'Mrs Zant and the Ghost'—a 'Little Novel' by Wilkie Collins.
Mr Rayburn, a widower, and his young daughter, Lucy, first meet Mrs Zant in Kensington Gardens. She is oblivious to their presence and appears to be in some sort of trance. When they next meet she astounds Rayburn with her explanation: s...
By Joseph Conrad
Narrated by Graham Scott
A young sea captain, struggling with the problems of his first far-Eastern command, is befriended by Hermann, commander of a German ship moored nearby in a treacherous river. But when the monopolistic tugboat captain Falk perceives him as a rival for Her...
Narrated by Denis Daly
Thomas Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India, who had a particular interest in the study of comparative religion. The major influence on his thinking, as well as on his writing, was the Bible, although he also considered the elements of ancient Mesopot...
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.'
The brightest light of the Pickwick Club is its founder member and illustrious leader, Samuel Pickwick. He is joined by his three friends and fellow club members: the poetic Augustus Snodgrass, the romantic Tracy Tu...
The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse presented by The Online Stage.
Follow the foils and foibles of Bertie Wooster and his devoted man, Jeeves, through all of his wild adventures in The Inimitable Jeeves, the first collection of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series. There are schemes to bet on the c...
The winter after I tossed my high school graduation cap into the air, I made a beeline for Canada, seeking solace in a six-month retreat. My mission? To care for horses and breathe new life into the charming farm of a warm-hearted elderly woman. Moonbreak Falls promises to be my haven, my escape fro...
Flash fiction from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. A wounded gentleman, with his valet, breaks into an abandoned chateau in the Appennine mountains. The walls of the bedroom in which they situate themselves are decorated entirely with paintings. The gentleman's eyes fall upon a portrait...
It's the American Civil War, two men and a horse on a high precipice. War requires ordinary men to make extraordinary decisions. This was particularly true in the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce a veteran of that war spent much of the rest of his life writing short stories about it. This is one o...
A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
The American Revolution, 1776-1783 by Claude Halstead Van Tyne, PhD, Assistant Professor of American History, University of Michigan
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Volume 9 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Broth...
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins presented by The Online Stage.
Rosamond Frankland has married the love of her life, Leonard, who is blind. They have bought Porthgenna Tower, the manor where Rosamond grew up and where her mother died 20 years earlier. What they don't know is the dark secret that...
By John Keats
Narrated by Denis Daly
The Eve of St. Agnes was first published in 1820 in a collection containing many of Keat's best-known poems. Several of these were retellings of stories that were popular in the Middle Ages and earlier times.
The title refers to the feast of St Agnes, a Fou...
