Fictional
Episodes
Wizard of Oz: The Great and Terrible (Part 3 of 3)
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the season six finale of Fictional, the Wicked Witch of the West is dead, but it came at a terrible cost. Still, Dorothy needs only to travel back ...
Wizard of Oz: Witchhunters (Part 2 of 3)
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dorothy and the party make their way via crumbling yellow brick to the Emerald City, but all is not what it seems, and Oz, the Great and Terrible, has...
Wizard of Oz: Defying Gravity (part 1 of 3)
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A girl from Kansas takes a ride on a cyclone to a bizarre, ridiculous, and dangerous land. Adapted from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Bau...
Arsene Lupin: Unseen
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories of Arsene Lupin. In the first, the Queen's necklace has gone missing from a locked and guarded room. On the second, a man just wants to re...
O. Henry: Desperate Men
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories of crime and punishment and why kidnapping is wrong and dangerous but not for the reasons that you think. By American author O. Henry. S...
Sherlock Holmes: Burn
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A man discovers something reading the paper on his train ride into London: he's wanted for murder. What does he do next? Lead police on a low-speed ch...
Edgar Allan Poe: The Forgotten
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories from Edgar Allan Poe about the masks we wear and the work we do and the profound consequences of both. Today's stories were adapted from:...
Philip K. Dick: Veg
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Henry Harris has been called to the outpost for asteroid Y-3, humanity's first line of defense against a vast, strange galaxy, because there's a s...
The Island of Doctor Moreau: The Mark of the Beast (part 2 of 2)
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The secret of the island is out, and Doctor Moreau is close to his greatest achievement. Will Edward Pendrick make it home, and, if he manages to get...
The Island of Doctor Moreau: An Almost Religious Awe (part 1 of 2)
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Edward Pendrick makes it into the lifeboat as the Lady Vain sinks, he thinks he's one of the lucky ones. Upon finding his way to the Island, pop...
Special - Christmas Ghost Stories: Phantoms
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hi! It's been awhile. Thanks for your patience. Today is a special episode and not the start of the next season, but a new season is coming in 2025. I...
Jack London: The You You Are
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Freddie Drummond is in a great position: a fulfilling job, a wonderful fiancée, and the respect of titans of industry. So...why is he going out a...
Time Enough at Last: One for the Books
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Someday Henry Bemis is going to do it. Sometime he is going to go to that wonderful, glorious place and live the life of his dreams. The place? Well, ...
Nikolai Gogol: Nose Goes
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when your nose leaves your face...and starts living a better life than you? Today's episode was adapted from the story "The Nose" by Niko...
Edgar Allan Poe: Comorbid
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You receive a letter from an old friend. He isn't doing well. He invites you to visit him at his house. His house...that's eating him whole. Today's e...
Tolstoy: The Long Way Home
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two men, a servant and his master, take a drive on a snowy evening. The experience will forever alter both of their lives. Adapted from "Master and Ma...
Philip K. Dick: Fallout
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's the 2010s and nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union has forced humanity into bunkers, scorching the planet and leaving only the Leadys,...
Sherlock Holmes: Dealbreaker
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We learn which crime Sherlock Holmes thinks is the absolute worst...and it's not what you think it is. Also, the great detective tries his hand at cri...
Alexander Pushkin: A Sure Thing
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A young woman working as a servant for a cruel countess falls in love with the man across the street. It seems like a fairy tale, but are there more s...
The Most Dangerous Game: The Hunted
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sanger Rainsford, a big-game hunter, just wants to go home, but he finds himself on an island belonging to General Zaroff, a fellow hunter with twiste...
E.M. Forster: Bit Rot
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Humanity is isolated for their own safety in their homes, but they settle in to communicate through world-wide messaging and video calls, and face-to-...
Arsène Lupin: The Gentleman
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief, begins with him sending a letter to a baron with the exact date and time he will rob the man. The baron i...
Edgar Allan Poe: The Masquerade
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A Halloween episode with two stories from the master of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe. Adapted by the Weisers from "The Masque of the Red Death" and ...
The Pale Man: Room 201
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A professor checks in to a rundown hotel for a long vacation and becomes obsessed with another resident - a pale man who moves from room to room. Ad...
Philip K. Dick: Inhuman
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lester's work has killed trillions, making way for humanity's march across the galaxy. But, after a trip off-world and witnessing a dead planet firsth...
Sherlock Holmes: The League
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A man comes to Sherlock Holmes with a development: he's making a lot of extra money each week solely because he has fiery red hair. For the famed dete...
Monte Cristo: Wait and Hope (part 6 of 6)
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Four men took part in the ruining of one life. Their reckoning is at hand. It all ends here. -- Sponsors: Bombas: Not only is it fun to say, but they ...
Monte Cristo: A Million Secrets (part 5 of 6)
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Count of Monte Cristo moves his pieces into place. His revenge is at hand. -- Sponsors: Hello Fresh: For a super-easy, super-delicious weeknight m...
Monte Cristo: No Ordinary Man (part 4 of 6)
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When we last left Edmond Dantes, he was sailing off into the sunset after rescuing one of the only friends he has left. Today's story begins 13 y...
The Tempest: Brave New World (Part 2 of 2)
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
All the pieces are in place. Everyone responsible for Prospero's exile is on the island. His island. It's time to take back what's his. -- Sponsors: W...
The Tempest: All the Devils are Here (part 1 of 2)
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Prospero can't remember the last time he slept. He can't remember the last time he saw his daughter or even how old she is. He has been working on one...
Dracula: The Night King (part 3 of 3)
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dracula has already claimed his first victim, and she is working on many more. Soon, the British Isles and then the rest of civilization will be one o...
Dracula: Holiday (part 2 of 3)
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mina is distraught. Her friend is sick, hit by a strange and sudden anemia the day a ship came into port from the other side of the world - some provi...
Dracula: Work Trip (part 1 of 3)
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Harker is on a work trip, which means new and bizzare foods, people with interesting stories, and a meeting with a count that people seriousl...
Sherlock Holmes: A Thousand Words
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Irene Adler. She's in one story, but she left such a permanent, indellible mark on Sherlock Holmes that he will now and forever refer to her as THE wo...
Philip K. Dick: New Features
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In an alternate future, it's 1981 and the UN allies have been at war with the Soviet Union for six years. In that short amount of time, the world has ...
Frankenstein: Enough (Part 2 of 2)
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On the season 2 finale, Victor Frankenstein's creation is responsible for two deaths, but Victor fears that the body count isn't close to being finish...
Frankenstein: Prometheus (Part 1 of 2)
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A lurching green monster that's afraid of fire with bolts in his neck. A hunchback assistant named Igor. A menacing, mustache twirling doctor. None of...
Kate Chopin: Promises
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A couple in early 1800s Louisiana is headed home when they spot something unusual by a pillar, something that will change their lives, and the lives o...
O. Henry: Winter is Coming
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories by the U.S. writer O. Henry. In the first, a young woman is dying, pinning her hopes to a leaf dangling on a branch. In the second, ol' So...
Edgar Allen Poe: Madhouse
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our humble hero just wanted to swing by a remote mental institution in the south of France on his way back home to America. He was just going to spend...
Count of Monte Cristo: Fourteen Years Gone (Part 3 of 3)
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When we last left Edmond, he was about to hit the rock and start his escape from Chateau d'If when he heard a scream from his friend's cell. This week...
Count of Monte Cristo: Prisoner 34 (Part 2 of 3)
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Edmond is in prison and his enemies are celebrating, but something else is coming from Elba that will change their world yet again and make them fear...
Count of Monte Cristo: Among Friends (Part 1 of 3)
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Edmond Dantes returns to France as a captain. He has just received a promotion, and soon he will be marrying the love of his life: the beautiful Merce...
Sherlock Holmes: Undercover
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Watson is happily married and hasn't spoken to Sherlock in months and hasn't been on a mystery in nearly a year. The craziest his life gets now is an ...
Philip K. Dick: Look Alive
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this story by acclaimed science fiction author Philip K. Dick, the author behind last season's "Therein Lies the Wub", a man in 1950s middle Americ...
Macbeth: Sound and Fury (Part 2 of 2)
27 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Macbeth killed his king, his friend, and more. If only he could stop there. Just a note, this is the season finale of Fictional. Stay subsc...
Macbeth: Toil and Trouble (Part 1 of 2)
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Macbeth is a story about ambition and violence. Given a prophecy that he will become king, Macbeth finds himself both drawn to and repulsed by the des...
Philip K. Dick: Therein Lies the Wub
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A routine trip to Mars turns out to be anything but when a ship headed back to earth allows one last passenger aboard. That's...really all I can say a...
Call of Cthulhu: Nightmares (Part 2 of 2)
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Angell is dead, but the story of Cthulhu is just beginning. As it turns out, Angell had an heir, and as the young man is sifting through his...
Call of Cthulhu: Dead Cthulhu Waits Dreaming (Part 1 of 2)
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
An adaptation of perhaps the most famous story from one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century. H.P. Lovecraft has inspired writers ...
The Time Machine: With a Whimper (Part 2 of 2)
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Where we left our intrepid, overdressed traveller, he was taking a break from the heat in the ruins of humanity all around him, looking down into the ...
The Time Machine: Inspector Spacetime (Part 1 of 2)
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"The Time Machine" is a book written by the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells. This is a book so famous that it actually coined the phrase "time m...
Dante's Inferno: Race to the Bottom (Part 2)
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you were worried that we only have three circles left, well, don't worry. Dante must have felt the same way, because he sub-divides the last two ci...
Dante's Inferno: Burning Ring of Fire (Part 1)
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dante's Inferno is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the 1300s as the first part in a much longer work called "The Divine Comedy". It's not ...
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil went Down to Cornwall
22 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sherlock just wants to take a vacation and not be bothered by mysteries. Just kidding. Sherlock lives for mysteries. Lucky for him (and really only hi...
Monkey's Paw: Give Him a Hand
22 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The story of two old friends, one strange item that can grant your wildest dreams, and three wishes...but every desire has a cost. Want to leave a rev...
Fictional Intro
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is all about our new show, Fictional. Brought to you by the same two people that make Myths and Legends, Fictional is looking at all things class...