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Chapter 06
Read by Karen Savage
Lester del Rey and Lester Del Rey
In The Sky Is Falling
After dying in a terrible accident at a building site, Dave Hanson finds himself being brought back to life in a world where magic is real, …
Chapter III - "Who is Sylvia?"
Read by Anna Simon
R. Austin Freeman
In A Silent Witness
In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…
Chapter 13
Read by Karen Savage
Marion Zimmer Bradley
In The Colors of Space
Bart Steele, Space Academy graduate, is on his way home to his father's business - he runs a fleet of spaceships for interstellar travel. Th…
Reporter and Detective
Read by Gloria Zbilicki
Gaston Leroux
In The Mystery of the Yellow Room
This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious wa…
The Unexpected
Read by Kevin Green
J. S. Fletcher
In The Talleyrand Maxim
John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will. His estate goes t…
Jonathan Myerson You Choose
SANWAL
You Choose by Jonathan Myerson Encountering an old flame on the Tube, Zoe's comfortable life begins to disintegrate as Simon's dark vision s…
The Super Opener
Read by James Jenkins
Michael Zuroy
In Short Science Fiction Collection 075
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…
Through the Window
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain
In The Exploits of Juve
Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, F…
11 - An Outpost of Progress, chapter 2
Read by Kristine Bekere
Joseph Conrad
In Tales of Unrest
Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime.Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), a Poli…
Chapter 17 - The French Attempt on the Cynthia
Read by Terry Kroenung
Simon Newcomb
In His Wisdom, the Defender: A Story
A millionaire genius invents a flying armored suit, a la Iron Man. - Summary by Terry Kroenung
Home in an Auto
Read by Rachel
Laura Lee Hope
In The Bobbsey Twins at School
The Bobbsey Twins is a series of books attributed to Laura Lee Hope, a house pseudonym of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The family includes a p…
XIX. "The New Jeanne D'Arc"
Read by Piotr Nater
Violet Tweedale
In Ghosts I Have Seen, and other Psychic Experiences
In 1919, just after the devastation of WWI, Tweedale published these 34 fact-based testimonials, just a sampling of her psychic experiences …
Chloe
Read by Christie Crews
E. Nesbit
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
Chapter VII In which Bertha reads the Newspaper, and faints away.
Read by Scarlett Martin
William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic
In Rich and Humble; The Mission of Bertha Grant
This is the first story in the Woodville collection of tales about the interesting people in Woodville. As the characters grow, they learn …
EDYL - The Reading Department
Read by Mark Capell
Mark Capell
It's 2046 and Jake Radley has the career opportunity of a lifetime. But to take it he needs to acquire a strange, mysterious new skill. A s…
Chapter Four: A Sail on 'The Cyclone'
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Kate Livingston Willard
In A Colony of Girls
A determinedly tight knit family of sisters comes to unexpected tribulation after a ship arrives containing romantic complication and hidden…
Old Nell Dickerson
Read by Cassandra
Shaw Neilson
In Heart of Spring
John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…
For Joseph Conrad
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Certificates of Character
Read by Holly Jenson
Olive Gilbert
In The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2)
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrati…
The Lost Kafoozalum
Read by Nigel Fisher
Pauline Ashwell
"Lizzie" Lee and her best friend "B" have just finished their finals in Cultural Engineering at Russett College and are …