Though owned by the "meanest, dirtiest, and most shiftless family in Haddock Harbor, two young siblings "adopt" Daddles for two glorious summers. The intelligent, endearing hound dog wins the hearts of all as he joins in with capturing a thief, escaping a house fire, and dodging trouble at a local c...
Narrated by Gregory Sheridan
James Allen wrote frequently about an ideal world, the path to which was the practice of moral excellence. However, he contended that such a world existed not in a hypothetical afterlife, but in the here and now, and entry into this world is attained by the practice of...
"Mistress of the Dark Pool" by Russell Gray is a captivating short story with elements of horror, sex, and suspense. First published in 1940 in the magazine Terror Tales. The story follows a young couple seeking solitude in the mountains, only to encounter a peculiar dog with human-like eyes. As the...
A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
Books For the Holidays in the Open from: A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt. Charles Scribner’s Sons 1916.
Audio copyright 2023
Note—This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1916. It is in the public...
Welcome to the Fiction on the Web audiobook series, featuring a collection of short stories with a different theme for each volume. Lovingly curated by the owner of Fiction On The Web, Charlie Fish. Come and share in the joy and power of short stories.
The theme of this volume is Ironic Wish Fulfi...
Ojo and Unc Nunkie live in the land of Oz in Munchkin Country. Their neighbor, Dr. Pipt, has been devotedly working on the Powder of Life for many years. This magical powder will turn inanimate objects into living things. While demonstrating its power on a stuffed doll made of patchwork, Dr. Pipt ac...
ABRAHAM SNOW RETURNS IN SNOW HUNT!
Abraham Snow is back in action and this one starts off with a bang.
It started out as a routine security job. Then, a blast from the past walked out of the shadows.
When Thomas Hunt, an old friend from his Army days asks for his help in stopping a bomber from...
A very early novel by Thomas Hardy—beautifully written but obviously written when he was a young man who was curious about why women fall in love and why men feel so mesmerized by them.
It really is a charming story and like the more famous stories, it is set in the idyllic countryside of West Eng...
Fourteen degrees below zero—cold enough to freeze the soul
Lewis Ingraham is cold. He’s lost his wife to cancer, his executive career, his once sure grip on the world around him. All that he can hold on to is his beautiful daughter Jay, a brilliant student who has become a struggling single mother...
The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama, by Louis Joseph Vance, was first published in 1914 and was the first of what eventually became an 8-book series.
The main character, Michael Lanyard, also known as The Lone Wolf, is a jewel thief who in later stories reforms and becomes a private detective. In this firs...
Dungeons Are Half the Game.
You can’t control what players are going to do. That’s half the fun. But you can control where they do it. That’s a whole other half!
The Kobold Guide to Dungeons gives both new and experienced Game Masters insight and ideas into making dungeons great. In-depth essays...
When book dealers Molly O’Donnell and Emma Clarke meet at an estate sale, they are both there for the books. But Emma ventures past a “No Admittance” sign into the basement and finds, not only a vast occult library but also the dead body of a notorious book thief. She calls Molly, who spots a warnin...
