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A Smiling Idol to The Expatriated Boss

In Fantastic Fables

Read by Phil Baxter


Ambrose Bierce


A collection of 245 short funny fables - Summary by Inkell

Hel

In Myths of Northern Lands

Read by Phil Baxter


H. A. Guerber


The aim of this handbook of Northern mythology is to familiarize the English student of letters with the religion of his heathen ancestors, …

My Smoking-Table

In My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke

Read by Phil Baxter


J. M. Barrie


J. M. Barrie, the author best known for Peter Pan, pens witty anecdotes of smoking, having quit the habit. He relates various humorous accou…

Victory

In The Robbers Cave: a Tale of Italy

Read by Phil Baxter


Charlotte Maria Tucker


Sixteen-year-old Horace Cleveland thinks of nobody but himself. While traveling with his mother across the Calabrian countryside on their wa…

Six Creepy Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Read by Phil Chenevert


Edgar Allan Poe


Edgar Allan Poe has the ability to manipulate language so well that he could engage my imagination and get me terrified even though little w…

Seven H.P. Lovecraft Stories

Read by Phil Chenevert


H. P. Lovecraft


Howard Phillips Lovecraft, better known as H.P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially…

Mr. Spaceship

Read by Phil Chenevert


Philip K. Dick


The war with the Yucks from Proxima Centauri was claimed to be a stalemate but they were really winning. The mine belts they laid seemed to…

The Defenders

Read by Phil Chenevert


Philip K. Dick


The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has succeeded in sterilizing the surface of the earth. …

The Art of War (version 3)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Sun Tzu 孙武


First compiled in the 6th century BC, The Art of War presents a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning battles. It is accepted…

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Arnold Bennett


Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given y…

The Deeper Christian Life

Read by Phil Snyder


Andrew Murray


If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would you be convicted? Christians have asked themselves this question, or ones like it, for…

Crystal Crypt, the & Beyond the Door

Read by Phil Chenevert


Philip K. Dick


Two early science fiction stories by the wonderful craftsman, Philip K. Dick. In the Crystal Crypt, taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the …

The Repairman

Read by Phil Chenevert


Harry Harrison


This is a collection of 3 of Harry Harrison marvelous early stories that were published in Galaxy, Analog and Fantastic Universe. The Repair…

The Misplaced Battleship

Read by Phil Chenevert


Harry Harrison


"It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ... but interstellar space is on a different scale o…

Arm of the Law

Read by Phil Chenevert


Harry Harrison


A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit - in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to …

Triplanetary, First in the Lensman Series

Read by Phil Chenevert


E. E. “Doc” Smith and E. E. "Doc" Smith


Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and…

The K-Factor

Read by Phil Chenevert


Harry Harrison


The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in all areas of scientific progress. But humans are st…