LITERNAUT (PODCAST)

Episode 21: Crime and Punishment: Conscience as the penalty for an unthinkable crime.

Raskolnikov murders a pawnbroker to prove his superiority but descends into guilt and madness before seeking redemption through confession.

Episode 20: Sleepy Hollow: Blind superstition versus greed.

The Headless Horseman is the ghost of a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannonball during the American Revolution. He haunts Sleepy Hollow, riding nightly to find his missing head and chasing the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane out of town.

Episode 19: Cinderella: The Triumph of Kindness over Envy and Contempt

A kind girl mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters. With the help of a Fairy Godmother who transforms a pumpkin into a carriage, she attends a royal ball and captures the Prince's heart.

Episode 18: The Myth of "Orpheus and Eurydice": The Descent into the Abyss for the One You Love.

Orpheus, a gifted musician, descends to the Underworld to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, after she dies from a snake bite. Hades agrees to let her go on one condition: Orpheus must not look back at her until they reach the surface.

Episode 17: The Raven: An Eternal Echo of Madness and Mourning.

"The Raven" is a gothic narrative poem about a grieving man's descent into madness. While mourning his lost love, Lenore, he is visited by a mysterious raven that answers every question with the haunting refrain, "Nevermore."