THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR ♦ By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Action & Adven...

THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR ♦ By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Audiobook



Title: THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR



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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Fables in Slang ♦ By George Ade ♦ Humorous Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Fables in Slang ♦ By George Ade ♦ Humorous Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Fables in Slang



Author:  George Ade



Genre(s): General Fiction, Humorous Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Gregg Margarite



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While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories that lampoon phrenologists, idealists, snobs, fanatics and other ignorant fools of the day, most of which still wander through our modern lives. Jean Shepherd considered Ade a predecessor who made writers like James Thurber, Mike Royko, and himself possible. Fables in Slang was first published in 1899 by Herbert S. Stone and Company. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)



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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



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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



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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 Canterville Ghost ♦ Oscar Wilde ♦ Gothic Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

The Canterville Ghost ♦ Oscar Wilde ♦ Gothic Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Canterville Ghost



Author:  Oscar Wilde



Genre(s): Humorous Fiction, Gothic fiction, Horror



Language: English



Read By:  Phil Chenevert



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A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expect twists and turns to make it interesting. In this cast the crusty old ghost has a tough time convincing the family he exists and then in frightening them. This is extremely frustrating of course to him and as the protagonist of the story, takes matters (and non-matters) into his hands to deal with the upstart and irreverent new tenants. (phil chenevert )



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Daughters of Doom ♦ By H. B. Hickey ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Daughters of Doom ♦ By H. B. Hickey ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Daughters of Doom



Author:  H. B. Hickey



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Corinna Schultz



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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. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)



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Daughters of Doom ♦ By H. B. Hickey ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Daughters of Doom



Author:  H. B. Hickey



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Corinna Schultz



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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. The reader-selected stories presented here were written prior to 1962 and became US public domain texts when their copyrights expired. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)



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How To Become a Werewolf ♦ By Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Audiobook

How To Become a Werewolf ♦ By Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Audiobook



Title: How To Become A Werewolf



Author:  Elliott O'Donnell



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



Language: English



Read By:  David Wales



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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 wer-tiger, the metamorphosis is usually dependent on the hour of the day, and generally occurs contemporaneous with the setting of the sun. But the lycanthropy of the wer-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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The Boy Who Snared The Sun ♦ American Indian Fairy Tales ♦ Audiobook ♦ S...

The Boy Who Snared The Sun ♦ American Indian Fairy Tales ♦ Audiobook ♦ Short Story



American Indian Fairy Tales



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Title:  The Boy Who Snared The Sun



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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The War Of The Worlds ♦ By H. G. Wells ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

The War Of The Worlds ♦ By H. G. Wells ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The War of the Worlds



Author:  H. G. WELLS



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Cori Samuel



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No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinized and studied from across the gulf of space. With infinite complacency, humanity went about its little affairs, serene in its assurance of its empire over matter. It is possible that the micro-organisms we watch under a microscope, do the same. Few people gave thought to the idea of life on other planets, and none imagined that it could be so vastly superior in intellect to ourselves. No one considered the possibility of extra-terrestrial danger. Yet the eyes that regarded our planet were envious and unsympathetic, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. (Cori Samuel, adapted from Chapter One.)



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The Devil in Iron ✦ Robert E Howard ✦Science Fiction ✦ Audiobook

The Devil in Iron ✦ Robert E. Howard ✦Science Fiction ✦ Audiobook



Title:  The Devil in Iron



Author: Robert E. HOWARD



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Phil Chenevert



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Conan's lustful desires again get him into a whole pile of trouble. This time the beautiful, golden haired, noble born Octavia, lures him into a fiendish trap set by his most powerful enemies and from which there seems to be no escape. But on the long deserted island of Xapur where he goes to capture this crafty beauty, it is not just mortal enemies that await him; Khosatral Khel a demon that crawled up from the abyss many eons ago and is of a substance as hard as iron has been awakened and is intent on crushing Conan and the woman like bugs for it's amusement. Conan is up against a being immensely stronger than he is and which he cannot kill with normal weapons. Will his mighty thews and muscles finally be crushed beneath the iron fists of this devil? Will Conan finally meet his match in this fierce but scantily clad woman or will she finally yield to his powerful kisses? Listen and discover the answer to these questions. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)



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Tales Of Terror The New Catacomb

The New Catacomb ♦ By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Short Story ♦ Audiobook



Title:  The New Catacomb



Author:  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



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



Language: English



Read By:  Dominic Moore



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From The Tales of Terror 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.



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

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



Title:  Nyarlathotep



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



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



Language: English



Read By: Phil Chenevert



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Nyarlathotep differs from the other beings in a number of ways. Most of them are exiled to stars, like Yog-Sothoth and Hastur, or sleeping and dreaming like Cthulhu; Nyarlathotep, however, is active and frequently walks the Earth in the guise of a human being, usually a tall, slim, joyous man. He has "a thousand" other forms, most of these reputed to be maddeningly horrific. Most of the Outer Gods have their own cults serving them; Nyarlathotep seems to serve these cults and take care of the deities' affairs in their absence. Most of the gods use strange alien languages, but Nyarlathotep uses human languages and can be mistaken for a human being. The other Outer Gods and Great Old Ones are often described as mindless or unfathomable rather than truly malevolent, but Nyarlathotep delights in cruelty, is deceptive and manipulative, and even cultivates followers and uses propaganda to achieve his goals.



Nyarlathotep enacts the will of the Outer Gods, and is their messenger, heart and soul; he is also a servant of Azathoth, his father, whose wishes he immediately fulfills. Unlike the other Outer Gods, causing madness is more important and enjoyable than death and destruction to Nyarlathotep. It is suggested by some that he will destroy the human race and possibly the Earth as well.[9] Brian Lumley described him as the emanation of various Great Old Ones and not an actual being, thus explaining his variety of forms and functions. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep



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The Planet Savers ♦ By Marion Zimmer Bradley ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Audiobook

The Planet Savers ♦ By Marion Zimmer Bradley ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Audiobook



Title:  The Planet Savers



Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Mark Nelson



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The Terran colony on the planet Darkover faces imminent destruction by a plague of the deadly Trailmen's Fever. The only hope is to develop a serum in time, but this requires the cooperation of the elusive native Trailmen, the brilliant parasitologist Dr. Jay Allison, and his split personality. (Introduction by Mark Nelson)



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EMPIRE ♦ By Clifford D. Simak ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

EMPIRE ♦ By Clifford D. Simak  ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Empire



Author:  Clifford D. SIMAK



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Kevin Green



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In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisation, which has plans to use this control to dominate the planets. Unknown to them, a couple of maverick scientists accidentally develop a completely new form of energy supply and threaten the corporation's monopoly. Naturally, the corporation can't allow this to happen... A stunning story about the manipulation of pure energy, climaxing in interstellar conflict.(Summary by Boojumuk)



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The Book Of Good Counsels ✦ By Sir Edwin Arnold ✦ Full Audiobook

The Book of Good Counsels - From the Sanskrit of the "Hitopadesa"



Author: Sir Edwin ARNOLD



Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Ancient



Language: English



Read By: Jothi Tharavant



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The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel). As the term suggests, The Hitopadesha is a collection of tales that gives good counsel.



Hitopadesa was presumably written by Narayan Pandit and is an independent treatment of the Vishnu Sarman's Panchatantra (3rd century BC) which it resembles in form. In Hitopadesha, Vishnu Sarman is depicted as a Sage who undertakes to give good counsel to the sons of Sudarsana, the king of Pataliputra, through stories within stories involving talking animals. The dating of Hitopadesha is problematic as no other work by Narayan Pandit is known. The earliest manuscript of Hitopadesha dates from 1373; it could be of East Indian origin during the Pala Empire (8th-12th centuries).



This book is a condensed but faithful transcript of Hitopadesha in sense and manner rendered in English by Sir Edwin Arnold. Sir Edwin says in the Preface that the Hitopadesa may be styled 'The father of all Fables'; for "from its numerous translations come Esop and Piplay and in latter days, 'Reineke Fuchs'." Summary by Jothi



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The Jew's Breastplate ♦ By Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Short Story ♦ Audiobook

The Jew's Breastplate ♦ By Arthur Conan Doyle ♦ Short Story ♦ Audiobook



Title:  The Jew's Breastplate



Author:  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



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



Language: English



Read By:  Jeremy Pavier



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From The Tales of Terror 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.



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Hunter Patrol ♦ By H. Beam Piper ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Hunter Patrol ♦ By H. Beam Piper ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Hunter Patrol



Author:  H. Beam Piper and John J. MCGUIRE



Genre(s):  Science Fiction



Language:  English



Read By:  Phil Chenevert



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World War IV has dragged on for 12 years and the whole world is drained and tired of the killing and destruction. One man, a high school chemistry teacher from St. Louis in the USA, is serving his latest forced stint in the UN forces when something strange happens to him. He dies but yet he doesn't. What if you had the power to bring peace to the entire world? What would you do? This story explores a frightening and strange journey into the murky depths of human needs and desires and how they can twist and turn back upon us.



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The Gallery ♦ By Rog Phillips ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Audiobook

The Gallery ♦ By Rog Phillips ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Audiobook

Title:  The Gallery

Author:  Rog Phillips

Genre(s):  Science Fiction, Anthologies

Language:  English

Read By:  Ted Ryan

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Aunt Matilda sent a telegraph to tell him she needed him desperately. It was a tersely worded appeal: ARTHUR STOP COME AT ONCE STOP AM IN TERRIBLE TROUBLE STOP DO NOT PHONE STOP AUNT MATILDA. He left as directly as his circumstance allowed -- but all the same, he got there too late .  Summary by Goodreads.com


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Beyond Wall of Sleep ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

Beyond Wall of Sleep ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Beyond Wall of Sleep



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



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



Language: English



Read By: D.E. Wittkower



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An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer. He describes Slater as a "typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region, who corresponds exactly with the 'white trash' of the South", for whom "laws and morals are nonexistent" and whose "general mental status is probably below that of any other native American people". Although Slater's crime was exceedingly brutal and unprovoked he had an "absurd appearance of harmless stupidity" and the doctors guessed his age at about forty. During the third night of his confinement, Slater had the first of his "attacks". He burst from an uneasy sleep into a frenzy so violent it took four orderlies to strait-jacket him. For nearly fifteen minutes he gave vent to an incredible rant. The words were in the voice and couched in the paltry vocabulary of Joe Slater but the onlookers could construe from the inadequate language a vision of:



green edifices of light, oceans of space, strange music, and shadowy mountains and valleys. But most of all did he dwell upon some mysterious blazing entity that shook and laughed and mocked at him. This vast, vague personality seemed to have done him a terrible wrong and to kill it in triumphant revenge was his paramount desire. In order to reach it... he would soar through abysses of emptiness 'burning' every obstacle that stood in his way.



The ranting stopped as suddenly as it had started. This was the first of what would become nightly "attacks" of a similar nature. The peripheral otherworldly images of Slater's visions were different and more fantastic with each successive night, but always there was the central theme of the blazing entity and its revenge. The doctors were perplexed with the Slater case. Where did a backward man like Slater get such visions, when surely an illiterate rustic like him would have had little if any exposure to fairy tales or fantasy stories? Not that there were stories similar to Slater's. Why, too, was Slater dying?



As an undergraduate, the intern had built a device for two-way telepathic communication which he had tested with a fellow student with no result. The device was designed around his principle that thought was ultimately a form of radiant energy. Heedless of any ethics, he attached himself with Slater to the device as Slater lay near death. With the device switched on, he received a message from a being of light whose experiences had been what were transmitted through the medium of Joe Slater. This being explained that, when not shackled to their physical bodies, all humans are light beings. The thought-message went on to explain that, as light beings within the realm of sleep, humans can experience the vistas of many planes and universes which remain unknown to waking awareness.



The intern understood that the light being would now become completely incorporeal, and undertake at last a final battle with its nemesis near Algol. Joe Slater died then, and there were no further transmissions. That night an enormously bright star was discovered in the sky near Algol. Within a week it had dimmed to the luminosity of an ordinary star and in a few months it had become barely visible to the naked eye. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Wall_of_Sleep_(short_story)



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The Odysseys of Homer ✦ BOOK 21 ✦ AUDIOBOOK CLASSICS

The Odysseys of Homer ✦ BOOK 21 ✦ AUDIOBOOK CLASSICS



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The Odysseys of Homer

HOMER (c. 8th cen - c. 8th cen), translated by George Chapman (c. 1559 - 1634)



Genre(s): Classics (Antiquity), Epics



Language: English



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The Odysseys are a collection of stories about Ulysses' journey home from the war at Troy purportedly written in the 8th century BCE by Homer, a blind poet thought to have lived in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, possibly at Smyrna. The events described are thought to have occurred centuries before being recorded by Homer, handed down orally since the twelfth century BCE, the golden era of the Greek Bronze Age when the world was populated by heroic mortals and often visited by the Gods. This verse translation in couplets by George Chapman was originally published in 1616, the first translation from the ancient Greek directly to English, although likely influenced by previous Latin translations. Chapman's translation has been admired by many, including John Keats and others. Many of these stories are familiar to us, Ulysses and the Sirens, Circe turning his crew to swine, their escape from the Cyclops on the bellies of his sheep, but Chapman's version includes violent episodes and suggestive innuendo that I don't recall from my childhood days. (Introduction by Fritz)



The epic poem of Odysseus begins ten years after the capture of Troy in Ithaca, his homeland. In his palace a large group of suitors have arrived and taken up residence to court Penelope, Odysseus’s wife. She, however, does not wish to remarry and makes them wait while her son Telemachus searches for just cause and a good reason to banish them from their home. All the while, Antinous plots to kill Telemachus and remove his opposition in the palace.



However, lost in the Mediterranean is Odysseus still trying to return home. Trapped on the island of Ogygia by the nymph Calypso, he wishes to return to his family but does not have the means to as he has lost his crew and ship. The Gods of Olympus continue to debate what they shall do about Odysseus, but Athena takes the initiative to visit and help his son, Telemachus. She arrives and convinces Telemachus to censure the suitors for their behavior and convinces him to travel to Pylos and Sparta. He learns while there that Odysseus is still alive and trapped by Calypso. While Telemachus prepares to return, Antinous puts his plans in motion to kill him.



Zeus finally decides to rescue Odysseus from Calyspo’s island and sends Hermes to convince Calypso to let him leave. He finally sets sail home, but is quickly shipwrecked again by Poseidon, the God who he had angered when Odysseus blinded his son Polyphemus, the Cyclops. Athena steps in to save Odysseus and brings him to the island of Scheria where he is found by Nausicaa, Princess of the Phaeacians. He reveals who he is to the King and Queen here and they immediately agree to help him return home. They first want to hear his story though.



Odysseus thus describes the months of travel that led him to the island of Calypso and then to Scheria. He begins with his trip to the Land of the Lotus Eaters, followed by the trip and battle of wits with Polyphemus, Poseidon’s Cyclops son. He describes the time he spent with Circe and their love affair as well as the journey past the Sirens and their tempting call. He continues to describe how he traveled to the underworld to speak with Tiresias the prophet and the fight with Scylla, the sea monster. Finally, after his tale is complete, Odysseus returns to Ithaca.



Odysseus arrives at the palace as a beggar and is immediately treated poorly. His nurse, Eurycleia recognizes him but does not reveal that she knows. Penelope also notes the beggar’s appearance and believes he might be her long lost husband. However, she is not sure, so she puts together an archery contest, the winner of which will be allowed to marry her. Whoever can string Odysseus’s bow and fire an arrow through twelve axes will be declared the winner. Only Odysseus was ever able to do so in the past. The suitors all fail before Odysseus is able to accomplish the feat. He then turns the bow on the suitors and kills every one of them.

Finally, Odysseus reveals his identity and reunites with his family. He then visits his father Laertes and after successfully repelling the angered families of the suitors he killed, Athena arrives and peace is restored to Ithaca with the epic coming to a close. (This summary by wikisummaries: http://www.wikisummaries.org/wiki/The_Odyssey



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