The Blighting Of Sharkey ♦ By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Action & Adventur...

The Blighting Of Sharkey ♦ By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Audiobook



Title: THE BLIGHTING OF SHARKEY



Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language: English



Read By: Joseph DeNoia



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Notorious pirates who are the scourge of the seven seas, and on land; ghost stories which scare voyagers in the jungles and the ice caps; two ships located in a fatal fight volleying broadsides as if their life depends upon it (which it does); and mysteries on land and the ocean… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle takes you on a journey.



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LIGHTS OUT ♦ Classic Radio Show ♦ Ep 4 ♦ Sakhalin ♦ 03/03/1937

Lights Out radio show. 03/03/1937



Episode 4



Title: Sakhalin



Author:  Wyllis Cooper



Genre(s): Horror, Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)



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Heart of Darkness ♦ By Joseph Conrad ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook

Heart of Darkness ♦ By Joseph Conrad ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Heart of Darkness



Author: Joseph Conrad



Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Bob Neufeld



Librivox Recording



Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters: the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the Europeans' cruel treatment of the African natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. In the story, Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. (Summary by Wikipedia)



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Polaris ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

Polaris ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Polaris



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  jpontoli



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

The story begins with the narrator describing the night sky as observed over long sleepless nights from his window, in particular that of the Pole Star, Polaris, which he describes as "winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey".



He then describes the night of the aurora over his house in the swamp, and how on this night he first dreamed of a city of marble lying on a plateau between two peaks, with Polaris above in the night sky. The narrator describes after a while observing motion within the houses and seeing men beginning to populate the streets, conversing to each other in language that he had never heard before but still, strangely, understood. However, before he could learn any more of this city, he awoke.



Many times, he would again dream of the city and the men who dwelt within. After a while, the narrator tired of merely existing as an incorporeal observer and began to desire to establish his place within the city, simultaneously beginning to question his conceptualization of what constituted reality and thus whether this was just a dream or whether it was real.



Then, one night, while listening to discourses of those who populate the city, the narrator obtains a physical form: not as a stranger, but as an inhabitant of the city, which he now knew as Olathoë, lying on the plateau of Sarkis in the land of Lomar, which was besieged by an enemy known as the Inutos.



While the other men within the city engage in combat with Inutos, the narrator is sent to a watchtower to signal if the Inutos gain access to the city itself. Within the tower, he notices Polaris in the sky and senses it as a malign presence, hearing a rhyme which appears to be spoken by the star:



"Slumber, watcher, till the spheres,

Six and twenty thousand years[3]

Have revolv'd, and I return

To the spot where now I burn.

Other stars anon shall rise

To the axis of the skies;

Stars that soothe and stars that bless

With a sweet forgetfulness:

Only when my round is o'er

Shall the past disturb thy door."

Uncertain as to its meaning, he drifts off to sleep, thus failing in his duty to guard Olathoë. Upon awakening, the narrator finds himself back in the house by the swamp, but the narrator now is convinced that this life is not real but a dream from which he cannot awaken. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_(short_story)



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Facts Concerning Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ...

Facts Concerning Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Facts Concerning Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  Victoria Horsman



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, had been an early explorer of the Congo region, whose books on a mysterious white civilization there had been ridiculed. He had been confined to an asylum in 1765. Lovecraft describes how the Jermyn family has a peculiar physical appearance that began to appear in the children of Wade Jermyn and his mysterious and reclusive wife, who Wade claimed was Portuguese.



Wade's son, Philip Jermyn, was a sailor that joined the navy after fathering his son, and disappeared from his ship one night as it lay off the Congo coast. Philip's son, Robert Jermyn, was a scientist who made two expeditions into the interior of Africa. He married a daughter of the (fictional) 7th. Viscount Brightholme and fathered three children, two of which suffered from severe disabilities, but the middle one of whom, Nevil Jermyn, had a son, Alfred, who was Arthur Jermyn's father. In 1852, Robert Jermyn met with an explorer, Samuel Seaton, who described "a grey city of white apes ruled by a white god". Robert killed the explorer after hearing this, as well as all three of his children. Nevil Jermyn managed to save his son, Alfred, before his death. Robert was put in an asylum and, after two years, died there.



Alfred Jermyn grew up to inherit his grandfather's title, but abandoned his wife and child to join a circus, where he became fascinated with a gorilla "of lighter colour than the average". He became its trainer, but was killed in Chicago after an incident in which he attacked the gorilla and the latter fought back. Arthur Jermyn inherited the family possessions, and moved into Jermyn House with his mother.



Arthur Jermyn is described as having a very unusual appearance, and supposedly the strangest in the line descended from Sir Wade Jermyn. Arthur became a scholar, eventually visiting the Belgian Congo on a research expedition, where he heard tales of a stone city of white apes and the stuffed body of a white ape goddess, which had since gone missing. Returning to a trading post, Arthur talks to a Belgian agent who offers to both obtain and ship the goddess's body to him. Arthur accepts his offer, and returns to England. After a period of several months, the body arrives at Jermyn House. Arthur begins his examination of the mummy, only to run screaming from the room, and later commit suicide by dousing himself in oil and setting himself alight.



Lovecraft then describes the contents of the stuffed goddess's coffin—the ape goddess has a golden locket around her neck with the Jermyn arms on it, and bears a striking resemblance to Arthur Jermyn. It is clear that Wade Jermyn's supposedly Portuguese wife was really the ape goddess, and all of his descendants were the product of their union. Arthur's remains are neither collected or buried, on account of this. The mummy is removed and burnt by the Royal Anthropological Institute.Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facts_Concerning_the_Late_Arthur_Jermyn_and_His_Family



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The Dead ♦ By James Joyce ♦ Short Story ♦ Full Audiobook

The Dead ♦ By James Joyce ♦ Short Story ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Dead



Author: James Joyce



Genre(s): Short Stories



Language: English



Read By: Elizabeth Klett



Librivox Recording



This novella is the final story in Joyce's collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly Dublin ladies, that is attended by their nephew, Gabriel Conroy, and his wife. While the party is festive, full of dancing, drinking, and eating, it is also pervaded by political, religious, and sexual tensions, as well as memories of loss. When Gabriel and his wife go home at the end of the night, she reveals a long-kept secret that leads to an epiphany. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett).



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The Beast in the Cave ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

The Beast in the Cave ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Beast in the Cave



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  Cameron Halket



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 Messenger ♦ By Robert W. Chambers ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audi...

The Messenger  ♦ By Robert W. Chambers ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Famous Modern Ghost Stories



Title:  The Messenger



Author:  Robert W. Chambers



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Marian Brown



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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, [frɑ̃swa anatɔl 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 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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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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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



Librivox Recording



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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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



Librivox Recording



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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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The Ideal ♦ By Stanley G. Weinbaum ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

The Ideal ♦ By Stanley G. Weinbaum ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Ideal



Author: Stanley G. Weinbaum



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Gregg Margarite



Librivox Recording



Summary:

Stanley G. Weinbaum is best known for his short story “A Martian Odyssey” which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well as a human, but not like a human. A Martian Odyssey and its sequel are presented here as well as other Weinbaum gems including 3 stories featuring the egomaniacal physicist Haskel van Manderpootz and his former student, playboy Dixon Wells. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)



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Horror Ooze

Ooze ♦ By Anthony M. Rud ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Ooze



Author:  Anthony M. Rud



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Mike Golczynski



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Ooze by Anthony M. Rud. Scanned from Nightmares in Dixie (1987). First published in March 1923 in Weird Tales, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Rud’s novelette is interesting and enjoyable for a number of reasons.  It is one of the earliest in a long line of horror entertainments to feature an enormous amoebic monster, a microscopic organism magnified by bad science into a relentless, insatiable predator.  Ooze is a good example of what is possible when weird fiction is completely devoid of supernatural trappings and assumptions.  The story is essentially a “who-done-it”, or rather a “what-done-it”, an investigation of disturbing evidence that eventually explains the mysterious disappearance of the narrator’s friends.



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Mercenary ♦ By Mack Reynolds ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Mercenary ♦ By Mack Reynolds ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Mercenary



Author:  Dallas McCord Reynolds



Genre(s): General Fiction, Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Mark Nelson



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Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers--the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning... (Introduction from the Gutenberg text)



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Number 13 ♦ By M. R. James ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook

Number 13 ♦ By M. R. James ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Number 13



Author:  M. R. James



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Malthus



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While researching church history in Viborg, Denmark, the narrator's cousin stays in a Danish inn. While staying in room Number 12, he notices that his room seems to grow smaller and his furniture sometimes vanishes. After hearing dancing next door, he assumes it comes from Number 13, however upon discussing the matter with the inn-keep, he learns that there is no Number 13. He asks the inn-keep to visit his room at night. While talking, the protagonist and the inn-keep hear ominous singing in the room next door. They check Number 14, but learn that its occupant thought it was them, then they find the "nonexistent" door to Number 13. A clawed hand attacks them, and they attempt to break down the door but break through the plaster wall. The occupants of 12 and 14 spend the night in a double bedded room. The narrator meets his cousin a few months later, and relates the tale to him. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_13_(short_story)



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The Alchemist ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

The Alchemist ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Alchemist



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 recounted by the protagonist, Count Antoine de C, in the first person. Hundreds of years ago, Antoine's noble ancestor was responsible for the death of a dark wizard, Michel Mauvais. The wizard's son, Charles le Sorcier, swore revenge on not only him but all his descendants, cursing them to die on reaching the age of 32.



The protagonist recounts how his ancestors all died in some mysterious way around the age of 32. The line has dwindled and the castle has been left to fall into disrepair, tower by tower. Finally, Antoine is the only one left, with one poor servant, Pierre, who raised him, and a tiny section of the castle with a single tower is still usable. Antoine has reached adulthood, and his 32nd year is approaching.



His servant eventually dies, leaving him completely alone, and he begins exploring the ruined parts of the castle. He finds a trapdoor in one of the oldest parts. Below, he discovers a passage with a locked door at the end. Just as he turns to leave, he hears a noise behind him and sees that the door is open and someone is standing in it. The man attempts to kill him but Antoine kills him first. His dying words reveal that he is none other than Charles, who actually managed to successfully fabricate the elixir of life, enabling him to personally fulfill the curse generation after generation. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(short_story)



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The Little Boy and Girl In the Clouds ♦ American Indian Fairy Tales ♦ Au...

The Little Boy and Girl In the Cloudsr ♦ American Indian Fairy Tales ♦ Audiobook ♦ Short Story



American Indian Fairy Tales



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Title:  The Little Boy and Girl In the Clouds



Authors: William Trowbridge Larned  and Henry R. Schoolcraft



Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By;  Chip



Librivox Recording



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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The Terror of Blue John Gap ♦ By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Short Story ♦ ...

The Terror of Blue John Gap ♦ By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Short Story ♦ Audiobook



Title:  The Terror of Blue John Gap



Author:  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Detective Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  Igor Teaforay



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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Into Space ♦ By Captain S. P. Meek ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Into Space ♦ By Captain S. P. Meek ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Into Space



Author:  Captain S. P. Meek



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Corinna Schultz



Librivox Recording



Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)



About the Author: Sterner St. Paul Meek (April 8, 1894 in Chicago, Illinois – June 10, 1972) was an American military chemist, early science fiction author, and children's author. He published much of his work first as Capt. S.P. Meek, then, briefly, as Major S.P. Meek and, after 1933, as Col. S. P. Meek. He also published one story as Sterner St. Paul.



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