Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton audiobook. Genre: scifi When interstellar trader Dane Thorson signs on with the Free Trader ship Solar Queen, he expects tight margins, rough ports, and the usual risks of space commerce - not a desperate mission to a forbidden world. The crew has a contract to retrieve a valuable cargo from Khatka, a planet quarantined by authorities and surrounded by rumors of madness, lethal wildlife, and inexplicable forces that no scan can explain. Once planetside, Dane joins a...
Oct 25, 2022•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 477
Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton audiobook. Genre: scifi The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human wou...
Oct 25, 2022•7 hr 24 min•Ep. 476
The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France audiobook. Genre: philosophy Anatole France, in his satirical and allegorical fashion, weaves a tale of fantasy which finds a mischievous guardian angel stealing books from his earthly charge, who happens to be an archbishop in possession of a plethora of literature, mostly theological in nature. After voracious reading and then becoming a 'fallen' angel, he decides to search for and recruit other 'fallen' angels who devise a plan to attempt an overthro...
Oct 25, 2022•9 hr 58 min•Ep. 475
The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories by Amy Walton audiobook. Genre: family These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with everything she could wish for except,of course, for companionship. Her mother has passed away and her father is a very busy lawyer who barely notices she is there. But then Ruth finds a scruffy, skinny and mostly ugly cat; the cat who lives in the kitchen and cellars,hence The Kitchen Cat...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 474
The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: tragedy In a rugged corner of the Alps in the spring of 1680, Brother Ambrosius, a young Franciscan monk, is sent with two companions from Passau to the remote monastery of Berchtesgaden - a place of cold forests, steep valleys, and a community ruled as much by fear and superstition as by the Church. On the road he encounters Benedicta, the beautiful and defiant daughter of the local hangman, marked from birth as an outcast ...
Oct 25, 2022•2 hr 52 min•Ep. 473
Can Such Things Be by Ambrose Bierce audiobook. Genre: horror Can Such Things Be gathers Ambrose Bierce's most unsettling tales into a single volume where reason keeps colliding with the impossible. Across a series of tightly wound stories, Bierce follows hunters and townsfolk, soldiers and scientists, skeptics and storytellers who each confront a phenomenon that refuses ordinary explanation: a presence that cannot be seen yet leaves proof behind, a corpse that does not behave as it should, a fa...
Oct 25, 2022•7 hr 51 min•Ep. 472
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter by Alice Turner Curtis audiobook. Genre: history Ten-year-old Sylvia Fulton has left Boston behind and is living with her parents in Charleston, South Carolina, in the tense months just before the Civil War begins. Curious, warm-hearted, and fiercely loyal, Sylvia tries to make a home in a city where her Northern roots mark her as an outsider. At school she finds kindness and fast friendship with girls like Grace Waite and Flora Hayes, but she also meets sharp prejud...
Oct 25, 2022•4 hr•Ep. 471
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood audiobook. Genre: horror A tale of horror in which a pleasant sojourn down the Danube tumbles terrifyingly awry as the veil between this world and an unfathomably weird dimension is inadvertently pierced by an innocent pair of vacationers, 'The Willows', arguably Algernon Blackwood's seminal contribution to supernatural literature, has had a lasting influence on the field. No less a personage than H. P. Lovecraft describing it as '...the greatest weird tale ever...
Oct 25, 2022•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 470
The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood audiobook. Genre: fantasy In this moody, metaphysical novel from master of the uncanny Algernon Blackwood, Dr. Edward Fillery, a psychologist with an unusual sensitivity to hidden currents in the human mind, is drawn into a case that defies ordinary diagnosis. At a discreet Spiritual Clinique he and his colleague Paul Devonham take in a young man with a baffling double life: at times he seems a simple, gentle country youth, and at others something vast ...
Oct 25, 2022•15 hr 5 min•Ep. 469
The Push Of A Finger by Alfred Bester audiobook. Genre: scifi Science fiction from the 50s by one of the masters, Alfred Bester. Society has committed itself to complete stability. Nothing is allowed to upset this stability, nothing that is not planned and approved and accounted for in advance. Yes, this is hard to imagine but this has produced decades, nay, centuries of predictable prosperity and peace. Even the newspapers have very little to write about. One reporter however is curious about t...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 468
The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Alexander Jessup audiobook. Genre: comedy Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup, The Best American Humorous Short Stories gathers a handpicked lineup of classic American tales that prove how many shapes laughter can take. Jessup's opening essay makes the mission clear: these are not merely jokes on the page, but fully crafted short stories where humor is inseparable from character, voice, and surprise. Across the collection, readers move from dry w...
Oct 25, 2022•11 hr 27 min•Ep. 467
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley audiobook. Genre: comedy Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at ‘Crome’ where there is a gathering of bright young things. We hear some of the history of the house from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self appointed historian; Apocalypse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance. Our hero, Denis, tries to c...
Oct 25, 2022•6 hr 20 min•Ep. 466
His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune audiobook. Genre: family Albert Payson Terhune, perhaps best known for his book Lad, a Dog (later turned into a popular movie), was also a breeder of collies and a journalist. Some of his collie lines survive to this day. His Dog is a story about Link Ferris who finds an injured dog on his way home one evening. Knowing nothing about dogs, Link nurses the dog back to health and the two form a bond such as only can be formed between human and canine. Unable to loca...
Oct 24, 2022•3 hr 21 min•Ep. 465
The Lucky Piece - A Story of the North Woods by Albert Bigelow Paine audiobook. Genre: adventure While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a young girl selling berries by the roadside. As time passes, in the Adirondack mountains of northern New York state, a tale unfolds involving two young women, two young men, and a bevy of characters the likes of which lend to a series of events which make up a fasci...
Oct 24, 2022•6 hr 17 min•Ep. 464
The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt audiobook. Genre: fantasy When a renowned scientist vanishes under impossible circumstances, Dr. David South and a small circle of friends are drawn into a mystery that seems to defy every rational explanation. Their search leads from hushed academic rooms to a remote Pacific island, where a forbidden crater-like abyss known as the Moon Pool is whispered about with dread and fascination. At its edge, strange lights pulse with a hypnotic intelligence, and the air ...
Oct 24, 2022•12 hr 17 min•Ep. 463
The Secret Battle by A. P. Herbert audiobook. Genre: tragedy Like many soldiers at the beginning of their military careers, Harry Penrose has romantic ideas of climbing the ranks and attaining hero status. However, while stationed at Gallipoli, the realities of war begin to take their toll on Penrose, not only physically, but also mentally where the war has become a 'battle of the mind.' This is his story as related by a fellow soldier, as well as the story of the campaign at Gallipoli which is ...
Oct 24, 2022•6 hr 13 min•Ep. 462
Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: family In the Hundred Acre Wood, where every day feels like it has room for one more small adventure, Winnie-the-Pooh is always thinking about one important thing: honey. Guided by his gentle, slightly muddled logic and a very big heart, Pooh drifts from one situation to the next, drawing his friends into schemes that are as earnest as they are unpredictable. There is Piglet, timid but loyal; Eeyore, resigned and wry; Tigger, bursting with confide...
Oct 24, 2022•3 hr 1 min•Ep. 461
The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventure The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but in The Rainbow Trail this theme is treated more explicitly. The plots of both books revolve around the victimization of women in the Mormon culture: events in Riders of the Purple Sage are centered on the struggle of a Mormon woman who sacrifices her wealth and social status to avoid beco...
Oct 24, 2022•11 hr 27 min•Ep. 460
Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James audiobook. Genre: philosophy William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophies of pragmatism and Radical Empiricism. Essays in Radical Empiricism is a collection edited and published posthumously by his colleague and biographer Ralph Barton Perry in 1912. It was...
Oct 24, 2022•6 hr 42 min•Ep. 459
Fidelity by Susan Glaspell audiobook. Genre: drama In the small Midwestern town of Freeport, Iowa, people still whisper about Ruth Holland, the young woman who shocked everyone by running away to Colorado with a married man. More than a decade later, Ruth returns home at a moment she cannot avoid: her father is dying, and the life she left behind is waiting to judge her. As she steps back into familiar streets and strained family rooms, Ruth finds that time has not softened the town's certainty ...
Oct 24, 2022•9 hr 25 min•Ep. 458
A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock audiobook. Genre: history Stephen Leacock's The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada (often referenced by its subtitle, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada) opens Canada's story long before the familiar era of colonies and Confederation. Written as part of the Chronicles of Canada series, Leacock begins with the land itself - ancient rock, ice, rivers, and the immense timescale that shaped the continent - and then turns to th...
Oct 24, 2022•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 457
The Life of St. Teresa by St. Teresa of Jesus audiobook. Genre: religion Written in the voice of one of Christianity's most influential mystics, The Life of St. Teresa is St. Teresa of Jesus' own account of how a restless, imaginative girl in 16th-century Spain became a Carmelite nun and a fearless reformer. Teresa recounts her early love of stories and honor, the tug of worldly comforts, and the slow, demanding turn toward a life shaped by prayer, discipline, and obedience. As illness, doubt, a...
Oct 24, 2022•13 hr 46 min•Ep. 456
On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux audiobook. Genre: religion In On Loving God, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the great 12th-century Cistercian abbot and preacher, offers a clear, searching guide to the most essential question of the spiritual life: why and how a human being comes to love God. Written as a brief treatise for fellow Christians seeking deeper prayer and truer freedom, the work begins with the realities of ordinary life - need, weakness, and self-interest - and turns them into t...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 455
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: history In medieval England, the long-absent King Richard is rumored to be returning, but the country is tense with rival loyalties, private vendettas, and the lingering divide between Norman rulers and Saxon subjects. Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a disinherited Saxon knight, comes home from crusade determined to restore his honor and win the hand of the high-born Lady Rowena, even as his estranged father Cedric pursues a different future for their people. Wh...
Oct 24, 2022•19 hr 37 min•Ep. 454
Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: philosophy Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud's argument—that our contemporary civilisation favours this sort of hypocrisy and that there are more civilised hypocrites than truly cultured persons, and it is even a question whether a certain amount o...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 453
This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch audiobook. Genre: scifi Robert Bloch (1917 – 1994) was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short stories and novels he wrote a number of television and film scripts including several for the original Star Trek. In 1959 Bloch wrote the novel Psycho which Alfred Hitchcock adapted to film a year later. He received the Hugo Award, the Wor...
Oct 21, 2022•3 hr 42 min•Ep. 452
Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun audiobook. Genre: scifi When a strange spacecraft slams into a Missouri hillside, the Army moves in fast, sealing the site behind barbed wire and unanswered questions. Colonel Miller and a small team of investigators and scientists pick through scorched metal, radioactive fuel residue, and baffling machinery that looks unsettlingly familiar in places and utterly alien in others. Then they find the most troubling piece of evidence of all: a living Martian infa...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 451
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy P. G. Wodehouse's Love Among the Chickens is a bright, fast-talking comedy of friendship, optimism, and spectacularly bad planning. The story is related by steady, long-suffering Jeremy Garnet, a struggling writer who is persuaded to join his irrepressible school friend, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, in a bold new venture: chicken farming. Ukridge has the confidence of a born entrepreneur and the attention span of a man cha...
Oct 20, 2022•6 hr 9 min•Ep. 450
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley audiobook. Genre: scifi When Lionel Verney looks back on the vanished world that raised him, he remembers an England poised between old hierarchies and revolutionary hopes. Orphaned and proud, Lionel grows up on the margins until fate draws him into the orbit of Adrian, the idealistic son of a deposed ruler, and Raymond, a dazzling leader whose ambition and charisma can ignite a nation. Friendships deepen into rivalries as love, duty, and political vis...
Oct 20, 2022•18 hr 14 min•Ep. 449
The Child’s Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson audiobook. Genre: biography The Child's Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson introduces young listeners to the lives that helped shape the United States, told in clear, story-forward portraits designed to spark curiosity rather than overwhelm with dates. Moving from the earliest days of the nation into later generations, the book gathers a gallery of Americans - leaders and lawmakers, explorers and inventors, writers,...
Oct 19, 2022•4 hr 55 min•Ep. 448
