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The Early Adventures of Don Everhard

Read by Ben Tucker


Gordon Young


Before Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op and before Carroll John Daly's Race Williams, there was Don Everhard, hard-boiled professional gamb…

Jazz

Read by Ben Tucker


R. P. Jones


Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” em…

An Essay Upon Wind, with Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peuters

Read by Ben Tucker


Charles James Fox


Purported to be written by noted British Parliamentarian Charles James Fox as a result of a wager, this important and engaging essay is a me…

Christie's Old Organ

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Mrs. O. F. Walton


Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an…

Poppy's Presents

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Mrs. O. F. Walton


One day, Poppy gets told her mother has a present for her. But the neighbors laugh and say there is such a thing as too much of a good thing…

Joel, a Boy of Galilee

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Annie Fellows Johnston


Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and t…

The Haunted Room

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Charlotte Maria Tucker


Mr. Trevor inherits a piece of land in the country called Myst Court, and plans to move there with his three children: Emmie, Bruce, and Vib…

The Spanish Cavalier

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Charlotte Maria Tucker


Jarwin and Cuffy

Read by Esther ben Simonides


R. M. Ballantyne


Jarwin is an English sailor who has been shipwrecked. He is stranded on a raft with only his dog Cuffy, and land is nowhere in sight. Their …

Coming to the King

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Frances Ridley Havergal


A collection of poems by Frances Ridley Havergal and others, all describing different aspects of our walk with God, from 'Coming to the King…

A Queen

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Ottilie Wildermuth


Maggie is an orphan who depends on the charity of the farmer she lives with. She tries to be cheerful and helpful to everyone where she is. …

The Monkey's Paw

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 028

Read by Dillon McFarlane


W. W. Jacobs


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Ebb and Flow

In Verses

Read by Dillon McFarlane


Susan Coolidge


Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who is best known for her What Katy Did series. This is the first of three volume…

Introduction by Charles Woodward Hutson

In Fantastics and Other Fancies

Read by Ben Tucker


Lafcadio Hearn


This posthumous collection of short stories by noted author and historian of weird folklore brings together 36 of his earliest works, many o…

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