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

 The Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Snowman” tells the melancholy story of a snowman’s ill-suited romance with a kitchen stove. Read by special BRASS Stacks guest Billie Wildrick in a co-production with Utter Love audio experiences. (And thanks to Wildrick for the original music and soundscape in this special episode.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William Dean Howell’s 1892 story about a little girl who wished it could be Christmas every day has an interesting moral or two for adults as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Challenger meets an inventor whose creation may prove so catastrophic as to imperil the entire British Empire, in this classic short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Read by acclaimed voice actor Larry Albert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A witty parable about the problem of assuming too much about one’s spouse, “When the Door Opened” was written by the Irish author Sarah Grand, one of the pioneers of fiction dealing with the “New Woman.” It’s read by renowned radio actor Larry Albert, best known for playing the titular detective in “The Adventures of Harry Nile” as well as Dr. Watson in Imagination Theatre’s long-running “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special seasonal BRASS Stacks, our Lord Brass (Charles Leggett) reads M.R. James' wonderfully spooky tale of a academic's unlucky find at an archaeologicall dig--and what finds him after. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the conclusion to our Missives mini-series, the Angel of Blood writes a final letter to Lady Brass–but will it receive a reply?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A correspondence between Lady and Lord Brass reveals yet another mystery, and another clue in solving the greater question: who is the Angel of Blood?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lady Brass delves into a correspondence kept in a locked drawer of her House of Memory–letters from the woman who taught her how to truly use a sword. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The (other) Great Detective shares her thoughts on what clues are and how to know when you’ve encountered one–and encounters more than a few herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cyril Brass, fashion-plate and formidable fighter, shares his thoughts upon being selected as Dandy of the Year by Jim Dandy Magazine (The Magazine for Dandies). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest in our new BRASS miniseries features special guest Larry Albert (Harry Nile, Dr. Watson in Imagination Theatre’s Sherlock Holmes) in the role he originated, the loathsome Antiquarian. When an assassin arrives at his bookstore, the bilious bibliophile must find a way to turn a killer into a customer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the third episode of our new mini-series, the plot thickens as two rogues-for-hire compare notes on their new employer, the enigmatic Angel of Blood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

London’s most louche crime lord Vincent Law shares thoughts from his private diary, including meditations on style, crime and the shocking revelation that he is being stalked by an unlikely admirer. Featuring Tadd Morgan, with original music by Bruce Monroe.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the first of our new BRASS limited series, Lady Brass gives a short primer in how to solve mysteries–or at least, the ones she considers worth solving. Starring Kate Kraay as Lady Brass, with original music by Bruce Monroe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of the Brass Family returns for its final (for now) chapter, Season Four, starting in two weeks. If you could use a gentle reminder of a plot line or two, give this a listen! (Though no guarantee that it won’t leave you MORE confused….) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Need a refresher on the world of BRASS? Here’s a fully-produced synopses featuring some of our favorite scenes from Season One. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Second Coming: Lord and Lady Brass rush across London trying to save both a missing child and an abducted poet, while Yeats comes face-to-face with the mysterious Master and learns his occult plans! Bickering cultists, unnatural rituals and the timely return of Loveday Brooke as our BRASS Miniseries comes to an end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salons and Seances: The Brasses visit the salon of Victorian Renaissance man William Morris, have some harrowing conversations with a firebrand anarchist, and meet a guide to occult London, a young poet with a supernatural bent, William Butler Yeats.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Falling Rocks and Flying Knives. Trapped in The Spookhouse, the deathtrap-laden lair of the villainous Peck-in-the-Crown, the Brasses have their ingenuity tested to the shattering point, while a sinister conspiracy stays one step ahead of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices