Podcasts by Tales from the Archives: Volume One

Tales from the Archives: Volume One

From the author who started it all and New Zealand's original podcast authoress, Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine return to Podiobooks.com with Tales from the Archives, a collection of original steampunk short stories set in the world of their award-winning series, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Featuring voices familiar and new, Pip and Tee invite you to sample the fantastic world of their shadowy organisation that fights for Queen and Empire against the mysterious and unknown.

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Tales from the Archives: Volume One
Archives 14: The Precarious Child (Pip Ballantine) from 2012-04-04T04:23:38

The street urchins that will one day be called the Ministry Seven, have a task from Agent Harrison Thorne. It seems simple enough, however their leader Miss Verity Fitzroy discovers that a surpr...

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Archives 13: From Paris, with Regret (Starla Huchton) from 2012-04-04T04:21:41

On assignment in the City of Light, Ministry agents Eliza D. Braun and Harrison Thorne chase down a murderer condemning descendants of a royal bloodline to a horrific death. 

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Archives 12: Darkest before the Darkwater (Tee Morris) from 2012-04-04T04:19:03

A group of survivors from the airship GUY FAWKES find themselves washed ashore on an uncharted island. In their search for survival, they uncover one mystery after another.

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Archives 11: The Shadows of Calcutta (Phil Rossi) from 2012-04-04T04:15

Agent Robert Smith, on return from a mission in Nepal, is diverted to India where he is charged to find a missing agent. Alex Tanner had been investigating a series of thefts and murders holding...

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Archives 10: Night's Plutonian Shore - Part Two (Jack Mangan) from 2012-04-04T04:11:56

We rejoin our epic tale across the America’s as Agent Bruce Campbell remains on the trail of Usher assassin, Mikael Scharnusser, who has fellow Ministry agent Brandon Hill captive. With a narrow...

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Archives 09: Night's Plutonian Shore - Part One (Jack Mangan) from 2012-04-04T04:10:03

This epic tale opens in 1849 when a poet is murdered in the streets of Baltimore. The man behind the seemingly random murder manages to elude the law until — in 1889 — Agents Bruce Campbell and ...

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Archives 08: Hanuman's Gift - Part Two (Helen E.H. Madden) from 2012-04-04T04:07:46

After hearing Agent Harrison Thorne’s impossible tale of cursed monkeys and undead womenWhitby must file away the physical evidence. However it just may be that Hanuman’s Gift was not totally le...

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Archives 07: Hanuman's Gift - Part One (Helen E.H. Madden) from 2012-04-04T04:05:52

Deep in the Archives, Augustus Whitby toils through his duties in the Archives, dreaming up romantic stories far more plausible than the supposed “investigations” of the field agents. A story fr...

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Archives 06: A Ruby in Rain (Grant Stone) from 2012-04-04T04:03:24

From the farthest edge of the Empire, New Zealand agents Lachlan King and Barry Ferguson are called to interview a recent arrival to Auckland’s prisons. An infamous gambler, according to the con...

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Archives 05: The Seven (P.C. Haring) from 2012-04-04T04:01:12

Agent Brandon Hill is on assignment in South America, enjoying the local culture and women, when a mystery that could lead to El Dorado falls into his lap.  Before the intrepid agent knows it, h...

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Archives 04: The Sun Never Sets (Val Griswold-Ford) from 2012-04-04T03:58:52

Agent Isaac Martin receives a note, imploring him to investigate the nearly completed clock tower at the Palace at Westminster.  He and his partner, Agent Andrew Kensington, start looking into t...

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Archives 03: The Astonishing Amulet of Amenartas (Nathan Lowell) from 2012-04-04T03:54:15

Agent Heathcliff Durham finds himself crisscrossing Africa, looking for an Amulet that could spell disaster for any who come near it. Battling blistering heat, starvation, wild animals, and desp...

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Archives 02: Dust on the Davenport (O.M. Grey) from 2012-04-04T03:51:42

Agent Simon R. Boswell, still considered the green agent of the Ministry, takes on his own a supposed haunting in Islington. Hauntings tend to be nothing too serious for agents specializing in t...

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Archives 01: The Evil that Befell Samson (Pip Ballantine) from 2012-04-04T03:50:05

It is revealed just how Miss Braun ended up being exiled from her native country, New Zealand, and working for the Ministry in its London Offices. It’s a tale of nefarious doings, stalwart ladie...

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