12 Creepy Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe

Publication date 2012-06-24
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobook, horror, poe, creepy
LibriVox recording of 12 CREEPY TALES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE(1809 - 1849)

chapter 1 of creepy tales by edgar allan poe this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librevox.org recording by anne boulay creepy tales by edgar allan poe the telltale heart true nervous very very dreadfully nervous i had been and am but why will you say that i am mad the disease had sharpened my senses not destroyed not dulled them above all was the sense of hearing acute i heard all things in the heaven and in the earth i heard many things in hell how then am i mad hearken and observe how healthily how calmly i can tell you the whole story it is impossible to say how the first idea entered my brain but once conceived it haunted me day and night object there was none passion there was none i loved the old man he had never wronged me he had never given me insult for his gold i had no desire i think it was his eye yes it was this he had the eye of a vulture a pale blue eye with a film over it whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold and so by degrees very gradually i made up my mind to take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of the eye forever now this is the point you fancy me mad mad men know nothing but you should have seen me you should have seen how wisely i proceeded with what caution with what foresight with what dissimulation i went to work i was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before i killed him and every night about midnight i turned the latch of his door and opened it oh so gently and then when i had made an opening sufficient for my head i put in a dark lantern all closed closed that no light shone out and then i thrust in my head oh you would have laughed to see how cunningly i thrust it in i moved slowly very very slowly so that i might not disturb the old man's sleep it took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that i could see him as he lay upon his bed huh would a man man have been so wise as this and then when my head was well in the room i undid the lantern cautiously oh so cautiously cautiously for the hinges creaked i undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye and this i did for seven long nights every night just at midnight but i found the eye was always closed and so it was impossible to do the work for it was not the old man who vexed me but his evil eye and every morning when the day broke i went boldly into the chamber and spoke courageously to him calling him by name in a hearty tone and inquiring how he has passed the night so you see he would have been a very profound old man indeed to suspect that every night just at 12 i looked in upon him while he slept upon the eighth night i was more than usually cautious in opening the door a watch's minute hand moved more quickly than mine did never before that night had i felt the extent of my own powers of my sagacity i could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph to think that there i was opening the door little by little and he had not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts i fairly chuckled at the idea and perhaps he heard me for he moved on the bed suddenly as if startled now you may think that i drew back but no his room was as dark as pitch with the thick darkness for the shutters were closed fastened through fear of robbers and so i knew that he could not see the opening of the door and i kept pushing on it steadily steadily i had my head in and was about to open the lantern when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening and the old man sprang up in bed crying who's there i kept quite still and said nothing for a whole hour i did not move a muscle and in the meantime i...

12 Creepy Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe

Publication date 2012-06-24
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobook, horror, poe, creepy
LibriVox recording of 12 CREEPY TALES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE(1809 - 1849)

chapter 1 of creepy tales by edgar allan poe this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librevox.org recording by anne boulay creepy tales by edgar allan poe the telltale heart true nervous very very dreadfully nervous i had been and am but why will you say that i am mad the disease had sharpened my senses not destroyed not dulled them above all was the sense of hearing acute i heard all things in the heaven and in the earth i heard many things in hell how then am i mad hearken and observe how healthily how calmly i can tell you the whole story it is impossible to say how the first idea entered my brain but once conceived it haunted me day and night object there was none passion there was none i loved the old man he had never wronged me he had never given me insult for his gold i had no desire i think it was his eye yes it was this he had the eye of a vulture a pale blue eye with a film over it whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold and so by degrees very gradually i made up my mind to take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of the eye forever now this is the point you fancy me mad mad men know nothing but you should have seen me you should have seen how wisely i proceeded with what caution with what foresight with what dissimulation i went to work i was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before i killed him and every night about midnight i turned the latch of his door and opened it oh so gently and then when i had made an opening sufficient for my head i put in a dark lantern all closed closed that no light shone out and then i thrust in my head oh you would have laughed to see how cunningly i thrust it in i moved slowly very very slowly so that i might not disturb the old man's sleep it took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that i could see him as he lay upon his bed huh would a man man have been so wise as this and then when my head was well in the room i undid the lantern cautiously oh so cautiously cautiously for the hinges creaked i undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye and this i did for seven long nights every night just at midnight but i found the eye was always closed and so it was impossible to do the work for it was not the old man who vexed me but his evil eye and every morning when the day broke i went boldly into the chamber and spoke courageously to him calling him by name in a hearty tone and inquiring how he has passed the night so you see he would have been a very profound old man indeed to suspect that every night just at 12 i looked in upon him while he slept upon the eighth night i was more than usually cautious in opening the door a watch's minute hand moved more quickly than mine did never before that night had i felt the extent of my own powers of my sagacity i could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph to think that there i was opening the door little by little and he had not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts i fairly chuckled at the idea and perhaps he heard me for he moved on the bed suddenly as if startled now you may think that i drew back but no his room was as dark as pitch with the thick darkness for the shutters were closed fastened through fear of robbers and so i knew that he could not see the opening of the door and i kept pushing on it steadily steadily i had my head in and was about to open the lantern when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening and the old man sprang up in bed crying who's there i kept quite still and said nothing for a whole hour i did not move a muscle and in the meantime i...

The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe

Publication date 2013-01-14
Usage CC0 1.0 UniversalCreative Commons Licensezero
Topics poe, poetry, the raven, librivox, audiobook

The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe Free Audiobooks Famous Poems English Literature Gothic Horror.

the bells by edgar allan poe this is a librivox recording

the bells

hear the sleighs with the bells silver bells what a world of merry month their melody foretells how they tinkle tinkle tinkle in the icy air of night while the stars that over sprinkle all the heavens seem to twinkle with a crystalline delight keeping time time time in a sort of runic rhyme to the tin tin that so musically wells from the bells spells spells bells bells bells bells from the jingling and the tinkling of the bells here the mellow wedding bells golden bells what a world of happiness their harmony foretells through the balmy air of night how they ring out their delight from the molten golden notes and all in tune what a liquid ditty floats to the turtle dove that listens while she gloats on the moon oh from out the sounding cells what a gush of euphony voluminously wells how it swells how it dwells on the future how it tells of the rapture that impels to the swinging and the ringing of the bells spells bells of the bells bells bells bells bells bells bells to the rhyming and the chiming of the bells

hear the loud alarm bells brazen bells what a tale of terror now their turbulency tells in the startled ear of night how they scream out there a fight too much horrified to speak they can only shriek shriek out of tune in a glamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire in a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire leaping higher higher higher with a desperate desire and a resolute endeavor now now to sit or never by the side of the pale face moon oh the bells bells bells what a tale their terror tells of despair how they clang and clash and roar what a horror they outpour on the bosom of the palpitating air yet the ear it fully knows by the twanging and the clanging how the danger ebbs and flows yet the ear distinctly tells in the jangling and the wrangling how the danger sinks and swells by the sinking or the swelling and the anger of the bells of the bells of the bells bells bells bells bells bells bells in the clamor and the clanger of the bells

here the tolling of the bells iron bells what a world of solemn thought their monody compels in the silence of the night how we shiver with a fright at the melancholy menace of their tone for every sound that floats from the rust within their throats is a groan and the people are the people they that dwell up in the steeple all alone and who toiling toiling toiling in that muffled monotone feel a glory and so rolling on the human heart a stone they are neither man nor woman they are neither brute nor human they are ghouls and their king it is who tolls and he rolls rolls rolls rolls a peon from the bells and his merry bosom swells with the peon of the bells and he dances and he yells keeping time time time in a sort of runic rhyme to the peon of the bells of the bells keeping time time time in a sort of runic rhyme to the throbbing of the bells of the bells bells bells to the sobbing of the bells keeping time time time as he knells nells nells and a happy runic rhyme to the rolling of the bells of the bells bells bells to the tolling of the bells of the bells bells bells bells bells bells bells to the moaning and the groaning of the bells

end of the bells this recording is in the public domain

you

The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe

Publication date 2013-01-14
Usage CC0 1.0 UniversalCreative Commons Licensezero
Topics poe, poetry, the raven, librivox, audiobook

The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe Free Audiobooks Famous Poems English Literature Gothic Horror.

the bells by edgar allan poe this is a librivox recording

the bells

hear the sleighs with the bells silver bells what a world of merry month their melody foretells how they tinkle tinkle tinkle in the icy air of night while the stars that over sprinkle all the heavens seem to twinkle with a crystalline delight keeping time time time in a sort of runic rhyme to the tin tin that so musically wells from the bells spells spells bells bells bells bells from the jingling and the tinkling of the bells here the mellow wedding bells golden bells what a world of happiness their harmony foretells through the balmy air of night how they ring out their delight from the molten golden notes and all in tune what a liquid ditty floats to the turtle dove that listens while she gloats on the moon oh from out the sounding cells what a gush of euphony voluminously wells how it swells how it dwells on the future how it tells of the rapture that impels to the swinging and the ringing of the bells spells bells of the bells bells bells bells bells bells bells to the rhyming and the chiming of the bells

hear the loud alarm bells brazen bells what a tale of terror now their turbulency tells in the startled ear of night how they scream out there a fight too much horrified to speak they can only shriek shriek out of tune in a glamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire in a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire leaping higher higher higher with a desperate desire and a resolute endeavor now now to sit or never by the side of the pale face moon oh the bells bells bells what a tale their terror tells of despair how they clang and clash and roar what a horror they outpour on the bosom of the palpitating air yet the ear it fully knows by the twanging and the clanging how the danger ebbs and flows yet the ear distinctly tells in the jangling and the wrangling how the danger sinks and swells by the sinking or the swelling and the anger of the bells of the bells of the bells bells bells bells bells bells bells in the clamor and the clanger of the bells

here the tolling of the bells iron bells what a world of solemn thought their monody compels in the silence of the night how we shiver with a fright at the melancholy menace of their tone for every sound that floats from the rust within their throats is a groan and the people are the people they that dwell up in the steeple all alone and who toiling toiling toiling in that muffled monotone feel a glory and so rolling on the human heart a stone they are neither man nor woman they are neither brute nor human they are ghouls and their king it is who tolls and he rolls rolls rolls rolls a peon from the bells and his merry bosom swells with the peon of the bells and he dances and he yells keeping time time time in a sort of runic rhyme to the peon of the bells of the bells keeping time time time in a sort of runic rhyme to the throbbing of the bells of the bells bells bells to the sobbing of the bells keeping time time time as he knells nells nells and a happy runic rhyme to the rolling of the bells of the bells bells bells to the tolling of the bells of the bells bells bells bells bells bells bells to the moaning and the groaning of the bells

end of the bells this recording is in the public domain

you

Royal Clarence Radio, Identity Theft, Penthouses and Sherlock with Sarnia Free Audiobook.
Getting wise with the Countess at Royal Clarence this morning from the four poster in the penthouse.

good morning world welcome welcome to a little bit of paradise at royal clarence marina now then i have been clearing out the penthouse for the decorators and i'm really marching through it actually i'm pretty amazed at you know even my own skills but you know what i find breaking it up into small pieces is the way forward here because if you look on a big project and you look at it as a full sort of picture it can be a bit overwhelming you know so you do one little thing and then stop for a cup of tea this is my this is my secret to success lots of cups of tea or coffee in the morning i'm on coffee at the moment anyway what else is new well i wanted to give you a warning actually about giving away too much information on the internet now my mother was selling something online via marketplace you know she's a bit of a um she's a keen antique dealer i mean she calls it antiques i call it tat or rubbish i i really don't um you know when you look at a piece of rubbish that was purchased um originally for not very much money and has been passed down from one rubbish collector to another rubbish collector i don't i'm not sure that you can really see the antique value in it however my mother would argue with this until she was blue in the face so anyway she was selling a piece uh an auntie actually funnily enough the the piece that she was uh selling was a copy of a very highly collectible ceramic um i can't remember the name of it because it's not posh enough for me and anyway it wasn't a hummel but it was similar anyway the person it had come she didn't say it was uh this um original uh you know she said it was a copy so there was nothing untoward and it was a few pounds nothing not too expensive well eight actually let's be specific it was eight pounds so the person came to collect and arrived no she didn't uh invite them in because the thing with marketplace marketplaces or any online selling if someone's coming to your house are you going to let them in are you going to ask them up to the penthouse i mean you know this is something that's one should never do one should always have them downstairs meet them downstairs in the foyer or the car park that's my advice anyway this person who was a local uh i won't name and shame on the radio um they came and they were covered in gold jewellery probably plate probably hollow and um you know trashy trashy looking person and either that might sound rude but i don't care they were trash and um they got her talking and the they were quite sort of pretending to be well they probably were quite knowledgeable because you know how knowledgeable do you have to be to deal in chat i don't know and they got her talking so intently that they didn't pay can you believe it and she didn't notice until they'd gone and this is this is a typical con artist's trick is to distract and get chatting and you know this is when slight of hand occurs now on two occasions darlings two occasions i also have tried to sell my tat and people have given me a little bag of money with a knot in it a big knot or a carrier bag with some coin uh detritus at the bottom and you know i'm not about to a scabby bag you know and i'm not about to sort of open my bag and delve in or so the neighbors can see or you know it's just not it's so it's so ungainly isn't it it's so vulgar to count money all that salmonella and twice i've got up to the penthouse and the there were one or two pounds short of the said amount one one person came to buy um a collection of charms and they were you know that i think there were five pounds and she paid me in shrapnel and i didn't count it because for the you know the reasons i've just said and there was so much of it and then when i got it in i thought i will just count it and i was a...

Royal Clarence Radio, Identity Theft, Penthouses and Sherlock with Sarnia Free Audiobook.
Getting wise with the Countess at Royal Clarence this morning from the four poster in the penthouse.

good morning world welcome welcome to a little bit of paradise at royal clarence marina now then i have been clearing out the penthouse for the decorators and i'm really marching through it actually i'm pretty amazed at you know even my own skills but you know what i find breaking it up into small pieces is the way forward here because if you look on a big project and you look at it as a full sort of picture it can be a bit overwhelming you know so you do one little thing and then stop for a cup of tea this is my this is my secret to success lots of cups of tea or coffee in the morning i'm on coffee at the moment anyway what else is new well i wanted to give you a warning actually about giving away too much information on the internet now my mother was selling something online via marketplace you know she's a bit of a um she's a keen antique dealer i mean she calls it antiques i call it tat or rubbish i i really don't um you know when you look at a piece of rubbish that was purchased um originally for not very much money and has been passed down from one rubbish collector to another rubbish collector i don't i'm not sure that you can really see the antique value in it however my mother would argue with this until she was blue in the face so anyway she was selling a piece uh an auntie actually funnily enough the the piece that she was uh selling was a copy of a very highly collectible ceramic um i can't remember the name of it because it's not posh enough for me and anyway it wasn't a hummel but it was similar anyway the person it had come she didn't say it was uh this um original uh you know she said it was a copy so there was nothing untoward and it was a few pounds nothing not too expensive well eight actually let's be specific it was eight pounds so the person came to collect and arrived no she didn't uh invite them in because the thing with marketplace marketplaces or any online selling if someone's coming to your house are you going to let them in are you going to ask them up to the penthouse i mean you know this is something that's one should never do one should always have them downstairs meet them downstairs in the foyer or the car park that's my advice anyway this person who was a local uh i won't name and shame on the radio um they came and they were covered in gold jewellery probably plate probably hollow and um you know trashy trashy looking person and either that might sound rude but i don't care they were trash and um they got her talking and the they were quite sort of pretending to be well they probably were quite knowledgeable because you know how knowledgeable do you have to be to deal in chat i don't know and they got her talking so intently that they didn't pay can you believe it and she didn't notice until they'd gone and this is this is a typical con artist's trick is to distract and get chatting and you know this is when slight of hand occurs now on two occasions darlings two occasions i also have tried to sell my tat and people have given me a little bag of money with a knot in it a big knot or a carrier bag with some coin uh detritus at the bottom and you know i'm not about to a scabby bag you know and i'm not about to sort of open my bag and delve in or so the neighbors can see or you know it's just not it's so it's so ungainly isn't it it's so vulgar to count money all that salmonella and twice i've got up to the penthouse and the there were one or two pounds short of the said amount one one person came to buy um a collection of charms and they were you know that i think there were five pounds and she paid me in shrapnel and i didn't count it because for the you know the reasons i've just said and there was so much of it and then when i got it in i thought i will just count it and i was a...

A mini-lecture about the importance of the fingertips on the left hand for cellists.

Tale Teller Club with Sarnia The Importance Of Fingertips Left Hand Suzuki ABRSM Cello.

hello telltalers welcome to um the first of many many uh in-depth classes today that we're doing at the school of music now today we're going to talk about the left hand and the role of the left hand in stopping the string or changing the length of the string and therefore changing the note now when you play an open string there's already the work is done the string is stopped by the nut at the top okay and as long as you're in tune it's going to make that perfect sound yeah the left hand can now shorten the string we started to the b flat say let's start at b flat um it's a shortened by one semitone and then if we go down to b it's shortened by a tone and then to see another semitone etc etc so it goes on

now the string is obviously king of uh your instrument it starts with the string we can't we can't play without the the string um the string can get on without us without our left hand admittedly it can't do very much um but actually i say that but we've done uh we will be doing some classes with just open strings so that's not strictly speaking true but the string is king now the left hand being in charge of stopping it or lengthening or shortening the string has a very important job too and this is where we need to start thinking about how to perfect our left hand now being aware of different left hand techniques is just one great journey into becoming an accomplished cellist okay or string player our fingertip at the very end inside there there's a little bone and if you make a circle now with your thumb and any of your fingers can you do that for me i'm going to use my middle finger now your if your nail is touching you need to trim them so far them down there is no place for long nails in chile playing so that nail should not be coming further than your fingertip at all and if it's touching your thumb when you do make that position really you need to cut it down your pads will toughen up and you'll get nice calluses on there and it'll be much easier to play it'll be much easier to stop the string vibrating actually okay so keep those nails really really short i don't want to see any white file them right down always have a nail file or nail clippers handy another we make that circle and if you push but keep that circle you can feel the pressure of that little bone now i want you to make a tear shape by pointing the thumb and the finger forwards as if you were doing a dog's face so the dog's nose and go back again to make the circle now can you feel really feel that bone and that pressure i mean this is fascinating stuff isn't it you can feel the bone move and shift under the pads of your finger and your thumb but mostly your finger i mean you can feel the thumb one too but we want to concentrate on the finger so try that with try that with the middle finger i think you can really feel it with the middle finger okay so make the dog nose really slowly press hard put pinch and then keep pinching and come back and feel that little bone it's remarkable now when you're pressing onto a string and not your thumb you're shortening the string at the same spot but you can change the sound it's not the pitch that your [ __ ] you're changing it's the sound there's a different um there's a different uh sense of it a different idea of it now this is something that we can use in in cello playing if we understand it sometimes a flat paddy left finger gives us the better effect that we want and sometimes a very curled pinpointy attack gives us the sound that we want now being aware that you can make that difference means that we can start to think about using it and mostly this is going to be entirely up to you it's going to depend also on things like shifts where you've come from the notes in between whether you're doing legato...

A mini-lecture about the importance of the fingertips on the left hand for cellists.

Tale Teller Club with Sarnia The Importance Of Fingertips Left Hand Suzuki ABRSM Cello.

hello telltalers welcome to um the first of many many uh in-depth classes today that we're doing at the school of music now today we're going to talk about the left hand and the role of the left hand in stopping the string or changing the length of the string and therefore changing the note now when you play an open string there's already the work is done the string is stopped by the nut at the top okay and as long as you're in tune it's going to make that perfect sound yeah the left hand can now shorten the string we started to the b flat say let's start at b flat um it's a shortened by one semitone and then if we go down to b it's shortened by a tone and then to see another semitone etc etc so it goes on

now the string is obviously king of uh your instrument it starts with the string we can't we can't play without the the string um the string can get on without us without our left hand admittedly it can't do very much um but actually i say that but we've done uh we will be doing some classes with just open strings so that's not strictly speaking true but the string is king now the left hand being in charge of stopping it or lengthening or shortening the string has a very important job too and this is where we need to start thinking about how to perfect our left hand now being aware of different left hand techniques is just one great journey into becoming an accomplished cellist okay or string player our fingertip at the very end inside there there's a little bone and if you make a circle now with your thumb and any of your fingers can you do that for me i'm going to use my middle finger now your if your nail is touching you need to trim them so far them down there is no place for long nails in chile playing so that nail should not be coming further than your fingertip at all and if it's touching your thumb when you do make that position really you need to cut it down your pads will toughen up and you'll get nice calluses on there and it'll be much easier to play it'll be much easier to stop the string vibrating actually okay so keep those nails really really short i don't want to see any white file them right down always have a nail file or nail clippers handy another we make that circle and if you push but keep that circle you can feel the pressure of that little bone now i want you to make a tear shape by pointing the thumb and the finger forwards as if you were doing a dog's face so the dog's nose and go back again to make the circle now can you feel really feel that bone and that pressure i mean this is fascinating stuff isn't it you can feel the bone move and shift under the pads of your finger and your thumb but mostly your finger i mean you can feel the thumb one too but we want to concentrate on the finger so try that with try that with the middle finger i think you can really feel it with the middle finger okay so make the dog nose really slowly press hard put pinch and then keep pinching and come back and feel that little bone it's remarkable now when you're pressing onto a string and not your thumb you're shortening the string at the same spot but you can change the sound it's not the pitch that your [ __ ] you're changing it's the sound there's a different um there's a different uh sense of it a different idea of it now this is something that we can use in in cello playing if we understand it sometimes a flat paddy left finger gives us the better effect that we want and sometimes a very curled pinpointy attack gives us the sound that we want now being aware that you can make that difference means that we can start to think about using it and mostly this is going to be entirely up to you it's going to depend also on things like shifts where you've come from the notes in between whether you're doing legato...

Twinkle Twinkle Suzuki Variations Book 1 Violin School All Instruments Free Audio Tracks.

hello telltalers welcome welcome to the telltale club now i've got a recording for you to listen to over and over again if you're a violinist but do you know what you can play along to this also if you are a cellist or a pianist or you can just sing along really get to know it and get to know it before you even try to play it on whatever instrument you decide that you want to play it on

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hey

so there we go how super now if you listen to that over and over again even if you're not a violinist the tune will be so in your head that you'll be able to just play it without even thinking about it and this is the wonderful thing about listening and learning so also if you don't have a violin but you'd like to play one why don't you mime with a violin your pretend violin your imaginary violin we've got lots of imaginary instruments at telltale club so i'm going to go and do some cello now and i'm going to play this on the cello so you can join me in the music room if you like see you there

Twinkle Twinkle Suzuki Variations Book 1 Violin School All Instruments Free Audio Tracks.

hello telltalers welcome welcome to the telltale club now i've got a recording for you to listen to over and over again if you're a violinist but do you know what you can play along to this also if you are a cellist or a pianist or you can just sing along really get to know it and get to know it before you even try to play it on whatever instrument you decide that you want to play it on

do

dingy

me

me

my do

hey

so there we go how super now if you listen to that over and over again even if you're not a violinist the tune will be so in your head that you'll be able to just play it without even thinking about it and this is the wonderful thing about listening and learning so also if you don't have a violin but you'd like to play one why don't you mime with a violin your pretend violin your imaginary violin we've got lots of imaginary instruments at telltale club so i'm going to go and do some cello now and i'm going to play this on the cello so you can join me in the music room if you like see you there