While her faithful co-host Katai recovers from an unforeseen macadamia nut attack, Kelly is joined by professional podcaster and voracious reader Travis McElroy (My Brother, My Brother and Me; The Adventure Zone; Shmanners) for a mind-bending journey through Edgar Allen Poe’s doppelganger saga “William Wilson,” a story about… a bad boy, a copycat, and a…

Before Frankenstein there was… “The Mortal Immortal!” Keith Kingbay and Jesse Neil (New Player Has Joined podcast) join Kelly and Katai on a journey through Mary Shelley’s tale of an alchemist’s assistant, a magical elixir, and a toxic marriage. Follow Public Domain Theater on Instagram and Twitter Tweets by PublicDomainPod http://instagram.com/publicdomainpod Public Domain Theater is…

We catch the public domain FEVER with guest Amy Vorpahl (Geek and Sundry, Nerdist) and the only cure is constant interruption. So lay back, relax, arch your vigorous brows, and enjoy our reading of a classic story about frenemies on vacation… It’s “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton aka “Pussy Jones” (actual nickname). Follow Public Domain…

“Problematic” does not BEGIN to describe Irving E Cox Jr’s urtext of the men’s rights movement– “Love Story” (1956)– a paranoid nightmare about the supposed feminization of postwar American culture that posits the insane and unnecessary question… What if first wave feminism is just the first step to a tyrannical dictatorship in which men are…

Caution, Children! Steven Ray Morris (See Jurassic Right, The Purrrcast) joins Kelly and Katai for a romp through Hilaire Belloc’s macabre and misogynistic “Cautionary Tales for Children” (1907), encountering such ill-fated characters as “Matilda, Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death” and “Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably.” As well as…

WHAT. IS. FUNNY. Moujan Zolfaghari (Mission to Zyxx) joins Kelly and Katai for a sci-fi journey to the outer reaches of comedy as they read and interrupt overachiever Isaac Asimov’s short story “Jokester” (1956), about office politics, an advanced supercomputer, and the secret origin of all jokes. Follow Public Domain Theater on Instagram and Twitter…

If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise… It’s two short stories by HH Munro aka SAKI! Patrick Ehlers (Nintendo Cartridge Society, Same Day Shipping) joins Kelly and Katai to read/interrupt “Gabriel-Ernest” and “The Music on the Hill.” Together they stumble upon some very strange, sometimes violent, sometimes sexy…

Encyclopedias! The KKK!! PIPS!!! The game is afoot as Sherlock Holmes and Watson get their first Public Domain Theater treatment. Omar Najam (Sunnydale Studygroup, Thank You For Questing) joins Kelly and Katai to read and interrupt Baker Street deep cut, “The Five Orange Pips” and trust us when we say, you have NEVER heard Sherlock…

I’ve heard of juvenile delinquency but this is ridiculous! Mary Holland joins Kelly and Katai as they descend the disturbing and grotesque depths of Bram Stoker’s The Dualitists, or The Death Doom of the Double Born, with nothing but their irreverent wit to guide them… OK seriously, though, all jokes aside… This story is F*CKED…

The Roaring 20s are brought to stunning misogynistic life in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s revenge fable/sustained shade fest “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” Kelly, Katai, and guest Ryan Mogge (Hellmouthy, Same Day Shipping)read and frequently interrupt descriptions of men who “casually go to Yale” and women who “get kissed in the backs of dowagers’ limousines.” Yeesh. Buckle…