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An Accident

In Daisy: the Autobiography of a Cat

Read by Ted Perkins


Miranda Elliot Swan


"I was born in a clothes-basket, and do not feel ashamed of my birthplace, though fire and the swill man long ago removed all trace of …

Who is Santa Klaus

In The Story of Santa Klaus

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William S. Walsh


Who was Santa Klaus? Did he exist? In this study of custom and folklore, the author looks at the real and the legendary man, according to va…

CHAPTER 12

In You Can't Win

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Jack Black


'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…

Whitefoot Goes Astray

In The Christmas Reindeer (Version 2)

Read by Ted Perkins


Thornton W. Burgess


This story follows a young brother and sister who grow up herding reindeer and then discover how the Western story of Santa Claus fits in wi…

The Last Galley

In The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales

Read by Ted Perkins


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


From the Preface:I HAVE written "Impressions and Tales" upon the title-page of this volume, because I have included within the sam…

Milly the Pony, and Carlo the Dog

In History of My Pets

Read by Ted Perkins


Sara Jane Lippincott


A collection of stories about the various pets the author had during her childhood. In this revised addition, the author also added some sto…

CHAPTER I, THE DRIVE AGAINST DEATH

In Minos of Sardanes

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Charles B. Stilson


The micro cosmos of Sardanes faces macro calamity as climatic disruption and social upheaval threaten its existence. Its inhabitants, an anc…

Mr. Penney's Aerial Submarine

In Short Science Fiction Collection 101

Read by Ted Perkins


E. J. Rath


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…

No. 4. Doctor Grant's Experiment

In Weird Tales Presents: Mad Science!

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H. A. Noureddin Addis


From the pages of Weird Tales Magazine comes a wild and thrilling collection of mad scientists, deranged experiments and bizarre inventions …

The Lonetown Mystery

In American Myths and Legends, Volume 1

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Charles M. Skinner


American Myths and Legends is another collection of folklore from author Charles M. Skinner, whose exhaustive and expansive work in the fiel…

The Bloodstained Parasol by James Ravenscroft

In Weird Tales Presents: Asylum Atrocities

Read by Ted Perkins


James Ravenscroft


Let's all hope that madness isn't catching because we have here for your pleasure a veritable buffet of items of insanity, terror tales of t…

The Ordeal by Water

In The Cruise of the "Scandal", and other stories

Read by Ted Perkins


Victor Bridges


Collection of short stories by prolific British fantasy writer, Victor Bridges. Stories include A Bit of Old Chelsea and The Bronze-Haired G…

Introduction to "William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathe…

In LibriVox 17th Anniversary Collection

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Florian Cajori


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

The Dry Fly

In Lost Leaders

Read by Ted Perkins


Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…

The Little Peasant

In Household Tales (Version 2)

Read by Ted Perkins


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Do you like fairy tales and stories about all sorts of animals and people? Here are a wide variety of stories that go from warm and fuzzy t…

MANABOZHO, THE MISCHIEF-MAKER

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales (version 2)

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William Patten


Oh boy! Fairy Tales and Wonder Tales. This is exactly what you are thinking about but with a twist. Of course the well known tales from F…