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Just Reads

Reads of classic stories, Occasionally reviews or brief biography of writers. But mostly me, reading stories.Remember: There are small booksellters who will usually be able to fulfill your order cheaper and with more care than Amazon.abebooks.co.uk is recommended.It would be nice if people could click "like". It costs nothing and makes an old man happy.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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29:34

Halloween Stories - Algernon Blackwood - Keeping His...

Just Reads ·

2025/10/31

An unnamed young man has a recurring nightmare in which he visits a friend's house in the summer. The friend's family is silent and grim. The friend's sinister mother, Mrs. Stone, assigns the young man a room in the tower, a room that fills him with dread. The dream never reveals what is in the room. The dream varies each night, and over years the characters grow older and stranger. At some point Mrs. Stone dies and is buried, yet she still assigns him the room in the tower. Become a supporter of

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6:26

Halloween Stories - M.R.James - The Man Who Dwelt by...

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2025/10/31

The story is presented as the finished version of the "sad tale [of] sprites and goblins" that Prince Mamilius begins to tell Queen Hermione and her court ladies in act two, scene one of the William Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale.Set in the Elizabethan era, the story centres on John Poole, an elderly widower who is known as "something of a miser". Poole moves into a house that overlooks his village's churchyard after the former resident, the parish priest, insists on moving after claiming to

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24:26

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The...

Just Reads ·

2025/10/25

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.Become a supporter of this

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1:05

Book of the week - The Book of Marmalade: Its...

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2025/10/25

You think you know marmalade? Think again, fool.BookBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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10:32

Edgar Allen Poe - Some Words With The Mummy (extract)

Just Reads ·

2025/10/23

"Some Words with a Mummy" is a satirical short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science in April 1845. It is an important early portrayal of a revived Egyptian mummy.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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18:24

C.D. Heriot - The Trapdoor

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2025/10/21

The Trapdoor by CD Heriot is a little known spooky tale about a country pub and hotel with a sealed up attic. It's sealed for a reason...Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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7:57

Henry James - Turn of the Screw (extract)

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2025/10/16

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 gothic horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly from January 27 to April 16, 1898. On October 7, 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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16:39

J Sebastian Le Fanu - The Narrative of the Ghost of a...

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2025/10/14

In this richly layered and unsettling tale, Sheridan Le Fanu presents a haunting centered not around a traditional ghost, but around the eerie and inexplicable appearance of a ghostly hand.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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3:20

Saturday Night Serial - F. Scott Firzgerald - The...

Just Reads ·

2025/10/11

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922.Become a supporter of this

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0:47

Book of the week - Toddlers Guide to the Rubber Industry

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2025/10/11

An excellent work of outstanding natural beauty.BookBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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26:14

Charles Dickens - The Trial For Murder

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2025/10/09

" The Trial for Murder " is a short story written by Charles Dickens in 1865. It was originally published under the title "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt" as a chapter in Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions in an extra Christmas volume of the weekly literary magazineBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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6:00

Thomas Hood - The Tale of Terror

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2025/10/07

Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, had lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45According to Hood's son, this story was written hurriedly to fill an unexpected gap in a magazine. The printer's devil was waiting for copy

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1:54

Book of the week - Report of the temperature reached...

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2025/10/04

A gripping read full of twists and turns.BookBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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24:13

Charles Dickens - The Black Veil

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2025/10/02

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47:31

F.Marion Crawford - The Upper Berth

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2025/09/13

The classic haunted cabin story.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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13:09

Edgar Allen Poe - The Tell Tale Heart

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2025/09/11

A murderer cannot unhear his victim's heart"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as the narrator calls it. The narrator emphasizes the careful calculation of the murder, attempting the perfect crime, complete with

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8:03

The dispute over Casablanca

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2025/09/10

Groucho Marx letters to Warner Brothers over use of the word 'Casablanca'Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-reads--6173738/support.

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20:16

Daniel Defoe - Mrs Veal

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2025/09/09

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2:08

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine -...

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2025/09/06

The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.Chapter One Chapter

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8:13

Saturday Night Serial - HG Wells - The Time Machine -...

Just Reads ·

2025/09/06

The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.Chapter One Chapter

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