The White Hare and the Crocodiles ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ♦ Japanese Fa...

The White Hare and the Crocodiles ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki  ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales  ♦ Audiobook



Japanese Fairy Tales



Title:  The White Hare and the Crocodiles



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 Picture in House ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

The Picture in House ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Picture in House



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



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



Language: English



Read By: Sandra Zera



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While riding on his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a genealogist seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man," speaking in "an extreme form of Yankee dialect...thought long extinct." The narrator notices that the house is full of antique books, exotic artifacts, and furniture predating the American Revolution. The old man is apparently harmless and ignorant, but shows a disquieting fascination for an engraving in a rare old book, Regnum Congo, and admits to the narrator that it made him hunger for "victuals I couldn't raise nor buy"- presumably human flesh. It is suggested that the old man in the house was murdering men who stumbled upon the shack to satisfy his "craving", and that the old man has extended his life preternaturally through cannibalism. The narrator realizes the old man has been alive for over a century. The old man denies that he ever acted on his desire, but then a red drop of blood falls from the ceiling, clearly coming from the floor above, and splashes a page in the book. The narrator then looks up to see a spreading red stain on the ceiling; this belies the old man's statement. At that moment, a bolt of lightning destroys the house. However, the narrator manages to escape. (Summary by Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_in_the_House



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