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Chapter XX

In A Mayfair Magician; a Romance of Criminal Science

Read by Jacob Paul Starr

George Griffith

Our narrator, a researcher, finds himself snowed in at a Scottish prison. The resident doctor, an observer of criminal psychology, offers hi…

Monkey on his Back

In Short Science Fiction Collection 041

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Charles V. De Vet and Charles V. de Vet

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

The Pride of the Woosters is Wounded

In The Inimitable Jeeves

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P. G. Wodehouse

When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous proximity to the tureen, the instinct of one and all …

CHAPTER X - FURNITURE, TRAPPINGS, AND INVENTIONS IN MOTION

In The Art of the Moving Picture

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Vachel Lindsay

"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pi…

RUNE XI. Lemminkainen's Lament

In The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

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Elias Lonnrot and Elias Lönnrot

This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seab…

29 - At the Gates of Gomez

In Insurgent Mexico

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John Reed

In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pa…

The Hungry Death, Chapter 1

In The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories

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Rosa Mulholland

This is a collection of 10 original ghost stories by Rosa Mulholland, published in 1880. Some only one section long; others spread out over …

Are You a Bromide?

In Insomnia Collection Vol. 002

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Gelett Burgess and Frank Gelett Burgess

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

To Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

In Letters to Dead Authors

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Andrew Lang

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and ac…

1 Nephi 17-19

In The Book of Mormon

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Joseph Smith, Jr.

The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible, used by Latter Day Saints. It is a record of God’s dealings with t…