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In The Thirty-Nine Steps, Hannay struggles to thwart an assassination plot designed to hasten war between Britain and Germany. Later he is plucked from the trenches first, in Greenmantle, to frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world; and then, in Mr. Standfast, to undertake a vital secret mission against a German spy ring operating among pacifist elements in England. After the war, his adventures continue in The Three Hostages; and then in The Island of Sheep, when an old oath to protect the son of a friend from his days in Africa draws him into new danger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Values of a bygone era
- By Barbara on 03-16-24
By: John Buchan
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Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,646
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,374
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,375
At the heart of these stories, as with all the best of Lovecraft’s work, is the belief that the Earth was once inhabited by powerful and evil gods, just waiting for the chance to recolonise their planet. Cthulhu is one such god, lurking deep beneath the sea until called into being by cult followers who – like all humans – know not what they do.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Required reading
- By Katherine on 09-19-12
By: H. P. Lovecraft
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Meeting the Other Crowd
- The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
- By: Eddie Lenihan, Carolyn Eve Green
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story5 out of 5 stars 37
"The Other Crowd", "The Good People", "The Wee Folk", and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect the world we live in and the forces we cannot see. In these tales of fairy forts, fairy trees, ancient histories, and modern true-life encounters with the Other Crowd, Eddie Lenihan opens our eyes to this invisible world with the passion and bluntness of a seanchai, a true Irish storyteller.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic storytelling but.....
- By H.A.G. on 03-30-22
By: Eddie Lenihan, and others
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Wessex Tales
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories including "The Three Strangers", "The Withered Arm", and "The Distracted Preacher", deals with a number of timeless themes seen so often in Hardy’s work: marriage, class, revenge, and disappointed love. Many of the tales have a supernatural tinge, and all are set around Hardy’s much loved homeland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Sampler
- By Tad Davis on 06-08-14
By: Thomas Hardy
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
- 20 Classic Tales of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself
- By: Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and others
- Narrated by: Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4 out of 5 stars 122
H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the 20th century. Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes 20 works, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in each author’s work.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not all the stories are complete
- By SteffiT on 10-21-13
By: Henry James, and others
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The Secret of High Eldersham
- By: Miles Burton
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 58
Samuel Whitehead, landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. And when the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, it seems that the veil dividing High Eldersham from the outside world is about to be lifted. Detective Inspector Young forms a theory about the case so utterly impossible that merely entertaining the suspicion makes him doubt his own sanity. Surrounded by sinister forces beyond his understanding, he calls on a brilliant amateur and 'living encyclopedia', Desmond Merrion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen
- By Ms Peach on 01-08-19
By: Miles Burton
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The Tell-Tale Heart
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Michael Pearl
- Length: 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story5 out of 5 stars 29
Written in 1843, "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a dark and eerie tale of a man's unhealthy obsession that leads him to commit murder. Will his paranoia get him caught? This is one of Poe's finest and most memorable short stories!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read very well.
- By AJ on 09-26-20
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Harold Wiederman
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 471
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 412
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Story4 out of 5 stars 411
Chesterton's talent as a mystery writer is displayed in this collection of detective stories, The Man Who Knew Too Much. In each story, the star detective, Horne Fisher, deals with another strange mystery: the vanishing of a priceless coin, the framing of an Irish "prince" freedom fighter, an eccentric rich man dies during an obsessive fishing trip, another vanishing during an ice skate, a statue crushing his own uncle, and a few more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Prince who Knows Paradox Too Well
- By Darwin8u on 05-25-13
By: G. K. Chesterton
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The Great God Pan
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 143
Machen's novella The Great God Pan is often cited as one of Lovecraft's most notable influences. In it, Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan". After much study of the human mind, he devises an experiment that involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakens she is terrified and mentally crippled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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classic horror
- By Shantee on 05-04-16
By: Arthur Machen
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Winesburg, Ohio
- By: Sherwood Anderson
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 191
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 161
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Story4 out of 5 stars 160
Winesburg, Ohio is a little-known masterpiece that forever changed the course of American storytelling. At the center of this collection of stories stands George Willard, an earnest young reporter for the Winesburg Eagle who sets out to gather the town’s daily news. He ends up discovering the town’s deepest secrets as one by one, the townsfolk confide their hopes, dreams, and fears to the reporter. In their recollections of first loves and last rites, of sprawling farms and winding country roads, the town rises vividly - and poignantly - to life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Isolation, Loneliness, Love & Midwest Grotesque
- By Darwin8u on 06-27-13
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Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad
- By: M. R. James
- Narrated by: David Suchet
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 741
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 662
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Story4 out of 5 stars 663
The story tells the tale of an introverted academic who happens upon a strange whistle while exploring a cemetery on the East Anglian coast. When blown, the whistle unleashes a supernatural force that terrorises its discoverer. Montague Rhodes James was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.
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1 out of 5 stars
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AND HERE'S A SIX PENCE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 09-18-15
By: M. R. James
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Moonfleet
- By: J. Meade Falkner
- Narrated by: Peter Joyce
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
A tale of smuggling and mystery on the Dorset coast as told by John Trenchard, a boy obsessed with discovering the secret of Colonel 'Blackbeard' Mohune's hidden treasure. One night, trapped in the Mohune family vault beneath the church, John finds a locket round the Colonel's neck which contains verses from the Psalms of David. What could it mean?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful to hear this book.
- By Coral on 05-26-14
By: J. Meade Falkner
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A Bend in the River
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 573
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Story4 out of 5 stars 386
In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, insightful, troubling
- By Lawrence on 01-15-05
By: V. S. Naipaul
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At Swim-Two-Birds
- By: Flann O’Brien
- Narrated by: Alan Smyth
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4 out of 5 stars 43
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading, he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately rebel against him and seek vengeance. From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head, these figures of Irish myth make Trellis pay dearly for his bad writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth waiting for
- By Ken Watkins on 02-04-20
By: Flann O’Brien
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H.G. Wells Fiction Collection
- The Invisible Man, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato, Charles King - Introduction
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In what many refer to as one of the first and greatest science fiction thrillers, a mysterious stranger wanders into an inn, wrapped head-to-toe in bandages. What lies beneath the bandages is something even more mysterious. As Wells tackles issues of identity, deception, and the deterioration of the human mind, listeners will be drawn into the story of the mysterious man, whose own mistakes end up whisking him into a whirlwind of deceit, terror, and even murder. In the end, the question will be asked: when your sense of self and identity vanish, who will you become?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Super organized, captivating narrator
- By Jackie Harwood on 04-28-20
By: H. G. Wells
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- Colton
- 03-04-17
Quick, eerie, and wonderful.
The narrator does a fine job or of establishing the mysterious and creepy atmosphere of the short story.
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