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 Â
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Wizard of Oz: Defying Gravity (part 1 of 3)
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
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Arsene Lupin: Unseen
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. Â Sources: Arsene Lupin: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6133/pg6133-images.html Â
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No Episode This Week (this isn't a meta title there's really no episode)
This is just a quick announcement, there's no episode of Fictional this week. We had a death in the family and I needed to take some time. I'm not going anywhere and Fictional will return 9/3/25 (in two weeks) and we'll finish out the remaining four episodes of this season. Thanks for your understanding.
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O. Henry: Desperate Men
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/ Â
Classic lit with a modern tone, every other week.
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.