This week, we embark on a five week journey with Buck, a St. Bernard Scotch-Collie who begins life as a happy pet and through bad luck and careless men, ends up as an Alaskan sled dog.  This is one of  Jack London's most beloved books, The Call of the...

This week, B.J. Harrison and The Classic Tales bring back Edgar Allan Poe with the incredibly disturbing Gothic Tale of "The Masque of the Red Death."  May I suggest you listen to this during a sunny walk outside, just to balance even a modicum of darkness in the...

After wrapping up The Gods of Mars, B.J. Harrison and The Classic Tales Premium Podcast bring us David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens.  This book was released as a full novel in 1850, after being published serially the two previous years.  The actual title...

Cover from the first editionThis week, we lampoon detectives the world over with "The Stolen White Elephant," by Mark Twain!  This story was written in 1882, a time when detective stories were all the rage (think Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue...

This week, we are featuring a recent Fantasy work by Jeremy Laszlo, called The Choosing.  It is the first book in a series called The Blood and Brotherhood Saga.I am going to borrow the description of this book from the publishers.  It sounds very...

Last Friday, marked the 6th anniversary of B.J. Harrison's The Classic Tales Podcast.  This gives me the perfect opportunity to write about some of my favorite stories he has produced during the many years I've listened to the Podcast.I am trying to remember what...

This week marks the release of the The Classic Tales Premium Podcast.  This means we get THREE episodes a week, when you count the regular Classic Tales Podcast. BJ Harrison will be releasing two episodes each week of the Premium Podcast as well as the...

This week, we start on the sequel to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.  Published in 1781, many critics thought Through the Looking Glass was more mathematical and cerebral than Wonderland.  Thankfully, the story had passed down to us through the...

The Arabian Nights originated in the oral folk tales originating from India, Persia (Iran), Iraq, Egypt, and Turkey among others. The original manuscript is now lost, consisting of a ninth-century text translated into Persian called Hazar Afsanah (A Thousand Tales)....

I'd like to make my novel into an audiobook. What do I do?You've finally done it. After countless late nights, dozens of revisions, and narrow-eyed scrutiny from those you trust, your opus is now in print. Congratulations! You may be getting some positive traction...