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🎙️ SHOW NOTES — "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In "The Adventure of the Crooked Man," Conan Doyle delivers one of his most quiet ...  Show more

🎙️ SHOW NOTES — "The Gospel According to Joan" at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Podcast 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, one of America's finest chroniclers of New England life, brings her trademark blend of realism, tenderness, and quiet moral in ...  Show more

Is this the greatest man vs. nature story ever? Hard to say. But it just might be the purest. Kicking off a new HOL feature, producer Emma chooses a short story for Jacke to read and discuss - Jack London's classic "To Build a Fire.". Get somewhere warm and let your mind drift to ...  Show more

Cordovir and Hum encounter a mysterious metallic object balancing on fire! As they debate its origins, a chilling realization sets in: what lurks inside could challenge everything they know about morality and truth. The Monsters by Robert Sheckley, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi ...  Show more

Otis presents two terrifying tales by Kyle Harrison as only he can. In the first, a classified as describes an unusual and unpleasant...but much needed...open position. In the second, a man revisits a library from his childhood to find a book he loved is still there, and contains ...  Show more

A lot of glib fiction has been written about life on other planets, with space ships dropping down among alien races, zap guns decimating the enemy, while Our Hero goes after a Beautiful Princess. But Mr. Clarke takes the realistic approach. Encounter in the Dawn by Arthur C. Cla ...  Show more