Fantasy
The Shaving of Shagpat
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George Meredith
The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of st…
The wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow
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Adelbert von Chamisso
Peter Schlemihl is an ordinary man until one day he bargains with the devil: He trades his shadow for a bottomless purse. While this sounds …
The Demon of the Gibbet
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Fitz-James O'Brien
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Demon of the Gibbet by Fitz-James O'Brien. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Fe…
Lux Radio Theater 53 12 21 Peter Pan
Lux Radio Theater presents the Walt Disney classic, Peter Pan, a story about the adventures of three London children who are taken to the fa…
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for M…
Weird Tales, Volume 2
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are about to read. They take place in widely separated countries and historical perio…
Tales of War
Read by Ben Tucker
Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany brings his lucid and magical prose to the subject of the harsh realities of war by providing a series of vignettes that are at …
The Nut Heist
Read by Trisha M. Wilson
Trisha M. Wilson
Lord Zenith has a plan: Make the subjects of Aquerna, the squirrel kingdom ruled over by his cousin, Queen Lucina, believe that winter is fa…
Quilt, Book and Bard
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Bryna Chalmer
For years the picture of the man with the oxcart has hung on the wall of her Aunt and Uncle's house. It never occurred to Tory that one day …
Short Science Fiction Collection 085
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Various
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
The Charwoman's Shadow
Read by Michele Fry
Lord Dunsany
Delightfully imaginative, somewhat similar to Dunsany's blockbuster fantasy novel, The King Of Elfland's Daughter (and published just two ye…
Bloody Foundations: A Grace and Poppy Adventure
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Grady J. Gratt
In a world where magic is real and monsters lurk in the shadows, the only hope people have for saviors are a pair of janitors. They’re not t…
The Inheritors
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Joseph Conrad
The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It loo…
The Master Girl: A Romance
Read by Phil Benson
Henry Marriage Wallis
A stone age romance. Deh-Yun of the Little Moon comes across Pul-Yun of the Sun Disc, who has broken his leg while in search of a woman to k…
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 01 October 1895
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Various
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Beauty's Hour
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Olivia Shakespear
The young, intelligent Mary discovers that through an act of will she can transform her appearance to make herself incredibly beautiful. But…
The Perfect World
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Ella Scrymsour
Almost certainly the merging of two separate magazine novellas, where Scrymsour attempted to weave together the plots. In this fantasy/ scie…
The First Men in the Moon (Version 2)
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H. G. Wells
The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric…
Legend Land Volume 1 & 2
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Lyonesse
"Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, now retold by …
Ardath
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Marie Corelli
Victorian-era writer Marie Corelli’s epic work Ardath, The Story of a Dead Self, is filled with supernatural and gothic themes. We meet The…