Welcome to 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales!

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Mystery

Detective fiction and suspense

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Heartwarming

Stories from then that hit you in the feels still to this day.

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Baseball Stories

Sports lovers we have the best for you!

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Funny Stories

Need a laugh? Check out these classic stories!

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Small Town Stories

Sometimes small towns are best for story time.

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Feel Good Stories

Sometimes we need a reminder that not every day is good, but there is good in every day

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Adventure/Survival

Take a step on the adventurous side and use your imagination to bring these stories alive!

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Help Me Sleep Stories

Have trouble sleeping? Take a listen to these stories and have sweet dreams!

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Ghost Stories

Listen to some chilling stories about those who watch us when we think we are alone....

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Love Stories

Fantasize about finding and being in love.

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Favorite Children's Stories

Introduce the young minds to some of the best child friendly stories of all time.

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Agatha Christie Mysteries

Listen to the "Queen" of mysteries best stories.

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Father Brown Mysteries

Follow Father Brown as his character comes to life through the words of English novelist G.K. Chesterton.

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Sherlock Holmes Adventures

See also 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and the Best of Arthus Conan Doyle! A 1001 podcast dedicated to one of the best!

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American novelist, short-story writer and famous journalist.

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Frank Stockton

Frank R. Stockton - April 5, 1834 - April 20, 1902. Listen to some of the oldest stories from one of Americas most famous authors.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Known best for his story The Scarlet Letter, take a dive into some of his other outstanding writings.

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P.G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English writer known most for his humorists' writings.

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Ray Bradbury

Fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery.

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Edgar Allan Poe

The man, the myth, and the legend. Here you will find some of the best stories, poems and more.

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O. Henry

An American short story writer who was also known for his poetry and non-fiction.

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Howard Pyle

Pyle was an American illustrator, painter and author. His target audience being more for the younger people.

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William Dean Howells

Howells was not only a well know novelist but also a literary critic. Also being a close friend and adviser of Mark Twain and Henry James.

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H.C. Bunner

Henry Cuyler Bunner - American novelist, journalist and poet.

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Ambrose Bierce

An American Civil War veteran and famous short story writer.

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Robert Barr

A well known Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist.

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G.K. Chesterton

Most well-known for his Father Brown stories but a very popular philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.

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Zane Grey

Adventure, author, and....dentist in his spare time.

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Banjo Paterson

Andrew Barton better known as Banjo Patterson is another great Australian bush poet, journalist and author.

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Anton Chekhov

Russian playwright and short story writer.

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Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen is most famously known for his fairy tales and was very popular in China and Japan.

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Henry Lawson

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was a famous Australian writer and bush poet. Bush poet being a writer of a specific style of poetry-often rhyming and narrative based.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English Journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian author known best for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

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Willa Cather

An American writer best known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, O Pioneers, The Song of the Lark, and My Antonia.

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Grace Macgowan Cookie

A great American writer often working with her sister Alice MacGowan. Writing 23 novels, 75 short stories and more than 30 poems.

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Bret Harte

Well known American short story author often writing about miners, gamblers and romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.

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Andrew Forrester

James Redding Ware by day.......Andrew Forrester by night.....novelist and playwright and responsible for the first female detectives in fiction story.

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Edward Everett Hale

I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something…

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

An American writer best known for her novels of frustrated lives in New England Villages.

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Holiday Stories

Some of the greatest old holiday stories that remind us why we celebrate

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