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The Amputated Arms

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 008

Read by Roger Clifton


Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe and Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsøe


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

40 - The Vagina; External Organs

In Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 5 (Gray's Anatomy)

Read by Roger Clifton


Henry Gray


Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded th…

11 - How To Be Happy Though Little

In Idle Ideas in 1905

Read by Roger Clifton


Jerome K. Jerome


Back in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including "Should Women Be Beautiful?", "Should S…

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Read by Martin Clifton


G. K. Chesterton


Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet a…

The Wisdom of Father Brown

Read by Martin Clifton


G. K. Chesterton


This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a s…

The Diary of a Nobody

Read by Martin Clifton


George Grossmith


The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acqu…

Crome Yellow

Read by Martin Clifton


Aldous Huxley


Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story…

Queen Lucia

Read by Martin Clifton


E. F. Benson


E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was th…

The Vicar of Wakefield

Read by Martin Clifton


Oliver Goldsmith


Published in 1766, 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £…

Tales of the Five Towns

Read by Martin Clifton


Arnold Bennett


This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of t…

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

Read by Martin Clifton


Douglas William Jerrold


Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a pl…

A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

Read by Martin Clifton


William Shakespeare


This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) a…

On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

Read by Martin Clifton


Joseph Lister


Joseph Lister was born near London in 1827. He studied medicine at the University of London and pursued a career as a surgeon in Scotland. H…

The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service

Read by Tom Clifton


James R. Driscoll


The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service is a boys adventure story set in WWI - Three College Chums join the military and face the perils of s…

Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It

Read by Roger Melin


William Walker Atkinson


An in-depth series of chapters devoted to the use of our memory system; as the title suggests, how to develop our memory system, how to trai…

History of Billy the Kid

Read by Roger Melin


Charles A. Siringo


A cowboy outlaw whose youthful daring has never been equalled in the annals of criminal history.When a bullet pierced his heart he was less …

Can Such Things Be?

Read by Roger Melin


Ambrose Bierce


24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling…