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Chapter 31

In The Humbugs of the World

Read by Linda Ferguson

P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

Chapter 25

In Mr. Wicker's Window

Read by Linda Ferguson

Carley Dawson

When twelve-year-old Chris entered Mr. Wicker's shop to inquire about a job for his friend, something about old Mr. Wicker forced him to tak…

The Jackal and the Partridge

In The Ontario Readers: Third Book

Read by Linda Ferguson

Flora Annie Steel

The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

08 - The Love Story of Mr. Peter Spillikins pt 1

In Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

Read by Linda Ferguson

Stephen Leacock

"Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follo…

08 - The Midnight Queen

In The Midnight Queen

Read by Linda Ferguson

May Agnes Fleming

May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumou…

The Oblong Box

In Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1

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Julian Hawthorne, ed. and Edgar Allan Poe

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

The Goblins' Christmas

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2009

Read by Linda Ferguson

Elizabeth Anderson

Librivox volunteers from around the world bring you Christmas stories, carols and poems in English, German, Hungarian, Latin, Portuguese, Ru…

The Empty House (version 2)

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 003

Read by Linda Ferguson

Algernon Blackwood

A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…

A Puzzling Problem

In Glinda of Oz

Read by Linda Ferguson

L. Frank Baum

Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth Land of Oz book and is the last one written by the original author L. Frank Baum, although the series was con…