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The Ladle: a comic poem

In History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Read by Louise Curran


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Rookwood

Read by Paul Curran


William Harrison Ainsworth


A rich and complex Gothic-Romance centring on the murky deeds of an ancient family. It is a wonderfully atmospheric piece that combines narr…

The Warden (version 2)

Read by Jessica Louise


Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope sets the scene for his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire with this short novel about Septimus Harding's challenged eccles…

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Read by Jessica Louise


Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-depr…

Cats by the Way

Read by Jessica Louise


Sarah E. Trueblood


Between these pages you will find only the good, old-fashioned, every-day cat. No Angora or thoroughbred has been entered here, unless it be…

Africa, O Africa

Read by Louise Robinson Chapman


Louise Robinson Chapman


This is the story of Louise Robinson Chapman, a missionary in Africa. From 1920 until 1940 she ministered to the dark continent, coming to t…

Carmilla (Version 3)

Read by Louise J. Belle


Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, originally published as a serial in the London-based literary ma…

The Horla

Read by Louise J. Belle


Guy de Maupassant


"The Horla" (French title "Le Horla") is among the most famous short stories by the French writer Guy de Maupassant. Th…

The Isle of the Undead

Read by Louise J. Belle


Lloyd Eshbach


"A gripping, thrilling, uncanny tale about the frightful fate that befell a yachting party on the dreadful island of living dead men.&q…

The Beckoning Fair One (Version 2)

Read by Louise J. Belle


Oliver Onions


"The Beckoning Fair One" is the most famous, and most widely anthologized, work by British author Oliver Onions. This novella, alo…

Illustrated Newspapers by G.H.Derby

In Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2

Read by Zames Curran


George Derby


Volume 2 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…

LAWKAMERCYME

In More English Fairy Tales

Read by Zames Curran


Joseph Jacobs


"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…

''Joyful Tribulaciouns'' of Blessed Thomas More, Part 1

In A Book of English Martyrs

Read by Michael Curran


E. M. Wilmot-Buxton


This volume is a simple narrative suited to children's understanding of the thrilling times when English Catholics suffered for the Faith in…

A Ghoul's Accountant

In Horror Story Collection 004

Read by Paul Curran


Stephen Crane


An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusi…

The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 031

Read by Kolby Curran


Frederick Marryat


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