The Communists never have a chance. They are prepared to fight with atomic weapons. The U.S. instead uses... Dolliver Wims, history's first recorded person capable of turning other people accident-prone. Wims is a walking disaster who never gets caught in the shambles he creates! With great good hum...
This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier. Ambrose Bierce wrote many fictional short stories about the Civil War. This is his experience at Shiloh. As a Vietnam veteran, I was taken back to a rice paddy just outside of...
Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success, by James Allen. Narrated by Gregory Sheridan.
In several of his works, New Thought author James Allen employs architectural metaphors in his expositions about creating a successful and rewarding life.
This short treatise consists of the following secti...
Chace, a teenage orphan with the power to see the future, saves people anonymously by leaving them a letter to find in their moment of crisis. When his friends are in danger, he is there. He saves them but cannot predict the consequences. He can see their future, but he cannot see his own.
Chase i...
“For tonight, you can call me Jack.”
When a copycat serial killer begins recreating Jack the Ripper’s 1888 murder spree, two competing experts are forced to work together to stop him.
Despite their well-documented antagonism, famous mystery novelist Barbara Thomas is paired with legendary Ripper...
Leonid Andreyev was born in Orel, the capital of the Russian province of the same name, on August 21, 1871. He died on September 12, 1919, in Finland, an exile from his beloved chaos-ridden fatherland.
The main characters of Andreyev's stories are "people who stand apart", solitary, lonely charact...
The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange, by Anna Katharine Green. Narrated by Christianne Lupher.
Seventeen-year-old Violet Strange, a debutante in Gilded Age New York, could never be suspected of moonlighting as an operative at a hard-boiled detective agency. Petite, gabby, and d...
Rick Brant and his friend Scotty travel to Egypt with a Spindrift expert to help with some radio astronomy scientists that are attempting to decipher and interpret some very odd signals that the telescopes are receiving. Before Rick and Scotty leave the United States for Egypt, an Egyptian man asks...
With a shriek heard around the world, an alien spacecraft appears out of nowhere and crash lands on Antarctica. Its crew consists of just four apparent teenage humans, possessing technology unheard of on Earth. Is this the beginning of an alien invasion set to conquer Earth, or something else? One s...
Award-winning audio-book narrator and producer Mike Vendetti reads one of Lovecraft's best; The Curse of Yig.
Based in Oklahoma around 1889, a newly arrived couple learn about the local legends surrounding a "Snake God", Yig, who takes vengeance on anyone who kills a serpent by killing them or tur...
Eleanor H. Porter's most famous literary creation is "Pollyanna", but she isn't the only precocious young girl to spring from the author's pen. Mary Marie Anderson describes herself as "a cross-current and a contradiction", the offspring of incompatible parents who couldn't even agree about her name...
