Arson Plus ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction ♦ Audiobook Short ...

Arson Plus ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction  ♦ Audiobook Short Story



Title:  Arson Plus



Author:  Dashiell HAMMETT



Genre(s): Detective Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Winston Tharp



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“Arson Plus” is the story that introduced the world to the Continental Op, the nameless detective whom Dashiell Hammett described as “a little man going forward day after day through mud and blood and death and deceit—as callous and brutal and cynical as necessary” (William F. Nolan, Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook).



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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



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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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Queen of the Black Coast ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full ...

Queen of the Black Coast ♦ By Robert E. Howard ♦ Fantasy Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Queen of the Black Coast



Author:  Robert E. HOWARD



Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Conan The Barbarian



Language: English



Read By:  Phil Chenevert



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Conan finally meets his match in Belit, the fierce, bloodthirsty and scantily clad pirate Queen. She also is unable to resist the huge, blue-eyed, iron-thewed barbarian who literally sweeps her off her feet. Together they become pirates of legend and are the scourge of the Black Coast. They venture up the river of death where no one has gone in centuries and lived, in search of plunder, battle and adventure. And get more of all three than they could wish for.



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MENTAL TELEGRAPHY ♦ By Mark Twain ♦ Memoir, Narrative ♦ Full Audiobook

MENTAL TELEGRAPHY ♦ By Mark Twain ♦ Memoir, Narrative ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  MENTAL TELEGRAPHY



Author:  Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)



Genre:  Memoir, Narrative



Language:  English



Read By:  Josh Mitteldorf



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Certain mental telegraphy is an industry which is always silently at work -- oftener than otherwise, perhaps, when we are not suspecting that it is affecting our thought... I imagine that we get most of our thoughts out of somebody else's head, by mental telegraphy -- and not always out of the heads of acquaintances, but, in the majority of cases, out of the heads of strangers; strangers far removed...

- Mark Twain's Autobiography



Hartford, Conn., October 4, 1884.



DEAR SIR, -- I should be very glad to be made a Member of the Society for Psychical Research; for Thought-transference, as you call it, or mental telegraphy as I have been in the habit of calling it, has been a very strong interest with me for the past nine or ten years. I have grown so accustomed to considering that all my powerful impulses come to me from somebody else, that I often feel like a mere amanuensis when I sit down to write a letter under the coercion of a strong impulse; I consider that that other person is supplying the thoughts to me, and that I am merely writing from dictation. And I consider that when that other person does not supply me with the thoughts, he has supplied me with the impulse anyway; I never seem to have any impulses of my own. Still, may be I get even by unconsciously furnishing other people with impulses.



I have reaped an advantage from these years of constant observation. For instance when I am suddenly and strongly moved to write a letter or inquiry, I generally don't write it -- because I know that that other person is at that moment writing to tell me the thing I wanted to know, -- I have moved him or he has moved me, I don't know which, -- but anyway I don't need to write, and so I save my labour. Of course I sometimes act upon my impulse without stopping to think. My cigars come to me from 1,200 miles away. A few days ago, -- September 30th, -- it suddenly,, and very warmly occurred to me that an order made three weeks ago for cigars had as yet, for some unaccountable reason, received no attention. I immediately telegraphed to inquire what the matter was. At least I wrote the telegram and was about to send it down town, when the thought occurred to me, "This isn't necessary, they are doing something about the cigars now -- this impulse has travelled to me 1,200 miles in half a second." S. L. CLEMENS.



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The Story of the Son of a Peach ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki ♦ Japanese Fair...

The Story of the Son of a Peach ♦ By Yei Theodora Ozaki  ♦ Japanese Fairy Tales  ♦ Audiobook



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Japanese Fairy Tales



Title:  The Story of the Son of a Peach or Momotaro



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)



The present conventional form of the tale (Standard Type) can be summarized as follows:



Momotarō was born from a giant peach, which was found floating down a river by an old, childless woman who was washing clothes there. The woman and her husband discovered the child when they tried to open the peach to eat it. The child explained that he had been bestowed by the Gods to be their son. The couple named him Momotarō, from momo (peach) and tarō (eldest son in the family).



When he matured into adolescence, Momotarō left his parents to fight a band of Oni (demons or ogres) who marauded over their land, by seeking them out in the distant island where they dwelled (a place called Onigashima or "Demon Island"). En route, Momotarō met and befriended a talking dog, monkey and pheasant, who agreed to help him in his quest in exchange for a portion of his rations (kibi dango or "millet dumplings"). At the island, Momotarō and his animal friends penetrated the demons' fort and beat the band of demons into surrendering. Momotarō and his new friends returned home with the demons' plundered treasure and the demon chief as a captive.



This Standard Type of "Momotarō" was defined and popularized due to them being printed in school textbooks during the Meiji Period.

This is the result of development literary "Momotarō", which had been handwritten and printed since the early Edo period into Meiji.[2] One significant change is that in most examples of Edo Period literature, Momotarō was not born from a peach, but born naturally to the elderly couple who ate the peach and regained their youth. Such subtypes are classed as kaishun-gata (回春型) "rejuvenation" type, whereas the now convention subtypes are termed kasei-gata (果生型) "birth from the fruit" type.  From Wikipedia



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The Mass of Shadows ♦ By Anatole France ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Aud...

The Mass of Shadows ♦ By Anatole France ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Famous Modern Ghost Stories



Title:  The Mass of Shadows



Author:  Anatole France



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Sage Tyrtle



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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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Prime Difference ♦ Alan Edward Nourse ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Prime Difference ♦ Alan Edward Nourse ♦ Science Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: Prime Difference



Author:  Alan Edward Nourse



Genre(s): Science Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  KirksVoice



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Being two men rolled out of one would solve my problems—but which one would I be?



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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