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00 - Introduction
In Seeing Things at Night
Seeing Things at Night is a delightful collection of humorous short stories by Heywood Broun that captures the absurdities of everyday life.…
The Pen
In The Road
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…
For Value Received
In Stories without Tears
This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain, first published in 1914. While generally best-known for his horror and supernatural fic…
The Unfinished Game
In Here and Hereafter
This is a collection of stories by Barry Pain. While not all of these fall squarely into the genre of ghost and horror story, for which the …
06 - Chapter 6
In The Jacket
A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Priso…
An Unposted Letter
In Selected Poems
Iris Barry was a British and American poet, novelist, film critic and curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. These poems were…
Marge Askinforit
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…
Melons
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01
The Wit and Humor of America is a delightful anthology that brings together a rich collection of 53 short stories and poems from 44 diverse …
Saturday-Night Theatre
In this captivating episode of Saturday-Night Theatre, titled "Where are You, Wally?", we follow the story of Det Sgt Hardie as he…
Introduction
In Humour of the North
Humour of the North is a delightful anthology that showcases the wit and humor of some of Canada's most notable writers. Compiled by Lawrenc…
An Exchange of Souls
Although only lightly known as an author of horror stories, Barry Pain departs from his typical themes with 'An Exchange of Souls'. In this …
The Alibi Problem
In The Problem Club
The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathem…
Stopover Planet
In Short Science Fiction Collection 029
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
Miss Willett
In Short Story Collection Vol. 096
We are back with the 96th LibriVox Short Story Collection. All stories were selected and read by LibriVox volunteers. One of Sir Arthur Cona…
This is All
In Stories in the Dark
This is a collection of some of Barry Pain's finest horror stories and weird fiction. - Summary by Carolin
The Autobiography of an Idea
In Stories in Grey
This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain. Pain was well-known in his time for his supernatural and horror stories. This collectio…
The Wounded
In Short Science Fiction Collection 101
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…
The Enchanted Horse (Part I)
In The Arabian Nights Entertainments
The Arabian Nights Entertainments invites listeners into a mesmerizing world of ancient tales, where magic, adventure, and wisdom intertwine…
Star, Bright
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…
Far Inland Football
In Short Works on Sports Collection 01
A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The col…