysses in the hero's seat as he and his men are trapped on an island occupied by one-eyed giants called Cyclops- and they have a nasty penchant for eating sailors and roasting their remains. Ulysses is known for his "McGuyver" like abilites to find smart ways out of trouble- and he gets busy fast. Caesar Crosses The Rubicon'.. All of us have had to make serious decisions- and there is always one point at which it is too late to change your mind and head back to safety. Such was Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon with his army as he traveled toward Rome to reclaim it from his adversary. This is the story, adapted by James Baldwin.   Check out our new "search by category' at bestof1001stories.com Episodes- and enjoy all the short stories you love best without having to search.

Edgar Allan Poe wasn't just known for horror- he also had a sense of humor and a deep sense of justice for those who had been wronged.  In this story, a French king who likes to play extravagent jokes on his guests decides to use his two dwarfs, which had been captured and sent to him by one of his generals, as the evenings' entertainment. The man dwarf, HopFrog, had earned that name from the King due to his crippled leg which kept him from standing up straight, and causing him to hop using his strong arms to help him move. Tripetta was also a dwarf, very pretty, and an excellent dancer. The two had become close friends since their capture. On this night the king becomes abusive- and Hop Frog includes a surprise in the evening's entertainment. Now you can enjoy our short stories by category (funny, love, baseball, tragic, O. Henry, Hemingway, etc) by going to www.bestof1001stories.com,opening '1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales'podcast, and clicking on "Episodes". You will be surprised at what we have done !   While you're there, check out the "About" tab at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries and see how all this started as I tell some personal details about the origins of 1001.  Thanks! https://pixabay.com/music/folk-medieval-background-196571/ Music by Luca Francini from Pixabay Warning!!!!  This episode contains the words "fat", dwarf" and probably a few others which were used in 1848.  These words could send certain people into a "swoon". Keep smelling salts handy near your snuff box, as Abigail Adams used to do.

Holmes and Watson enter the world of high stakes racing to solve a murder and the disappearance of a racehorse. One of Arthur Conan Doyle's favorite 12 episodes- and one of ours at 1001. SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE STORIES PODCAST   SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW...    Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to  WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man living off a rich Aunt's endowment decices to take a few weeks off with pals and head for the nearby lake looking for peace and quiet. He is soon wrapped up in trying to get his shy friend hooked up while at the same time being stuck with a fat toddler whose parents have been abandoning him to the mercies of lake vacationers due to a measles outbreak in their rental house.  Check out our new search by category features at www.bestof1001stories.comtoday!

Two cultures collide when a group of British overseers meet for a regional planning session in India's outback, have too much to drink, and one of them defaces a statue outside a temple. The offender is almost immediately confronted by a naked leper called Silver Man who leaves a bite mark on his chest- causing a physiological change in the coming hours that will rock their non-believing world.    Check out our constantly improving website at https://bestof1001stories.com!

We introduce two new shows and an episode from each tonight. From 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age  (was 1001 Greatest Love Stories) Uncle Jesse's Life Book- a story of love and respect that a visiting mother and daughter have for an old man who is pining away for a lost loved one From  1001 Ghost, Chiller, and Lovecraft Stories ( was 1001 Ghost Stories) The Family of the Vordoulak- a old man tells a story of his 1750 trip to Hungary and his stay with a family whose lives were turned upside down when their father became a vampire. Follow 1001 Ghost,Chiller & Lovecraft Stories is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327  If these links are not"hot" just copy and paste into a URL NEW Enjoy 1001  Stories From The Gilded Age  on Apple Devices here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-gilded-age/id1485751552 Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW...   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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A bride-to-be and one of Father Brown's flock alerts him to a potential catastrophe when she finds her suitor's room wrecked and he lying tied in ropes in the corner. Together with a noted scientist and criminologist with whom Father Brown had been talking, the three rushed back to the scene to figure out what had happened. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us!    Get all of our shows at one website:  www.bestof1001stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1925 Hemingway's collection of his first short stories appeared as In Our Time, and included the cryptic The Three Day Blow.  He begins with a memory of  WWI, then gives us a dialogue between Nick Adams (Hemingway's alter -ego in his early stories) and a friend as they spend a few days drinking at his friend's fathers lodge. The theme is baically to portray a 'lost generation' of young men after the war who had no desire to do much with their lives, including getting married and raising children. There is a lot of "He said" and simple dialogue but this style was new and appealed to a younger audience of readers. It would be years before Hemingway reached his peak but this collection started him on his path. Enjoy all of our 1001 collection at www.bestof1001stories.com Support our efforts to tell history the way it really happened by chipping in a little every month at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Follow us a WWW.facebook.com/1001heroes! Thanks Other 1001 Podcasts: Found Everywhere 1001 Sherlodck Holmes Stories & the Best of Arthur Conan Doyle Sun 12 pm ET, Best Of Wed 5pm  1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Sun 12 pm ET, Wed best of 5:00 pm ET 1001 Stories From The Old West Sun 12 noon ET, Wed 5pm ET 1001 Stories For The Road (current- The Count of Monte Cristo 1001 Radio Days Best of Old Time Radio Sun 12 noon ET,Wed 5pm ET 1001 Radio Crime Solvers Sun 12 noon ET,Wed 5pm ET 1001 Ghost, Chiller & Lovecraft 12 noon ET 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age Women Writers Short Stories 12noon Sun 1001 True Crime From Another Time Haunting True Crime Stories 12 noon Sun ET 1001 Best of Jack London Sun 12 noon ET 1001 History's Best Storytellers Sun 12 noon ET 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Sun 12noon ET, Best of Fridays 1AM ET

A young man builds a home and vineyard at the top of a gentle slope in Virginia's Blue ridge Mountains only to find his home sliding downhill in a heavy rainstorm. Enjoy all of our 1001 collection at www.bestof1001stories.com Support our efforts to tell history the way it really happened by chipping in a little every month at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Follow us a facebook.com/1001heroes! Thanks Other 1001 Podcasts: Found Everywhere 1001 Sherlodck Holmes Stories & the Best of Arthur Conan Doyle Sun 12 pm ET, Best Of Wed 5pm 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Sun 12 pm ET, Wed best of 5:00 pm ET 1001 Stories From The Old West Sun 12 noon ET, Wed 5pm ET 1001 Stories For The Road (current- The Count of Monte Cristo 1001 Radio Days Best of Old Time Radio Sun 12 noon ET,Wed 5pm ET 1001 Radio Crime Solvers Sun 12 noon ET,Wed 5pm ET 1001 Ghost, Chiller & Lovecraft 12 noon ET 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age Women Writers Short Stories 12noon Sun 1001 True Crime From Another Time Haunting True Crime Stories 12 noon Sun ET 1001 Best of Jack London Sun 12 noon ET 1001 History's Best Storytellers Sun 12 noon ET 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Sun 12noon ET, Best of Fridays 1AM ET

A great short story by Bret Harte telling of the little community of Red Gulch and Judge Piper's beautiful daughters, the youngest of which, Del, is known to speak her peace when she wishes and possess a strong will when it comes to potential suitors. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us!   Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man from the country travels to Boston (during the days when the British soldiers were housed there) seeking his relative Major Molineux, who had promised the young man a chance to rise up in the world should he ever travel there after his schooling.  The reception he receives with every inquiry is rude, even threatening, and he ventures to find out why.

Bertie gort himself in realtrouble this time- he's engaged. Only Jeeves knows what to do.

Zane Grey reminds us how minor league baseball was played 100 years ago- when many of the players were showboats and pranksters- when fans came to be entertained- and when baseball wasn't all business as it is today. In this story manager Delaneys Stars take on the Providence Greys in the championship last game of the season and the action on and off the field never stops. Hold onto your sides.   Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A man of sciencewho has traveled the world searching for the source of the evil winds that destroy mankind finds himself pursued by them. He locks hilmself in his house in an effort to beat them.....

An aged Allan Quartermaine entertains a couple of old friends at his home who ask him for a story- and he rewards them with the story of the time he bagged 4 lions in one encounter.

Father Brown, walking through a small town in the early morning hours, hears 5 pistol shots followed by some strange noises, and though he knows he should keep walking, his curiosity demands satisfaction....   Get all of our shows at one website:www.bestof1001stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A knight returns from the Crusades to his castle in Germany to find that the neighboring castle is under seige and that a beautiful 18 year old girl named Brunhilda Bernstein is defending it staunchly, the King having died during the seige and her brother off at war. Check out our new website and leave us a review- it's easy!   www.bestof1001stories.com

Two great short stories from O.Henry! AFTER TWENTY YEARS-  A cop walking the beat at night passes a man standing quietly in a passageway and they exchange greetings. The man tells the cop he is waiting for an old friend to show up- they had grown up together there in the city and became separated after agreeing to meet at this time and place in exactly 20 years..... LOST ON DRESS PARADE- A twenty-something young man invests in a fine outfit and plans on dining at the best places so he can see and be seen by the wealthy and popular with hopes he can move up in society. On the way to dine he runs into a beautiful young lady who has twisted her ankle. She is wearing a cheap dress and she hasn't been formally introduced to the young man but he talks her into forgetting social graces and dining with him. During dinner he begins putting on airs and dropping names in an effort to impress....   Check out all our shows at www.bestof1001stories.com

This is our way of reminding you that we offer new Jack London stories weekly every Sunday at noon ET at 1001 Best of Jack London- Here are the links: Our website: https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-best-of-jack-london-1/ Hit "Follow" at Apple Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF

This 1001 Stories Network DOUBLE FEATURE includes two great H.P.Lovecraft short stories, the first being THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN- a story about a frail old man who lives alone in a New England village and is reputed to have a fortune in gold doubloons- a fortune that three robbers want. In BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP a young doctor in a mental hospital receives a strange patient that seems to be experiencing dreams from another dimension. Being curious, the doctor rigs up a radio style device to the patients head and the story heads into the outer dimensions from there. LOVECRAFT STORIES BY LOVECRAFT PODCAST   Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com   CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! A SECOND   SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW...   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A cranky old lady writes a mean editorial to the city paper about an organ grinder who was playing beneath her window, asking the city to move him off the streets.A reader replies giving us a picture of that part of the city and just how many people look forward to the organ grinder's music, which brings happiness for a short time to a population which cannot afford to go out and pay for entertainment.  GREAT story by HC Bunner

Father Brown and his trusty friend Flambeau are visiting an old castle in Germany when Flambeau shares the story of an unsolved murder which occurred there years ago. Browse all 12 of our 1001 stories Network shows at www.bestof1001stories.com and visit our Patreon site at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork to support us-Thank You!

The Sleuths- A man comes to New York City to find his sister whom he knows is in need of financial help but is led astray by ineffective and expensive detectives. Wictches Loaves-An older woman who owns a bakery takes pity on a regular customer who orders stale bread crumbs and decides to apply a little surprise butter to them on one of his visits....

A Classic sci-fi short story by Ray Bradbury that tells of a space traveler who has crash landed on a planet inhabited by thoughts- beings with no form that destroyed their own civilizations through war and have been waiting eons for a living being to land there. All he has to do is avoid sleep for sic days until the rescue ship comes..... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bernie Wooster receives a call from an old beau inviting him up to she and her new husband's home in the country and he accepts, but has second thoughts when he finds the purpose of her invitation.

We remember D-Day, the Allied invasion of German- held France, every year on June 6th. May we never forget the sacrifices there and elsewhere for our freedom. War correspondent Ernie Pyle was loved by the American public for his coverage of WWII, which often featured names and hometowns that the information-starved public weren't getting from the news. He arrived at D-Day plus 1 and got a front row seat overlooking the carnage and death on the beaches at Normandy. 3 of his columns are featured here today. A Pure Miracle, The Horrible Waste of War A Long Thin Line Of Personal Anguish Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this story, inspired by an experience Crane survived as a journalist covering the war in Cuba, four men struggle to survive in high seas inside a small dinghy.   Get all of our shows at one website: www.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Four men, having survived a shipwreck off the coast of Florida in high seas, try to survive in a small dinghy. The overwhelming theme of this story is the conflict between the men and the uncaring sea and their struggle to stay alive. Stephen Crane had survived a very similar experience and was writing from experience. NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327  .  Get all of our shows at one website: www.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this 1906 short story by Texas author Andy Adams a young eastern college bound man is offered a trip out west to Texas to check up on his father's investment of property outside of San Antonio. His trip, taken primarily to restore his health, turns out to be to his great liking and he finds ways to extend it for a few years, becoming throuroughly western in the process.  Adams spent most of his adult life working with cattle and at age 43 became a very good writer of western life.

While riding his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a geneologist seeks shelter from an approaching storm. He enters an apparently abandoned house only to find it occupied by a loathsome old man who seems to enjoy pictures of hacked human bodies. Catch ALL our author interviews in one place here at 1001 History's Best Storytellers!   NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: ​​https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr.  Get all of our shows at one website: www.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In "the Steadfast Tin Soldier" from Hans Christian Anderson whcih has been adapted into ballet and theater, a boy receives a set of 25 tin soldiers, all cast from an old tin spoon, and lines them up on a tabletop. One soldier stands on a single leg, nevefr faltering, and falls in love with a paper ballerina. A series of events overtake the tin soldier before he can realize his dream, leaving us to wonder if fate controls our lives regardless of our actions, or if we must rise above our limitations and take control of our lives. Music: Georges Bizel "Jeus Enfant" 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Archives at www.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM Enjoy our other two shows: 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast 1001 Stories For The Road Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From the creator of "Leave It To Jeeves" comes this short story, narrated by a character very similar to our friend Bernie Wooster- who tries to help his friend out after a marital row. It seems his pal has trouble remembering anything, and this time he had forgotten his wife's birthday- a cardinal sin in male-female relationships.  How am I doing on story choices?   Leave us a review at www.bestof1001stories.com - Thanks!

This story takes place just after Christmas, in London, and involves a priceless gemstone called "the blue carbunkle", which has been stolen, and Holmes and Watson pick up the challenge  Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com  CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW...   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A beautiful woman enjoying an ocean cruise with her much older husband  attracts the attention of two men who end up competing for her attention while our narrator tries to talk sense into the younger man.  The characters are well presented and the story keeps the listener on edge throghout. Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com and try a few stories at 1001 Stories From the3 Gilded Age and 1001 True Crime From Another Time.

In this hilarious short story from Down Under a company which employs door-to-door book salesmen finds itself in serious trouble when , at the end of a long and successful sales push, the salesmen beging quitting dbecause the people are frankly tired of them and have vowed to kill them on sight in some cases.  The company hires a "Genius" who invents a salesman made of cast -iron, equipped with a taped sales pitch and a punishing right hand who can handle just about anything  thrown at him and turns him loose ion the quiet community of Ninemile.    We invite you to check out ALL our shows and episodes at www.bestof1001stories.com today!

"The Rocking Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence: The story revolves aound a young boy who is desperately seeking the love of his mother, whose love for her family has been overshadowed by her desire for money and material things, and who feels that luck left her long ago. The boy discovers a psychic connection with a gift rocking horse which promises to provide answers to his mother's unhappiness, a psychic connection which takes a heavy toll. #shortstories #therockinghorsewinner #1001Classic ShortStories   Get all of our shows at one website:  www.bestof1001stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In "The Little Girl Who Dared" by Henry Lanier you'll hear the story of the disastrous plight of the Donner Party, when a large group of emigrants traveling to California were trapped in the Sierra Mountains for months as a result of early snows. The courage of a small girl in bringing aid to her father, who had been turned out of the party, turned out to be a critical factor in the survival of half the group, in this true pioneer story. Its an excellent account of the hardships that early emigrants faced on their way to a new life in the American West. Our website: www.bestof1001stories.com Twitter: @1001podcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/1001Heroe   Music by Ross Bugden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Father Brown and his pal Flambeau take a tour of the Cornwall coast and are led to an old pirates home with a lot of legend attached. . They have no idea that they and the owner will be targets of a murder attempt within a few hours. Check out all of our shows and leave a review for this one at www.bestof1001stories.com ANDROID USERS-   1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days  , Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify (Mon, Wed, Fri am) https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn  1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK  1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr  1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ 1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 APPLE USERS   1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ 1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ 1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371  1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Stories FromThe Gilded Age on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-  1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327

An autobiographical account of the time Bierce was captured by a confederate home guard and spent a few days in captivity before escaping back to the union lines. Ambrose Bierce's self-deprecating humor combines with his ability to tell a good story, making this a compelling read.   Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.bestof1001stories.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bertie helps out an old pal who is trying to extract a bigger allowance from his rich uncle so he can marry a waitress. They turn to Jeeves for a way to talk his uncle into it.

A great Zane Grey short story from his book "The Red-Headed Outfield". Zane Grey was a very popular western and sports writer in the arly 20th century. His portrayal of minor league baseball, in the days when town played against town, reminds us of the days when baseball was played for the love of the game- long before money became the biggest motivator. Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com Leaving reviews is EASY there REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Maacabre on Apple DevIces here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 Catch 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Arthur Conan Doyle) on Apple Podcast Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Catch 1001 History's Best Storytellers (interviews) here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-stories-for-the-road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Stitcher here: ​​https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr.  1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) :https://www.podparadise.com/Podcast/1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (interviews) on Stitcher https://www.podparadise.com/Podcast/1534427618 Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NOTE: Leaving a review is now fast and easy at www.bestof1001stories.com!  Sim and Lyta join a group of warriors led by Chion who are headed for the other cave clan with the object of taking lives which will add days to theor own. Because those caves are located half way to the wrecked ship Sim believes that will be their only chance at survival. Check out all our 1001 shows at www.bestof1001stories.com. Help support our monthy expenses at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork

Our protagonist is a young man whose family and ancestors have been marooned on a nearly uninhabitable planet with no hope of escaping. Here, because of harmful radiation, they are born they age, and die after 8 days They have the advantage of having inherited their intelligence from past generations, so even in his first day of life the boy can think intelligently- and he soon comes up with a way he believes will save their cave- dwelling people and the girl he has fallen in love with.

A professional diver is hired by a celebrity to find her missing diamond bracelet, which she lost while waving to a passing steamer as her own steamer headed toward New York City.. The diver, after receiving the coordinates, dives on the spot, discovering an undersea cave and more trouble than he anticipated.   Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Little Journey is a great example of Ray Bradbury's writing! It is storytelling at its best, it makes you smile, and its science fiction that can be enjoyed by all. In this story a group of old ladies pays for a journey to Mars and a chance to meet God. When disappointment threatens the trip, one very sprightly lady named Amanda Bellows stands up for all of them, and you find yourself cheering for her all the way.   Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"About Love" by Anton Chekhov is a story about love and missed opportunities set to Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa. Our Sponsor Link: www.ziprecruiter.com/1001 Apple Listeners: Give us a review Thanks! All Listeners: Our Website: www.1001storiespodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In turn-of-the-century New York City, a young lady named Miss Leeson is trying to make it on her own checks into a boarding house and accepts the only room she can afford- a closet-sized upper room with one skylight, through which she looks wonderingly at a star that she names Billy Jackson. Work becomes scarce, and she becomes sick and weak of starvation. O'Henry's skill at describing the building, its occupants, and the plot makes this a classic short story. BEST O.HENRY STORIES. O.HENRY PODCAST. YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED!    Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young lady rides away from a small group of prairie travelers for some time alone and soon finds herself surrounded by a party of Sioux warriors. One of the scouts for the small wagon train whom she had previously looked down upon for his shyness does his best to rescue her from her peril.   Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF 1001STORIES.COM REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bernie Wooster's old pal stops by to share his troubles- those being the fact that his Uncle's monthly checks have dried up- and being to proud to borrow from Bernie, he is seeking an answer. Bernie asks Jeeves.... Join us at www.bestof1001stories.com to enjoy all our shows and episodes free.

A young up and coming attorney decides to court two young ladies and put them to the test to see which is the better marriage material, so he asks them to join him for a sleigh ride across an icy river... Join us at www.bestof1001stories.com for all 12podcasts, including our two newest- 1001 True Crome From Another Time and 1001 Stories from the Gilded Age. Give the greatest gift of all and help support our 1001 Stories network at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork today!

In the winter of 1915-1916 Jack and his wife Charmian London sailed their Snark to Hawaii, It was a bittersweet return to paradise for both of them, Jack have come there twice before, one of those times with Charmaine. But this was his last year of life, and he wanted to spend it on the islands he loved the most. In what we call part 1, Charmian adds a preface and Jack begins a two part story of how Hawaii became an American territory- taking time to extoll the virtues of their terrific surfing and fishing sports, as well as their heavy Japanese demographics. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF

"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte: In this dramatic short story by Bret Harte, four men and women are banished into the snow laden High Sierras from the 1850 town of Poker Flat for their sins. Their courage in the face of death tells us what we already know...that we should never judge the quality of people by their professions, The story became an international hit and later spawned four movies.  cATCH ALOL 12 PODCASTS AT WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM TODAY! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A friend of Bernie Wooster's Aunt Agatha shows upenexpectedly and drops her backward twenty- something son off for a month after receiving Bernie's promise that he will be sheltered from the evils of the big city. Less than twenty-fours later the son, having disappeared for the day, shows up hopelessly drunk at the front door, having decided he is going to make up for all the years he was sheltered.  Bernie turns to Jeeves for advice.#PGWODEHOUSE  #ASKJEEVES   Join us at www.bestof1001stories.com and catch all 12 podcasts!  Reviews appreciated!

Father Brown solves a murder and saves an innocent man from the gallows! Check out all our 12 podcasts at www.bestof1001stories.com! Most popular: 1001 Sherlock Holmes, #2 1001 Classic Short stories 7 tales, #3 1001 Heroes, legends, Histories & Mysteries Newest: 1001True Crime from Another Time

Jack London's life was full of adventure and his days working for the Fish Patrol on the California coast around Oakland were no exception. In those days Fish Patrol agents were getting shot by poachers- and one of the biggest and baddest was Big Alec, who was called "the King of the Greeks".  Big Alec swore he would never be caught alive, and that's how it looked. That's when an unusual opportunity presented itself to the Fish patrol.... SUPPORT OUR SHOW MONTHLY AT PATREON Become an Assistant Producer at 1001 Stories Network ( a great resume enhancement) and support us at Patreon today! Here;s the link:  https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A very clever tale about a man who invented an anti-gravity machine capable of lifting him off the ground with the turn of a screw. A number of hilarious encounters take place, one being this man's challenging an experienced mountain hiker to a hike up a steep mountain in Italy while practically weightless. Enjoy our latest podcasts (1001 Stories From The Gilded Age and 1001 True Crime From Another Time) at www.bestof1001stories.com or wherever you listen to podcasts.

In this fractious tale our narrator,alone in his study, and bored with hi9s reading material, turns to a newspaper, and seeing the outrageous attention-getting headlines, compalins out loud about how gullible the readers must be to absorb this garbage, Suddenly, a very strange spirit appears before him, his body made of kegs and bottles, calling himself the Angel of the Odd-and that's when things start to go south. Enjoy all our 1001 shows FREE at www.bestof1001stories.com

In The Harbinger, a run down man and his two unemployed pals sit on a park bench and devise a scheme to rob the married man's wife of a one dollar bill so they can buy themselves a beer at the local pub. In One Thousand Dollars, a spoiled young man is left a $1,000 inheritance and blows it on a girl who has no interest in him, only to find another surprise waiting him at the lawyer'soffice.

The first of a series of cleverly written "Jeeves" stories by P.G.Wodehouse- featuring the butler who has every answer to every problem. Our narrator is a wealty young British man who has recently arrived in New York City with his manservant Jeeves and has made friends in the city-one of which is a down and out portrait paintern who relies on his rich uncle for an income.

Merino Sheep and the wool they produce have been a leading Australian export for years. Australian folklorist Banjo Paterson shares his opinion of just how hard they are to cultivate in this hilarious classic short story. We appreciate your monthly support!  Here;s the link:  https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ IF YOU ENJOY THIS STORY YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED!    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A classic Thanksgiving story from Louisa May Alcott telling of a Basset family thanksgiving in New Hampshire around 1820.   Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiesWWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A great story from Howard Pyle's 'King Arthur & His Knights" involving King Arthur's return to the evil knight's castle and his answering the riddle which was given to him to solve, followed by King Arthur's escorting the aged lady back to his kingdom where she could choose any knight she wished to be her husband. Check out our new podcasts at www.bestof1001stories.com! Also sugn up for our mailing list and send reviews for any episosodes you have enjoyed-Thanks!

Frank Stockton uses clever humor to poke fun at manufactured art in this humurous piece about a man who, while seeking to help out his local fire department using a money-making scheme, purchases a mass-produced piece of art with the hopes of raffling it off for many times its value.  Enjoy browsing all 12 of our 1001 podcasts at www.bestof1001stories.com Follow us at Twitter  @1001stories and Facebook www.facebook.com/1001Heroes and check out our latest podcast 1001 True Crime From Another Time right here: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zUfEkDyIjlLJfJiKsVEQh

Her name has become synonymous with saving lives and gave us the name for Nightingale helicopters that provide fast transport for emergency cases. To the soldiers of the Crimean war and many others, she was a legend. Subscribe to 1001 Classic Short Stories & tales at iTunes and give us a review- Thank You! #History #Heroes #FlorenceNightengale #Nurses   Check out all 12 1001 podcasts and every episode at www.bestof1001stories.com    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is really the story of King Arthur and how he was tricked by an evil conjurer during an overnight stay at a remote castle. In part two he promises the knight/conjurer he will return in one year with the answer to the riddle "What is it a woman desires most?".   Check out our new podcast 1001 True Crime From Another Time wherever you get your podcasts! or at www.bestof1001stories.com!

A little girl sits in her father's lap one Christmas Eve to listen to his story about the ghosts of the turkeys the family has enjoyed during past holidays. The story is not scary and can be enjoyed by all ages, Check out all our podcasts now at www.bestof1001stories.com. More holiday short stories at 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age Support our basic expenses by visiting www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork and becoming a monthly donor-Thanks!

"Babes In The Jungle" by O.Henry tells the story of two small time crooks who come to New York City to make a fortune in crime but find the going tougher than they expected... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

King Arthur and his court take a pause during a journey to relax in a meadow, and while doing so, a pure white stag runs through the festivities being chased by a pure white hound. Soon after they dissappear, a knight and his damsel come into view, and a third knight attacks him, grabbing the lady and stealing away with the damsel on his horse. King Arthur asks for a volunteer to follow them and find out whats going on and Sir Gawain volunteers along with his brother. A series of adventures ensue. For more King Arthur adventures see 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at www.bestof1001stories.com

A married couple straying at a quiet resort witness the ostracizing of a younger couple whose stories don't quite match up. Catch all our podcasts and episodes now at www.bestof1001stories.com

DROPS NOW In October of 2009 the Jamison Family (Bobby, aged 44, Sherilynn, aged 40, and Madison, age 6), packed thir pickup truck into drove into a nearby state forest, apparently to camp. Three days later their pickup truck was discovered by hunters with their malnourished dog inside and all their belongings, including ID and phones, as well as $32,000 in cash. Their remains were discovered 4 years later 2.7 miles from their truck. This remains one of the most perplexing unsolved cases in the country. We provide the details- you have been assigned to solve the case. Leave reviews/comments at www.bestof1001stories.com, at the episode at 1001 True Crime From

A terrific tale of a lighthouse keeper near the Golden Gate to spots what he believes is a mermaid- and soon finds himself obsessed with discovering her real identity. New Twitter address- @1001STORIES  REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charlotte Yonge's account of the Seige of Fort St.Elmo and the desperate fight of the Knights Hospitallier to save Malta in 1565,'   Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.bestof1001stories.com our home website with Megaphon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Father Brown gets into a discussion with a well repected detective who believes that murderers can be picked out of a crowd, while the kindly father explains that men commit murder for all kinds of reasons and its impossible to identify them by sight.   Check out our new website with over 2,500 stories waiting for you to enjoy at www.bestof1001stories.com

In the years between 1820 and 1890, medical schools in England, France, and the US were growing by leaps and bounds, and human bodies were needed for dissection. Competition among med schools was intense, and soon bodies began disappearing from local graveyards, followed by murders of innocents for hire to shady med school professors and operators.   This story from Robert Louis Stevenson tells of two medical school assistants in England who  turned to crime for a chance at the good life. RADIO DAYS IS NOW AT APPLE /ITUNES PODCAST APP!   Here is the link:  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mary Shelleys 1820 science fiction/horror tale Frankenstein in abridged form in which a man made monster turns against his creator. The true story of Mary Shelley and what inspired her to write this gothic horror tale is told at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast here: https://audioboom.com/posts/6391631-frankenstein-the-incredible-story-behind-the-story Please Help Our Survey: www.podcastlistener.com/1001 Sponsor Links: www.Parcast.com/history for Historical Figures www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/1001 Music: Haunting Sadness Media Charger Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A scary tale about a disembodied spirit and two lawmen who are hunting him in the woods near a church graveyard.  Enjoy alkl our shows and episodes at www.bestof1001stories.com

At a gathering of old friends, one man describes his encounter with a female ghost. Be sure to check out our 1001 Ghost, Chiller, and Lovecraft stories at your favorite podcast server. Enjoy all our stories at www.bestof1001stories.com

In this classic O.Henry short story, a second accountant in a small hardware store finds he has a talent for writing things that make people smile, He is soon selling his humorous writings to magazines, and one offers him a high paying job. But soon he begins running out of inspiration and finds himself chasing friends and family for funny quips-and things go downhill from there.  Get all of our shows at one website:WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM   REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The story of how the Jack O' Lantern got its name. SUPPORT OUR SHOW MONTHLY AT PATREON Become an Assistant Producer at 1001 Stories Network ( a great resume enhancement) and support us at Patreon today! Here;s the link:  https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! C  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A powerful and cruel Archbishop traveling with a 12 man escort is returning home after demanding allegiance from smaller fiefdoms in the region when he is suddenly surrounded by a force twice his size and given an invitation to dine with the female ruler of a castle he has not yet conquered, thinking she will be an easy victory.   Check out all of our podcasts and their episodes at www.bestof1001.com.

"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell (pt 2):The thrilling conclusion to Richard Connell's popular short story The Most Dangerous Game pits John Rainsford, a big game hunter from New York, as the prey of a mad Russian general who is hunting him to kill for sport.   Music by Mattia Cupelli Dark Mysteric Ambient Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 1001 Classic Short Stories Flashback: "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell: In this classic short story by Richard Connell, a big game hunter finds himself the unwilling prey of a Russian killer who kills men for sport.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Duke of Exmoor wears a wig which people believe hides a family disfigurement- namely a deformed ear.  He creates a terrible curse that would befall anyone who sees his naked head.  When a local reporter calls out the Duke for creating a false curse Father Brown, using his understanding of human behavior, challenges the Duke to reveal his secret.

The final game is against Place, but this time it's s a home game. After the game, team gathers for one last meeting before everyone heads home for the summer.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Pourot and Miss Marple.   The Guiness Book of World Records lists her as the best selling author in history, with 66 novels and 14 huge short story collections.  CHECK OUT ALL OUR EPISODES AT 11  PODCASTS AT WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A humurous tale about a young New York City girl and her best best friend who both idolize a visiting French Tenor and cleverly hatch a plan for one of them to serve as his housemaid so she can meet her idol in person. H.C. Bunner at his best.

Ken Ward pitches against the best team in their conference- Place- and its a nail-biter all the way.

An Englishman traveling in Europe decides to ignore the advice of his terrified coachman and begins walking alone toward an ancient deserted village. He soon finds himself in the company of the dead. NEW Enjoy 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age   on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552  Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001podcast.com    SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Giovanni enters the garden for the first time and soon Beatrice joins him. The two find they have much in common- but there is a lingering fear on the part of Giovanni regarding her poisonous apsect, a fear which become worse after Giovanni is warned by jhis father's friend that she has become a part of her father's deadly experiment.

A down and out young man looking for work gets a job as custodian at a wax works museum and finds himself captivated by a woman's wax likeness in the section reserved for murderers. This story was inspired by the author's attempt to sneak into the famous Madame Tussaud's London waxworks- the story of which we are currently playing at 1001 Hedroes, legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast.

A young seminary student living during starving times in Russia comes to the realization that history connects us all...that hard times were experienced two millenniums ago as they are now- and that the human spirit triumphs over all. ANTON CHEKHOV STORIES BY CHEKHOV PODCAST ANTON CHEKHOV   SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW...   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You'll find suspense, horror, and brilliantly crafted storyline in this classic Hawthorne short story about a young man who cmonmes to Padua Italy to study and finds himself in love with a young beauty whose life has been compromised by an evil father.

Ken Ward, returning to the team's quarters after his fight with Graves, is confronted by Coach Worry, who asks him how his face got banged up.  Graves appears a few minutes later in worse shape and gets a tongue-lashing from Worry.

METhe Three Wise Men by Damon Runyan tells the story of three mobsters who stop to help a woman having a baby, and find unexpected redemption for their troubles. Damon Runyan, a New York city sports writer and author, rose to fame in the prohibition era for his colorful stories which involved characters typical of the shady side of Brooklyn.  Runyan's stories were always narrated by one of these nameless mobsters, and always spoken in the present tense.  This style became very popular in movies in the thirties and forties. The Three Stooges popularized Runyan;s famous quote from this story "Wise Guy, eh?", and was one of the many expressions that were popularized during that era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The team plays an overconfident State University team and teaches them some lessons. After the game, the coach warns the team of their only weakness- that of every man on the team adhering to the rules of curfew and rules regarding no smoking/no drinking.  But one player is going against the grain- and Ken calls him out.

In The Spring- A young man goes outdoors on a warm spring day and finds his attentions are riveted on a beautiful young girl- but before he can approach him he is pulled aside by an older man who insists on telling him a story about the dangers of love. A Coward- An overly proud young man challenges another to a duel but his courage fades as the hour approaches. (Warning- Explicit).   To enjoy all our archives try our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com.

Holmes and Watson come to differences with Scotland Yard's LeStrade over who apparently murdered an old builder. Get all of our shows at one website: https://.WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM  REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW...   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While vacationing at a Maine resort, a young bachelor is left hign and high by a young lady who decided to dump him at the last minute.  While watching her disappear acropss the lake with her new choice, he is approached by a saucy young lady who happenes to be the younger sister of his love interest.

Following an inspiring speech from President Halstead, some new plqayers appeared, and Ken finally got a chance to pitch.

A humorous Rudyard Kipling story based upon his time serving the military in India when it was a British colony. The narrator is an officer who has been given an extremely intelligent bull terrier by a subordinate whose career he saved after a drunken incident. The officer tries to find ways to return the dog to his owner but the owner keeps refusing, believing he has to serve "penance" for his mistakes..   Get all of our shows at one website:WWW.BESTOF1001WSTORIES.COM  REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the streets of New York our narrator runs into an old buddy named Kansas Bill who he hasn't seen for a long while. After a few beers his old pal,shares a whopper of a story about how he got himself involved with an Irishman who planned to rule a small town on the coast of a small Latin American country, and how Kansas Bill was invited along.    Enjoy lots of great stories at our now website at www.bestof1001stories.com

Upon invitation to Sir Henry's residence, a small group mof close friends, both men and women, gather to have a chance to meet the famous African big game hunter Mr. Allen Quartermaine.  This story, written in 1885, is one of H. Rider Hagarrd's best short stories and a tale so well told you can't help but feel you are in the room listening to the narrative. Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com.

Two men, both having been feuding over property rights for years, meet one another at night while hunting each other in the forest, only to have a lightening-struck tree fall upon them, pinning them both down. Siad to be one of HH Munro's (Saki) best. SUPPORT OUR SHOW MONTHLY AT PATREON Become an Assistant Producer at 1001 Stories Network ( a great resume enhancement) and support us at Patreon today! Here;s the link:  https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Englander writer Nathaniel Hawthorne visits the remains of Fort Ticonderoga, which played an important part in the French-Indian and Revolutionary wars as first the French battled the English for possession of the valuable waterways and later the British battled the American colonists for possesion of the northern colonies. For more short and long classic stories follow us at 1001 Stories From The Gilded Age. Also check out our archives at www.bestof1001stories.com

The big day arrives during spring training and the banished varsity players , sidelined this year due to their playing for other teams off season, arrive to wreak revenge upon Coach Arthur's new recruits with a crowd of thousands of students.  Afterwards, Ken goes for early exams to qualify to play this season.   Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com

In this great short story by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, a young lady (Ursula) is ordered by her father to place some distance between herself and her suitor for the summer, and she is sent to live with her aunt on the coast. Her Aunt Philippa is a "speaks-her-mind" type of old school aunt, and does her best to discourage Ursula from marrying just anybody. Aunt Philippa is a character and a story you will want to share with your friends- and we hope you do! NOTE: We have a second Lucy Maud Montgomery story called "Christmas at Red Butte" playing starting Wednesday at our new podcast 1001 GREATEST LOVE STORIES that you will also enjoy- in that story a young orphan girl living with her very poor aunt and two cousins in Saskatchawan sacrifices her only possession to make sure her cousins have a Christmas. Your link to subscribe (its free, like all podcast subscriptions) is below. These Canadian authored episodes a thanks to our Canadian reviewers. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jas... Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_solo-acoustic-guitar Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/4M9Puanhdac ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––  Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.bestof1001stories.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Chapter 5: How Sir Gawain met Sir Pelias- then how Sir Gawain found his way into Lady Ettards castle In Chapter 6: Sir Pelias is saved from certain death by the Lady of the Lake   Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com

Father Brown is called upon to investigate the recent death of an older recluse who was at one time well known to the community, His brilliant insight leads the police to the manner in which the old man's death took place. You are invited to explore over 2,500 episodes from our 11 podcasts at our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com- Enjoy!

In this story a young man attending school in England meets his doppleganger,or double, who looks and dresses the same,and even shares the same birthday (which happens to be Poe's as well). His double is a never-ending source of angst for the young man, who believes he is superior to all others, and is given to a profligate lifestyle with few morals and little respect for his peers. but finds that he is outsmarted at every turn by his double, who follows him to both Eton and Oxford and then beyond, finding ways to turn up every time our protagonist takes an immoral turn in life. This story inspired Steven King's book "The Outsider".  Check out our new website (2024) at www.bestof1001stories.com and enjoy the best from 11 of our 1001 podcasts!

A truly rare story from Anton Chekhov which is best decribed as a mystery spoof.  A seasoned Russian investigator teams up with a 20 year old detective wanna-be to determine the fate of a retired worker.  Visit our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com and enjoy the best of my first ten years of stories from the 1001 stories network.

In 1914, when America sent many of her young men to fight for Europe's freedom, a call was put out throughout the state of Iowa for written articles and stories about life in Iowa which would be combined into a book which would be sent to the young men from that state who away fighting. These two stories were included in that book, which is called Pioneer Memories. For those of you who have never been in Iowa-its still pretty much as described-and its still very rich farmland. Bread- by Ellis Parker Butler That Iowa Town- Oney Fred Sweet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This classic story from America's first widely recognized author Washington Irving tells the story of a henpecked husband who fell asleep in the Catskills for twenty years and upon waking up, was surprised to find that everything had changed and that the American Revolution had taken place during his absence. Get the new link for 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at THE NEW GOOGLE PLAY APP here:  https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ%3D%3D Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In chapter 3 Sir Pellias holds true to his promise to declare Queen Guinivere to be the most beautiful queen while outside the castle of the knight of the green sleeves- and winds up being treated to a dinner within the castle where he is persuaded to give up his enchanted necklace - after which troubole follows. In chapter 4, back in Camelt, Sir Gawaine insults the Queen and is banished from King Arthur's realm, whereupon he setws out on a journey of adventure with his comrade Sir Ewaine and eventually finds Sir Pellias.   Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com today!

War- A cavalry scout comes upon a deserted farmhouse where violence has recently taken place and turns down the opportunity to shoot an enemy soldier who is filling his canteen... Jan The Unrepentant- A group of prospectors in Alaska go half mad when one shoots another in the neck and they decide its time for him to hang-but hanging Jan will be no easy task.  Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com and join our mailing list-Thanks!

A Tiny Little Thing- A father teaches a little girl the importantace of all lives big or small Androcles & The Lion- A slave turned gladiator befriends a lion when they share a cave and later the favor is returned in a big way Join us at our new (2024) website at www.bestof1001stories.com and sign on for our first newsletter plus browse our 11 1001 podcasts for favorite stories of all kinds. Its easy to use and yes, the listens are counted so it helps us all around.  The website allows me to showcase ten years orf narration/stories and gives us a lot more punch with SEO.

Two classic morality tales which have been shared for way over a hundred years from Hans Christian Anderson.  The Emperor's New Clothes:  The ruler of a kingdom is duped by a pair of conmen pretending to be weavers who convince the emperor that only the ignorant, or those unfit for their jobs, fail to see the fine clothes they will make for the king. The word gets around and when the king dons the clothes, he and everyone else can see that he is standing in his underwear, but no one has the moral courage to tell the king that he is standing with very little on. All are afraid they will be thought ignorant or unfit to hold their jobs.   Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com  and sign up for our newsletter today, plus browse our 11 1001 podcasts for good stories.

A young woman of obvious class is enjoying a week's stay and an escape from the summer heat at a posh New York City Hotel when she meets a debonair young man who has similar interests.  You are invited to browse our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com where you'll find 11 of my 1001 podcast shows representing ten years of storytelling. You'll find adventure, mysteries, western stories, old time radio, classic novels, Americana, short stories, and much more!  Plus you are invited to join our mailing list for my newsletters and leave audio messages and reviews.  The search works very well in each podcast- give it a try!

This is one of best Father Brown stories I have had the pleasure to share. Its a great story that rings true- a story of a military leader whose legend was perhaps not as well deserved as all his admirers believed.   Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com and get a look at all our 1001 shows- give some a try!  And join our mailing list. I will be adding a newsletter and very soon a new show called "Boomer Bedtime Stories".  In this show we'll discuss what is was like growing up in the 50's and 60's- you know, when the dinosaurs roamed.

Ken Ward, after talking to his coach not long after the great potato fight, is talked into walking over to the Sophmore dormirories to aplogize to the varsity basball captain, Dale- but Dale has other plans, and Ken and the coach find themselves trapped with no way out.  Check out our new website at www.bestof1001stories.com, and take advantage of some really good search opportunities there. Some tips for Search: Author Names: Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Robert Barr, Rudyard Kipling, Frank Stockton, Henry Cuyler Bunner (Humor), Lucy Maud Montgomery (Heartwarming), Willa Cather, Zane grey (Baseball Stories), Howard Pyle (Robin Hood & King Arthur), Ambrose Bierce, Father Brown, Bret Harte, Ray Bradbury (SciFi), O.Henry (Old NY, stories w a twist), Edgar Allan Poe (Horror and Detective), Agatha Christie (Poirot Mystery), Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (Romance), Anton Chekhov (Russian Stories), Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson (Australian Humor and Pathos), Mark Twain (Americana), James Baldwin (Tales)

This story was a great find and is still one of our best performing episodes. Henry Lawson's "Brighten's Sister-In-Law" is a poignant narrative, a classic example of the Australian bush ballad. The story recounts a drover's desperate race against time to save his ailing son, Harry, and the unexpected salvation he finds in a woman society has cast aside.  Announcing our new website www.Bestof1001Stories.com ! Now you can easily search for authors or categories!  Go to the 1001 Classic Short Stories page (the first one as you scroll down). Click on "Visit Page". Scroll down about 7 episodes to "View All Episodes". (Join E-mail list). Now you'll see "Search episodes...enter search terms to right of magnifying glass.. Try O.Henry stories REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The start of another great series of baseball short stories (the last one was "The Red-Headed Outfield)- this one being"The Young Pitcher'- the storyof a very young man who attends a large college as a freshman and soon learns what hazing is all about. His dream of playing baseball for that college seems to end when he punches the varsity captain of the baseball team during a rough hazing. In true Zane Grey style- this is a fast-moving story that will bring you in and keep you around for more.  Tags: Zane Grey, Baseball, Coming of Age Story Visit our new website at Bestof 1001Stories.com to enjoy all our 1001 shows!

Sir Pelias, one of King Arthur's top knights, makes a promise to Lady Guinevere that he will go on a mission to defend her honor, and leaves her company unarmed, promising he will capture another knight's armor and return with great deeds accomplished.

In part two the travelers are growing more and more resentful of Boule de Suif as she continues to say no to the German officer- and they concoct devious ways to try to convince her that it is her patriotic duty to give in. Featured here: "La Marseilles" (near end), is the National Anthem of France. the song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Roget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of of war by France against Austria and was and is considered a patriotic war song. You might remember in Casablanca (at 1001 Heroes) in Rick's Bar, as the Germans began to sing their patriotic song, the free French in the bar countered with La Marseilles. Visit our Brand New Website (July 2024) www.Bestof1001Stories.com  today! Join Our mailing List  REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First published in April of 1880, "Boule de Suif" is one of Maupassant's most famous and important stories. The term 'Boule de Suif' is most often translated as "Dumpling" or "Ball of Lard". The use of this no longer acceptable term for bigness was prevalent in those days and society's upper crust felt no guilt in using it in the presence of persons they thought of as coming from a lower class. In this story a carriage load of persons escaping the German occupation of their city of Rouen, France are traveling to Havre where they believe their French countrymen are still in control.. The division of classes evident throughout the trip allows Maupassant to hand a stinging rebuke to the ills of French society at the time, as one of the passengers, a courtesan, meaning a prostitute, is nicknamed 'Boule de Suif'. She, having thought to bring the only food, suddenly becomes popular when the trip bogs down into a 15 hour journey..  Visit Our New Website (July 2024)  www.Bestof1001Stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments:   Also review at Apple or Podchaser, comments at spotify SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A playful young black labrador gives three Australian gold miners a scare when he picks up a wrapped explosive charge and chases the scared miners with it, thinking its a game of fetch and return. NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: ​​https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr.  Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A true story telling of the time young Horatio Nelson, while reconnoitering Fort San Carlos for the planned takeover of Nicaragua with a single ship, encountered the 16 year old daughter of the fort's commander as she was outside trying to gauge the size of the British ship. The exploits of the famous British Lord Nelson fill volumes- this was the story of how he lost his eye.. NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: ​​https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr.  Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young mongoose is discovered half-drowned by an English family who take him into their home where he soon shows his gratitude by saving their lives more than once as he uses his skills to eliminate deadly snakes from the house and garden. A great classic from Rudyard Kipling.  Check Out our NEW website (July 2024)   www.bestof1001stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our narrator tells a great fishing story whicfh begins at the home of an old local fisherman with two beautiful daughters and continues with a battle of wits between he and a huge trout followed by some good country advice.

A marrried couple who for years has ben enjoying gifts from a generous uncle they had never met finally get the chance to meet him when he cables that he is traveling to see them and stay for awhile. As you migt expect the story has a surprise ending.

A Siberian tribesman is branded a coward and must find a way to defeat the Russians attacking his tribe to win back his honor. ANDROID USERS- (NEW) 1001 Stories From The Old West (Spotify)- https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw  1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers   APPLE USERS (NEW) 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 1001 Stories From Roy's Diner at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/1001-stories-from-roys-diner/id1594740377 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618   Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man who has just lost his father and needs to support his mother tries to find work but no one, inluding his own uncle, will hire him due to his deceased father's bad reputation as a shirker. Finally a local farmer offers the young man a job to clear an entire field of elderberries down to the roots for a pittance, provided he finishes the job. The young man has nowhere else to turn and accepts the offer. Join us at our new Facebook Page at Bestof1001Stories.com and leave us a comment-Thanks!

Two brothers who own a successful clock/watch shop in Paris are surprised when a disreputable looking man enters the shop- and they both believe has has come to case the shop before robbing it. They contact the police, and the police question the man, but come up with nothing. Things turn bad for the brothers soon after. We promised two Robert Bar stories and here they are: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/1001-classic-short-stories-tal-46960/episodes/an-alpine-divorce-and-the-rigo-82867169

"The Stranger" by Ambrose Bierce: A group of men traveling in the old west meet a strange man at their campfire- a man who has an even stranger story. We also include a background on the incredible life of Ambrose Bierce, from his Civil War experience to his exploits with Hearst Newspapers to his final disappearance in Mexico.

In this story Merlin is no longer a force but he is able to make a request to Vivien to save King Arthur's life.  Arthur and a fellow knight become lost after a deer hunt and they are lured onto a sailing ship by Morgana La Fay's magic- and things go downhill from there.;

From the Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Reknown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and author Howard Pyle. We discover how Robin earned his reputation, how he became a friend to the poor and displaced, and how he met Little John. ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road   APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901   Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327   NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young crippled boy who has learned baseball inside and out gets a chance to become a manager for a local boys team, and quickly learns the pain and the glory that comes with coaching. Enjoy 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on the Podbean Podcast App today! Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.podbean.app.podcast iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/podbean-podcasts-on-the-go/id973361050?ls=1&mt=8 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: ​​https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr.  Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Father brown shares a story with his friend Flambeau about a visit the Father had made to a detective's office in Chicago while he was working in the US.  The detective was convinced to a new fangled pulse reader, serving as a lie detector, could prove the innocence or guilt of suspects. Enjoy: IN SEARCH OF ATTILA THE HUN'S TREASURE" at 1001 Heroes this week!

Many years ago, around 1900, social customes were very different from what they are today. if a young man wanted to make a formal call on a young lady, the custom of the day wasd to approach the young lady's house and present a card of introduction. Generally, a servant or butler would offer a server, or silver plate, upon wich the young man would place the card. Then the young lady would be called upon to greet the young man.  In this story two young men dress up in their best with the intention of calling upon two sisters - but things don't go as expected for them, and their shyness doesn't make things any easier. This was first printed in MCall's Magazine in 1906.

King Arthur's evil sister Queen Morgana LaFay plans a way to get Merlin out of the way of Arthur by using her young protoge Vivien to charm Merlin into teaching her all his magic. Enjoy 'Tarzan the Untamed' now at 1001 Stories For the Road Podcast and 'The Secret Garden' at 1001 Classic Stories For All Ages.

Working for the fish patrol in the San Francisco Bay area, a young man faces down a gang of Chinamen who question his authority and finds his older counterpart ready to mutiny when things start to look difficult. ANDROID USERS-     REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW.

A 10 year-old boy growing up in a gold mining area discovers the stash of a pair of notorious thieves and adventure follows...

Australia owes a debt of gratitude to Banjo Paterson (and Henry Lawson) for their great short stories that chronicled the quirky and unique characters and places of Australia in its early days.  These three short stories- His Masterpeice, Sitting in Judgement, and Thirsty Island tell of the days when Australia was "the wild west" in more ways than one.

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Father brown and Flambeau visit the art conservatory of a friend who has asked Father brown to look after his wife after his death, which has been foretold by an Indian mystic. Enjoy 'The Secret Garden' now at 1001 Greatest Love & Life Stories APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1991 Greatest Love & Life Stories https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

William Lantry awakes hundreds of years in the future after having died in 1933. He awakes with a burning rage towards mankind and as he learns more about this futuristic place, it only grows. He discovers that the graveyards of old have been destroyed and he was in one of the last ones. He's unsure of why he has been brought back to life but he escapes being sent to the incinerator as is done with so many other humans. Lantry holds the last memories of the 20th century. Memories of the great horror authors like Poe, Machen, Bierce, and others are mentioned. A fantastic tale from beginning to end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this classic O.Henry short story, a second accountant in a small hardware store finds he has a talent for writing things that make people smile, He is soon selling his humorous writings to magazines, and one offers him a high paying job. But soon he begins running out of inspiration and finds himself chasing friends and family for funny quips-and things go downhill from there. ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Greatest Love Stories with Erica Tippett https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 8043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young socialite becomes the object of jealousy and desire when she attends a large party at a wealthy estate. APPLE .USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1991 Greatest Love & Life Stories https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Duke's Mystery- A London private detective does his best to solve a robbery ring, and things go well until a local constable looking for a promotion follows the wrong clue- with disastrous results Matrimonial Espionage- A wealthy man hires a detective to follow his wife and report if she is being unfaithful. Both stories from Andrew Forrester's collection titled 'The Secret Service: Recollections of a City Detective Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A humorous Rudyard Kipling story based upon his time serving the military in India when it was a British colony. The narrator is an officer who has been given an extremely intelligent bull terrier by a subordinate whose career he saved after a drunken incident. The officer tries to find ways to return the dog to his owner but the owner keeps refusing, believing he has to serve "penance" for his mistakes.. APPLE .USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the territory bordering British-controlled India and wild Afghanistan, a special mission is sent out to capture a known thief and murderer and 13 of his men. They travel at night, but on the way they are surrounded in the darkness by the ghostly presence of a legion of cavalry who had met their fate previously at the hands of murderous Afghanis. APPLE .USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this story, an unknown narrator tells us stories of people who had been buried prematurely and were rescued, then shares his own story of he had lived for years fearing he would be buried in the same manner due to a physical condition which seemed to render himself dead. A very strange story indeed, and perhaps a premonition, because Poe died suddenly on a business trip to Philadelphia, which he never reached. As in his first example set forth in this story, Poe died in Baltimore unexpectedly. Through out this story there are many similarities to Poe's actual death- enough to make you wonder if he foresaw his own ending.

If the men on Mount Rushmore could speak today this is probably what they would tell us- our nation's citizens and leaders need to return to morality and virtue. Leaving both behind guarantees the fall of our nation. Presented here: George Washington's Farewell Speech from Sept. 19th, 1796 and Teddy Roosevelt's "Going To Church" from 1917. APPLE .USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this dramatic short story a character named Dr. James lives a double life. A doctor by day, he gains and betrays his patients confidence by robbing them of their money and jewels. By night, he uses his deft hands and tools to break into their houses and safes. On this night he encounters a transplanted Southern family which has run into hard times. APPLE .USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A minister decides to hire a double to attend all the boring non-church related functions that ministers are expected to attend and for awhile everything goes well- until- APPLE .USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1991 Greatest Love & Life Stories https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A highly skilled surgeon trying to escape the heavy demand placed upon him for his service is drawn away from his peaceful card game in a warm bar in the Yukon to save the life of a man who has been badly mauled by a panther. Barely surviving the trek, the doctor finds himself enmeshed in an ethical dilemma. APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1991 Greatest Love & Life Stories https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In "The Lady, or the Tiger", by Frank Stockton, a semi-barbaric king has devised a trial by chance that offers the accused a choice of two doors. Behind one is a beautiful lady who will become his wife once he opens the door. Behind the other is a man-eating tiger waiting to spring upon whoever opens the door. In the story, the king has discovered that his daughter is madly in love with a handsome courtier, so naturally, like any doting father, he puts the courier in jail to await his trial. Meanwhile, the king's daughter finds out something very interesting about the lady who has been chosen and will be placed behind the second door. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the Bret Harte gold camp tale a young miner who strikes it rich hires an older lady to assume the role of his and the other boy's mother. Her donuts and cheating at poker disappoint but the camp falls in love with her. anyway. Then she tells her "son" prosper that his long lost sister will be arriving the next day..... Ronald Reagan stars as Prosper in a 1955 episode of GE Theater if you're handy with the internet. APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1991 Greatest Love & Life Stories https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Father Brown is traveling in Italy when he comes across a strange situation. An English family on vacation is in the guidance of a local courier, and the daughter is also flirting with an italian poet who appears to be something of a lothario. There is a true thief in their midst but it will be difficult to figure out who it is- we'll leave it up to you. 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young crippled boy who has learned baseball inside and out gets a chance to become a manager for a local boys team, and quickly learns the pain and the glory that comes with coaching. Enjoy 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on the Podbean Podcast App today! Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.podbean.app.podcast iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/podbean-podcasts-on-the-go/id973361050?ls=1&mt=8 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: ​​https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr.  Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this excellent sci-fi short storyby Ray Bradbury, a hunter named Eckels pays $10,000 to a time machine safari service to bag the ultimate trophy. The company guarantees his safety but not his return...and sets strict rules so as not to upset the balance of nature in the past...which may affect the present in terrible ways. In a career spanning more than 70 years, Bradbury inspired generations of readers to think, dream, and create. A prolific author of short stories and close to 50 books, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tin merchant on his country route stops at a farmhouse owned by a woman who keeps an adopted daughter as a poorly treated maid and housekeeper. The man feels sorry for the beaten down little wretch and, after pledging he will take care of her for the rest of her life, asks her to run away with him, which, after short consideration, she does. Another great New England story from Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. An unknown narrator describes his ferry ride across a river in Russia to attend an Easter Eve service at a Russian Church. This story offers a great example of Chekhov's ability to create powerful imagery as well as carry a compelling narrative. APPLE .USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This was the #8 listener favorite of 440 episodes. (Actually part two was #2 but I set up our best of based on part one rankings if there were two parts). "The Mexican (pt 2)" by Jack London is the exciting conclusion to the story of an 18 year-old Mexican boy who tries to avenge the murder of his parents by winning a prize fight so he could get guns for the revolution. BE SURE TO FOLLOW 1001 BEST OF JACK LONDON FOR ALL JACK LONDON STORIES. SEE LINKS BELOW! APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1991 Greatest Love & Life Stories https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This was the #8 listener favorite out of 440 episodes. "The Mexican" (Pt 1) by Jack London is the story of a young Mexican man who, after losing his parents in the struggle to overthrow a corrupt regime, turns to prizefighting to support the revolution, and sets up a winner take all fight with a known professional. APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1991 Greatest Love & Life Stories https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Jim Baker's BlueJay Yarn by Mark Twain-When Mark Twain stayed in a California gold camp in 1864-65 he picked up a lot of story ideas. With his unique brand of humor, he manages to compare the labors of men digging things out of empty holes to the labors of a blue jay filling a knothole in the top of an empty house with acorns and not unfderstanding why he couldn't fill it. APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1991 Greatest Love & Life Stories https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A dinner meeting ends in murder and the evidence seems to point to an Italian diplomat- until Poirot sees what the others missed.... APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1991 Greatest Love & Life Stories https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Indian Camp- A young man accompanies his father, a doctor, to an Indian camp where a woman is having a bad time delivering her baby. Hemingway's clipped style of writing in a breakaway from the old Victorian style and provides a contrast to earlier short stories. (Explicit language, suicide)- The Nine Cent Girls- A group of ranchers from Montana send one of their own to ask a household of nine sisters in New York if they would like to come out west. APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love + Life Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-chiller-lovecraft-stories/id1516332327 8043 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001 Stories For the Road at Spotify= https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost , Chiller & Lovecraft https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1991 Greatest Love & Life Stories https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From 'The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood' by Howard Pyle- these two stories tell of how Robin came to invite "The Tinker" to join his band and how he answered the Sheriff's challenge to find the best bowman in the land without being caught. Follow our new True Stories interview show 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay (links below) ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 8043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Sunday Ball" by author Zane Grey gives us a rare look at the early days of baseball in middle America, what it meant to small towns, what people thought of it, and in this case, what moral dilemmas were caused when certain teams and towns started playing baseball on Sundays. Zane Grey's story is a window into time, and a true one, because we know that he played minor league ball for years, earning a scholarship to The University of Pennsylvania, where he played ball and studied to become a dentist, following in the footsteps of his father. But his real passion wasn't dentistry-it was writing, and he found every opportunity he could during his professional career as a dentist to write. His first success came at age 37, with the book "The Shortstop", from which we have taken Chapter 13, "Sunday Ball", at the recommendation of one of our listeners, Dr. Gerald G Gelle, DDS, who is a dentist who also enjoys baseball as well as 1001 Classic Short Stories Podcast and Zane Grey. Zane Grey, by the way, went on to write 88 great stories, mostly westerns, of which 111 movies were made, and he also became an avid outdoorsman and fisherman. Born in Zanesville, Ohio, he knew and played small town baseball, and used Findlay Ohio as the locale for this story. #ZaneGrey #Baseball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young soldier escaping a search party in the dead of night finds an open door to a wealthy home wherein a night of suspense takes place in which the man, unable to escape, must make a series of life and death decisions by daybreak.. Stevenson's imagery, characterization, and suspense clearly show why his stories remain classics. Follow our new True Stories interview show 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay (links below) ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 8043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our #7 top listener favorite, The Man On The Train, tells the humorous story of a grandma who, despite her children's worries about pickpockets and conmen, boards the train to visit a sick relative. Aboard the train, grandma befriends a nice man who is sitting next to her. Follow our new True Stories interview show 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay (links below) ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 8043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In British Colonial India our narrator finds himself in a small station staying in a large bungalow with an agent called Strickland and his large dog. Prior to our narrator's arrival another man whose name was Imray had suddenly disappeared while staying at that bungalow, and soon our narrator finds the bungalow is haunted at night. Follow our new True Stories interview show 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay (links below) ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 8043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We bring you four stories today: Icarus and Daedalus- James Baldwin- an ancient Greek tales about a son who forgets his father's instructions; The Sword of Damocles- about the close friend of a wealthy man who wishes he could spend one day in his friends place living the good life and gets his chance by James Baldwin The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson- describes the courageous but costly cavalry charge of the Light Brigade, knowing that they were rising into sure death F. Scott Fitgerald's letter to his daughter, reminding her what's important in life Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Legend of King Arthur is one of the most enduring legends known to man. This version is the best starting point from which to explore the many versions of King Arthur to be found in literature. Si Beag, Si More by DustyStrings@verizon.net Follow our new True Stories interview show 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay (links below) ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 8043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A great Zane grey short story from his book "The Red-Headed Outfield" recalling stories from the early days of American minor-league baseball. In this story, the manager's favorite pitcher marries his biggest girl-fan and they honeymoon on the train with the team playing tricks on them during the journey as the enter the playoffs.  Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A futuristic couple have their first baby using a new delivery room process only to find that the baby appears quite different from a human baby. Follow our new True Stories interview show 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay (links below) ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 APPLE USERS New! 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 8043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man traveling from New York City to Florida to stop his brother's sudden wedding on behalf of his family finds himself in the company of a young woman with the same mission.- to stop her sister from getting married. ANDROID USERS- 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Witness...Everyone Has A Story (COMING SOON) 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - (Playing Archives Only) https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 001 Witness...Everyone Has A Story (COMING SOON) 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A man reuniting with his friends in New York City and recently back from another one of his world adventures shares a story of an occurrence in Arizona which nearly cost him his life. Follow our new True Stories interview show 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay (links below) APPLE DEVICES - 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-true-stories-with-brian-tremblay/id1726451725 ANDROID USERS- 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EOZTL42pg0szYdYV7mwMC?si=SCPAOiSgQiyo0ZSO_OFDyw&nd=1&dlsi=012b3f28347743d5 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Witness...Everyone Has A Story (COMING SOON) 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - (Playing Archives Only) https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 001 Witness...Everyone Has A Story (COMING SOON) 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Apple Podcast- (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host Brian Tremblay explains our new interview show 1001 True Stories here... 1001 True Stories with Brian Tremblay is a fast-moving and interesting "True Story Podcast" weekly show hosted by broadcaster and creative talent Brian Tremblay and featuring guests with a wide variety of captivating stories to tell. Sometimes funny, sometimes scary, and always binge-worthy, the stories provide a unique insight into everyday life when it sends us special moments in time. The topics range from tv/movie appearances to sightings of unexplained phenomena, to marriage, family, and dating mishaps, rare events, search & rescue missions, cop and first responder stories, miracles, special missions, mishaps, "I was there" and "on the job" stories...and much more. For your :30 minutes (or more) of fame contact brian@morinstreetmedia.com. This show is a 1001 Stories network production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#2 Best of 1001 Classic Short Stories "3 ANCIENT GREEK STORIES by JAMES BALDWIN The classic tales of Ancient Greece have become so incorporated with our language and thought and so interwoven with our literature - that we couldn't do away with them if we tried. yet many don't receive any of the stories of this ancient culture in our schools. Almost every day we hear names like the Titans, Zeus, Jupiter, Mercury, Pluto, Poseidon, Venus, and Prometheus- and these all come from ancient Greek stories. Here are three James Baldwin stories that retell the Greek versions with less emphasis on the Greek gods and more on the stories themselves. Enjoy! Jupiter and His Mighty Company///The Golden Age///The story of Prometheus "How Fire Was Given to Men" ANDROID USERS- (NEW) 1001 Stories From The Old West (Spotify)- https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Stories from Roy's Diner on Player.fm: Follow Us https://player.fm/series/1001-stories-network 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS (NEW) 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 1001 Stories From Roy's Diner at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/1001-stories-from-roys-diner/id1594740377 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A sheep man trying to stay off the bottle leaves for a ride through the outback to reach a station where he can make some money, and on the way back stops at a bar, His best friend, who had promised his mate's wife he would keep her husband from drinking, takes his eye off his mate and the bar owner gets him drunk. The problems escalate quickly until a friend is brought into the mix. Check out the latest new Jack London episode today at 1001 Best of Jack London (links below) ANDROID USERS- 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Witness...Everyone Has A Story (COMING SOON) 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - (Playing Archives Only) https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 001 Witness...Everyone Has A Story (COMING SOON) 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Apple Podcast- (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Purloined Letter is one of Poe's ,three detective stories featuring the very sharp crime solver M. Dupin, who accepts the challenge of finding a hidden letter which has become an impossible feat for the Paris police. Poe's detective stories led the way for other authors to introduce the detective genre.  Enjoy all our shows at www.bestof1001stories.com   Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Plymouth Express Affair is our #1 most listened to Short Story of our 429 stories since we began in 2016. In this story Hercule Poirot is asked to solve a theft and murder of a woman on the Express train to Plymouth. Check out the latest new Jack London episode today at 1001 Best of Jack London (links below) ANDROID USERS- 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Witness...Everyone Has A Story (COMING SOON) 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - (Playing Archives Only) https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 001 Witness...Everyone Has A Story (COMING SOON) 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Apple Podcast- (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this last chapter of Howard Pyle's 'The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" the new king of Britain comes to Sherwood and asks to know more about Robin Hood, so a special trip is planned for him which will likely bring Robin to him. Check out the latest new Jack London episode today at 1001 Best of Jack London (links below) ANDROID USERS- 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify-(Sun & Wed) https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001 Radio Days (Now all Variety, Sun & Wed) at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Witness...Everyone Has A Story (COMING SOON) 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Now Playing Archives Only: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - (Playing Archives Only) https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 001 Witness...Everyone Has A Story (COMING SOON) 1001 History's Best Storytellers at Apple Podcast (Now Playing Archives Only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre at Apple Podcast (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Apple Podcast- (Playing Archives Only) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales SHOW NOTES — "The Man in the Passage" A Father Brown Mystery by G. K. Chesterton   ⭐ EPISODE SUMMARY In this atmospheric Father Brown mystery, G. K. Chesterton blends theatrical glamour with a tightly wound murder puzzle that unfolds in the shadows behind the stage. "The Man in the Passage" begins when Father Brown receives an urgent request from an old friend — a man troubled by a dangerous entanglement at a London theater. Brown arrives just in time to witness the glittering world of actors, costumes, and backstage intrigue… and moments later, his friend is murdered. The crime occurs in a narrow passage behind the theater — a dim corridor where several witnesses claim to have seen a mysterious man moments before the killing. But each witness describes a different figure, and each is certain of what they saw. The case quickly becomes a maze of contradictions, illusions, and theatrical misdirection. As the police chase shadows, Father Brown quietly studies the human heart. He examines the angles, the lighting, the timing, and — most importantly — the motives. What he uncovers is a truth hidden in plain sight, a revelation that turns every eyewitness account upside down. This is Father Brown at his finest: humble, observant, and devastatingly perceptive.   ⭐ WHY THIS STORY STANDS OUT A murder committed in a theater passageway, surrounded by mirrors, costumes, and confusion Multiple eyewitnesses — all confident, all wrong A brilliant demonstration of Father Brown's method: understanding people, not just clues A twist that exposes how easily perception can be manipulated Chesterton's trademark blend of humor, philosophy, and suspense   ⭐ KEY THEMES 1. The Theater of Illusion The setting itself becomes a metaphor — a world where lighting, movement, and expectation distort reality. The "man in the passage" is less a person than a symbol of how the mind fills in what it wants to see. 2. The Fallibility of Witnesses Chesterton shows how even honest observers can be misled by emotion, fear, or the tricks of the stage. The case hinges on understanding why each witness saw something different. 3. Father Brown's Quiet Insight While others chase dramatic theories, Father Brown focuses on motive, guilt, and human weakness — the real clues that solve the mystery.   ⭐ ABOUT G. K. CHESTERTON & FATHER BROWN Chesterton's Father Brown stories remain among the most beloved detective tales ever written. Unlike Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown solves mysteries through empathy and moral insight rather than deduction alone. "The Man in the Passage" is a perfect example of his gentle brilliance.   ⭐ SOURCES & SUGGESTED READING (No copyrighted text is reproduced — these are citations and summaries only.) G. K. Chesterton — Father Brown Stories Public‑domain collections available through multiple literary archives. The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) Contains several of the most famous Father Brown mysteries. Critical essays on Chesterton's detective fiction For deeper insight into his themes of perception, morality, and illusion.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE SHOW & CONNECT WITH US If you enjoy 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales, please take a moment to: Review the show on Apple Podcasts Share this episode with friends who love classic mysteries Support us at Patreon — your help keeps the 1001 Stories Network thriving 👉 https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) Visit our website for all 1001 shows and archives 👉 https://www.bestof1001stories.com And now a strong request for all listeners: ⭐ FOLLOW US ON X (formerly Twitter) — @1001stories We post new episode releases, classic literature insights, and updates from www.bestof1001stories.com. Join us there — it's one of the best ways to stay connected with everything happening across the 1001 Stories Network.   ⭐ CLOSING NOTE "The Man in the Passage" is a masterclass in misdirection — a story where truth hides in the shadows of the stage, waiting for someone with Father Brown's quiet wisdom to bring it into the light. Thank you for listening, and for helping keep classic mysteries alive. Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM fOLLOW US AT X  @1001STORIES My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

⭐ SHOW NOTES THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Podcast By Edgar Allan Poe First published: 1841 Often called the first modern detective story, Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue introduced the world to a new kind of literary hero: the brilliant, eccentric, analytical detective. Long before Sherlock Holmes ever stepped onto Baker Street, Poe gave readers C. Auguste Dupin, a man whose mind could cut through confusion with cold precision. In this tale, Paris is shaken by a pair of brutal and seemingly impossible murders inside a locked apartment on the Rue Morgue. The violence is so shocking—and the circumstances so baffling—that the police are left with no explanation. Enter Dupin, whose fascination with the case leads him and his unnamed companion into one of the strangest and most perplexing mysteries in classic literature. What follows is a masterclass in early detective reasoning: a puzzle built on contradictions, eyewitness confusion, and clues that defy ordinary logic. Poe's story not only entertains—it establishes the blueprint for the detective genre that would later inspire Conan Doyle, Christie, and generations of mystery writers.   ⭐ WHY THIS STORY MATTERS Recognized as the first true detective story in Western literature Introduces the archetype of the analytical detective A gripping locked‑room mystery with unforgettable atmosphere A foundational influence on Sherlock Holmes and the entire mystery genre   ⭐ ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales presents Poe's groundbreaking tale in full narrative form, preserving its eerie Parisian atmosphere and the intellectual tension that made it a landmark in storytelling. It's a must‑listen for fans of classic mysteries, early detective fiction, and the roots of the Holmesian tradition.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our work and want to help keep these classic stories alive, please consider supporting us at: 👉 patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork Even a small monthly pledge helps us cover hosting, production, and licensing costs and keeps these shows available for listeners around the world.   ⭐ PLEASE SHARE & REVIEW If this episode brought you enjoyment, please take a moment to: Share it with friends who love classic mysteries Leave a review at Apple Podcasts Visit us at bestof1001stories.com Your support helps new listeners discover the show and keeps these timeless stories in circulation.   Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

⭐ SHOW NOTES THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales By Edgar Allan Poe First published: 1841 Often called the first modern detective story, Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue introduced the world to a new kind of literary hero: the brilliant, eccentric, analytical detective. Long before Sherlock Holmes ever stepped onto Baker Street, Poe gave readers C. Auguste Dupin, a man whose mind could cut through confusion with cold precision. In this tale, Paris is shaken by a pair of brutal and seemingly impossible murders inside a locked apartment on the Rue Morgue. The violence is so shocking—and the circumstances so baffling—that the police are left with no explanation. Enter Dupin, whose fascination with the case leads him and his unnamed companion into one of the strangest and most perplexing mysteries in classic literature. What follows is a masterclass in early detective reasoning: a puzzle built on contradictions, eyewitness confusion, and clues that defy ordinary logic. Poe's story not only entertains—it establishes the blueprint for the detective genre that would later inspire Conan Doyle, Christie, and generations of mystery writers.   ⭐ WHY THIS STORY MATTERS Recognized as the first true detective story in Western literature Introduces the archetype of the analytical detective A gripping locked‑room mystery with unforgettable atmosphere A foundational influence on Sherlock Holmes and the entire mystery genre   ⭐ ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales presents Poe's groundbreaking tale in full narrative form, preserving its eerie Parisian atmosphere and the intellectual tension that made it a landmark in storytelling. It's a must‑listen for fans of classic mysteries, early detective fiction, and the roots of the Holmesian tradition.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our work and want to help keep these classic stories alive, please consider supporting us at: 👉 patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork Even a small monthly pledge helps us cover hosting, production, and licensing costs and keeps these shows available for listeners around the world.   ⭐ PLEASE SHARE & REVIEW If this episode brought you enjoyment, please take a moment to: Share it with friends who love classic mysteries Leave a review at Apple Podcasts Visit us at bestof1001stories.com Your support helps new listeners discover the show and keeps these timeless stories in circulation.   Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tired wandering shepherd seeking redemption from his sins is befriended by strangers in the desert who send him to Bethlehem to witness a miracle. Enjoy 'The Lost Poacher" and other great Jack London short stories now at 1001 Best of Jack London- Apple and Spotify links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Enjoy Archives Only (No New Episodes) For These Shows Listed Below: ANDROID 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thanks to all of you for being loyal listeners! We are seeking your unique stories at two new interview style podcasts! The first- WITNESS....Everyone has a story Its one of those stories you share when you're sharing experiences- maybe you were in a movie, or involved in a rescue, or happening, or disaster; meeting a celebrity, cop or rescue stories, war stories, attending a concert (like Elvis's last concert), or a sports event with a one-of-a-kind outcome, you were on tv (Survivor, quiz show, news) or you had a very unique job experience, or trip- maybe you are a celebrity or known figure and would like to share, anything that makes a good story. The second GREATEST LOVE & FAMILY STORIES. Stories about dates, good or bad, love stories, how- we -met stories, love, marriage (60 + years make good stories), family- camping trips, adventures, mishaps, cooking disaster's, holiday disasters, etc), , Email me at 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com, include a short paragraph about your story or stories, your name and contact info, and our host will get in touch with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This classic tale from Hans Christian Anderson reminds us to always try to help the poor and needy, especially during the holidays when they are feeling alone and forgotten. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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What Christmas Is As We Grow Older by Charles Dickens is a bittersweet look at Christmas from the viewpoint of a man who has suffered a loss of loved ones. How The Captain Made Christmas by Thomas Nelson Page tells the story of a group of men riding a train who begin telling stories in the club car about the old conductor who befriended them one Christmas Does your cellphone stop sending new episodes every now and then? Apple Users- recent upgrades may have moved your download choices to a default setting- so if you miss 15 days or skip a few episodes it stops sending new ones. The FIX: Go to the three dots upper githt in your episode- go to your show page- three dots again upper right- click-at bottom see "Downloads"- scroll to bottom- click on "download all new episodes". Problem solved. For Android phones find the "Gear" symbol- same process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Two ladies enjoying knitting on a porch begin a conversation about one's experience with the ghost of a little girl who continues to ask "where's my mother"- until the storyteller finally reveals the tragedy of what happened to the little girl. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A small town in the often rainy Santa Ana Valley of California is brightened by the arrival of an investor who arranges a dance at the towns new hotel. he soon finds a friend in a female ranch owner and widow who becomes a victim of a swindler. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Planet Stories 1944 copy-A morgue ship with recent information gathered from space that would end a 300 year old war is commandeered by a greedy crew member who wants to sell the information to their enemies, the Martians- and only one man can stop him.   ANDROID USERS-   1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tongue-in-cheek story about a young writer who is enjoying great success until he writes a story that meets with unusually great acclaim- so much so that editors won't accept anything else from him that doesn't meet the quality of that piece. He finds himself in a tough spot, unable to support his new wife, and not knowing which way to turn.  Join us at our new Facebook page WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BESTOF1001STORIES.COM Get all of our shows at one website:  www.bestof1001stories.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

⭐ SHOW NOTES THE SINS OF PRINCE SARADINE A Father Brown Adventure by G. K. Chesterton First published: 1911 In this richly atmospheric Father Brown tale, G. K. Chesterton takes listeners deep into a world of faded aristocracy, hidden grudges, and the strange, brooding quiet of a remote lakeside estate. When Father Brown and his friend Flambeau travel north for a peaceful holiday, they find themselves drawn into the orbit of Prince Saradine, a charming but unsettling nobleman whose past seems to cling to him like a shadow. What begins as a simple visit soon turns into a tangle of old vendettas, mysterious visitors, and a duel of personalities—one ruled by pride and vanity, the other by humility and quiet insight. As tensions rise and danger closes in, Father Brown's unassuming wisdom becomes the only steady light in a world clouded by deception and revenge. Chesterton blends mood, mystery, and moral depth in a story that explores the consequences of a life lived for pleasure and the surprising ways justice can arrive—sometimes quietly, sometimes suddenly, but always inevitably.   ⭐ WHY THIS STORY STANDS OUT A vivid, almost gothic setting that heightens the tension A study in contrasts: vanity vs. humility, pride vs. conscience One of the more atmospheric and psychologically layered Father Brown stories A mystery driven as much by character as by plot A memorable example of Chesterton's belief that evil often hides behind elegance   ⭐ ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales brings Chesterton's tale to life with a focus on its moody setting, its moral undercurrents, and the quiet brilliance of Father Brown. It's a perfect listen for fans of classic detective fiction, character‑driven mysteries, and stories where atmosphere becomes a character in its own right.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our productions and want to help keep these classic stories alive, please consider supporting us at: 👉 patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork Your support helps us continue bringing timeless literature to listeners around the world.   ⭐ PLEASE SHARE & REVIEW If this episode resonated with you, please: Share it with friends who enjoy classic mysteries Leave a review at Apple Podcasts Visit us at bestof1001stories.com     Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young "man-cub" is raised by wolves in the jungles of India in this great story by Kipling- the first of many single chapter short stories in Kipling's 'The Jungle Book', which we are now reading chapter by chapter at 1001 Greatest Love & Family Stories. See show notes for links to Apple & Spotify. The story teaches loyalty, love, and courage, and The Jungle Book remains one of the biggest selling books ever written. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After winning an archery contest on behalf of the queen, the King decides to renege on his promise to allow Robin and his men a safe journey home, and sends 7 score of armed men to cut off all the roads to Nottingham. Robin sends his men in one direction while he follows another- a choice that saves his men but lands him in trouble more than once. His cunning and some old friends come to the rescue.  Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mother was written and published originally in an anthology titled A House Party: An account of stories told at a gathering of famous authors. Wister published the short story in 1907, adding approximately 25% new material at the beginning in order to adequately introduce the story. Owen Wister was best known for his western story The Virginian. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two stories containing memories of small towns and home on the farm in Iowa from the 1917 book "Prairie Gold". This book featured a collection of "home" stories to remind the boys fighting on the front in WWI that home would be there waiting for them. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A man named Fitzpatrick is sent into the Michigan woods in winter to provide accurate estimates of each days work done by a group of hard case Irish lumberjacks who constantly challenge his numbers, feeling that they are being shorted. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Little Black Doll- An orphaned girl being raised by an unloving grandmother does her best to comfort another little girl who has only a few days to live Uncle Richard's New Year Dinner- A kindly niece decices to surprise her estranged Uncle with a fully cooked dinner before he arrives home Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this three part story, with each part having a different outcome, a young shepherd and poet leaves his home in search of adventure and finds it. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

🎙️  🎙️ SHOW NOTES — "The Schoolmistress" by Anton Chekhov In this quietly heartbreaking story, Anton Chekhov turns his attention to the life of a rural schoolteacher whose world is shaped by duty, exhaustion, and the small indignities of life on the edge of poverty. "The Schoolmistress" follows Maria Vasilievna as she makes a difficult journey through the countryside — a journey that becomes a window into her inner life, her memories, and the quiet hopes she rarely allows herself to voice. Chekhov paints her world with his signature blend of tenderness and realism: the harshness of the landscape, the indifference of those around her, and the fleeting moments of beauty that keep her going. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who longs for warmth and connection, yet finds herself trapped in a life that offers little of either. Without revealing the ending, this is a story about loneliness, resilience, and the emotional cost of a life spent giving more than one receives. Chekhov's compassion for ordinary people shines through every line. hekhov's wonderful portrait of a school mistress who daily has to face low pay, loneliness, and unfair practices that come with working for the Russian system in which promotions go to relatives and friends and those with the proper connections. Get all of our shows at one website: www.bestof1001stories.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Annie Trumbull Slosson was a prolific author of novels and short stories mostly dealing with New England life and nature. In this story the central character, Jimmy, was a 70 something man who roamed the waterways of the New Hampshire wilds and was kind to everyone and every animal he met. When he came across a traveling preacher who shared his love for fishing- Jimmy discovered religion. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A true piece of American west history as cowboy Andy Adams, in his book 'A Texas Matchmaker', recalls his younger days working as a cowboy on a Texas ranch and enjoying the competitions between his ranch and others- events to which came hundreds of men and women. It was a time to compete in feats of horsemanship and a time to kindle flames. The only problem seemed to be that young men could read cattle brands much easier than they could read women..... Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In part two detective Valmont is hunting the American- and finally believes he has him trapped in a 13 mile stretch of river ending in a lock. From here the story begins to unfold.... Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We introduce in this story the vain French detective Eugene Valmont, who VERY likely was the inspiration for Agatha Christie's vain Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Barr wrote this short mystery in 1906 and its a pretty good story- here a very valuable diamond necklace which has fallen into the hands of the french government goes up for auction and Chief detective Eugene Valmont is assigned to protect not only the diamond but the person who buys it. It turns into quite a story! Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Father Brown attends a private party at the home of the city police chief only to find an apparent stranger lying murdered in the chief's walled off back garden. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In part two we move forward in time to where Carrie is in a finishing school out east and a man from her past comes to visit... Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This classic Bret Harte story follows the life of a young woman who learns to see and feel beyond herself when she is introduced to her ex-husband's orphaned daughter as she tries to leave Fiddletown and her bad memories of it behind. The story takes many twists and turns and deals with 19th century morals as well as racist treatment of the Chinese. Fiddletown was a booming gold rush town in 1853 and sported a population of 2,000 souls. When the gold ran out, a Chinese population took root there and it became the largest concentration of Chinese outside of san Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A gritty tale of four Britons assigned to work in India who brave the terrible heat every Sunday to meet at one of the men's shacks. All have different jobs and work far apart among non-British people, so they all come seeking the company of like minds despite the terrible conditions. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In part two we find our fourth wise man still searching for the new king- until his journey ends in Palestine and he gives up his last valuable- his pearl. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You have all heard of the three wise men who followed the shining star over Bethlehem to honor the new born king- but did you ever hear the story of the fourth wise man? In part one, a wise Magi believes the heavens have aligned in a manner that is foretelling the coming of a new king of the Jews who will bring peace to the land- and he sells his home and leaves on a journey to honor the new king, planning to meet up with the other three Magi who have invited him to join them. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A doctor solves a closed room murder involving a man who has been stabbed in the back with a dagger while the door was locked from the inside and there was no other means of escape for the killer. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Back by popular demand- this is one of O.Henry's best! This "Home Alone" style comedy has been made into a movie plus countless bits on TV sitcoms have used versions of it over the years. Two hapless con men try to kidnap a wealthy man's boy but get more than they bargained for.. O.HENRY STORIES PODCAST SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW...   Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A circuit preacher with a particular dislike for human frailty and slovenliness breaks down on the job and his doctor sends him to a tiny hamlet in the middle of nowhere to rest. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Show Notes – "The Magic Egg" by Frank R. Stockton Summary Frank R. Stockton's The Magic Egg is a whimsical, gently satirical tale about belief, persuasion, and the strange power of confidence. The story centers on a curious performer who claims to possess a "magic egg"—an object that supposedly grants him extraordinary influence over audiences. As the tale unfolds, Stockton uses humor and light fantasy to explore how easily people can be swayed when they want to believe in something marvelous. With Stockton's trademark blend of charm, wit, and subtle social commentary, The Magic Egg invites listeners to consider how imagination shapes reality—and how a simple illusion can become irresistible when presented with conviction.   About the Author Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902) was one of America's most beloved humorists of the late 19th century. Best known for The Lady, or the Tiger?, Stockton specialized in playful, imaginative stories that gently poked fun at human nature. His work often blends fantasy with satire, creating worlds where the improbable feels perfectly at home.   Why We Selected This Story The Magic Egg is a delightful example of Stockton's ability to mix humor with insight. It's light, clever, and wonderfully suited to audio—full of character moments and gentle absurdity that shine in spoken form. The story's theme of belief versus reality resonates today just as strongly as it did when Stockton first penned it.   Themes & Talking Points The Power of Belief – How much of magic is simply persuasion? Showmanship & Illusion – Stockton's playful look at performance culture. Human Nature – Why people are drawn to the extraordinary. Satire Wrapped in Fantasy – A hallmark of Stockton's storytelling.   Listener Support If you enjoy this episode, please help us grow by sharing 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales with friends, family, and fellow lovers of classic literature. Your word‑of‑mouth support keeps these timeless stories alive. You can also support the show in the following ways: Join us at Patreon and help sustain the 1001 Stories Network: www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork (patreon.com in Bing) Leave a review at Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Reviews help new listeners discover the show. Explore all our shows at the 1001 Stories Network: www.bestof1001stories.com Your support truly makes a difference and helps us continue bringing classic storytelling to listeners around the world.   Closing Note Thank you for listening to The Magic Egg. Stockton's stories remind us that sometimes the most powerful magic is simply the magic we choose to believe in.   A young hypnotist hopes to wow the people of his hometown as well as his bride to be with a carefully crafted stage show....  My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Robin Hood finally achieves his dream of becoming a beggar, at least for a day, and in the process outwits and outfights a number of scoundrels who end up contributing their wealth to the cause.  Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An astronaut named Holloway develops a PTSD-related phobia as the ship he in on nears Mars, and insists upon getting back to earth. The crew psychologist is tasked with convincing him he is approaching Earth, not Mars, and asks the Captain to treat Holloway with kid gloves if he expects him to perform any duties when they land. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP3w 1001 Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWNTw 1001 Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ37 1001's Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3NqgF 1001 Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa8H 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lkWn 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8aFQ 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPaTK 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSDKJ 1001 Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O9K 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvSHe 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6Ghr APPLE USERS New! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-tales-of-escape-and-suspense/id1689248043 Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 Classic Short Stories at Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The fish patrol comes upon a situation where a crew of Italians fishing illegally go to great extremes not to get caught by the law before being offered asylum by an anchored British ship. Charley and his mate, our narrator, spend weeks patrolling the anchored ship in an effort to prevent the escapees from escaping- until an idea hits them.... New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this gripping Australian tale, Henry Lawson recounts the life of a bush woman who rarely sees her husband and knows only a life of drudgery and work amidst a passel of children. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man moving with his wife to a bleak shack in the Australian Outback begins to see the errors in his past actions that brought them to this point. An excellent tale of the reality of life in the unforgiving outback from Australia's legendary poet and short story writer Henry Lawson. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two ghostly stories by one of the masters, Ambrose Bierce, New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

THE NAMESAKE by WILLA CATHER The Namesake tells the framed story of Lyon Hartwell, an American sculptor living in Paris, who explains to a group of young American art students how a return to his family's Pennsylvania home rekindled his sense of national belonging and shaped a major work, "The Color Sergeant." The narrative moves from Hartwell's orphaned childhood and artistic training in Rome and Paris to a poignant visit to his father's birthplace in the United States, where discovering his uncle's grave and a trunk bearing his name awakens a deep kinship with his American rootschoices. What inspired Willa Cather to write the story Cather drew on a family legend about a maternal uncle who died in the Civil War and on her own experience of travel and residence in France and Pittsburgh. She had earlier written a poem called "The Namesake" dedicated to a soldier-uncle; in the 1907 short story she reworked that material, shifting details (including the uncle's wartime allegiance) and placing an American expatriate artist at the center to examine how returning home can supply moral and imaginative fuel. Scholars note that Cather's personal name-story and her summers in France and years in Pittsburgh helped shape the tale.    Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A gambler returns to his hometown to find his best friend down in the dumps because his beautiful wife has rejected him. Now Here! 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins from Matthew 25 states that ten virgins await a bridegroom , five have brought enough oil for their lamps to wait, while the oil of the other five runs out. the five virgins who prepare for the bridegroom's arrival are rewarded while the five who went to buy more oil miss the bridegroom's arrival and are disowned. Unless I'm missing something bridegroom's had it pretty good in those days. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

⭐ SHOW NOTES LITTLE JOHN TURNS BAREFOOT FRIAR at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales By Howard Pyle From The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) In this lively and humorous tale from Howard Pyle's classic The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Little John steps into one of his most memorable disguises — trading his yeoman's green for the short, ill‑fitting robes of a barefoot friar. What begins as a playful springtime challenge between Robin Hood and his loyal lieutenant quickly turns into a comic adventure filled with mischief, music, and a lesson in humility for a pair of unsuspecting churchmen. As Little John wanders the countryside in his borrowed friar's habit, he charms three maidens, outdrinks a tinker and a peddler, and sings with the carefree spirit of a man enjoying the freedom of the open road. But the real fun begins when he encounters two pompous brothers from Fountain Abbey — men who pride themselves on their status and wealth. Little John's good‑natured teasing soon exposes their hypocrisy, and in true Sherwood fashion, he turns the tables with wit, strength, and a little help from "Saint Dunstan." This episode showcases Pyle at his best: bright spring landscapes, quick banter, and the joyful camaraderie that defines the Robin Hood legend. It's a story of disguises, laughter, and the triumph of simple honesty over pretension — all wrapped in the warm humor that has made Pyle's retelling beloved for generations.   ⭐ WHY THIS STORY DELIGHTS A classic Robin Hood "disguise adventure" with Little John in the spotlight Rich humor and playful dialogue — Pyle's trademark style A gentle satire of pride, hypocrisy, and false piety Memorable encounters with travelers, minstrels, and pompous friars A perfect example of Sherwood Forest's merry justice   ⭐ THEMES TO LISTEN FOR Humor and humility — how laughter reveals character The joy of springtime wandering — Pyle's vivid seasonal imagery Disguise as a test of virtue — a recurring Robin Hood motif Class and hypocrisy — the contrast between true goodness and outward show Little John's personality — loyal, mischievous, and larger than life   ⭐ ABOUT HOWARD PYLE Howard Pyle (1853–1911) brought the Robin Hood legend to American audiences with unmatched color and charm. His 1883 collection remains one of the most influential retellings ever published, shaping how generations imagine Robin, Little John, Friar Tuck, and the greenwood itself. Pyle's blend of adventure, humor, and moral warmth continues to resonate with readers and listeners today.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our productions and want to help keep these classic stories alive, please consider supporting us at: 👉 patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork Your support helps us continue bringing timeless literature to listeners around the world.   ⭐ PLEASE SHARE & REVIEW If this episode brought you enjoyment, please: Share it with friends who love classic adventure Leave a review at Apple Podcasts Visit us at bestof1001stories.com Your support helps new listeners discover the show.

1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Listen Now" Dr. Watson's Memoirs Holmes vs. Dracula-The Horror at Whitby Manor, at 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories Podcast  🎙️ Podcast Show Notes — "The Third Ingredient" by O. Henry 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Episode Summary: In early‑1900s New York, a young woman named Hetty Pepper loses her job and faces an empty cupboard. When she meets a kind stranger in the hallway of her boarding house, the two decide to combine their meager supplies — a potato, an onion, and a can of tomatoes — into a single meal. What follows is one of O. Henry's most tender stories: a celebration of generosity, companionship, and the mysterious "third ingredient" that turns survival into hope. Themes: Compassion in hard times The dignity of ordinary people The magic of shared humanity Love as the unseen ingredient that transforms life Why It Matters: O. Henry wrote this story in 1908, when New York was bursting with immigrants, dreamers, and strugglers. His humor and empathy remind us that even in the toughest moments, kindness can change everything. It's a story about food, friendship, and the quiet miracle of connection — timeless, relatable, and deeply American. Key Quote: "Love is the third ingredient — the one that makes the whole world worth cooking for." Listen for: O. Henry's signature twist — not of fate, but of feeling The warmth of his dialogue and the rhythm of his city The way a simple meal becomes a metaphor for life itself Perfect Pairing: If you enjoyed The Third Ingredient, try The Gift of the Magi or The Furnished Room — both explore love and sacrifice in O. Henry's New York.   🌟 Pitch — 1001 Stories from the Gilded Age Step back into America's most fascinating era — the Gilded Age — when invention, ambition, and artistry collided. 1001 Stories from the Gilded Age brings you voices from 1870 to 1920: Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more. These are stories of transformation — of women finding independence, of men chasing fortune, of a nation discovering its soul. If you love O. Henry's New York, you'll love the world that shaped it. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts — and rediscover the age that made modern America.   🎙️ Podcast Show Notes — "The Third Ingredient" by O. Henry 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Episode Summary: In early‑1900s New York, a young woman named Hetty Pepper loses her job and faces an empty cupboard. When she meets a kind stranger in the hallway of her boarding house, the two decide to combine their meager supplies — a potato, an onion, and a can of tomatoes — into a single meal. What follows is one of O. Henry's most tender stories: a celebration of generosity, companionship, and the mysterious "third ingredient" that turns survival into hope. Themes: Compassion in hard times The dignity of ordinary people The magic of shared humanity Love as the unseen ingredient that transforms life Why It Matters: O. Henry wrote this story in 1908, when New York was bursting with immigrants, dreamers, and strugglers. His humor and empathy remind us that even in the toughest moments, kindness can change everything. It's a story about food, friendship, and the quiet miracle of connection — timeless, relatable, and deeply American. Key Quote: "Love is the third ingredient — the one that makes the whole world worth cooking for." Listen for: O. Henry's signature twist — not of fate, but of feeling The warmth of his dialogue and the rhythm of his city The way a simple meal becomes a metaphor for life itself Perfect Pairing: If you enjoyed The Third Ingredient, try The Gift of the Magi or The Furnished Room — both explore love and sacrifice in O. Henry's New York.   🌟 Try this podcast!  1001 Stories from the Gilded Age Step back into America's most fascinating era — the Gilded Age — when invention, ambition, and artistry collided. 1001 Stories from the Gilded Age brings you voices from 1870 to 1920: Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more. These are stories of transformation — of women finding independence, of men chasing fortune, of a nation discovering its soul. If you love O. Henry's New York, you'll love the world that shaped it. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts — and rediscover the age that made modern America.

This story about an evil knight and his band of men who decide to attack and destroy the nearby castle of an Abbey and his monks features the famous Robert Barr diabolical twist at the end... New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Miggles" by Bret Harte Bret Harte's "Miggles" is one of those frontier stories that begins with rough humor and bad weather, then quietly shifts into something far more human and memorable. A group of travelers, stranded on a storm‑soaked night in the Sierra foothills, seek shelter at a lonely cabin. What they find there is not what they expect. Inside lives Miggles, a woman whose past is hinted at only in fragments, yet whose strength, generosity, and unconventional life immediately command attention. She cares for a paralyzed man with a devotion that surprises the travelers, challenging their assumptions about respectability, sacrifice, and what it means to live a good life on the margins of society. Harte blends frontier realism with a gentle emotional pull, revealing character through small gestures, unexpected humor, and the stark honesty of life lived far from polite company. The story becomes a portrait of compassion in a place where compassion is rarely found, and of a woman who has carved out her own kind of dignity in the wilderness. It's a tale that lingers—quiet, touching, and unmistakably Bret Harte. Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A noted sociologist returns to the city of his boyhood to find it has changed for the worse. He decides to explore a tavern and ends up being surrounded and beaten by the owner and his cronies, who press charges against him and perjure themselves in court -where the judge is in on the fix. Later, a strange quirk of fate allows the wronged man a chance at revenge. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask of Amontadillo is a story of revenge. A man named Montresor lures an old friend who unknowingly wronged him to sample his rare wine selection, located deep beneath his villa in old catecombs. He then chains the man to the walls and builds a wall to hide the man from any searchers. Inspired by a legend Poe had heard while he was serving with the army in Boston. SUPPORT OUR SHOW MONTHLY AT PATREON Become an Assistant Producer at 1001 Stories Network ( a great resume enhancement) and support us at Patreon today! Here;s the link: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED!   Catch RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 HEROES now at Apple iTunes Podcast App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622?mt=2 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901?mt=2 ANDROID USERS- CATCH OUR SHOWS AT WWW.CASTBOX.FM SUBSCRIBE FREE THEN SHARE THANK YOU 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id381734?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1114843?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to  WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM Links: Our Twitter: @1001podcast Our Facebook: www.Facebook.com/1001Heroes Our Email: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This well-written but controversial short story involves a wealthy woman who finds an 11 year old boy by the seashore and, finding that he has no mother or father, talks the old man who raised him into letting the boy be raised by her so he can attend fine schools and have a better life. This story drives reviewers wild due to the woman's brazenness and the old man's decision to let the boy go, but I add it for its literary quality. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

🕒 Summary of "Zero Hour" "Zero Hour" follows a seemingly ordinary suburban day in the Morris household, where seven‑year‑old Mink and the neighborhood children are wildly excited about a new game they call "Invasion." Mink raids the kitchen for pots, pans, and odd supplies, insisting they're needed for instructions given by a mysterious figure named Drill. The story unfolds through the eyes of Mrs. Morris, who watches the children's play with mild amusement, even as their behavior grows stranger. Mink talks to empty spaces, uses unfamiliar words, and hints that the "game" is part of a larger plan involving beings "not exactly Martians." The children, she says, are helping these visitors because adults are too busy and too logical to notice what's happening. As the day progresses, the children's excitement builds toward a moment they call Zero Hour. Only at the end does Mrs. Morris realize the truth: the "game" is real, the aliens are coming, and the children have been used as the perfect entry point for an invasion. The story closes on a chilling note as the invasion begins inside the Morris home. 📚 Themes and Significance •     Loss of innocence — Bradbury uses children's play to mask a genuine threat, showing how innocence can be manipulated. •     Generational disconnect — Adults dismiss what they don't understand, leaving them blind to danger. •     Technology and vulnerability — The story reflects mid‑20th‑century anxieties about unseen forces reshaping society. 🧭 Why "Zero Hour" Endures •     It's one of Bradbury's most effective blends of domestic realism and science‑fiction dread, using the familiar rhythms of family life to heighten the shock of the ending. •     It showcases his gift for foreshadowing, with small oddities accumulating until the final reveal. •     It remains culturally resonant as a cautionary tale about underestimating the young, overconfidence in adult logic, and the dangers of ignoring subtle signs of change.    New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us!  Get all of our shows at one website: hwww.bestof1001stories.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiesp odcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While enjoying the company of an old friend, a middle-aged man recalls his unusual New Year's Eve trapped by a rushing tide aboard a wrecked schooner with a younger woman who had come with her father and sisters to sketch it before the wrecked hull was swept away by the ocean. Soon they were trapped by the wind and the rising sea,not knowing if the sea would reclaim the wreck along with them. This is one of Maupassant's best romance stories. Remade Jan 2020 for your enjoyment. New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20ghost%20stories 1001 Stories for the Road on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20stories%20for%20the%20road Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20greatest%20love%20stories 1001 History's Best Storytellers: (author interviews) on Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/1001-historys-best-storytellers APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

⭐ SHOW NOTES HOW RICHARD OF THE LEA PAID HIS DEBTS at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales By Howard Pyle From The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) In this spirited chapter from Howard Pyle's classic Robin Hood cycle, we follow the plight of Richard of the Lea, a nobleman crushed beneath the weight of impossible debts and the ruthless demands of the powerful Abbot of St. Mary's. With his lands, his honor, and even his family's future hanging in the balance, Richard turns to the one place where justice still has a fighting chance—the greenwood. There he finds Robin Hood and his band of outlaws, whose generosity and sense of fairness stand in stark contrast to the greed of the wealthy and the powerful. What follows is a tale of loyalty, courage, and cleverness, as Robin and his men devise a bold plan to help Richard reclaim his freedom and confront those who would see him ruined. Pyle blends humor, tension, and high adventure in a story that captures the heart of the Robin Hood legend: the triumph of compassion over cruelty, and the belief that even the poorest man deserves a champion.   ⭐ WHY THIS STORY ENDURES A classic example of Robin Hood's code of honor and generosity A tale where wit and courage outmatch wealth and corruption Strong themes of loyalty, justice, and the value of true friendship One of the most memorable "aid to the oppressed" episodes in Pyle's Robin Hood canon   ⭐ ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales brings Howard Pyle's timeless adventure to life with its full measure of warmth, humor, and medieval color. Listeners will enjoy a story that showcases Robin Hood at his best—bold, compassionate, and always ready to stand against injustice.   ⭐ SUPPORT THE 1001 STORIES NETWORK If you enjoy our productions and want to help keep these classic stories alive, please consider supporting us at: 👉 patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork Your support helps us continue bringing timeless literature to listeners around the world.   ⭐ PLEASE SHARE & REVIEW If this episode brought you enjoyment, please: Share it with friends who love classic adventure tales Leave a review at Apple Podcasts Visit us at bestof1001stories.com Your support helps new listeners discover the show.   Get all of our shows at one website: WWW.BESTOF1001STORIES.COM REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices