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"Abolish Language," said the vizier, "And man will return to primal simplicity and happiness."

Narrated by Mike Vendetti, this is the original version of Hensel and Gretel published by the Brothers Grimm. Probably not suitable for the polite and sensitive child under 12. A really wicked stepmother convinces the children's father to lead the children out into the woods far enough so they wouldn't be able to return home, but they do return one time to the chagrin of the stepmother. The next time they are taken to the woods they are not able to return home but do stumble upon a little house constructed of cake and confectionery which they immediately begin to consume.

Nophai, an extremely intelligent and talented "Indian with the mind of a white man" attempts to reacclimate into the world he left 18 years earlier. A task made more difficult by the fact he and a white woman have fallen in love. Corrupt missionaries and Indian agents only add to his conflict.

Queen of the Black Coast is a thrilling tale by Robert E. Howard, first published in Weird Tales in May 1934. It follows Conan the Cimmerian, a barbarian adventurer, as he joins a pirate crew led by the fierce and captivating Bêlit, the Queen of the Black Coast. Together, they embark on daring raids, confront supernatural horrors, and explore mysterious jungles and ancient ruins. The story is a blend of high adventure, romance, and dark fantasy, showcasing Howard's vivid world-building and dynamic characters.

Award-winning audiobook narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Invictus". Politicians and authors love to quote the inspirational last two lines of this poem: "I am the master of my fate:/I am the captain of my soul."

Finding a house on the back roads of New England near Arkham in a storm in H.P. Lovecraft's time might seem a bit of luck. This is, until you discover the ancient text that tended to fall open to itself at Plate XII, which represented in gruesome detail a butcher's shop of the cannibal Anziques, followed by a heavy tread upstairs when you thought the house was empty. A chilling tale of horror by the master of weird fiction.

The focus of this audiobook will be to teach you a simple technique to help you lower, control, and possibly completely alleviate pain whenever you want. I have broken this audiobook into chapters, so after you have listened to everything including the warnings and pre-talk the first time, you can just skip to chapter four afterwards and go straight to the self-hypnosis technique. I really hope you enjoy this audiobook, and it brings you more comfort in your daily life.

A research spaceship from Earth lands on Saybrook's Planet to investigate a report by an earlier colony ship. The colony ship's captain, Saybrook, had reported that the planet's abundant plant and animal life was all part of a single organism with a unified consciousness. That organism was able to induce pregnancy in all the colony ship's female animals, and all the offspring born had green patches of fur instead of eyes, a sign that they were part of the planetary organism.

Vietnam veteran and award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti takes you into the mind of a trained sniper doing his job during the Irish Civil War. He faces a shocking turn of events, after killing an enemy.

We travel with The Hawk, or Carl Ericson, son of Norwegian immigrants, born at the end of the 19th century, through the first three adventurous periods of the young man's life. We see him as an adventurous boy, running away with Gertie Cowels, the girl that lives in the big house in the better part of town, only to be rescued by Bone Stillman, a backwoods philosopher and influence on Carl. He leaves his childhood, Gertie and Joralemon behind, for a short attempt at higher education, then to pursue the hobo life, a Bowery bartender, an engineer in Panama, and an aviator.

Hemingway explores perception versus reality in a relationship between a rather naive girl and a self-centered man.

Award-winning audiobook narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the second Virginia convention on March 23, 1775 at St. John's Church in Richmond Virginia. Henry is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the convention to pass a resolution delivering Virginian troops to the Revolutionary war.

Deception, trickery, and ambush threaten to derail Eric Branson's plans shortly after his arrival in South Louisiana. Eric soon learns that the sheriff's department Keith works for has been decimated by riots and terror attacks. The infrastructure here has also been severely crippled by the same hurricane that devastated South Florida, leaving the survivors hungry and desperate in a world where law and order is impossible to enforce. For Eric, reaching Louisiana is just another step in a difficult quest that will take him overland to the Colorado Rockies in search of his daughter.

A priest and a dying atheist engage in a final dialogue. Reason vs. faith, and in the end...

Tarzan and The Lost Empire brings back to print one of the most astonishing adventures of the marvelous jungle hero. It is the story of an ancient Roman city, long forgotten by civilization and buried amid the deepest jungles of the Dark Continent. It is the story of Tarzan's discovery of this last surviving pocket of lost warriors and the fate that awaited him at the hands of an empire dead for fifteen hundred years. Edgar Rice Burroughs is a by-word for adventure!

Barred from life and death alike, she waited - waited for the key that could unlock the sinister talisman that held her prisoner of eternity. Taken from The King in Yellow, often referred to in "True Detective" this is one creepy short story.

There comes a time in the course of a battle when a soldier leaves his fate in the hands of the Gods of war. He carries on with the battle at hand, the only way he knows how - fight now, think later. Stephen Cranes’ classic novel ‘The Red Badge of Courage’ offers us an insight into the mind of a young soldier. As he delves into the black depths of both PTSD and trauma, Cranes’ striking descriptions and masterful prose make this captivating novel unmissable for fans of Jack London, John Steinbeck, and Edith Wharton.

A shop owner buys the contents of a bankrupt antiques shop, and in the contents he finds a crystal ball. He thinks nothing of the ball, until one day he notices it emitting a glow. When he looks into the ball, he gets a fleeting view of a landscape. As time passes, the views become more defined, and strange beings appear. The ball becomes a secret part of his rather dull and unhappy life until a customer attempts to buy the ball. Now what? And can those strange beings also see our world through the ball?

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Ode to a Nightingale", a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into a state of negative capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and, instead, explores the themes of nature, transience, and mortality, the latter being particularly relevant to Keats.

Possibly one of the most dissected poems ever, Eliot's poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of contemporary British society. Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism, and the Hindu Upanishads. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location, and time and conjuring a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures.