The Hidden Gems Podcast (Classic Tales & Original Short Stories)

Join us for this supernatural horror tale as Our Hero and The Swede paddle up the Danube where they are stranded on a quickly eroding island full of willows that seem alive with creatures from another dimension.  Algernon Blackwood's novella "The Willows" was published in 1907 in "The Listener and Other Stories." H.P.

On a Halloween dare, a little girl kicks a gravestone and then must deal with the consequences. Truth or fiction? You decide.   For more about this and other hauntings, listen to "The Cost of Seeing Ghosts" at Midnight Balloon.com Thank you for listening to The Hidden Gems Podcast, which is dedicated to bringing you th

Most of us live rather small and quiet lives, which has its own special charm. But what happens if you are Oppenheimer, the builder of the atomic bomb, knowing that you are responsible for the deaths of thousands of people? Is it possible to go back in time and make other choices? Perhaps, but there are always conseque

We've all had our hearts broken, just as we are all guilty of breaking someone else's heart. Think back and examine your own history. Agnes Keith-Wessington pursued Jack in her rickshaw, but who would be haunting you and in what type of vehicle would they be pursuing you?   For more information, check out this article

Lions, and Tigers, and...Otters?  Hector Hugh Monru (1870-1916) chose his pseudonym "Saki" after a fictional character who was a cupbearer who was on a "joyous errand" to serve wine to guests in Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát.  For more information about Saki, check out these articles: Untameable Saki - One hundred years afte

The Hidden Gems Podcast is deeply honored to be featuring a short story written by the internationally acclaimed artist, Rick Levinson!    Rick Levinson's Artist Statment:Stories. Real and Imagined. With Pictures. At the basis of all of my art there are stories. They combine my actual life experiences, voluntarily imag