Gertrude Atherton, a native San Franciscan, attended St. Mary’s in Benicia. She eloped with a man who had been courting her twice-divorced mother: George HB Atherton. They lived on the Atherton Estates, now known as Atherton CA. This story is a mysterious, Gothic tale about an author who becomes obsessed with children in some old portraits. As we move in to the haunting month of October our stories will get more and more…haunting…. Enjoy!
This week’s story is “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell. Glaspell co-founded the first modern American theater company, the Provincetown Players, and...
It is, after all, Halloween! This story was requested by a listener and since we’ve just finished Winesburg, Ohio the timing was perfect for...
This week we bring you "The Camel's Back" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in his 1922 collection "Tales of the Jazz Age"...