B.J. Harrison Reads The Classic Tales Podcast, Season Three

Apart from the ubiquitous presence of the authors who work in the short story tradition, the Second Season introduces poems and novellas...

The first season focuses on the short story tradition, and B. J. Harrison has selected some of the most prominent representatives of the genre...

A kaleidoscope of genres, themes, topics, and motifs await the listener here...

B. J. Harrison does not tire of the adventurous and mysterious settings in his choice of narratives...

Ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and mad scientists. The most characteristic features of the gothic and horror genre are combined here, together with some mysterious and hard to crack, enigmatic tales...

A three-mast Brazilian ship passes by and a man standing on the shore, waving to it. After sailing on the broad and getting back home, the man starts feeling worse with every passing day...

One day a poor fisherman finds a large and heavy chest. Caliph Harun al-Rashid buys the chest, thinking that it encloses a treasure...

Mr. Cave is an antique shop owner with some curious items in his collection. One of these if an extraordinary crystal egg, which he comes across one evening...

Dmitri Gurov is a nearly forty-year-old man, who is married and has three children. He is unhappy with his marriage and regrets this big mistake every single day...

"The Castaway" is a short story by W. W. Jacobs, telling of the return of a husband, who was thought lost and buried at sea for three years. Mrs...