Short Stories
Ghost Story Collection 005
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Various
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
Read by David Wales
Variousandalexander Jessup
Eighteen short stories by famous and little known authors compassing the period 1839 - 1914. The editor's very extensive introduction is omi…
Short Science Fiction Collection 006
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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 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 004
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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…
Short Science Fiction Collection 010
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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…
Ghost Story Collection 006
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Various
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (version 3)
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…
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 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…
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…
Short Science Fiction Collection 003
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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, and Other Early Works
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…
Short Science Fiction Collection 050
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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…
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…
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…