The Tales Gates: A Short Story Podcast: Recent Episodes
Joseph Wetzel
Finding time to read can be a chore, but stories need not be limited to the page. Pass through the portal and delve into a short story with The Tales Gate, a podcast dedicated to adapting enchanting short fiction that is just as easy to listen to on a commute as it is in the comfiest armchair.
[A privately hired train goes missing en route from Liverpool to Manchester, baffling the public and professionals for eight years.]
"The Lost Special"by Arthur Conan Doyle
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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Two stories for the nonexistent price of one!
Firstly:
[In spite of dreadful stories, a governess is sent across the moors at night to fetch a doctor.]
Followed by:
[An artist and a stonemason, unknown to one another, unconsciously predict each other's grave futures.]
"Across the Moors" and "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[A young couple struggle to buy each other Christmas gifts with little money.]
"The Gift of the Magi"by O. Henry
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[A university student, desperate to pass an exam, receives an unexpected visit in the form of an old friend.]
"Keeping His Promise"by Algernon Blackwood
Performed by Matthew Penalva
Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[A devoted old woman maintains the Province House long after the British depart from New England.]
"Old Esther Dudley"by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[When their country is beset by a plague of dragons, two siblings set out to bring peace so they can play outside again.]
"The Deliverers of Their Country"by Edith Nesbit
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[A foolhardy Englishman scoffs at superstition and chooses to explore a long-abandoned village.]
Dracula's Guestby Bram Stoker
Edited by Joseph Wetzel
Performed by Aaron Clark Burstein
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[A little girl left on her own discovers the surprising contents of an old trunk in the attic.]
"The Box of Robbers" by L. Frank Baum
Performed by Kirstin Wolf
Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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[A self-important young English woman comes to live in Boston with a relative just before a horrible smallpox outbreak.]
"Lady Eleanore's Mantle" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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[A local shares the tale of how a wicked man met his end.]
"The Last of Squire Ennismore"by Charlotte Riddell
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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Curiosity is key, and admission is free.
The Celestial Omnibus by E. M. Forster
Directed by Aaron Clark Burstein
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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"A vast mass of matter it was, bulky, heavy, rushing without warning out of the black mystery of the sky into the radiance of the sun."
The Star by H. G. Wells
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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"I am not ill, as men call it, though God knows whether there be not worse sicknesses than doctors know of."
A Dream of Red Hands by Bram Stoker
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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"Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil."
The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood
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Who knew a firework could be so smug?
The Remarkable Rocketby Oscar Wilde
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Keep your dark, ominous islands to yourself.
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Performed by Aaron Clark Burstein and Joseph Wetzel
Edited by Joseph Wetzel
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I think the true moral of any fairy tale is simply that people shouldn't be trusted with magic.
The Glass Dog by L. Frank Baum
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Disease is no joke.
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
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What might the world of tomorrow hold?
In the Year 2889 by "Jules" Verne
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
Additional voices by Michael Wetzel and Matthew Penalva
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Moving into a haunted building? What could go wrong?
What Was It? by Fitz James O'Brien
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
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The game is afoot! It's time for The Tales Gate to get mysterious!
The Man with the Watches by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Back again at the Province House!
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Edward Randolph's Portrait by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
Boy meets girl.
Girl's father sends boy to investigate the ocean no person in their kingdom has ever seen and returned to speak of.
Just your average fairy tale romance.
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Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean by Lord Dunsany
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
New year, old stories.
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The Triumph of the Night by Edith Wharton
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
The Tales Gate is here with some Christmas miracles!
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H. G. Wells
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
What stories wait inside the old Province House?
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Howe's Masquerade by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
Music featured:
Japanese Suite, Op. 33 (1915) by Gustav Holst
String Quartet in E major, Op. 11 No. 5 (1775) by Luigi Boccherini
Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (1695) by Henry Purcell
A heartwarming tale as the weather turns cold.
The Happy Prince (1888) by Oscar Wilde
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
Music featured:
Japanese Suite, Op. 33 (1915) by Gustav Holst
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 (1880) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Four Seasons - Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, "Autumn" (1725) by Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001 - Adagio (1720) by Johann Sebastian Bach
The Waltz of Flowers (1892) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 - Allegro (1719) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral suite in D major No. 3, BWV 1068 - Il Giardino Armonico (1730) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Which came out of the opened door? Listen and find out!
The Lady, or the Tiger? (1882) by Frank R. Stockton
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
Music featured:
Japanese Suite, Op. 33 (1915) by Gustav Holst
Romeo and Juliet (1880) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Let's get spooky with a piece by the literary prince of darkness - Edgar Allen Poe! And we'll see what true dangers lie in this midnight quest for a cask of Amontillado.
The Cask of Amontillado (1846) by Edgar Allen Poe
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
Music featured:
Japanese Suite, Op. 33 (1915) by Gustav Holst
What better way to start a series celebrating storytelling than a story by an author whose works inspired the likes literary titans like Tolkien and Le Guin? In this tale by Lord Dunsany you'll visit a ancient city with a security system that would make One Thousand and One Nights proud. It's stories within a story in The Idle City.
The Idle City (1910) by Lord Dunsany
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel
Music featured (in order of appearance):
Japanese Suite, Op. 33 (1915) by Gustav Holst
The Planets - Neptune, the Mystic (1915) by Gustav Holst
A Somerset Rhapsody, Op. 21 (1907) by Gustav Holst
St Paul’s Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 (1922) by Gustav Holst
Symphony No. 8 Movement 2 (1890) by Antonín Dvořák