Tuesday, July 30, 2019
This Crowded Earth ♦ By Robert Bloch ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
This Crowded Earth ♦ By Robert Bloch ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: This Crowded Earth
Author: Robert Bloch
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Gregg Margarite
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Robert Bloch (1917 – 1994) was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short stories and novels he wrote a number of television and film scripts including several for the original Star Trek. In 1959 Bloch wrote the novel Psycho which Alfred Hitchcock adapted to film a year later. He received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and he is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. Published in Amazing Stories in 1958, This Crowded Earth is a thriller set on an overpopulated Earth of the future. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)
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The Haunted Orchard ♦ By Richard le Gallienne ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ F...
The Haunted Orchard ♦ By Richard le Gallienne ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
Title: The Haunted Orchard
Author: Richard le Gallienne
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Sibella Denton
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Richard Le Gallienne (1866 – 1947) was an English author and poet.
“The Haunted Orchard” is considered to be the best mystery short story in the literary experience of Richard Le Gallienne. The majority of his stories amaze the mind though not a very long but very intriguing story as a rule associated with ghosts and mysterious creatures.Visit me on Tumblr at https://www.tumblr.com/blog/chipslater
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The Goblin of Adachigahara ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ♦ Japanese Fairy Tal...
The Goblin of Adachigahara ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales ♦ Audiobook
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Japanese Fairy Tales
Title: The Goblin of Adachigahara
Author: Yei Theodora OZAKI (1871 - 1932)
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Language: English
Read By: Scott Robbins
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First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend Andrew Lang, another collector of fairy stories, who printed his stories in the many Colored Fairy Books. (Summary by not.a.moose)
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The Old Die Rich ♦ By H. L. Gold ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
The Old Die Rich ♦ By H. L. Gold ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The Old Die Rich
Author: H. L. Gold
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Juli Carter
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In 1950 H. L. Gold founded Galaxy Science Fiction magazine and was editor until 1961. Although he was responsible for a number of anthologies, this book is the only volume of his own science fiction and fantasy stories.
A collection of short stories concentrates more on inventiveness than science, forswears double talk for plot. A catatonic wife is really being indoctrinated by those from other worlds; a water gnome's curse proves inescapable; pioneers on a planet alter personalities to fit its needs; people die when a man repeats their name three times; an invisible being from another planet proves to be a satisfactory lover, etc. Accent on surprise and humor keeps this light.
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Monday, July 29, 2019
The Biography of a Grizzly ♦ By Ernest Thompson Seton ♦ Animals & Nature...
The Biography of a Grizzly ♦ By Ernest Thompson Seton ♦ Animals & Nature ♦ Audiobook
Title: The Biography of a Grizzly
Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
Genre(s): Animals & Nature
Language: English
Read By: Phil Chenevert
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Wahb (meaning White Bear) is an orphaned Grizzly Bear who learns to respect his fears, fight for peace, and trust the healing powers of a stinky hot-spring. The story is aptly titled The Biography of a Grizzly because it is about the life of a Grizzly. Seton writes with a folksy tone that will enlighten children to the gore and war that Grizzly Bears endure. I thought it was fun to learn (through Wahb's story) about their life span, their diet, their ability to survive gunshots and bear-traps. Beautifully written, the author captures each moment in a way that you almost feel as though you're in the story. If a bear had the ability to write his story, in short, a legacy, this would surely be one that "bears" repeating (phil chenevert and wikipedia )
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The Werwolf in the British Isles ♦ by Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural ♦...
The Werwolf in the British Isles ♦ by Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural ♦ Audiobook
Title: The Werwolf in the British Isles
Author: Elliott O'Donnell
Genre(s): Gothic Fiction, Horror, Supernatural
Language: English
Read By: Pamela Nagami
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Written in 1912 by a famous ghost hunter who was also an occult fantasy writer, this interesting book collects together folktales and traditions from across Europe, starting in the British Isles, through Spain, France, Belgium and Norway to Russia. The "scientific" accounts (including "How to Become a Werewolf") are embellished by anecdotes of the author's personal experiences with werewolves, ghosts and vampires.
The wolf is not the only animal whose shape, it is stated, man may possess the power of assuming; and it may be of some interest to inquire briefly into the varying branches of lycanthropy, comparing them with the one already under discussion. In Orissa, the power of metamorphosing into a tiger is asserted by the Kandhs to be hereditary, and also to be acquired through the practice of magic; many who have traveled in this country have assured me that there is a very great amount of truth in this assertion; and that although there are, without doubt, a number of impostors among those designated wer-tigers, there are most certainly many who are genuine. As with the werewolf, so with the were-tiger, the metamorphosis is usually dependent on the hour of the day, and generally occurs contemporaneously with the setting of the sun. But the lycanthropy of the were-tiger differs from that of the werewolf inasmuch as there is a definite god or spirit, in the shape of a tiger, that is directly responsible for the bestowal of the property. This tiger deity is looked upon and worshipped as a totem or national deity—that is to say, as a divine being that has the welfare of the Kandh nation especially at heart. It is communed with at home, but more particularly in the wild dreariness of the jungle, where, on the condition that the prayers of its devotees are sufficiently concentrated and in earnest, it confers—as an honor and privilege—the power of transmutation into its own shape.
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Shadows in Zamboula ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audio...
Shadows in Zamboula ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: Shadows in Zamboula
Author: Robert E. Howard
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Science Fiction
Language: English
Groups: Conan the Cimmerian, Conan the Barbarian
Read By: Phil Chenevert
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Plot:
Despite a warning received in the Suq by an elderly desert nomad, Conan stays the night in a cheap tavern in Zamboula, run by Aram Baksh. As night falls, a black Darfarian cannibal enters to drag him away to be eaten. All of the Darfar slaves in the city are cannibals who roam the streets at night. As they only prey on travellers, the people of the city tolerate this and stay locked securely in their homes, while nomads and beggars make sure to spend the night at a comfortable distance from its walls. This night, however, Conan finds a naked woman chasing through the streets after her deranged lover; Conan rescues them from an attack by the cannibals. She tells him that she tried to secure her lover's unending affection via a love potion which instead made a raving lunatic of him. Promising Conan "a reward" in return for his assistance, they attempt to kill the high priest responsible for the man's madness. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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The Middle Toe of the Right Foot ♦ By Ambrose Bierce ♦ Supernatural Horr...
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot ♦ By Ambrose Bierce ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Language: English
Read By: John Van Stan
Librivox Recording
Plot:
A man named Manton has horribly killed his two children and his wife, the latter of whom lacked the middle toe of the right foot. Ten years later he returns much altered to the neighborhood; and, being secretly recognized, is provoked into a bowie-knife duel in the dark, to be held in the now-abandoned house where his crime was committed.
When the moment of the duel arrives a trick is played upon him; and he is left without an antagonist, shut in a night-black ground floor room of the reputedly haunted edifice, "with the thick dust of a decade on every hand".[3] No knife is drawn against him, for only a thorough scare is intended.
On the next day Manton is found crouched in a corner with distorted face, dead of sheer fright at something he has seen. The only clue visible to the discoverers is one having supernatural implications:
In the dust of years that lay thick upon the floor — leading from the door by which they had entered, straight across the room to within a yard of Manton's crouching corpse — were three parallel lines of footprints — light but definite impressions of bare feet, the outer ones those of small children, the inner a woman's. From the point at which they ended they did not return; they pointed all one way. Summary By Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Middle_Toe_of_the_Right_Foot
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Hansel and Gretel ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Leg...
Hansel and Gretel ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook
Grimms' Fairy Tales
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Title: Hansel and Gretel
Author: Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Language: English
Read By: Bill Stackpole
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Plot:
Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor woodcutter. When a famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's wife (stepmother to Hansel and Gretel) decides to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves so she and her husband will not starve to death. The woodcutter opposes the plan but finally reluctantly submits to his wife's scheme, unaware that Hansel and Gretel have overheard them. After the parents have gone to bed, Hansel sneaks out of the house and gathers as many white pebbles as he can, then returns to his room, reassuring Gretel that God will not forsake them.
The next day, the family walk deep into the woods and Hansel lays a trail of white pebbles. After their parents abandon them, Hansel and Gretel follow the trail back home. When their stepmother sees them, she is furious and locks them in the house. Hansel and Gretel are unable to escape or even simply collect pebbles.
The following morning, the family treks into the woods. Hansel takes a slice of bread and leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them to follow home. However, after they are once again abandoned, they find that birds have eaten the crumbs, leaving them lost in the woods. After days of wandering, they follow a beautiful white bird to a clearing in the woods, and discover a large cottage built of gingerbread, cakes, and candy, with window panes of clear sugar. Hungry and tired, the children begin to eat the roof, when the door opens and a hideous old hag emerges and lures the children inside, with the promise of soft beds, delicious food, and a hot bath. They do this unaware that their hostess is a bloodthirsty witch who built the gingerbread house to waylay children to cook and eat them.
The next morning, the witch throws Hansel into a cage and enslaves Gretel. The witch force-feeds Hansel regularly to fatten him up. Hansel realizes this and uses the witch's tendency to his advantage. Every time the witch checks how fat Hansel is, by way of seeing Hansel's finger, he sticks out a bone in the cage. Because of the witch's blindness, she is fooled into thinking Hansel is too thin to eat. After weeks of the same result, the witch grows impatient and decides to eat Hansel anyway.
The next day, the witch prepares the oven for Hansel, but decides she is hungry enough to eat Gretel too. She coaxes Gretel to the open oven and prods her to lean over in front of it to see if the fire is hot enough. Gretel, sensing the witch's intent, pretends she does not understand what she means. Infuriated, the witch demonstrates, and Gretel pushes her into the oven, leaving "the ungodly creature to be burned to ashes". Gretel frees Hansel from the cage and the pair discover a vase full of treasure and precious stones. Putting the jewels into their clothing, the children set off for home. They arrive home to hear that their stepmother had since died and father had not had a happy day since they were gone. They live happily ever after with the witch's wealth they brought home. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel
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Saturday, July 27, 2019
All Cats are Gray ♦ By Andre Norton ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
All Cats are Gray ♦ By Andre Norton ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: All Cats are Gray
Author: Andre Norton
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Gregg Margarite
Librivox Recording
Under the cloud of cast-off identities lay the shape of another man--was it himself?
It was Steena who told Bub Nelson about the Jovan moon-rites -- and her warning saved Bub’s life six months later. It was Steena who identified the piece of stone Keene Clark was passing around a table one night, rightly calling it unworked Slitite. That started a rush which made ten fortunes overnight for men who were down to their last jets. And, last of all, she cracked the case of the Empress of Mars. All the boys who had profited by her queer store of knowledge and her photographic memory tried at one time or another to balance the scales. But she wouldn’t take so much as a cup of Canal water at their expense, let alone the credits they tried to push on her. Bub Nelson was the only one who got around her refusal. It was he who brought her Bat. About a year after the Jovan affair he walked into the Free Fall one night and dumped Bat down on her table. Bat looked at Steena and growled. She looked calmly back at him and nodded once. From then on they traveled together -- the thin gray woman and the big gray tom-cat.
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The White Ship ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook
The White Ship ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The White Ship
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories
Language: English
Read By: Phil Chenevert
Librivox Recording
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Plot:
Basil Elton, a lighthouse keeper, engages in a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man in robes is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full. Elton walks across the water on a bridge of moonbeams, joins the bearded man on the ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.
They travel past Zar, a green land where "dwell all the dreams and thoughts of beauty that come to men once and then are forgotten", then the majestic city of Thalarion, "City of a Thousand Wonders", where frightful demons dwell. They pass Akariel, the huge carven gate of Thalarion, and continue their voyage. Elton is informed that those who enter both places have never returned. During the voyage, they seem to be following an azure celestial bird. They also pass Xura, the "Land of Pleasures Unattained", which seems pleasant from a distance but reeks of plague upon getting nearer. They finally settle in Sona-Nyl, the "Land of Fancy", where Elton spends a period of time which he describes as "many aeons", living in what seems to be a perfect society. During his time in Sona-Nyl, he learns of Cathuria, the "Land of Hope". Though no man truly knows where Cathuria is or what lies there, Elton is thrilled with the idea, fantasizing about it wildly, and urges the bearded man to take him there, which the man reluctantly agrees to do. They follow the celestial bird westward. After a perilous journey to where the crew believes Cathuria to be, the ship instead finds itself at the edge of the world, and plummets to its doom.
Elton awakens to find himself on the wet rocks next to his lighthouse, mere moments after he first departed on the white ship - and just in time to witness a catastrophic shipwreck caused by the light having gone out for the first time. He is further shaken by his later finding a dead azure bird and a spar of pure white. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Ship_(story)
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The Beasts of Tarzan ♦ By Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Adventure Fiction ♦ Ful...
The Beasts of Tarzan ♦ By Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Adventure Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The Beasts of Tarzan
Author: Edgar Rice BURROUGHS
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, General Fiction
Language: English
Read By: James Christopher
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This is the third of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914, the novel was first published in book form by A. C. McClurg in 1916.
In the previous novel Tarzan reclaimed his name and title as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. In this novel he finds that proper society is just as vicious as the jungle when greedy men threaten him and his new family. Jane and her infant son Jack are kidnapped by Tarzan's enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and Alexis Paulvitch, who then trap Tarzan himself and attempt to exile him forever on a primitive island, bereft of all those dear to him. There, however, Tarzan gains new allies in the panther Sheeta and the ape Akut, together with Akut's band. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Friday, July 26, 2019
Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses ♦ By Abraham Lincoln ♦ Political S...
Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Genre(s): Political Science, Modern
Language: English
Read By: John Greenman
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Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on March 4th, 1861, as the North and South were sliding towards separation and Civil War. His second inaugural, given just weeks before his assassination, was also delivered on March 4th but four years later, in 1865. Just over a month later, April 18th, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. This was four days after Lincoln was shot on April 14th. He died the next day. - Summary by John Greenman
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Bird Of Death ♦ Chiller Thriller ♦ The Haunting Hour ♦ EP 2
Bird Of Death ♦ Chiller Thriller ♦ The Haunting Hour ♦ EP 2
Originally Aired 03/31/1945 on The Haunting Hour Radio Show
Title: Bird Of Death
Genre(s): Horror, Thriller, Chiller, Mystery, Supernatural
Language: English
This is the story of a man named Spear. Of a bird a kind of carryon crow and of a student of birds named Victor. This is also a story of Victor’s uncle Orin, but that comes later. At this moment we are concerned only with the trio Spear, Victor and the bird of death, the crow
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The Variable Man ♦ By Philip K. DICK ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
The Variable Man ♦ By Philip K. DICK ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The Variable Man
Author: Philip K. DICK
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Gregg Margarite
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Predictability has come a long way. The computers of the future can tell you if you’re going to win a war before you fire a shot. Unfortunately, they’re predicting perpetual standoff between the Terran and Centaurian Empires. What they need is something unpredictable, what they get is Thomas Cole, a man from the past accidently dragged forward in time. Will he fit their calculations, or is he the random variable that can break the stalemate? – The Variable Man first appeared in the September 1953 issue of Space Science Fiction magazine. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
The Men in the Walls ♦ By William Tenn ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
The Men in the Walls ♦ By William Tenn ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The Men in the Walls
Author: William Tenn
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Phil Chenevert
Librivox Recording
There are giant, technologically superior aliens who have conquered Earth. People live like vermin in holes in the insulation material of the walls of the homes the monsters have built, sneaking out to steal food and other items from the aliens. A complex social and religious order has evolved, with women preserving knowledge and working as healers, while men serve as warriors and thieves. For the aliens, men and women are just a nuisance, neither civilized nor intelligent, and are generally regarded as vermin to be exterminated. This story begins "Mankind consisted of 128 people. The sheer population pressure of so vast a horde had long ago filled over a dozen burrows." - Summary by the author and phil chenevert
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Lazarus ♦ By Leonid Andreyev ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook
Lazarus ♦ By Leonid Andreyev ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
Title: Lazarus
Author: Leonid Andreyev
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Kathy Jacobs
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Lazarus was published in Weird Tales magazine in the March 1927 edition.
A rather awe-inspiring piece of sacrilege. Had to ignore my status as a God-lover to enjoy it, but hey these are godless times so that didn't turn out to be so difficult. Sorry, God. I will make it up to You later.
The author posits the raising of the dead man Lazarus by Jesus as a return of the living dead. But more than that: the returned Lazarus is not just dead-alive, he deadens those he casts his gaze upon. This Lazarus emits a field of entropy. To meet Lazarus is to be consumed by the realization that life is futile and meaningless; to meet Lazarus is not to meet Death, it is to meet the emptiness of Life, of existence itself.
Profoundly pessimistic and chilling in its disillusionment. A refutation of Christian ideals and goals. All your joys become ashes in the mouth, dust in the wind. There is no escape because there is nothing to escape to. And yet its nihilism does not bore, it excites. This is horror, gorgeously written and beautifully challenging horror.
Examining the often bitter and ultimately sad life of its Russian author, the once highly-praised Leonid Andreyez, considered the father of Expressionism in Russia
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Shin-ge-bis Fools The North Wind ♦ American Indian fairy Tales ♦ Full Au...
Shin-ge-bis Fools The North Wind ♦ American Indian fairy Tales ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: Shin-ge-bis Fools The North Wind
Authors: William Trowbridge Larned and Henry R. Schoolcraft
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Short Stories
Language: English
Read By; Chip
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With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by way of stories. Far more than mere tales to amuse children, they passed along the collective wisdom of the tribes. In the 1830s, government Indian Agent and ethnologist Henry R Schoolcraft learned the language of these people and went out to collect and preserve their stories before the tribes disappeared under the westward rush of American civilization. Though these stories were recast as children’s fairy tales in the 1920s, they contain much of the old wisdom of a culture which has largely disappeared. (Summary by Chip)
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Falcons of Narabedla. ♦ By Marion Zimmer Bradley ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Ful...
Falcons of Narabedla. ♦ By Marion Zimmer Bradley ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: Falcons of Narabedla
Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Mark Nelson
Librivox Recording
Somewhere on the Time Ellipse, Mike Kenscott became Adric of the Scarlet Tower, and the only way to return to his own identity was to find the Keep of the Dreamer, and loose the terrible Falcons of Narabedla. A classic novella by master science fiction writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, originally published in Other Worlds magazine in 1957. - Summary by Mark Nelson
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The Stones of Five Colors and The Empress Jokwa ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ...
The Stones of Five Colors and The Empress Jokwa ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales ♦ Audiobook
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Japanese Fairy Tales
Title: The Stones of Five Colors and The Empress Jokwa
Author: Yei Theodora OZAKI (1871 - 1932)
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Language: English
Read By: Scott Robbins
Librivox Recording
First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend Andrew Lang, another collector of fairy stories, who printed his stories in the many Colored Fairy Books. (Summary by not.a.moose)
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Consignment ♦ By Alan Edward Nourse ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Consignment ♦ By Alan Edward Nourse ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: Consignment
Author: Alan Edward Nourse
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: KirksVoice
Librivox Recording
In the jungle the vicious man-killer is king, but what chance would a tiger have in the Times Square traffic? Alan E. Nourse was a prolific golden age science fiction author.
This Science Fiction story was published in Science Fiction Adventures Magazine and Galaxy Science Fiction, written by Alan Edward Nourse (August 11, 1928 – July 19, 1992). He was an American science fiction writer and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His SF works sometimes focused on medicine and/or psionics. - Summary by wikipedia.org
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019
The Abbott & Costello Radio Show ♦ EP 1 ♦ Who's On First & Lion Hunting
The Abbott & Costello Radio Show ♦ EP 1 ♦ Who's On First & Lion Hunting
Starring: Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Genre: Comedy
Abbott and Costello where one of the most popular duo comedy teams in history through radio and television. William (Bud) as Abbott and Lou Costello. The two comedians first worked together in 1935 at the Eltinge Burlesque Theater on 42nd Street in New York.
They became famous for their most popular act, "Who's on First?" whose rapid-fire word play and comprehension confusion set the preponderant framework for most of their best-known routines.
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THE PORT OF MISSING PLANES ♦ By Captain S.P. Meek ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Fu...
THE PORT OF MISSING PLANES ♦ By Captain S.P. Meek ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Published in Astounding Stories 20, August 1931
Title: THE PORT OF MISSING PLANES
Author: Captain S.P. Meek
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Jules Hawryluk
Librivox Recording
Summary:
This is a story from the magazine Astounding Stories published on August 20th, 1931. THE PORT OF MISSING PLANES by Captain S.P. Meek In the Underground Caverns of the Selom, Dr. Bird Once Again Locks Wills with the Subversive Genius, Saranoff.
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Armageddon- 2419 A.D. ♦ By Philip Francis Nowlan ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Ful...
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. ♦ By Philip Francis Nowlan ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: Armageddon- 2419 A.D.
Author: Philip Francis Nowlan
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Phil Chenevert
Librivox Recording
This is the original ‘Buck Rogers’ SF classic. Thrill to the adventures of Anthony "Buck" Rogers, one of the most celebrated characters in the history of science fiction. Famed in comic strips, television, in movies, and even radio, this is the first novel to introduce Buck Rogers to the reading public. In Armageddon – 2419 A.D., Buck, a victim of accidental suspended animation, awakens five hundred years later to discover America groaning under the tyranny of the villainous Han, ruling from the safety of their armored machine-cities. Falling in love with one of America's new warrior-women, Wilma Deering, Rogers soon become a central figure in using new-fangled scientific weapons – disintegrators, jumping belts, inertron, and paralysis rays – to revolt against the Han. 'Nuff said. Adventure awaits!!!!! (This book has no redeeming cultural value. Neither does its sequel, where the dastardly Han get what is coming to them, The Airlords of Han, which, incidentally, can be found in the LibriVox catalog at https://librivox.org/the-airlords-of-han-by-philip-francis-nowland/ ) ( wikipedia and philchenevert)
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Monday, July 22, 2019
Shadows in the Moonlight ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full ...
Shadows in the Moonlight ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: Shadows in the Moonlight
Author: Robert E. Howard
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction
Language: English
Groups: Conan the Cimmerian, Conan the Barbarian
Read By: Phil Chenevert
Librivox Recording
For a genuine Conan tale, full of barbarian craftiness, magic, fierce fighting and his berserker strength, this meets every criteria and is one of the best. Conan was raiding with the Free Companions when they were trapped and slaughtered by the merciless Shah Amurath the great Lord of Akif. Conan is one of the very few who escape by hiding in the mud of the marshes like a beast living on raw snake and muskrat. Luck, which seems to have deserted him, smiles again and allows him the chance for revenge and he eagerly seizes it, destroying his enemy with fierce strokes. Barely escaping his soldiers with the slave girl Olivia, once a princess of Koth, they reach a deserted island that holds many enchantments and strange dangers. Then the pirates arrive and things become even bloodier. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)
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The Phantom Regiment of Killiecrankie ♦ By Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatu...
The Phantom Regiment of Killiecrankie ♦ By Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The Phantom Regiment of Killiecrankie
Author: Elliott O'Donnell
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Nan Dodge
Librivox Recording
An unsuspecting cyclist encounters a group of ghost soldiers and Highlanders whose spirits are locked in battle. As if that wasn't terrifying enough, she is then confronted by a murderous grave-robbing ghost girl. From the book of Scottish Ghost Stories compiled by Elliott O'Donnell in 1911.
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Sunday, July 21, 2019
The Red Hell of Jupiter ♦ By Paul Ernst ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
The Red Hell of Jupiter ♦ By Paul Ernst ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The Red Hell of Jupiter
Author: Paul Ernst
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Mark Nelson
Librivox Recording
The Red Hell of Jupiter is a short science fiction novel written in 1931 for the popular science fiction magazine Astounding Stories. In this story, what is the mystery centered in Jupiter's famous "Red Spot"? Two fighting Earthmen, caught by the "Pipe-men" like their vanished comrades, soon find out.
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The Shunned House ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook
The Shunned House ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The Shunned House
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories
Language: English
Read By: Phil Chenevert
Librivox Recording
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Plot:
For many years, the narrator and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, have nurtured a fascination with an old abandoned house on Benefit Street. Dr. Whipple has made extensive records tracking the mysterious, yet apparently coincidental, sickness and death of many who have lived in the house for over one hundred years. They are also puzzled by the strange weeds growing in the yard, as well as an unexplained foul smell and whitish phosphorescent fungi growing in the cellar. There, the narrator discovers a strange, yellowish vapour in the basement, which seems to be coupled with a moldy outline of a huddled human form on the floor. The narrator and his uncle decide to spend the night in the house, investigating the possibility of some supernatural force. They set up both cots and chairs in the cellar, arm themselves with military flamethrowers, and outfit a modified Crookes tube in the hopes of destroying any supernatural presence they might find.
When Dr. Whipple naps, he tosses and turns and starts babbling in French until he suddenly awakes. He tells the narrator that he had strange visions of lying in an open pit, inside a house with constantly shifting features, while faces stared down at him. Many of the faces were those of the Harris family, whose members died in the house. When the narrator sleeps, he is awakened by a horrific scream. He sees a revolting yellowish "corpse-light" bubbling up from the floor, which stares at him with many eyes before vanishing in a wisp through the chimney. He finds his uncle transformed into a monster with "blackened, decaying features" and dripping claws. He turns on the Crookes tube, but seeing that it has no effect, escapes the house through the cellar door as his uncle's body dissolves, transforming into a multitude of faces of those who died in the house as it melts. The narrator returns the next day to find his equipment intact, but no body.
The narrator hatches a plan. He orders a military gas mask, digging tools, and six carboys of sulfuric acid to be delivered to the cellar door of the house. He digs into the earthen floor of the cellar, turning up fungous yellow ooze, and arranges the barrels of acid around the hole in the belief that he will happen upon some kind of monstrous creature. Eventually, he uncovers a soft, blue-white, translucent tube, bent in half and two feet in diameter at its widest point. He frantically climbs out of the neck-deep hole, and dumps in four barrels of acid, realizing that he had found the elbow of a gigantic monster. The narrator faints after emptying the fourth barrel. When he awakens, the narrator empties the two remaining barrels, to no effect, replaces the dirt, and finds that the strange fungus has turned to harmless ash. He mourns his uncle, but is relieved to be sure that the horrible creature is finally dead. The narrator records that the house has subsequently been rented to another family, and that the house now appears completely normal. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shunned_House
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Saturday, July 20, 2019
In Case of Fire ♦ By Randall Garrett ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
In Case of Fire ♦ By Randall Garrett ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Audiobook
Title: In Case of Fire
Author: Randall Garrett
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Phil Chenevert
Librivox Recording
The irrepressible Science Fiction author Randall Garrett wrote a wide array of short stories for the SF magazines of his day poking fun at many of the then current cherished beliefs, but he had a habit of writing under many different names. This story was published in the 1960's and no matter what the by-line may look like, be assured they were all written by him in his quirky, imaginative and very entertaining style. The story here for your enjoyment is: With No Strings Attached.
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The Shadows on the Wall ♦ By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ♦ Supernatural Hor...
The Shadows on the Wall ♦ By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
Title: The Shadows on the Wall
Author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Jc Guan
Librivox Recording
A man who is familiar with the behavior of ghosts tells the story of a woman who comes across a spectral church service.
The story that "One Sunday Morning" in Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark was based off of, this very short but memorable, vivid story takes us to a silent church service for the dead souls caught in Purgatory. A great, classic ghost story perfect for a quick bedtime story.
Anatole France born François-Anatole Thibault, [frÉ‘̃swa anatÉ”l tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament
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The Lost Special ♦ By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Short Story ♦ Audiobook
The Lost Special ♦ By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Short Story ♦ Audiobook
Title: The Lost Special
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Detective Fiction, Short Stories
Language: English
Read By: roolynninms
Librivox Recording
From The Tales of Terror and Mystery Series
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense Sit back in the comfort of your armchair and let yourself be transported to the strange but compelling world created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Like "The Story of the Lost Special", "The Story of the Man with the Watches" appeared in the Strand (in 1898), and later in Round the Fire Stories and Tales of Terror and Mystery. It follows the same pattern; the mystery this time surrounds the appearance of a dead man in a railway carriage, with six pocket watches in his jacket. An explanation is offered by an amateur detective but the narrator notes it is flawed, as it doesn't take into account all the facts. A man involved in the accidental murder of the victim writes a letter to the detective, saying that it was a "mighty clever solution" but entirely incorrect and continues to share the true events of that day. It shares the same backing for categorizing as a Sherlock Holmes story as "The Story of the Lost Special", and appears in French anthologies. The story was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2009 as "The Thirteen Watches", in an episode from The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The number of watches was changed because the new title came from a reference (in the Holmes story "The Noble Bachelor") to Holmes' involvement with the watches incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes
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Friday, July 19, 2019
Jewels of Gwahlur ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Jewels of Gwahlur ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: Jewels of Gwahlur
Author: Robert E. Howard
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction
Language: English
Groups: Conan the Cimmerian, Conan the Barbarian
Read By: Phil Chenevert
Librivox Recording
Conan The Barbarian is after fabulous treasure in this exciting story. But he finds himself in more difficulties than he had counted on. Crafty and powerful human opponents seek to skin him alive, bestial mutations seek to rip his arms off, denizens of the deep want to devour him whole and scantily clad dusky beauties try to waylay him at every step. And all of this to find the Jewels of Gwahlur, the most fabulous treasure every hidden in a secret temple. Has Conan finally met his match? Will his evil enemies or the seductive women finally succeed in making him beg for mercy? Listen and find out. Caution: there is some sex, lots of (justified) violence and the women are all equally voluptuous, independent, yielding and very dangerous.
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Murder Wears A Strange Mask ♦ Chiller Thriller ♦ The Haunting Hour ♦ EP 1
Murder Wears A Strange Mask ♦ Chiller Thriller ♦ The Haunting Hour ♦ EP 1
Originally Aired 03/24/1945 on The Haunting Hour Radio Show
Title: Murder Wears A Strange Mask
Genre(s): Horror, Thriller, Chiller, Mystery, Supernatural
Language: English
Antony Ellis (adaptor, producer, director), + Every highway and byway is destiny’s trail and where it leads and what lies ahead is destiny’s secret. Down a dark road speeds a car bearing in it two who are destiny’s children though they don’t know it. To themselves, they are two people on their way to a masquerade ball. Steve Raymond and his fiancée Marsha Phillips, heading for an evening of gaiety and laughter but they’re destined to spend a strange and macabre evening in fear for one of the guests at the masquerade is death
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"And The Moon Be Still As Bright" ♦ Science Fiction ♦ X Minus One Radio ...
X Minus One radio show. 04/22/1955
Episode 1
Title: And The Moon Be Still As Bright
Author: Ray Bradbury
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
First published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1948.
The next chapter opens with the men of the Fourth Expedition gathering firewood against the cold Martian evening. The scientists have found that all of the Martians have died of chickenpox (brought by one of the first three expeditions)—analogous to the devastation of Native American populations by smallpox. The men, except for the archaeologist Spender and Captain Wilder, become more boisterous. Spender loses his temper when one of his crew-mates starts dropping empty wine bottles into a clear blue canal and knocks him into the canal. When questioned by his captain, Spender replies, "We'll rip it up, rip the skin off, and change it to fit ourselves," and that "we Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things," referring to Earth. He leaves the rest of the landing party to explore Martian ruins after one crew member vomits on an ancient tile mosaic.
Spender returns to the rest of the expedition. He carries a gun and, claiming to be the last Martian, shoots six of his crew-mates, including one with sympathy towards the Martians from his Cherokee ancestry. Captain Wilder approaches under a white flag and has a short discussion with Spender about how Martians were better than us. This is because the Martians knew how to combine religion and science, without criticizing and fighting as we humans do. During which, the archaeologist explains that if he manages to kill off the expedition it may delay human colonization of the planet for a few more years, possibly long enough that the expected nuclear war on Earth will protect Mars from human colonization completely. Although he opposes Spender's methods, Captain Wilder somewhat agrees with his attitude towards colonization and wishes for him a humane death. He returns to the others and joins them as they pursue Spender, and Wilder shoots Spender in the chest during the fight before he has the opportunity to be killed by anyone else. Another member of the crew named Parkhill, uses the ruined town as target practice, so Wilder knocks his teeth out.
Many of the characters of the Fourth Expedition—Parkhill, Captain Wilder, and Hathaway—re-appear in later stories. This is the first story that focuses on a central motif of The Martian Chronicles: the colonization of the Western frontier in the United States. Like Spender, Bradbury's message is that some types of colonization are right and others are wrong. Trying to recreate Earth is viewed as wrong, but an approach that respects the fallen civilization that is being replaced is right.
In some editions the two stories relating to Spender were combined as one. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles#And_the_Moon_Be_Still_as_Bright_.28June_2001.29
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"And The Moon Be Still As Bright" ♦ Science Fiction ♦ X Minus One Radio ...
X Minus One radio show. 04/22/1955
Episode 1
Title: And The Moon Be Still As Bright
Author: Ray Bradbury
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
First published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1948.
The next chapter opens with the men of the Fourth Expedition gathering firewood against the cold Martian evening. The scientists have found that all of the Martians have died of chickenpox (brought by one of the first three expeditions)—analogous to the devastation of Native American populations by smallpox. The men, except for the archaeologist Spender and Captain Wilder, become more boisterous. Spender loses his temper when one of his crew-mates starts dropping empty wine bottles into a clear blue canal and knocks him into the canal. When questioned by his captain, Spender replies, "We'll rip it up, rip the skin off, and change it to fit ourselves," and that "we Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things," referring to Earth. He leaves the rest of the landing party to explore Martian ruins after one crew member vomits on an ancient tile mosaic.
Spender returns to the rest of the expedition. He carries a gun and, claiming to be the last Martian, shoots six of his crew-mates, including one with sympathy towards the Martians from his Cherokee ancestry. Captain Wilder approaches under a white flag and has a short discussion with Spender about how Martians were better than us. This is because the Martians knew how to combine religion and science, without criticizing and fighting as we humans do. During which, the archaeologist explains that if he manages to kill off the expedition it may delay human colonization of the planet for a few more years, possibly long enough that the expected nuclear war on Earth will protect Mars from human colonization completely. Although he opposes Spender's methods, Captain Wilder somewhat agrees with his attitude towards colonization and wishes for him a humane death. He returns to the others and joins them as they pursue Spender, and Wilder shoots Spender in the chest during the fight before he has the opportunity to be killed by anyone else. Another member of the crew named Parkhill, uses the ruined town as target practice, so Wilder knocks his teeth out.
Many of the characters of the Fourth Expedition—Parkhill, Captain Wilder, and Hathaway—re-appear in later stories. This is the first story that focuses on a central motif of The Martian Chronicles: the colonization of the Western frontier in the United States. Like Spender, Bradbury's message is that some types of colonization are right and others are wrong. Trying to recreate Earth is viewed as wrong, but an approach that respects the fallen civilization that is being replaced is right.
In some editions the two stories relating to Spender were combined as one. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles#And_the_Moon_Be_Still_as_Bright_.28June_2001.29
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
No Great Magic ♦ Fritz Leiber ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
No Great Magic ♦ Fritz Leiber ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: No Great Magic
Author: Fritz LEIBER
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Phil Chenevert
Librivox Recording
They were a traveling group of Shakespearean players; perfectly harmless, right? wrong. For one thing, why did they have spacemen costumes in their wardrobes,next to caveman ones? Why was the girl in charge of backstage suffering from amnesia and agoraphobia? No Great Magic is needed to perform the plays they put on, but sometimes great science. No matter where, or when. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)
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The She-Wolf ♦ By Saki ♦ (Myths) ♦ Full Audiobook
The She-Wolf ♦ By Saki ♦ (Myths) ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The She Wolf
Author: Saki
Genre(s): Gothic Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Short Stories
Language: English
Read By: David Wales
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"The She-Wolf" concerns the comeuppance of Leonard Bilsiter, a "drawing-room visionary" whose brief acquaintance with eastern European folklore turns him into a house party bore on the subject of the "esoteric forces" of "Siberian magic." Baited by his hostess and challenged to turn her into a she-wolf ("it would be too confusing to change one's sex as well as one's species at a moment's notice"), Bilsiter is thrown into horrified distress, along with the rest of the company, when the hostess disappears behind a setting of fern and azaleas and a large, evil-looking timber wolf appears in her place.
The reader has been in on the game. A third party, Clovis Sangrail, overhearing the initial conversation, has acquired a tame wolf from the menagerie of Lord Pabham. In connivance with the hostess he has brought the she-wolf to take her place in an impish practical jape that has the desired effect of producing shocked consternation in Bilsiter. Lord Pabham decoys the animal out of the room, and when Mrs. Hampton reappears, she claims to have woken from mesmerized sleep, finding herself in the game larder, being fed with sugar by Lord Pabham. After protesting his innocence, Bilsiter has now lost the opportunity to claim responsibility for the magical changes the company has witnessed. Clovis comes forward and takes his bow, explaining not the facts of the subterfuge but that he himself had lived for years in northeastern Russia, becoming quite conversant with the strange powers of "Siberian magic," and doesn't like to hear "a lot of nonsense being talked about them." This leaves Bilsiter feeling that if he could have transformed Clovis at that moment "into a cockroach and then have stepped on him he would gladly have performed both operations."
At one level "The She-Wolf" is an adult version of the nursery tale "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," but it is also full of delightfully self-conscious language whose precision the reader may savor. On Bilsiter's visit to eastern Europe the railway strike leaves him "in a state of suspended locomotion." The euphonious quality of Bilsiter's own name is itself wickedly suggestive of a conversationalist of spurious value. Moreover, vulnerable creatures are a veiled presence beneath the elegant humor and moral imperatives of the tale. Bilsiter's Aunt Cecilia ("who loved sensation perhaps rather better than she loved the truth") has already paved the way for his indulgences in vanity, averring that she had already seen him turn a vegetable marrow into a wood pigeon. And it is a nice touch when Mrs. Hampton feeds the macaws in the conservatory just before she appears to turn into the wolf that looks as though it might eat the same birds. Such a sense of creatural vulnerability and human susceptibility and vanity counterpoint the network of planning, cooperation, and trust by which characters rise above their weaker fellows. This is the significance of the ironic title of the book in which "The She-Wolf" first appeared.
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Tom Thumb ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ A...
Tom Thumb ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook
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Title: Tom Thumb
Author: Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Language: English
Read By: Gesine
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Plot:
Richard Johnson's The History of Tom Thumbe of 1621 tells that in the days of King Arthur, old Thomas of the Mountain, a plowman and a member of the King's Council, wants nothing more than a son, even if he is no bigger than his thumb. He sends his wife to consult with Merlin. In three months time, she gives birth to the diminutive Tom Thumb. The "Queene of Fayres" and her attendants act as midwives. She provides Tom with an oak leaf hat, a shirt of cobweb, a doublet of thistledown, stockings of apple rind, and shoes of mouse's skin.
Tom cheats at games with other boys and because of his many tricks, the boys will not associate with him. Tom retaliates by using magic to hang his mother's pots and glasses from a sunbeam. When his fellows try the same, their pots and glasses fall and are broken. Thereafter, Tom stays home under his mother's supervision. At Christmas, she makes puddings, but Tom falls into the batter and is boiled into one of them. When a tinker comes begging, Tom's mother inadvertently gives him the pudding containing her son. The tinker farts while crossing a stile, but Tom calls out about the farting and the frightened tinker drops the pudding. Tom eats himself free and returns home to tell his mother and father of his adventure.
His mother thereafter keeps a closer watch upon him. One day, he accompanies her to the field to milk the cows. He sits under a thistle, but a red cow swallows him. The cow is given a laxative and Tom passes from her in a "cowturd." He is taken home and cleaned. Another day, he accompanies his father for the seed sowing and rides in the horse's ear. Tom is set down in the field to play the scarecrow, but a raven carries him away. His parents search for him, but are unable to find him.
The raven drops Tom at the castle of a giant. The cruel giant swallows the tiny boy like a pill. Tom thrashes about so much in the giant's stomach that he is vomited into the sea. There, he is eaten once more by a fish which is caught for King Arthur's supper. The cook is astonished to see the little man emerge from the fish. Tom then becomes King Arthur's Dwarf.
Tom becomes a favorite at King Arthur's royal court, especially among the ladies. There is revelry; Tom joins the jousting and dances in the palm of a Maid of Honour. He goes home briefly to see his parents, taking some money from the treasury with the king's permission, then returns to court. The Queene of Fayres finds him asleep on a rose and leaves him several gifts: an enchanted hat of knowledge, a ring of invisibility, a shape-changing girdle, and shoes to take him anywhere in a moment.
Tom falls seriously ill when a lady blows her nose, but is cured by the physician to King Twaddell of the Pygmies. He takes a ride in his walnut shell coach and meets Garagantua. Each boasts of his many powers. When Garagantua threatens to harm Tom, he is cast under an enchantment and Tom hurries home to safety. King Arthur listens with amazement to Tom's many adventures.
Richard Johnson's 1621 narrative ends here, but he promised his readers a sequel that has never been found, if published at all. In 1630, a metrical version in three parts was published that continues Tom's adventures. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Thumb
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
The Dictator ♦ By Milton Lesser ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
The Dictator ♦ By Milton Lesser ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The Dictator
Author: Milton Lesser (Stephen Marlowe)
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Mark Nelson
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Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. This is one of those stories.
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires thought and plants seeds that have led to advances in science. The genre can spark an interest in the sciences and is cited as the impetus for the career choice of many scientists. It is a playing field to explore social perspectives, predictions of the future, and engage in adventures unbound into the richness of the human mind. ( A. Gramour)
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The Boarded Window ♦ By Ambrose Bierce ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audi...
The Boarded Window ♦ By Ambrose Bierce ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: The Boarded Window
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Language: English
Read By: Tony Scheinman
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Summary:
The Boarded Window' is the story about a frontiersman named Murlock and the death of his wife, or the secret to why the only window in Murlock's cabin is boarded. The story is told by an unknown narrator who originally heard the story from his grandfather. One day, Murlock finds his wife has become ill.
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InHow The Summer Came ♦ American Indian Fairy Tales ♦ Audiobook ♦ Short ...
How The Summer Came ♦ American Indian Fairy Tales ♦ Audiobook ♦ Short Story
American Indian Fairy Tales
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Title: How The Summer Came
Authors: William Trowbridge Larned and Henry R. Schoolcraft
Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Short Stories
Language: English
Read By; Chip
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With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by way of stories. Far more than mere tales to amuse children, they passed along the collective wisdom of the tribes. In the 1830s, government Indian Agent and ethnologist Henry R Schoolcraft learned the language of these people and went out to collect and preserve their stories before the tribes disappeared under the westward rush of American civilization. Though these stories were recast as children’s fairy tales in the 1920s, they contain much of the old wisdom of a culture which has largely disappeared. (Summary by Chip)
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Dagon ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook
Dagon ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook
Title: Dagon
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories
Language: English
Read By: Phil Chenevert
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Plot:
The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I. In the unnamed narrator's account, his cargo ship is captured by an Imperial German sea-raider in "one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific".[2] He escapes on a lifeboat and drifts aimlessly, south of the equator, until he eventually finds himself stranded on "a slimy expanse of hellish black mire which extended about [him] in monotonous undulations as far as [he] could see.... The region was putrid with the carcasses of decaying fish and less describable things which [he] saw protruding from the nasty mud of the unending plain." He theorizes that this area was formerly a portion of the ocean floor thrown to the surface by volcanic activity, "exposing regions which for innumerable millions of years had lain hidden under unfathomable watery depths."[3]
After waiting three days for the seafloor to dry out sufficiently to walk on, he ventures out on foot to find the sea and possible rescue. After two days of walking, he reaches his goal, a hill which turns out to be a mound on the edge of an "immeasurable pit or canyon".[4] Descending the slope, he sees a gigantic white stone object that he soon perceives to be a "well-shaped monolith whose massive bulk had known the workmanship and perhaps the worship of living and thinking creatures."[5] The monolith, situated next to a channel of water in the bottom of the chasm, is covered in unfamiliar hieroglyphs "consisting for the most part of conventionalized aquatic symbols such as fishes, eels, octopuses, crustaceans, mollusks, whales, and the like."[5] There are also "crude sculptures" depicting:
men—at least, a certain sort of men; though the creatures were shown disporting like fishes in the waters of some marine grotto, or paying homage at some monolithic shrine which appeared to be under the waves as well... [T]hey were damnably human in general outline despite webbed hands and feet, shockingly wide and flabby lips, glassy, bulging eyes, and other features less pleasant to recall. Curiously enough, they seemed to have been chiseled badly out of proportion with their scenic background; for one of the creatures was shown in the act of killing a whale represented as but little larger than himself Summary by Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagon_(short_story)
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