1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

 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-...

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 SUP...

'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 s...

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-h...

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...

  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.  ...

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 10...

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...

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.bestof1001storie...

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 a...

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 th...

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...

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 . ...

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.bestof100...

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   ...

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...

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 Octo...

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 Stor...

'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....

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...

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 O...

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 o...

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.   ...