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The Case of Miss Elliott
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Baroness Emma Orczy
A sequel to the stories published in The Old Man in the Corner, this second book in the series includes twelve new mysterious cases that The…
Bacteria in Daily Life
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Grace Coleridge Frankland
The author provides a fascinating look at the emerging science of bacteriology at the start of the twentieth century including early progres…
History of Chemistry
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe
A history of the advances in chemistry, in the fields of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry from the mid-nineteenth century through t…
The Heart of a Mystery
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Robert Eustace and L. T. Meade
The Heart of Mystery by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace was published in 1901 in six installments in the Windsor Magazine, Vol. 14. The stori…
The Man with the Black Cord
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Auguste Groner
A baffling disappearance. A bedroom door locked from the inside. A housekeeper with something to hide. Will retired policeman turned privat…
Exterior to the Evidence
Read by J. M. Smallheer
J. S. Fletcher
"Exterior to the Evidence" is a mystery novel by J. S. Fletcher originally published in The Black Mask, a magazine of mystery and …
Unravelled Knots
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Baroness Emma Orczy
Unravelled Knots is the third and final installment of the Old Man in the Corner stories by Baroness Orczy. After a break of several years,…
AmerIndian
Read by J. Scott Garibay
J. Scott Garibay
AmerIndian 2192 is a science-fiction novel that explores the intriguing possibilities of Native Americans in mankind's star flung future. Am…
Carmilla
Read by Louise J. Belle
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, originally published as a serial in the London-based literary ma…
The Horla
Read by Louise J. Belle
Guy de Maupassant
"The Horla" (French title "Le Horla") is among the most famous short stories by the French writer Guy de Maupassant. Th…
The Isle of the Undead
Read by Louise J. Belle
Lloyd Eshbach
"A gripping, thrilling, uncanny tale about the frightful fate that befell a yachting party on the dreadful island of living dead men.&q…
The Beckoning Fair One
Read by Louise J. Belle
Oliver Onions
"The Beckoning Fair One" is the most famous, and most widely anthologized, work by British author Oliver Onions. This novella, alo…
Nonsense Novels
Read by Louise J. Belle
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian writer, teacher, and political scientist. A prolific and popular humorist, he published dozens of…
The Christian Mythology
Read by Louise J. Belle
Ethel Brigham Leatherbee
"Knowledge is power, but ignorance is the mother of devotion."Christianity, like all other religions, came not into the world full…
I and My Chimney
Read by Louise J. Belle
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819–1891) is best known for his epic novel Moby Dick (1851), as well as the short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853) an…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Read by M. J. Boyle
The Gawain Poet, The Gawain Poettranslated Bywilliam Allan Neilson and The Gawain Poettranslated By William Allan Neilson
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of…
Erec and Enide
Read by M. J. Boyle
Chrétien De Troyes
A medieval romance in which Erec goes through many trials until he is sure of Enide’s loyalty and true love (Summary by M. J. Boyle)
The New Life
Read by Mary J
Dante Alighieri
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…
The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti
Read by Mary J
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…
Under the Shadow of Etna
Read by Mary J
Giovanni Verga
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…