We’ve all heard of H.G. Wells. The famed British author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Many of which can be found in Flame Tree’s anthologies. However, have you ever thought about what would happen if you used a time machine to travel back in time to meet the man behind those well-known words? Featuring: ‘Shaping Things to Come’ by Dominick Cancilla (01.00) , narrated by Nathan Chatelier. We found this one in our collection ‘Time Travelling Short Stories’ . This is...
Jul 15, 2025•32 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In today’s episode, which is a couple of days ahead of the Buck Moon, we are presenting you with two moon-tales. Stories, where the night dances with ancient power as the moon watches. Featuring: ‘Shattered Moon, Hungry Sea’ by Elou Carroll (02:13) , narrated by Olivia. A story where a child’s curiosity unleashes oceanic fury, proving that some jewellery should never be touched, and some secrets should stay sewn into the sky. Borrowed from Flame Tree’s ‘Moon Falling’ collection. ‘The Moon-Slave’...
Jul 08, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Today’s episode carries us East through two short stories. These stories are united by a powerful motif - water as memory. In both, water surmounts to more, it comes to represent the enduring presence of the natural world. Offset by human mortality and the quickening of time associated with growing up. Featuring: ‘Waiting for Karaga’ by Amal Singh (00:55) , narrated by Shilpa Varma. A touching short story, borrowed from our ‘Shadows on the Water’ collection, that narrates the relationship betwee...
Jul 01, 2025•30 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Our second monthly Special invites our listeners into the world of publishing, with a particular focus on the Middle East. Recorded at London Book Fair 2025, Olivia speaks to Trevor Naylor - a writer and publisher who has over 40 years of experience in the book industry. Though his career has taken him to over 90 countries, he spent decades based in Cairo, Egypt. We catch up with him as he’s working on his latest project, a book about Egyptian Gods and mythology. This conversation is full of fas...
Jun 24, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 9
This week’s episode brings us two strange stories from the sea. The sea offers the perfect setting for short stories: it’s dramatic, vast and by extension mysterious. We only know a fraction of what actually lives in its depths. No wonder then, that it captured the imagination of the authors featured in this episode. Featuring: ‘Over the Side’ by W.W. Jacobs (00.46) , narrated by Olivia. This story was first published in 1905 and describes the eerie, supernatural experience of a sailor who falls...
Jun 17, 2025•38 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This week, we're slipping into something magical - two stories bound by a common thread: enchanted dresses. One bringing life, the other death. Together, you could say they weave a pattern of love, loss, and transformation. Featuring: ‘The Wedding Dress’ by Cheryl S. Ntumy (00.51), narrated by the author herself, has been selected from her collection Black Friday - a stunning anthology of speculative stories from Ghana, Botswana and South Africa. This particular tale imagines a wedding dress int...
Jun 10, 2025•31 min•Season 1Ep. 7
On this week’s episode of the Flame Tree Myth & Fiction Podcast, we feature two powerful short stories linked by their discussions of motherhood - but don’t be mistaken, these stories are anything but sweet. Featuring: ‘Pegasus’ by Danai Christopoulou (00.50), narrated by Amanda Benzecry. A narrative that follows the famed pegasus, through its creation, violent birth and its resulting vow of revenge. This story can be found in Medusa , a book published last year in our Myths, Gods & Immo...
Jun 03, 2025•30 min•Season 1Ep. 6
The first of our monthly specials! In this week’s episode, Olivia revisits her conversation with the editors of The Open Heart & Short Stories by Catherine Wells , Patrick Parrinder and Emelyne Godfrey. Recorded at The London Book Fair, this episode is full of insights and revelations about the often overlooked authorial work of H.G. Wells’s wife. The Open Heart is one of the latest books to come out in our Beyond & Within series. It collates Catherine Wells’s previously published work a...
May 27, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this week’s episode of Flame Tree’s Myth & Fiction podcast, we are again visiting the horror genre but this time we are honing in on how the human mind and often madness can connect itself to the supernatural. Essentially, two short stories that populate the subgenre of psychological horror. Featuring: ‘He Will Hear Us Coming’ by Anna Ziegelhof (00.38), narrated by Amanda Benzecry. A story about a young woman’s homecoming from a mental institution and her quest to discover the truth about...
May 20, 2025•38 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode of Flame Tree’s Myth & Fiction podcast, we have two chilling horror short stories to share with you. Both deliver eerie apparitions of the dead and embrace the traditional tropes of Gothic literature. Featuring: ‘A Vine on a House’ by Ambrose Bierce (00.44), narrated by Bea. A story about a decaying manor house overrun by a supernatural vine. First gifted to us in 1905, this story can appropriately be found in our American Gothic anthology. & ‘You Can Never Go Home Again’...
May 13, 2025•20 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The first story episode of Flame Tree’s Myth & Fiction podcast! Contained within are two tales that speak to anxieties prompted by artificial intelligence and advancements in technology. Featuring: ‘The Dancing Partner’ by Jerome K. Jerome (00.52), narrated by Olivia. A story about a toy maker who creates a clockwork dance partner for a group of girls who are unsatisfied with the men who frequent their society balls. First published in 1893, this story can be found in our Robots & Artifi...
May 06, 2025•35 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Introducing the new podcast from Flame Tree, highlighting the stories, myths and authors featuring in the coming months. ..................................................................................................................................... Music is an extract of Sunbeams by Allen Stroud, from his Fractal Series album, licensed courtesy of fpl-digital 2025. This podcast is hosted and sometimes narrated by Beatrix Ambery (also audio editor), Olivia Jackson (also podcast coordinator)...
Mar 11, 2025•5 min•Season 1Ep. 1
