The Classic Tales Podcast

The true nature of the 39 Steps is brought to light. John Buchan, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to this VINTAGE episode of The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   Are you looking for the ideal audiobook to fit your mood? To hit that sweet spot? The Audiobook Library Card is the just what the doctor ordered. Need some colorful characters? Check out our Charles Dickens selections. Need a laugh? Wooster and Jeeves have you covered. Adventure? We’ve got pirates, and swashbucklers aplenty. Looking for a classic thrill? Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera, or any of our other selections. Take the guesswork out of your listening experience with unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire Classic Tales Library for $9.99 a month. Each title is heavily curated, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobooklibrarycard.com or follow the link in the show notes.   And of course, you can always listen to the podcast for free for a great listening experience.   Only about a quarter of the titles in the library have been on the podcast. There are thousands of hours of adventure, mystery, and more.    So, head on over to audiobooklibrarycard.com, hit the appropriate button, and start listening.     And now, The 39 Steps, Part 2 of 4, by John Buchan       Follow this link to get The Audiobook Library Card for $9.99/month       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:

Have you ever had the longest day? What about the horror of sensing the days getting shorter? William Hope Hodgson, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   Have you listened to the Fu-Manchu trilogy? How about the John Carter Trilogy? How about all 51 hours of The Count of Monte Cristo? With the audiobook library card, you can listen to all this and more for only $9.99 a month. Unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire Classic Tales Library. No limits, just is heavily curated, well produced audio, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobooklibrarycard.com or follow the link in the show notes.     And now, The House on the Borderland, Part 4 of 5,  by William Hope Hodgson   Follow this link to get The Audiobook Library Card for a special price of $9.99/month       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:    

Richard Hannay’s adventures continue! John Buchan, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to this VINTAGE episode of The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   Are you looking for the ideal audiobook to fit your mood? To hit that sweet spot? The Audiobook Library Card is the just what the doctor ordered. Need some colorful characters? Check out our Charles Dickens selections. Need a laugh? Wooster and Jeeves have you covered. Adventure? We’ve got pirates, and swashbucklers aplenty. Looking for a classic thrill? Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera, or any of our other selections. Take the guesswork out of your listening experience with unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire Classic Tales Library for $9.99 a month. Each title is heavily curated, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobooklibrarycard.com or follow the link in the show notes.   And of course, you can always listen to the podcast for free for a great listening experience.   Only about a quarter of the titles in the library have been on the podcast. There are thousands of hours of adventure, mystery, and more.    So, head on over to audiobooklibrarycard.com, hit the appropriate button, and start listening.     And now, The 39 Steps, Part 2 of 4, by John Buchan       Follow this link to get The Audiobook Library Card for $9.99/month       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:

Where did the swine creatures go after the attack on the house? William Hope Hodgson, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   Have you listened to the Fu-Manchu trilogy? How about the John Carter Trilogy? How about all 38 hours of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield? With the audiobook library card, you can listen to all this and more for only $9.99 a month. Unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire Classic Tales Library. No limits, just is heavily curated, well produced audio, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobooklibrarycard.com or follow the link in the show notes.     And now, The House on the Borderland, Part 3 of 5,  by William Hope Hodgson   Follow this link to get The Audiobook Library Card for a special price of $6.99/month       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:

How is Richard Hannay’s retirement suspended by Franklin Scudder, a freelance spy? John Buchan, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to this VINTAGE episode of The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   Are you looking for one place where you can get a dynamite audiobook every time? The Audiobook Library Card is the perfect solution. Unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire Classic Tales Library for $9.99 a month. Each title is heavily curated, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobooklibrarycard.com or follow the link in the show notes.   Only about a quarter of the titles in the library have been on the podcast. There are thousands of hours of adventure, mystery, and more.    So, head on over to audiobooklibrarycard.com, hit the appropriate button, and start listening.   The 39 Steps introduces John Buchan’s dashing adventurer Richard Hannay, who went on star in four more novels. It’s one of the earliest instances of a “man-on-the-run” adventure, now a commonly used trope in action and adventure.   It’s been adapted into many films and plays over the years, and was included in BBC’s 2003 Big Read poll as one of Britain’s “best-loved books”.   And now, The 39 Steps, Part 1 of 4, by John Buchan       Follow this link to get The Audiobook Library Card for $9.99/month       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:

What benighted creatures lurk in the pit where the trickle of river springs from the ground? William Hope Hodgson, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   Have you listened to the Fu-Manchu trilogy? How about the John Carter Trilogy? How about all 38 hours of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield? With the audiobook library card, you can listen to all this and more for only $9.99 a month. Unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire Classic Tales Library. No limits, just is heavily curated, well produced audio, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobooklibrarycard.com or follow the link in the show notes.   And now, The House on the Borderland, Part 2 of 5,  by William Hope Hodgson   Follow this link to get The Audiobook Library Card for a special price of $6.99/month       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:    

Can Nayland Smith catch the most nefarious villain nobody knows about -  Dr. Fu-Manchu? Sax Rohmer, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to this VINTAGE episode of The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   Are you looking for one place where you can get a dynamite audiobook every time? The Audiobook Library Card is the perfect solution. Unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire Classic Tales Library for $9.99 a month. Each title is heavily curated, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobooklibrarycard.com or follow the link in the show notes.   Only about a quarter of the titles in the library have been on the podcast. There are thousands of hours of adventure, mystery, and more.    So, head on over to audiobooklibrarycard.com, hit the appropriate button, and start listening.   Today’s episode also comprises the first 3 chapters of the book The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu. The first of the Fu-Manchu series. It was originally published as The Zayat Kiss in Colliers Magazine in February 1913.   The characters of Nayland Smith, Petrie and Fu Manchu crossed over into the comic world in 1931 in a black and white daily. Nayland Smith made his first appearance in Detective Comics in Detective Comics #17 (DC). Marvel later acquired the rights to the characters, and in the 1970s developed a kung fu television series around the unknown son of Fu Manchu: Shang-Chi. Masters of Kung Fu was cancelled in 1983, and the Rohmer characters haven’t been seen at Marvel since, but Shang-Chi has, eventually headlining his own installment into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2021: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.   Let’s journey back to where it all began.   And now, The Zayat Kiss, by Sax Rohmer   Follow this link to get The Audiobook Library Card for $9.99/month       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:

What weird tales hide within a decrepit book filled with cosmic horror? William Hope Hodgson, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   Are you looking for one place where you can get a dynamite audiobook every time? The Audiobook Library Card is the perfect solution. Unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire Classic Tales Library for $9.99 a month. Each title is heavily curated, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobooklibrarycard.com or follow the link in the show notes.   The Audiobook Library Card is an all-you-can-listen smorgasbord of classics I’ve been building for the last 18 years. Many have won awards! Only about a quarter of the library has been on the podcast. And with the Audiobook Library Card, you gain access to everything.   So head on over to audiobooklibrarycard.com and start listening.   We had a great event at FanX last week – we filled the room! People were turned away for lack of seating. This rarely happens. It was such a fun performance, and so fun to be in character and in costume. I had a little front row cheering section, with a bunch of my kids and their significant others who came. It was so neat to see them there.   We have five Fridays this October! Perfect for this incredible classic from the great William Hope Hodgson. First published in 1908, this installment to the genre of classic horror is legendary. H.P. Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett have both praised it at length. It’s kind of obvious that it helped them see what could be done, and inspire them to reach for the next level. But oh boy, what a level Mr. Hodgson established. I hope you like it.   And now, The House on the Borderland, Part 1 of 5,  by William Hope Hodgson   Follow this link to get The Audiobook Library Card for a special price of $6.99/month       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:

Can Leiningen defend his Brazilian plantation from a gargantuan swarm of soldier ants? Carl Stephenson, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to this VINTAGE episode of The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   Are you looking for one place where you can get a dynamite audiobook every time? The Audiobook Library Card is the perfect solution. Unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire Classic Tales Library for $9.99 a month. Each title is heavily curated, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobooklibrarycard.com or follow the link in the show notes.   So, head on over to audiobooklibrarycard.com, hit the appropriate button, and start listening.   In case you haven’t noticed, we have now entered into a new phase of the VINTAGE episodes, and I’m really excited about it. The episodes we’re revisiting now have not been anthologized, and many have been off the feed and unable to purchase. Be sure not to miss a single Tuesday episode!   Today’s story inspired a film starring Charleton Heston called Marabunta. I worked on a movie of the week with the same premise back in 1998. I was the set decorator. I was 23. The movie was so bad, you can’t even find it now.   And now, Leiningen versus the Ants, by Carl Stephenson   Follow this link to get The Audiobook Library Card for $9.99/month       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:

Who stole an American heiress’s magnificent rubies?  Grant Allen, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.   Welcome to The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.   Are you looking for one place where you can get a dynamite audiobook every time? The Audiobook Library Card is the perfect solution. Unlimited downloads and streaming of the entire Classic Tales Library for $9.99 a month. Each title is heavily curated, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobooklibrarycard.com or follow the link in the show notes.   The Audiobook Library Card is an all-you-can-listen smorgasbord of classics I’ve been building for the last 18 years. Many have won awards! Only about a quarter of the library has been on the podcast. And with the Audiobook Library Card, you gain access to everything.   So head on over to audiobooklibrarycard.com and start listening.   If you’re going to the FanX convention in Salt Lake City on Saturday, you can see me twice, if you like. Three other narrators and I will be in a panel on audiobooks. We will also do a live performance of Agatha Christie’s short mystery: The Mystery of Marsden Manor. I’ll be there not only in person, but in costume as Hercule Poirot, a la the 1982 version of Evil Under the Sun, with Peter Ustinov as Poirot. If you come, please say hi!   You can listen to The Mystery of Marsden Manor and the full collection of Agatha Christie’s short stories: Poirot Investigates in the Mystery category at the website at classictalesaudiobooks.com. Or, if you have the Audiobook Library Card, it’s in the Mystery category there, as well.   Today’s story first appeared in the Strand magazine, alongside the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, and also featured illustrations by Sydney Paget. I hope you like it.   And now, The Great Ruby Robbery, by Grant Allen   Follow this link to get The Audiobook Library Card for a special price of $6.99/month       Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:       Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:     Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:     Follow this link to follow us on Facebook: