Poe for Kids

A kid-friendly adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” for listeners ages 8-12. This is Part 2 of 2.Days have passed since Madeline was laid to rest in the vault, and Roderick Usher is coming apart. He wanders the halls, stares at nothing, and seems to be listening for something only he can hear. Then a wild storm rolls in, and on a sleepless night the man tries to calm hi...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A kid-friendly adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” for listeners ages 8-12. This is Part 1 of 2. On a dull, gray autumn day, a man rides toward a crumbling old mansion, called there by a letter from a boyhood friend who is unwell and wants company. Roderick Usher has changed since they last met. He is pale, jum...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A kid-friendly adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Sphinx" for listeners ages 8-12. A terrible sickness is sweeping through New York City, and a young man escapes to a quiet cottage on the Hudson River to wait it out. But the bad news keeps arriving, and his nerves are wearing thin. Then one afternoon, gazing out the window at a distant h...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. School's back, which means Buggy started 4th grade, picked up violin and tennis, and recording time got tight. We're not stopping — just slowing down for a bit. In this short bonus episode, we let you know what's coming next: The Sphinx is up first, then we close out Season One with one of Poe's most famous scary stories (Dad's keeping it...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A kid-friendly adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "A Descent into the Maelström" for listeners ages 8-12. High on a cliff overlooking the coast of Norway, an old fisherman tells a story that turned his hair white in a single day. He and his brothers sailed too close to a monstrous whirlpool, a real, ferocious current called the Moskstraumen,...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A kid-friendly adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" for listeners ages 8-12. Deep beneath the streets, in tunnels lined with bones and heavy with damp air, one man leads another toward the promise of a rare wine — but it isn't friendship guiding the way. When Montresor invites his old rival Fortunato down into the cata...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A kid-friendly adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" for listeners ages 8–12. A stolen letter, a government minister hiding it in plain sight, and a detective who solves the case by refusing to think like everyone else — Auguste Dupin returns to untangle a mystery that has the entire Paris police force stumped. They've sea...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A kid-friendly adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug" for listeners ages 8–12. A strange golden beetle, a scrap of weathered paper, and a code no one can crack — William Legrand is convinced they add up to something extraordinary. When a mysterious cryptogram sends him on a hunt across a remote South Carolina island, even his close...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A kid-friendly adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and The Pendulum" for listeners ages 8-12. Buried in total darkness, with no idea what waits in the room around him — a prisoner must use every ounce of nerve just to survive the night. When a condemned man wakes up trapped in a dungeon during the Spanish Inquisition, he must outlast...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A kid-friendly adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" for listeners ages 8–12. A body found behind a locked door, a room no one could have entered or left — and a detective determined to solve it. When two women are murdered in a Paris apartment under impossible circumstances, C. Auguste Dupin sets out to untangle...

Prince Prospero thinks he can hide from anything — even death itself — behind the walls of his abbey. But when a mysterious stranger shows up uninvited to his masquerade ball, things don't go quite the way he planned. Join Buggy and Dad as they explore one of Edgar Allan Poe's spookiest stories, translated for curious young listeners ages 8-12.

Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of guilt and a telltale heartbeat, adapted for kids. A man swears he's not mad, but the sound of a heart beating under the floorboards says otherwise. Episode 1 of Poe for Kids.