Saki's wicked tale of what happens when a beloved feline is gifted the power of speech--much to the dismay of all the members of a weekend gathering at a country house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BRASS Stacks Episod 9: The Mysterious Case of Miss V.
12/11/2025 | 6 min
"What is a ghost?" asks this exquisite and little-known story by Virginia Woolf. In a few short pages, Woolf creates a comic, thoughtful, yet ultimately disturbing portrait of the woman always on the outskirts of the party, the ever-present but unknowable Miss V.
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BRASS Stacks Episode 8: The Storyteller
29/10/2025 | 12 min
We turn again to our favorite Stacks writer, Saki, for this deliciously subversive tale of a unconventional fable shared with some rambunctious children on a train ride. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BRASS Stacks 7: Humiliation
15/10/2025 | 14 min
The great French writer Maupassant is the author of this charming tale recounting an afternoon of idle gossip between two ladies of leisure, and of a mistress/servant relationship that goes quite wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BRASS Stacks 1: Lord Dunsany
21/02/2024 | 6 min
We begin this special series of readings from great Victorian and Edwardian authors with two very early stories by poet, playwright and fantasist Lord Dunsany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It is London, 1885 — an alternate history, where the computer age has come 150 years early. In this world of airships, automatons, and computational engines, a family of Victorian science geniuses match wits and weapons against a criminal mastermind for the fate of the Empire.
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