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The Skipper's Wooing

Read by Alan Lord


W. W. Jacobs


The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

The Snowball That Didn’t Melt

In The Pearl Story Book: Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's …

Read by Alan Lord


Ada M. Skinner


A collection of Christmas, Winter, and New Year tales and poems compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner (Summary by RomaSingh)

The Magic Shop

In Short Story Collection Vol. 098

Read by Alan Lord


H. G. Wells


This is the 98th edition of Librivox Short Stories. Each story is selected and read by a Librivox volunteer. The french author Guy de Maupas…

The Black Mate

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 054

Read by Alan Lord


Joseph Conrad


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

XXIII

In Say and Seal, Volume 2

Read by Alan Lord


Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

Rob's Navy

In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 27, May 4, 1880

Read by Alan Lord


Various


Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…

Dido Is Caught

In Dido, the Dancing Bear: His Many Adventures

Read by Alan Lord


Richard Barnum


One of the Kneetime Animal Stories for children, Dido the Dancing Bear may seem unethical today, but when it was written in 1916, such spect…

Jerry Bundler

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 055

Read by Alan Lord


W. W. Jacobs


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

Monsieur Angot, by Charles F. Bourke

In The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 06 March 1897

Read by Alan Lord


Various


The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053

Read by Alan Lord


Harriet Beecher Stowe


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

Farmer Brown’s Boy Has No Luck

In Little Joe Otter

Read by Alan Lord


Thornton W. Burgess


“Folks aren’t so sure about you when You spring surprises now and then.”  Little Joe Otter.Join Little Joe Otter and Peter Rabbit in their a…