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The Classic Tales Podcast delivers professional performances of unabridged classics. Enjoy classic short fiction from Poe, Dickens, Hardy, and others. Performed by character actor B.J. Harrison.

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Love comes to John and Kismine in the Hidden Valley of the Diamonds. They spend the long, lazy summer vowing never to part. Yet, how far will Kismine's father go to keep this valley of immeasurable wealth a secret? The answer will shake the earth. F. Scott Fitzgerald, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
Direct download: CT_134_Diamond_Ritzpt2.mp3
Category: Literature -- posted at: 2:13 AM
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Percy Washington says that his dad is the richest man in the world. His preparatory schoolmate, John, squints with a skeptical eye. Percy says his dad has a diamond as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Well, that seems like a good fantasy. But what happens when John finds out that Percy is telling the truth? F. Scott Fitzgerald, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
Direct download: CT_133_Diamond_RitzPt1.mp3
Category: Literature -- posted at: 3:45 AM
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Haunting screams in the night herald the existence of something evil. The cries cannot be of a beast, but was there ever man or woman born who could create such a torrent of screaming infamy? Perhaps the daughter, Olalla, will explain all. Of course, she may also turn out to be the screaming demoniac.  Robert Louis Stevenson, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
Direct download: CT_132_Olalla_Part_2_of_2.mp3
Category: Literature -- posted at: 2:36 AM
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There is something wrong about the Spanish residencia on the hill. Some disregard it as only a house with a mad woman with her two children. Others claim that unspeakable things happen at night, when the house is in the shadows. When a wounded war hero takes refuge in this forbidding home, he slowly realizes that degenerate people tend to fraternize with degenerate spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
Direct download: CT_131_OlallaPt1.mp3
Category: Literature -- posted at: 3:59 AM
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Superstitions around Suffolk hold that one who whistles on the seashore kindles the wind. But Professor Parkins discovers that some whistles summon more than empty atmosphere. M.R. James, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
Direct download: CT_130_Whistle.mp3
Category: Literature -- posted at: 12:20 AM
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Layers of evidence reveal to Abercrombie Smith that Bellingham must be at the bottom of the strange attacks. But in the method and manner of these outrages he finds something he cannot believe. Finally, he sees the red eyes of the demoniac in the dead of night, and his worst fears are realized. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
Direct download: CT_129_Lot_249_Pt.2.mp3
Category: Literature -- posted at: 3:26 AM
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Unexplained events are happening at Oxford these days. Several students have been attacked at night by some strange form of wild animal. It can scale walls with cat-like agility. Its arms are as thin and as strong as steel bands. And there is one student who conducts midnight studies in his room with certain Egyptian artifacts. The most significant of which is a 6'7" tall mummy. Arthur Conan Doyle, today, on The Classic Tales Podcast.
Direct download: CT_128_Lot_249_Pt.1.mp3
Category: Literature -- posted at: 2:35 AM
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