American Stories – Part 67     Transcript of the podcast JOHN CARTER: The huge green warrior Tars Tarkas came slowly toward me with his thin sword. I backed away. I did not want to fight him. I did not...

American Stories – Part 66       Transcript of the podcast JOHN CARTER: Another of the large air ships exploded high in the air. Members of the crew fell to the ground. The huge ship lost control and began...

American Stories – Part 65     JOHN CARTER: The creature with the spear was huge. There were many other similar creatures. They had ridden behind me on the backs of large animals. Each of them carried a collection of...

American Stories – Part 64     Transcript of the podcast Today, we begin a series from a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book is called “A Princess of Mars.” It is the first book in a...

American Stories – Part 63     Transcript of the podcast It looked like a good thing. But wait till I tell you. We were down south, in Alabama – Bill Driscoll and myself – when this kidnapping idea struck...

American Stories – Part 62     Transcript of the podcast Mike Flannery, the agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over the desk in the company’s office in Westcote and shook his fist. Mr. Morehouse, angry and red, stood...

American Stories – Part 61     Transcript of the podcast Before we begin our story, let us go back 300 years to the late 1600s. In those years, one of the most famous men in the world was Captain...

American Stories – Part 60     Transcript of the podcast In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, Ohio, lay a huge and almost endless forest The area had a few...

American Stories – Part 59     Transcript of the podcast Tomorrow I die. Tomorrow I die, and today I want to tell the world what happened and thus perhaps free my soul from the horrible weight which lies upon...

American Stories – Part 58     Transcript of the podcast I was stunned. August Dupin, my friend with the extraordinarily sharp mind and observational powers still had surprises for me He had uncovered so much about the horrifying Rue...

American Stories – Part 57     Transcript of the podcast Murder had come to the old house on the street called Rue Morgue! Murder had come and gone and left behind the dead bodies of an old woman and...

American Stories – Part 56     You will remember that in the last part of my story I told of my experiences in my first school; I spoke of my early meetings with a boy who looked and behaved...

American Stories – Part 55     Transcript of the podcast In the first part of my story I spoke about my life at my first school, and about the other boys — over whom I gained firm control. But...

American Stories – Part 54     Transcript of the podcast Let me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. That is not my real name. That name has already been the cause of the horror – of the anger...

American Stories – Part 53     Transcript of the podcast Our story is called “A Pair of Silk Stockings.” It was written by Kate Chopin. Here is Barbara Klein with the story Little Missus Sommers one day found herself...

American Stories – Part 52     Transcript of the podcast Long ago, in the very olden time, there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer One of the king’s ideas...

American Stories – Part 51     Transcript of the podcast Long ago, in the very olden time, there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer One of the king’s ideas...

American Stories – Part 50     Transcript of the podcast Today’s story is called “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It is about something strange that happened long ago in a valley called “Sleepy Hollow”. It was written by Washington...

American Stories – Part 49     Transcript of the podcast .One thousand dollars, said the lawyer Tolman, in a severe and serious voice. And here is the money .Young Gillian touched the thin package of $50 bills and laughed...

American Stories – Part 48     Transcript of the podcast Today we present the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is Shep O’Neal with the story True! Nervous — very, very nervous I had been...