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Flame Tree Myth & Fiction

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Thrill to the adventures of the past and visions of the future. Featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror and the supernatural, short stories, ancient tales, myth and folklore from our short story submissions, with author interviews and occasional special features about publishing and writing. Flame Tree is independent, and encourages the comprehensive understanding of all people, and all cultures.

© 2025 Flame Tree Publishing Ltd
Episodios
  • H.G. Wells: An Author Revisited
    Jul 15 2025

    We’ve all heard of H.G. Wells. The famed British author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Many of which can be found in Flame Tree’s anthologies. However, have you ever thought about what would happen if you used a time machine to travel back in time to meet the man behind those well-known words?

    Featuring:

    ‘Shaping Things to Come’ by Dominick Cancilla (01.00), narrated by Nathan Chatelier. We found this one in our collection ‘Time Travelling Short Stories’. This is a clever story that considers the literary implications of time travel.

    ‘The Ghost’ by Catherine Wells (18.38), narrated by Olivia. One of the shorter stories in ‘The Open Heart’, a collection of H.G. Wells’ wife’s work that was published earlier this year. A classic horror story, full of atmosphere and whimsy.

    Biographies:

    Dominick Cancilla is currently living in Santa Monica, California. His previous works include dozens of short stories, one book of philosophy, and one novel, Revenant Savior. He’s also a rather extreme fan of Disney parks and his most recent works – a pair of travel guides for vampires and other unusual creatures planning Disney vacations – include advice for theme-park-visiting time travelers.

    Catherine Wells (1872–1927), born Amy Catherine Robbins, worked as a teacher and studied at Tutorial College, Holborn where she met and later married H.G. Wells. She is regarded as a great supporter of her husband’s literary outpourings, while she was in fact herself a serious writer, quietly creating her own stories and poems, long-neglected until now.

    Nathan Chatelier is a British voiceover artist with almost fifty audiobooks recorded alongside thousands of other projects, from video games to the Mean Girls West End trailer. Check out his demos.

    This episode was hosted by Bea.

    Our previous episode on Catherine Wells: https://flametr.com/4eqaOT7

    ‘Shaping Things to Come’ is ©2017 Dominick Cancilla and appeared in Time Travel Short Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, 2017).

    ‘The Ghost’ by Catherine Wells was first published in The Book of Catherine Wells in 1928 but more recently appeared in The Open Heart (Flame Tree Publishing, 2025).

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    Music is an extract of Sunbeams by Allen Stroud, from his Fractal Series album, licensed courtesy of fpl-digital 2025.

    This podcast is hosted and sometimes narrated by Beatrix Ambery (also audio editor), Olivia Jackson (also podcast coordinator) and Nick Wells (also producer).

    Chosen from hundreds of wonderful tales, short stories such as these are selected by our short window open submission process, giving opportunities to writers of all levels of experience, culture and location. Look out for our submission announcements, and see the full list here: flametreepublishing.com/gothic-fantasy-book-series-list.html

    Our full range of thematic short stories, epic tales, mythology and folklore titles are available at all good bookstores, online and in retail, and at flametreepublishing.com

    Flame Tree Publishing, Independent Publisher of the Year 2024, British Fantasy Society. Beautiful Books, Timeless Storytelling, Fresh Perspectives.

    The Flame Tree Myth and Fiction podcast is created and © copyright 2025 Flame Tree Publishing Ltd.

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    32 m
  • Under the Same Moon
    Jul 8 2025

    In today’s episode, which is a couple of days ahead of the Buck Moon, we are presenting you with two moon-tales. Stories, where the night dances with ancient power as the moon watches.

    Featuring:

    ‘Shattered Moon, Hungry Sea’ by Elou Carroll (02:13), narrated by Olivia. A story where a child’s curiosity unleashes oceanic fury, proving that some jewellery should never be touched, and some secrets should stay sewn into the sky. Borrowed from Flame Tree’s ‘Moon Falling’ collection.

    ‘The Moon-Slave’ by Barry Pain (10:28), narrated by Bea. A Victorian nightmare, where the moon enslaves a young girl to its spell. What begins as artistic expression becomes supernatural bondage, proving that some performances are more binding than any marriage contract.

    Biographies:

    Elou Carroll is a graphic designer and freelance photographer who writes. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Deadlands, Baffling Magazine, If There’s Anyone Left (Volume 3), In Somnio: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror (Tenebrous Press), Spirit Machine (Air and Nothingness Press), Ghostlore (Alternative Stories Podcast) and others. When she’s not whispering with ghosts, she can be found editing Crow & Cross Keys, publishing all things dark and lovely, and spending far too much time on X (Twitter) (@keychild). She keeps a catalogue of her weird little word creatures on eloucarroll.com.

    Barry Pain (1864–1928) was renowned first and foremost as a comic writer. Like his friend and fellow- humourist Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), however, he had a longstanding interest in the supernatural and the gothic. His mad-scientist shocker The Octave of Claudius (1897) was to become a pioneering Hollywood Horror movie, in the form of A Blind Bargain, with Lon Chaney and Raymond McKee, in 1922.

    This episode was hosted by Shilpa Varma. To find out more about our writer-in-residence and her role at Flame Tree, click here.

    ‘Shattered Moon, Hungry Sea’ is © 2020 Elou Carroll and was originally published in Apparition Lit in 2020 and appeared in Moon Falling (Flame Tree Publishing, 2024).

    ‘The Moon-Slave’ by Barry Pain was first published in Stories in the Dark in 1901 and more recently appeared in Weird Horror Short Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, 2022).

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    Music is an extract of Sunbeams by Allen Stroud, from his Fractal Series album, licensed courtesy of fpl-digital 2025.

    This podcast is hosted and sometimes narrated by Beatrix Ambery (also audio editor), Olivia Jackson (also podcast coordinator) and Nick Wells (also producer).

    Chosen from hundreds of wonderful tales, short stories such as these are selected by our short window open submission process, giving opportunities to writers of all levels of experience, culture and location. Look out for our submission announcements, and see the full list here: flametreepublishing.com/gothic-fantasy-book-series-list.html

    Our full range of thematic short stories, epic tales, mythology and folklore titles are available at all good bookstores, online and in retail, and at flametreepublishing.com

    Flame Tree Publishing, Independent Publisher of the Year 2024, British Fantasy Society. Beautiful Books, Timeless Storytelling, Fresh Perspectives.

    The Flame Tree Myth and Fiction podcast is created and © copyright 2025 Flame Tree Publishing Ltd.

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    24 m
  • What Water Carries
    Jul 1 2025

    Today’s episode carries us East through two short stories. These stories are united by a powerful motif - water as memory. In both, water surmounts to more, it comes to represent the enduring presence of the natural world. Offset by human mortality and the quickening of time associated with growing up.

    Featuring:

    ‘Waiting for Karaga’ by Amal Singh (00:55), narrated by Shilpa Varma. A touching short story, borrowed from our ‘Shadows on the Water’ collection, that narrates the relationship between a lake and a young girl.

    ‘The Fisher-boy Urashima’ by Basil Hall Chamberlain (20:18), narrated by Amanda Benzecry. Selected from our ‘Hidden Realms’ short story collection, this pick is a Japanese Fairy Tale that is in essence an exploration of morality.

    Biographies:

    Amal Singh is an author from Mumbai, India. His short fiction has been longlisted for the BSFA award, and has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous venues such as Clarkesworld, F&SF, Apex, Asimov’s, among others. His debut novel, The Garden of Delights, was published by Flame Tree Press in 2024.

    Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850–1935) was working in a bank in London when he dropped out and decided it was time to see the world. His first voyage took him to Japan, he settled there, first as an adviser to the government, then subsequently as literary scholar and translator.

    Learn more about Shilpa Varma and her role at Flame Tree here.

    Amanda Benzecry (voice actor) regularly narrates books for Audible, is on the panel for the RNIB and is a frequent contributor (both as a narrator and a writer) to TNF Soundings, providing audio material for the visually impaired.

    This episode is hosted by Bea.

    Our Feedback Form: https://flametr.com/44poBFK

    ‘Waiting for Karaga’ is ©2018 Amal Singh and was originally published in Truancy Magazine in 2018 and appeared in Shadows on the Water (Flame Tree Publishing, 2024).

    ‘The Fisher-boy Urashima’ by Basil Hall Chamberlain was first published as a chapbook by Kobunsha in 1886 and more recently appeared in Hidden Realms (Flame Tree Publishing, 2023).

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    Music is an extract of Sunbeams by Allen Stroud, from his Fractal Series album, licensed courtesy of fpl-digital 2025.

    This podcast is hosted and sometimes narrated by Beatrix Ambery (also audio editor), Olivia Jackson (also podcast coordinator) and Nick Wells (also producer).

    Chosen from hundreds of wonderful tales, short stories such as these are selected by our short window open submission process, giving opportunities to writers of all levels of experience, culture and location. Look out for our submission announcements, and see the full list here: flametreepublishing.com/gothic-fantasy-book-series-list.html

    Our full range of thematic short stories, epic tales, mythology and folklore titles are available at all good bookstores, online and in retail, and at flametreepublishing.com

    Flame Tree Publishing, Independent Publisher of the Year 2024, British Fantasy Society. Beautiful Books, Timeless Storytelling, Fresh Perspectives.

    The Flame Tree Myth and Fiction podcast is created and © copyright 2025 Flame Tree Publishing Ltd.

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    30 m
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