The Well Told Tale
Hi everyone. This is Robert. Welcome to The Well Told Tale. Every week I narrate a classic story; the greatest science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction stories ever written, not just in a small chunk at a time, but enough for you to really relax into. No adverts in the middle, just the story itself. All stories are pubic domain and free from copyright.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 184
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
The Fall of the House of Usher
Welcome to The Well Told Tale. This episode: a reading of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. A psychological horror from the master of Gothic horror, this tale was first published in…
The Call of Cthulhu - Part 3 (of 3)
The third and final part of our telling of the classic gothic horror tale, 'The Call of Cthulhu' by H. P. Lovecraft. Our nameless narrator is convinced that cultists across the world are trying to b…
The Call of Cthulhu - Part 2 (of 3)
The second part of our telling of the classic gothic horror tale, 'The Call of Cthulhu' by H. P. Lovecraft. Our nameless narrator has been uncovering some disturbing things about his great uncle's r…
The Call of Cthulhu - Part 1 (of 3)
One of H. P. Lovecraft's most famous tales, we will be discovering 'The Call of Cthulhu' over the next three episodes.
The ancient figure of Cthulhu lurks behind a number of Lovecraft's gothic horror …