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Episode 111
A malignant vapor, weird plagues and punishments, a Polish dwarf, and a perilous journey into the lightless depths of a pyramid — all included in thi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Animal Ghosts
Episode 110
Tales of animal ghosts are usually relegated to the periphery of ghost story collections, but in this episode, we showcase this class of apparition. …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Colony of Cats
Episode 109
Fairy tales featuring cats are generally pleasant. After our last show about malformed births, we thought, Andrew Lang’s story, “The Colony of Cats” …
2 years, 10 months ago
Strange Births and Monsters
Episode 108
For centuries, strange births, often sounding like mythological monsters, were regarded as portents of ill omen. We hear a number of these fantastica…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Man Who Crucified Himself
Episode 107
A self-crucifixion that occurred in 1806 on the island of San Servolo in the Venetian lagoon is the topic of our story this time around. The perpetr…
2 years, 11 months ago
An Irish Ghost Story
Episode 106
An Irish ghost story seems a good way to add a bit of Halloween spice to your St. Patrick’s Day. Our selection, which will be read by Mrs. Karswell, …
2 years, 11 months ago
Epitaphs
Episode 105
Epitaphs can sum up the life of the individual buried beneath or can comment on the human condition generally. From the melancholy to the absurd to t…
3 years ago
A Remarkable Circumstance
Episode 104
A potpourri of peculiar tales culled from a favorite 19th-century volume. This episode features some outstanding British eccentrics, an extraordinar…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Stone Eater and other Curious Cases
Episode 103
Enjoy with us a collection of short curious tales culled from a favorite Victorian volume — the Stone Eater of London, a mariner’s report of fire fr…
3 years, 1 month ago
P.T. Barnum's Magnificent Museum Fire
Episode 102
The fire that destroyed P.T. Barnum’s American Museum on July 13, 1865 was a luxuriantly surreal and tragic event, one described beautifully in a con…
3 years, 1 month ago