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Amild mannered man falls in love with a young lady named Madeleine but doesn't have the courage to tell her, mainly because her father is a mean old guy who wants to keep her by his side as he grows older. The father goes away on a business trip and a strange chain of events takes place when the father's ghost shows up complaining that he was given the ghostship mistakenly while the old man was still alive and needs help getting out of his predicament. nA funny story from Frank Stockton that Eng...

In this story Dr. Watson narrates a tragedy involving Holmes as it appears Holmes has been killed by his mortal enemy, Dr Moriarty, on the eve of a trial that would convict Moriarty and his henchmen of a number of crimes. NOTE 2025 we ARE SEEKING A MALE VOICE FOR NeW ADVENTURE NOVEL PODCAST. Contact me at 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com A NOTE TO ALL APPLE LISTENERS WORLDWIDE- WE NEED YOUR REVIEWS AND NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS- SO TAKE SOME TIME OVER THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO TO GET OTHERS TO SUBSCRIBE AND SEN...

"Extricating Young Gussie" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United States in the 18 September 1915 issue of The Saturday Evening Post and in the United Kingdom in the January 1916 edition of The Strand Magazine.[1] It was included in the collection The Man with Two Left Feet (1917).[2] The story features the first appearance of two of Wodehouse's most popular and enduring characters, the impeccable valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Woo...

Another great western short story by cowboy author Andy Adams telling of a rancher who had worked for years to build a good ranch with his own brand of horses- who suddenly has an old judgement come up against him- forcing the local sheriff to take horses as collateral. In Texas, where this story happens, justice often triumphed over the law- and this was a good example. Lawmen had to know when to work by the letter of the law and when not to.

A million dollars worth of nonds disappear from under a young man's nose and now he's being held accountable- a great Poirot mystery short story from Agatha Christie

'Courage' is actually a very moving poem- a father's advice to his son. False Dawn had me holding my sides through parts of this story as our narrator, who we presume is working at a government post in India, accompanies a small party of locals who have decided to have a picnic about 6 miles from the village in the middle of nowhere when a rain and then dust storm kicks up. Check out our short stories by category at www.bestof1001stories.com!

Mundon Mandeville runs a thoroughly disliked repertoire theater company and is murdered inside a windowless room in the building although everyone involved has an alibi. Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective. He is featured in 53 short stories by English author G. K. Chesterton, published between 1910 and 1936. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. Msgr Jo...

The story was written as a sequel to “The Ice Palace,” and Clark Darrow appears in both. The omniscient narrator, who ensures that close observation is paid to Powell’s story, draws in the reader. The opening line – “Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean”- labels the protagonist immediately, and as a character he remains within the stereotype Fitzgerald indicates, though he almost manages to break free. The history of Powell’s life presents a tale of a family fallen on hard times. Powell is humiliated by...

Yes- Poirot is BACK!...despite the terrible review we received a couple years ago complaining that my French sounds like its been infusd with Russian.. I was moved by that, and left for a year to study at the Sarbonne, at which time I was reminded that Poirot's character was born in lived as a child in in Portugal, and often took trips with his father to Moscowbefore the fall of the Romanovs-so I had to spend some time there as well. then it was back to the states to study the shows on PBS with ...

Frank Stockton was best known for his humurous children's stories and later "fairy tales for adults" in which he pokes fun at our human capacity for misundesrstanding while building a very credible love story. He wrote the story in the mid 19th century and didnt live long enough to enjoy seeing it beceome a movie in 1936 starring Carole Lombard and Caesar Romero. Visit us at www.bestof1001stories.com

Jeeves Takes Charge" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the Saturday Evening Post in the United States in November 1916, and in The Strand Magazine in...

Tobin's Palm From O' Henry's 'The Four Million': Two young sons of Ireland , John and Daniel (Tobin) head for Coney Island Amusement Park in order that good palm John can relieve Daniel of his worries over his girlfriend's not having arrived yet from...

Two similar stories by Maupassant explore the memories of older men with regard to the woman whom they just can't forget....] for music credit:  Midnight in Paris Music by Jean-Paul Verpeaux from Pixabay New sponsor spot time markers: Sponsor...

get ready for another "Jeeves" style adventure- this time with the clueless Rollo and his excellent butler and advisor Wilson.  It seems Rollo is quite caught up with a young lady but he has his own "system" for getting the final "yes" from her...

A tourist gets lost in Mammoth Cave and runs into a very scary situation in 'The Beast In The  Cave' In 'The Alchemist' a curse haunts an old family for 6 hundred years, killing each male member of the family at age 32.   Check out our...

tThis story by award-winning Brazilian writer Machado de Assis delves into infidelity and jealousy in a small town in Brazil.The characters are well- developed and the action is non-stop. Check out our website at for more great stories.

'Ulysses and the Cyclops'-Adaped by Andrew Lang from the Greek classic   'Homer', this story places Ulysses in the hero's seat as he and his men are trapped on an island occupied by one-eyed giants called Cyclops- and they have a nasty...

Edgar Allan Poe wasn't just known for horror- he also had a sense of humor and a deep sense of justice for those who had been wronged.  In this story, a French king who likes to play extravagent jokes on his guests decides to use his two dwarfs,...

A young man living off a rich Aunt's endowment decices to take a few weeks off with pals and head for the nearby lake looking for peace and quiet. He is soon wrapped up in trying to get his shy friend hooked up while at the same time being stuck with...

Two cultures collide when a group of British overseers meet for a regional planning session in India's outback, have too much to drink, and one of them defaces a statue outside a temple. The offender is almost immediately confronted by a naked leper...

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In 1925 Hemingway's collection of his first short stories appeared as In Our Time, and included the cryptic The Three Day Blow.  He begins with a memory of  WWI, then gives us a dialogue between Nick Adams (Hemingway's alter -ego in his...