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Title: The Gift of the Magi

Author: O. Henry

Narrator: Phillip J Mather

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-22-16

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The classic Christmas love story, as poignant now as when O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) wrote it in 1905. A poor young couple sacrifices their own "treasures" for their partner. A must-listen for any time of year.

Members Reviews:

Not a good story book for children

Iâve always loved different renditions of this story, but had never read the original. I bought for my kids for Christmas. This was a difficult book to read out loud for kids. The language and writing are definitely not of this age. I donât reccomend if youâre buying for children, but a nice book for a collection or something.

A story of love and want.

I love O'Henrys writing. If only I could tell a story so succinctly! The emotion of each character is laid out very simply yet clearly. That's what this story is about, emotion.

Heartwarming

We all know the story. 2 people in love without a penny doing a selfless act for each other at Christmas time. It's a must along with the Christmas Carol by Dickens.

A good reminder what is really important

A good quick story. Sometimes we forget about what is really important in this life. This is a good reminder of that.

Beautiful short read

You can read this in about 15 minutes. It's a beautiful story of sacrificial love. it's a free ebook! It's an excellent read.

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Title: A Ghost Story

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Phillip J. Mather

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Mark Twain's classic tale of the unfortunate ghost of the Cardiff Giant - skillfully narrated by Phillip J. Mather.

Members Reviews:

A ghostly classic beautifully read.

What did you love best about A Ghost Story?

I have always loved this classic, it starts off so creepy, you can just imagine being the person in the story, and then the tale turns - but you will have to listen to it to tell what it is.

What did you like best about this story?

The way the story evolves.

What does Phillip J. Mather bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Phillip has a wonderful voice for narrating and brings this story wonderfully to life.

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Title: Black Hound of Death

Author: Robert E. Howard

Narrator: David Plinge

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-16

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A werewolf tale from the creator of Conan the Barbarian. Revenge and dark secrets from Mongolia invade the piney woods of the USA.

Fair warning: The story has racial stereotypes and epithets common to American writing in the early 20th century.

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Title: Fantastic Tales

Author: Henry Chapman Mercer, Morgan Robertson, W. C. Morrow, Julian Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, William Hope Hodgson, B. M. Croker

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-29-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A spine-chilling collection of fantastical and enchanting classic short stories.

Members Reviews:

Painful Listening ZERO star Performance

What disappointed you about Fantastic Tales?

The narrator delivers every sentence... In a relentless Captain Kirk-meets-sensationalist local newscaster style that is impossible to tolerate more than 5 minutes.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Couldn't say. I think the reason that no one has reviewed this audiobook is because they immediately returned it.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Cathy Dobson?

Anyone. I would rather listen to 20+ hours of leaf blowers and barking Chihuahuas than another Cathy Dobson narration.

Any additional comments?

Audible, please rerecord these and other classics with a different narrator.

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Title: The Lurking Fear

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Edgar Lloyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Lurking Fear is in all of us, only this time it's coming at you from the innermost regions of your mind. Find a fireplace and settle in as narrator Edgar Lloyd takes you on another trip through the underground recesses of your soul. Check out this haunting narration of H. P. Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear as you crawl into and out of the decrepit crypts of insanity. Experience the chills that only true tales of Victorian horror can conjure. Now...go ahead.... Press the button!

Members Reviews:

Keep the lights on tonight

Classic horror by a master. Written in a style not very popular these days, but should be enjoyed for its ability to ramp emotions up into a edge of your seat fear.

Lovecraft is a very unusual writer, Very complex story ...

Lovecraft is a very unusual writer , Very complex story lines with unusual twists

in his stories - one of my favorites !

Well written

Much alike Poe or Stephen King, a building suspense and a vividly built world through the eyes of the protagonist

love hp lovecraft hes a classic horror

love hp lovecraft hes a classic horror writer

... reading a lot of Lovecraft at once is a bad thing. Not because of a creeping dread

I think that reading a lot of Lovecraft at once is a bad thing. Not because of a creeping dread, but because they're all so similar! The only thing that stands out in this story, for me, is the focus on a particular family and their connection to the horror.

Really, my attention faded in and out while listening to this story. It's a lot of mood description of the environment, interspersed with a little action. It feels almost like Lovecraft was being paid per word and rent was due.

Surely Lovecraft fans will disagree, but this is one of those stories of his that fall into the "read one, read them all" category.

This story is in the public domain, and is available in multiple free formats. I listened to the free audio production produced by the Drabblecast.

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Title: Precipitous Tales

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Neil Hellegers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-16

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Taken together, the works of H. P. Lovecraft create a terrific world of elder gods, ancient aliens, and cosmic horror. This new original collection of Lovecraft's earliest stories lays the foundation for that world and prefigures many of his later infamous tales.

In "The Nameless City", an intrepid explorer encounters a shunned, crumbling city in the desert, older than the earliest known of humankind but perhaps not as abandoned as was thought. In "The Tomb", a young man's lifelong obsession with the locked crypt of an ill-fated, extinct family slowly turns to madness...or possession. In "Dagon", a sailor adrift in the Pacific Ocean awakes to discover himself stranded on the risen sea floor...and the abomination that has risen along with those ancient depths. And in "The Music of Erich Zann", a destitute university student is entranced by the mysterious and alluring music of the old, mute viol player who lives in the apartment above - until he finds the music serves a dark, urgent purpose.

Please enjoy the stories of these four unfortunate souls as they enter the eldritch universe of H. P. Lovecraft.

Table of contents: "The Nameless City"; "The Tomb"; "Dagon"; "The Music of Erich Zann".

Members Reviews:

Best Rendition of Lovecraft Stories I've Found Yet

Have you listened to any of Neil Matthew Hellegerss other performances before? How does this one compare?

I'm a fan of Hellegers' work. I've listened to a few of his audio books. This was my favorite of his productions--uniquely suited to his voice.

Any additional comments?

These are some of Lovecraft's best. Dagon in particular has always been a favorite. As has The Tomb. Hellegers voice is deep, soulful and stirring. I found myself enraptured. The narrator went away and I was encapsulated in the story, my own petty life a mere memory compared to the compelling narrative. The price for this small collection can't be beat. I wish Hellegers would do an audio rendition of all of the stories in the entire Cthulhu Mythos. Dagon has just a hint of that story. There is so much more and his voice would certainly do it justice. Helleger's performance of The Tomb was the most compelling of all four stories for me. Such a beautiful story, fantastically told.

true horror fans will not be disappointed

Im sure that everyone who lays claim to being a true fan of horror has read Lovecraft, described as the father of weird and wonderful horror by The Guardian he was known to have regularly corresponded with, and I can imagine influenced, writers like Robert Bloch (author of Psycho), Henry Kuttner (The Dark World), Robert E Howard (Conan the Barbarian).

Precipitous Tales is a collection of four short stories by Lovecraft, together they embody the characteristic medley of horror and science fiction that he is so famous for and reveal just how much of 21st century literature, if not exactly pastiche, is influenced by Lovecrafts work. In The Tomb and The Music of Erich Zann, both exemplifying everything I loved about the TV series The Twilight Zone, take place in seemingly ordinary fictional worlds filled with inexplicable mysteries but none is so strange as what the lost sailor of Dagon finds at the bottom of the sea.

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Title: Kerfol

Author: Edith Wharton

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Among her most popular and terrifying tales are the many masterly ghost stories she wrote in her early career.

Kerfol is the story of an American who looks over the remote and partially ruined castle of Kerfol and finds only a pack of eerie, shy and strangely silent dogs there. When he mentions that he has seen the dogs, his hosts give him a very peculiar old story to read...the history of a bizarre old murder and an even more mysterious pack of dogs.

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Title: The Yellow Wallpaper

Subtitle: A Story

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

One of the earliest creative approaches to feminist literature, this sinister horror story tells of a woman's mental anguish and unconscious struggle with conformity in a society that generally viewed women as weak and hysterical creatures unable to think for themselves. The author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), a prominent American feminist, paved the way for other authors like Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker. She suffered mental illness during her life and ultimately committed suicide.

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Title: Water Never Hurt a Man

Author: Walter D. Edmonds

Narrator: Mark Turetsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This short story, pulled from Seven American Stories and originally published in Harper's in 1930, is a classic of historical fiction.

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Title: The Clarion Call

Author: O. Henry

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), an American writer of outstanding short stories, known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.

The Clarion Call tells of the chance encounter between two old childhood friends. One, Kernan, is now a burglar who three weeks ago committed his first murder. The other, Woods, is a New York detective. Woods is faced with a terrible dilemma: How can he turn in his old childhood friend, who in the past lent him a thousand dollars that he has not yet repaid?