The Well Told Tale

The fifth and final part of our reading of "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells. The Time Traveller, still 800,000 years in the future, has decided to reclaim his time machine and return to the present w...

12 Feb 20201h 5min

The fourth part of our reading of "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells. The Time Traveller, 800,000 years in the future, has discovered a second race descended from humanity, the Morlocks, and he is conv...

5 Feb 202031min

The third part of our reading of "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells. The Time Traveller has travelled 800,000 years in the future and met the Eloi, the beautiful, if flighty, inhabitants of this time. ...

29 Jan 202042min

The second part of our telling of "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells. In Part 1, the Time Traveller revealed his time machine to his friends and in today's episode, he will tell them about what he expe...

22 Jan 202039min

Today we start a new tale, 'The Time Machine' by H. G. Wells. This masterwork of science fiction from 1895 gave rise to the very idea of a time machine, a theme still beloved of sci-fi fans the world ...

15 Jan 202032min

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 ...

8 Jan 202050min

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 br...

1 Jan 202029min

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 re...

1 Jan 202034min