The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe audiobook. Genre: horror When young Arthur Gordon Pym, a restless teenager in Nantucket, convinces his friend Augustus Barnard to help him stow away on a whaling voyage, he expects adventure - not a descent into terror. Hidden in the cramped hold of the Grampus, Pym is plunged into darkness, hunger, and delirium as the ship lurches into crisis. When disaster erupts above deck, he and a handful of survivors are forced into uneasy ...
Mar 31, 2023•7 hr 27 min•Ep. 926
Last Days of Pompeii by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton audiobook. Genre: history Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of first-century Rome with both older cultures and coming trends. The protagonist, Glaucus, represents the Greeks who h...
Mar 31, 2023•16 hr 57 min•Ep. 925
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit audiobook. Genre: fantasy In The Book of Dragons, Edith Nesbit gathers a sparkling set of fantasy tales in which dragons are not distant legends but troublesome, tempting, and often very funny neighbors to the human world. Across these stories, curious children, stubborn adults, would-be heroes, and unlucky families stumble into encounters with beasts that breathe fire, freeze rivers, hoard treasure, or slip into everyday life in startling disguises. Each adve...
Mar 31, 2023•4 hr 16 min•Ep. 924
The Trail of the Axe by Ridgwell Cullum audiobook. Genre: adventure Dave ran a lumber mill in western Canada. There are some workers within his organization who he trusts implicitly, some who he doesn't trust at all, and some who he is unsure about. But Dave is basically a trusting soul. Most of the folks in Malkern liked him, as he had been a major factor in shaping the village and in providing employment for a lot of the folks who lived in the area. Dave was not a pleasant site to look at; ung...
Mar 30, 2023•12 hr 29 min•Ep. 923
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit audiobook. Genre: fantasy When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother are sent to the countryside for a quiet holiday, they expect ordinary days of picnics, sandy lanes, and small adventures. Instead, a chance discovery in a gravel pit introduces them to a strange, grumpy creature with long whiskers and extraordinary powers: a Psammead, an ancient sand fairy that can grant one wish each day. Delighted, the five children begin wishing for exciting ch...
Mar 30, 2023•5 hr 48 min•Ep. 922
32 Caliber by Donald McGibeny audiobook. Genre: mystery In Donald McGibeny's brisk, pulp-era thriller 32 Caliber, attorney Warren Thompson (called Bupps by his friends) expects an easy life of club lunches, court appointments, and quiet evenings with the Indianapolis set. That calm shatters when his closest friend and law partner, Jim Felderson, is blindsided by his wife Helen's sudden decision to leave him for the charming and well-funded Frank Woods. What begins as a private scandal hardens in...
Mar 30, 2023•4 hr 22 min•Ep. 921
The Ghost Breaker by Charles Goddard audiobook. Genre: mystery A fast-talking blend of thrills, laughs, and old-world romance, The Ghost Breaker follows Warren Jarvis, a Kentucky gentleman who has brought a dangerous feud with him all the way to Manhattan. After a predawn gunfight in a hotel corridor, Warren finds himself hiding in the suite of Maria Theresa, a proud Spanish princess with troubles of her own. Instead of turning him in, Maria offers a bargain: she will help Warren slip past the l...
Mar 30, 2023•5 hr 23 min•Ep. 920
A Witch Shall Be Born by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy The kingdom of Khauran is admittedly a small one, nestled between the vast desert and the plains, but it is blessed with an abundance of rich soil, hard working devoted inhabitants and much gold but most of all by a sweet young queen who is as wise and beneficent as she is beautiful. But then from out of nowhere, disaster strikes. A horrible witch (her evil twin sister) secretly replaces her and introduces devil worship, human s...
Mar 30, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 919
October Vagabonds by Richard le Gallienne audiobook. Genre: poetry Richard and his friend Colin must sadly return from their distant hermitage to New York City at summer's end. However, rather than take the train on the 430 mile trip to the city, the two decide to walk the route, for as Richard stated: 'Don't you hate the idea of being hurled along in a train, and suddenly shot into the city again, like a package through a tube?' Certainly a lengthy walk it would be, but the two decide that the ...
Mar 28, 2023•3 hr 21 min•Ep. 918
Dhammapada by Buddha audiobook. Genre: religion The Dhammapada is a compact, powerful collection of verses attributed to the Buddha and preserved within the Buddhist tradition as a guide to living with clarity, restraint, and compassion. Arranged in thematic chapters, its short teachings move from the inner landscape of thought and intention to the outward consequences of speech and action, showing how suffering arises and how it can be eased. Through vivid images and memorable aphorisms, the te...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 917
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Problems of Philosophy is one of Bertrand Russell's attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics. Russell guides the reader through his famous distinction between 'knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description' and introduces important...
Mar 28, 2023•4 hr 59 min•Ep. 916
Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer audiobook. Genre: philosophy Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. His work also informed theories of evolution and psychology, largely through his theory of the will to power – a concept which Nietzsche famously adopted and developed. Despite this, he is today, as he was during his life, overshadowed by his contemporary, Hegel. Schopenhauer's social/psychological ...
Mar 24, 2023•3 hr 29 min•Ep. 914
Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter audiobook. Genre: family Step into the green and bustling countryside of Beatrix Potter's England in Treasury of Beatrix Potter, a beloved collection of classic tales where animals wear coats, take tea, and get into very human trouble. Here you will meet the mischievous Peter Rabbit as he tests the boundaries of safety and obedience, the determined Jemima Puddle-Duck as she searches for a secure place to nest, and the sharp-witted woodland creatures w...
Mar 24, 2023•3 hr 40 min•Ep. 915
Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett audiobook. Genre: drama The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies suddenly, the doctor believes the dead man to be Priam Farll and the live man the valet. The artist does not try to disabuse him. After the funeral (in Westminster Abbey), Priam Farll marries a widow and lives a happy life until the loss of his wife’s money means he has to take up painting again. A conno...
Mar 24, 2023•6 hr 6 min•Ep. 913
Adeline Mowbray by Amelia Opie audiobook. Genre: tragedy In Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray, a brilliant, warm-hearted young woman comes of age under the influence of bold new ideas about reason, independence, and marriage. Raised by a mother who prizes enlightened principles over convention, Adeline is encouraged to question the social rules that govern love and respectability. When she encounters the charismatic writer and thinker Glenmurray, Adeline is drawn into a relationship that seems to pr...
Mar 24, 2023•11 hr 6 min•Ep. 912
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog, Too by Alfred Elwes audiobook. Genre: family Told as the autobiography of a streetwise dog named Job, The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog, Too begins in the curious city of Caneville, where dogs have their own society, rivalries, and rules. Job grows up hungry and unwanted, learning to scavenge, avoid bullies, and survive rough treatment without letting bitterness harden him. Framed by an introduction from the feline editor Miss Minette Gattina, Job's...
Mar 23, 2023•2 hr 27 min•Ep. 911
The Mind and the Brain by Alfred Binet audiobook. Genre: science In The Mind and the Brain, pioneering psychologist Alfred Binet explores one of the most enduring questions in human inquiry: how does the inner life of thoughts, feelings, and will relate to the physical organ of the brain? Writing at a moment when experimental psychology and neurology were rapidly reshaping medicine and philosophy, Binet guides listeners through the major debates of his era, weighing materialist explanations agai...
Mar 23, 2023•6 hr 59 min•Ep. 910
The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: mystery When a quiet weekend at an English country estate turns violent, the calm facade of Red House is shattered by a murder that seems to defy common sense. Mark Ablett, newly returned from overseas and eager to settle into his family home, is drawn into a web of suspicion when the wealthy and unpopular Cayley is found dead inside a locked room, and a mysterious visitor has vanished without a trace. With the household rattled and the loca...
Mar 23, 2023•7 hr 10 min•Ep. 909
Under the Andes by Rex Stout audiobook. Genre: mystery Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps his future writing style is still blossoming, certainly his knack for weaving a fantastic tale of mystery and adventure will have most readers anxious for the next phase of adventure at every turn. The story finds two brothers and a pretty female companion on a journey which eventually takes them to a ser...
Mar 22, 2023•11 hr 5 min•Ep. 908
People Minus X by Raymond Z. Gallun audiobook. Genre: scifi When young Ed Dukas sits down to write a simple letter, he notices something impossible: faint words forming on the page as if an unseen hand is writing beside him. The incident cracks open a lifetime of buried fear and wonder, all tracing back to his uncle, Dr. Mitchell Prell, the brilliant scientist blamed for an experiment that shattered the Moon and helped trigger catastrophe on Earth. In the aftermath, Prell's most controversial br...
Mar 22, 2023•6 hr 6 min•Ep. 907
Wandl the Invader by Ray Cummings audiobook. Genre: scifi There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then they discovered a tenth planet--a maverick! This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it was heading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to the Earth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raising tu...
Mar 22, 2023•5 hr 29 min•Ep. 906
Unwise Child by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifi In a future New York where street gangs carry vibroblades and advanced electronics are as common as cigarettes, power designer Michael Raphael Gabriel, known on the job as Mike the Angel, expects danger to come with the territory. What he does not expect is to be targeted twice in a single morning, then abruptly reassigned as engineering officer aboard an experimental spacecraft with one secret mission: get an extraordinary machine off Eart...
Mar 22, 2023•6 hr 4 min•Ep. 11
The Man Who Hated Mars by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifi Ron Clayton has spent fifteen bitter years in exile on Mars - a punishment sold as 'freedom' for criminals Earth no longer wants. Trapped in the thin air, dependent on oxidation pills, and driven half-mad by the planet's relentless cold, Clayton storms into the Terran Rehabilitation Service and begs Lieutenant Phoebe Harris for the one thing he never expected to want: a prison cell back on Earth. She refuses, and Clayton is forced...
Mar 22, 2023•2 hr 41 min•Ep. 905
That Sweet Little Old Lady by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: mystery Randall Garrett had this story first published in Astounding Science Fiction September and October of 1959. His twisted sense of humor and gift for the bizarre situation with believable characters shines here. In the not too distant future, Ken Malone, young but promising FBI agent , is given the most important and difficult assignment of his career: find a spy who is stealing information from the Ultra Top Absolute Secret p...
Mar 21, 2023•4 hr 31 min•Ep. 904
Quest of the Golden Ape by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifi A lonely, forbidden mansion hidden in the backwoods has repelled curious visitors for a century, guarded by uncanny psychological barriers that feel stronger than iron. But John Pride, a steady middle-aged lawyer bound by an old family promise, forces his way through on the one night the barriers weaken and finds an impossibly ancient man clinging to life, desperate for a final duty to be fulfilled. Far across space on the planet...
Mar 21, 2023•4 hr 11 min•Ep. 903
Nor Iron Bars A Cage. by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifi In a near-future New York where hypoguns and inertia-drive aircraft are everyday tools, Inspector Royall faces a problem no amount of manpower can solve: the repeat violent offender who cycles through the courts until someone gets hurt again. Royall is part of a controversial pilot program that offers an alternative to iron bars - not by locking criminals away, but by reshaping what they fear. Under the guidance of Dr. Brownlee and...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 902
Damned If You Don’t by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifi We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed? The one that would revolutionize society with it's simplicity? Well usually, that Wonderful Invention won't work, actually. But what if there really was one or two like that? Would the oil industry, or the power conglomerates, or the auto monopolies actually be nasty enough to suppress something that would help the rest of the world just ...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 901
But, I Don’t Think by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifi The title is obscure and a bit unsettling I admit; what could it possible mean? Randall Garrett wrote a story here that had me blissfully going in the wrong direction until he quietly yanked the rug from under my feet and made me fume a bit with irritation and amazement. I loved it and hated it because it did not end the way I wanted it to but the way it obviously should. The society and culture in the galaxy he has presupposed is as ...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 900
Anything You Can Do by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifi When a damaged alien craft crashes into the Siberian tundra, the survivor is not a little green diplomat but the Nipe - a centipede-like being with terrifying strength, speed, and a mindset that treats humanity as both obstacle and resource. citeturn2view0 The first witness, forester Wang Kulichenko, can only watch in horror as the incident becomes the opening move in a global emergency. citeturn2view0 As the Nipe slips away an...
Mar 21, 2023•6 hr 19 min•Ep. 899
Anchorite by Randall Garrett audiobook. Genre: scifi Randall Garrett sticks a sharp needle into our government and society in this wonderful story. He projects the current trends towards paternalistic government into the future. Yes, we have attained a world government and everyone is equal whether they want to be or not; everyone is taken care of no matter how incompetent, stupid or sleazy they are and everyone is out to undermine everyone else. The author predicts (sadly only too well) what th...
Mar 21, 2023•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 898
