Key Passages

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 1: the Time Traveller argues his case for time as a fourth dimension, then returns from his first journey with a story of the year 802,701 — in this extended version, the remainder of Chapter 1 follows the analysis. Full book free on LibriVox. AI disclosure: this episode is hosted by Mika, a synthetic voice. The reading is by real human LibriVox reader Mark F. Smith, not AI-generated.

William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Chapter 1: journalist Bartley Hubbard interviewing Silas Lapham for 'Solid Men of Boston,' the Vermont paint-mine fortune, and Lapham's mother — in this extended version, the remainder of Chapter 1 follows the analysis. Full book free on LibriVox. AI disclosure: this episode is hosted by Mika, a synthetic voice. The reading is by real human LibriVox reader BumbleVee, not AI-generated.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The House and the Brain, from the Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053: a friend's haunted house in London, an owner who cannot keep a lodger, and a narrator who asks for the address — in this extended version, the full story follows the analysis. Full book free on LibriVox. AI disclosure: this episode is hosted by Mika, a synthetic voice. The reading is by real human LibriVox reader Grant Love, not AI-generated.

H. P. Lovecraft, The Alchemist, from the Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053: the story's opening — an old chateau on its wooded hill, a dwindling line of counts, and a curse spoken over the house. Full book free on LibriVox. AI disclosure: this episode is hosted by Mika, a synthetic voice. The reading is by real human LibriVox reader Cliff Stone, not AI-generated.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, from the Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053. Full book free on LibriVox. AI disclosure: this episode is hosted by Mika, a synthetic voice. The reading is by real human LibriVox reader Brenna Castor, not AI-generated.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown, from the Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053. Full book free on LibriVox. AI disclosure: this episode is hosted by Mika, a synthetic voice. The reading is by real human LibriVox reader Heather Eney, not AI-generated.

Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Full book free on LibriVox. AI disclosure: this episode is hosted by Mika, a synthetic voice. The reading is by real human LibriVox reader David Wales, not AI-generated.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 11. Full book free on LibriVox. AI disclosure: this episode is hosted by Mika, a synthetic voice. The reading is by real human LibriVox reader David Barnes, not AI-generated.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Chapter I. Full book free on LibriVox. AI disclosure: this episode is hosted by Mika, a synthetic voice. The reading is by real human LibriVox reader Ruth Golding, not AI-generated.

Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 1. Full book free on LibriVox. AI disclosure: this episode is hosted by Mika, a synthetic voice. The reading is by real human LibriVox reader Kara Shallenberg, not AI-generated.