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The Eyes Have It

In Short Science Fiction Collection 096

Read by Ally M.


Philip K. Dick


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…

From Beyond

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 065

Read by Ally M.


H. P. Lovecraft


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

The Caterpillar

In The Youth's Coronal

Read by Ally Mcnally


Hannah Flagg Gould


This is a volume of poetry for children by Hannah Flagg Gould, containing several fables and other verses with a little moral. "Accept…

A Christmas Carol (version 05)

Read by Kyle M.


Charles Dickens


The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. B…

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Baroness Emma Orczy


Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written…

The Haunted Bookshop

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Christopher Morley


Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is "haunted by the…

The Fairy Tales of Science

Read by J. M. Smallheer


John Cargill Brough


This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science…

Night and Day

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Virginia Woolf


Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharin…

The Old Man in the Corner

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Baroness Emma Orczy


Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detecti…

The Sorceress of the Strand

Read by J. M. Smallheer


L. T. Meade


From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it so…

The House of a Thousand Candles

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Meredith Nicholson


A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Gl…

The Sheridan Road Mystery

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Paul Thorne and Paul Thorneandmabel Thorne


A shot rings out in the middle of the night in a quiet Chicago neighborhood. Patrolman Murphy is directed to an apartment where a man says …

The Crevice

Read by J. M. Smallheer


William J. Burns


The sudden death of wealthy and prominent financier, Pennington Lawton from an apparent heart attack, followed by the shocking revelation of…

The Fortieth Door

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Mary Hastings Bradley


A young American archeologist, a masked ball in Cairo, an illusive young woman and the unexplained disappearance of a Frenchman fifteen year…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Neilson Translation)

Read by M. J. Boyle


The Gawain Poet and The Gawain Poettranslated Bywilliam Allan Neilson


Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of…

Miss Frances Baird, Detective

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Reginald Wright Kauffman


The Red Seal

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Natalie Sumner Lincoln


Nothing is what it seems to be as events unfold in this entertaining mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Red seals and red herrings abound a…

The Eye of Osiris

Read by J. M. Smallheer


R. Austin Freeman


The Eye of Osiris is an early example from the Dr. Thorndyke series of detective stories written by R. Austin Freeman. In these stories, th…