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Picnic

In Short Science Fiction Collection 088

Read by Kevin Crody


Poul William Anderson and Stephen Marlowe


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

The Vengeance of a Tree

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 062

Read by Kevin Crody


Eleanor F. Lewis


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

The Eye of Allah

In Short Science Fiction Collection 085

Read by Kevin Crody


Charles Willard Diffin


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

My Own True Ghost Story

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 061

Read by Kevin Crody


Rudyard Kipling


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

Preface

In Little Masterpieces of Science - The Skies and The Earth

Read by Kevin Crody


George Iles


The Skies and the Earth is another in the series Little Masterpieces of Science edited by George Iles and published in 1902. It includes es…

Signal Red

In Short Science Fiction Collection 086

Read by Kevin Crody


Henry Guth


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

The Spectre Bride

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 063

Read by Kevin Crody


W. Bob Holland


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

Chapter XXV

In Among Cannibals

Read by Kevin Crody


Carl Lumholtz


From 1880-1883, the author undertook an academic expedition to Australia, with the purpose of recording zoological phenomena. While there, h…

A Wodehouse Miscellany

Read by Kevin McAsh


P. G. Wodehouse


Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known toda…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Empire

Read by Kevin Green


Clifford D. Simak


In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisation, which has plans to use this control…

The Talleyrand Maxim

Read by Kevin Green


J. S. Fletcher


John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will. His estate goes t…

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

The Emperor's Candlesticks

Read by Kevin Green


Baroness Emma Orczy


When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…

Stories of Old Greece and Rome

Read by Kevin Green


Emilie Kip Baker


The Stories of Old Greece and Rome is an easy to read summary of all of the famous and not so famous Greek and Roman mythological stories. A…

The Shrieking Pit

Read by Kevin Green


Arthur J. Rees


The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective…

The Worst Journey in the World, Vol 1

Read by Kevin Green


Apsley Cherry-Garrard


The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written and publ…

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Troilus and Criseyde

Read by Kevin Johnson


Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …