The Back shelf

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Hey — I’m KC. Every bookstore has that back corner. Cracked spines. Faded covers. Books that once kept people up all night… then quietly got left behind. Every episode, I pull one off the shelf and tell it to you out loud. Fantasy, horror, sci-fi, romance — if it’s old and it’s good, it belongs here. Get comfortable. These stories still hold up.

Episodes

  1. Sep 13

    Lolly Wilowes

    In this episode of The Back Shelf, we tell the story of Laura “Lolly” Willowes — the quiet, overlooked aunt who spent decades being useful to everyone but herself. After years of living as an afterthought in her brother’s household, she does something radical for a woman of her time: she leaves. She takes a cottage in a small village called Great Mop… and makes a pact with the Devil. A dry, elegant, and quietly subversive retelling of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s 1926 novel about freedom, solitude, and the strange relief of finally belonging to yourself.

  2. Sep 11

    Jane Eyre - The woman who refused to disappear

    In this episode of The Back Shelf, we return to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre — the story of a plain, fierce orphan who refuses to disappear. From the red-room at Gateshead to the frozen misery of Lowood, from the shadowed halls of Thornfield to the discovery that shatters everything, this is Jane’s story told the way it feels: full of fire, longing, quiet rage, and the stubborn decision to keep her soul intact. A full retelling for late nights and dim lights.

  3. Sep 4

    20,000 Leagues under the sea

    In 1866, a glowing sea monster begins ramming ships across the world’s oceans, leaving wreckage, panic, and no survivors who can explain what they saw. When a French professor and two companions finally confront the creature, they vanish beneath the waves… only to awaken aboard a machine that shouldn’t exist, commanded by a man who has severed all ties to the surface. What they discover in the crushing dark will challenge everything they know about the ocean…..and whether they will ever return.

  4. Sep 2

    The door that opens once a year! Barsoom series conclusion

    The door that ended our last chapter is finally about to open again — and John Carter is not the only one who’s been waiting for it. What follows is a chase across the most hostile territory on the entire planet, and the conclusion of everything this saga’s been building toward.

  5. Aug 30

    Barsoom series, Ep 2 - The Valley They Called Heaven

    Ten years. That’s how long John Carter spent back on Earth, staring at the night sky, waiting for Mars to call him home again. When it finally does, he doesn’t land somewhere friendly — he lands in the one place every single Martian has been taught, since birth, is completely safe. He’s about to find out that’s not true. And it’s going to cost him more than he ever expected to pay.

  6. Aug 27

    The Cave That Led To Mars

    In 1866, a Confederate cavalry officer walked into a cave in the Arizona hills and never walked back out , not dead, not missing, just… gone somewhere nobody could follow. What his own family found in his papers, decades later, was a story so strange they couldn’t decide whether to call it fact or fiction. This is that story. A princess of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs’s 1912 classic, the book that quietly invented an entire genre of adventure fiction.

  7. Aug 26

    The Back shelf introduction

    Hello everyone, Welcome to The Back shelf. I am your host KC, and this is a small introduction for the show and a little teaser of what story we are covering in the first episode.

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About

Hey — I’m KC. Every bookstore has that back corner. Cracked spines. Faded covers. Books that once kept people up all night… then quietly got left behind. Every episode, I pull one off the shelf and tell it to you out loud. Fantasy, horror, sci-fi, romance — if it’s old and it’s good, it belongs here. Get comfortable. These stories still hold up.

Information

  • Creator
    KC
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © KC
  • Show Website
    The Back shelf