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Sci-fi and fantasy stories, narrated world by world.
Tall Tale TV presents narrated sci-fi and fantasy fiction, ranging from haunted woods and cursed memory to spacefaring machines, uploaded minds, and comic fantasy peril. The show favors complete story experiences, with room for serialized sci-fantasy and closing reflections from Chris Herron.
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Tall Tale TV is a narrated fiction feed built around sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal, and other short stories. It gives the story the center of the room. Recent episodes include "Hindsight," Of Monsters and Mushrooms, Ch. 14, "Dead skin of the basilisk," "Voyeurs," "The Harbinger," "Derelict," "Ode to Everything," and "Upload in Progress," which together show a wide genre lane without making the show feel scattered. The subjects travel from cursed woods to mushroom-infested streets, from machine intelligence to time tourists, from a castle mouse to an alien warning carried across deep space. The texture changes quickly. Some pieces are eerie and bodily, full of rot, bark, blood, and compulsion. Others lean comic, letting danger share space with banter, mistaken priorities, and odd little jokes. The science-fiction entries are comfortable with large ideas: uploaded minds, godlike AI, intergalactic visitors, recording devices, and technology that changes what a body or a society can become. The fantasy entries can be intimate instead, using tiny creatures, old castles, dark lords, and inherited burdens to make the stakes feel close. Chris Herron appears after the stories with short reactions rather than long analysis. Those closings point to surprise, nostalgia, humor, craft, or the personal angle that made a story memorable. The show’s rhythm comes from that pairing: a performed story, then a brief editorial afterglow. It is not primarily interview-driven in the supplied episodes. It is not a lore panel or a news show. It is closer to an audio magazine for modern genre fiction, with each episode foregrounding a named writer and a narrated piece. The appeal is in variety without losing the core promise. A listener might arrive for alien ruins and stay for a sentimental dark-lord fable, or start with body-horror paranoia and end up in a comic serialized adventure. Tall Tale TV works best when treated as a discovery shelf: one feed, many worlds, each with a voice at the door to introduce it and a short note on the way out.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants complete sci-fi and fantasy fiction in audio form, especially stories with monsters, machines, curses, portals, strange futures, and darkly playful turns. It also fits someone who likes brief post-story reactions without a long discussion format.
What sets it apart: Tall Tale TV separates itself by making narrated fiction the main event while still naming the writers and adding a concise human response after the tale. The recent catalog moves easily between eerie paranormal fantasy, comic sci-fantasy, cosmic science fiction, and reflective tech anxiety.
Are you a fan of science fiction and fantasy short stories? Do you love getting lost in a good book or audio drama? Tall Tale TV has you covered. With modern fiction from around the world, professionally narrated just for you, Tall Tale TV is your premier destination for bite-size audiobook adventure.My name is Chris Herron, a professional voice actor, and Every Monday and Friday I professionally narrate short stories from around the world. From epic fantasy to space opera, steampunk to urban sci-fi, and everything in between. Most episodes are stand-alone short stories, but I also mix in book excerpts and episodic novels, and novellas for a variety of content.But beyond that, I believe in b…
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A mushroom-haunted escape gets funnier every time Attila opens his mouth.
A lost group presses through Pale Point, where giant mushrooms choke the streets, respirators turn into another liability, and Attila keeps choosing the worst possible moment to talk.
A guilty AI parent turns cable management into a bleak, oddly tender parable about love, guilt, and humanity's last chance.
A doomed parent of an artificial intelligence reaches for an old cable holder, the last keepsake of a child, and turns tangled wires into a strange explanation of humanity's final chance.
A castle mouse weighs apocalypse against bread, cheese, and a nap.
The Harbinger turns a mouse's hunger into a meeting with the end of the world. Morris discovers a new hole behind a suit of armor in the king's castle, follows it down into a colder dark, and finds a shadowed voice waiting with names like the Light Swallower, the Oncoming End,…
Big fantasy stakes, live-table sparks.
Grim fantasy at mud level.
Fantasy rereads with jokes sharpened into arguments.
A man considers buying a spaceship with a strange name and a rumor of being haunted.
An aspiring author risks dealing with a djinn to overcome writer's block in this urban fantasy short story.
A man runs through a deadly mushroom forest to escape an abyss-walker, debating the merits of their bounty-hunting plan.
A storyteller makes a blood pact with a god to hear a true tale in this dark fantasy short story.
A man undergoes a risky experimental procedure to have his time transfused, leaving him immobilized and reliant on tubes.
A narrator with the ability to feel ancestral pain is drawn to a violent forest where past sins linger.
Tall Tale TV's "Of Monsters and Mushrooms, Ch.
Tall Tale TV’s “Dead Skin of the Basilisk,” written by Kalle Sundbom and narrated by Chris Herron, follows an AI creator hiding after the basilisk enslaves humanity.
A struggling journalist stumbles upon an illegal robot fight club in the Ozarks, leading to his first big story.
A mouse named Morris crawls into a hidden room behind a suit of armor in the king's castle and gets greeted by an ancient voice that offers "all the cheddar in the world." That voice is trapped beneath the castle, and it recruits Morris to watch the king and queen's newborn princess in exchange for a dark blessing that makes him hard to notice.
Tall Tale TV's "Ode to Everything" follows Maxwell Garrett's two-pipe organ through a planned 639-year performance.
Rick Kennett’s “The Unexpected Morning” follows Rhonda as she takes Nana Chloe to a doctor’s appointment after a strange report of someone dancing outside.
In Tall Tale TV's Chapter 13, Evan's crew debates returning to the Palepoint Museum for two missing teammates.