1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

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 Tw...

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 inc...

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, receive...

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 abil...

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 o...

METwo classic stories included: The Frog Prince and Briar Rose. Enjoy! Reviews welcome. 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/id1656939169Jon Hagadorn Catch 1001...

Two unscrupulous Englishmen murder a group of Chinamen who are about to find a treasure in gold ingots but find the treasure better protected than they thought... Join us at www.bestof1001stories.com to brose all 12 of our 1001 podcasts and leave a few reviews!  Thanks

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 st...

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 - http...

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 R...

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 REVIEW...

"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 Wode...

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...

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/p...

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

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 100...

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:/...

 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...

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 o...

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 1...

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 fir...