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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.
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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 from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum: https://myths.link/oz
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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 Baum: https://myths.link/oz
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
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 and repeatedly punched in the face.
Sources:
Arsene Lupin: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6133/pg6133-images.html
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/Whirligigs/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief
After Twenty Years: https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/after-twenty-years/
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.
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Two stories from Edgar Allan Poe about the masks we wear and the work we do and the profound consequences of both.
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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 into plants.
Adapted from "Piper in the Woods" by Philip K. Dick: (Warning, link NSFW as it contains a drawing of a nude alien) https://myths.link/piper
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 from "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H.G. Wells.
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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 question just how lucky he truly is.
Adapted from "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H.G. Wells.
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Want ad-free episodes? Find us on Apple Podcasts or join the Myths and Legends membership at https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
NOTE: Ad-free episodes start with this and the next episode. I will work on getting the previous seasons uploaded, but currently it's just these two.
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