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Dark Hollow, Version 2

Read by Doreen Marcotte


Anna Katharine Green


Twelve years ago, the town of Shelby was in shock at the discovery of the murder of Algernon Etheridge, one of the town's most prominent cit…

How Mitchell Apologized to Himself

In Cordelia the Magnificent

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Leroy Scott


Cordelia Marlowe carries a high society name but no fortune. She has to make ends meet, but what kind of work can a young lady do whose main…

Surveying in African Swamps and Deserts

In The Romance of Modern Exploration

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Archibald Williams


It may be thought, perhaps, that exploration must be comparatively easy today. Less laborious no doubt it is in some details when Mandevill…

X. Mill-Girls' Magazines

In A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Version 2)

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Lucy Larcom


What was growing up like for a seaside country girl in 1800’s New England -- her expectations, occupations, education, and opportunities? Wh…

The Dummy and the Ventriloquist, by Harold Hersey

In The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 5, May 1, 1919

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Harold Hersey and Greye La Spina


Welcome to Issue #5 of the exciting and influential pulp magazine The Thrill Book, a noted precursor to the mighty Weird Tales! In this issu…

CHAPTER VII. NODDY AND THE SQUARE BOX.

In The Motor Boys; or, Chums Through Thick and Thin

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Clarence Young


Dear Boys:Here is a brand-new line of stories for you, to be issued under the general title of “The Motor Boys Series.”The motor-cycle of to…

The Despair of Kenton

In The Ship of Ishtar

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Abraham Merritt


Imaginative, sensual, gory.John Kenton, WWI veteran and wealthy archaeologist, receives stone artifact from a friend in Babylon. Surprisingl…

Billy Bunny and the Grasshopper

In Billy Bunny and the Friendly Elephant

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David Cory


Children’s story author, David Cory, who gave us the series of Little Jack Rabbit, Billy Bunny, Little Journeys to Happy Land, and the Littl…