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⭐ 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 ...  Show more

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 arc ...  Show more

Drift off to to sleep with this mysterious bedtime story, The Man on the Train by Lucy Maud Montgomery. A passenger takes the train for the very first time and strikes up a conversation with the stranger next to her. An old grandma whose advice to the family to never take a train ...  Show more

Show Notes — That Little Square Box Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Series: 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tone: Suspenseful, humorous, and slyly satirical ⭐ Summary (Spoiler‑Safe) In this clever early tale from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a nervous ...  Show more

Show Notes — The Musgrave Ritual (The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) This radio adaptation of The Musgrave Ritual brings one of Conan Doyle's most atmospheric mysteries to life, blending manor‑house intrigue, ancient tradition, and Holmes's gift for decoding the past. The sto ...  Show more

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Kate Henderson-Nichol ✍️  Sound design: village train station ambience 🚉 Includes mentions of: Food, Nostalgia, Trains, Romance Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll join an elderly lady as she travels to London by train, to meet an old f ...  Show more