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  • Wizard of Oz: The Great and Terrible (Part 3 of 3)

    October 15, 2025 · 51 min

    On the season six finale of Fictional, the Wicked Witch of the West is dead, but it came at a terrible cost. Still, Dorothy needs only to travel back to the Emerald City to finally make her way home. If only things were so simple. Adapted…

  • Wizard of Oz: Witchhunters (Part 2 of 3)

    October 1, 2025 · 43 min

    Dorothy and the party make their way via crumbling yellow brick to the Emerald City, but all is not what it seems, and Oz, the Great and Terrible, has a gruesome request for them. Adapted from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank…

  • Wizard of Oz: Defying Gravity (part 1 of 3)

    September 17, 2025 · 37 min

    A girl from Kansas takes a ride on a cyclone to a bizarre, ridiculous, and dangerous land.  Adapted from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum: https://myths.link/oz

  • Arsene Lupin: Unseen

    September 3, 2025 · 41 min

    Two stories of Arsene Lupin. In the first, the Queen's necklace has gone missing from a locked and guarded room. On the second, a man just wants to relax on the train where he won't be crowded by loud, smoking people...or getting tied up…

  • O. Henry: Desperate Men

    August 7, 2025 · 39 min

    Two stories of crime and punishment and why kidnapping is wrong and dangerous but not for the reasons that you think. By American author O. Henry.  Stories: The Ransom of Red Chief: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Whirl…

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  • Sherlock Holmes: Burn

    July 23, 2025 · 37 min

    A man discovers something reading the paper on his train ride into London: he's wanted for murder. What does he do next? Lead police on a low-speed chase to 221B Baker Street. Say hi on discord: https://myths.link/discord

  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Forgotten

    July 9, 2025 · 37 min

    Two stories from Edgar Allan Poe about the masks we wear and the work we do and the profound consequences of both. Today's stories were adapted from: "Hop-frog" by Edgar Allan Poe: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poe%27…

  • Philip K. Dick: Veg

    June 25, 2025 · 36 min

    Dr. Henry Harris has been called to the outpost for asteroid Y-3, humanity's first line of defense against a vast, strange galaxy, because there's a strange infection growing among the soldiers of the outpost: they think they're turning…

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau: The Mark of the Beast (part 2 of 2)

    June 11, 2025 · 42 min

    The secret of the island is out, and Doctor Moreau is close to his greatest achievement. Will Edward Pendrick make it home, and, if he manages to get away from the island of horrors, what sort of man will he be when he returns? Adapted…

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau: An Almost Religious Awe (part 1 of 2)

    June 11, 2025 · 42 min

    When Edward Pendrick makes it into the lifeboat as the Lady Vain sinks, he thinks he's one of the lucky ones. Upon finding his way to the Island, populated with curious people, a reclusive genius, and his shamed assistant, he might…

  • Special - Christmas Ghost Stories: Phantoms

    December 24, 2024 · 49 min

    Hi! It's been awhile. Thanks for your patience. Today is a special episode and not the start of the next season, but a new season is coming in 2025. In Victorian England, they told ghost stories on Christmas. Today, we have three ghost…

  • Jack London: The You You Are

    December 1, 2022 · 32 min

    Dr. Freddie Drummond is in a great position: a fulfilling job, a wonderful fiancée, and the respect of titans of industry. So...why is he going out at night, living a double life? Today's story was based on "South of the Slot" by Jack…

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About the show

Classic lit with a modern tone, every other week. From the creators of Myths and Legends, comes an altogether same-but-different podcast set in the world of classic lit. These are the stories of Dracula, The Time Machine, The Three Musketeers. They're stories written by Jane Austen, Shakespeare, and H.P. Lovecraft, but with a casual, modern tone. Listen as Jason and Carissa Weiser breathe new life into the classics and tell the stories of some of the greatest books ever written.