Short Stories
The Parenticide Club
Read by Peter Yearsley
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), best known as journalist, satirist and short story writer. Cynical in outlook, economical in style; Bierce va…
Short Science Fiction Collection
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Various
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…
Jane Austen's Juvenilia
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Jane Austen
Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifet…
Short Science Fiction Collection
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Various
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Read by Phil Chenevert
Washington Irving
Everyone knows the story of the Headless Horseman but perhaps you, like me, did not remember what a marvelous story teller Washington Irving…
Ghost Story Collection
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Various
Step into the shadowy realms of the unknown with this captivating collection of ghost stories. Featuring ten haunting tales, each narrated b…
New Arabian Nights
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Robert Louis Stevenson
New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his …
The Gift of the Magi
Read by Betsie Bush
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their on…
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
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Pádraic Colum
This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Gol…
Short Science Fiction Collection
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Various
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…
Round the Sofa
Read by NoelBadrian
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…
Love and Freindship
Read by NoelBadrian
Jane Austen
This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Ca…
The Ruby and the Caldron
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Anna Katharine Green
A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…
Castles in the Air
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Baroness Emma Orczy
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (Septe…
Short Science Fiction Collection
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Various
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Monday or Tuesday
Read by LizMourant
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist li…
The King in Yellow
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Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Shortly after returning to America, he became popular a…
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
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William Hope Hodgson
Step into the eerie world of Thomas Carnacki, a detective who specializes in the supernatural. Created by William Hope Hodgson, Carnacki nav…
Wessex Tales
Read by Tadhg
Thomas Hardy
Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…